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Editorial data stories
London, read across the lines.
These are arguments with the working left in. Every story connects current releases while keeping definitions, denominators, uncertainty and disagreement visible.
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Three ways into the city
Long-range economics, today’s housing emergency, and the queues inside London healthcare.
Featured scrollytelling · 12 min
The price of money
Twenty-six years of London house prices against the cost of borrowing.
Begin the story →Housing11 min
Story 10
A home without security
Rent, possession action, temporary accommodation and rough sleeping mark different points in London’s housing emergency.
Evidence trail
Temporary accommodationPeople seen rough sleepingPrivate-landlord possession pressure+1
Read the story →NHS11 min
Story 04
How long London waits for care
Elective, diagnostic, emergency and community waits are separate queues with separate standards.
Evidence trail
Elective wait bandsDiagnostic waitsCommunity long waits+1
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Definitions stay attached
Periods, populations, units and caveats travel with every piece of evidence.
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Every trail stays open
Each claim links back to its graph, source, Markdown record and machine-readable data.
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Housing
Housing9 min
Story 01
The price of money
Twenty-six years of London house prices against the cost of borrowing.
Evidence trail
House pricesMortgage ratesPossession actions
Read the story →Housing9 min
Story 02
The rent-pay trap
The same rent is a very different burden depending on where London pay lands.
Evidence trail
Rent burdenAdvertised rent sampleShort-let pressure
Read the story →Housing9 min
Story 08
The housing pipeline
A target, an approval, a start and a completed home are not interchangeable stages.
Evidence trail
London Plan pipelineAffordable-housing stagesAffordable tenure
Read the story →Housing11 min
Story 10
A home without security
Rent, possession action, temporary accommodation and rough sleeping mark different points in London’s housing emergency.
Evidence trail
Temporary accommodationPeople seen rough sleepingPrivate-landlord possession pressure+1
Read the story →Housing11 min
Story 11
The cost of a warm home
Fuel poverty, damp, energy efficiency and consumption expose different parts of the struggle to keep a home warm.
Evidence trail
Fuel povertyEfficient homesModelled damp+1
Read the story →Reading path
People
People9 min
Story 03
A child’s London
School eligibility, family income and overcrowding reveal different dimensions of pressure on children.
Evidence trail
Free-school-meal eligibilityChildren in low-income familiesBedroom overcrowding
Read the story →People9 min
Story 09
The unequal healthy-life gap
How long people live and how long they live in good health diverge sharply across London.
Evidence trail
Life expectancyHealthy life expectancyWomen and men
Read the story →People11 min
Story 18
Unequal in the everyday
Deprivation, school absence, anxiety and healthy life expectancy illuminate different scales of inequality.
Evidence trail
Relative deprivationPersistent absenceMean anxiety+1
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NHS
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Environment
Environment9 min
Story 05
Cooling the city
Tree canopy and green cover do not fall evenly across the neighbourhoods most vulnerable to heat.
Evidence trail
Tree canopyHeat vulnerabilityModelled NO₂
Read the story →Environment11 min
Story 15
The household footprint we can see
Bins, meters and certificates reveal parts of urban consumption—never the whole footprint.
Evidence trail
Household recyclingWaste destinationsElectricity per meter+1
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Money and business
Money and business11 min
Story 06
Where businesses form and disappear
Formation, dissolution and the live register answer three different questions about London business.
Evidence trail
FormationsFormations and dissolutionsLive-company age profile+1
Read the story →Money and business11 min
Story 13
When work does not cover London
Employment, claimant rates, resident earnings and rent burden move on different clocks.
Evidence trail
Labour marketClaimant rateResident earnings+1
Read the story →Money and business11 min
Story 16
What councils choose
Budgets, outturn, reserves and council tax show different moments in local public finance.
Evidence trail
Service spendingBudget and outturnReserves and borrowing+1
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Transport
Transport9 min
Story 07
London’s daily movement
People, vehicles and station entries are three different ways of counting movement.
Evidence trail
Journey-to-work responsesRoad vehicle mixNational Rail stations
Read the story →Transport11 min
Story 14
Who gets London’s streets?
Car ownership, traffic, cycle parking and road injury describe competing claims on the same space.
Evidence trail
Car-free householdsCounted vehiclesCycle parking+1
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Technology
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