Britain's hidden child homelessness crisis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- In some London boroughs, 1 in 10 children don't have a permanent place to call home.
Oli interviews Melesia, who's been placed into temporary accommodation with her two children, and housing expert Vicky Spratt to find out how things got so bad.
Presenter: Oli Dugmore
Producer: Laura Beveridge
Camera: Oli Johnson
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It’s absolutely disgusting in 2024 that this is happening
Vote Tory, get rekt
Disgusting, but not surprising. After all the majority of the uk electorate "knew exactly what they were voting for".
Tory is just a word. Nothing will change under a Labour government @@NeonVisual
@@NeonVisual The labour party would do nothing to change this!
@@davidfernandes1608 Labour place people's welfare at the top of the list. The Tories put money and low taxation on the rich at the top of their list.
If you vote Tory you are either very rich, or stupid.
Heart is breaking for her and her family. This country is so, so cruel. We NEED social housing to be built.
I'm a single mum and this is my greatest fear. I feel so much for this lady
Why did you let an untrustworthy man fertilise you?
Do you work?
Where is the father?
@@henben9215Even those who do work, on low income, are often overcrowded and cramped and others are homeless. Life is honestly horrible there are no affordable homes for single people and the homes that do exist are far too expensive. It's just not good enough! What is the point of working or doing anything, nothing ever changes. It's like swimming underwater popping your head up every so often to get a bit of oxygen just to survive! Work for what exactly? To live in shit?
@@NoContextRDHWhat difference does that make?
UTTERLY disgraceful this is happening 😡
Well done for the great work Oli
Landlords should be punished with jail time for health hazards that we see in this video
It’s not the landlord’s fault she wants to live like this it’s her decision to live like this
@@johnwhite2293 hahahaha You have a low IQ ?
You can't think?
She wants to live like this? hahaha
Shes in temporary accommodation, having to condense her home into a couple of small rooms - what do you mean her choice to live like this? Were you not paying attention? 🤨
@@CherryScorn Maybe she should go back to her country of origin. This country is too overcrowded.
@@johnwhite2293 Come on John. See the bigger picture. You may have your life in control at the moment but things happen and you certainly would not get any more attention or support than this lady if you were in a similar situation.
Housing stock for first time buyers has been decimated by portfolio landlords who buy up the cheapest stock without spending a penny to upgrade the property. Tenants on the lowest income, often working full time, need public funding by way of benefits to top-up their rent which means, effectively, these lower end portfolio landlords are getting other tax payers to pay their rent all while reducing stock for families starting out. Bonkers Britain.
What a complete and utter lie, the reason why there isn’t enough rental properties is because it isn’t financially viable to buy a property take a mortgage out on it and rent it out. You can’t earn enough money from the rent after you’ve been taxed and the interest payments on the money to pay the mortgage. Therefore the amount of rental stock has significantly reduced over the last few years. As far as maintaining the properties, the landlord will only do work on the house once a tenant has left for the next tenant because the tenants always trash the house, as they never look after them. This lady is an ideal example.
In my area , 16,000 homes have been purchased....but not for Brits.
@@johnwhite2293 wrong. Its because you have to pay 100s of thousands for old cheap bricks and over priced land that the Queen owns. Also government in bed with banks who make billions in Interest. Slavery
@johnwhite2293 'the tenants always trash the trash the house' what absolute bullshit! I've rented for 10 years, never missed a payment and kept my home immaculate, stop stereotyping people !! 🤬🤬🤬
It's all about supply and demand
Dump and mould can be caused by leaks in pipes, damaged to drains and over flows or brick work. No amount of opening the window stops this kind of damp and mould. It’s not always caused by the tenant. Some of these houses would have been build badly 50 years ago
You are right, but are tenants keeping the house heated to 27c all day? Hmo by law must be 27c but they are expensive to stay in.
Welcome to managed decline
I would call it controlled demolition.
Why did most of these flee safe countries to take money from vulnerable please who need it already here @@DavidRenwick-t1e
Since the 1960s
Conservative theft*
I was in ‘temporary’ accommodation for 11 years, my mental health has skyrocketed positively since I’m no longer in a mouldy leaky home, private landlord ‘temporary’.
