• UK district and borough councils have a homelessness prevention duty which also applies to refugees. Unfortunately said councils are also largely falling to pieces and social housing stock hasn’t met demand since Thatcher eviscerated it in the 80s.

    This basically means that a bunch of them are going to end up living long-term in ‘emergency’ B&B placements due to a lack of available social housing, unless they can find private arrangements themselves.

  •  lasagna   ( @lasagna@programming.dev ) 
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    UK’s real estate industry is predatory as fuck. Couple this with a market squeeze and BoE’s daylight robbery, ahem, wealth transfer, ahem economy fix and you have the perfect setting for the worst outcome.