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- Liverpool City Council declared war on houses-in-multiple-occupation to curb asylum-seeker housing expansion.
- Liverpool hosts 16,494 people in HMOs, the second-highest total in England.
- The city shelters 1,385 asylum seekers in dispersal housing, also the second-highest in England.
- Hotel asylum-seeker numbers fell from 32,000 to 16,000, while dispersal housing rose to 69,000.
- The Home Office cut the asylum-accommodation budget to £4.18 billion for 2025-26, down from £4.51 billion.