Bury Council has said rough sleeping in the borough has rocketed due to migrants and asylum seekers being left ‘destitute’ after having their cases rejected.
An update of the council’s homelessness strategy published published this week said the borough had a 1,400 per cent increase in rough sleeping since 2018/19.
The current number of recorded rough sleepers is 140 in 2022/23 from just seven in 2018/19. The council said based on projections they were expecting an increase in migrant and asylum dispersal numbers in the borough by the Home Office and Serco from 435 to 970 in the next six to 12 months.
The report, published by Coun Claire Cummins, cabinet member for housing services, said there had been ‘increasing evidence of a housing crisis during 2023’.
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