Two thirds of Grenfell Tower residents still in emergency accommodation

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The majority of residents made homeless after the Grenfell Tower fire remain in emergency accommodation seven weeks on from the devastating blaze&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Less than a third of the offers for temporary or permanent accommodation have been accepted by survivors of the blaze&comma; in which at least 80 people died&comma; figures from the Grenfell Response Team &lpar;GRT&rpar; show&period; Some 48 offers have been accepted out of the 175 initial offers&comma; the GRT said&comma; with just 13 households rehoused&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Justice 4 Grenfell said the &&num;8220&semi;stark&&num;8221&semi; figures were &&num;8220&semi;testament to the continuing misery and suffering people are enduring&comma; people who&&num;8217&semi;ve had such horrific and damaging experiences that even with exemplary care and rapid re-housing&comma; it will take many years to recover&&num;8221&semi;&period; The GRT said it was dealing with &&num;8220&semi;severely traumatised&&num;8221&semi; people and did not want to rush anyone into making a decision&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Multiple offers were being made with no pressure on households to move into a property&comma; it said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Anne Baxendale&comma; director of communications&comma; policy and campaigns at Shelter&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The people affected by Grenfell are deeply traumatised&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t trust the council and need some stability&comma; not another short-term solution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Ultimately&comma; everyone affected by Grenfell must be rehoused in local permanent social housing within a year with rents similar to those they were paying before&period; &&num;8220&semi;While this is ambitious&comma; and the authorities will struggle due to a severe lack of social housing&comma; it can be done&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And in the long term&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s crucial we build the genuinely affordable housing that families on low incomes&comma; both in Grenfell and the rest of the country&comma; desperately need&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68eda34aca283">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68eda34aca283'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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