Housing crisis
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Housing Bristol Opinion Moving On: Racism Against Travellers
‘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 General Election 2019 Housing Bristol
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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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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Housing Bristol Opinion Banner Home Page
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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Banner Home Page Moving On: Racism Against Travellers Bristol And Beyond
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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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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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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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.