v Angela Panas, 67, moved to a Jewish Blind and Disabled property in Finchley, in North-West London, after struggling for years in a council flat.
She says: “I lived on the 14th floor in a tower block in Stamford Hill and for the last 15 months I was there it was always flooded with water coming from flats above. It smelled, because of the damp. It was just uninhabitable.
“I have glaucoma, which means I have a visual impairment, which was especially difficult when the lifts weren’t working. But more than that, you just wouldn’t know who would be out there. People used to smoke in the stairwells and I got mugged and badly injured.It got so I wouldn’t leave the flat at night.
“I was never able to afford to buy a home what with property prices what they are.
“It’s so much better now I live in a Jewish Blind and Disabled property.”
Ben Weich