The scramble for a spare room

Inside the experience of trying to get by in houses of multiple occupation and the realities of renting in 2025. Ella Glover writes as the Renters' Rights Bill looks set to progress.

To Let (subject to scramble)

“Please manifest this for me,” I told three of my good friends, sliding through the photographs of a large double bedroom in a shared house in south west London. It was bigger than the room I’d lived in for the past 10 months, and £250 cheaper. Sure, the living room was small and dank, and the hallway and kitchen were permeat…