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RSS FeedsHomeless crisis: how the state pays the rich to exploit the poor
(The Guardian Money News)

 
 

17 march 2018 08:29:49

 
Homeless crisis: how the state pays the rich to exploit the poor
(The Guardian Money News)
 


Landlords carving up a home into micro-flats can net Ģ50,000 a year. And itīs 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 thereīs no lighting,` he says. `Iīve fallen a couple of times. If there was a fire Iīd never get out.`Fordīs flat - which at 19 sq metres falls below the governmentīs minimum space standard of 37 sq metres for one-bedroom flats - is covered in blooms of dark mould. `Itīs disgusting. I keep wiping it down but two days later itīs back,` he says. Continue reading...


 
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