My walk to work is not a long one – 15 minutes at a decent clip. Overground, you watch your neighbourhood changing around you, and the biggest change this past year has been the number of homeless people I pass on my way to work. These landlords exploit the real problem, which is a lack of social housing and the decimation of social services. That need has worsened since: more than 200 people are registered with the bank and the number is constantly rising. My walk to work is a march along the raggedy seam of Britain’s unspooling social fabric, another thread coming loose every day.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2019 09:00 UTC