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London House Prices Surge in Places Where More People Go Hungry

The wealth gap between is widening in both richer and poorer neighborhoods. 

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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A 15 minute walk from the million-pound apartments in London’s leafy Primrose Hill neighborhood, the local community association is handing out food parcels to about 500 residents a month.

The pandemic has pulled the fortunes of British consumers in two different directions, with those who are growing wealthy on properties increasingly living near people who can barely get enough to eat.