City with potholes and ‘filthy streets’ spends £4.5m a month on asylum seeker hotels | UK | News
Glasgow spends the money of the taxpayer, which is hardly won by £ 4.5 million every month to set foot on the immigrant accommodation bill. The number of asylum seekers in Scotland has risen in recent years and lives in 2,544 accommodation in 2023 from 849. Local residents went to the streets in protests, based on both anti-immigrant-hotel demonstrations and racism protests that occur outside the hotels.
The number of asylum seekers is now larger than the number of indigenous homelesss in Glasgow. Three of the 1st quarter of the 1,795 homeless people living in funded accommodation are asylum seekers and live in properties operated by 1,204 immigrant housing groups. The high cost of the housing asylum seekers in the city is now with February 2023 now, now, Sun Reports.
City Toray MSP Annie Wells said to the newspaper: “Glasgow already grasp a housing emergency due to SNP budget cuts – cannot continue to suck refugees at this rate without an emergency policy and financing change.
“Glaswegians had to cope with pit roads, dirty streets and crumbled services. They should not have to continue to pay more while getting less.”
A Council spokesman added: “More than 44 percent of all homeless presentations come from refugees, but the British government does not provide any resources to meet their needs.”
Glasgow has about 2,600 properties set only for temporary accommodation, so the city has almost maximum capacity due to 2,544 immigrants living there.
Outside the former Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, protests took place, where approximately 600 domestic immigrants opposed the housing of immigrants. While Shaking Scottish and Union Jack flags, “Stop boats” and “send them” cheers were heard.
At the same time, about 300 protesters shouted “Nazi Scum from our streets” and “Refugees are welcomed here – cheering in most of the protests in the UK.
The United Kingdom Government said: uz We are trying to inform the newly recognized refugees as much as possible and we have mobilized the liaison officers to support the asylum seekers in Glasgow. ”
The Scottish government said: “We support the Call that the British government should provide sufficient financing to support refugees.”