THIS LADY IS TELLING THE TRUTH AS I AM LIVING IT WITH A DISABLED CHILD! IT IS SO STRESSFUL EMOTIONALLY PAINFUL, DEPRESSING AND TRAUMATIC. VERY HARD WORK AND YOUR HEALTH SUFFERS. I'M IN ABERDEEN SCOTLAND.
And yet they housed the Sullivan family with 12 children in a massive house in that area, dad now out of work also. Terrible you get no help.
@@janes9264 Thank you, yes I am going to write to the MP of the ward with pictures. I appreciate your support and acknowledgement. May God Bless You. 😊🕊️
Same
I’ve just moved into a new house, it’s the second time I have had to move in 2 years. It’s insanely expensive, I have had to move out of my city and further away because all of the family housing is student HMO and the rest is unaffordable. There is no security in the private rented sector, my last landlord served us notice and then let it out again a few months later at a higher rent ?! It’s very traumatic and it can cause serious trauma to children who have no safe place to call home.
I tell you to think about the future of the next generation, half of the children are malnourished, the other half have lung and asthma problems... This is what the future will look like in ten years😢😢😢
@@Brandon_1404 When I decided to have children, we were two people. Then my husband died, I had to manage on my own and in a few years I succeeded... Without a bit of compassion, sir, you were born like this🤦♂️🤦♂️
You're a joke. You do understand that circumstances can change, right? 😂 @@Brandon_1404
@@fintamaria2429 Example like yours are extremely rare. Most people who are raising children in that kind of conditions used to live like that before and they decided to have them anyway.
The same as the 1960s then.
Yet, we have monarchy of one family that are billionaires. Suppourted fully by the suffering taxpayers
@masquarra - 😲 billionaires? ... half of the planet, you mean? ... If there was the desire to solve this whole problem, they could do it with the change they have in their greedy pockets! 🙁
We have governments that do zero, councils who sweep them away Labour councils.
Politicians have done ZERO
The UK needs to introduce proper housing laws. Conditions like this should simply not be allowed. Look at Germany. They have some of the best tenancy laws for renters
First we need to break our obsession with owning property rather than renting
@@keithparker1346 more like obsession with owning more than the home you reside in.
1/3 mortgages at the moment are Buy To Let, that doesn't even take into account homes that are just bought outright with cash.
That always makes me laugh in Germany you don't even get a kitchen when you rent, the first thing you do is have to pay to have one installed!!!!!!!!
@@liszaf3976it depends, actually. There a places that have a kitchen. If you have to pay for a new one, that is your property then and you can take it with you when you move. I did so two times. If your stuff is in good condition and you do not want to take it with you, you can sell it to your landlord and the next person will have a kitchen installed already. BUT if they want to move in with their own kitchen that might actually not be welcome … 😅
@@liszaf3976 You may not get a kitchen, but you get
- a tenancy agreement where no one can kick you out,
- housing standards that MUST be obeyed by law. I am talking about things the UK hasn’t even heard of: No mould allowed (NADA!), windows MUST close and be sealed properly, windows MUST be double-glazed as a minimum, heating MUST be working properly, etc. If any of these things are not adhered to, you can literally sue your landlord.
This means, we never have to “hope” that we find a place with a decent landlord, because they’re all decent as they know the strong laws. We never have to be afraid to be kicked out of our homes. We’re never cold in our homes. There are no drafts. Nor wet walls.
Oh, did I mention that you always have indefinite contracts. Meaning no rent negotiations every year. You stick with the rent that you moved in with, and rent increase is regulated so it can only be - I think - maximum 7 per cent increase per annum.
But yes, feel free to complain about the kitchen.
(Oftentimes you can even take over the kitchen of the previous tenants.)
We should honestly be ashamed as a country !!
Councils are paying the price for selling all council housing!!! And so are we!!! Private landlords are the problem, and they know they can do anything because there are nowhere else to put people! Just another lovly gift from Thatcher!
How are we a 1st world country? This is Charles Dickens in reality in the 21st century 😢
I'm old enough to remember the debates that surronded Thacther's right to purchase council homes and the arguements against this policy which were never lsitened too. Which as led to disater were in now, which has been now nearly 40 years in the making.
