'Asylum landlords' boast of raking in tax cash from housing illegal migrants on YOUR street

Neighbours have seen fighting outside their front doors - but landlords say they are "proud" to be "helping" the migrants, and have branded critics "racist".

The Home Office is pushing to close the UK's migrant hotels and move their occupants elsewhere in what has been dubbed "Operation Scatter".

Serco, meanwhile, offers five-year guaranteed full rent deals to landlords.

Luigi Newton leases seven of his 31 properties to Serco to house asylum seekers while he lives in Dubai.

He told The Times that the UK's housing system is favoured towards tenants who "abuse the system", with landlords "forced to find other solutions".

"Most of my properties are social housing HMOs, so they're fully passive - no late-night tenant calls, no endless viewings, no hassle. Just Government-backed income dropping in every month," Mr Newton said on TikTok.

A neighbour to one of his asylum HMOs in Derbyshire said it was unfair that families were not able to use them.

"I'm not being funny, but local families could use that. There's people with lots of kids who could have that," she said. It doesn't really seem fair him [Mr Newton] getting rich out of this."

Mr Newton said the area struggled with "serious social issues and high levels of crime" - and claimed it was never suitable for families in the first place.

"Those two properties will never make me rich, not at all," he added.

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Another - Paul Carroll, who says he has completed as many as 50 HMO conversions, urged investors to focus on the social housing market.

Mr Carroll said he could receive £1,100 a month in "totally passive income" from a recently-bought property in Lancashire.

"That'll just be gone for seven years. That's the last I will see of that house, and I'll just take that money again and just keep on doing it," he said.

"The ones I work with is like illegal immigrants," he said on a YouTube show.

And on a property portfolio advice website, he said: "When I get my money through from my remortgage, I'm going to go on a bit of a spending spree. My aim is to get eight to 10 HMOs all with Serco!"

But speaking to GB News earlier this year, Manchester-based landlady Sian Astley said the Serco scheme was "appalling... and skews the housing market" - and vowed she would not sign up out of principle.

In August, 12 of Reform UK's council leaders warned that "whole blocks of flats or streets of new housing are not available to local people" - creating a "them and us" mentality as a result.

They pointed to a string of areas in Kent as the areas worst affected by the £500million "takeover".

Serco has said in the past that it "takes all appropriate steps to confirm the suitability of addresses and work closely with the local authorities, who are directly involved in the selection of individual properties."

A Government spokesman said the new accommodation model "is designed to work more closely with councils to ensure basic, temporary accommodation is available for asylum seekers, reducing pressure on local housing markets and with full consideration of potential impacts on local communities".

They added that a £500million fund for "move-on" accommodation was "designed to leave a lasting legacy of housing for local communities and reduce pressure on local housing markets".

"Any other interpretation of its purpose is completely false," the department claims.

"In the meantime, this programme will also help us to continue cutting costs to the taxpayer by reducing the use of asylum hotels, and ending their use entirely by the end of this Parliament."