Moroccan family ‘trapped’ in unsanitary studio in Brussels

Mustapha, his wife and their three children aged 16, 13 and one and a half, live in cramped conditions in an unsanitary and mouldy studio in Ganshoren in the Brussels region. The Moroccan family tries in vain to find larger and more decent accommodation.

Having arrived in Belgium in 2009, Mustapha obtained social housing in Ganshoren after a ten-year wait. His family, who remained in Morocco, joined him a few years later. The family of five lives in this small apartment intended for a single person, located on the eighth floor of one of the towers in the Van Overbeke district, for a rent of 570 euros. The two eldest children, enrolled in a secondary school in Molenbeek, only have a small table to store their school supplies and do their homework, the living room being taken up by the beds, relay The Last Hour.