Thousands of people are stuck in flats they cannot sell
or remortgage despite government efforts to persuade banks to drop fire-safety
cladding checks on low-rise buildings. The government announced in July that
external wall surveys, or EWS1 certificates, which have become commonplace
since the Grenfell disaster, would no longer be required on buildings not
higher than 18 metres. But banks and building societies are still insisting on
checks which, due to a shortage of qualified and insured fire engineers, can
take months or even years to carry out. Read more on the Observer website.
‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who
took on the housing crisis – and won
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When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel,
Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest.
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