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- As a result of a lack of available housing, overcrowding became a huge problem for Caribbean migrants. Housing was controlled by slum landlords who did nothing to improve living conditions. Housing associations helped to improve housing in Notting Hill.
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Oct 13, 2018 · Notting Hill is full of house which, while very pleasant, boast astronomical price tags, even by London standards – you can pay well over £10 million even for a decent semi-detached place. How did it come to be this way? Penny Churchill explains all.
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As a result of a lack of available housing, overcrowding became a huge problem for Caribbean migrants. Housing was controlled by slum landlords who did nothing to improve living conditions. Housing associations helped to improve housing in Notting Hill.
May 26, 2024 · What was once a charming, vibrant neighborhood has become a symbol of the growing divide between the haves and the have-nots, a microcosm of the housing crisis that has gripped the city and left many struggling to find affordable living spaces. The Paradox of Notting Hill: Gentrification’s Double-Edged Sword
May 22, 2024 · Two decades later, in May 1968, a new generation of social critics would again single out Notting Hill’s private gardens as indefensible symbols of Britain’s enduring social stratification —...
Oct 22, 2018 · Many took relatively menial jobs and found accommodation hard to find especially when so many were made homeless and forced to live in appalling conditions in part as a result of the wartime blitz. This preceded the first Race Relations Act, when it was not yet illegal to advertise rooms for rent but ‘no blacks, no Irish’.
What local records, including newspapers and diaries, can tell us about Notting Hill. What national records, including opinion polls and census reports, can tell about Notting Hill. Sources have different strengths and weaknesses.
The impact of the 1958 Notting Hill riots tends to figure in histories of the political right, as a galvanizing force for anti-immigrant sentiment—or as radical catalyst in the transnational history of the Black Atlantic.
