Multi-million pound refugee homes plan in Shropshire put forward. More than £7m could be spent on building homes for displaced Afghan and Ukrainian families in Shropshire.

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  2. “Up to £3.2m of the funding would come from the government with the council proposing to borrow the rest, the local authority said.”

    While I’m all for building long lasting, hygienic homes for refugees, why in the name of Colonel Jack O’Neill couldn’t the plan be expanded to build more homes on brown sites to integrate said refugees with the community around them, thereby giving everyone a chance to live somewhere warm and not cause the friction this will inevitably be met with by certain people in a given area.

    It’s this kind of mismanagement that gives me a headache. Racists are given air to justify their views *because* of the optics of this.

  6. Does Shropshire Council already normally build this many homes already, or is this actually a one-off like implied by the BBC?

    Shropshire aims for build 1000 homes, including 400 council homes, over five years – so not like they’re building 30 for refugees and refusing to build homes for other people, as the BBC are trying to imply, via omission of the full context. [https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/property/2020/04/30/1000-homes-to-be-built-until-2025-in-new-plans-by-shropshire-council/](https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/property/2020/04/30/1000-homes-to-be-built-until-2025-in-new-plans-by-shropshire-council/)

    If they were only building homes for refugees that would be ridiculous (although it would free up some other housing stock and hotel payments that refugees are currently using), since councils should already be motivated to build housing for locals, but it turns out they’re not only building these 30 homes.

  7. Can they build me a home while they are at it, or is that a privilege reserved for those that shouldn’t even be here

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