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Dec 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Your regular reminder that 81% of new social housing lettings go to white British tenants and 90% go to UK nationals. At a dangerous political moment, please don't let the right establish one of their favourite narratives (lies): that immigrants get all the council housing.
And yes, in London, it is still overwhelmingly going to UK nationals. Thanks to the many, many anonymous accounts who have expressed an interest in this particular question! You can find all the data here: app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo…
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Easier to digest national level data is here. Again so glad that so many anonymous accounts with Union Jack emoji's want to make sure their arguments are supported by robust data, by asking me to share the source. Heartening!

gov.uk/government/sta…
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Oh and yes, this data is about new lets (which tends to be the claim). But if you want the overall population of social housing it is no different:

gov.uk/government/sta…
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Sep 21
In August, a tribunal issued the first remediation order against the freeholder in a major step for the new building safety legislation. The judgement is important and you can read it here:

But I want to talk about something else: the expert witness 🧵 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64d9ebc6…
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He is named as 'Mr Brian Martin of DCCH Experts LLP'.

As many of you will know, a Brian Martin was arguably the key witness during the Grenfell Tower Inquiry - the government official who missed multiple critical opportunities to tighten building safety guidance. Image
So is this the same man? One source with knowledge of the proceedings has told me it is. Others have told me Mr Martin left government to work as an expert witness. There are no registered fire engineers with the same name. But no one involved in the case is willing to confirm.
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Jul 14
New: a judicial review attempting to force the Home Office to reconsider its rejection of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry's recommendation that disabled residents of high rises should get 'personal emergency evacuation plans' has been rejected
The judge said the rejection was "essentially a political decision" and while "desperately disappointing for many others that the carefully considered PEEPs recommendations... have not been implanted, but it was not an unlawful decision"
A long back story to this... But it starts with the fire at Grenfell Tower which disproportionately killed residents with disabilities and family who stayed with them. Pre-Grenfell guidance encouraged reliance on stay put and recommended against making any specific...
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Jun 13
Tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Our new research shows that 84% of social housing high rises still don't have sprinklers and 88% don't have block-wide fire alarms.

What happened to 'never again'?

insidehousing.co.uk/home/home/vast…
The government was advised to encourage the retrofitting of sprinklers in social housing blocks by the coroner investigating six deaths at Lakanal House 10 years ago. It's three and a half since the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommended manual fire alarms.
But while both are now required for new build, there remains no funding and no requirement to install them in existing blocks. Instead we remain totally reliant on 'compartmentation' holding a fire within a flat for long enough for firefighters to extinguish it
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May 16
A couple of weeks old, but don't think any UK news outlets have picked up that Arconic - which sold the cladding used on Grenfell Tower - has reached a $74m with shareholders in the US who say it made misleading statements about the safety of its cladding

law360.com/articles/16002…
'Defendants allegedly assured investors... that Reynobond PE products were “safe and compliant,” “fully tested product[s], with building-code approvals throughout the world,” that Arconic “suppl[ies] and use[s] safe and reliable products”...
'Plaintiffs further alleged that the price of Arconic’s securities was artificially inflated as a result of Defendants’ allegedly false and misleading statements, and declined when the truth emerged.'
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Mar 17
New documents show Cardinal Lofts - the block with the prohibition notice served this week - was signed off by the local authority despite being plainly non-compliant from the moment it was built

insidehousing.co.uk/news/cardinal-…
There's ambiguity about the compliance of some blocks in the building safety crisis. Those with combustible balconies, window panels, Class 0 cladding or below 18m probably complied with official guidance while still breaching headline statutory requirements. Not Cardinal Lofts
It's nine-storeys and 32m, which means it should have used 'limited combustibility' insulation or a material which had passed a large-scale test. But it has Class F expanded polystyrene render on the lower floors and Class E Kingspan PIR on the roof
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Mar 14
Important to be clear that Gove’s announcement on the developers is only a small part of the puzzle in terms of solving the crisis. Takes care of 1,100 blocks (with no set timescale). That’s (at best) 15% of the effected buildings. Still a long way from the end of this story
Gove has found a way to get real leverage over the big developers and used it effectively to get as much as he can out of them. He has been unsuccessful so far in getting other parties to cough up. Product manufacturers are at the heart of this and efforts to make them pay have…
… basically stalled. But we should also be looking at companies that provided warranties, insurance and building control sign off. The NHBC (which does both) made £60m in profit last year and paid its directors huge salaries.
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