If u can believe dara 300,000 were sold from its introduction to date.
Mass immigration is by far the biggest cause of the housing crisis.
Council house should of never been sold and I live in one and I will also benefit a large inheritance because my dad bought one. It's crazy it makes no sense to let people buy them up so quickly. Maybe the rules should be changed to having to live in the property longer before purchase and longer after purchase.
So we shouldnt have allowed the working classes to buy THEIR council houses and should have just kept fleecing them for rent?
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@@kroon275 I think the time period should be extended and the rent isn't bad for example my 3bed is going up to £480 far less than a mortgage. I planned to buy mine but I don't think I will now as having a recurring health problem I can get help with rent as I'm out of work currently because of my health problems. The government won't pay my mortgage however stupid rule as they'll pay a landlords mortgage.
Whoever is in charge of this property should be made to live it and this woman should be given their property. This is not on as disgusting and not right.
What do you mean "given property"? You can always give her yours.
This woman actually must work and save for HER property .
It's crazy how many of the UKs problems stem from poor housing policy:
Child Poverty
Productivity
Wages
Health inequalities
Crime
Poor lady and her children, just heart breaking
Disgusting, someone at the top should be held accountable!
WHAT DO PEOPLE DO TO DESERVE THIS? NOTHING EXCEPT LIVE IN THE UK 🇬🇧
it’s really bad for the families to put up with this kind unsafe accommodation
No one should have to live like this.
I can’t believe they’re are still doing this. They did it to me with a sick baby in 1996! Shame on them, what would it really take to repair these properties so that young mothers can raise healthy children in them? I hope she gets something soon. 🙏🏻
Interesting to drop this after the landlord interviews. You're raising the right conversations.
This is just appalling...how on earth can they cope . ❤I'm sickened by what this government has done to people who are already struggling .
It will never be resolved because of the mindset in the UK: "Housing is an asset" not a home.
Absolutely.
This has been going on since the 1960s watch 1960s world in action reports. The late Ray Gosling did excellent films on poverty in the UK in the mid to late 1960s.
Governments have done little and since 1981 virtually nothing. Without charities god only knows.
The late Jack Profumo did alot of good in this sector
Landlords should be prosecuted if the house is not adequate
If we didnt have landlords, how would we have houses?
That bouncing camera is really distracting. Stop playing with stabilisation in post productions.
2016 was eight years ago. Her daughter isn't eight? So she decided to have another child whilst in temporary accommodation. Its an awful situation but people also need to take some responsibility, surely. This is why at 38 i haven't been privileged enough to even start thinking about starting a family. I rent so i doubt i'll ever be able to and that is tragic.
I am in northern Ireland and the same is going on here. Renting is off the roof and getting higher. I simply cant find anything cheaper. Single glazing, mouldy walls. Housing can only help so much as my rent shoots up. I will be homeless before the end of the year.
Sorry to hear that. I hope something changes for you for the better.
No child deserves this. Years of Camerons austerity and years of Tory cuts in favour of the rich have been catastrophic.
Their parents should be punished for bringing them into this situation.
I have to admit that I found myself in a similar situation and I just stole electrical goods and sold them to places like cash converters and CEX until I had enough to pay 6 months rent in advance on a private place. Continued my crime spree, while working and honestly I don’t think there was another way out of it.
Did you steal from commercial or private property? I had always assumed that stealing office monitors would be the easier thing to steal given that people aren't there evenings or weekends but maybe you've got some insight of why homes are better if you chose those?
Lol don’t confess your crimes
@@ATH-camAccountName I targeted department stores. Even walking straight out the doors during business hours with a flat screen TV worth £1,500. Other items like expensive Bluetooth speakers and headphones were the things I targeted most. I also stole expensive perfumes and sold them online. A lot of department stores only put the security alarms on the items at the front of the shelf, so if you get one from the back it won’t set off an alarm when you exit. Also despite some stores having the scanners on toilet doors, some don’t, so you can take the item to the toilet, to remove the tags. With the large items like the tv’s they don’t put any security alarms on them because they presume no one will try and steal them. I also stole guitars and amps from guitar shops. I stole all of my groceries from M&S and Waitrose during this time too, so saved money on food while also living the high life food quality wise. I have to admit I really committed to it by wearing smart clothes e.t.c to look like I could afford the stuff I was stealing.
