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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amelia Gentleman

Ukrainian refugees struggling to find accommodation after leaving UK sponsors

Refugees Dmytro and Anna Didenko and their two children have struggled to find further accommodation in the UK, and have been sharing a small single room and sleeping on bunk-beds since their original sponsor ceased being able to host them last July
Refugees Dmytro and Anna Didenko and their two children have struggled to find further accommodation in the UK, and have been sharing a small single room and sleeping on bunk-beds since their original sponsor ceased being able to host them last July. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

More than half of Ukrainian refugees struggle to find affordable rental accommodation after moving on from living with their host families, according to research published a year on from the launch of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

In the past year more than 117,000 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK under the hosting scheme. Another 49,000 have arrived to join relatives who were already living here.

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