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A HOUSING group in Gibraltar has pressed for more government rented homes after showing a minister the ‘appalling conditions’ some residents have to live in.

Action for Housing showed

Minister for Housing Steven Linares around five private flats and one government apartment

Minister shown deplorable home conditions many forced to live in

so he could see for himself the plight of poor residents.

The group has long campaigned for more rented accommodation for the poorest in society, especially among

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local residents from the Moroccan community.

Linares was accompanied on the visit by Gibraltar’s Principal Housing Officer.

They saw for themselves the cramped homes ridden with humidity and poor hygiene.

“What they observed was only a snapshot of a much wider reality and a situation which should not exist in a financially prosperous place like Gibraltar,” Action for Housing said. It added that the government should ‘provide more homes for rental’ for people in precarious situations.

“Without these extra numbers