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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sammy Gecsoyler

Home Office trial doubles time refugees have to find home before eviction

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Brook House immigration removal centre. Asylum accommodation leavers accounted for 51% of rough sleepers last December. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

Charities and politicians have welcomed a Home Office trial that will double the number of days refugees have to find a home before being evicted from asylum accommodation.

The government has faced persistent calls to increase the move-on period, the amount of time people granted the right to remain in the UK are given to find a home and an income before being kicked out of hotels and other forms of asylum accommodation, after soaring rates of refugee homelessness.

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