Housing: Asylum
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2026, to Question 99205, on Affordable Housing: Asylum, whether any other Government programme is, or will, support the provision of (a) new build, (b) refurbished or (c) converted residential houses or flats for asylum seekers.
Answered by Miatta Fahnbulleh
The Government is committed to ending the use of asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament. To support this the Home Office are exploring a programme of reforms to the asylum accommodation estate including work to bring back derelict buildings back into use and develop community-led alternatives.
Alongside this the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is also launching a new fund to support local authorities to make available basic alternative accommodation so it can be used on a temporary basis to house asylum seekers waiting for their cases to be processed.
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