Safirah Umarji and her husband, Nathan John, say the problems at their rented flat has left them stressed to the point it has impacted their relationship.

'Horrified' newlyweds discover 'mouse droppings' and 'urine smell' at new home

Newcastle City Council agreed on Monday 21 February to impose the increase for thousands of renters living in Your Homes Newcastle (YHN) properties.

City's council house tenants to see rent rise by 7% as action needed on mould 

Residents on Happaway Close say they fear for their health because every home is covered with damp.

The street with homes filled with damp and mould

A Newcastle student is looking for new accommodation, saying she is getting ill due to mould in her flat, which she claims the landlord has not dealt with.

Student battling landlord over mould-infested flat 

Kimberley Green says she has to change her daughter's sheets and dry her mattress in the airing cupboard every day.

Mum fears for baby’s health in 'soaking wet' flat after three trips to hospital

A woman says she's sleeping in her car after an finding an 'infestation of fleas' in a flat provided by a local council as temporary accommodation. 

Flat 'infested with thousands of fleas' forces mother to sleep in car

A housing association has promised to move a tenant four years after he first complained of mould and damp in his one-bed flat

Man left living in damp and mouldy home for four years

Emma Burbury, who has asthma, says living in her severely damp council house in Tideford is affecting her health

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