A FAMILY of six who live in a tiny damp-filled room were among dozens of renters who took to the streets today in protest at London’s spiralling housing crisis.

With multibillion-pound developments pricing local residents out of the area in favour of the wealthy, Rania Issa said that the condition of her family’s room had left all four of the children with asthma.

Speaking ahead of the London Renters Union (LRU) rally outside Brent Civic Centre, she said: “I live in one small room with my husband and four children.