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35CA4&mod-chart=bar&mod-group=AllRegions_E&mod-type=namedComparisonGroup” data-link-name=”in body link”>shows a similar picture across the north-west of England. The figures are stark, but they only tell part of the story. If you talk to people at the sharp end, the picture is more complex, and even worse.
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Liverpool’s housing crisis stems from the forceful arrival of the Home Office’s new asylum accommodation contracts. Serco’s grip on the property market was already substantial, thanks to its existing large-scale housing contracts for people claiming benefits; it now has an equally colossal £4bn arrangement for asylum accommodation.
In July last year, the then housing secretary threatened councils with the reallocation of asylum seekers if they failed to cooperate, and, following that ultimatum, the proportion of places Serco provides across the northwest of England rose significantly.
Needless to say, Serco has made a horrible mess of things. In September, the Guardian’s Observer published a front-page report detailing cases in which people fled war zones only to end up being killed by Serco’s substandard accommodation. The aftermath revealed elsewhere was terrible.
The unfolding human disaster in the north-west has elicited reactions local to Liverpool’s particular wretchedness: so many more homeless people, on top of those already pinballing around a landscape of boarded-up houses, have swelled the numbers of those sleeping rough.
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