Guardian visits Freehold before release of damning ombudsman report on housing association
A week after decorating a bedroom in his family’s flat, the wallpaper is peeling and damp is visible through the new paint. “I’m throwing money away,” says Arunas Yankunas, exasperated.
Residents, some reluctant to give their name, repeatedly say things have not improved. Mould is still prevalent. They are desperate to get off the estate. ‘There is always water coming in,’ says Hawa Hamed, pictured with her two-year-old daughter, Imtinan.Hawa Hamed has lived in her flat for three years and it has always been mouldy, she says. Carpets have had to be pulled up because they were black. Her husband, who has lived there for eight years, paints over the mould himself but it comes back.
A resident who asks not to be named and who lives in the same block where Awaab and his family lived says her flat still has a mould problem. She is worried about her three-year-old son because he has breathing problems.
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