3 hours ago · London
Blue for poor, yellow for posh: the London maps exposing centuries of terrible housing
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to London. The first report grouped here was at 19 Oct 2026, 07:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Blue for poor, yellow for posh: the London maps exposing centuries of terrible housing”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
From rent strikes to squatting, a new show reveals how people have managed to keep a roof over their head in London – and the mould and astronomical rents that persist Charles Booth’s pioneering poverty maps of Victorian London show a vivid colour-coded warren of streets, alleyways and slums tightly…
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- First reported by The Guardian UK
Blue for poor, yellow for posh: the London maps exposing centuries of terrible housing
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- The Guardian