{"id":2208,"date":"2015-10-23T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:04","slug":"do-you-earn-enough-money-to-live-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/10\/23\/do-you-earn-enough-money-to-live-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you earn enough money to live in London?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Try out this <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimumincome.org.uk\/london\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">calculator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> from the Trust for London which calculates levels of basic income for different types of households. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustforlondon.org.uk\/research\/minimum-income-standard-for-london\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">According to research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> from Loughborough University one third of Londoners currently fall below this level.\u00a0 The website enables you to download the full report to investigate this further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonspovertyprofile.org.uk\/press\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">London\u2019s Poverty Profile 2015<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> has also just been released by Trust for London and New Policy Institute. This explores and cross compares levels of poverty between London and the rest of the UK.\u00a0 It gives the startling figures: \u20181.2 million Londoners in poverty live in a working family &#8211; up 70% in decade\u2019.\u00a0 The website also has <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonspovertyprofile.org.uk\/indicators\/boroughs\/barking-and-dagenham\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">individual borough level profiles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> and data allowing easy comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">GLA report on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/priorities\/business-economy\/publications\/gla-economics\/living-wage-2014\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">London Living Wage (2014)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> this calculates a living wage and discusses what people really earn!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/london-elites-are-also-being-priced-out-of-their-homes-heres-why-it-matters-49175?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+October+21+2015+-+3679&amp;utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+October+21+2015+-+3679+CID_da0f717336c6377f3070695366a54068&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=London%20elites%20are%20also%20being%20priced%20out%20of%20their%20homes%20%20heres%20why%20it%20matters\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">article by Luna Glucksberg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> discusses how gentrification and high property prices ids forcing people out of London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">ONS <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/rel\/regional-analysis\/housing-statistics-portal\/housing-summary-measures\/rpt.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">data on affordability of housing and rented accommodation according to salary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try out this calculator from the Trust for London which calculates levels of basic income for different types of households. According to research from Loughborough University one third of Londoners currently fall below this level.\u00a0 The website enables you to download the full report to investigate this further. \u00a0London\u2019s Poverty Profile 2015 has also just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,10,15,9],"tags":[218,263,72,93],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-management","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-housing","tag-london","tag-poverty","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}