In just a few hours of horror, the fire at Grenfell House (pictured here under construction 1972-74) in June sickeningly brought to the surface the inequalities of housing in the UK. With the number of deaths still unknown, the difference in treatment and protection afforded to tower dwellers in the new, sprinklered, mineral-wooled apartment blocks, and to ordinary, mainly ethnic minority people who became the victims in their polyethylene-coated council block, was shown in its true extremity.
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