Ministers have set aside £500m to invest in a "new, more sustainable accommodation model" as they scramble to close 210 migrant hotels.Ministers have set aside £500m to invest in a "new, more sustainable accommodation model" as they scramble to close 210 migrant hotels.

 

Entire streets and flat blocks are turning into asylum housing, sparking a massive outcry.

Council chiefs are up in arms over the Home Office's strategy to grab properties in deprived areas for asylum seekers. Communities in Thanet, Canterbury, Dover, and Folkestone feel the strain as housing becomes scarce for locals.

 

The government has set aside THB 21 billion (£500 million) to develop a new accommodation scheme, aiming to close 210 migrant hotels. Yet, Nigel Farage’s Reform Party leaders claim asylum contractors are snagging cheap properties, leaving locals in the cold.

In a direct letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, twelve council leaders express their outrage. The sites chosen are often in struggling communities, they argue, compounding existing pressures on public services.

 

Currently, over 32,000 asylum seekers reside in hotels, with another 66,000 in places like houses and flats. The Home Office's substantial fund aims to move these individuals out of hotels and into local communities, with consultations from local authorities.

The proposed “basic” accommodation plan involves using former student housing, closed care homes, and empty buildings temporarily for those waiting on asylum decisions. Labour wants all migrant hotels closed within four years, despite their increase since the election.

 

Lord David Hanson outlines how the Government plans to revamp accommodation practices, with potential conversions of derelict buildings. Conservatives, meanwhile, accuse Labour of exacerbating housing issues for British families.

Officials admit they've increased payments to accommodation providers amidst a challenging market. However, this hasn’t resulted in the expected growth of dispersal accommodation capacity, sparking further frustration.

Monthly meetings between the Home Office, council leaders, and accommodation providers focus on sourcing properties to integrate migrants into different communities.

 

The increase in areas hosting asylum accommodation—from 70% to 81%—has escalated pressure on local resources, from housing to schools and the NHS, stirring community tensions.

 

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp criticises Labour for excessive spending on migrants, while Brits struggle for affordable housing, voice concerns over taxpayer money funding a cycle of illegal immigration reward.

Labour’s plans to process more asylum applications could lead to increased deportations of failed applicants. Collaboration with local governments aims to fine-tune the model, ensuring better outcomes for communities and taxpayers alike.

 

In summary, the UK government faces intense scrutiny over its housing policies for asylum seekers. With THB 21 billion allocated, plans persist despite significant opposition and local hardships.

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Express 2025-08-11

 

 

Labour don't have a clue what to do. They are rearranging chairs on the Titanic.

 

The problem isn't whether they are in a hotel or a flat. 

Put them in old army camps or tents, they are illegal and not entitled to anything better

Tents they are illegal end of story

I wonder how many “donors” will be getting rich off the new program.

2 hours ago, proton said:

Put them in old army camps or tents, they are illegal and not entitled to anything better

 

Stick em in Glastonbury, that can accommodate about 300,000 in tents.  The middle class virtue signalers go there voluntarily to stay in tents so even they can hardly complain about the standard of accommodation.  Also, they were able to build a giant wall around it to keep people without tickets out, so that wall should be able to be used to keep the migrants in.   The people who go to Glastonbury love illegal immigrants so I'm sure they won't mind if Glastonbury is cancelled until the UK has got a grip on the illegal migrant emergency.   

 

Note: this is Glastonbury who do not like people to enter illegally so build a giant wall to protect their borders from illegal invasion.   

9 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Labour don't have a clue what to do. They are rearranging chairs on the Titanic.

 

50,000

 

Labour setting new records. And another 300 crossing the Channel right now.

 

New Laws, new treaty with France, and still they come in the hundreds daily.

 

Lunatics running the asylum.

Tents in the falklands. No free iphones. No free cash. No nearby schoolchildren. Sorted.

Building blocks from scratch allows MI5 to bug them from the start. They will find out who is who.

If they are illegals no need for accommodation, just send them back to where ever they came as they are only coming for freebies from this pathetic government

On 8/12/2025 at 6:48 AM, Tidal wave said:

Tents they are illegal end of story

Not the end of the story.

If they are Illegal  send them back where they came from No Excuses , they occupy housing that is for UK people and Waisting  the peoples tax paid money that is suppose to be used for the UK people especially the needy people like the Homeless and the Pensioners .

On 8/12/2025 at 9:32 AM, James105 said:

The people who go to Glastonbury love illegal immigrants so I'm sure they won't mind if Glastonbury is cancelled until the UK has got a grip on the illegal migrant emergency.   

 

I'd rather leave the illegal immigrants in there and have the festival as normal.

 

Let them mix with Penelope and Cecilia from Little Gaddesden for a weekend. That might re-adjust a few attitudes of the #refugeeswelcome crew. 

 

Then again, if they can't see the irony in putting the poster below on the Glastonbury security fence they might be beyond help.

 

 

One of the first measure's to put a dent in this is for us to leave HRC, and then start De-wigging judges who support migrants. Then look at home owners who take a bung from the Government and turn locals out into the Streets so they turn there properties into HMO'S to house migrants.

 

Ten's of thousands of these undocumented illegal's have now disappeared what could possibly go wrong,

 

The next atrocity will undoubtedly be the turning point ..not long to wait now, just who' and how many will die the only unanswered questions 🤔 

On 8/12/2025 at 12:48 AM, Tidal wave said:

Tents they are illegal end of story

 That’s where they put them in Greece  and France,so why not in the UK.

Post using large font removed.

Its only 9am this morning and the Border force Vessel has already pulled alongside the key offloading migrants, a report has just come in with a  French vessel Escorting migrants out of French waters preparing hand another boat full over to the uk vessel.  

On a Thai website/forum an article in the Daily Excess about undocumented migrants coming into UK triggers farang who, mostly, live in Thailand.

 I ask again; what material negative effect have these boat people had on your lives in Thailand?

Please spare me the “ my mum can’t get a doctor’s appointment cos of these ‘illegals’ “.

The reason that public and social services are stretched is because of 14 years of the deliberate dismantling of local authorities and services by the Tories.

By the way, anyone care to guess who was in power in UK when the “boat problem” began?

3 minutes ago, Red Forever said:

On a Thai website/forum an article in the Daily Excess about undocumented migrants coming into UK triggers farang who, mostly, live in Thailand.

 I ask again; what material negative effect have these boat people had on your lives in Thailand?

Please spare me the “ my mum can’t get a doctor’s appointment cos of these ‘illegals’ “.

The reason that public and social services are stretched is because of 14 years of the deliberate dismantling of local authorities and services by the Tories.

By the way, anyone care to guess who was in power in UK when the “boat problem” began?

 

  Labour have been in power for over a year now . also, this thread is about migrant hotels , not Aunt Nellie going to the Doctors in Shropshire