How many strangers would you live with? Perhaps a handful if you had to for a short while, but how about 10 or more others long-term? How about more than 50? This is the reality for thousands of people in Kent. Reporter Dan Esson spoke to tenants, landlords and local politicians about whether HMOs really are modern-day “slums” and what powers councils have… There are about 475,000 houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in England, according to the Office for National Statistics. Just under 1,900 of them are in our county. Technically, any property housing people from more than one household is a…