"Anonymous British street artist Banksy unveiled his latest work in the London suburb of Bayswater on Monday two days after an identical graffiti appeared on Oxford Street in the heart of the city's bustling shopping district. The black and white mural, which was posted on an Instagram page generally considered to be Banksy's official account, depicts two children in winter jackets, hats and wellington boots lying on their backs, looking and pointing upwards towards a red light atop a crane rising up in the background."
"On that mural, on a small wall at the junction of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, the children appear to be pointing up at London's controversial Centrepoint tower a luxury 34-storey apartment block built in the 1970s which was once occupied by activists protesting against the lack of affordable housing in a city which still has a growing homelessness problem."
Anonymous British street artist Banksy unveiled identical black-and-white murals in Bayswater and central London depicting two children in winter jackets and wellington boots lying on their backs and pointing upward. One mural appears on the side of a dilapidated house above a garage beside an overflowing skip of rubbish and discarded furniture. The other sits on a small wall at the junction of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, with the children pointing at London's Centrepoint tower, a 34-storey luxury block once occupied by housing protesters. Latest statistics show about 210,000 people sleep rough in London, nearly half children, and homelessness is visible on Oxford Street after shops close at night.
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