A council has temporarily paused plans to buy new housing for asylum seekers following a decision by the Home Office.
Councillor Michael Mordey, leader of Sunderland City Council, confirmed there will be a pause on buying the properties.
The Home Office said Sunderland had met its targets, so allocation of asylum seekers to dispersed accommodation had been put on pause.
Dispersal accommodation is a form of longer-term, temporary housing which is managed by accommodation providers on behalf of the Home Office.
Asylum seekers are able to stay in these properties until their asylum claim has been fully determined.
Labour leader Councillor Mordey said it was right that "other places take their responsibility to support vulnerable people just as seriously as we do", reports the BBC.
Home Office figures show there were 830 asylum seekers in dispersed accommodation in Sunderland as of the end of March.
There were 30 asylum seekers per 10,000 people living in the city, the data shows.
It comes after the Home Office paused property procurement in Durham in June, halting the purchase of homes for asylum seekers in the area.
Buying houses for asylum seekers has paused in Sunderland