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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Albert Toth

How landlords are abolishing living rooms to leave rentals ‘crowded and miserable’

Millions of renters are stuck in shared homes without living rooms as a creeping trend begins to take hold of the housing market, new research has found.

Fewer and fewer tenants now find themselves with a place to socialise in their homes as landlords convert these shared spaces into extra bedrooms in a bid to boost the number of paying occupants.

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