I was 17 and homeless in England. Not rural. In Essex. It was over 3 months to get a council supported access to a homeless shelter. Luckily a generous stranger allowed me to stay in their guest room after I made a public post on Facebook. We still speak to this day. Luckily, 8 years later I have a degree, corporate job in London and can afford rent and luxuries. It's a very tough situation and without the support I got from kind souls - I doubt I would have made it out so quickly or at all.
Same I was 17 too but I was in Bromley and thankfully I was only out for 6 weeks ( it was summer so I just slept in the woods) before I found people to sofa serf with. Shits crazy, things could have gone so differently for me
Because so many people overpaid for homes even while loan rates were low, I believe there will be a housing catastrophe because these people are in debt. If housing costs continue to drop and, for whatever reason, they can no longer afford the property and it goes into foreclosure, they have no equity since, even if they try to sell, they will not make any money. I believe that many individuals will experience this, especially given the impending mass layoffs and rapidly rising living expenses.
I ran away whilst still at school because of sexual and emotional abuse at home. There was no real help, so I barricaded myself into an empty room I found at the local hospital, but sometimes I slept under stairwells in blocks of flats. A lot of bad things happened, then much later in my life I realised that I'd dissociated and had been living in a state of trauma.
There is something really wrong with society if we are having to build 'pods' for individuals as temporary housing solutions...perhaps charity begins at home first?
@Jimmy Kim, the transfer of wealth from this country in the last three years alone is breath taking and therein lies the main problem. Along with a Tory government enabling the elite establishment to carry on doing this, is nothing short of criminal.
@Michael Kopischke but we’re no longer living in Victorian times. We are supposedly a rich country but we provide housing for people with no legal right to be in the country instead of looking after our own
Scarily most people are. Especially women. Some people may have personal items they may be able to sell before becoming homeless (like motorcycles, bikes, car, technology, investments, crypto, etc). If born and raised here the person will more likely have relatives and friends they made along the way. If they are a migrant or have recently moved, they are less likely to have relatives and friends around to assist in times of crisis.
@@paulsayers580 pretty sure people would rather homes than hotels, this is clearly a consequence of wealth divide, nothing to do with a few thousand brown people
I'm from US, I was homeless for years here. I finally got housing, after years of homelessness. God bless all these people. If I were rich I would give all of them homes!
I earn less then £300 a week at My Job, rents gone up from £85 to £110 in 3 years wages haven't gone up. Council tax around £30 a week with discount, then I got water and heating bill got to buy essentials and food. If I didn't always buy end of life food reduced at supermarket I would not have much money.
@@billybob-jp7eh FFS people with attitudes like yours are a major part of the problem!! Voting for right wing cruel Governments that exacerbate the problem by cutting funding.
I was born in the USSR, I got a different mentality (it was a mentality of creation) because that government was thinking about their citizens, it assured them with houses, jobs, education and medicine, just to make them humans. Very interesting how in nova days people are jugging, do not appreciate it and how they are destroying those lifes who appreciate it. They do not respect that culture, breaking even the rules, which creates that homophobia and mizontrophy.
Here in the Netherlands, landlords can only sell when renters leave or, when they don't, to another landlord. Kicking out a family of 5 out on the steet is just incomprehensible to me... And I'm writing that as a landlord.
The queen always could. She had land worth 11 trillion. But she still took millions in tax payers money. She could of ended poverty and homelessness forever.
Whole system is rotten to the core. Obscene profit levels from land owners/ land bankers need to be heavily taxed. Greed of developers needs to be tackled - plastic and plasterboard wendy houses overlooked on '8 sides' are par for the course. Rental sector needs regulation.
Regulate landlords any further and the rental crisis will become even more acute. It is the landlord, many who are simply investing their life savings for a better return, who take on the risk when buying and letting a rental property. The Margaret Thatcher era of selling off social housing at a discount seeded the housing crisis we face today. Today's government policy of bowing to pathetic European laws which allow this country to be swamped with illegal economic migrants does not help the current situation. Maybe the government should give financial incentives to those who open their doors to our homeless. After all, if it is good enough for the Ukrainians then why not our own.
