Grenfell Tower Victims: What Happens Now?

I spent my summer in London on the Mayborn In London trip and learned about what culture is like across the pond. In my time there,  I saw some of the greatest political turmoils of the decades. One of which, was an intersection of class and race and how the city failed the two. In this circumstance, the city of London and the city-developer of South Kensington is responsible for the death of over 100 underclass balck and brown people in the Grenfell Tower. The city developer took London's section-8 housing and, because the estate was so inexpensive, they were basically denied the proper fireproof cladding and the city failed to install working smoke detectors and fire alarms in the residency. Because of this, when a refrigerator spark started a fire, the whole tower was destroyed and the people inside were left to the flames.
The residents of the tower were poor people of color with low voter turnout and so the city planner and political constituents never really cared about their lives and therefore failed them in their property development.
In the days and weeks immediately following the tragedy, celebrities and people came together to show their support and solidarity for the victims. However, even though the spotlight has faded, the tragedy still remains. The U.K. owes these people countless amounts of money to replace their homes and memories, but what they'll never be able to replace is the lives lost. In the past few months, funds for the survivors have drastically decreased and their media coverage is almost now nonexistent. However, the U.K. has recently spend 11 million pounds reopening a cold case of a missing girl from close to a decade ago. The fact that the city has no problem shelling out millions of pounds at the drop of a hat just reinforces the idea of missing white woman syndrome in the news.

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