Number of rough sleepers in Bury rises by 1,400 per cent in five years
07.01.2024 - 13:23
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Bury Council has said rough sleeping in the borough has rocketed due to migrants and asylum seekers being left ‘destitute’ after having their cases rejected. An update of the council’s homelessness strategy published published this week said the borough had a 1,400 per cent increase in rough sleeping since 2018/19.
The current number of recorded rough sleepers is 140 in 2022/23 from just seven in 2018/19. The council said based on projections they were expecting an increase in migrant and asylum dispersal numbers in the borough by the Home Office and Serco from 435 to 970 in the next six to 12 months.
The report, published by Coun Claire Cummins, cabinet member for housing services, said there had been ‘increasing evidence of a housing crisis during 2023’. She said: “A key issue is the increasing migration pressures to support asylum seekers and refugees in the borough due to existing and changing policy by the Government and the Home Office and an increasing shift in duty towards local authorities for this cohort.
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“We are seeing significantly more asylum seekers accessing homeless services. “There have also been significant increases in rough sleepers from migration, some with no recourse to public funds because the Home Office do not manage their negative decision cases and evict into communities with no access to support or funding.
“Many disappear into the ‘black economy’ but others are picked up by local authorities when destitute with no accommodation or support with no access to public funding. “The continuing Ukrainian war is also now impacting on services more due to the host arrangements with residents ending and
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