@@stevenhull5025Landlords like to let in areas full of migrants. They can dole off the people as opposed to the government and some people consider that a responsibility. Splitting up rooms into separate renting spaces. Nevermind whole halves into flats for extra income. Only serves to make house prices go up.
It's soul destroying being homeless I was for nine months and I'm living in a hostel now I'm still traumatised by the experience of it I still drink loads to block out the memorys of it there need to be a massive reform on the homeless crisis everywhere
I had to rough it in my cars for several months a few years back through winter and even with a thick sleeping bag it was still almost unbearable. Glad the young man got somewhere because i don't think he would be here now. It's lovely to see there is still some caring folk out there. ✌️
Even if u find somewhere to live with money for rent, landlords ask for work records, credit checks and bank statements.. If your homeless u don't have them.
@SunnySparkles, well if Thatcher hadn't taken away rent controls to appease the landlords and not sold off social housing we would not be in this predicament.
Don't worry about these people when Liebour get into power. They are more interested,as always, in immigrants who will vote for them in the long term than any poor person on our streets already. Absolute hypocrites.
@The Highlander His house is worth £2,000,000 which was bought in 2015 for £1,500,000. The swimming pool is said to have cost him a further £400,000. (must be a very nice swimming pool for that sort of cash)
This is happening here in America too. Even where I live in Oklahoma, housing prices are on the rise. The rich are buying houses here, fixing them and putting them up for rent. Crazy how this is becoming a huge problem everywhere.
I live in denver where the average cost of a house is 700,000. A shack is basically 400,000. I make 70,000 which is a lot anywhere else but on my own i cant really buy. It would take a massive downpayment and be like 50% of my income at least. Im getting a camper so i can save to buy somewhere cheaper in a couple years.
capitalism working as intended. the media are currently blaming woke. because purple haired women are the ones scalping houses apparently and not the rich.
That's the problem for me when I'm trying to buy a place. When I go onto online auctions, 9 of 10 are bought by a landlord. They already got a home and just want the extra cash to pay off their mortgage or get some extra cash coming in. I just want one place, but a landlord can own multiple places. I wish there was a law for how many landlords can own a residential property. Would free up market for people who want own a home and get on the property ladder.
Yes it's been that way for decades and the reason why is that helping immigrants looks great on paper and a show the the world how wonderful the British government is. UK home grown homeless are just pushed out of the way because it's not good PR, and no incentive to help them.
But these people ARE put into hotels or temporary accommodation, so your argument is moot. Plus, they can access benefits which asylum seekers are not entitled to.
@@TruthTortoise81 DONT TALK CRAP ENGLAND HAS NEVER EVER EVER LOOKED AFTER THERE OWN PEOPLE, WE HAVE ALLWAYS PUT FOREIGNERS FIRST NEVER ARE OWN BRITISH PEOPLE ITS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING FACT
I honestly felt like crying when I saw that young man live in tent in the freezing woods because of no fault of his own. I wonder if politicians know why the people become radicalized...
I can't even begin to imagine how lonely and hopeless it must feel to be 24 years old and sleeping in a tent in winter. His hands were just shivering. I hope some Tory voters in their comfortable houses see this video and wake up to themselves.
I will never vote conservative or Labour ever again they have destroyed this country and the British people and they continue to do so REFORM UK for me Enough IS Enough
All the while illegal immigrants being provided with nice warm homes made just a few months prior. Or 5 star hotels where their three day meals are prepared for them free of charge 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Lol, the problem is with private landowners refusing to sell their land at values that allows affordable homes; and a tory government that encourages speculation turning housing into investments.
