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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

London’s renting crisis: brutal choices, heartbreak and escalating costs faced by renters at breaking point

Ana Oppenheim says leaving one of her flatmates behind was ‘extremely heart-breaking’

(Picture: Adrian Lourie)

When Ana Oppenheim and her three housemates signed a two-year contract on a house in New Cross last summer they were pretty relieved.

True, the house was run-down but it was also reasonable value — Oppenheim’s rent was £760pcm — and they were looking at it being their long-term home.

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