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New asylum housing rule

Friday 19 December 1997 00:02 GMT
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Councils will get the option to move asylum seekers into temporary council housing when they have a duty to accommodate them, the housing minister, Hilary Armstrong, announced last night.

She said she was relaxing the rules, in response to the Association of London Government, because some authorities were having difficulty finding accommodation for asylum-seekers.

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