Muammar Al Khadafi

Leading homelessness charity Shelter have warned that Britain faces a shortfall of 1 million homes.

The warning comes ahead of a stark program on Channel 4 charting the rise of the slum landlord, and people living in appalling conditions and authorities turning a blind eye simply because there is no other housing available.

Some clues to what is causing the problem can be seen in Jon Snows commentary in the Independent.

"We even found large numbers of illegal immigrant workers housed in their hundreds in garden sheds in an area west of London".

"In short Peter Rachman bought up swathes of slum housing in West London, forcing out the long-term white tenants within, and replacing them with high-density new Afro-Caribbean immigrants"

Just about says it all. Peter Rachman may be dead and buried, but the same thing still goes on and has been ever since.

There is a homes shortage in the UK, with fewer homes being built, and more and more people demanding somewhere to live, and it is an entirely artificially created problem.

We have no room and nowhere for many to live - and yet we still continue to let our population expand unsustainably thanks to the twin wonders of high immigration and high immigrant birth rates.

Under such circumstances, slums, with all the attendant problems which arise from poor living conditions and overcrowding, will grow and thrive.

Landlords may benefit from the unprecedented demand for accommodation, but it is doing Britain no favours, with many British families left unable to get on the housing ladder and languishing in sqaulid homes that are not fit for habitation.

Yet another benefit of mass immigration which they did not tell us about, and it will only get worse as Britains population continues to grow.

*Dispatches : Landlords from Hell, airs tonight at 8pm on Channel 4.