Let there be light: Karima Brooke on the housing crisis

‘Could you afford to rent your house today?’

by Karima Brooke 19th June 2026

My local history society recently had an article about the development of my area in Coventry in the early twentieth century. Meanwhile, at the migrant centre where I volunteer, I was dealing with someone who had moved into a house in a street mentioned in the article, but found paying the rent a struggle.