This story and headline have been corrected. The earlier version said that the housing being offered was “luxury housing,” it is not.
Left-wing activists and politicians have been calling out the British Conservative government for their tardy and lacking response to the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower. With around 400 survivors of the blaze homeless, questions were posed as to why the government wouldn’t use the empty luxury flats that fill up the area. The BBC is reporting that the government hasn’t given up those luxury flats, but the social housing next door.
Sixty-eight one, two and three-bedroom flats have been acquired at the Kensington Row development, it said.
The apartments are "newly built social housing" in a complex where the price of private homes starts at £1.5m.
These areas are filled with “housing” that is unattainable by most Brits (or anyone else in the world), but is also sitting idle.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said extra public money had been found so the flats could be fitted out more quickly, and more builders had been taken on.
It said the "expectation was that these new properties would be offered as one of the options to permanently rehouse residents from Grenfell Tower".
Surprise! They were able to find some money. Normally governments, our own included, can only “find” money for things like guns and tax breaks for the wealthy—but sometimes, if enough pressure it put on them, they can find money for society as a whole.