Property News · January 28, 2018

Bottom of the housing ladder: 'I feel like a squatter in my home'


Over 2 million people in the UK live in rented homes that actively damage their healthCarley Jones has seen the rent on her crumbling one-bedroom flat in Medway in Kent rise 40% in just three years, but she hasn’t got much for her money. A hole in her seven-year-old son’s bedroom wall lets in cold air so the heating is on non-stop. The plaster is coming away in the kitchen where the hot tap dribbles constantly. Jones sleeps in the living room, a broken smoke alarm hangs from the ceiling and laundry hangs, barely drying, in the damp bathroom.“There are a lot of people going through this situation,” said the 23-year-old part-time school cleaner. “It is so easy for private landlords to get away with it because there are so many people desperate to find a property.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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