I mean lots of people buy property that has problems with it but are liable to pay for the fixes, I feel bad for people in the situation with cladding but we've also had problems with the house we bought and there's no massive public outcry, just as there isn't for millions of people who buy property and have to spend thousands fixing problems with it.
The problem is that this isn't something that anyone would have any knowledge of when buying. As far as I know, no survey says "did they build this house/flat out of a really flammable material". Certainly I wouldn't have thought so before Grenfell. Our survey should tell us about everything that they could possibly forsee and any historic issues the building has had but I would be furious if lets say the government came out tomorrow and said "right, everyone whos home is not in band A for energy efficiency has to change that within 2 years". It would tank the value of our home and cost us a fortune that we could never have forseen when we bought the house.
The cost of fixing the cladding can run into 10s of thousands and in the mean time as far as I understand, you have to pay for a full time fire marshall to essentially monitor your block until the issue is fixed.
Someone, somewhere is responsible for this and heads should role. Not just because of the deaths but also due to the costs involved. Companies have been allowed to pull **** like this for far too long without adequate negative consequences when they are caught.
There was a story about some poor girl that had just bought her first flat and she essentially had to declare bankruptcy because she couldn't afford the ongoing costs and the cost of removing/replacing the cladding. She basically handed the keys back to the bank. Must be horrible for the people caught up in this.