Fears have been raised that moves to cut water and electricity from unfit labour accommodation may backfire because it will simply transfer the problem from one area to another... 

The chairman of the Hidd constituency, Abdulaziz Al Kaabi... [said] “There is one mistake here... when you cut off the power from the labourer’s home, where is he going to go? He’s going to go to his friend’s accommodation...

“They will go from overcrowding one area to overcrowding another and there’s no way to track them. We don’t even know how many there are.