Living next to asylum seeker HMO, ask me anything

Whoever they were, they weren't British.

I've screwed the hatch shut for the time being but I'll have to go and build a stud wall up there.

I've read some comments where posters clearly don't seem to understand the level of proximity I have!
That shared alley, for example,is not fenced off from their garden. If I go in there, I'm basically in their garden. That is why I never take my bins out at night, only at 7am in the morning.
I can hear all the conversations at the back. I can hear everything in my house. I can hear when their phone vibrates and gets a text. I check if it was mine 😂
I can hear the alley door every time it opens and closes.
When they speak with case workers, they often use an interpreter over the phone. So I can hear things translated into English and I won't even go into what I've heard there, not to aggravate anyone.

This is the problem : the posh people pissing about whining about asylum seekers in military barracks somewhere two fields away... Whilst I'm disbelieved and told to shut up and love my neighbours whilst I'm practically sharing my showers with them all 😂
The Bourgeois loons!

@MustTryHarderAndHarder

It's just that case workers are nearly always these young, kind women who lay all sorts of housing and charity help options out and then they very calmly accept whatever nonsense arguments come back. Like there was a man being offered a 1 bedroom flat (I don't know the context why) but he kept on shouting that he wants a "whole house". She then tried to explain it is "all to himself" but he still insisted on a house!
She was so lovely and accommodating that I had to remove myself before I shout over :shut the fuck up with the whining and take the bloody flat!!! I'm wondering what the interpreter would make of that 😂

It just stresses me out the case/care workers bending over backwards...Because I have been homeless myself with a small child after domestic violence. I walked into a dirty house with no bed sheets, no internet, no cutlery, no food and with no money. I was told to go to a food bank if I have nothing, and my god was I reminded every week that I have to get out asap or I'll get charged a nightly rate and get in debt.

Gets to me that seemingly these men get treated better than homeless children. Just hits on a personal note.

AHH..just go away. You don't have to be here with your nonsense.

If their claim is not granted they exist in a kind of half acknowledged existence. They rely on the kindness of charities, except when they have an active appeal ( and are classified as asylum seekers)

Refused asylum seekers have No Recourse to Public Funds, no right to employment, no access to housing ( except through the kindness of others) no access to the banking system, etc. They can access only primary NHS care (ie register with a GP, receive vaccinations, etc).

There is some access to education, which is a human right. Families with young children may receive further assistance.

Where on earth did you get the idea that ‘most’ refused asylum seekers are eligible for UC?

These are the facts about what asylum seekers can get, until they have been given right to remain (if they have).

https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

Refused asylum seekers shouldn't be in the country. They should be deported. They certainly shouldn't get access to any of our services and resources including GP appointments.

I think everyone is quite worried for you, OP. Your situation is both awful and unfair. Housing standards need to be raised and dispersal needs to be widespread. My MC neighbourhood ought to house a few asylum seekers. We have a nice B&B in the area, not too big.

Do you think proper enforcement would make a difference?

Refused asylum seekers shouldn't be in the country. They should be deported. They certainly shouldn't get access to any of our services and resources including GP appointments.

The reality is that they aren’t deported, though. There is right of appeal, which is a more careful, nonpolitical judicial process with a good success rate, and there are other complications and inconsistencies.

Perhaps HMG should work out and publicise a coherent policy on deportations consistent with the UN Convention on Human Rights. It is not clear what that policy would be.

Denying basic healthcare to anyone on these shores is not only inhumane, it is an own goal when it comes to containing infectious disease.

Great, so the pull factors remain, the racket continues, the poorest are affected the most. If only the government could get people to shut up about it, everything would be fine and dandy.

An improving picture.

I think everyone is quite worried for you, OP. Your situation is both awful and unfair. Housing standards need to be raised and dispersal needs to be widespread. My MC neighbourhood ought to house a few asylum seekers. We have a nice B&B in the area, not too big.

Do you think proper enforcement would make a difference?