The Government are appealing to landlords to host asylum seekers, with private contractors working on their behalf, offering five-year guaranteed rent deals.
Private contractor Serco – one of three working for the Home Office – are offering five-year guaranteed rent deals to landlords, with the taxpayer footing the bill.
Their website states the company is responsible for housing over 30,000 asylum seekers, with an ‘ever growing portfolio’ of over 7,000 homes.
The firm organised an event at a four-star hotel in the Malvern Hills next month, as part of their drive to house more asylum seekers, according to The Telegraph.
Serco is said to be ‘looking for’ landlords, investors and agents, with properties in the North West, the Midlands and the east of England to lease for more than five years.
The deal also reportedly includes promises of rent paid ‘on time every month with no arrears’, free property management, full repair and maintenance, as well utilities council tax bills paid by Serco.
Its promotional material claims to prospective clients that the offer is ‘an attractive and competitive proposition within the industry’.
It comes as the number of Channel migrants in small boats surpassed 9,500 this year so far – a third up from the previous all-time high.
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