@@ATH-camAccountName I tried to reply man, but TH-cam auto deleted it. In short, it was department stores.
@@jigsaw2253 the police have bigger fish to fry so I don’t mind talking about it and they’d have to go and request details from place I sold to e.t.c for any real evidence. They don’t even put that level of effort into murder investigation 😂
Why doesn't she clean it instead of leaving it???
6:34 she’s absolutely correct but with so much migration these days we’d still be in this position. The councils need to go HARD on all slumlords.
I LIVE IN NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND AND I HAVE MOULD IN MY GROUND FLOOR FLAT, THAT MY HOUSING ASSOCIATION HAVE PARTLY DEALT WITH IN MOULD CLEANING THE EFFECTED AREAS, BUT STILL WAITING FOR THEM TO FIX THE EXTRACTION FAN UNIT TO TAKE OUT THE CONDENSATION IN MY FLAT, SINCE I REPORTED IT IN MAY 2023. I AM THINKING IN GETTING IN TOUCH WITH A SOLICITOR ONLINE FOR ACTION OR COMPENSATION.I AM CURRENTLY SUFFERING FROM A COLD AND COUGH THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY AND GOING TO SEE MY GP FOR ADVICE AND MORE MEDICATION, AS I HAVE SOME HEALTH ISSUES.
Contact your local MP and ask them to get involved - they have case workers and it can spur the housing association into action
I live in Nottingham too.....was just wondering what housing association you were with.....if you don't mind disclosing. I have damp and mould throughout my flat and my patch manager just told me to deal with it myself as there's not enough staff to come out to deal with the issue and she said it is caused by me drying my clothes indoors. In my opinion.....the fact I don't even have central heating in my property doesn't help the issue. She told me to open the windows more?????? Obviously she doesn't realise how cold it is without sufficient heating. In the past 2years my rent has jumped up nearly £30 per week for a 2 bed flat. As long as they keep getting their rent every month they don't seem bothered?
I know a family who has spent 23 years in temporary accomodation . All of her food goes mouldy ..
That is really bad, but no offence, she can actually open the windows, get some bleach, get some anti-mould spray and gets some anti mould paint too. Why on earth is the child's car seat placed right next to the mould, and why is there food out if she has mice? She has kitchen cabients but is placing food on the floor? The accommidation does not actually look bad, the doors, carpet, tiling and kitchen cabients look new, she is just not keeping up with the property. She has to take some responsiblity for all her hoarded goods and lack of cleaning. Really she should learn to gather same shame, because truly if that was my home, I would have cleaned for a month before letting the cameras in. She should go on one of those community college home up keeping courses, where they teach you how to deal with mould and change light bulbs.
Lol responsibility!
lol
I suspect this would happen in any property she was given. Declutter, clean and ventilate. I get it's difficult if you have no money to run a dehumidifyer or heating, but the problem could definitely be reduced by a little self help. If I had been in temporary accommodation for years I'd have ditched most of my junk. If it's in boxed and bags you don't need it. Go minimalist
you are easily fooled and an asshole. Getting rid of mold in a humid country while in a cramped place while having to work as a single parent??
I live in the UK but I'm originally from Romania and was born in the communist regime; my parents went out to protest during the Revolution in 1989 and everything changed afterwards. I'm always baffled why people in this country don't protest about anything...and not just protest outside the UK Parliament, but in as many cities and towns as well and just bring everything to a stand still and make politicians aware that they don't have all the power and are replaceable...
Poor women .. ya know the problem is asylum seekers coming getting all the houses not fair they should be last priority has give them tents not housing prople are waiting years for they are literally putting are country in a dilemma
50% of social housing now goes to immigrants, this is a fact that can not be ignored and with more families arriving daily this adds to an already huge housing problem!
I agree and no one seems to be talking about this point. Social housing was originally purposed for british people not everyone in the world who wants cheaper accomodation hence why there's now no social housing left!!! But don't get me wrong there's many other factors that are contributing to this disaster but giving half of social housing stock away to economic migrants who after 5years can buy the property without it being replenished is a major reason as to why the Uk has a housing crisis.
