Government is expecting more landlords to accommodate asylum seekers

Conservative Governments have let LLs down consistently, Labour just continues that policy with their own confiscatory twist ? Nobody should be surprised at this general negative reaction. But to slam doors is ill-advised? The vast majority of LLs are PRS folks, some better off than others but (lots of buts) the unseen host are comparatively small? On their own easy to swat aside. Thus awoke the now mighty Trade Union movement? Food for thought?
in the immediate term, why not look at the swathes of flats and blocks of flats bought up by foreign investors and then left vacant? For example, what I am told are empty flats in the Brighton Marina, bought by Chinese owners? If doesn’t need to be by the traditional compulsory sale route but get statutory authority to take them over for the use of the relevant council to house the homeless etc on terms accountable to the council on a statutory trust for the owner, be he:she/it human or corporate?
This may go to tackle a number of social issues at the same time?
At present, successive Governments just throw up their hands as if they are facing something new, rather as old as time itself and shout, “It’s their fault?”
Now, Over to the legion of Creative Commercial Thinkers!

Reply to the comment left by Bemused at 22/06/2025 – 21:51
If a person is claiming asylum and has entered the UK with a valid passport, fair enough. But if a person attempts to enter the UK without a valid passport, they are committing an illegal act. That appears to apply to all those leaving France in small boats.

No way to housing asylum seekers sorry. Are they even able to prove right to rent? My landlord insurance does not accept tenants on any benefits . I presume social housing is not insured by councils

Reply to the comment left by Judith Llewellyn at 23/06/2025 – 11:45
Who you choose to rent to is obviously any landlords business. But the rhetoric that fleeing from a country makes you a villain is all wrong. And .. lots of people in poorer countries don’t have passports as they’ve never had to travel.

Reply to the comment left by Bemused at 23/06/2025 – 12:28
Very true however I suspect the reason why the majority of them come to the UK is for the free housing and the handouts. How many countries have they travelled through to get to the UK ? There are plenty of other countries where they can live and earn a decent living but that is not their goal as we all know.

Could you live on £30-£70 a week? That’s what asylum seekers get paid. And they are not allowed to work until their asylum case is proven which can take years.

If they’re are not invited here, why should they get anything? I don’t think I would get anything from the countrues they come from???

Reply to the comment left by Bemused at 23/06/2025 – 12:38
Sorry, they chose to come , we didn’t force them and they certainly aren’t improving the economy whilst filling up all of the hotels. You make your bed and lie in it .

Reply to the comment left by PH at 23/06/2025 – 12:51
I’m responding to your comment that people travel across the world leaving everything they know is for a £70 a week handout and a room with a landlord that thinks they are a villain. I’m trying to get you to imagine what it might be like to be that desperate.
Walking in another man’s shoes comes to mind.

Reply to the comment left by Bemused at 23/06/2025 – 12:48
I’d love to be able to run a business on compassion, but after 25 years as a landlord, I see compassionate landlords exploited by government, councils, courts, and tenants.