@@wlsn77 speculation doesn't stop even with a labor govt. This party system including the emotion invested by each 'side' into 'their' party, which is played up and cultivated by the media, is how they divide the people to negate any effective and meaningful change. When in reality politicians, of any party, are owned by just one and the same small group of people. Just look at how alone Bridgen is in his position against the vaxx.. bec the parties: labor, tory, green etc are all owned by Them and not really by their voters
Living in a flat at the moment, heard through the grapevine of other tenants that the property owner is switching over to fully student only accommodation, no email, letter or call to notify me from the company at all and I have 2 months left on the contract, Where I live it is very very competitive to find housing, I’m actually shitting myself with fear that I won’t find a new place in time, I dont have a backup plan if I can’t find new housing. I manage the logistics for a 55million turnover freight company and in a couple months I could be shivering in a tent like that poor guy. Wish me luck
Thousands have turned up at Dover and been given shelter straight away. The homelessness will become more widespread as migrants fill the available housing!
Spoken like a true government shill. Still, what has the government done about homelessness? What have they done in 13 years to control immigration? Wasn't Brexit supposed to take 'back control'? Maybe if the government wasn't cutting benefits this wouldn't be happening. Or is that the immigrants' fault too?
Dover illegal immigrants will take any housing they can get as they cannot choose. British people on benefit waiting for housing wants its local in their own borough/region. If they really wanted housing as a priority there are other council borough with space.
Completely empathise with that woman from Newquay. I grew up in a seaside community in the westcountry myself and second homes, holiday homes are a huge problem for us here. Young people and families cannot get on the housing ladder and equally, landlords set rents that the market dictates. It’s unsustainable.
@@jonatand2045 That’s a problem too, yes. And there’s definitely a balance that needs to be struck. But there’s no way I’d be able to afford to buy a home in the town I grew up in because it’s an attractive location for people who want holiday homes or, for people who are buying as an investment. Especially considering that when developments are built, they’re not social housing, and if they are, it’s about 10% of the development as a whole and the rest of the houses are too expensive for people to buy.
We have a similar problem here on the central coast of California. The 1% pay vast sums for housing, and most of us end up being priced out of the market. Yes, the beaches are beautiful, but the rampant social injustice is infuriating.
This will spread real soon REAL fast. I spend 9 months homeless in my own country while paying taxes. I was living in a van. But i was more shocked about how fast it went off the rails out of nothing. This can happen to ANYONE. And its going to happen much more.
Why is it becoming common in rich countries ,coz the US is becoming worse off , Canda not spared ,i was shocked to see some cases in germany and australia, could their be some thing wrong the govts are not doing right ?
I’m about to become one of these statistics , my mortgage has risen way beyond my wages so we have to get out and have no where to go , no money , don’t see how my husband can continue in his job without a home . We are scared to death , I am disabled too which is another worry as my health isn’t good . We have worked all our lives and payed tax’s but now we’re in our early 60’s and life is a nightmare .
Please ask your friends for help. It is important that your husband does not lose his job. So maybe rent a room in a shared house, and save for a better apartment.
@@edmundprice5276 so where as all our council tax payments gone too then and our British income tax payers money gone to ALSO? AS such for instance the local council has had an increase of 2.3% so out of that no social housing for us but a tent if your in unfortunate circumstances . Wtf ?
Exact same thing happening here in NZ. Our motels have largely been turned into expensive social housing(expensive for the govt/taxpayer). Its insane how big this problem has become and so quickly.
Not really, what happens when people who are councils but don't know how to manage money or misuing it, which will come out. Landlords or family being disgusting/domestic abuse, this will create this all over the streets and world unless it changes.
