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The ruins of Grenfell Tower light up at night
THE Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), which was made infamous by the Grenfell disaster, tops the league of in London’s most expensive places to rent, a GMB study revealed today.
The median monthly rent for a two-bedroom flat in the borough is now £2,708, making it the most expensive part of London for private-sector tenants.
Across the capital, the median monthly rent for two-bedroom flats is £1,450.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance