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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

One million Londoners forced to get by on ‘relative low incomes’ by sky-high housing costs

A million Londoners are being forced to get by on relative low incomes by the city’s sky-high housing costs, a new report revealed on Tuesday.

It showed that before housing costs were taken into account 1.2 million people in the capital, including 400,000 children, were classed as in “relative low income” which means they are living in households with income below 60 per cent of the average in that year.

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