Exclusive: councils complain government’s backing amounts to ‘completely hollow words’
New powers for councils to step in and fix privately owned towers covered with dangerous Grenfell-style cladding are proving largely useless, leaving tens of thousands of leaseholders living in fear and facing mounting multimillion-pound bills, the Guardian has learned.
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