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'A scandal': Anger as residents forced to live in 'freezing' tower blocks with soaring energy bills now told rent is going UP

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Social housing tenants living in 'freezing' conditions since flammable cladding came off their blocks have called a hike in their rent a 'scandal'.

The nine blocks of flats, which are owned by Salford council but managed by Pendleton Together, have been plagued with problems for years.

All nine apartment blocks finally had their flammable cladding removed by the end of 2020 – some three years after the lethal Grenfell Tower fire in London. READ MORE: Nurse who drives 550 miles a week for work and her kids is BANNED as desperate pleas fall on deaf ears But while the work to replace the insulating cladding continues - with the end date still two years away - temperatures at the apartments have plummeted.

The housing association has offered tenants £30 a month to help with heating bills but some have said their energy costs have been up to ten times higher.

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