Editing Milton Keynes (section)

===Social inequality===
In 2015, the City of Milton Keynes had nine "lower super output areas"{{efn|A "lower super output area" is a small geographic area defined by the Office of National Statistics to contain 1,000 to 1,500 residents and thus to permit consistent national comparisons.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/nhs_business_definitions/l/lower_layer_super_output_area_de.asp?shownav=1 | title= Lower Layer Super Output Area | publisher= NHS | access-date= 13 March 2019 | archive-date= 9 August 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200809223605/https://datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/nhs_business_definitions/l/lower_layer_super_output_area_de.asp?shownav=1 | url-status= live }}</ref> }} that are in the 10% most deprived in England, but also had twelve 'lower super output areas' in the 10% least deprived in England.<ref name=mkc-iod>{{cite web |url=https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/your-council-and-elections/statistics/index-of-deprivation |title=Index of Deprivation |publisher=Milton Keynes Council |date=30 September 2017 |access-date=12 March 2019 |archive-date=17 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117032035/https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/your-council-and-elections/statistics/index-of-deprivation |url-status=live }}</ref> This contrast between areas of affluence and areas of deprivation in spite of a thriving local economy, inspired local charity The Community Foundation (in its 2016 "Vital Signs" report) to describe the position as a "[[Tale of Two Cities]]".<ref name=mkcf>{{cite web | url= https://www.mkcommunityfoundation.co.uk/files/4514/7819/4217/LONG_REPORT_Vital_Signs_MK2016.pdf | title= Vital Signs Milton Keynes 2016 | publisher= Milton Keynes Community Foundation | date= 2016 | access-date= 12 March 2019 | archive-date= 21 January 2021 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210121073553/https://www.mkcommunityfoundation.co.uk/files/4514/7819/4217/LONG_REPORT_Vital_Signs_MK2016.pdf | url-status= live }}</ref>

In 2018, the number of homeless young people sleeping rough in tents around CMK attracted national headlines as it became the apex of a national problem of poverty, inadequate mental health care and unaffordable housing.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/milton-keynes-ymca-homelessness-rough-sleeping-poverty-mental-health-housing-a8559956.html | title=From underpass to underclass: How Milton Keynes became the youth homelessness capital of Britain | first=Emily | last=Goddard | date=10 November 2018 | access-date=13 March 2019 | work=The Independent | archive-date=28 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128215412/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/milton-keynes-ymca-homelessness-rough-sleeping-poverty-mental-health-housing-a8559956.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://theconversation.com/four-myths-about-homelessness-voices-from-a-tent-city-96943 | title = Four myths about homelessness: voices from a tent city | work = [[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]] | first1 = Karen | last1 = Snedker | first2 = Jennifer | last2 = McKinney | date = 5 June 2018 | access-date = 13 March 2019 | archive-date = 19 March 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190319055421/http://theconversation.com/four-myths-about-homelessness-voices-from-a-tent-city-96943 | url-status = live }}</ref> On a visit to refurbishment and extension work on the [[YMCA]] building, Housing Minister [[Heather Wheeler]] declared that "Nobody in this day and age should be sleeping on the street".<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/minister-for-housing-says-nobody-in-this-day-and-age-should-be-sleeping-on-the-street/ | title= Minister for Housing says 'Nobody in this day and age should be sleeping on the street' | work= MKFM | date= 7 March 2019 | access-date= 13 March 2019 | archive-date= 25 March 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200325130552/https://www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/minister-for-housing-says-nobody-in-this-day-and-age-should-be-sleeping-on-the-street/ | url-status= live }}</ref>