Shameful reality of Britain’s slum housing

‘It’s time to call this what it is: slums rented out by slum landlords.’ Photograph: Stephen Shepherd/The Observer

Yet another report of the appalling state of much of the UK’s housing stock (Terminally ill man faces living last days in mould-ridden London flat, 23 November). After 13 years of austerity, this kind of situation is all too common. It’s time to call this what it is: slums rented out by slum landlords.
Dr Lorna Chessum
Brighton, East Sussex

• Your warning that the recipe in Feast should have said 300g not 300 coley fillets came too late for me (Corrections and clarifications, 24 November). But when I spotted the error, I went out and bought a few barley loaves, then invited the neighbourhood round for tea.
Alan Woodley
Northampton