De Beauvoir Cycle Gang Strikes Again

I don't how this has turned into a general free-for-all on Hackney and the changes that have happened over the last few years, but for what it's worth, yeah, it grates a bit that it's gotten a bit Notting Hill, but would you rather see Hackney as it was 20 odd years ago, when 1 shop in 4 in Church Street was boarded up, when the area between Dalston & the City was completely deserted, or as it is now, with money coming into the area, & actual new decent housing replacing the shit hole that was Holly Street, Queensbridge etc?

I miss the Hackney squat scene at it was, but the reason there isn't a squat scene in Hackney any more is because the housing stock in the borough is in a much, much better state than it was in the 80s.

the pendulum will swing too far the other way with folk that struggled through the bad times shifted on to alternate pastures once the gigi brigade open cafés and all the other stuff they like up.