A desperate mother of three was told by her local council to use the living room of her one-bedroom home as a bedroom in Wales.
On the waiting list for five years for a larger place, Leanne, 28, said she and her family share a single room with a double bed, bunk bed and cradle in Ely, Cardiff.‘Then we have got a living room and a kitchen. You can’t even turn around in the kitchen it is that small.’
Her youngest, a four-month-old baby, is getting ‘bigger’ and she has no space to put a cot. Her four-year-old and three-year-old both sleep on bunk beds. ‘I can’t really because where are the kids going to live? They have to have somewhere to live through the day,’ she said.Leanne is in no way alone. According to Cardiff Council, there are currently more than 8,200 people on the housing waiting list.
‘It does play with my mental health a lot. I don’t really want to go out and I don’t want to stay in,’ Leanne said. ‘We’ve been working to tackle demand for good quality, affordable homes in the city for a number of years and if we hadn’t embarked on our ambitious housing development programme that is set to deliver 2,700 new council homes for the city and 4,000 new homes overall, then the difficulties we are facing now would be even more critical,’ she added.
A spokesperson for Shelter Cymru, a Welsh housing charity, said there are nearly 90,000 households on social housing waiting lists.‘Overcrowding, bad conditions, and homelessness are a fact of life for far too many,’ they told Metro.co.uk.
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