Home Office threatens asylum seekers with homelessness if they refuse hotel move
- The Home Office is relocating asylum seekers from hotels to council-managed properties, aiming to reduce costs and improve housing strategies.
- Approximately 32,000 asylum seekers occupy around 210 hotels in the UK, with a surge in Channel crossings this year, reaching 24,000.
- Asylum seekers who refuse relocation risk losing their hotels and weekly subsistence payments under the new measures.
- Ministers claim these reforms will help cut taxpayer costs for hotel accommodation, which costs about £5 million daily.
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Councils target empty homes, tower blocks and student halls to house migrants
Ministers have unveiled ambitious proposals to relocate thousands of asylum seekers from costly hotel accommodation into council-managed properties and renovated vacant homes throughout Britain
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