DAILY STAR
One UK street where crack addicts live on the doorsteps of millionaires is showing the rich-poor divide to shocking effect.
Tower Hamlets in East London is the borough with the biggest income gap between rich and poor neighbourhoods of all the local authorities in the country – with people in the richest parts of the area taking home £38,700 more a year than those living in the least well off.
The Express reports average flat prices in the neighbourhood are £500,000, whilst some apartments go for over £1million.
But in shocking contrast there are more than 24,000 families on the waiting list for social housing in Tower Hamlets.
Whitechapel Road is one street in Tower Hamlets that shows this stark difference. At one end are the skyscrapers where those earning six-figure sums eat sushi at the Heron Tower’s rooftop bar, at the other crack pipes are smoked.
“A lot of people from all over London come to Whitechapel, it’s one of the drug dealing hotspots,” John, a crack cocaine addict told The Express.
“You’ve got drug users, homeless people and sex workers.
