Strange coincidence with some social housing apartments in my complex

how do you know they’re social housing?

They could all own the apartments.

Just wondering how you know they’re social tenants. Also wondering how is it relevant to the thread subject.

It's relevant as it's only social apartments that have been renovated free of charge due to them all having mould.

You live in a place long enough it's very obvious who bought and who was given a home.

What is likely to have happened is the council identified a mould issue, whereas other owners / residents haven't. This doesn't mean there is no mould elsewhere.

As social housing tenants are often clustered together in one block in a development, it could easily be that that block has issues that other blocks don't.

giving a home…..or are renting a home?

yup.

OP has an agenda, and just wondering how they know- apartments are social housing, and how they’re getting renovations for free.

Fair questions I would have thought, given the OP thinks there’s a strange coincidence.

The coincidence would be down to user behaviour.

Place occupied all day, lack of opening windows and drying cloths Indoors.

Just about any house or apartment can develop a black mould issue if vents and windows are continuously closed particularly if clothes are being dried indoors , I've had this problem with people renting over the years.

Whats the strange coincidence

A friend was a landlord up until last year.

He lived in his apartment for 4 years (I attended many parties there. Nice place.) When his wife got pregnant they decided to buy a house and rent the apartment.

He had a couple from Slovakia live there for about 1.5 years and then they moved home. Then he had an Irish couple move in who were a nightmare. They were there for 2 years and the place was covered in black mould. I used to work for a cleaning company in my youth so he asked me to look at it. The place was destroyed with it. Vents were blocked up. Water running down the walls from boiling stuff and drying clothes.

Advised him to bleach the whole place regularly. The couple wouldnt move out for another 2 years and the place was like a mould factory the whole time. Kept blocking the vents and turned off the new mechanical ventilation because it was "eating their electric". They only moved out when they got a council house.

He basically fumigated it and replaced everything. Rented it again. There had been 3 or 4 different couples in it since and no issues with damp or mould at all for at least 5 or 6 years at which point he sold it.

Heres the kicker. He got a call from the former residents about 6 months after they moved out and they were looking for any post that arrived. He called in to the new tenants collected a bunch of post for the old tenants and drove to the house of the old tenants to give them the post. They invited him in for a cup of tea while he signed some forms for them. Guess what the kitchen, living room and hall were covered in?

What I do know about mould is that 95% of the time its lifestyle and I also know that damp companies and builders will let you spend 10s of thousands on an issue that can be fixed by lifestyle changes and education.

I lived in an apt for 6 years and dried my clothes inside, never once had an issue with mould. Heat and windows used in correct moderation. An uneducated lifestyle causes it.