When the pub becomes a wine bar and the corner shop a coffee house, residents can feel isolated in their own communities Beveridge revisited: where now for the welfare state?Last summer, a community arts project supported by Hackney council set up an installation in a London shopping street to welcome passers-by. It comprised a large banner with the slogan, Hackney is friendly and two attendants dressed up as if they were attending a 1970s folk festival. For some, it was an alienating sight. Whats this about? asked one man, shaking his head. They dont want people like me here any more.Its one example of the difficult question facing communities and public services: when an area is gentrified, and the demographic and local culture changes, what happens to those who were there before and feel left behind? What happens when the local boozer becomes an expensive gastropub and the corner shop turns into a coffee shop serving flat whites for
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:44:28 +0000
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