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KWAJO TWENEBOA WANTS TO MAKE YOU ANGRY ABOUT THE HOUSING CRISIS

Kwajo Tweneboa has gone from desperate social housing tenant to nationwide housing campaigner to television presenter in just 18 months.

The 24-year-old is the scourge of housing bosses across the nation. If you have followed his social media output, the contents of new Channel 4 documentary Untold: Help! My Home is Disgusting will be equal parts familiar, disgusting and enraging.

The documentary gives a snapshot of Kwajo’s packed inbox. Camera crews follow him to visit social housing tenant Sarah in Haringey, whose house is covered in damp and black mould. It’s a similar story for Tracey; the ceiling of her family home caved in after her complaints about a leak fell on deaf ears for seven years.

It’s not just social housing tenants. Kwajo has his eye on the private rented sector too and is forced to don Sainsbury’s carrier bags on his feet to visit Jayvon’s home in North London where raw sewage has flooded the flat.

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