Why have working-class Londoners largely failed to benefit from the legacy of the 2012 Olympics?
They live in a "tiny" flat in which they share a bed, she said.Rudy says she is worried the council might only be able to offer her a permanent home away from the area.
"It is really quite shocking," according to academic and east London housing expert Dr Penny Bernstock. She has interviewed families living in "terrible" conditions near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The concept of affordable housing on the former Olympic Park was always "slippery" in any case, according to Dr Bernstock.
However, Dr Bernstock added that she believed there had been some recent improvements in terms of affordable housing provision on the park.
When all the housing schemes on the park have been completed, 40% will be classed as affordable, including a mixture of tenures, the LLDC said. Of the 3,800 homes on the site, the majority are offered at market-rate rent by property company Get Living, which says it "looks to respond to the acute need for new homes in central London".Built with public money, the site was to have been 50% affordable housing, according to plans drawn up several years before the Games.
Mr Sharman, who was until recently a Hackney councillor, said he believed his area had been transformed into a "middle-class barracks".
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