Biggest problem in Cornwall atm is the English moving down here from cities such as London or Manchester paying obscene prices for houses which the locals cannot compete with. Being forced to leave the place we were born
How typical to just sit there and rabbit on about the Tories. Hardcore liberalism within Britain has the most to answer for actually. And there IS help available to those that need it, as seen by the ample amount of support handed to people who arrive by dingy. It's just sly news trying to brainwash some more lefties
I've been homeless since the 13th of February sleeping on a mountain in South Wales it's snowed it's rained so many times my camp is literally like a muddy bog I cut my fire wood for my fire it is hard doing this life but I get on with it till I can get a place one day
Unfortunately this is also happening in Australia too. Families and individuals left homeless, sleeping in tents, in cars, on benches at the park, motels turned into temp homes, it's really heartbreaking. Prior to record house prices here, we never saw people sleeping rough or being homeless, back then homes were affordable and welfare payments weren't severely below the poverty line. Now homes for rent and for sale are so expensive, there's not enough supply, and welfare payments (post covid) are below the poverty line. And anyone down on their luck can experience homelessness. I was sick in 2019-2020, and if it wasn't for my brother, I'd be homeless too. Because he was there to catch me, I was able to get better, find a new job, and now able to afford an apartment.
Its so crao because they cant put down roots have a family stability grow a patch of veggies make neighbourhood friends ...its a huge loss for all of us in siciety. What do the bloody vultures who buy up homes do for anyone. Nothing
There is a crisis im 37 i moved out of home at 21, I pay over £1000 a month to stay in my rented flat, just with bills council tax etc etc. I earn around £25,000 a year After food clothing and everything else we need to live and be clean, I'm left with about £80 a month to save. The average house price is over £200,000 how am i ever meant to ever afford a house? For example when my dad was my age he earned £19,000 a year and his first house price was £17,000.
It’s called division. It’s also a massive distraction. Banks are collapsing all over the place. Inflation in the UK is at 10.4% interest rates have been raised 11 times in a few months.
@@Ryzanu it's not even close to being the main reason. the primary problem is inflation. the government could deport every single immigrant and there would still be a huge homeless problem.
the problem happened back in the 80's selling of the council housing stock and not replacing the stock has resulted in a shortage it was a great idea council tenants could own their property but for everyone sold it needs to be replaced simple.
Many haven’t sold. They went on to be landlords making more profit than actual real estate investor, as these benefit council social housing people got fat discounts by Margaret thatcher.
I see this in the village I live in. All the best council houses were purchased. All that was is left is pretty much crappy blocks of flats built in the 50's!
I work for a social housing provider so i have some knowledge on the subject. Problem is that we keep selling off council housing stock without replacing it and anyone who is british born is at the back of tbe queue, whereas anyone who enters the country illegally gets prioritized for housing. Disgrsceful that we dont look after our own first
I was made homeless almost a year ago. I worked and lived in a hostel and in one day I lost my home and job when I fell out with the owner. Luckily we had a great summer and I just stayed in Regent’s Park in London (basically pretended I was camping) I’m a skilled worker but so hard to keep up with work when I have to keep moving around. Park, sofas, spare rooms, whatever I can get and basically impossible to save for a deposit
@@ritaamor283 Basically not enough housing is allowed. There are still plenty of single family homes where property owners should aren't allowed to build skyscrapers in the middle of London megacity. This is the work of nimbys.
@@sweethomechicago There are but I’m so far down the priority list that it’s basically impossible. HOWEVER I just got housed today!!!!! Have my keys and tenancy agreement!
Second homes should not be allowed in rural areas. It killed village life and businesses. There should be no second homes until everyone has one single home.
We never look after our own, we were told it was the big bad EU but it’s our own Government and councils that prioritise the wealthy second homeowners and private landlords and its locals that suffer. Nothing to do with immigration, the whole system needs prioritising and investment.
@Atlas & Gabriel The less layers government have to hide behind and blame, the more obvious it is how badly this country and it's people are cared for.
this is not only an issue in rural england but australia where I live, there isn't enough housing, private rentals are stretched to the limit and social housing waits are really long.
@@hyramhackenbacker3953 Yep, but due to Gov decisions to buy and import instead of gathering and manufacturing domestically, most half built houses are abandoned by builders due to lack of materials.
