Judge in case of two families housed for years in single hotel rooms says they should have been moved within three months
The Home Office could face legal action from hundreds of asylum-seeking families stuck in single rooms in hotels after a judge criticised the “extraordinarily stressful” conditions in which they are expected to live.
In a ruling, the deputy high court judge Alan Bates questioned why two families had been forced to live in single rooms for more than three years. He said they should have been moved to alternative accommodation within three months.
Bates said the conditions in which a Kurdish Iraqi woman lived with her husband and two young children in a hotel room in Finchley, north London, did not provide them with a “dignified standard of living”.
In another case, he said an Albanian woman who was a victim of trafficking should not have been expected to live with her two teenage sons in an en suite room in Croydon, south London. She had lived there for more than three years.
