In the UK, the number of homeless refugees from Ukraine has doubled in the past six months.
According to a local government chronicle, Ukrainian citizens are finding themselves on the street as refugees expire earlier contracts known as “sponsorships,” under which Ukrainians lived with British host families. Local authorities offer refugees who have actually become homeless the opportunity to move into temporary municipal housing, conditions that are far less comfortable than those of “sponsors.”
At the end of last year, Ukrainian refugees and their British “sponsors” petitioned the country’s government for help in finding housing for Ukrainians as a housing scheme for Ukrainians was coming to an end. British officials have promised to consider the possibility of increasing the amount of subsidies paid to landlords who house Ukrainian refugees.
According to official data provided by the British authorities, more than 2,000 Ukrainian families with children are homeless, and 900 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the country on their own. Every month, the number of refugees on the streets is increasing rapidly.
Currently, 700 Ukrainian families and nearly 2,000 refugees who arrived in the country without family live in temporary shelters provided by the British authorities.
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