This week in Bristol: Channel 4 u-turn a ‘victory’ for Bristol

The government's u-turn on Channel 4 privatisation indicates more jobs to come to its Bristol hub, and good news for the city's creative sector as a whole.

Bristol councillors set to back rent controls and local database of rogue landlords

Councillors will vote next week on a motion setting out a range of interventions in the increasingly unaffordable private rented sector, including a database to name and shame the worst landlords, as highlighted by the Cable in 2022.

Thousands of Bristolians petition the council to stop building on city’s green spaces

Thousands of Bristol residents have signed a petition calling on the council to stop granting permission for new buildings on the city’s green spaces. Councillors...

‘I’m Band Four on the housing waiting list – how am I ever going to get out of here?’

Earlier this year, Bristol City Council weighed up converting Imperial Apartments from permanent to temporary accommodation, the Cable can reveal. Many families, backed by their local MP, would love to move on.

Revealed: Serious incidents ongoing at controversial south Bristol flats, despite council review

Minutes obtained by the Cable show ongoing problems at Imperial Apartments in Hengrove, with concerns being raised over tenants' mental ill-health, energy costs, the 'unwelcoming' environment and the behaviour of security staff.

This week in Bristol: Parks budget cuts exceed existing budget

The latest council cost cutting plans include a £1.5 million cut to the council's £1.3 million parks budget.

The deacon who evicted her tenants before Christmas to make way for a community house

Love Bristol, a charity that will be taking over the property to run a ‘community house’, says it had ‘sympathy’ for the tenants, but insists its ‘charitable mandate is to focus on vulnerable people’.

‘The way the NHS is managed is breaking workers’. Bristol nurses take historic strike action

Meet two critical care nurses from the picket line at the BRI in historic NHS strike action.

Bristol councillors back bringing buses into public control amid cuts to services

Political pressures is growing on Dan Norris, the West of England metro mayor, to explore how a bus franchising model could solve the wider Bristol region’s bus crisis.

Interactive: Where can you afford to rent in Bristol?

Over the last 12 months we've been keeping track of properties on Bristol's rental market. Can you find somewhere to live within your means?

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.

Listen: How hundreds of squatters responded to the housing shortage after the war

Author Eugene Byrne discusses the mass squatting movement in Bristol in the summer of 1946, which saw saw ex-military bases occupied by hundreds of people who found a direct solution to the housing crisis.