Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood declineand renewal

Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census data from 1971, localadministrative data from 1998 onwards, and over 400 interviews conducted in 1999 and2001.The neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and educational attainment wellbelow average; and often sub-standard and hard-to-let housing, poor environments andhigh crime and antisocial behaviour.These problems have their origins in wider trends that concentrate the least advantagedpeople in the least advantaged areas: economic restructuring, counter-urbanisation,changing housing demand, rising inequality and international population movements.[...]