The council said the cap will help trim the tenancy waiting list which currently equates to a 36-year-wait and 94% of people are on the lowestpriority band.
More broadly, of all the developed countries, the U.S. puts the lowestpriority on potential economic benefits when reviewing prospective immigrants, according to Pia Orrenius, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Yet whatever Mr Cameron's personal views, his party sees environmentalism as an indulgent luxury: in a poll, Tory MPs ranked climate change as the lowest policy priority for a Tory government.