She says one of the homes she lived in the toilet was incorrectly plumbed in, meaning excrement flooded beneath the floorboards causing a horrific smell.
Sharon N’dow has been living in temporary accommodation for 24 years, and says she’s been moved seven times in that period.
The 54-year-old claims she and her partner, 55, and two children, aged 19 and 11, have repeatedly been placed in appalling conditions by Enfield Council.
In one place the toilet was incorrectly plumbed in, meaning excrement flooded beneath the floorboards causing a horrific smell, she says. She told The Sunday Mirror: “It then becomes a biohazard. Nobody was liable for it. We lost all that furniture. We lost all our clothing. We had to start again. The man came in and just started lifting the excrement off the floor and pouring it into the sink and into the toilet.
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“We had six hours to move. Imagine your child leaving and saying you dropped your child at school. They come home to a completely different house, and everything has been destroyed. All their little pictures. All their stuff has been destroyed. They start again then you move again and you move again and you move again and you move again. It is constant. But they have no regard for human beings. They just don’t care.”
Ms N’dow also explained she’d lived in a property where when it rained, it “rained in the living room”, and another where she was given no protective clothing when asbestos was removed.
She says the Temporary Accommodation she is in now has a manhole cover in the kitchen and a leaking bathroom, and that even when they were offered permanent accommodation, it was too small..
Ms N’dow claimed the experience left an “ache” in her heart.
She explained: “It makes you feel like you’re not an adult, it makes you feel like you’re not a good parent because you’re not providing a home for your children, and that aches, it makes my heart ache daily.
“We need more social housing, we need more suitable social housing.
“I want to actually be able to wake up and say, right, this is ours, this is going to be ours for the duration of our life and we can decorate. They don’t realise how important it is to people to have a home, a safe space, your little Tardis that you can feel safe in.”
Enfield Council did not respond to requests for comment.
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