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Poster

Production date

1999

Object number

1999.26

Physical Description

'East London Advertiser' printed in red and blue on white background. Handwritten inscription in red and blue reads 'families forced out by yuppie house prices'.

Dimension

height: 610mm
width: 432mm

Exhibition Label

From the exhibition ‘The Golden Age of Social Housing? Life on the Gascoyne Estate’. [14 February - 3 June 2017]

Newspaper Headline, 1999

Hackney has seen the highest house price rises in the country.

Over the last 20 years these have increased a dramatic 939%. Three bedroom flats in the original Gascoyne I estate now sell for more than £460,000.

Similarily, steeply rising rents have priced many out of privately renting, and even out of Hackney itself.

Today, Hackney Council houses more than twice the number of families living in homeless hostels than any other London borough.

On display?

No

Inscription

East London Advertiser
Families Forced Out By Yuppie House Prices