Following the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak from prolonged exposure to black mould in his family’s home, the government agreed to introduce new rules – known as Awaab’s law – to force landlords to fix damp and mould problems in social housing.
“Not extending these basic but important protections to people in asylum accommodation creates a two-tier system of housing standards that puts people seeking asylum disproportionately at risk of harm, and embeds a differential approach to the treatment of refugees in the housing sector,” she said.
“It also cannot be right that Home Office accommodation contractors are allowed to make huge profits, often at the expense of people’s health and safety.”
Tim Naor Hilton, the chief executive of Refugee Action, called for asylum accommodation to be included in Awaab’s law.
He said: “Our services teams continue to see people, including families with babies and sick children, living in squalid properties where dangerous mould and damp is rampant.
Asylum accommodation must be made subject to national housing standards and companies held to account for the shocking conditions that some people must live in.”
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Following the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak from prolonged exposure to black mould in his family’s home, the government agreed to introduce new rules – known as Awaab’s law – to force landlords to fix damp and mould problems in social housing.
“Not extending these basic but important protections to people in asylum accommodation creates a two-tier system of housing standards that puts people seeking asylum disproportionately at risk of harm, and embeds a differential approach to the treatment of refugees in the housing sector,” she said.
“It also cannot be right that Home Office accommodation contractors are allowed to make huge profits, often at the expense of people’s health and safety.”
Tim Naor Hilton, the chief executive of Refugee Action, called for asylum accommodation to be included in Awaab’s law.
He said: “Our services teams continue to see people, including families with babies and sick children, living in squalid properties where dangerous mould and damp is rampant.
Asylum accommodation must be made subject to national housing standards and companies held to account for the shocking conditions that some people must live in.”
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