Anti-migrant activists can target rental houses, warn charity organizations | Immigration and asylum

The fears grow that common houses can become the focus of anti-migrant protests, whereby residents and charity organizations build tensions in some areas.

Houses of the multiple profession (HMOS) have grown in number because tenants strive for affordable accommodations in a housing crisis.

HMOs are most frequently used as a property in which three or more tenants live with common institutions to accommodate students, young specialists, asylum seekers or increasingly everyone with a short budget.

News were published on social media in which measures were pushed against HMOS to make asylum seekers and try to create lists of addresses.

A former pub on the edge of Warrington in Cheshire was impressed by graffiti last month and said that “no HMOs” said after rumors should be converted. The municipal council said that he had not received a planning application.

Reform UK politician, including George Finch, the teenager of the Warwickshire County Council, criticized the use of HMOS for asylum seekers.

Protests led by all in the summer were partially held responsible Inaccurate and inflammatory claims by politicians like Nigel Farage, the reform leader, and Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Minister.

The home office has promised to close dozens of asylum hotels In the new year with the ministers, it plans to move asylum seekers to military barracks instead.

However, it was increasingly speculated whether they can or should fall back on the use of HMOs, which – separately from the asylum debate – were held responsible for tensions in some communities.

Louise Calvey of asylum matters that are fighting for better asylum conditions in Great Britain said that the charity organization had received reports on an increase in hate crimes near HMOs and rumors that circulated in communities that HMOS were kept in the apartment, even if this was not the case.

“This anger around HMOS, this fear that goes around HMOS around HMOS, hates crime against all racist people,” she said. “There is a great risk. At least when people are in hotels, there is security there and there is usually some form of support. In HMOs it is much more likely that people are attacked to run the street, and it is much more likely that these attacks will not be reported.”

However, she emphasized that the use of HMOs to accommodate asylum seekers was not new and is probably not significantly increasing.

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“The use of HMOs for asylum accommodation has been used as hotels for far longer,” she said. “But I very much doubt that the government will be able to close hotels and set up HMOs. There is only no access to this apartment out there.”

Calvey asked the government to combat the deficit of asylum stress and enable asylum seekers to work, rent rooms or to live with the family. “The solution is to bring people out of both hotels and HMOs where they are exposed to violence,” she said.

The office for national statistics estimated in April 182,554 HMOs in England and Wales, although some councils believe that this number could be too low.

The local authorities have taken steps to try to clamp HMO’s rise in their areas, and the council members in Warrington and Bolton voted to scrap, which meant that houses could be converted into small HMOs (with six or less tenants or less).

Last week, Phil Brickell, the Labor MP of Bolton West, asked the government to allow a debate to allow companies like Serco, hundreds of HMOs to rent the local communities, when and where they place asylum seekers.

He said the lack of transparency was suggestions for HMOs on social media and surrounded by misinformation.