Over the past decade, Saf Mustafa has packed her bags and moved house a dozen times, never by choice. Marco Paris is clinging on to his home by the skin of his teeth but fears eviction could come at any moment. And Alisha Clarke is feeling the strain of raising a young family in temporary accommodation.
As all of them know, life at the sharp end of London’s housing crisis is getting bleaker by the day. Rough sleeping, reports Crisis, has become normalised. London Councils says 90,000 children live in temporary accommodation. And housebuilding, a vital component in easing the crisis, is in freefall. Private house building has plummeted 84 per cent, down from 33,782 new homes in 2016 to 5,547 last year, according to residential development analyst Molior.
