As house prices in the capital soar and areas in and around London become ever more unaffordable, many are relocating out of choice or necessity. As a result, the city is changing. Are we seeing London become an increasingly exclusive city?
Rebecca Ross, MA communication design course leader at Central St Martins art school, wants to find out how economic and policy changes are affecting life in the city, as well as migration patterns. She has set up the London is Changing project to capture the voices and stories of people either moving to, within or out of the capital. Some of these responses will be displayed on digital billboards in the middle of the city – Aldgate and Holborn – between 18 February and 25 February, for all to see.
In the wake of March for Homes last month, the call for more affordable housing in the city feels stronger than ever. “I used to think people who left London were giving up,” explains one contributor to the London is Changing project. “Now I’m one of them. I just can’t afford to romanticise the incredible exploitation anymore.”
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