It was some time after Naftali and Miriam Noe had their fourth baby that they realised they could no longer all squeeze into the family’s two-bedroom flat. The couple slept in one bedroom and their two daughters slept in the second room, while their two sons had a repurposed storage cupboard that measured 2m x 2m. “It was literally hell,” Naftali Noe says. “When you live in a small, crowded place, the worst of you comes out. You are anxious and angry and everything is in your way.”The rented flat had been home for Noe for ten years, but the lack of space and the soaring…

Source: The Times January 06, 2018 00:00 UTC