UK housing crisis: Life inside a decaying shipping container | Times Reports

She’s spending £370 a week 😨 , my 3 bed temporary accommodation (flat) is £390 a week . This is a pisstake they’re charging her the full wack to live in a shipping container, I’m mortified this is getting reposted something needs to be done this is scandalous.

And its called 'Hope Gardens'. Oh the irony.

In ten more years we are going to envy people that live in their own van or their own shipping container.

Didn’t even now this sort of thing was even in London

bro London is a nightmare

The poor need to leave London immediately to other areas. Once the London wealthy realise no one is doing the hard graft and servant roles, they will soon sort issues like these out.

Well done for shining a light on these terrible conditions. A home should be safe, secure and hazard free

My takeaway from watching the housing crisis in the UK, is that women should forget about having children, unless they are mega rich. Children should not have to go through this deprivation. It’s just the way life is now.

I left the uk 8 years and will never live there again. It’s a mess.

How on earth is this allowed?? This is so unsuitable

Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes. Instead of creatong cheap flimsy temporary places as such, they could build permanent good durable homes. It is bad asset management, poor planning, and clearly gross lack of general leadershyskills. Who is suffering as a result? Innocent people, vulnerable prople, the general public. It is time to put credible leaders in charge, and get rid of incompetence.

Remember walking past this in 2020 and was so shocked that this was allowed. It was the heat of summer I never felt so sorry for those poor people living inside.

I not would house my pet in those places How can you house anyone in places like that? Normal people trying to do the right thing who don't have criminal records Who go to work are the ones who are s..t on in this country

For those saying that this person isn’t homeless/doesn’t live in a slum so should ‘be thankful’, it’s really not a huge ask to have affordable and adequate housing in a city like London. Perhaps some of us should try living in that container and see if we’re ‘thankful’.

Remember what they said? "You will own nothing and you will be happy". Translated: "We will own everything and there's nothing you can do about it".

It’s sad to see this lady living like this with her child. Although, the problem isn’t shipping containers, it’s badly designed shipping containers that aren’t maintained at all. Also, I noticed this lady lives in Ealing. House prices there have skyrocketed since gentrification, so it’s unrealistic for this lady to think she will find a house there, unless she’s prepared to move out of London to increase her options. So many Londoners, Londoners who were born in London and have lived in London all their life’s, have now left London because they can’t afford to live there. It’s not a choice that’s easy for anyone but the harsh reality that London is no longer for the working class.

I used to feel bad about my mortgaged, terraced house. Not anymore will be more grateful.

These will be "unique stunning apartments" going for £2,000/week within next 20 years

Too many immigrants. There are 4 million more people living in London than there was in the mid 1980's. We don't have a housing crisis we have an immigration crisis.

Politicians still have a subsidised bar @ the House of Commons though? 😳