The government will most probably break its promise to permanently rehouse within a year all those made homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire, Sajid Javid has said, castigating the local council for “totally unacceptable” delays in the process. Updating the Commons about a report from the official Grenfell recovery taskforce nine months on from the fire in a west London high-rise that killed 71 people, the housing and communities secretary said some progress had been made. However, of the 209 households needing rehousing only 62 had so far moved into permanent new accommodation, Javid said. There were still 82 households in emergency accommodation, mainly hotels, including 25 families and 39 children, he told MPs. The Grenfell Tower recovery is still being treated as a PR problem | Seraphima Kennedy Read more“That promise has been abysmally failed.

Source: The Guardian March 22, 2018 12:56 UTC