The Home Office has rented 16,000 properties for asylum seekers, leaving local families and young workers struggling to find affordable homes, the Daily Telegraph reveals.
The properties, sourced from the private and social housing sectors
Thurrock Council has revealed the growing challenges it faces in providing housing help to its residents, as the cost-of-living crisis and the exit of landlords from the private rental market put pressure on the system.
The council’s housing serv…
The government has abandoned a plan that would have exempted landlords of asylum seekers from houses in multiple occupation (HMO) regulations, which ensure safety and quality standards for shared properties.
The government claimed that this would have …
London is facing a rough sleeping crisis as new data shows that the number of people sleeping on the streets has reached a record high.
According to the latest figures from the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN)
Hi, Housing asylum seekers in hotels was a very unpopular move with the public. Now the Government have announced they will be moving them out to alternative accommodation. They can’t all be going to the Bibby Stockholm Barge, so where are they going?
City leaders in Glasgow are warning of a “humanitarian catastrophe” over plans to find housing for asylum seekers.
At an emergency meeting last week, councillors were told that 2,500 asylum claims would be fast-tracked, on Home Office orders
Around 170 university students in Huddersfield have found themselves in a desperate scramble to secure new accommodation after being abruptly evicted from what was once touted as ‘luxury’ housing.
The purpose-built student accommodation, w…
Critics are lining up to condemn a government plan to remove the HMO licencing regulations for landlords who will house asylum seekers.
Housing and refugee charities have condemned the move as ‘shameful’ and an ‘assault on human right…
Hello, This is another of those strange anomalies/priorities which make little sense. We pick up thousands of asylum seekers in boats crossing the channel and some have no right to be here.
We’ve all seen reports of the overcrowded centres where …
A councillor has accused private landlords of kicking out tenants to make room for asylum seekers because the landlord can earn more in rent from the Home Office.
The accusation was made by Julie Young at a meeting of Colchester Borough Council’s scrut…
Hello everyone, I’ve just had a reply from Serco regarding their offer to take a properties to be used by the Home Office for asylum seeker use….
I welcome any comments good or bad – what do you think of this?
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