SJOG has once again joined with Homeless Link, the No Accommodation Network (NACCOM) and other 80 frontline organisations working in the fields of homelessness, housing, and migrants' rights to continue advocacy efforts to influence the homelessness strategy. 

NACCOM has recently published an updated policy briefing highlighting an increase in homelessness for those with a migrant background, asylum seekers or newly granted refugees. The data collected indicates that this is due to restrictions in accessing asylum and immigration support and over-reliance on statutory voluntary services and short-term emergency accommodation.

We understand that the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the introduction of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025 represents a significant responsibility in shaping the UK's approach to border security at a critical moment in both national and international migration policies, but it also bans anyone who arrived 'irregularly' in the UK since 7 March 2023, from ever being granted any form of immigration leave, therefore, excluding them from statutory services.

It is evident that the lack of access to resources can only lead to increased vulnerabilities, and that when people live in a state of permanent limbo and are unable to ever settle their status in the UK, they are more likely to disengage from the system, to be at risk of exploitation and to be excluded from access to services that exacerbate their vulnerabilities: health outcomes, homelessness, human rights, trauma and recovery.

To read the report in full which outlines the key driver to migrant homeless and the policies we believe the government could implement to ensure we live in a society where everyone has a home, go to: Vital solutions to ending migrant homelessness'.
 

May 2025