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Migrant rent deals reveal the hollowness of Gove’s housing pledges

THE Telegraph reports that despite the severe housing shortage the Home Office is offering landlords five-year guaranteed full-rent deals for properties in which to house asylum seekers. It has amassed a stock of 16,000 properties in the hope of cutting the £8million-a-day cost of accommodating migrants in hotels. The paper says these properties, sourced from the private rental and social housing markets, are being used […]