ASYLUM-seekers suffer overcrowding, hunger, restricted movement, room inspections and attacks by racist groups as they live in “human warehouses,” campaigners have warned.

Myths that asylum-seekers are enjoying a luxurious lifestyle in comfortable hotels have been dispelled by campaign group Refugee Action which instead described the sites as “far-right thug magnets” with people living in squalor, appalling food and increasing mental illness among occupants.

In longer-term accommodation, the group found collapsed ceilings, mould, infestations and sewage leaks.

One Refugee Action crisis worker said: “Most of us experience hotels as an exciting, short-term base away from home.

“But when a hotel becomes a long-term home for someone seeking asylum, the experience is completely different.

“The hotel is run on a skeleton staff. You have no kitchen, meal times are set in stone. If you miss them, you don’t eat.

“The food is low quality and takes no account of taste or culture. Sometimes it’s even rotten or mouldy.”

They highlighted that people housed in these hotels are expected to live on £9 a week, adding: “It’s nowhere near enough.

“I've known a family that had to go to A&E to get their child a paracetamol because they had no money to buy any.”

Refugee Action said profiteering contractors were being paid millions of pounds in taxpayers’ cash to run asylum hotels.

“We believe the asylum system should be there to make people safe, not to make rich people richer,” the group said.

“But private companies, like the ones who own these hotels, are swimming in taxpayer-subsidised profits while providing unsafe accommodation to refugees.”

The government says it spends £8 million a day on asylum hotels.

The Home Office was invited to comment.