 She said: 'It smells so badly. We try to spend as little time in here as possible during the day. We are all on inhalers, all four of us. We never used one before we moved here and there is no family history of asthma. As soon as we clean it, it is back within days. It is not nice, we would like to show it clean.' She said the housing association had visited, but simply told them to 'keep the windows open'. Ana said: 'We try to do this but it is getting cold. Our gas and electric bills have gone up from £50 to £107 and they are due to go up again.' Ivana Tonga, 19, has lived in her flat all her life. Her family of five, including her one-year-old sister, share a three-bedroom flat. She said: 'The mould was spreading across the carpet and we had to replace the floor. The bathroom ceiling is still covered in mould. We've had to repaint the ce){kind=link}
Kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms are soaked by damp and caked with black mould on the 376-property estate in Rochdale, with some of their duvets left sodden, according to some of the tenants
Families on the Freehold Estate in Rochdale say they still live in dire, damp conditions two years after the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak from prolonged exposure to mould.
The Mirror was shown kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms soaked by damp and caked with black mould on the 376-property estate.
Yesterday, their landlords Rochdale Boroughwide Housing promised to act after the Mirror highlighted the damp conditions their tenants must endure.
Ana Navaneethan, 39, invited us into the tiny two-bedroom flat where she, her husband, 15-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter have lived for six years.