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Home Office evicts hundreds of asylum seekers from hotel with days’ notice

Some families have lived in the hotel for two years but will now be forced to move hundreds of miles

By Anita Mureithi
Home Office evicts hundreds of asylum seekers from hotel with days’ notice
A protest outside a hotel in east London where hundreds of asylum seekers were given just days’ notice of their eviction | George Watson
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Hundreds of asylum seekers are being evicted from the hotel they’ve lived in for two years with just a week’s notice – and many haven’t been told where they are going.

A letter from Home Office subcontractor Clearsprings Ready Homes arrived on 18 January telling everyone in the east London hotel that it would “no longer be available” from 26 January.

The notice promised a “smooth” transfer to “suitable alternative” accommodation but openDemocracy has learnt that at the time of writing, some still haven’t been told where they’ll be moved to.

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