If there’s something disturbing about seeing Britain’s asylum crisis framed as a get-rich-quick scheme, TikTok landlords are in many ways the least of anyone’s problems. They’re just small fry, the most visible and least subtle end of a much bigger corporate phenomenon; an under-examined corner of the property market, responding perfectly logically to the incentives inadvertently created by a blundering state. Welcome to the asylum and immigration scandal you rarely hear about: the one that isn’t actually about asylum seekers, but about political failure, and the middle men turning a tidy profit on the consequences.