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London is getting ready to host the next Summer Olympics. The 2012 Olympic Park and Village are being built right next door to a public housing project, providing a stark contrast between funds spent on residents there and funds spent on visiting athletes. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Nina Robinson visits this housing project in East London to see how residents there view preparations for the upcoming Olympics. |
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Mass transit options for residents of this East London housing project are being greatly improved. But residents are losing beloved – and legendary – soccer fields that will be paved and turned into a parking lot for visiting media. Nina Robinson continues her examination of how the 2012 London Olympics will impact residents of a housing project that neighbors the Olympic Park and Village. Learn more about the people featured in this documentary, and ask them questions. |
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In England, public housing projects are called estates. Nina Robinson spends time with the residents of an estate that neighbors many of the 2012 Olympic sites, an estate that she describes as being in one of the most deprived areas of England. Some of the residents are ambivalent about the upcoming Olympics; some are excited; and some just want to make sure that they see some long term benefits from hosting the Olympics. |
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