The council says they'll support rough sleepers. They refer them to a council funded "charity" who will pick them up and offer them a place to sleep. They then lock the homeless person into a two year contract where they'll be kicked out if they become employed. These charities get paid £1000 a month per homeless resident.
@@sctsmith yep. Used to live next door to a property that had 5 homeless people living there, where they'd take in £5k for this property alone. They had multiple properties in the town. They hire a few minimum wage staff members who would only be able to offer minimal support due to how stretched out they are. There are some absolutely amazing staff members but there were several undesirable ones too (including previous occasions of drug dealing offenses). I heard this following story through other residents. Someone with known health issues had died in their room. He hadn't been seen in 11 days. A staff member had fraudulently written that he met with him and that he was okay a few days prior. That person still works there. I would really like to know where the money is going.
It's become an industry all by itself. Our government does not want to end these problems because of the jobs it creates and the money they earn. - It's legal fraud. My local night shelter charge over £700 per person for a week!!!!! - they can only be in there from 6pm to 8.30am.
@@Nic01a I knew a bloke tht was homeless several Yr ago for a while. He got a room in a salvation army place,, he says they charge the dole like 200 a week rent
As a person which lived in UK for few years I have to say that this problem propably started a long time ago. I found really good job in one village around my town of residence and been unable to find ANY kind of affordable accomodation, at least affordable for someone with around 1600 pounds per month wages.
I live in Blackpool they have thousands of immigrants filling the hotels while or homeless people or on the streets and in rural areas, absolutely discussing!!
Give over, it wasn't that long ago we finally recovered passed pre ww2 population. There's plenty of homes for everyone, it's just so many are owned as second, third or fourth homes being used as investments with the off chance that maybe they can be rented for an absurd amount. Houses in the UK, unlike other countries, last for hundreds of years. But in 1969, a factory worker on a low £15 a week wage, fresh out of school at 15 could expect to spend less than %10 of his wage on rent for a 3 bedroom house.
1) Uncontrolled immigration 2) Central protections for the housing market 3) Banks offering buy-to-let 4) A requirement for work to have: a bank account, and an address
I wonder why nobody talks about how selfish and mean people have become. People in society would rather have someone sleep out like a beast rather than giving a stranger a place to sleep even if it's in a basement or attic. We should all begin thinking about the less fortunate and they are many in this economy.
Many people are not willing to risk their own tenuous experience *or the safety of their family members* out of a spirit of charity. Sorry. With the human trafficking and other problems currently extant? Not worth it at all.
People haven’t become more selfish or meaner, their lives have become harder so they’re are less able to help and even if individuals could or did help it wouldn’t fix the root of the issue. It’s not individual’s responsibility to help the homeless it’s the governments.
I am not from UK, so I am confused on how the council provides hotel rooms for temporary housing for the homeless. It seems expensive and makes it harder for the people to apply for a new job: living in a hotel just makes it obvious that they are homeless, some employers may not like it. Is it impossible for the council to build connections with normal landlords rather than hotel owners?
Normal landlords also charge ridiculous amounts for temporary accommodation because these are charged at a nightly rate as opposed to a set weekly/monthly amount. It’s been happening for decades. In 2008 I was in a one bedroom upstairs flat the landlord was charging almost £400 a week on nightly rates. More than double the actual rent for a similar property on the street. Same goes for hotel accommodation.
I spent two years homeless, living in the woods in Somerset when I was in my early twenties. It wasn't the easiest of times, but now I'm in my forties and settled a big part of me misses the freedom and biophilia that I felt living like that
Well a landlord has to have an income. Not all landlord are tyrannical overlords ya know. Someone who's worked hard and has a 1 or 2 investment properties and treats their tennants well isn't a bad thing.
@@ama7efc784 landlord's greed is the product of a failed system the government created by not building enough houses and letting in too many people causing the demand to skyrocket and giving power to the landlords to exploit.
