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It is harrowing watching and reading the evidence from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
The 72 deaths and the destruction of lives that we see in the Enquiry is dreadful. We see how the eroding of the fabric of our society has led to tragedy for those who have been least able to defend themselves.
It is important to be silent – to allow space for the survivors, to make sure we don’t grandstand. It is vital that we lament, that our raw and our considered emotions can be brought before God.
It is also important that we campaign. Campaign and agitate so that this will not happen again to anyone else. Professor Ann Power has an excellent blog here on ten lessons we can learn from Grenfell that must be put into action. She knows more about this than anyone else.
We are also in a housing crisis. We must continue to be unwavering in getting into the heads of the political class that decent housing is an urgent right for everyone. As John Boughton reminds us in his excellent Municipal Dreams, it would be even more of a disaster if Grenfell were used in our social policy to further undermine social housing.
Teresa of Avila reminds us sharply, “Can there be an evil greater than that of being ill at ease in our own house? What hope can we have of finding rest outside of ourselves if we cannot be at rest within?” Good homes for all people are at the heart of what it is to be human and are at the heart of God.
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