The Greater Manchester Housing Justice Network If you share our concerns about the myriad housing injustices faced by people of all backgrounds in our communities, and are fed up of the politics of division that divides us against each other, sign our statement here. Housing injustice in asylum hotels Across Greater…
This blog series features the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Previous blogs explored the emergence and context of the hotels policy; food and living conditions in hotels; and the lack of privacy, arbitrary and…
This blog series features the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Previous blogs explored the emergence and context of the hotels policy; food and living conditions in hotels; and the lack of privacy, arbitrary and…
Edit: On the 27th July we received a response to this letter from the Home Office. Click here to download their response as a PDF. To Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick We are writing to express our grave concern at your ‘hotel optimisation’ plans, which will increase still further the…
This blog series features the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Previous blogs explored the emergence and context of the hotels policy, and food and living conditions in hotels. In this blog, we hear about…
This blog series features the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. The last blog explored the emergence and context of the hotels policy. This blog focuses on food and living conditions in hotels. In future…
This blog series will feature the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Asylum hotels are increasingly in the headlines, as the government uses complaints about ‘Hotel Britain’ to justify its increasingly hostile plans around asylum.…
Across the country, tens of thousands of people seeking asylum are being housed by the Home Office in hotels for months or years on end while they are waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Hotels vary in quality, location and access to services. In all of them, people…