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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T05:46:25.000Z",
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    "almost 600 illegal migrants",
    "lowest level in 18 months",
    "Trafficker offers to smuggle Shamima Begum to UK days after Isis bride's plot to return uncovered",
    "Number of migrants in asylum seeker hotels falls to lowest level in 18 months",
    "Scottish city named as most common asylum seeker destination after THOUSANDS flock to culture hub",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA quarter of homeless people in England are not British, a bombshell new report has revealed.\n\nThe figures, released by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) in its \"Rough Sleeping Tracker\", said the number of rough sleepers has reached record highs - alongside soaring immigration.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFigures released on Thursday showed that 4,793 people slept rough on a single night last autumn, breaking the previous record of 4,751 in 2017.\n\nIn what is the fourth annual rise in a row, the number represents an increase of 171 per cent since 2010.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAlmost a quarter (24 per cent) of rough sleepers are not from the UK, which rises to nearly half of all rough sleepers in London (47 per cent).\n\nAnd since 2021, the number of non-UK nationals sleeping rough has risen by 92 per cent.\n\nAmong those with non-European Union nationalities, the increase has been higher - a rise of 396 per cent.\n\nNet migration peaked at 944,000 in the year ending March 2023 and has been falling since mid-2024.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHowever, there has been a continued rise of small boat migrants, while asylum applications stood at 104,764 in 2024.\n\nGB News first revealed that almost 600 illegal migrants crossed the English Channel on Wednesday, the biggest one-day surge this year.\n\nBut asylum seekers being housed in hotels has also fallen to the lowest level in 18 months at 30,657, with the Labour party relocating asylum seekers in other forms of accommodation.\n\nLabour has pledged to stop using hotels to house asylum seekers and has begun to place them in army barracks, council houses and HMOs across the country.\n\n### LATEST MIGRANT NEWS:\n\n\n\n\n  * Trafficker offers to smuggle Shamima Begum to UK days after Isis bride's plot to return uncovered\n  * Number of migrants in asylum seeker hotels falls to lowest level in 18 months\n  * Scottish city named as most common asylum seeker destination after THOUSANDS flock to culture hub\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn its report, the CSJ called for the Government to tackle rough housing by doubling the capacity of the Housing First scheme, which aims to give rough sleepers a permanent home and care.\n\nThe CSJ has said 5,600 places should be provided by the end of this Parliament.\n\nThe think tank also proposed Dutch-style return arrangements for non-UK citizens sleeping rough.\n\nThe Dutch scheme provides short-term accommodation and support for homeless EU citizens, then works with charities to either return the rough sleeper to their home country or help them move back into work and housing.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTory MP Bob Blackman, the co-chair for the all-party parliamentary group for ending homelessness said: \"The levels of rough sleeping revealed today are a national disgrace and undermine any ambition this government might have to end rough sleeping for good.\n\n\"The CSJ’s analysis shows a system trapped in crisis and a state unable to keep pace with the pressures it faces. The public expect that those with no right to be in the UK, or those who would be better supported by returning home, are not left to languish across our town and city centres.\"\n\nThe Government had pledged £50million to help deal with homelessness, split between \"ending homelessness in communities\" and a long-term rough sleeping innovation programme.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBut Big Issue founder and campaigner Lord Bird said: \"It’s deeply concerning that the government cannot get a grasp on rough sleeping. It’s clearly not enough to throw resources at pulling people out of homelessness, given the rate that people are falling victim to it.\"\n\nAlison McGovern, the Homelessness Minister, said: \"We have to get our kids out of B&B accommodation, and it is good that today we see progress against this target.\n\n\"There are simply too many people facing life on the streets or in temporary accommodation. While today’s statistics show progress in some areas, it is clearly not good enough.\n\nShe said the Government was investing £3.6billion in tackling homelessness, including the £50million announced on Thursday, to help councils and voluntary groups.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "One in four homeless people in England are not British"
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