Homeless crisis: how the state pays the rich to exploit the poor

Landlords carving up a home into micro-flats can net £50,000 a year. And it’s taxpayers who foot the billEvery day 64-year-old former boxer, Ian Ford*, who suffers from crippling arthritis, climbs three flights of stairs to his tiny cell-like flat over a betting shop in south London. “I have to feel my way because loads of times there’s no lighting,” he says. “I’ve fallen a couple of times. If there was a fire I’d never get out.”Ford’s