Property News · March 17, 2018

Homeless crisis: how the state pays the rich to exploit the poor


Landlords carving up a home into micro-flats can net £50,000 a year. And it’s taxpayers who foot the billEvery day 64-year-old former boxer, Ian Ford*, who suffers from crippling arthritis, climbs three flights of stairs to his tiny cell-like flat over a betting shop in south London. “I have to feel my way because loads of times there’s no lighting,” he says. “I’ve fallen a couple of times. If there was a fire I’d never get out.”Ford’s flat – which at 19 sq metres falls below the government’s minimum space standard of 37 sq metres for one-bedroom flats – is covered in blooms of dark mould. “It’s disgusting. I keep wiping it down but two days later it’s back,” he says. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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