People often need psychological help, and solving financial problems is only half the job. Their reasons for being homeless don't go away just because someone gives them a new home.
I remember a guest on Joe Rogan said something about it. First u need to solve their housing situationen but then its the drug addiction then its healthcare then its therapy then they need to get education and a job etc. It's a complex issue indeed.
@Alastair Wallace '' Not their fault'' Blaming others for your own mistakes is a very common affliction of people on unemployment benefits and later homeless. A healthy approach is noticing the problem and looking for the causes in yourself. People with chronic problems blame others. A young healthy man in a tent did not land there within 24 hours after losing his job. For some reason, he couldn't deal with the situation, and the state should help him find those reasons. He needs help with planning and temporary shelter. Smart help is not about giving free homes and money to healthy young people. The life of a young, healthy person cannot be an endless charity event.
Been in temporary accomodation for 10 years. I didn't realise until recently that technically that makes my family homeless. I mean, I am glad to have a roof over my head. And I fear one day I won't, because I'm disabled and can't work, and my parents (who I live with) are my only family. My heart aches for people who are fully homeless and on the street, while people who arrived yesterday can get set up in a hotel and the nine yards. Our councils and politicians just take take take from us, and give nothing back. I pray the situation changes.
Was rough sleeping in January. So cold at night my bones felt like they were burning. The town council where I lived put me up in a hotel for one night only because it was snowing. In the neighbouring hotel rooms, there were Afghanistans who'd been housed there for mohths. I don't blame the migrants but my council should provided for me first, I paid council tax for decades.
We cleared 1 million visa least year ! Why is nobody taking about this. The boat people are a drop in the ocean. We can't even house our young people where is the infrastructure!?
I'd imagine it's something along the lines of 90% of the budget to tackle homelessness goes towards the wages of the people who's job it is to tackle hopelessness.
4 o'clock in the morning has a coldness all of its own....whatever time of year....in the UK.... been there/done it for a short while.... sooner go to prison or be sectioned....
It's also true that there are loads of wealthy people living abroad who buy properties in the UK they don't live in or rent out, just purely for investment purposes. Some own whole buildings of apartments or flats they turn into office blocks etc. Sometimes maybe not all the flats are rented out as either domestic living or offices This is something the government needs to address, because it loses money here anyway. UK born People on the street could be renting these places, because with a address they would get a job more easily, bank account etc and .able to pay tax, buy food, clothes etc to contribute towards the economy. Whereas a rich person owning a property working overseas is not contributing any monies here, or only a small portion in the UK from his business abroad etc. UK government at most gets only property tax. It's just crazy.
@@prasanta5139 Four bedroom houses are always unaffordable to the vast majority of people who need shelter and are not practical for single people or couples jaut starting out in life. And sadly that is all that is being built on every piece of spare land in villages around me. Hence, no affordable houses are been built. Regardless of the local value.
I made myself homeless and lived on the downs for 18 months and absolutely loved it, I had no pressure up there and the day was mine , the concern of family brought me back to reality
why do this people expect the rest of us to give them a home?? i pay a ton of taxes and my neighbours are ALL benefits. I get the stress from work and all the trouble while they stay rent free. Give me a tax break please...bet no one will agree to my comment.
A vision of the future. Millions of people on minimum wage will be living out of their cars and in tent cities in 5 years time if we don't get rid of the tories.
I’m minimal salary worker myself. My bills and rent is pretty much all what I earn. When my wife lost a job first time in my life we was applying for UC. Because I’m working we qualify for 47£ per month. And that’s all help what we could get.
67 and homeless in england, couldn't afford a council bungalow in Northumberland , was ending up in debt to heat the bungalow and feed myselfbut on the state pension I couldn't afford to do both.
I was in supported housing for the homeless and had an abusive support worker, I had enough of how he was treating me and reported it to the manager. But they evicted me instead while telling me a bunch of lies and stopping my support networks for my mental health as some sort of revenge. They’re job was to support me and help me obtain a better future but sadly they were more interested in making £40k a month from us. The staff were worse than the residents living there and they protected each other like a little family.