Liar. It's around 17 percent for the whole of the U.K.
@@fibson9775 Google it in London it's 50%
The population of London has gone up from 7.4 million in 2011 to 8.6 million today so it’s obviously impossible for people and especially new arrivals to get exactly what they want.
These are the consequences of uncontrolled immigration, The UK will become a cesspit. People coming here expecting mansions because they have children. It has to stop.
There's a difference "not getting what you want" and being forced to live somewhere that's dangerous to your health.
@@TheotherTempestfox
Yes maybe but that doesn’t mean simple maths don’t apply. London simply hasn’t got the space.
@@jackkruese4258 I don't understand what that has to do with slumlord landlords not maintaining the property and leaving their tenants in unsafe conditions and/or evicting Tennants with barely any notice.
I get the point that slum landlords don’t maintain properties. Obviously the law needs to change, I wasn’t arguing otherwise but it’s not relevant to the point I was making. In the video the point was made that in some London boroughs as many as 1 in 10 children live in temporary accommodation causing serious overcrowding, as this family is. And the fact that the population has recently risen so rapidly can’t be discounted as a contributing factor to the deteriorating situation regarding availability.
100% Spot on. The shadow housing minister has financially benefitted from Thatcher's right to buy scheme. I hope she remembers where she came from when she inevitably gets into power. Starmer's refusal to remove the Tory cap on children's entitlement to benefit doesnt fill me with hope.
We need mid rise buildings and multistorey terraces builts to a passivhaus or BREEAM excellent standard, not more suburbs on flood plains
I get that the landlords should be fixing this but you can also get a bottle of mould remover for a few quid and stop it getting this bad
@Jourifouler When the building itself is the problem, it is very, very difficult to keep on top of it. They need dehumidifier, but that's expensive on the electric and the hire costs..but that's a short term help not a solution. Decluttering helps a bit, but another problem is affording heating...but even this still wont fix all the underlying problem and when its tower blocks it is unlikely to ever get the problems resolved. When its riddled through the building, we arent talking about a little localised area you can keep on top of, its everywhere constantly.
I've lived in places with mould problems to various degrees, and it can be terrible.
That said theres plenty of homeowners with mould problems they cant afford to resolve either and they wont get any help.
It is not acceptable that the housing stock we have is so bad, and that housing is so expensive that average wages just wont ever be enough to buy. 56% of people earn under £30k a year, and average home, not even looking at London/south east specifically, is about £300k. This is out of hand.
What do you do when your salary does not even cover your rent, where does the money come from to pay someone to paint, I think you have never been so poor to understand. I was in a situation where every weekend we disinfected the apartment and it came back again. That's how I was relaxing for six days of work😢😢😢😢
With regard to the black mould - it's an increasing problem everywhere.
The cause is a combination of better insulation and increased humidity in our atmosphere.
I never had black mould in my house - until I improved it with double glazing. Then the stuff grew everywhere, and I now fight a daily battle with it, bleaching sites with mould sprays (it never goes away 100%).
I now have to leave windows slightly ajar to circulate air better. This reduces it, especially during the warm weather, but the house is now as draughty as it was before I installed double glazing.
Leaving windows open slighly ajar hardly helps with air circulation. The only air that gets circulated is the air very close to the window. Opening the windows completely (all the windows on a floor at the same time) for technically as long as possible (unless you're heating and unless it's hot outside and you let the heat in) is a so much more useful technique.
Plenty of families are been put up in run down hotels. They're not always safe places either.
@@Brandon_1404why because they think the state should provide everything for them.. It's the milk and honey mentally.. Everything given on a platter...
Because we live in a society with one of the biggest economies in the world. After WW2 a large chunk of people were housed by the government. If they could do it in the wake of WW2 there is no reason they can't do it now.
Especially since the cost of living crisis was born out of multiple disastrous Tory policies.
How can even exist a house like this? How can we allow that? Really.
Seems a bit strange why governments dont want to own things like social housing… governments have so little ownership, and letting things go private, only makes the country poorer and the rich, who love assets get much richer.
To all those good doer’s who go on the streets shouting refugees welcome this is why I criticise them. We have a lady like this with kids needing a house. Look after our own first.
