UK’s asylum hotel bill down 30%, government says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeqwv98d55o
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UK’s asylum hotel bill down 30%, government says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeqwv98d55o
Posted by CaseyEffingRyback
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Oh no, a government actually trying to address the issues.
“BBC News understands the majority of people moved out of hotels are now living in local housing, or houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), a type of rented accommodation where at least three individuals share the use of a bathroom and kitchen.”
So the governments now hoovering up rentals and consequently making anyone else renting pay a bunch more, but it’s good news apparently.
Good they honestly shouldn’t be paying full price, my dads goes on buss holidays 4 nights and he gets picked up, total cost is £130-150 that’s with breakfast and dinner,
Good that we have this technology now. So sad it was not possible in the past.
>Officials have previously told MPs that greater room-sharing in hotels has helped reduce the number of sites and per head costs over the past financial year.
>It is not clear how many people usually share a room, but Home Office minister Angela Eagle has previously said “people can double up or treble up” if rooms are big enough.
What I like about this government is they get shit done, even unpopular shit that has to be done.
Refreshing change from at least a decade of Tories fucking about with nothing but Brexit and making useless pledges.
And donations to trillion dollar corporations up by a 1/2 a billion pounds
Because they aren’t only in hotels now. They moved them elsewhere. We aren’t stupid.
Great news! And they haven’t stuck them in homes I. Our communities further increasing rental prices by increasing housing demand even further have they? Have they???
Isn’t this going to make illegal working even harder to track if instead of being congregated at central locations they’ll be broken up and dispersed through the country?
In the same argument is their safety at more risk too?
Something to be said for housing them in one location to keep an eye on them both for their protection and our own.
You know, they could lower the bill by 100% with one simple trick
I still think an offshore accommodation built somewhere like the Scillies would be best, so they can’t just disappear into the dark economy.
Hm but if you read the small print,
*because they’ve been permanently housed in new build social homes.
A false positive!
Illegal migration has not been lowered! It’s actually risen under the current government.
Hotel costs may have reduced but the issue has only been moved elsewhere. Paying to home them in the private rental market is just as disgusting, if not worse actually.
Handing out new build homes is also not cheap.
Manipulative and disingenuous propaganda by the government.
Labour do truly believe that we’re either all utterly naive and indoctrinated, or, just stupid.
I’m left leaning but we got homeless people in this country who the council refuse to help so I understand the total bill is coming down but they just putting them in council accommodation.
Unless they deported 30% of them, which they didn’t, those people are just housed somewhere else, in social housing.
Which not only brings its own set of issues, but also costs taxpayers money, so for completeness we should also get told what this figure is.
It’s like being mugged, and there’s £100 in your wallet, but you’re expected to be happy and grateful when a pound falls out of it when they run away.
Total housing bill not down tho…. They think we’re dumbfucks 😩
“The Home Office’s annual accounts, external show £2.1bn was spent on hotel accommodation – an average of about £5.77m per day, down from £3bn or £8.3m per day, the previous year.”
Still a lot of money, this could take care of the homeless easily!
Misleading.
Hotels are freed up and Serco on their private government contracts have been buying up tonnes of properties and homes around the country to house them all in instead.
This is making the problem worse.
Lots very expensive and illustrious townhouses have been bought on the taxpayers expense. The government has even been issuing Compulsory Purchase Orders on certain properties to boost numbers, these places are supposed to be derelict and will be renovated to house the incoming migrants.
It’s a level of support that British citizens can only dream of and it’s just ludicrous at this point to be spending billions on illegal entries.
Ask yourself why the majority of these people are spending thousands, risking their lives with dangerous conditions to illegally enter the country instead of booking a flight at an airport for much less.
Yes… some countries like Afghanistan 🇦🇫 make that impossible for their citizens. Still, the UK remains the target destination because of these crazy incentives.
Just housed them in private rentals instead, so less housing stock, and now they’re closer to residential areas. Is that really a win?
Oh but have they told you where they have moved them to instead? Straight to the private rental market and HMOs where they have incentivised landlords by paying above market rates, guaranteeing that all bills are paid and some landlords have even served Section 21 no fault eviction notices to get rid of existing tenants.
Now if you see your rents rise or struggle to find anything affordable you know a big why that might be.
Well this is a big misleading if they don’t also include the increased cost of putting them in private housing instead?
On Serco’s website they say they are housing over 30,000 in private accommodation, and they are one of few companies the government is using (not to mention the local councils that area also paying to house them locally).
They say it’s cheaper to put them in private housing, but that’s ignoring the hassle it’s causing all the local people throughout the company having these people living next to them all of a sudden, and the reduction on housing stock being used.
This is like saying small boat landings have reduced by 30% but in reality we just start picking them up in large boats
Some people really just won’t be happy till they’re lined up atop the white cliffs and punted one by one. Bills down 30% and ppl still whinging they found a solution. How dare you! As greta once said