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Peter Apps

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Peter Apps

@PeteApps

Journalist, Inside Housing and elsewhere. Author of Show Me The Bodies tinyurl.com/4y7cwb8j and Homesick tinyurl.com/2r8jp7z8

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Joined June 2013

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Peter Apps
@PeteApps
May 29, 2025
I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future? My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25 amazon.co.uk/Homesick-How-H…
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Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Oct 4, 2024
If a 21yo rents a single room in London at today's rate, they will have put more than £100,000 into their landlords bank account by the time they reach their 30th birthday. This is why young people don't have mortgage deposits or pension plans. We are other peoples'.
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Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Jun 7, 2022
The fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire is a week today. The shocking revelations from the inquiry have been heard by too few. So here is a thread which I will update over the next few days with some of the things you may have missed:
Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Dec 1, 2023
Your regular reminder that 81% of new social housing lettings go to white British tenants and 90% go to UK nationals. At a dangerous political moment, please don't let the right establish one of their favourite narratives (lies): that immigrants get all the council housing.
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Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Apr 7, 2022
At the end of his evidence, Pickles refers to "the nameless, I think its 96 people who were killed in the Grenfell fire. I think it's them we should think about when we're arguing the toss". There were 72 deaths at Grenfell. None of them were nameless.
Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Jul 10, 2025
In the next 30 years, £5.5trn will pass from one generation to the next, much of it unearned wealth from house price growth since the 1990s. Not taxing it would be insane
ClarksonsFarm
@ClarksonsFarm1
Jul 9, 2025
Inheritance tax should be abolished.
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Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Jun 13, 2023
Tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. Our new research shows that 84% of social housing high rises still don't have sprinklers and 88% don't have block-wide fire alarms. What happened to 'never again'?
Most social high rises do not have fire alarms or sprinklers
From insidehousing.co.uk
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Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Jan 17, 2023
🚨 NEW LEAKED DOCUMENT 🚨 I've obtained a previously unreleased document which reveals Grenfell insulation manufacturer Saint Gobain had research showing its product released high levels of toxic smoke 18 months before fire:
Insulation firm had research showing product used on Grenfell released toxic smoke 18 months before...
From insidehousing.co.uk
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Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Nov 16, 2022
One of the saddest indictments of this country I can think of is that the social reforms we need are written by coroners
Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Aug 14, 2020
I don't understand the thinking of universities in this A-level debacle. If someone nailed an entrance interview, got predicted straight As and offered a place at a great uni, what is the logic in suddenly rejecting them based on an exam they didn't take?
Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Mar 16, 2022
Tomorrow, a civil servant called Brian Martin begins his evidence to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. His name won't be a familiar to most people. But in this story, he is a key player. Let me explain some of the reasons why:
Peter Apps
@PeteApps
May 18, 2022
The Home Office will not require owners of high rise buildings to prepare evacuation plans, or make arrangements for disabled residents to escape, abandoning a core recommendation of the Grenfell Inquiry weeks before the fifth anniversary of the fire
Government rejects Grenfell Inquiry recommendations on evacuation of buildings as ‘not proportion...
From insidehousing.co.uk
Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Jun 14, 2022
As mayor of London, Boris Johnson pushed through a package of fire service cuts, despite their rejection by the LFB's governing body. He told an assembly member who challenged him over this to "get stuffed"
Boris Johnson
@BorisJohnson
Jun 14, 2022
Today marks five years since the Grenfell Tower fire took the lives of 72 people. My thoughts are with the survivors, those who lost loved ones and the wider community.
Peter Apps
@PeteApps
Nov 5, 2019
Andrew Bridgen MP on Rees Mogg's Grenfell comments: "Jacob is not from that background [Grenfell Tower]. He is very, very well educated." His assumption that people are uneducated simply because they live in a tower block is both outrageous and very revealing.