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On the newsagents today, we're going to talk about renting and renters

and how impossibly difficult it is becoming, particularly for young people, for young workers, to find

somewhere, particularly in London, that they can just afford to live. Today we're going to be

hearing from a number of newsagents' listeners who got in contact with us to share some of their

stories. And they're pretty grim. This is just one of them.

There was a leak from the flat above us and the water kept coming through the light fitting in our

bathroom. We reported this but nothing happened. Our landlord did not appear to be motivated to get

it fixed and eventually the ceiling in the bathroom came down. We kept complaining but it was down to

the local council to get it fixed. The local council just did nothing. We were constantly getting

mosquitoes in the flat because they were breeding in the horrible damp and we lived with that

for over a year. We've talked about the affordability crisis, how people can no longer get a foot on the housing ladder.

It's all become too expensive.

But this isn't about buying.

This is about renting.

And even there, even with stories like that, there is still a crisis of affordability

because the cost of rent has gone soaring

and the service that many people are receiving has plummeted.

Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents.

It's John. It's John.

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