To worry about the changes to asylum seeker housing rules?

[wildfirewonder]

Just reading today the government plans to change the rules on housing of asylum seekers to remove all protections, so no HMO licence required, no gas/electrical checks, no room size rules, no registration with the council, presumably no enforcement of maximum occupancy.

Is this not just legalising the worst type of housing and rewarding rogue landlords?

Sounds really awful for the people who will live in these houses and also not great for neighbours. No gas or electrical checks is surely dangerous?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/asylum-seekers-hazardous-hmo-licence-accommodation/

This feels like a really bad plan.

5 men in a house with only one bathroom? How awful for them.
Where are all the women and children?

I am a landlord and I read the article with despair.
This is yet another opportunity for the rogue landlords, who give us all a bad name, to exploit tenants further.
Decent landlords want to make and keep their properties safe for tenants.
The timing of this when Section 21 is ending could easily mean that properties which would currently be let as family homes will be offered under this scheme due to relaxation of room sizes. They should meet the majority of safety requirements, which is of course a good thing, but there will be even less homes available for families.

There are slumlords in Walthamstow, renting out every room in the house to families, except the kitchen and bathroom. Bed sheds house families all over Greater London.

They trash every hotel given over to the illegal immigrants.
They will be better off on camp sites which will hopefully be guarded to keep the illegal immigrants in.

Wtf

Illegal immigrants don't get given places in hotels to live in. If they are here illegally then there are no government housing options available. These plans are for legal asylum seekers.

There are two asylum hotels in my town, neither of which have been "trashed".