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Post by oracle75 on Nov 17, 2022 9:49:06 GMT
From an item broadcast this morning it is a growing problem.
The government apparently is sequestering entire clusters of hotels most frequently in and around Southern coastal towns. This example said that the management were given two weeks to clear the hotel and sack or move most of the staff who live there permanently, often with their families. Since tourists and travellers don't stay, local shops and pubs suffer.
Not only does the country have to spend millions per week paying for accommodation but now employees are affected. I don't have to mention that taxes on hard working people are being raised partly to pay for this.
But I also support the principle of asylum and the proper screening of those who apply.
So in looking around for solutions, I can understand the Rwanda idea...except it is totally unworkable except as a vehicle for Suella to convince the nation that she is doing something.
So what might be serious solutions?
Maybe during the winter, to use empty campsites. How about that off shore cruise ship idea that seems to have disappeared? Build large chalets in remote Scotland?
Any orher solutions?
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Post by totheleft3 on Nov 17, 2022 12:57:07 GMT
If the Asylum backlogs was cleared up and put more effort into that then there be no need for the hotels
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Post by Handyman on Nov 17, 2022 13:19:45 GMT
Even if that happened overnight, where would the Asylum Seekers live? they all have to live somewhere and there is great shortage of housing already a problem we have had for years
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Post by totheleft3 on Nov 17, 2022 14:00:45 GMT
Even if that happened overnight, where would the Asylum Seekers live? they all have to live somewhere and there is great shortage of housing already a problem we have had for years There some 230, 000 long term empty homes , that in someway will releave the proplem of housing |
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Post by Toreador on Nov 17, 2022 14:15:21 GMT
Even if that happened overnight, where would the Asylum Seekers live? they all have to live somewhere and there is great shortage of housing already a problem we have had for years , that in someway will releave the proplem of housing Many of those will be uninhabitable, others will be repossessions and some will be in probate. |
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Post by dappy on Nov 17, 2022 14:16:11 GMT
The Government rented a number of usually pretty poor quality accommodation in usually pretty unpleasant areas which it used for accommodating people waiting for their asylum applications to be determined. I've been a good number of them, honestly not the sort of places you would want to be.
The problem that has resulted in increasing numbers of hotels being required is driven by three main factors
1) the number of claimants is a little higher than it has been for several years
2) at the start of the pandemic, the government (for reasons few understood) gave up much of accommodation it had
3) the Government's appalling failure to turn around applications quickly - resulting in people waiting for ridiculous times. Bad for them with their lives in limbo and bad for the government as it costs more money. Lets say one guy earning £30k could turn around two applications a month - 24 applications at say £50 per night accommodation cost saves £438,000 in accommodation costs for a salary cost of £30k. It is absolutely barking bad and gross incompetence. Yet a man in an office solving the problem doesnt give Government pretty pictures on the front page of tabloids so Braverman and Patel before her don't bother.
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Post by Handyman on Nov 17, 2022 14:33:54 GMT
Even if that happened overnight, where would the Asylum Seekers live? they all have to live somewhere and there is great shortage of housing already a problem we have had for years There some 230, 000 long term empty homes , that in someway will releave the proplem of housing If it was only as simple as that, it isn't; there are thousands of people living on our streets some for many years, there are sleeping on their mates' sofas, or in overcrowded poor housing, many families waiting for years to try and get social housing. This year so far 40,000 have entered the UK by unlawful means, all of them need to be housed fed and watered and they are the ones we actually know about, rents are going through the roof even for substandard housing, the average rent in London now stands at £2,300 per month due to the lack of housing, we cannot build enough affordable housing to keep up with demand, and have not been able to for years. |
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Post by Handyman on Nov 17, 2022 14:35:28 GMT
There some 230, 000 long term empty homes , that in someway will releave the proplem of housing Many of those will be uninhabitable, others will be repossessions and some will be in probate. I agree. |
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