London’s housing crisis: life inside a derelict council estate | Times Reports
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- The Aylesbury Estate in south London has been earmarked for demolition since 2005. Dozens of families remain on the estate, waiting to be relocated by Southwark council.
London's deepening housing crisis has pushed more people into homelessness.
Fatima, eight, has been homeless for nearly all her life, living with her two older brothers and mother in temporary accommodation on the estate, a sprawling, rundown block of flats, the largest public housing estate in Europe.
“We have so many mice, they eat everything in the house,” says her mother, Aminata Diallo, 45, a cleaner. There is damp on the walls, mould on the floor, leaks staining the ceiling and peeling wallpaper, covered by children’s maps. “The radiator is not strong enough so when winter comes it’s very cold in the house,” says her eldest son, Salia, 22, who is at college. “When you go outside and then come in, it’s even worse. It’s colder inside. It makes us sick most of the time.”
Fatima often has to take days off school when she gets ill, unable to get better. They are waiting to be placed in permanent accommodation by Southwark council. “The council tells us to wait,” says Diallo. “But we don’t know how long we will be there for. We are always calling them but it’s always the same response: wait.”
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As London's housing crisis deepens, many are asking what should be done to stem the rise in homelessness.
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The Great British Empire Will Rise Again
Sad ! Prayers.
don't breed like a rabbits!
They originally built that estate to replace the slums. What a joke.
They try to replace the slum and manage to let it become a slum
I can’t believe the council have left the families living in such dire conditions for so long! It’s really not good for their health being exposed to the damp. It must be virtually impossible to keep any rooms dry and warm, all the heating would disappear into the huge empty block.
My heart goes out to the families, the council is an absolute disgrace and should be ashamed. They pay themselves huge salaries and pension contributions and do not look after the families first. It’s high time we got rid of House of Lords and Commons, drain the filth and start with a new party for the people, by the people. We need to take our county back from the Crown! People need to wake up and come together, support one another. None of would want to live like this, open your heart and think about if it’s was your family! Vote with your voice!
Instead our government is more concerned with asylum seekers and building new housing for them.
😢I feel the same way. I cried when I heard & saw the conditions Marta was living in with a toddler and 20 weeks pregnant. There is no way there is no mold, black mold, & mildew in that apartment which is devastating to her, her toddler & baby growing inside her.
not the government make them pregnant all the time.
@@EstherFisher-lv6rq: these are "government" owned properties, so it is at fault.
@@eattherich9215 she is living with the toddler here and now she is pregnant again. she is irresponsible and got what she deserve.
So sorry for them have to live like this …our government is too busy wt other countries right now! 😢
Why is Martha pregnant again when she lives in such circumstances. She has a child already so she will make another child through this as well erm...
she is so not responsible
because Martha wants things for free
ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.
Ppl who aren’t even born here get houses straight away in better conditions so unfair
Thank labour for that
this lady not deserve better. she is pregnant again and will again again and again.
Because they have a job but not these people
@ElonHusky no they just fool the council saying they'll get a job😂 and stay on the dole
@@ElonHuskyhigh percentage of them anyway
I was born and brought up on the dog kennel hill estate in East Dulwich in 1978
And I can tell you local councils don’t care that you’re home has a problem or that there is a problem with the estate
I lived there for 20 years and we always had this problem
Especially in 2000 when it got much worse I’m glad we moved
Once you live in an estate you are forgotten about for the simple fact you are poor
😂 The people still living in that estate were offered housing but refused rehousing because it doesn't meet their "requirements".
The private landlords within the estate are most likely holding on for a better offer to buy them out! These stories are always half truths trying to tag on people's hearts
Why pregnant when in that situation
I used to ask the same question and the answer is simple
"Humans need human interactions"
Disgraceful utterly wrong - this needs sorting out lm totally disillusioned with the rubbish we call politicians, but what do they know or care shocking
i've seen the poverty on social media. UK STANDS IN THE TOP 10 WORLD'S RICHEST.
What can I say????Why on earth this woman PREGNANT AGAIN when she is already living in the slam with her child. This is (I mean pregnancy) is totally her fault. shame.
It's a crime to be pregnant now is it.
@@gambrydew2059 No but if you are already in such a state you don't pop out more children. That's what i call lack of responsibility.
