East Enders: Family and community in East London

East Enders tells the story of a hundred families who live in two of the lowestincome areas in the East End of London, Hackney and Newham. The East Endhas the biggest concentration of poverty in the capital. It lies at the heart of theThames Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the families are lone parents and half are from an ethnic minoritybackground. The authors almost always talk with mothers.Two thirds of the families live in council rented housing, over which they havevery little control, and parents are upset by difficult housing andenvironmental conditions that they feel powerless to change.[...]