Investigators found poor quality housing with some "major defects" because homes taken from previous suppliers were not properly checked.
The UN said more than 1.4 million people need food assistance, including 750,000 who live near the quake's epicentre in poor quality housing.
Once you view people in social housing, or those who are homeless or living in poor quality housing, as intrinsically flawed, it's easier not to treat them as people.
MPs listened in sombre silence as Mr Sheridan said that "exploitation was commonplace" and listed a catalogue of abuses, like low pay, poor quality housing and illegal wage deductions.
"We felt it was the type of street that we could never get people to invest in because it had such a poor quality housing stock to begin with," Mr. Fink said.
Depression, anxiety and social isolation are often the result of benefit cuts, poor quality housing and debt, and the mental strain is driving more people to their doctors seeking help.
Eligible families were chosen if they met five out of seven measures of disadvantage, including one or both parents out of work, living in poor quality housing and having a parent with a mental health problem.
"Coastal towns account for a disproportionately high proportion of England's deprived areas," said a recent report by a panel of parliamentary legislators in London that listed a grim tally of disadvantage: "their physical isolation, the inward migration of older people, the high levels of transience, the outward migration of young people, poor quality housing and the nature of the coastal economy".
"It is very, very hard to go into poor quality housing estates and persuade people who might not get good service from other public agencies to let us into their homes to fit smoke alarms, and these are the places where fires are most likely.
However the TFP has been highly controversial, with critics questioning whether there really were 120,000 troubled families or whether they were just families meeting five measures of disadvantage including having no parent in work, living in poor quality housing and having a parent with a mental health problem.
