By housing asylum seekers in groups, the government makes them easy targets for the Farage-fuelled thugs (Editorial, 20 August). When Ukrainian refugees were brought to the UK, they were housed with host families and thus had a chance to lead something like a normal life here. Why not do the same with asylum seekers?
Not all of us are xenophobes, and many people with rooms available would be willing to accommodate a vulnerable person or family while their applications are processed. This would give them a chance to acclimatise to their new environment and allow them to be treated with dignity and compassion.
Brenda Hall
Bryn Saith Marchog, Denbighshire
• The government’s recent difficulty over hotels for asylum seekers (Labour plans in turmoil after Epping hotel blocked from housing asylum seekers, 19 August) is an opportunity to revive and update the Homes for Ukraine idea, but for refugees from Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea etc. There are charities all over the country that already facilitate this, but government support, and money, would enable rapid expansion of community hosting.
Roger van Schaick
Nottingham
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