‘You walk down the road and you can see a clear divide. There is them and then there’s us. Gentrification is isolating and excluding.’
This is how a mum who has lived and worked in Brixton for 13 years feels.
She is raising her two children in the area but said ‘it’s completely different’ to how it used to be.
The Londoner, who did not want to be named, told Metro.co.uk: ‘Brixton has turned into a commuter space – it used to feel like a community but it no longer feels like it’s designed for families.’
Brixton has long been known for its large Afro-Caribbean population, which developed after much of the Windrush generation settled there from the late 1940s onwards.