housing and homelessness
Lessons from Lille, as Bristol explores rent controls to tackle its housing affordability crisis
As Bristol prepares to ask the government for extra powers to bring in rent controls, the Cable investigates what can be learned from across the channel in France, and in Scotland where reform is already in motion.
Bristol council was warned of polystyrene cladding dangers long before tower block blaze, so why didn’t it act sooner?
The Cable quizzes Bristol City Council's housing chief on the ‘urgent’ rollout of new high-rise fire safety measures, how much it’s all going to cost, and why the authority didn’t act faster.
An arson attack. A pig’s head dumped outside. Eccleston House residents are traumatised, and their concerns have been met with silence.
The Cable investigates how flammable cladding fuelled a fire at the tower block, the impact it’s had on the community, and why the council’s communication is making matters worse.
‘It leaves you with a sense of dread’: Bristol’s broken rental market one of England’s worst for families on housing benefit
Over a whole month, just one two-bed property in the city was affordable to private renters claiming housing benefits, according to new research by the Bureau for Investigative Journalism.
