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Jessica Murray and Sammy Gecsoyler

‘The room has started cracking’: concern at condition of stopgap housing in England

A diagram of two hands, one offering toy houses, the other offering a stack of £20 notes
The cost of stopgap housing to the UK taxpayer is set to rise by 71% to £3.9bn a year by the end of this parliament. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images

In his role as handyman at a guesthouse being used to house homeless people, Ricky Lee had keys to every bedroom.

He had previously been placed at Eastfield guesthouse in Peterborough as a homeless person himself, and had moved into a caravan in the grounds, where he lived for free in return for carrying out maintenance jobs on site.

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