Affordable Housing

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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

Local housing for local people in Lockleaze: can it work?

Student rent strike continues despite university affordable housing pledge

Ideas and Action

Baling out the housing crisis

Could straw and timber houses on street corners be the future of urban development?

Voices

Bristol’s changing hostels in the age of Brexit

City

An ethics lesson for emergency housing

Troubled waters

Housing law doesn't protect boat dwellers - as residents at Bristol's Floating Harbour have found out.

Bristol firm profiting from housing homeless – by kicking other tenants out

Bristol emergency housing provider evicting settled tenants and converting homes into high-rent emergency accommodation More on this story: Meet the evicted tenants & Landlords doorstepped by...

Students and University in battle over high rents

Bristol University is being accused of shutting out applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds, after an announcement that rents in halls will be raised from the next...

Judge finds against Avonmouth housing rights occupation

Council granted right to evict housing activist protesters from council home auctioned last month.

Supported housing’s future hangs in the balance

Unless the government protects them from its housing benefit cuts, homes for vulnerable people could start shutting down in Bristol next year.

Dead space

We hear a lot about empty homes, but where exactly are Bristol’s disused properties? Alex Turner takes a look, and finds as many questions as...