By: Eastern Eye Staff
LONDONERS must stand up to political and business leaders who exploit the fire at the Grenfell Tower to demand the demolition of high-rise housing for the city’s poor, said architects, academics, and residents of the city’s towers. Commentators, including former leader of the ruling Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith, have called for London authorities to raze towers across the city after a fire at the 24-storey social housing block killed at least 80 people. Four days after the blaze, London mayor Sadiq Khan wrote in the Observer: “It may well be the defining outcome of this tragedy that the worst…
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