ABSTRACT
Post-Olympic Newham had the highest residential over crowding rate in the country at 25 per cent, affecting over a third of households. In the post-Olympic years, hundreds of Newham landlords were still renting beds in sheds to immigrants, and the lifting of immigration restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians. The post-Olympic residential enclosures on the QEOP reinforce existing socio-economic segregation and will be accompanied by symbolic economies that facilitate social stratification, and in doing so render the culture of industrial-era Newham retrospectively fantastic. Politicians of all major parties have expressed their desire for Newham to change, and aided and abetted by the 2012 Olympics the housing market will over a period of time ensure that many of its current population will be priced out of the borough. In this way all of the key metrics upon which local services are judged, for instance policing, health and education.
