The continuing saga of the fallout from the Grenfell Tower fire is throwing up all sorts of issues. Including why this problem has occurred in the first place. It will be very interesting indeed to see the result of the police criminal investigation in due course.
Camden, at the moment, seem to be coming out of this better than Kensington & Chelsea – at least they had a public meeting and listened to residents. Hopefully, Councils and their ALMOs will take more notice of residents complaints in future.
But what happened on the blog this week?
Monday
Is Grenfell Tower a monument to the death of the ethos of public service?
Inspired partly by a letter in the Guardian, this article is the result of a conversation with my husband Graeme, a former city Councillor.
Tuesday
What do you do when your tenant loses his mind?
Introducing our ‘Video Snippets’ series and looking at the first snippet which is from specialist housing barrister Peter Marcus.
Wednesday
Tenancy Agreements 33 days of tips – day 24 – Inspections
The next installment of my tenancy agreement series where we look at inspections and doing repairs
The First North Staffordshire Landlords Conference
View some footage from this event held earlier in June where I was a speaker
Thursday
Rehousing Grenfell Tower Residents locally – the reality
Ben Reeve Lewis takes a look at what it takes to rehouse residential who have lost their home in an emergency
Friday
Tessa Shepperson Newsround #17
I take a look at this week’s housing news
Further Reading
- Barristers chambers Garden Court has advice on the immediate housing duties owed by Councils to victims of fires
- An interesting announcement from Shelter
- In depth article on BBC re the fridge that started the fire and tests for cladding
- Rydon under scrutiny in the Grenfell Tower tragedy – FT
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