Living in those conditions? This isn't the 60s-70s you know.As you say some manage to stay on the straight and narrow and make their way out, some end up surviving in those conditions others get caught up in the dark side of living in those conditions.
We are talking about folk who live in perfectly reasonable accomodation, with electricity, gas, hot running water and for the poorer folk furnished with cookers, white goods and furniture from social security grants. We are not talking great hardship of any kind here.
If we are talking about areas with a high black population, Brixton and especially Peckham have been totally regenerated with much demolition and brand new houses built.
In this day and age it is a myth that any race group are forced into ghetto's. Race's choose to gather in this way. Nobody forced all the Jew's to live in Golder's Green, they choose to. Nobody forced the Chinese into Chinatown, they chose to. No one forces black folk to stay in Peckham/New Cross, they choose to stay there. And strangely enough, as their presence becomes more dense in such area's white Londoner's choose to move out to places like Essex and Kent.
Race's are like that, they like to be together, amongst their own. Once they choose their community it is up to them to build there community. In this day and age If they live in a shitehole it is largely of their own making.
When we had the invasion of the Eastern Europeans in the 80s and 90s, these people arrived and stepped straight into council accommodation and were given grants to then furnish it, they then bred like rabbits to ensure they would always be able to stay in this country, whilst British folk remained on long counsel waiting lists with little hope.
So living conditions is not an issue in my opinion.