A post for the politics board really but since it’s here...
Are you suggesting that the employees should have donated their money to new housing or that they shouldnt have been awarded?
Bonuses are seldom discretionary and their terms are written at the start of a scheme. This was tragic but in my experience there was almost certainly a structured bonus pot with accruals made against it.
The story, the circumstances of which are obviously very sad, is a little sensationalist isn’t it? The country should have rehomed these poor people and everyone should have paid for it through their taxes. The fact that that hasn’t happened is one of the reasons why the country isn’t great (actually I never remember it being great in the way I interpret you to mean it)