"The first things you see every morning are drunks, beggars or people on drugs," says Nathalie Roth, youth services manager at St Pancras and Humanist Housing Association, whose office is near the table-dancing clubs and sex shops that line the streets of this squalid part of north London.
So too are many of St Pancras' 5,000 homes. Yet like many housing associations, it has not always taken the concerns of its young tenants too seriously.
The situation began to change two years ago. Following a series of complaints about young people's antisocial behaviour on St Pancras estates, Roth's predecessor, Khamal Hanif, set about tackling issues such as racism and drugs.
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