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Affordable Housing

Two women hold a sign between them against a brick wall

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

Area in Focus

Image of Maria Perrett and Alex Bugden of Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust, which developed the concept of a local lettings policy with residents (credit: Alex Turner)

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

Alex Turner

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Student rent strike continues despite university affordable housing pledge

Dan Hobson

Ideas and Action

Baling out the housing crisis

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

Hannah Vickers

Voices

Bristol’s changing hostels in the age of Brexit

Rafel Fernandez Lopez

City

An ethics lesson for emergency housing

Alex Turner

City

Troubled waters

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

Carrie Hitchcock

City

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...

Alon Aviram and Alex Turner

Reports

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...