Even before COVID 19 hit, financially vulnerable residents in London on low incomes faced lower living standards due to welfare reforms and the increasing cost of living.
New data collected and modelled for Policy in Practice’s Living Standards Index for London shows that whilst emergency increases in benefits in April 2020 have created welcome additional support for low income Londoners, many were already over exposed to the financial effects of the pandemic.
In this report Policy in Practice reveals the latest findings from our data-led investigation into the causes and consequences of poverty in London.
The project, supported by Trust for London, started in 2016 and, to date, 20 London boroughs have pooled their data.
This has enabled analysis of around 20 million data records, covering over 750,000 low income households in the capital in the four years to date.
