Last year Shane Ewen drew a wider conclusion from the Grenfell Inquiry & other incidents:
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Last year Shane Ewen drew a wider conclusion from the Grenfell Inquiry & other incidents:
'Contrary to the popular mantra that fire doesn’t discriminate, the poor & disadvantaged in UK & other societies are disproportionately affected by fire because they are forced to live in unsafe or overcrowded housing'!
As so often, the poor & vulnerable live in situations & experience life in ways that make their position worse.... and harder to escape.
Grenfell should have been a wake-up call – but the UK still doesn’t take fire safety seriously because of who is most at risk
Fire is a social equality issue. Amid fresh concerns over rogue landlords and dangerous overcrowding, why have calls for change gone unheeded for so long?
The Conversation (theconversation.com)
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JuneSim63replied to Emeritus Prof Christopher May last edited by
@ChrisMayLA6 There is also the abdication of responsibility for regulation by government, which has ceded it to the building industry, which also has contempt for the poorest and most vulnerable.
This is nicely described by the Guardian's housing correspondent Peter Apps (always worth reading).Grenfell is simply explained: firms chased profits, ministers sat on their hands, innocents paid with their lives | Peter Apps
Today’s report should make you angry. People died horribly and futures were wrecked because of ideology, neglect and greed, says author and housing specialist Peter Apps
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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@junesim63 @ChrisMayLA6 @KimSJ When you look into the failures leading to Grenfell it doesn't take long before the name Margaret Thatcher appears.
Her irrational hatred of local councils caused her to remove responsibility for building control from them.
I started my architectural career in the ‘80s before this change. The council building control departments were staffed by people who knew their shit. The system worked.