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Features

Seen Sisters: the Bristol women highlighting invisible disabilities

Facing a gruelling benefits system, stigma and insecure housing, the collective is reimagining spaces for a better future

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Reports

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As Bristol battles to build affordable housing, developers are still gaming the system

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Cable Community News

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Bristol raises £10k for Barton House residents in 48hrs

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Reports

Emergency insulation kits and advice to help Bristol households through the winter months

As people on low incomes struggle with the energy crisis, Bristol Energy Network will support hundreds of households with insulation materials and training. But with thousands struggling, much broader action is needed.

Adam Corner
Adam Corner

Reports

Council call off bailiffs after discovering an eviction blocked by community response was for a debt owed to them

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Solutions in Bristol

‘Tents and shipping containers won’t solve our homelessness crisis. Here’s what will’

Paul Smith
Paul Smith (Elim Housing Association)

Reports

Charities scramble to find homes for 60 homeless people cut loose from Everyone In scheme

Bristol City Council carried on support for Bristol’s homeless during the pandemic, long after the government withdrew funding, but now it’s coming to an end and charities are struggling to plug the gap.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

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Bristol’s affordable housing and climate goals do not sit easily together

Green mayoral candidate pledges to build 2,000 council homes and carry out major energy-efficiency work on the remainder by 2030, despite a review warning this could wipe out reserves.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

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Housing in Bristol under Marvin Rees

Last autumn, a key election pledge by the mayor on affordable homes bit the dust, making headlines. But what else do the numbers say about Rees’s record, and the council’s ongoing housing crisis headaches?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

City

Bedminster’s East Street is changing, but who will benefit?

A cluster of high rises is being built on Bristol’s second-biggest high street. Opinion is split on whether the development will bring new life to the stricken area, or be the final nail in its coffin.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

City

Developer withdraws planning proposals for ‘grim’ and ‘Stalinist’ St Pauls flats

Controversial plans for a four-storey block of flats in St Pauls have been withdrawn. The boss of developers Clayewater Homes says they spent “a lot...

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Solutions in Bristol

The idea of sharing a home across generational divides is having a come back

Housing is expensive for Bristol's young people, so what about bridging the generational divide and saving some cash?

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon
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