UK asylum seekers refused housing over 'social cohesion issues'

Lawyers say north-east of England ban involving far-right activity ‘discriminatory’

Some asylum seekers have been banned from accommodation in north-east England because of “social cohesion issues” and far-right activity, a move lawyers have described as “discriminatory”, the Guardian has learned.

Details of the ban emerged in a note from the Home Office to an asylum seeker’s solicitor, in which the department said that it had an agreement with local authorities in that region not to house any “foreign nationals with known criminality”.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2QWJlx7

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