Living rooms vanish due to rising cost of rent warns housing chief

MIAMI: Thousands including many young professionals, are in flats and houses where the living room has been converted into a bedroom according to a housing not-for-profit.

He said high rents meant there was a “very strong temptation” for landlords to convert the living room into an extra bedroom. “The demand is such that people are happy to accept that because there is nothing else,” he added. “I’m sure there are thousands of people now living in flats of that kind and the numbers are growing.”

More than 2,500 people from as many as 300 organisations were due to gather…

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