"This corrupt mess was inevitable from the moment the tories started slashing local authority departments & public sector workforce;"
It goes back further than that PFK (did you know your initials sound like a substandard building material - sort of like MDF)
It is the inevitable consequences of the ghettoisation policies that were developed from the slum-clearances and wartime rebuilding - a profiteering corruption of Labour's plan to build 'homes fit for heroes to live in'
The 'high rise' upward development came about when it was decided that land was too expensive to be wasted on the poor, so they built upward and eventually, as cheaply as possible.
The first major disaster was Ronan Point - this one should be the last, but it probably won't be.
As a child, our first modern council home was in a three storey block on a new housing estate, Speke - soul-less enough, but capable of sustaining communities.
I've worked in these multi storey monstrosities - as had as tenants tried to turn them into homes they were never more than 'little boxes inside bigger boxes'
Something's gotta give!
Jim Carroll