it sounds like the City is London,the people a immigrants finding it hard after the Goverment cut benifits and turned of their electricity and closed the food banks

and the peeps trying to help them are the normal tree hugger's and do'nt bring hanging back brigade

His Wife will appear in chapter 4 and is found collecting for children in Africa co's it pays a liveing wage and has been going on for over 60 years

i wo.nt spiol the ending in case there a follow up book