Hotel Exodus: UK Asylum Numbers Halve as Migration System Overhaul Reshapes Lives

The number of asylum seekers living in UK hotels has halved in a single year — from 32,041 in June 2025 to 16,021 by June 2026, spread across just 160 hotels. That's a dramatic plunge from the September 2023 peak of 56,018. The Home Office closed 13 hotels in the past month alone and says it's on track to end hotel use entirely by the end of this parliament.

But here's the catch: the people aren't gone. They're being shunted into...