Plans to house UK asylum seekers in barracks are costly and complicated, experts say
by Rajeev Syal, Libby Brooks and Aletha Adu from World news | The Guardian on (#712G6)
Exclusive: Organisations warn using the barracks in Sussex and Inverness may be more expensive than hotels
Refugee organisations have described plans to house thousands of asylum seekers in two disused military sites as fanciful and too expensive as local discontent grows.
The Home Office has confirmed that two barracks: Cameron in Inverness and Crowborough training camp in East Sussex, will be used to house about 900 men temporarily. Officials are working to identify more sites.
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