Of course it's more than very old appliances, as I pointed out many other failings, but it has very little to do with the surrounding real-estate prices. The tower should have been torn down and re-built with proper fire suppression systems and fire escapes. The building was built 43 years ago, it had out lasted it's use and couldn't keep up to current safety standards.

I'm not complaining about the the migrants being there, or it being subsidized housing. I'm complaining that the owner of the building is also the regulator, it's a conflict of interest. They chose the cheapest method to update the tower, at the risk to those living there. The local council took the risk, those poor people in the tower paid the price. Those migrants and low income people that died there deserved better. This was gross negligence on a large scale. The owners should be punished, but they're the government so they won't be.