Tory Housing Secretary Sajid Javid
MOST Grenfell fire victims are still homeless nine months on from the tragic incident, Housing Secretary Sajid Javid admitted to the House of Commons today
Only 62 out of 204 households have been resettled into permanent accommodation Mr Javid said, saying this was “welcome news.”
But the minister acknowledged “progress has been far too slow,” telling MPs that 82 households are still in emergency accommodation, including 15 in hotels, with 25 families and 39 children among them.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON