The hell are people meant to do for a month with no notice? Why not put a plan in place and have some guards on duty or something, or fix the attendant issues while you carry it out? What are people with animals, small children, etc., supposed to do? What's anyone? It happens in emergencies and disasters, obviously, but it seems they could have figured this out better.
The problem is that there's an ongoing housing crisis whereby poor people (not just the very poorest, ordinary working families on low incomes too) cannot afford decent housing and there's nowhere near enough social housing (ten year waiting list kind of not enough) and this results in huge numbers of people living in inadequate housing, whether social housing or private rented housing (the latter is usually worse due to it being extremely difficult for tenants to get anything done and moving out's not an option if there's nowhere else you can go for the rent you can afford to pay). The reason for this crisis is the Tories failing to build new council houses while also selling off existing council houses (officially, this is the tenants "right to buy" their council house, but very often it's not council tenants that end up owning them) and also a general lack of investment in building new homes and what new homes do get build end up being bought by rich people as second homes or buy-to-lets which basically prices poor people out of the market because they will get sold to whoever offers the most money. London has the very worst of this, with a normal sized family house in London costing about a million quid. It used to be that there were poorer parts of London where housing was still affordable, but rich people are taking over those areas too and more and more of London is becoming completely unaffordable for anyone but the very rich. This problem isn't unique to London, but London has it the worst.
The population has gone up by ten million in a short time - Brexit comes into this because this population increase is due to immigration as the birth rate is around 1.9 children per family. The Tories have been happy to take all the taxes from these new people (they come here to work and so they pay taxes) but have completely and utterly failed to invest this into actual communities. The result is that housing, school places and the NHS have been under greater and greater strain - they're at breaking point. I don't blame this on immigration. Immigration brings taxes and also ensures jobs that are harder to recruit for are filled. I blame the government entirely for failing to invest back into ordinary working communities. The funding that schools get, the amount of school places, the funding that hospitals get, the amount of housing being built and the amount of available social housing has not come close to keeping up with the amount necessary for the growing population. This results in a lot of hardship for ordinary working people who don't stand a hope in hell of ever owning a house and are at the mercy of extortionate rents and IMO the Brexit vote was the result of poor people who have been going through all the problems created by inadequate housing, lack of school places, longer and longer NHS waiting lists, more and more difficult to even get an appointment to see a GP, find a dentist, etc etc etc and then they believe the "vote leave" rhetoric of rich Etonboy twerps like BoJo that have no experience of poverty whatsoever that the problem is immigration and not lack of investment. And then you get the racist twats like Farage that just stir the whole "blame it on the immigrants" thing even more. The result is the working classes shooting themselves in the foot by ending up with the Tories in charge of the country and no EU legislation to fall back on - legislation that's about protecting workers, the poor, the vulnerable etc. Just what BoJo and the other Tory "leave" campaigners wanted all along. And it hasn't got rid of the problem because lack of investment is the problem - it's just going to make things worse.
And due to council housing being sold off and not replaced, social housing has stopped being owned by the councils and is more often owned by private companies like the one that owned Grenfell Tower, where they installed cladding to make the building look prettier for rich people who lived nearby rather than giving a shit about the poor people who live in the tower... they're a sitting market because they have nowhere else to go because there are literally no other houses that anyone can afford on a normal income. Installing fire alarms and sprinkler systems (Grenfell tower had neither) is too expensive for these private companies and who cares what the residents say because they have no choice to go and live anywhere else. They voiced concerns about fire safety but no-one listened.
So yeah the reason why there's nowhere for poor people evacuated from unsafe housing to is because there
is no housing. Unless rich people want to put people up in their luxury flats/houses and second homes that have been inflating the housing market prices. The government has to evacuate people from these buildings as if there's another fire like Grenfall then the people in charge of housing at the councils would be criminally responsible and end up in jail for a very long time on manslaughter charges. They're being put up in hotels and public buildings but there's no other housingn for them to be moved to. I have no idea what the government is going to do about any of this. I would hope it would lead to them actually building lots of council houses and building homes specifically for low to moderate income first time buyers. But I'm not holding my breath.
Nick Clegg said something interesting recently... he said that when he was in that powersharing Lib Dem-Tory government, every time he tried to bring up the issue of social housing he was met with Tories asking him why he'd want that as social housing breeds Labour voters. That's the Tory's answer to the housing crisis. They genuinely don't give a shit and don't seem to even be aware that any problem exists.
