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Housing secretary Michael Gove has said that mistakes of successive governments have contributed to the neglect of social housing tenants.
It follows the cases of Shelia Seleoane, who was revealed to have lay dead in her flat for two years before she was discovered despite her neighbours repeatedly raising concerns, Awaab Ishak, who died of a respiratory condition because the two-year-old’s family home in Rochdale was full of mould, and the Grenfell Tower disaster.
The thing that affected me most was the Grenfell fire. What the Grenfell inquiry in particular has subsequently brought to light were a chain of errors.
I’ve said, and am very happy to reiterate, that there were some mistakes and errors that were made not just by, actually, the coalition government but by governments before which contributed to social tenants not getting the support that they deserved and not having their voices heard.
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