The Home Office has denied asylum seekers are being
housed in “degrading conditions” and said it is content for private contractors
to carry out their own inspections of housing that they manage. The government has also rejected a call for an
independent review of people’s experience of living in accommodation assigned
to them while they seek refugee status. Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee
last year urged the Home Office to improve “unacceptably poor” conditions
in some housing for asylum seekers, including dirty living
quarters, leaks, damp, broken equipment and poor quality furnishings. Read
more on the Civil Service World website.
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With the right funding, housing associations should be able to provide a
refuge for those who have experienced violence, writes *Helena Doyle*
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