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26 images Created 27 Jan 2014

No Space to Live

In London alone, there are over 220,000 households reported as overcrowded. Overcrowding is affecting hundreds of thousands of people. The negative effects that overcrowded housing has on families are numerous. It is associated with respiratory diseases, including asthma, bronchitis and in severe cases TB, as well as mental health with depression and stress. It has an impact on the quality of life where relationships strain.
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  • We have been living in this flat for 8 years waiting to be moved into a larger home. At the time, Ralph was one year old and Ollie was just two weeks old...
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  • "Whenever you go to the council to explain your situation, it does not feel like they are even listening. They seem to just not care. They make you feel as if you are lying to be able to get on a higher priority band. But they should come and live the overcrowding. They just don't care." Alison.
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  • "We wrote to our local MP.  Emily was 7 months old then. We were told that the Environmental Health had assessed that our home is only meant for 4 people. We were moved back to band B. We have been waiting for 8 years now.” Alison, 2013.
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  • We have been living in this flat for 8 years waiting to be moved into a larger home. At the time, Ralph was one year old and Ollie was just two weeks old...
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  • Alison and Ryan and their four children live in a small flat in Chichester. The overcrowded conditions of their flat have impacted negatively their lives: their older children have been affected socially and with school attainment. Alison finds it difficult to even stay at home and Ryan who suffers from Asperger syndrome is finding the environment very challenging.
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  • "For us to be normal we wouldn't have to think of having no space"
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  • "Whenever you go to the council to explain your situation, it does not feel like they are even listening. They seem to just not care. They make you feel as if you are lying to be able to get on a higher priority band. But they should come and live the overcrowding. They just don't care." Alison.
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  • "Sometimes I do everything I can not to come home, usually I meet with friends, going around in Tesco, in town. I don't like to be here anymore." Alison
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  • "Luckily, this place came up because the council decided that did not want to put me in a temporary accommodation that is this half way house that most people get put into. Maybe we were given this flat because I was already pregnant with a second child" Alison
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  • When she became pregnant with the fourth child, Alison was feeling both happy and sad, yet hopeful that soon they would have been accommodated in a bigger home. Years later her situation did not change.
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  • Recent studies have found that children living in overcrowded conditions have lower school attainment and more difficulty in forming relationships. Alison recounts that her older children don't want to invite their school peers to their home.
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  • 'For us to be normal we wouldn't have to think of having no space, but we do all the time.' - Alison
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  • Commissioned by the National Theatre for the programme to accompany the production 'LOVE'.
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  • We have been living in this flat for 8 years waiting to be moved into a larger home. At the time, Ralph was one year old and Ollie was just two weeks old...
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