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Rethinking Prosperity for London: When Citizens Lead Transformation (2019)

	 Rethinking Prosperity for London: When Citizens Lead Transformation (2019)

10 February 2022

This report describes a process of re-thinking prosperity with, and for, citizens in east London. It articulates what prosperity means to people in east London: the opportunity to live ‘a good life’ that has a secure livelihood, secure and affordable housing, and inclusion in the social and economic life of

the city as its foundation. Prosperity encompasses healthy and safe neighbourhoods, opportunities for work, learning and participation in civic life, and confidence for the future. This multi-dimensional vision challenges the conventional notion of prosperity as material wealth. The report describes how this model has been translated into the UK’s first citizen-led Prosperity Index: a new framework that measures at the local level what communities say matters to their prosperity.

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