She can't keep her legs together that's why 🤣. Rent is paid by taxpayers so she should just shut up and be happy that someone else is financing her life. She is free to take mortgage like others.
I am a Fifth Generation Canadian and I was talking to my Friend about my Old Neighborhood and how it's really gotten bad with the Apartments and how bad they are. She explained that if the residents are immigrants there's nothing they can do, they would rather live there than be homeless and the Landlords don't do any upkeep. It's heartbreaking. I saw some of the Apartments on TV and it's disgusting, Cockroaches, mice, rats, sinks with brown stains etc.
Must be drug dealers heaven.
Trap houses 😂
True colours of Southwark Council, disgraceful and disgusting!
damn thats a real gutter
How do landlords not fix this. They should be prosecuted.
The council are the landlord
What is going on in UK ????
Its been going on for 100s of years. Watch world in action reports on poverty in the UK in the 1960s and watch tbe late Ray Goslings reports on working class Nottingham in the 1960s.
when you have mice you have to put your food in mouse-proof containers. mice are everywhere.
This is why it's soo important to start working and saving from a younger age...encourage your children to start putting money away to invest in a property...before they spend it all!... 30 plus years ago there was more affordable homes....that's when I entered the property market...I had enough money for a deposit..rest on mortgage...we worked and scrimped now my house is free...unfortunately these days it's impossible to get on the property ladder
people don't pay to live there is no worst than the ones that do pay. that building should be for homeless people only. Homelessness doesn't mean criminal.
Do you not have a tenancy tribunal??? Why aren't tenants taking the landlord to tenancy tribunal?
Please watch World in Action from the 1960s and Ray Gosling reports in Nottingham in the 1960s.
We have had worse but this is wrong
But we were told that insanely high amounts of immigration only made things better...
Some countries, such as S. Korean, Japan, and Israel, only accepts immigrants who have job offers. This way, they can bringing in cheap labor from overseas to fill labor intensive and low-paying jobs no one wants to do. S. Korea would actually collapse without this cheap labor. For laborers, they would make 4, 5 times of what they would make at home so they are happy. It's a win/win situation. Immigration is a good thing. USA was built on hard working immigrants.
So you see, immigration is not the problem. The problem is that politicians and policy makers in your country are retards. LOL
But you never answered the question…. Who will do the jobs ? From vegetable-picking to doctors in NHS , all are immigrants…. Why can’t the present “natives” be bothered/ good enough to do these jobs ?
@@Critic224they do though
@@Critic224 farm job wages are not high enough to attract regular workforce so immigrants from poor countries are needed. The competition for professional occupations, (doctors, engineers, IT etc) are fierce and the most academically inclined fills those positions. Productive immigrants, either highly motivated to fill the low paying jobs or highly qualified to fill processional jobs, aren't the problem. They only help the country they immigrate to. I am sorry to say this but there are certain demographics, people from certain countries that do not work, do not have the discipline, and only seek social welfare. And the UK, brilliantly chose, almost exclusively, to import those demographics. LOL
@@mspsys👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Fing appalling 😢
Austin Texas makes tiny homes and communities for homeless. It’s about time.
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Erm what had that got to do with this video? I agree what that shooter did was disgusting
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I thought gays are for Gaza
You could be right HAMAS does have a lot of gay people basically you have to be gay to be Gay in HAMAS
Prime, bottled water, Dolmio sauce....
Hmmm .
Ah yes, the times recorded the video on a dark day so our estate bad lmao
Get Brexit Done! Yea, I'll vote for that, sounds cool
Yes it does
Too many people taking from the system and expecting the taxpayer to give them a pampered lifestyle - welcome to the real world.
Who is stopping these people from leaving the Council Houses? Park your things and move out! I'm sick and tired of this!
I had to check my soup. It says.. warm but don't boil, so I didn't get to watch this because I don't really care.
@hughs9619
I hope you never fall from your Ivory Tower mate, because you might land amongst the poor people who you can't be arsed with. 💩 can happen in a heartbeat and situations change, it is possible to lose everything you have ever worked for in seconds. I wonder then if your " I'm alright Jack, s* d. the rest of you" attitude would change if it happened to you?
Mass immigration
Sorry but I don’t care for martas opinion as it is clearly better than where she came from. I care about the conditions of British people of all races
Your country can sends arm to Ukraine,but cannot provide adequate housing.