This new town, built to solve London’s lack of post-war housing, now faces a youth homelessness crisis unlike any other in the country. Yet it is also an economic success. What, asks Emily Goddard, has gone wrong?
ONE in ten listings on letting website Zoopla are breaking the law by barring people who claim housing benefit from becoming a tenant, it was claimed last night.
The analysis of more than 7,000 adverts in the area shows that 978 adverts for different residential properties in Yorkshire and the Humber say ‘no DSS’ or ‘no housing benefit’.
A new campaign from Cats Protection is asking the landlords of the UK to consider allowing their tenants to have just a tiny bit of joy in their lives.
Five young students were allowed to live in a death-trap house off Smithdown Road that had more than TWELVE potential fire hazards by their schoolteacher landlord.