Police ‘Will Review’ Destruction And Withholding Of Grenfell Evidence By KCTMO

Police will consider whether a crime has been committed after a witness to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry admitted to binning records relating to the building’s refurbishment a year after the fire. Claire Williams, who was project manager for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment at Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), revealed at the witness stand that she had binned the notes despite being aware of the public inquiry and police investigation. She told the inquiry that she was “just clearing her desk”. Read more on Inside Housing.

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Cameron Makes A Great Case For Abolishing Bedroom Tax

The final government report into the removal of the spare room subsidy, the policy known as the bedroom tax, was released on the last day of parliamentary business in 2015. It proved beyond a shadow of a doubt what everyone, from David Orr to Sajid Javid has known all along: By the criteria against which the policy was drawn up, it is an unmitigated disaster.  Let's put aside the Prime Minister's new, shiny and bellicose statement of intent to literally destroy social housing by tearing it down and replacing it with something else. Frankly there are no policy details in the sink-estate clearance proposal, despite him setting out his slightly rabid ideological stall. All we can really be sure of is that either the physical regeneration will never come to pass, or it will leave in its wake a lot of “unintended consequences” that will be widely publicised but never heard. Read more on 24dash.

How Cameron Plans To Destroy Social Housing In 7 Easy Steps

David Cameron seems hell-bent on destroying Britain's social housing for good. The Tories' new housing bill contains a string of measures which could drastically reduce the country's stocks of social housing - which thousands rely on to keep a secure roof over their heads. Here's how they're getting away with it.

1.       Change the definition of 'affordable housing'

2.       Sell off what you can

3.       Bulldoze the rest

4.       look like you're going to replace them, but don't actually replace them

5.       Let people sell off 'starter homes' at a huge profit

6.       Force people out of council housing wherever possible

7.       Sneak it all through while nobody's looking

Read more on the Daily Mirror website.