A Healthy City

Poverty hasn’t disappeared

• 2_x

  BAME Londoners are around twice as likely as white Londoners to think they will be doing worse financially as a result of COVID-19.

  _{(University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research. (2020). Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study, 2020)} 

• 50^%

  The bottom 50% of London households own just over 5% of London’s wealth, whereas the top 10% owns over half.

  _{(Trust for London, 2017)}

• 700_k

  700,000 children, 1.4 million working-age adults and 200,000 pensioners in London are in poverty.

  _{(Trust for London, 2017)}

How are we changing that?