London housing crisis: £480 a month for a bed, in a shed, in the lounge

‘When a flatshare advert calls for a “laid back, happy-go-lucky type that’s sociable [and]open minded”, it’s not necessarily a warning sign.

But Joe Peduzzi had no idea how far his tolerance would be stretched. The 22-year-old found that the double room in east London he had expected to view was in fact a mattress in a shed in the corner of a communal living room.

The room in Bethnal Green, advertised on SpareRoom.co.uk for £480-a-month plus bills, had been described as “the biggest in the house”, with the only indication of its downside being that it “comes with a sofa which means sharing it with the rest of us sometimes”.’

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