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Priced Out: Life on the Edge of Regeneration
About the project
‘Priced Out: Life on the Edge of Regeneration’ explores the impact of housing insecurity on wellbeing in east London, centering the voices of residents navigating social housing, temporary accommodation, and hidden homelessness. Developed by medical researcher José and theatre maker Libby, the project combines academic insight and creative storytelling to highlight the lived experiences of those affected by gentrification and housing instability in boroughs like Hackney, Newham, and Tower Hamlets.
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Meet the collaborators
Libby Liburd is an actor, writer and producer. Her theatre work mixes lived-experience, verbatim and research to challenge stigma and stereotypes with ‘humour and heart’. She’s currently studying an MA in Audio Storytelling for Radio and Podcast (UCL). Her first audio feature, FIGHT FAIR, won the Charles Parker Prize ‘24 and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
José Izcue Gana is a medical doctor who turned to epidemiology and the social sciences to research the impact of socioeconomic inequalities on people’s health, wellbeing, and life chances. With the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL, he used participatory approaches to investigate what prosperity means to local communities in London