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Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi

reporting & writing

  • EU Borders 2011
    • Travel Fellowship
      • What I’m blogging about….
      • The world’s migration problem
      • Greece is better than Senegal
      • “We are here and we are human”
      • “We won’t eat till they look at our claim”
      • “Greece is becoming a big concentration camp”
      • “Our job is to prevent them coming here” – EU border police
      • Nobody leaves home if things are good
      • Italy’s Libyan solution
    • A better life? The European Union’s other problem
      • “Since I put my leg in Europe I suffer”
      • “The police make us feel like animals”
      • A humanitarian crisis in the forests of northern France
      • Ordinary Europeans welcome migrants and asylum seekers
      • Dying to get to Europe
      • Sweet prison: migrants in Spanish limbo
      • Sweet prison: migrants in Spanish limbo II
      • A refugee’s Libyan nightmare
      • Paradise Lost
      • Palermo’s ghosts
      • In search of the European dream
      • Refugees driven to despair in Calais
  • EU Borders 2012-2015
    • Europe rejects refugees
    • Letter from Europe’s border
    • What does Britishness look like from the outside?
    • The scandals we choose to ignore
    • ‘Journalists take pictures and nothing changes’
    • Town of stories
    • Telling Stories
  • UK Borders
    • The Man in Room Six
    • Set Them Free
    • Tales from the UK Border Agency
    • Who are the “illegals”?
    • The scandals we choose to ignore
    • Let’s really talk about immigration
    • The Absurdity of Mr Grayling’s Residence Test
    • What does Britishness look like from the outside?
  • About

Category: Housing

Illustration by Patrick Koudah

Rats in the lunchbox, mould in the mattress: living in squalor in London

November 10, 2014November 12, 2014 Categories: Housing · inequality · London · povertyTags: housing · LondonLeave a comment

In three decades a social welfare advisor has not seen the levels of poverty that are routine today.

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