It's estimated that a third of the city's homeless are now from eastern European countries like Romania.
Many of them are lured by the prospects of a better life, but often exploited and left penniless without the documents needed to find work.
Dateline reporter Evan Williams travelled to London and has told Santilla Chingaipe, he found a startling contrast between the city's wealthy and the homeless destitute.
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