Awaab Ishak will tragically be remembered as the two-year-old who died from a respiratory condition caused by living in a mould-infested flat. Dad Faisal Abdullah and mum Aisha Amin reported mould in the decrepit Greater Manchester property as early as 2017, and did so on numerous occasions before their little boy's death. Their calls were ignored - and they are not alone.
At the inquest last week, housing association Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) admitted they had made a series of catastrophic cultural assumptions - including that the family were carrying out 'ritual bathing' that contributed to the 'black slime' decorating the walls.
Veteran photographer Marc Davenant has seen first-hand how prevalent substandard housing is in Britain. Over the course of six years, he photographed the homeless on streets up and down the country and those that fall in between - the hidden homeless that are forced to live in homes unfit for human habitation.