I was 17 and homeless in England. Not rural. In Essex.
It was over 3 months to get a council supported access to a homeless shelter. Luckily a generous stranger allowed me to stay in their guest room after I made a public post on Facebook.
We still speak to this day. Luckily, 8 years later I have a degree, corporate job in London and can afford rent and luxuries.
It's a very tough situation and without the support I got from kind souls - I doubt I would have made it out so quickly or at all.
Essex are bad, i've been stuck in 1 side room in bed every day in a general hospital for nearly 16 months because essex aren't doing anything
Same I was 17 too but I was in Bromley and thankfully I was only out for 6 weeks ( it was summer so I just slept in the woods) before I found people to sofa serf with. Shits crazy, things could have gone so differently for me
Okay this is rural though so why should anybody give a toss about your non rural homeless experience?
@MrTheevilmage probably to explain that the rest of the uk have similar issues.
@@AydensVids oh so we should just ignore the homeless in the countryside cause it everywhere else?
Because so many people overpaid for homes even while loan rates were low, I believe there will be a housing catastrophe because these people are in debt. If housing costs continue to drop and, for whatever reason, they can no longer afford the property and it goes into foreclosure, they have no equity since, even if they try to sell, they will not make any money. I believe that many individuals will experience this, especially given the impending mass layoffs and rapidly rising living expenses.
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24 years old , poor guy shivering with cold , it actually made my eyes well up with tears .
spent his last fiver on a tent but tins and frosty jack bottles everywhere
Yh poor guy , but he can afford alcohol tho!
@@Bigbro123r5 yeah true, alcohol is about the price of a house
@@HannibalBarcaRTW "he got into a fight" I would suggest he is a major Alcoholic and that is the main reason he is where he is.
Yet u still ignore the homeless 😂
I ran away whilst still at school because of sexual and emotional abuse at home. There was no real help, so I barricaded myself into an empty room I found at the local hospital, but sometimes I slept under stairwells in blocks of flats. A lot of bad things happened, then much later in my life I realised that I'd dissociated and had been living in a state of trauma.
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So sorry to hear this, sadly, as u said, support is hard to get, I hope ur ok now or managing best u can, sending hugs & love...😔🤗💚
There is something really wrong with society if we are having to build 'pods' for individuals as temporary housing solutions...perhaps charity begins at home first?
@Jimmy Kim, the transfer of wealth from this country in the last three years alone is breath taking and therein lies the main problem. Along with a Tory government enabling the elite establishment to carry on doing this, is nothing short of criminal.
people need something to start with and a leg up when they are down in a hole..
No. Starts with job opportunities first. Not that trans diversity
@Michael Kopischke but we’re no longer living in Victorian times. We are supposedly a rich country but we provide housing for people with no legal right to be in the country instead of looking after our own
I'd live in a pod, it's a good idea, beats paying £100 a week for one room in a shared house round here.
Trouble is most of us are only two pay cheques away from being in the same place as this young man
Scarily most people are. Especially women. Some people may have personal items they may be able to sell before becoming homeless (like motorcycles, bikes, car, technology, investments, crypto, etc). If born and raised here the person will more likely have relatives and friends they made along the way. If they are a migrant or have recently moved, they are less likely to have relatives and friends around to assist in times of crisis.
our system is not working anymore
@@Sdween Why are women worse off then men? Genuine question.
@@TruthAndEssence being forced into sex work isn't a solution
@@TruthAndEssence Men can post for sex too and it is the same experience as for women.
Spent 2 years homeless in UK was awful my heart goes out everyone got a story and deserve a chance at happiness
@@paulsayers580 pretty sure people would rather homes than hotels, this is clearly a consequence of wealth divide, nothing to do with a few thousand brown people
migrants 25.000 pounds a year british homeless 0 pounds a year,,
@@stephenisom6089 this.
