Leaseholders in building sheathed in flammable Grenfell cladding sent a £2m bill for repairs

In the UK, many people who live in multiunit buildings -- the sort of thing that would be a condo or co-op in the US -- live under the leaseholder/freeholder system, a relic of feudalism that has been updated for the age of inequality thanks to hedge funds and other socially useless financial engineers. The flats aren"t "owned" at all, but rather leased for very long terms (99 to 999 years), which brings us to the Citiscape complex in Croydon, which is sheathed in the same highly flammable cladding that killed dozens of people in Grenfell Tower in 2017.