Four years after 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire, between 760,000 and 1.36 million people in the UK are caught in the cladding crisis, facing the prospect of having to pay to make their buildings fire safe while living in unsellable properties.
Despite political and media pressure, the government is pushing ahead with plans to burden leaseholders of flats in affected apartment blocks with the cost of remediation work.
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