As far as I can tell, this is more expensive than long term government run asylum housing in Norway (hard to compare directly as the costs given for government provision includes a lot of additional costs, but using basic measures for things like nursery provision etc. it&#x27;d be extremely unlikely that the actual housing component ends up above even the lower ($31) of those levels).<p>It may still be an ok deal if the contracts are short term, as there&#x27;s obvious issues now with forecasting how the refugee stream will be even in the near future, and it&#x27;s worth quite a bit of money to make someone else shoulder most of that risk.<p>&gt; the sad part is that some government officials apparently think profit making in this industry is wrong<p>I haven&#x27;t seen that. I have seen people question whether some people are profiteering from a difficult situation. This is seen as sort of a national crisis that it would be immoral to take excessive profits from, and there&#x27;s been others that have e.g. offered up free or significantly discounted hotel rooms and similar (though the cynic in me sees &quot;fantastic high value PR coup&quot; when reading about some of them) that makes it easy to see even relatively modest profit-taking as too high.