An artist builds a home in a rubbish skip in London and plans to live in it for a year, seeking to draw attention to the 'crazy' price of renting a room in Britain's capital during a cost-of-living crisis.
abc.net.au/news/artist-moves-into-rubbish-skip-in-protest-at-crazy-london-costs/102076518An artist has built a home in a rubbish skip in London and plans to live in it for a year, seeking to draw attention to the "crazy" price of renting a room in Britain's capital during a cost-of-living crisis.
Returning to the city after a period abroad, he said he struggled to find somewhere to live given the shortage of housing. "And even if I found somewhere that was in my price zone, then there'd be 100 other people or so looking for that room."British consumer price inflation hit a 41-year high of 11.1 per cent in October and remains in double digits, fuelling a cost of living crisis, as wages have failed to keep pace with rising food and household bills.Marshall's creative solution to the problem was to spend 4,000 pounds building a wooden hood with a curved roof and fixing it onto a skip.
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