Six vital questions that must be answered about Grenfell Tower | Poppy Noor
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At present there are fears that survivors of the fire will be housed outside the borough, on the edge of London or even further afield. This represents the continuation of a trend whereby local authorities uproot homeless families from their communities and send them to boroughs miles away: 50,000 families had been shipped out of London by 2015. Those asked to relocate out of borough are generally poorer and black and minority ethnic groups. In the case of the Grenfell Tower, were residents rich, their money would allow them to stay in the borough by renting privately or through insurance. But the local authority housed these residents while ignoring their warnings of the dangers of the building. A decision to then shift the residents out of borough would truly reveal what this government feels poorer communities are worth, at a time of utter desperation.
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