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That reflects what's happening in Leytonstone, the gentrification includes people moving there because they have been priced out of N1 and N16, Islington and Stokey having been cliches of gentrification for decades. This is quite a large shift in the demographic, we could see the reversal of white flight in LBTH and Newham. Anyone who bought a 3 bed flat under right-to-buy in East London in the mid nineties is now selling up and moving to a nice little bungalow in Essex, bit of garden, lovely. But who takes their place? The poor will be displaced, the locals will be priced out of the area, this being London the new arrivals will be racially mixed but not to the same degree as before. I'm not opposed to gentrification, but this is a very rapid change.