Why do I think the policy of removing foreigners from social housing and subsequently being deported will hit a stumbling block? Well:
I can take anyone around the area where I grew up in London and show them vast swathes of social housing - blocks of flats and rows of terraced houses - populated overwhelmingly by people most passers-by would call “foreign”, often Turkish or Somali. Obviously different ethnicities live in blocs in different areas: Turks and Somalis (among others) in Tottenham, Bengalis a few miles east in Tower Hamlets, et cetera.
But here’s the trouble. These people often hold British passports - and will happily tell you so. This is despite the fact that many speak little English - fraud is rife as we all know. Ergo, as citizens, these people would not be affected by this policy.
The point of this is to illustrate a wider absurdity: even if you deported every single legal and illegal immigrant who has arrived since, say, 2010 - *a policy nobody is seriously proposing, one hastens to add* - this would leave the great majority of Tottenham’s Turks and Somalis entirely undisturbed. They often arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s, naturalised long ago, and are now, on paper, as British as you and me.
You cannot solve this problem without reviewing citizenship grants.
Wholly supportive of such a move. No foreign person should be living in social housing - or receiving benefits. British taxpayers should not be funding foreigners to live in Britain for free. But, the spirit of this policy is only achievable if citizenship grants are reviewed.