{"id":78677,"date":"2025-08-23T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78677"},"modified":"2025-08-23T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:23:23","slug":"explained-how-much-is-the-government-paying-to-house-asylum-seekers-in-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/23\/explained-how-much-is-the-government-paying-to-house-asylum-seekers-in-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: How much is the government paying to house asylum seekers in hotels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77648\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Protests-Dover-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Protests-Dover-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Protests-Dover-360x214.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Protests-Dover.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">immigration<\/a>\u00a0protests have surged in recent weeks, with some targeting hotels used to house\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/asylum-seekers-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">asylum seekers<\/a>, sparking violence and prompting multiple arrests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/explained-how-much-is-the-government-paying-to-house-asylum-seekers-in-hotels\/ar-AA1KTFRh?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=b04e0a95286844b0c6085c338b399d2c&amp;ei=8\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Anti-immigration\u00a0protests have surged in recent weeks, with some targeting hotels used to house\u00a0asylum seekers, sparking violence and prompting multiple arrests. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Migrant-protest-Islington-1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78678,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78677\/revisions\/78678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}