The High Court has ruled that a family of four confined to a tiny studio flat for five years can get a new home after their local authority blamed them for the overcrowding.
Southwark Council unlawfully excluded Milton, his wife Cecilia and their two teenage children and refused to place them on the priority housing list.
They tried to join the housing register in 2018 but the council called their full home a 'deliberate act' and knocked back the attempt to move up the bands, MyLondon report.