Good old Maggie sold off council housing to spare the Tory party from having to fund housing upgrades. It was the era when double glazing and central heating. I was homeless with my children in the 90's this isn't a new problem it is now simply and exacerbated problem. For real it would have been cheaper to have funded the upgrades. The lady in this clip should definitely dump all the mouldy goods to improve the air flow of her property, don't just keep it as a point of principal. The space has to be to live in not store excess goods. I also was ripped off on rent charges for the hostel which was twice the price of housing in the area...most people weren't working so benefits paid...I was working! The Tory government blagged about making Britain great again...gobshites!
This house needs ventilation because this type of mould is caused by the occupants. So many of the rooms are stuffed with possessions. If you dont provide good air flow you will experience problems with mould.
I agree but unless the lady can get help with storage - which is expensive - then her only option is to dispose of her property! My first thoughts were exactly yours, declutter, but it's hard. I speak as a 66 year old man who is in the same situation, placed in Temporary Accommodation after refusing to accept a 25% private rent increase. Never in my life did I imagine I would find myself in this situation but we are making the best of it and lucky to have family paying for storage for our belongings. We are warm and comfortable and damp free and are grateful for the help and support.
She needs to get rid of her hoard. It is not allowing the walls to get any ventilation. Portable dehumidifiers work wonders.
Correct! Also is house heated to 21-27c all day?
You haven’t accounted for poor cavity wall insulation. A property should be able to have stuff in it without resulting in that filth on the walls
100%
Right to buy could be fantastic if done properly. If all the money went towards new houses for people in need. But no new houses in the areas never happened, my house is ex council . We bought it from the previous owner. 8 houses on our street. Only 2 now are council, 2 are owner occupied. 4 are privately rented,
Doesn't help one bit that many millions are being spent every day on housing illegals who basically stay indefinitely whether they're given asylum or not
Immigration is creating the housing shortage. Right to buy is a good thing, it enables those on low income to afford their own home.
This is difficult to watch. If I had a child and they died, or if my niece died because of a shitty landlord, I wouldn't have an issue with finding who owned the property and ending them as well. Totally preventable and the government has much to answer for selling off properties that the council maintained to landlords who don't give a fuck.
There should be a proper resource to access and for violations that aren't fixed MASSIVE fines and eventual repossession of property (free of charge) to the council so it can be maintained. Only way to fix it. These so called 'good landlords' would have literally nothing to fear from such a policy that would save lives.
Why would heartless property owners change the law that reduces their income? Wrong solution. Only solution is to stop anyone owning more than one property then build more housing. Expecting a rich person to build a house for you to live in and pay for all your healthcare and give you money when you are out of work is an unrealistic long term solution. The priority should be water, food, housing with a means to heat it and clothing. Without these priorities being met people die. We are in a vicious circle of inequality creating more inequality. This means a lot more money for the land/property owners and a constantly declining GDP per capita for the rest. The GDP per capita has plummeted for the bottom 50% of the population whilst their housing costs have soared over the last 14 years. We are slowly but surely returning to feudalism.
I think we should change the way we build homes because they way we currently build homes takes too long, costs too much, and leak too much heat, and that could probably look like a publicly run version of BOXABL (U.S) to build social homes, a company that makes fully customizable homes, these homes are built in factories on a manufacturing line and are put together on site where needed, this would speed up the building process and lower the cost of homes. These homes could then be used as a revenue stream for councils like council housing used to be.
The cointry is not there yet they need disasteemr for them to innovate. 2025 will be tsunami as landlords exit in greater numbers.
The labour party will do nothing to change this!
The moulds in that house looks like it has been buildup for a long time, so as the moulds on the pram. The property owner definitely has a responsibility to rectify the mould issue, but I think the mother also has some responsibility too. Both of them need to work together to stop the mould spreading? The mother could do her part of cleaning, opening the windows and tidying their belongings.
Last 20 years..to many forigners and we have not built the houseing to accommodate . Far to many homeless because of the goverments spending
Those 'forigners' have better spelling skills in your language than you do. They also work and are not on benefits.
