University students scrambling to find accommodation weeks before the start of new term after being kicked out of rooms used to house migrants
More than 100 university students are now in a desperate scramble to find new accommodation after being kicked out of their rooms – which have been taken over by migrants.
Dozens of students now just have weeks to find new digs in Huddersfield after the bombshell news was dropped that their halls will become a new plush home for asylum seekers.
It comes after 300 migrants made the perilous Channel crossing in small boats on Tuesday – taking the total number of illegal arrivals reaching this UK this year to 20,000.
To help with the house the new arrivals, the Home Office bought the HD1 block at Huddersfield, West Yorkshire – which comes with its own gym, games room and private cinema, reports The Sun.
The arrangement has meant that 168 students, who were due to be living in the halls, have now been refunded and face the scramble to find new accommodation.
More than 100 university students are now in a desperate scramble to find new accommodation after being kicked out of their rooms
Dozens of students now just have weeks to find new digs in Huddersfield after the bombshell news was dropped. The block includes its own cinema room
To help with the house the new arrivals, the Home Office bought the HD1 block at Huddersfield, West Yorkshire – which comes with its own gym (pictured) and games room
More than 20,000 migrants arrived in the UK this year (pictured are migrants reaching the UK on Tuesday)
Prestige Student Living (PSL), the lettings company, claimed landlord Hudd Student Management had told them the block would not be opening to students.
In a statement, PSL told MailOnline: ‘Hudd Student Management, the landlord for HD1, informed us that the building will not be opening to students in September. This decision is beyond the control of Prestige Student Living.
‘Our team took immediate action to inform students and help them secure alternative accommodation in Huddersfield and return all payments made to us.
‘We deeply sympathise with the students affected by the news and will do all we can to support them.
‘Our agreement with the Hudd Student Management has terminated with immediate effect.’
The news outraged Labour’s shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock who told The Sun students were ‘paying the price for the Government’s reliance on emergency accommodation’.
A Home Office spokeswoman said that the asylum system is under ‘unprecedented pressure brought about by a significant increase in dangerous and illegal journeys into the country’.