Hisam Choucair, who lost six family members at Grenfell, says the failure to prosecute feels like “a dagger to my heart”. But Choucair, tenants, residents and housing campaigners are trying to persuade government and property developers to make sure a Grenfell-type fire tragedy does not happen again.
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Elected members of the London Assembly have formally called on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to provide public funds to council estate residents campaigning to save their homes from being demolished by developers and local councils. But, for many of these residents, the LAM’s plea to Mayor Khan to ‘level the playing field’ smacks of too little, too late.
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“I don’t believe it was a true vote,” says Agnes Thomas, an east Londoner who has lived on the Carpenters Estate in east London for 52 years. Thomas criticises the ‘Yes’/No’ estate demolition and ‘regeneration’ ballot held by Newham Council in December 2021.
Read moreThe human rights of thousands of London children are being violated as they remain forced to live in substandard and uninhabitable ‘temporary’ accommodation often for years.
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