UK Dispatch
June 25, 2026
FRANCE'S POOR TRAPPED IN HEAT-TRAP HOUSING CRISIS
Low-income housing estates suffer worst in climate emergency while rich stay cool.
France's low-income housing estates are death traps during extreme heat because buildings lack climate-appropriate design. Rich neighborhoods with proper cooling stay comfortable while poor families live in furnaces. This is climate apartheid: the wealthy are protected while poor and working-class people die from preventable heat exposure.
Reported by The Guardian
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