However, the social networks needed for this have been degraded due to a loss in local residency (for example, new residents have settled down while local residents are moving away, in search for job opportunities) and the reduction in community ties (Henly-Shepard 2013a; Henly-Shepard et al. 2014).
The territory announced in February that it would shut the camp, offering local residency to the 1,070 people still inside.
More than 100,000 people left, but thousands have since returned, despite no longer holding local residency permits.
This supposes that all or some of those migrants currently given lettings would fail a local residency test.
First, there is to be new statutory guidance about housing allocations, requiring access to be limited to those with an established local residency and local connections.
On the emotive subject of social housing, No 10 promised to impose an expectation on councils to introduce a local residency test in determining who should qualify.
Councils currently have powers to impose local residency tests for social housing, but ministers are frustrated that only around half do so.
An American hedge-fund manager in his forties — tall, tanned, athletic — recently bought two houses in New Zealand and acquired local residency.
According to Jacqueline Frisch, a mother of two who is another patron, "knowing of DeeAnn" is almost a condition of local residency.
But the category includes some people who are legally ineligible to vote, like noncitizens, felons and those who have not yet met local residency requirements, so actual turnout would have been a bit higher in each case.
