The catastrophic consequences of being poor in one of London’s richest neighborhoods

 


"Joseph Downing, a researcher from the London School of Economics who studies urban deprivation in the UK and France, blames an institutional culture that allows social housing to be mismanaged and the concerns of tenants ignored. “These residents who started this campaign knew they were living in a death trap,” Downing says. “And they had no choice but to go back home at night and sleep there.”"

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A deadly inferno at a shoddy public housing block in one of London’s richest neighborhoods is a stark reflection of housing inequality — Quartz