Most of the properties on a new housing estate in Rwanda that were earmarked for migrants deported from the UK have been sold to local buyers, the developer has said.
“Sold” signs have sprung up in the neat terraces of the Bwiza Riverside estate while the UK government has wrestled with numerous setbacks delaying the deportation scheme’s implementation.
Of the 163 affordable homes, 70 per cent are taken, the developer ADHI-Rwanda said. A manager at the estate in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, said they had gone to “private people who want to live in them”, leaving space for only a few dozen migrants if flights ever take off.
The sale of the homes to locals leaves space for only a few dozen migrants
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Suella Braverman approved of the estate on a visit to Kigali last year, describing the homes as “beautiful”.