To get the latest news from the capital visit Metro.co.uk's London news hub. But it’s a less than perfect solution for Tom who lives with the contestant threat of eviction over his head.

It’s like I’m living in the Victorian slums era. I have to double pay – I pay for the rent, and then I’m paying for the hotel, because when I get sick, it’s just not safe. “The council ...

This is a passage in Farringdon that came into existence after a monastery was closed down, turned into slums and is now lined with offices and social housing.

London, 25 July 1919 - The House of Lords has ... it should first have brought forward a bill dealing specifically with Dublin, as its slums were ‘a disgrace to the United Kingdom’.

Housing Ombudsman ordered Ealing Council to pay compensation to Errol Baptiste over its handling of complaints about his living conditions ...