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Um, so as hinted at up thread I live in Newington Green. I live on Mildmay Grove, which is in the Mildmay Ward. I really like living here and there are plenty of fashionable young people and it is not without yummy mummies.
However, shall we look at some facts (represented graphically because for relative things the figures don't mean much)?
Overall position of the area on the indices of deprivation:
Income deprivation:
Employment deprivation:
Access to housing and service deprivation:
That last one is really important. Housing is expensive here, but it's in incredibly short supply. Yes there are yummy mummies with whole houses on my road (which cost £1 million plus) but there are (at a guess) about 5 or 6 whole houses on our road. And it's a long road.
This is a direct quote from Shelter, who put it far better than I can:
"If everything had risen at the same rate as housing our lives would be untenable. A dozen eggs would cost £9.30, a bunch of bananas £7.86 and a pack of button mushrooms £8.49*. You can imagine the cost of a weekly shop.
We couldn’t and wouldn’t accept it. Yet we do when it comes to housing, even though the effects are just as crippling. It’s now reached a point where it doesn’t just influence, but dictates, virtually every decision we make – from our choice and place of work to when we have children.
It establishes rifts within society between the housing haves and have-nots.The situation can’t go on and now is the perfect time to demand action from politicians."
Property prices do not mean there are plenty of super affluent people.