The Rochdale MP gave a personal story of his early years during a debate around housing
George Galloway recalled how he grew up sleeping in the attic drawer of a slum during a debate on substandard housing in Parliament.
The Workers Party leader said: “I was born in a slum—in an attic. There was just one room, with a sloping roof. I was horrifying my children this very morning, telling them how I had to sleep in a drawer.“They thought that my mother pushed it in the drawer at night. If that were the case, I would not be here now. I know how things were in the bad, bad old days.
He added that 11.7 per cent of Rochdale homes are officially deemed to be in housing deprivation, compared with the national average of 7.8 per cent. Speaking specifically about Rochdale Boroughwide Housing , the social housing provider that was found at fault in relation to Awaab’s death and put into special measures, the minister hailed the secretary of state for stepping in and taking action against them. This saw the social landlord barred from access to funds to build new houses and increased enforcement measures more generally.
“Awaab died because he lived in a house so affected by dampness and the mould that ineluctably followed,” Mr Galloway stated. “Innumerable complaints were made, unattended to, of dampness in the house owned by his landlord Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, one of the worst housing associations in England—pity Awaab."
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