Many Afghan families are still living in temporary accommodation two years after coming to the UK.
The Home Office said it had provided funding to councils to help with the transition and was running schemes to help more Afghan families find permanent family homes.
Councils say the government funding is not enough and although accommodation will be found for the refugees, it may mean they have to move hundreds of miles to other hotels.Stephen Robinson, the Liberal Democrat leader of Chelmsford City Council, said his housing officers had to find accommodation for nine Afghan families, totalling 60 people.
"They are all becoming homeless next week and we have a statutory responsibility to put them into temporary accommodation," he said. "We have a moral duty to those who worked for the British government to look after them properly and we have, as a country, this government, has let them down."Shaun Davies, a councillor and chairman of the Local Government Association, said councils shared the Home Office's determination to get Afghan families out of hotels and into permanent homes.
He said the government should continue to pay for hotel places for those families struggling to find accommodation.
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