Housing crisis

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

Local Elections 2021

Housing hustings underlines scale of crisis facing next Bristol mayor, leaving more questions than answers

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Local Elections 2021

Wielding the strength of the union: ACORN Bristol’s demands

Arvind Howarth
Arvind Howarth

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...

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Opinion

'Covid-19 is creating a housing crisis in Bristol' - A lettings agent on how to avert it

Boris Drappier

housing Bristol

'I’m an Irish Traveller. The government is attacking us at every angle'

Ellen Tryer

Features

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...

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

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.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

City

Bristol’s working homeless crisis on the rise

The private landlord monopoly and lack of affordable housing is crippling Bristol’s gig economy workers.

Tom McElveen

Moving on: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities

Government ‘comprehensively failed’ Gypsies and Travellers, report finds

They have the worst outcomes out of all the ethnicities in the UK.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

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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.

Joe Smith

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Revealed: Complex-needs homeless services lose out

Homeless services are having to relocate from the Compass Centre in Stokes Croft.

Jay Crane

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.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

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?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

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Revealed: The aristocrats behind Totterdown’s unaffordable tower blocks

Bristol’s red hot housing crisis is attracting a globetrotting elite. One owns this castle.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Reports

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.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

City

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.

Isabel Burnett

City

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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.

Isabel Burnett

Investigations

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. 

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

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...

Koel Mukherjee

City

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.

Hadie Abido