About 15,000 Ukrainian refugees have become homeless in the UK, which is about 7.5 per cent of their total number, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The UK now has a so-called sponsorship programme for Ukrainians to obtain asylum: for this they need to have an invitation from individuals, charities or communities that guarantee refugees their shelter or pay for separate accommodation.
For Britons hosting Ukrainians, the government pays £350 a month. The amount increases to £500 after the first year of British families keeping refugees. Under this programme, about 130 thousand Ukrainians have moved to the Kingdom.
The interlocutors of the newspaper said that many Ukrainians in the UK remain homeless, because sponsors undertake to provide housing only for six months, and then they can act at their discretion.
In addition to the sponsorship programme, the country launched a family reunification programme so that relatives of those Ukrainians who lived in the UK before the outbreak of the military conflict in Ukraine could come to the UK. Over 70,000 Ukrainian citizens used it, but it was cancelled on 19 February.
