Homelessness charity Shelter has criticised inadequate housing conditions for migrants in a report.
No Place Like Home? is a discussion document focusing on the sizeable number of migrants who are homeless or in bad housing, but who fall outside of any kind of mainstream housing or welfare provision. In sections, the paper looks at:
- The housing situation for migrants coming to the UK
- Perceptions and the reality of the housing impact of migrants
- Current government policy and the subsequent implications for migrants
- Options for reform
The report concludes that a crisis in affordability combined with underinvestment in social housing over decades has resulted in a shortage of affordable homes in many parts of the country, impacting on migrants and non-migrants alike. There has to be an improvement in regulation of the private rented sector, but leaving the provision of appropriate accommodation purely to the housing market has been seen to fail.
Community cohesion and the integration of migrants needs to be addressed in the context of the overall need to tackle the shortage of good quality affordable homes… it is incumbent on central and local government to develop a more strategic approach to addressing the housing needs of migrants.
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