Mouldy flats and bidding wars: how did the UK rental crisis get so bad?
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:07.4 | Today, extortion at fees damp and mold. |
| 0:12.7 | How did renting in the UK get this bad? |
| 0:24.2 | Hello. |
| 0:24.9 | Hi. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:26.6 | Nice to meet you. |
| 0:27.1 | Lovely to meet you. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi. |
| 0:28.0 | Great. |
| 0:28.3 | Hi. |
| 0:29.6 | So my name is Agrain and I work for a domestic abuse organisation. |
| 0:35.5 | And I lived in this house for coming up for two years now |
| 0:38.8 | with some friends and my boy friend as well. |
| 0:41.8 | How many people are living in here? |
| 0:43.7 | So there's five of us living here at the moment. |
| 0:46.6 | What made you want to move to this area in the first place? |
| 0:49.3 | And what attracted you about this house? |
| 0:51.0 | Because it looks beautiful from the outside. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah, I mean, we saw this house on the market |
| 0:56.0 | and we were living in a really horrible house in Broccoli before |
| 1:00.3 | where there was a lot of classic London renting problems. |
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