“Sometimes you can’t believe you are not in a third-world country”

That’s Christine Lyons, a planning enforcement team leader for London community of Newham, talking about the illegal housing situation and ghettoization of parts of the sprawling city that will play host to Olympics and put a shiny face for the world. Ms. Lyons – memo for you: this is the fourth world — a broken and unraveling social structure that lurks under the first world pretensions and a luxe-layer that is skin deep.

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