"Anti-poverty campaigners are calling for housing associations to stop tearing up carpets between tenants and leaving many with bare floors...Most social landlords rip up flooring when a tenant moves out due to hygiene - but it's not always replaced quickly." - BBC News

A GRANDMA claims that she is forced to sleep on bare floors because of bizarre council rules. 

Council house tenants have moved into their new homes to discover that carpets and wooden boards have been removed in a practice that creates thousands of tonnes of waste each year

Harley Tremayne ended injured himself badly twice thanks to the state of the flooring in his home in St Albans, Hertfordshire, which was uncovered when the council removed the carpet.

Thousands of people are living in cold, floor-less homes for months.