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A quick Google search indicates 1 in every 52, or about 170,000 homeless in London. That's not the count of rough sleepers, though, that's more like 5000 to 80
by barrkel 7y ago
A quick Google search indicates 1 in every 52, or about 170,000 homeless in London.
That's not the count of rough sleepers, though, that's more like 5000 to 8000.
(Also, IMO, what London has even more than income inequality is wealth inequality. House price appreciation has really added to it; it's not unusual to have little old ladies who are property millionaires, but their houses are decrepit piles of junk and they have no money to do them up. The housing stock is generally in dreadful shape, nowhere commensurate with the value of the land it's sitting on. Large sections of the capital are like this; decrepit, but very expensive.)