Why is there social housing in luxury areas?

[CLIVE H]

Here in London both rich and poor live in the same streets. Take a walk through Mayfair and you soon become aware that not everyone is rich and that there are many ordinary folk living there too.

The Duke of Wesminster owns a number of blocks of flats which are rented out exclusively to the London working class. I might even say that unless you are working class, His Grace is very unlikely to ever rent you a flat in one of his blocks.

Where I live here in SE London, where house prices range from £400K to £1.5M we have lots of council houses and estates. Greenwich is a very wealthy borough.

This modern idea of rich folk living behind high walls is entirely new and one which Londoner's do not aprove of.

Anyone who buys a flat or house in Docklands must know by now that the place still has a large community of the working class.