‘I’ve become homeless’: Londoners on the rental market

We speak to Londoners about the rental market in the capital. From homelessness, to living with flatmates and being in a fortunate position.

Transcript

00:00I've become homeless. I have a good friend that has taken me in. I don't

00:06understand where the money is going since we're not investing in the

00:11quality. Everything is rubbish. I can hear my neighbour, I can hear who's in the

00:16toilet, I can hear someone cough in another room. I think that's ridiculous.

00:19Things crumble all the time.

00:21Wages aren't going up, everything's more expensive,

00:25but rents are going up. Landlords don't really care. I think there's, you know,

00:32people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, even 50s are sharing, which wasn't the norm back in

00:38the 80s.

00:39Yeah, I mean I've been incredibly fortunate, you know, our family

00:42home is in London, so I've had to pay that. But yeah, some of my friends are graduating,

00:46moving to London, paying a thousand a month on rent. Absolutely absurd. I don't

00:49know how people can afford it, to be honest. And obviously everyone's just

00:53getting pushed further and further away from central. So yeah, it must be pretty,

00:58yeah, it's tough.