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Grenfell

How communities of colour fought back

Micha Frazer-Carroll examines the challenges that the UK’s minoritised communities have faced over the last five years, and reports on the ways that they have come together to organise, support and uplift one another.

  • Election 2024
  • Micha Frazer-Carroll

Tenants are being left out in the cold by the cladding crisis

'We want our homes back' — When Grenfell-style cladding was removed from a Salford tower block in 2020, tenants had no idea it would take years to replace. With the government and the private housing association Pendleton Together at loggerheads over responsibility, residents of Holm Court have now spent three winters without insulation.

  • Activism
  • Jessica Bradley

The victims of state tragedy fighting for a Hillsborough law

A campaign seeking to prevent future injustices where there is state involvement is gaining momentum, with Labour recently pledging its support.

  • Activism
  • Florence Wildblood

Thousands attend silent walk to mark 5 years since Grenfell

Justice for the 72 — On the fifth anniversary of the tower fire, around 18,000 joined the walk to remember the 72 dead and to demand justice.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

The young people taking action over their unsafe homes

End the cladding scandal — Four years on from the Grenfell disaster, the Government has failed to take the necessary action to ensure homeowners’ safety – but a group of young people living in dangerous properties are fighting back.

  • Activism
  • Chloé Meley

Grenfell artist Khadija Saye is being publicly celebrated

Art on the streets — The Gambian-British photographer, who tragically died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, is being celebrated in a new public art project.

  • Art
  • Eva Clifford

The dire truth behind London’s housing crisis

Cleansing a city — A new documentary, We’re Still Here, follows activist groups and social housing tenants caught up in London’s rampant social cleansing.

  • Film
  • Katie Goh

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