@@trildi erm I don't bloody think so..they all on benefits don't give me that rubbish .do you not see on the news the thousands coming into uk scrounging
Shocking in this day and age
Heartbreaking 😢
Don't know the whole situation, maybe the mold was there when they moved in, but having a room packed full of stuff (especially against the walls) and poor ventilation is usually the cause of mold. Understand why she has a lot of stuff packed up due to having to move a lot, but she should consider getting rid of a lot of things that aren't of use (especially if they are covered in mold!). Landlord is to blame too as they shouldn't be letting their properties get in this state! Landlord needs to get someone in to clean the mold and educate the tennant on having proper ventilation.
Very reasonable response, I agree. I just worry that even if the landlord did this the lady featured in this video would just think that the landlord was making excuses not to do more extensive work (even though there isn’t really much that can be done other than what you mentioned in your comment).
Good ventilation and putting the heating on regularly stops damp and mould. If people don't want to open windows then they need to use a dehumidifier.
@@Robotron5000Deluxedo you think these people can afford heating?
The critical analysis in this video is woefully disappointing; though I do appreciate it was quite short in length.
There are a number of statements made by the person in the temporary accommodation that aren't queried to the extent that they should be. Also, there are a number of key questions that aren't asked by the journalist that would shed a brighter light on this topic. 🙏
I've been in temp since 2016 ❤ UK is a disgrace more disignated sites for caravans that would be better then temp accommodation, ❤❤ simple more land for cararavans mobile homes or prefabs would be cheaper and more better then hostols ❤
has anyone looked at indeed recently aswell? shit jobs & shit pay. Britain is going to shit apart from for millionaires
Imagine the homes that could have been built with the 17 billion and the rent the councils would be reaping!
There absolutely needs to be laws to all homeowners to fix their homes the right way
And get out mold and repair their homes
It’s causing death
While they collect money
Shameful. Thank you for posting this
if that child doesnt want to be homeless, he should work instead of mooch off his family. Nobody's stopping him from buying a house.
It’s a disgrace that we live in a country in 2024 where our entire infrastructure is a shambles and falling to bits. People should not be living in such horrific conditions. All of this is self inflicted by Westminster and local councils who should be ashamed of themselves.
Hardly new (not a justification). We had severe mould in our council premises in the mid-80’s. After applying the council’s magic paint, it came through the very next winter.
Sue the Landlord, nobody thinks this is acceptable on any level and its bloody disgusting MAKING people live like this. The Landlord should be ASHAMED of themselves. I wish the Lady well 🏴🥃
It’s so sad, this government doesn’t care about but this is what happens with mass immigration, not enough housing to go around, taxes being raised, landlords not looking after properties doing the bare minimum, welcome to capitalism, nobody should have to live like that, it’s not just in temporary accommodation, it’s in houses across the uk
On the topic, you guys should talk about some private businesses that take advantage of the housing crisis while pretending they're helping.
I have worked for a company called Caridon and I heard shocking stories. You just need to pass in front of their Croydon head office to see what kind of car they can afford.
Simply a disgrace. Those is charge need to be held accountable this is criminal. Crushing.
The government didnt make those children homeless, if that child really wanted a house, he would start a business
@@theredisland really hope this is a joke
Right to buy was the greatest levelling up scheme this country saw since WW2. It should have been followed up with another scheme to support home buyers when the housing stock shrank. Renters should be investing in property ownership - councils cannot sustain temporary accommodation for them.
@HorseSaddleRider I thought Mrs Thatcher was an excellent PM, however this "right to buy scheme" caused gross inflation in the cost of buying a home. Many council tenants were profligate and squandered their money, but on this scheme they were able to buy their house at a peppercorn rate and eventually sell it on for thousands more. This inflated the cost of purchasing a house, and deprived those who had scrimped and saved all their lives to buy one. Also the better council stock were purchased, leaving the poorer ones for rent. Add to this the fact that councils did not replace the social housing stock, and now the unprecedented level of immigration. No wonder these problems have occurred, we have returned to "Rachmanism".
The housing crisis should be the Governments number 1 priority. People are overcrowded and cramped and others are homeless. Life is honestly horrible there are no affordable homes for single people and the homes that do exist are far too expensive. It's just not good enough! What is the point of working or doing anything, nothing ever changes. It's like swimming underwater popping your head up every so often to get a bit of oxygen just to survive!
