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There have been numerous problems when asylum seekers have been housed in hotels without suitable support and checks. In Glasgow, there were stabbings and a death when one disturbed individual in a hotel ran amuk. As a result, there is strong resistance to attempts to house and cater for asylum seekers on the cheap in hotels nowadays.

These mansions aren't even hotels, and will lack some of the organization and amenities hotels have. It's unlikely refugees would be allowed to just occupy them, and the mansions would likely be managed by one of the private contractors that have been responsible for poor-quality provision and neglect in the past. Coupled with that, they would be in effect ghettos, not to mention the distaste some of the refugees may feel at being housed in an oligarch's property when their homes and families are being bombed to oblivion.

They would be better housed among families and communities in ordinary domestic settings, where they can find support, goodwill and warmth.