Economy
London's Newest Export: The Poor?
The Olympics promised a fresh start for deprived East London. But they may end up forcing the poor out.
First came the Olympics, now come the evictions.
Last week housing officers in the London borough of Newham, which hosts London’s new Olympic Park, admitted that they can no longer afford to privately house tenants on its waiting list for public housing. The Olympics have pushed the borough’s rents up, and now Newham is considering exporting unemployed residents eligible for rent relief to Stoke on Trent, a cheaper post-industrial city three hours north of London.