HOUSING

Councils to fund housing for homeless refugees

Local authorities will have to pick up the bill for accommodating homeless Ukrainian refugees from their own budgets, a minister has said.

Councils will have to pick up the bill for accommodating homeless Ukrainian refugees from their own budgets, a minister has said.

Latest figures from the Local Government Association found 144 Ukrainian refugees have presented to councils in England as homeless so far.

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