Comment: 'We foolishly ignored the London rental crisis, but we can fix it'
by Anna White
Nov 21, 2023
3 minutes
I first rented in London 18 years ago.
My housemate and I moved three times, every six months, to three different converted flats, on the whim of our landlords.
Inconvenient? Yes. But nothing like the traumatic experience it can be today.
There was a plethora of choice within budget, any rental growth between properties was incremental, and we were not pitted against a queue of other desperate tenants.
She had the higher salary to get a mortgage and I had some deposit, so we got on the housing ladder together and
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