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"If you're poor, you can sweat": One building's air conditioning divide (www.londoncentric.media)

submitted 2 weeks ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/london@feddit.uk

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Unbeknownst to her, air conditioning in the 19-storey Britannia Point tower block in south west London had been “switched off” on a flat-by-flat basis – but only for residents who were being housed there in publicly funded temporary accommodation. Residents say the heat in the affected flats sent children to hospital, with one woman telling us her two-year-old son collapsed.

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[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

It'd be amazing if the NHS billed the owner of the flats for the actual cost of care for the heat related illnesses, plus punitive fines to prevent it happening again