Is this the answer to our housing crisis?

Rents are soaring, yet offices go unused in Canary Wharf and the City as we WFH. Can’t they be turned into new homes?

- Robbing Griffiths

WHO’D rent in London these days? A colleague recently shared a picture of a Harringay studio where the toilet was inside the shower cubicle, and both were in view of the single bed. It was on for £900 a month, and is no longer listed, suggesting some poor soul took it.

Last summer, a friend with a good job in fashion was told her landlord wanted hundreds more each month. She had to move onto friends’ sofas, and considered leaving the city. With a bit of luck, after a tough autumn and winter, she found somewhere on the other side of town. Figures recently eleased by Spare Room show the average price for a room is more than £1,000 a month, and rents overall went up by 13.5 per cent last year.