The government is urging landlords to take in asylum seekers, and private contractors are assisting them by offering five-year rent guarantees.
Private contractor Serco—one of three working for the Home Office —offers five-year guaranteed rent deals to landlords, with the taxpayer footing the bill.
Their website states that the company is responsible for housing over 30,000 asylum seekers and has an ‘ever-growing portfolio’ of over 7,000 homes.
According to The Telegraph, the company plans to host an event at a four-star hotel in the Malvern Hills next month as part of their effort to accommodate more asylum seekers.
Serco is said to be ‘looking for’ landlords, investors and agents, with properties in the North West, the Midlands and the East of England to lease for more than five years.
The deal also reportedly includes promises of rent paid ‘on time every month with no arrears’, free property management, full repair and maintenance, utilities, and council tax bills paid by Serco.
Its promotional material claims to prospective clients that the offer is ‘an attractive and competitive proposition within the industry’.
It comes as the number of Channel migrants in small boats surpassed 9,500 this year so far – a third up from the last all-time high.
During the same period in the record-breaking year of 2022, this figure stood at 6,691, while last year it reached 5,916 during the same time frame.
It is understood that it has been the Government’s statutory duty to house destitute asylum seekers since 2005.
A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘These arrangements with the private rented sector have been in place for years, including under the previous government.
‘We have a statutory duty to support destitute asylum seekers who will not be able to pay for fees such as utilities and council tax.
‘We are restoring order to the asylum system and cutting costs to taxpayers by reducing the number of people we are required to accommodate through a rapid increase in asylum decision-making and the removal of more than 24,000 people with no right to be in the UK.’
It comes as 184 migrants crossing the Channel in three different boats were intercepted by Border Force on Monday.
This month’s total has been brought up to 2,918 migrants and 52 boats having made the dangerous journey.
That same day, French authorities rescued 42 migrants whose vessel had engine failure, later dropping them off in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
Authorities also attempted to assist another struggling boat, however only four of the occupants accepted help.
The remaining passengers continued towards the English coast, according to French reports.
In March 4,586 people successfully made the deadly crossing in 80 boats thanks to unseasonably calm weather off the coast of Kent.
However, this month has seen the most heightened number of arrivals in a single day so far this year, with 705 migrants arriving from 12 dinghies on April 15.
A Home Office spokesman previously said: ‘We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.
‘The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.
‘That’s why this government is investing in border security, increasing returns to their highest levels for more than half a decade, and imposing a major crackdown on illegal working to end the false promise of jobs used by gangs to sell spaces on boats.
‘We have already secured agreement from the French to deploy a new elite unit of officers at the coast, launch a specialist intelligence unit, increase police numbers and introduce new powers for the French authorities to intervene in shallow waters.
‘We are introducing tougher enforcement powers with new legislation and intensifying our collaboration with France and other countries who face the same challenges by exploring fresh and innovative measures to dismantle the business models of the criminal smuggling gangs.’
What about our homeless, though? Well, Keir Starmer doesn’t care and it’s despicable. He needs to go!
He continues to provide incentives for people to come here illegally. Free housing, benefits, and human rights laws that stops them from being deported, even though they are here illegally.
Starmer doesn’t care about our homeless or our homeless veterans. Our government has gone mad! However, people voted for him, so we let this happen, yet we do nothing about it and Starmer and his satanic followers know it.
At this rate, all Britons will be homeless. Soon, British citizens will have to begin applying for asylum, and it’s a heinous unrestricted war against us Brits. Starmer hates us and can’t wait until we’re a minority in our own country.
Charity begins at home, not with migrants who should be booted out immediately!
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