Reform UK’s plans for a crackdown on houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) as an anti-asylum move could backfire by squeezing housing supply, a party councillor has warned.
Placing asylum seekers – including those who have arrived via small boats – in multi-bedroom houses in towns and cities across the UK has been lambasted by Nigel Farage’s party.
Reform MP Lee Anderson has said HMO landlords were buying up “cheap terraced houses” and “filling our streets full of wrong ’uns”.
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Farage promised during the recent local election campaign that “bloody-minded” Reform councils will stand up against HMOs by using planning controls.
