In this opening episode, Ed is in Northumberland Park, north London, where he meets a mum with three sets of twins under 11 who live in a one-bed council flat which has recurring damp. He also meets a 45-year-old resident who started smoking crack at 17 and now lives alone in a housing association flat.

On the Easterhouse estate in Glasgow, Ed meets the locals who've been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis and are facing the daily effects of high levels of drug use