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Wealth and want in England's fair land

An English city celebrated for its prosperity is riven with extreme inequality, poverty and inadequate housing.

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Green Street
Green Street

Green Street, Cambridge. Flickr/Brian Negin. Some rights reserved.

Imagine a prosperous city in a developed country with the fifth largest economy in the world where:

House prices and rents are beyond the means of the great majority of the population and are among the fastest-rising in the country. No remedy to this crisis of genuinely affordable housing is in sight.