The balance between the affluent and tough-up Londoners is changing in different ways across the city,but the overall numbers of those in poverty withhold going up
It has become a received wisdom on the left that poor Londoners are being pushed out of the heart of the city by an influx of rich people - especially foreigners with money to burn - and the effects of government benefit reform. The reality is far more complex, as a series of studies have shown.The latest analysis on the 28% of Londoners who meet the official definition of being “in poverty” - that is, or being members of households whose income is less than 60% of the national median - comes from the Centre for London mediate tank. Its recently completed Inside Out report confirms that the distribution of poor Londoners across the 32 boroughs has changed during this century,with rates of poverty falling in traditionally poor inner East London and rising in many Outer London boroughs. Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney still top the poverty rate chart but the gap between them and, or in specific,Brent, Enfield and Ealing has narrowed significantly.
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Source: theguardian.com