Housing crisis
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Scrutinising Institutions Coronavirus In Bristol
Council forced to find alternative for rough sleepers as government scraps scheme
Homeless people in Bristol will be moved out of hotels, where they’d been placed to self-isolate, and into whatever housing the council can lay its...
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Accommodation Housing Bristol Opinion Moving On: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma And Traveller Communities
‘I’m an Irish Traveller. The government is attacking us at every angle’
The Home Office plans to criminalise trespass, a move campaigners say threatens Travellers' way of life.
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Features Housing Bristol General Election 2019
Beyond Brexit: In Bristol’s housing crisis everyone’s a loser apart from the landlords
Everyone’s a loser in Bristol’s housing crisis, except for landlords and people looking to sell their homes. Tenants in the privately rented sector are struggling...
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Accommodation Moving On: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma And Traveller Communities Reports
Bristol’s new van policy. What is it, and how will it affect you?
Injunctions, ‘high’ and ‘low’ impact, and surveillance. We explain what you can expect from the council's new van policy.
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Bristol’s working homeless crisis on the rise
The private landlord monopoly and lack of affordable housing is crippling Bristol’s gig economy workers.
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Discrimination And Inequalities Education Reports Moving On: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma And Traveller Communities Accommodation
Government ‘comprehensively failed’ Gypsies and Travellers, report finds
They have the worst outcomes out of all the ethnicities in the UK.
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Housing Bristol Banner Home Page Opinion
To end homelessness, we need to change how we talk about it
We’re not seeing the big picture, says Joe Smith, who works in the sector and is increasingly frustrated at how the issues are framed.
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Revealed: Complex-needs homeless services lose out
Homeless services are having to relocate from the Compass Centre in Stokes Croft.
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Accommodation Housing Bristol Banner Home Page Bristol And Beyond Moving On: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma And Traveller Communities
Tory MP wants to get rid of sites and move Travellers into houses
Charities say the bill, if passed, would lead to the forced assimilation of Gypsies and Travellers.
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Edition 18 Accommodation Banner Home Page Discrimination And Inequalities Moving On: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma And Traveller Communities
Road to nowhere: Bristol’s hidden housing crisis
Faced with a unique housing crisis and deep-seated prejudice, where are Bristol’s Gypsy and Traveller population supposed to go?
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Housing Crisis Transparency Banner Home Page Investigations
Revealed: The aristocrats behind Totterdown’s unaffordable tower blocks
Bristol’s red hot housing crisis is attracting a globetrotting elite. One owns this castle.
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Eviction stopped and bailiffs seen off as universal credit starts to bite
First action by community union against council bailiffs buys Hartcliffe resident, facing homelessness after benefit switch, a few more days.
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Tents occupying College Green in protest of Rough Sleeping policy given notice to leave
Bristol Housing Action Movement and Homes for All raise concerns about the council’s new rough sleeping draft policy.
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Reports Accommodation Moving On: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma And Traveller Communities City
Council launch van living and rough sleeping policy consultations
BCC announces consultations for its new van and rough sleeping encampments the day after completing Greenbank evictions.
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Investigations Banner Home Page Moving On: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma And Traveller Communities Accommodation
EXCLUSIVE: Council policy on van living outlines greater enforcement powers
Bristol is to become one of the first places in the country to have a stretegy for vehicle dwellers, but some fear it could simply end up displacing people.
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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...
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Protests while police and private security protect sale of council homes.
Continued protests whilst heavy handed policing and private security prevent disruption to public housing auction.
