housing and homelessness

City

The council’s heavies are coming round…

Bailiff use is rising in Bristol, but why?

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

City

Don’t blame hipsters or migrants for the housing crisis..

Exclusive Cable analysis shows the council needs to up the ante in the fight for a liveable city

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Bristol and Beyond

Tax havens and secretive offshore companies: making Bristol unaffordable

Companies registered in tax havens are gobbling residential and commercial property in our city

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Ideas and Action

“You think you can take on the landlords?!” We just did.

Bristol’s community union faces down violent threats from landlord to get the job done.

Nick Ballard

City

Whitehall squatters evicted

Bailiffs kick group out of former disused probation hostel at 4:00am.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

Super (Waste) markets

Whilst donating to charities is seen as a positive solution to food waste, it does very little to tackle the causes of excess production.

Bristol Skipchen

City

Carriageworks development in a mixed bag result

Planning permission produces claims of both community victory and council let down

Ella Wilks-Harper

City

Video: eviction of probation office squat

Squatters were evicted today from the abandoned probation office near Stokes Croft. Around 60 people had been staying at the building.  While efforts were made...

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

City

How Bristol 24/7 missed the mark on gentrification

Social change can’t be wished away by calling it something different, argues Alex Turner

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

City

The tenant who faced eviction 4 years in a row

In yet another Bristol rental sector saga, one tenant has raised the alarm on the use of section 21 notices to hike up rents and...

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

City

Protest reaps the rewards: repairs to housing

Following a demonstration against dangerous housing conditions, a Liv N Let manager attended the home of one of the three tenants and promised that repairs...

Nick Ballard

City

Easton residents protest “damp & dangerous” housing

Over 50 people protested today outside Liv n Let property agency on Mina road in St Werburghs. The demonstration organised by ACORN Bristol community union...

Drew Rose
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