A report by a Swiss housing rights group called the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions has warned that the immediate results of sports-related building booms are a pricing out of local people. Although the report isn't purely about the 2012 games (it covers major football tournaments and, bizarrely perhaps, Miss World Pageants, too), the London games are singled out:

Already (in London), over five years before the Olympic Games are due to be staged, over 1,000 people face the threat of displacement from their homes, and housing prices are escalating.

[via the Guardian]

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