UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer now wants to rent out homes to migrants.
As small boats packed with migrants continue crossing the Channel into Britain, the Government is pleading with landlords to host asylum seekers. They even has private contractors working on their behalf offering five-year guaranteed rent deals. And it’s all at the taxpayer’s expense
The Labour party has been accused of offering yet “another example of the Government putting illegal migrants before the British people” with their new ‘landlord scheme’
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The Mail Online reports: Private contractor Serco – one of three working for the Home Office – are offering five-year guaranteed rent deals to landlords, with the taxpayer footing the bill.
Their website states the company is responsible for housing over 30,000 asylum seekers, with an ‘ever growing portfolio’ of over 7,000 homes.
The firm organised an event at a four-star hotel in the Malvern Hills next month, as part of their drive to house more asylum seekers, according to The Telegraph.
Serco is said to be ‘looking for’ landlords, investors and agents, with properties in the North West, the Midlands and the east of England to lease for more than five years.
The deal also reportedly includes promises of rent paid ‘on time every month with no arrears’, free property management, full repair and maintenance, as well utilities council tax bills paid by Serco.
Its promotional material claims to prospective clients that the offer is ‘an attractive and competitive proposition within the industry’.
It comes as the number of Channel migrants in small boats surpassed 9,500 this year so far – a third up from the previous all-time high.
At the same period in the record-breaking year of 2022, this figure stood at 6,691 in, while last year is reached 5,916 during the same time frame.
It is understood that it has been the Government’s statutory duty to accommodate destitute asylum seekers since 2005.
A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘These arrangements with the private rented sector have been in place for years, including under the previous government.
‘We have a statutory duty to support destitute asylum seekers who will not be able to pay for fees such as utilities and council tax.
‘We are restoring order to the asylum system and cutting costs to taxpayers by reducing the number of people we are required to accommodate through a rapid increase in asylum decision-making and the removal of more than 24,000 people with no right to be in the UK.’
It comes as 184 migrants crossing the Channel in three separate boats were intercepted by Border Force on Monday.
As such this month’s total has been brought up to 2,918 migrants and 52 boats having made the perilous journey.