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‘All of my children have asthma’: Locals protest as rents skyrocket in gentrifying London borough
London Renters Union activists outside Brent Civic Centre, October 24, 2024

A FAMILY of six who live in a tiny damp-filled room were among dozens of renters who took to the streets today in protest at London’s spiralling housing crisis.

With multibillion-pound developments pricing local residents out of the area in favour of the wealthy, Rania Issa said that the condition of her family’s room had left all four of the children with asthma.

Speaking ahead of the London Renters Union (LRU) rally outside Brent Civic Centre, she said: “I live in one small room with my husband and four children.

A Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: “Despite the inheritance we have been left, the government is focused on fixing the foundations of local government by rebuilding the sector from the ground up.”

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