There's no easy way to house asylum seekers, or anybody else, in a country with a severe housing shortage.
The best way to fix this problem is to build a lot more housing - because that will drive down prices regardless of whether we rent from government, charities or the private sector.
My cover story - something I've been working on since last summer - on the shadow state, a country trapped in an outsourced asylum (and everything else) system it created for itself:
www.newstatesman.com
Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell
