SIR – It’s always disappointing when contributors such as Carl Mason and N Taylor perpetrate such distortions and omissions as they contrived in response to my earlier letter on the causes of increased need for housing.
Mr Mason says that I ignored immigration, whereas, actually, I specifically downgraded it as a factor.
He then says that divorced people don’t usually apply for a mortgage each. Of course, I never said that they did: merely that they would each need somewhere to live.
Mr Taylor blatantly ignored my request for information about when his house was built, which green field it was built on and whether this was in response to immigration.
The trouble, I guess, is that this sort of fact would tend to get in the way of the prejudice surrounding this issue.
David Barlow,
Worcester.
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