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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

London living rent: scheme offers renters without deposits a way to save to buy a home

Until the start of this year a huge chunk of Diam Boukeita’s monthly income was going straight out again on rent.

Boukeita, 43, was paying £1,600pcm for a two-bedroom flat in Walthamstow — just over half the take-home pay for her job as a translator.

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