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Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum clearance moved out into the new estates of the Home Counties (some of which is now outer Greater London. The study was carried out in the Bethnal Green, in the East End and a new housing estates in Essex ( Ilford was one location that was studied) . The research was carried out by Young and Willmott who had been an integral part of building the welfasre state in Britain during the tenure of Attlee and the post war government between 1945-51