After Grenfell: British homeowners face bankruptcy to strip unsafe building panels
ZOE TABARY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how homeowners are facing bankrupcy and homelessness due to the cost of replacing exterior building panels in the wake of the deadly 2017 fire at London’s Grenfell housing block…
Most new housing designs in England are ‘substandard’, audit finds
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Three quarters of new housing developments in England are so badly designed they should never have been built, according to an independent audit released on Tuesday. Britain has seen a building boom in recent years spurred by government policies designed to address a housing shortage that has pushed up prices and […]
Britain urged to build millions of social homes after Grenfell
Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain needs to build 3.1 million new homes in the next 20 years to solve its housing crisis, a commission set up in the wake of London’s Grenfell Tower disaster said on Tuesday. The fire that killed at least 71 people in a social block in one of London’s most affluent areas […]