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Anatomy of an asylum housing row
Last month Prime Minister Gordon Brown told MPs he wants English councils to give greater priority to local people on waiting lists for social housing but on many estates residents believe it is immigrants who get priority. The Report's Phil Kemp visited Birmingham where a row broke out over housing asylum seekers.
When the people of the Bromford Bridge Estate in Birmingham took to the streets earlier this year urging their council to demolish two empty tower blocks they said the flats were an eyesore and attracted anti social behaviour.
Protesters said the flats attracted anti-social behaviour


