Disgraceful that British people looking to rent are being outbid by our own government so they can house asylum seekers

Hardly a new story - just a Daily Mail cub reporter rage-baiting as usual.

Of course, Reform's own chief rage-baiter is only too pleased to spread the story ... and now you are doing the same.

It's old news.

BBC reporting over three years ago.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65984461

Please provide a link or a source so we can read this story in its entirety.

Thank you for highlighting this.

I used to work in partnership with local councils and have some councillors friends locals.

It’s my understanding, and I may be incorrect;

Aslyum Seekers are allocated housing whilst waiting to be processed. This will be government funded shared accommodation. Asylum Seekers, until given leave to remain are not legally entitled to claim housing benefit, because legally they have no recourse to public funding. ie Mainstream welfare benefits.

Once given both leave to remain and right to work they have to immediately leave their govt funded accommodation and in some boroughs may be entitled to register for social housing, where they will be able to bid for property on the same basis as all other people on said list.

I’m not sure what you mean, when you refer to “a home office contractor”?

Social housing and funding (which comes from central government, directly from The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, MHCLG), is a local councils responsibility for their own boroughs. Some local authorities has passed responsibility to local housing associations.

I'm afraid you'll have to ask Zia Zusuf I just copied this off Facebook.