Afghan asylum seekers in the UK face the risk of homelessness

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Afghans who moved to England after August 2021 are at risk of homelessness. Most of these immigrants, who were transferred to this country with the help of the British government, settled in hotels due to the lack of housing, but now the British government says that it cannot afford the heavy cost of these people's stay in hotels.
 
According to the Guardian newspaper, the Ministry of the Interior of England intends to remove these immigrants from the hotels and accommodate them in the houses that they have planned. This institution announced in a statement that the immigrants who were transferred to this country based on two evacuation and resettlement plans and were temporarily accommodated in hotels, after 18 months of staying in hotels, they will have more support to stay in permanent homes. However, the British government says that each migrant is only given one offer to stay in one area.
 
Johnny Mercer, Minister of British Veterans, said in the House of Representatives that any immigrant who rejects the first offer to stay in an area will not get another offer. He also said that a specific deadline will be set for these migrants, and for this reason, human rights and migrant support organizations say that some Afghan migrants may become homeless under this plan.
 
Anwar Suleiman, executive chairman of the Refugee Council, says: "We are deeply concerned about many aspects of this plan.”In particular, the danger that could lead to the homelessness of people who have fled the grip of the Taliban and leave them wandering the streets of England."
 
He added: "Those who were promised a warm welcome in England should not be treated this way. It is true that hotels are not a suitable place for refugees to live, but the fact that thousands of Afghans stayed there for months is also the result of the government's mismanagement and its failure to cooperate with local councils and other organizations to find suitable housing.
 
Various councils and associations of Afghans in Britain are complaining about this plan. They say that this plan will make newly arrived Afghans homeless.
 
Paymana Asad, a member of the Afghan-origin Labor Council who has been working with refugees for the past two years, says: "Without any proper plan to house Afghans, they have wasted taxpayers' money in hotels, kept the lives of Afghan refugees in limbo and They have caused countless damages to the mental health of the people who stood by the British soldiers in Afghanistan, and now these Afghan families are thrown into the valley of homelessness in the country they were brought to, not by choice, but by necessity."
 
He emphasizes that the British government is to blame for the presence of Afghan immigrants in hotels, not the people, and these people should not wander.
 
However, it seems that the British government has made up its mind. Currently, about 9,000 Afghan immigrants live in England in hotels, most of which are located in London. These immigrants have adapted to the conditions of London and now they are not ready to move to other cities and regions, but the British government says that if these people reject the offer, the government will neither give them another offer nor pay for their stay in hotels.