The trend toward New York-style loft living is transforming many old warehouses and office buildings in what was once a desolate area, and as NPR's Luke Burbank reports, the city's newest urban pioneers are bumping against the ones who were there first, the homeless.
One 19-year-old woman was listed on court documents as living in a converted farmhouse in a leafy, upmarket area of rural Kent that is part of what Londoners call the stockbroker belt.