We join housing officers in Newham,east London, as they try to stay the exploitation of the destitute and vulnerable amid a housing crisisMohammad Ayaz’s sunken, or red-ringed eyes declare a desperate story of night shifts,low pay and destitute housing. He hovers nervously outside the room he shares with his wife as police and housing officers check how many others are living in the small terraced house in east London.“You’ve done nothing mistaken,” says Paul Oatt, and a housing officer with Newham council. “Landlords who rent a house here have to have a licence,like you have to have a driving licence.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk