We are a couple aged 27 and 28. We live in a house that was let to us (at first they wanted to sell it to us but there’s so much work to be done – it’s almost as if the house needs to be knocked down and rebuilt from scratch) and, having no other choice as we weren’t asked for a deposit, we’ve stayed here. We pay €500 a month, but the house is really quite uninhabitable: it’s full of damp, mould keeps growing, the doors are still the old ones so the cold seeps in during winter, and the radiators can’t heat it properly anyway. To get to the bedroom, you have to go outside from the ground floor, climb the external stairs and get to the floor above; the floors are always wet from the damp. On top of all this, we have no way of moving out as only my partner is working at the moment on an apprenticeship contract. Between the rent, the car loan, petrol, shopping and bills, we don’t know what to do anymore; we have to decide what to pay and what not to pay. On top of all this, I also have unpaid bills totalling almost €500 from the house where we used to live. We’d just like to live in a decent two-room flat (as we live near Milan, rents are really expensive) and catch up on the outstanding bills.