{"id":80409,"date":"2018-02-20T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-story-of-no-20-how-does-a-london-family-home-end-up-empty-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T06:08:35","slug":"the-story-of-no-20-how-does-a-london-family-home-end-up-empty-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-story-of-no-20-how-does-a-london-family-home-end-up-empty-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of No 20: how does a London family home end up empty in 2018?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBritain is in the midst of a housing crisis, but has more than 260,000 empty homes. How on earth do houses such as 20 Hayles Street \u2013 a council-owned property in a city ravaged by homelessness \u2013 stay unoccupied? Twenty Hayles Street looks unloved rather than abandoned. Its windows are dirty but not yet boarded up. Net curtains partially obscure the front room, where John Bailey remembers his Uncle Ernie playing Frank Sinatra on a gramophone.\u201cAunt Bette would be out here sweeping the front step at least once a day,\u201d Bailey, who is 66, says on the pavement near Elephant and Castle in south-east London, where he was born and still lives. Today, the step is covered in dust. A landslide of junk mail threatens to creep out from under the door. \u201cShe would clean this place top to bottom every week. It was like a palace in there.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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