This has been happening in London for a number of years.
Most of the shed dwellers are migrants from eastern Europe.
The problem arose when Labour agreed to an open borders policy.
Subsequently three million people migrated into Britain, in the thirteen years Labour were in power.
No figure is known for those who entered the country illegally, under the same time scale.
More than three million migrants under Labour - Telegraph
These aren't Britons, who've lost their homes.
They are economic migrants, who decided to relocate to one of the most expensive cities in the world, and who've decided life at the bottom of someone's garden, is preferable to living in eastern Europe.
London's streets might not be paved with gold.
But with our generous welfare system, it is seen by some as the Land of Milk and Honey.
We make choices.
They have.