Quelling public disquiet is worth extra cost of barracks asylum housing, says No 10

<p>Government defends prospect of paying more for barracks, saying people ‘don’t want asylum seekers in hotels’</p><p>Downing Street has defended the prospect of paying more to house asylum seekers in disused barracks instead of hotels, arguing that quelling public disquiet was worth any extra cost.</p><p>As refugee organisations and local politicians described plans to house tens of thousands of people in ex-military sites as “fanciful” and “too expensive”, No 10 said that “communities don’t want asylum seekers housed in hotels, and neither does the government”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/28/quelling-public-disquiet-hotels-worth-extra-cost-housing-refugees-barracks-says-government">Continue reading...</a>