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ASYLUM-SEEKERS living in houses run by private profiteers are facing squalor so terrible that their health is at risk, the Morning Star learned today.
Councillors in Sheffield are deploying housing and environmental experts to investigate conditions in 240 houses occupied by asylum-seekers.
The conditions they found were “horrendous,” with some having no heating and hot water for weeks and one living amid destruction caused by a fallen-in ceiling fan. Inspectors said that unsanitary conditions were widespread among the houses.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government