'Families who have paid rent for years are being turfed out'

Section 21 notices are being handed to tenants, including veterans, because Serco, acting at the behest of the Home Office, is offering landlords long-term contracts at 20% to 30% above market rent to house asylum seekers. Families who have paid rent for years are being turfed out so that illegal arrivals can be given priority.

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You want to know why people are angry? This is why.

Then there is the crime. Data shows that at least 211 asylum hotel residents have been charged with crimes this year alone, including sex offences against children and violent assaults. That figure only covers a fraction of the hotels in use.

Police, desperate not to “raise tensions”, routinely fail to disclose immigration status when people are charged.

In Warwickshire, it took a councillor to reveal that two asylum seekers were charged with raping a 12-year-old girl.