A view of the scene outside the Comfort Inn hotel on Belgrave Road in Pimlico, central London, where the Home Office had reportedly asked a group of refugees to be accommodated four to a room, June 2, 2023
ASYLUM-seekers suffer overcrowding, hunger, restricted movement, room inspections and attacks by racist groups as they live in “human warehouses,” campaigners have warned.
Myths that asylum-seekers are enjoying a luxurious lifestyle in comfortable hotels have been dispelled by campaign group Refugee Action which instead described the sites as “far-right thug magnets” with people living in squalor, appalling food and increasing mental illness among occupants.
In longer-term accommodation, the group found collapsed ceilings, mould, infestations and sewage leaks.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
