Sorry, this video asset has been removed.

This is the house from hell – the garden is strewn with rubbish and inside rats live among the tenants.

A ceiling has collapsed; windows are broken; and the kitchen and toilets are in an appalling state.

One person sleeps on the floor because the landlord never provided a bed. The terraced house in St Mary’s Road, Strood, is “home” to five tenants in bedsits or self-contained flats.

Watch the video above for a look inside the house and to hear Medway Council's Head of Enforcement and Licensing speaking about the action the council has been forced to take.

For the “privilege” of having a roof over their heads, the tenants pay their landlord more than £17,000 a year.

Medway Council seized the house after the landlord failed to carry out repairs.

The council warned it would be cracking down on houses in multiple occupancy which have not been registered by their owners.

About 15,000 properties in Medway are said to be unfit.

Earlier this year the council’s housing department was given a zero rating by the Audit Commission and rated the worst in the country.

New management is now in place after damning reports and a housing repairs fiasco which led to overspending of up to £350,000.