INTVEEs live in one room behind a shop in a small street off Easter Road with their two children. They have lived there for six years, before that they lived in Leith. When asked about moving into their new house, wife is quoted as saying "Oh, it's just like a dream to be moving into a new house. It's wonderful". They have been on the housing list for four years but would have been eligible before that, they had thought they weren't eligible because they owned their own house. Wife is looking forward to starting a social life again like they had in Leith, living in one room means they can't have visitors after the children have gone to bed. They have no hot water just a cold tap going into the sink in the window. The fireplace is an old Victorian one. They have their own WC outside. They rent a television and watch it quite a bit but would never think of buying one. The wife likes to watch The Black and White Minstrels and Wagon Train. A condition of getting their corporation house is to let their present house, they were surprised to get so many responses to their advert and hadn't realised the housing situation was so bad that people should want to live in their little room. There is subsidence and rather than pull the tenement down the corporation has shored it for which they had to contribute £270. This has convinced them that it is not a good idea to buy your own house.