Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Study Shows Haringey Gentrification Pushing out Poorest
The independent reported yesterday how gentrification is impacting on some of the poorest people in Haringey and other areas.
The article says, "People living in the bottom ten per cent in terms of relative deprivation are being pushed out of their homes and communities, with a dramatic change in the demographics of London within the past decade.
"Based on data released by the Department of Communities and Local Government last month, they show how many inner city boroughs have seen a marked decrease in the number of areas classed as the least deprived in the past decade".
In addition to Haringey, the list includes Barking and Dagenham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, Camden, Greenwich, Islington, and Newham.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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This is also interesting: Social Cleansing: Not Haringey, but Inner London Boroughs Hackney and Tower Hamlets becoming wealthy, whilst outer London Broughs Here: Bromley with deprived areas.
https://theconversation.com/heres-what-we-learned-from-mapping-out-...
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Permalink Reply by Angela on
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No, really?! I could have told you that at least 5 years ago (wrt to Harringay that is)
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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" have seen a marked decrease in the number of areas classed as the least deprived in the past decade "
Is it just me, or is this double negative saying the opposite of what is meant ?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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You're right. The sentence seems to be saying that area are becoming more deprived, indicating that the area is not becoming gentrified! Shurly shome mishtake.
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I agree Michael. I read it as saying that the number of better-off areas ( least deprived ) - perhaps Muswell Hill - is decreasing. So less gentrification, not more
Rather reminiscent of the very dangerous use of " It would be impossible to overstate / understate ....... " which often ends up saying the opposite of what's meant.
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perhaps Muswell Hill - is decreasing. So less gentrification, not more
No, Muswell Hill isn't in Outer London. The point being made, is that poorer households are being priced out to the outer London Boroughs and further. That's Thatcher's 'free market' elbow economy in action.
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*cough* Haringey is officially an Outer London Borough.
Perhaps we should stop all this 'know it all' stuff and just accept that the government's policies are not good news for poorer households.
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see what I mean..?
It's the story of 'the haves' shafting 'the have nots'.
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Permalink Reply by Charlie Owen on
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Well that depends on whose definition you use. The Department for Education and Department of Health both have Haringey as Inner London in all their statistics.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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It's not just the poor who are squeezed out. Young people are too. From the point of view of the intention of this policy, the baby will have to go out with the bath water. It's insane. Having the mix that London does is why it's so great.
The young graduates flocking to London in the past years complaining to Mummy and Daddy back in the shires about the rent and how come poor people don't have to pay it have a point but THIS is not the answer. Rejuvenate and densify estates, some of them were only supposed to last for a short time anyway, and bring in rent controls.
Being a private landlord in London should not be so lucrative. There need to be professional landlords, like the housing associations, building places on public land, maintaining them properly and renting them out to young people at regulated rents. London will die without something like this.
Just look at what employers are having to do to attract young employees in London now. Starbucks are offering to pay their staff's rental deposits, an entrepreneur in Stratford is offering £1 rent in return for indentured tech work.
And what are commercial house builders in London like Berkeley Homes doing about this? Marketing their flats in China before they go on sale in London to people who want to use them as bank deposits and don't give a flying F about London or Londoners. We're too squeamish about "property" to do anything about it, we should have been screaming in protest at what the Tories did to squatting rights but we couldn't see how it would affect us in London. Don't think this is a "thing"? Islington council found that 30% of a representative sample of 2,00...
And we're worried about "Gentrification"?
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