Karina Lowe-Hogan opens a kitchen cupboard. She pulls out a box of teabags.
It's kept inside a small plastic bag and sits next to the dried pasta, which is double-bagged. "I've got to put all my [food] stuff in plastic bags because it goes mouldy," she explains.
It's the reality that Karina has faced since moving into the Tameside flat which she rents from housing association Jigsaw Homes. She moved into the one-bedroom flat in February 2020 and says problems with damp and mould began around two months later.
