Economic inequality

• Inequality


  extreme differences between poverty + wealth as well as in peoples developing + access to things like housing, jobs + education
• Why do we have social segregation?

  
  

  
  

  • Housing- developers + builders build with an income group in mind (market)
  • Gentrification- neighbour hoods change over time, poor areas are gentrified
  • Ethnic dimensioncultural diversity
• How is urban deprivation measured 


  Index of multiple deprivation is measured in 7 ways:

  Income deprivation

  Employment deprivation

  Crime

  Health deprivation + disability

  Education skills and training Living environment

  Barriers to housing + services
• Solutions to inequality


  increase in affordable housing

  increase in the living wage

  better quality education

  better public transport

  better environmental standards
• Effects of inequality

  • disparity (differences) in water supply
  • lack of services
  • poor- live in crowded areas with poor accommodation
  • health, education, unemployment
  • cycle of poverty- lack of social mobility
• Cultural diversity in London


  HIC

  differences in wages differences in wealth

  lack of affordable housing

  education + health inequality
• Cultural diversity in Mumbai

  LIC

  problems/inequalities are bigger than HICs due to rapid urban growth

  favelas/squatter settlements provide inadequate shelter

  lots of people work in the informal economy, living wage cant be established by government

  migration has increased the existence of a variety of cultural/ ethnic groups lack of sanitation- toilets on street, open sewer

  slack of clean water- limited supply, + long queues

  lack of legal rights- no security, crime

  poor health, low life expectancy

  unemployment + poor quality work