{"id":86299,"date":"2026-03-12T06:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86299"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:40:01","slug":"revealed-the-uk-spends-a-fifth-of-its-aid-budget-on-housing-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/revealed-the-uk-spends-a-fifth-of-its-aid-budget-on-housing-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The UK spends a fifth of its aid budget on housing migrants"},"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-77388\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bell-hotel-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bell-hotel-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bell-hotel-360x195.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bell-hotel.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A fifth of the UK aid budget is spent on housing migrants in the UK, the aid watchdog has said in a report.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15636859\/UK-spends-fifth-aid-budget-housing-migrants.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>A fifth of the UK aid budget is spent on housing migrants in the UK, the aid watchdog has said in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86299","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\/2023\/06\/Pimlico-Hotel.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86299","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=86299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86300,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86299\/revisions\/86300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}