Too many immigrants, that is why we have the homeless crisis.
Aweful conditions
But yet dingy divers live in luxury with free cars phones money and no bills to pay
Install a ceiling fan & keep it running 24/7 will stop mould but will increase electricity consumption a little.
Where are her parents from? If her parents are from Africa, there's probably a place for her to return to. No need to live in mold or homelessness. Some of the Diasporans are returning to their ancestors home countries for reasons like these. The UK has enough of its problems, it is time for people to stop having sex irresponsibly, making babies without home ownership first, breeding poverty.
5:30 I'm sure she's got a lot of interesting things to say, but the one thing I notice is she's one of those people who arrange their books by colour of the spine.
This is heartbreaking and yet more people are coming in.
She's made the perfect conditions for mould and blames the house / landlord... She needs to declutter and open windows from time to time, get some mould killer and clean the walls... It's not hard to do. I feel sorry for that landlord when she leaves the property in such a bad state.
True. I have sympathy for her children, though.
A lot of the rented houses also get infested with flies as the tenants keep the windows shut all the time.
This country needs to go back to the drawing board... It's embarrassing!! We need some decent politicians to choose from first!!! Nothing will change the way it needs to with the current offering!!!
Decent coverage 👍😎🏴
It’s disgusting and heartbreaking. But honestly she can clean the mould from the walls. And set up mouse traps. It’s not ideal but better than just allowing it to take over
But by doing that she will lose the chance of a new house , lots of things l would do to make it liveable but some people just want others to do it ie council and new home
Sadly I was living the same way as that women is with a baby for 5 years
Until I was eventually moved
For my emergency accommodation
I rented (as a favour) my flat to my neighbours son and his wife. The flat was in lovely condition. Two years later after the windows had never been opened, the air bricks had been filled with builders spray insulation foam filler and clothes had been dried on the radiators the place was riddled with damp patches and black mold. They were filthy disgusting animals. When they left I was that fed up with the state of the place I ventured into a 2 year total refurb at a cost of over £20K. I would say that if you look after a property, open the windows once in a while etc etc you will not find yourself in a dirty moldy environment. Filthy dirty pigs, the lot of them.
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Who ordered and paid for the air bricks to be filled with builders spray insulation foam filler , your neighbours son and wife?
I believe you. It’s true that many many issues with mould are because people don’t understand how important ventilation is for preventing or mitigating mould and damp issues. So many people dry laundry in doors(often as there’s no where else available), many don’t use an extractor fan in the kitchen or bathroom even when one is available, and many don’t open their windows regularly enough in the colder months. Add to this, many don’t put the heating on as much due to the cost of living crisis. There are many irresponsible scummy landlords that don’t properly maintain their properties. However there are also many tenants that don’t seem to understand how to take care of their home whilst living in it either. Even if landlords like yourself try to explain basic ways to prevent or reduce mould that is caused by condensation, tenants just think this is excuses to avoid spending money on the property.
@@ShakirahIbaad out of interest which would you asy are the most numerous, bad houses or bad tenants?
Lol. Tenants do the most wonderful things, u think the general public will believe you? Careful who you rent to. My suggestion only rent to the rich professionals properties above £1m otherwise don't rent...single mums shud plan a bit better before they leavd their partners.
A vote for the tory party in the upcoming election is a vote to see this disgusting lack of care get worse. If you vote tory, you vote for suffering.
Why they didn't stop "right to buy" ??
Or at least replace the lost social housing
The reason why they don’t stop right to buy it, because in a housing estate, there needs to be a proportion of people who actually own their own properties, because if nobody owns their properties, the housing estate eventually rots by having people who own their own houses they actually look after them and keeps the area up
Because they knew that years later (now), there would be a huge amount of housing stock available for purchase by the rich. They just had to wait a generation and now they're buying it up as an asset or to rent out. Another Tory plan to move national wealth into private pockets. Thatcher's legacy coming to fruition.
Get a second Job!
No party wants to solve it. Most of the population don't want to solve it.
70% of MPs are Landlords. 60% of the UK (adults) are homeowners. The only way to solve this would be to build more houses. But that would lead to property prices falling.
.There should be protests, this is awful, build houses now , look after your people, wake up to whats happening, Government.