Housing activist Kwajo Tweneboa has described how the squalid conditions endured by his terminally-ill father inspired him to fight for others.
The 23-year-old lived with his family in a social housing property that was “completely falling apart” – with damp, mould, cockroaches, mice and no kitchen or bathroom – when his father was taken ill with oesophageal cancer.
It was “just somewhere where no one should have been living, never mind someone receiving medical treatment for such a serious illness”, Mr Tweneboa told Sky News’ Beth Rigby Interviews.
His father, a care worker, died in January 2020 – and his fight to improve conditions at the south London property, shared with his two sisters, began in earnest before turning into wider activism on behalf of ill-treated social housing tenants.
The issue, he said, is a “national disgrace” – especially after the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, in which 72 people died, might have been expected to herald a renewed…
