The Home Office has amassed a stock of 16,000 properties for asylum seekers, despite facing shortages of homes for young workers and families. ontractors are offering landlords five-year full-rent deals to manage these properties as part of efforts to move asylum seekers out of hotels.
There are absurdities in our planning laws which have left whole, affordable estates vacant. Take a look at this one in Stretford which has been described as like a:
“Set from a Zombie film”
Trafford Council declined to comment on specific properties but told us that Highfield Close in Stretford, South Manchester was one that was under review.
