Property News · October 14, 2016

A vulnerable woman. A derelict home. Day 20 without running water | Frances Ryan


With London’s housing crisis, tenants like Alicia are little more than a commodity for profit. ‘The council knows about the problems,’ she says. ‘But nothing gets done’In Alicia’s tiny attic flat (“like a doll’s house,” as she puts it) in Lewisham, south London, she has reached day 20 without running water.Since her landlord started to gut the two empty floors below her last year, the 55-year-old has been living on top of a building site. Scaffolding covers the outside of the three-storey house, a criss-cross of boards and metal poles metres high. The entrance hall ceilings are stripped bare, naked wires hanging down. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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