Council Houses To Be Built For Asylum Seekers

As part of an effort to stop using private landlords and asylum hotels, asylum seekers will be placed in newly constructed council houses.

About 200 local authorities have shown interest in the Government pilot scheme that would finance the construction of new properties or the refurbishment of derelict housing to make space for asylum seekers.

Five councils – Brighton and Hove, Hackney, Peterborough, Thanet, and Powys – have demonstrated they are willing to take part in the scheme.

However, the proposals are expected to spark outrage among the public, many of whom are sitting on long waiting lists for council housing themselves.

Last year, 1.3 million people were on social housing waiting lists across England – a 3 per cent increase on 2023 and the highest number since 2014.

Yet supply is not meeting demand, with 20,560 social homes lost in 2023/2024, mainly through Right to Buy sales and demolitions. 

According to a study, England will sell off more than eight times as many council homes in 2025–2026 as were built the year before.

Official figures show there are 36,000 asylum seekers in hotels and about 71,000 in ‘dispersal’ accommodation in the private rented sector.

With a Home Office report identifying billions of pounds ‘squandered’ on asylum accommodation, left-wing council leaders have insisted this scheme will provide savings for the taxpayer.

Bella Sankey, leader of Labour-run Brighton and Hove City Council, told The I paper that the current system of housing asylum seekers is seeing taxpayers’ money ‘creamed off for handsome profits by private companies’.

The cost of the contracts awarded to Serco, Clearsprings and Mears between 2019 and 2029, to lease hotels and landlords’ homes, has tripled from £4.5 billion to £15.3 billion, according to figures from the National Audit Office.

Ms Sankey said: ‘Owning more of our own housing, housing that can be used much more flexibly in future, would be a win-win’.

‘Over time, this could replace entirely the need for private contractors to have any role in the system. Each local authority could be asked to step up and do their bit.’

The Government has pledged £100 million towards the scheme, with figures indicating the funding would be able to provide 900 new homes.

Under the programme, councils would be given the funds to buy properties for asylum seeker accommodation, including in new housing developments where homes are struggling to find buyers.

After that, properties would be leased back to the Home Office and eventually included in the council’s social housing portfolio.

Deporting them all would be the wisest course of action, in my opinion, but then my opinion doesn’t actually count.

The council leaders don’t appear to care about our nation, so maybe we should deport them, too. They could exercise their leadership skills in a different nation where they would most likely get along just fine.

There will, of course, be civil unrest. It’s going to happen at some point because people have had enough.

Our government are considering migrants before their own. Don’t help the Brits, just enable the migrants, and just chuck money at them willy-nilly because now they are more important. This isn’t our country anymore; it belongs to them.

In every constituency where a new housing complex is built, be ready for a new Mogadishi to appear. These folks continue to live as they always have, with furniture and appliances thrown away to avoid having to pay for their removal and trash piling up everywhere.

You know, the best solution would have been not to let these migrants in at all.

When writing this, I did honestly wonder, is it New Year’s Eve or April Fool’s Day? Somebody clarify because all this silliness just can’t be true.

However, our governments should have been stopped from selling off social housing, but then they’d probably sell their own children for a quid because they just have no morals.