1. London’s Poverty Profile 2017
Adam Tinson
New Policy Institute

2. London poverty is narrowing but deepening
London’s 27% AHC poverty rate down 2% since
London’s “deep” AHC poverty rate up 1.5% since

3. Poverty in London is less about worklessness
Persistent falls in households with no working adults, but fully working households not quite at pre-recession levels
London notable for its mixed households

4. 58% of those in poverty are in working families
1.3 million people in London in in-work poverty in 2015/16
58% of those in poverty are in in-work poverty – up from 44% a decade earlier

5. Poverty is increasingly about renting
Numbers of children in poverty in the PRS over 10 years has trebled, children in social rent also increased
For all in poverty, PRS was smallest tenure as recently as 2009/10

6. Homelessness and the sharper end of the housing crisis
70% of all households in temporary accommodation in England are from London

7. It matters where you live in London
GCSE attainment gap – often considered part of the city’s success story is much larger in some outer boroughs
Other dimensions include housing delivery, local social security etc

8. Concentrations of poverty in London

9. The nature of disadvantage differs across different areas