Housing

For the poor, the unwell, the dispossessed and those with mental health difficulties London's East End is a grimy, rough, depressing place to survive and a constant struggle to keep ones head above water.

Kingsmead Estate Kid

Unemployed youth hanging out on North Peckham council housing estate, London

Kingsmead Estate, Hackney, London 1991. Neglected by the local authority this became a sink estate occupied by the poorest residents & infested with cockroaches & rats.

Clapton Park Estate, Hackney, London 1991. Clapton Park Estate, Hackney, London 1991.

Kingsmead Estate

Ocean Estate, Tower Hamlets, London 1998. Neglected by the local authority this became a sink estate occupied by the poorest residents & infested with cockroaches & rats.

Graffiti on the estate in Leytonstone where black teenager Paul Erhahon was murdered.

Brick Lane, July 1990.

150215 Whitehorse Squat pano 3

091210 Cotall Eviction 324 Eviction of squatters from a semi derelict council flats in Cotall Street, Tower Hamlets. Due for demolition they were squatted in Spring 2009 and evicted on December 10, 2009.

091210 Cotall Eviction 313 Eviction of squatters from a semi derelict council flats in Cotall Street, Tower Hamlets. Due for demolition they were squatted in Spring 2009 and evicted on December 10, 2009.

100929 Peter Tatchell Plaque 014 Peter Tatchell & Sir Ian McKellen at the ceremony to place a plaque in honour of the work done by Tatchell & Outrage, Southwark, 29 September 2010.

Bengali teenagers hanging out on a Poplar housing estate.

070831_security_14 Video security cameras on a Hackney council estate.

Youths on estate in Peckham, South London.

Graffiti in communal area of council housing block on Lower Clapton Estate, Hackney.

Nightingale Estate, Hackney, London 1991. Neglected by the local authority this became a sink estate occupied by the poorest residents & infested with cockroaches & rats.

Ocean Estate 2

Ocean Estate 1

Young teenage friend of black teenager Paul Erhahon on the estate in Leytonstone where he was murdered.

071103_Westbourne_Park_002 Flats on a council estate in Westbourne Park, London.

ICI Wilton, Middlesborough. Flue gas emissions here have been responsible for a number of uncontrolled chemical leaks forcing the evacuation of the neighbouring residential areas.