A UK parliamentary committee says there is an “impending shortage” of housing for asylum seekers in the UK.
In a report, the home affairs committee announced that the issue is being made worse by a lack of “fair and equal dispersal”, with some areas receiving hundreds of people and others getting none.
The report includes Home Office figures showing where asylum seekers are being housed, with Glasgow having the most – 3,084 people – as of the end of 2015, the state-funded BBC reported.
According to the report, asylum seekers are found accommodation while their applications are being considered, often in areas where cheap housing is available.
Committee Chairman Keith Vaz said “the dispersal system appears unfair, with whole swathes of the country never receiving a single asylum seeker. The majority are being moved into low-cost housing in urban areas such as Glasgow, Stoke, Cardiff and of course Middlesbrough, where the ratio is one asylum seeker…