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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

‘It feels like there’s no communication’: a social tenant’s struggle for safe housing

Kerianne Wilson in her flat
Kerianne Wilson in her two-bedroom flat in Notting Hill, west London, where she lives with her son. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Kerianne Wilson and her son have been taking it in turns to sleep on the sofa in their crammed living room since 2022, when a leak caused major damage to their two-bedroom home in west London.

For years, they have battled with mouldy ceilings, walls and floorboards, sodden wallpaper, collapsed ceilings and buckets on the floor. Her 20-year-old son has been unable to sleep in his damp bedroom, with all of his belongings piled up in boxes around the flat.

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