Kensington and Chelsea is ‘area where inequality has become a gross spectacle,says Labour’s Emma Dent Coad A damning report on inequality in Kensington and Chelsea has highlighted the close proximity of extreme wealth and poverty in the area around Grenfell Tower, revealing that in some parts of the borough average incomes can “drop 10 times as you cross a street”.
Five months after the Grenfell fire catastrophe focused attention on income and housing divisions within Kensington and Chelsea, and a local MP,Emma Dent Coad, has compiled a report pinpointing the economic faultlines in the area.
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Source: guardian.co.uk