{"id":70930,"date":"2017-11-04T00:05:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/man-found-living-in-coffin-like-cupboard-in-east-london\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T02:06:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:06:58","slug":"man-found-living-in-coffin-like-cupboard-in-east-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/man-found-living-in-coffin-like-cupboard-in-east-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found living in &#039;coffin-like&#039; cupboard in east London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nInspectors believe man was paying \u00a3250 a month to rent space under stairs with no ventilation and room for only a mattressHousing inspectors discovered a man living in \u201ccoffin-like\u201d conditions in a gas-metre cupboard beneath the staircase of an overcrowded property in east London, during a series of raids on poor-quality housing in the area.Council staff found a young man asleep on a mattress inside the cupboard, in a space they described as less than one metre by two metres. Inspectors believe he was paying about \u00a3250 a month to rent the cupboard. His living space had no ventilation and no room for anything except the mattress on the floor. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/nov\/03\/man-found-living-in-coffin-like-cupboard-in-east-london\" target=\"_blank\">Man found living in &#8216;coffin-like&#8217; cupboard in east London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Inspectors believe man was paying \u00a3250 a month to rent space under stairs with no&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-is2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136715,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-london-there-is-no-space-at-all-the-rise-of-self-storage-as-rents-soar\/","url_meta":{"origin":70930,"position":0},"title":"\u2018In London there is no space at all\u2019: the rise of self-storage as rents soar","date":"May 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A north London storage facility helps people living in tiny homes, running businesses and sofa-surfingLast Sunday morning at the Space Station self-storage depot in Cricklewood, north-west London, Merlin, 49, a care worker, was on her weekly visit to her unit \u2013 a space not much larger than a broom\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30745,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-internet-no-lounge-no-fire-escape-memories-of-my-first-terrible-flat\/","url_meta":{"origin":70930,"position":1},"title":"No internet, no lounge, no fire escape: memories of my first terrible flat","date":"October 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The government is cracking down on rogue landlords by introducing a minimum size for bedrooms. 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