For the past six months, ITV News Political Correspondent Daniel Hewitt has been travelling the country uncovering the shocking conditions being endured by some people and families living in social housing – homes owned and run by local councils and housing associations. In a documentary – Surviving Squalor: Britain’s Housing Shame –…
A MUM-OF-FOUR living in ‘London’s mouldiest flat’ wept as she told of how her children vomit at night while her two-year-old gasps for breath. The nurse, who lives in a Catalyst Housing Association property in Croydon, said she hides in her room to avoid the rotting walls. Kwajo Tweneboa says the mould…
Families are facing skyrocketing heating bills and struggling to stay warm after unsafe cladding was removed from a tower block and has not yet been replaced. Residents at Salix Court and Holme Court in Salford had their buildings stripped fourteen months ago. But the cladding had acted to retain the heat in…
Residents living in “freezing” flats after flammable cladding was removed from their blocks say they feel “invisible” after they received confirmation that their rent is being increased. The nine apartment blocks in Pendleton, Salford, have been plagued with problems for years. All towers – Beech Court, Holm Court, Hornbeam Court, Malus Court,…
A social housing provider has apologised to one of its tenants who says he spent years complaining about damp and mould in one of their Bristol properties. Shay Flower claims his living conditions became so bad he developed severe asthma. Sovereign Housing Association has now promised to move Mr Flower within a…
