, no surprise there really because that is the most expensive area of the country, if you look at newham have 26,000 households in newham alone waiting for social house, that is 1111 households for each unit of social housing available. thank you very much. with me now in the studio is freddy emmanuel. freddy has been on a west london waiting list for the past 18 years — and currently rents nearby. what is the reality for you? the reality is that they are forgetting about the actual people that need somewhere to stay, a lot of them actually are ending up on the streets, and you have to consider young kids can see this happening and it could happen to them as well. 18 year, that is a long time, so what is your housing experience like? it has been a torment. i have thank my friends and my family for actually helping me through all this, because it is the fact that i have had a roof over my head always... have you ever slept rough at all. ? always? i have spent about two months ago —— actually living in the park. a park? yes. through the winter. what was that like? terrible. where are they