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Footnote, no. 3, vol. 2September 30, 2017

An Update on Grenfell

By Anna Viola Sborgi

[Ed. note: Earlier this issue, we featured an essay by Anna Viola Sborgi on media response to the Grenfell crisis this summer in London. Given the rapidity of developments and their far-reaching implications, we asked Anna to revisit the … Read More

Commentary, no. 3, vol. 2September 27, 2017

The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media

By Anna Viola Sborgi

On June 14, 2017, a violent fire rapidly engulfed a 24-storey tower-block in West London. Grenfell Tower became the most tragic social housing disaster in Britain to date. Grenfell surged as a symbol of the wider social inequality in the …