As a resident of a council estate I can vouch for this. I see many third world people nowadays on my estate, where in the past I saw none. Some of them have several children in tow, and most do not speak English. Many of them have cars - old and decrepit. Some are pleasant and good mannered; the majority though, are not. Accompanying this is an increase in bad driving around the area, almost always by said foreigners. Whether they are asylum seekers, illegal immigrants or economic migrants I do not know, but they are lowering the tone of the area dramatically. This is happening on all the other council estates in my town, and in the area around my place of work.
The better parts of town are not affected by this, and I wouldn't wish it upon them. Whenever I hear people, as on this forum, disagree with or ridicule points of view such as mine, I can only conclude that they live in these rarefied places and believe only the news from the BBC and other mainstream media.
As for the homeless, those that are mentally ill and cannot care for themselves have all my sympathy. They are there because of the shameful closing down of the old mental institutions by our politicians in the name of cost cutting. Those homeless because of drugs or drink have only themselves to blame. Illegal drug users should not exist but they do because of our government's lax and immoral stance on drug law enforcement, which has been a Pandora's Box unleashing all kinds of evil which the government now probably could not control even if it wanted to. The small hardcore of homeless who actually want to live a life of begging and vagrancy should be dealt with by imprisonment. We should not be troubled by any of these people on our streets.
Asylum seekers too I have great sympathy with, if they are genuine. But there's the problem - how do you know they are genuine? Genuine or not, I think it madness that asylum seekers have free movement once they are in the country. They should not be dispersed around the country's council estates but kept, for our and their safety, in secure compounds until they go back home. Like the old Displaced Persons camps, they can have all their needs cared for in one area by sympathetic people, and not have to fend for themselves in hostile communities.