David McCabe, 57, a landlord for 30 years, was fined £28,000 because the state of his house failed to
meet up with housing regulations in Britain. 
Plymouth Magistrates Court heard how the homes and
bedsits were strewn with rubbish, the bathrooms dilapidated and the carpets and
walls covered in dirt.
Floors of his properties were rotting, there were
inadequate fire alarms and fire-fighting equipment, and the back gardens and
yards were cluttered with tyres, furniture and timber.
Some of the windows and doors of his homes were also
seized shut.
Plymouth City Council also launched a pioneering legal
application for an Anti-Social Behaviour Order which would ban him renting rooms to anyone on housing benefit.
Speaking in court council lawyer Helen Morris said the
two houses were 'in a state of Dickensian squalor'.
She said: 'They did not meet modern housing standards.
These are vulnerable tenants on very limited means.
But here in Nigeria, there is a community known as Makoko
in Lagos State. The community has an approximately a population of 20,000
people living in that slum community and landlords collect rental fees from the
resident of this area. Below are pictures of the houses in Makoko.
Compare this to the slum in Britain, what do you have to
say?
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| A school in Makoko where children learn to read and write |
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| A residential slum where Landlord collects rent up to $10 a month per room |
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| Can landlords in Makoko be banned to collect rents too? |
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