Nonsense, not a time to be dividing vulnerable people. All deserve help, it's the wealthy hoarding assets and resources, not refugees!
@@jonny9071 exactly racial divides pit those in need against each other as opposed to the real root of the issue !
My heart goes out to everyone experiencing homelessness. I can’t even imagine.
Hats off to each and every person that helped those in need x
And those of us who pay masses of tax to keep those in hotels in conditions some of us do not even have ourselves.
Not everyone who has been helped turn around and help back. In fact many take advantage of people or even hurt the people who helped them.
omg those people that are going out, finding homeless people and getting them a place to live just melted my heart
We need to see more kind deeds
no, what we need is the people with power to change things. and for us to fight for it.
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Specifically allow lot's of new developments so supply covers demand.
They are heroes, what they do cannot be underestimated. Kudos to them!
We need kind deeds from the government
This happens all over the country, some want help and shelter, some don’t.
I'm from US, I was homeless for years here. I finally got housing, after years of homelessness. God bless all these people. If I were rich I would give all of them homes!
They don't care.
I earn less then £300 a week at My Job, rents gone up from £85 to £110 in 3 years wages haven't gone up. Council tax around £30 a week with discount, then I got water and heating bill got to buy essentials and food. If I didn't always buy end of life food reduced at supermarket I would not have much money.
Careful,give people a hand and they will take an arm and then a leg.
@@billybob-jp7eh FFS people with attitudes like yours are a major part of the problem!! Voting for right wing cruel Governments that exacerbate the problem by cutting funding.
I was born in the USSR, I got a different mentality (it was a mentality of creation) because that government was thinking about their citizens, it assured them with houses, jobs, education and medicine, just to make them humans. Very interesting how in nova days people are jugging, do not appreciate it and how they are destroying those lifes who appreciate it. They do not respect that culture, breaking even the rules, which creates that homophobia and mizontrophy.
Here in the Netherlands, landlords can only sell when renters leave or, when they don't, to another landlord. Kicking out a family of 5 out on the steet is just incomprehensible to me... And I'm writing that as a landlord.
The government could end homelessness tomorrow if they really wanted to
The queen always could. She had land worth 11 trillion. But she still took millions in tax payers money. She could of ended poverty and homelessness forever.
Yes, by kicking out the 50,000 illegals from all the hotels
@@niblet112 and for some reason British people loved her…
Very true the "royal" family and politicians/government are evil greedy people that enjoy watching people suffer.
fighting the symptoms doesnt solve the problem
Sadly, Norfolk has quite a few villages where over 50% of homes now are second homes or holiday lets. The rise in homelessness is heartbreaking
Default a big gap between rich and poor...full circle from Victorian times
Migrants get everything
I thought the UK had free public housing? Did it all get taken up by immigrants perhaps?
That n unemployment.
@@ajaxtelamonian5134 unemployed people are not looking for jobs. I tried to give homeless people jobs.
Whole system is rotten to the core. Obscene profit levels from land owners/ land bankers need to be heavily taxed. Greed of developers needs to be tackled - plastic and plasterboard wendy houses overlooked on '8 sides' are par for the course. Rental sector needs regulation.
The whole system is designed to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor, by 1 control of money and assets, 2 control over the population.
Greed and blackened hearts.
Regulate landlords any further and the rental crisis will become even more acute. It is the landlord, many who are simply investing their life savings for a better return, who take on the risk when buying and letting a rental property. The Margaret Thatcher era of selling off social housing at a discount seeded the housing crisis we face today. Today's government policy of bowing to pathetic European laws which allow this country to be swamped with illegal economic migrants does not help the current situation. Maybe the government should give financial incentives to those who open their doors to our homeless. After all, if it is good enough for the Ukrainians then why not our own.
@@stevenhull5025Landlords like to let in areas full of migrants. They can dole off the people as opposed to the government and some people consider that a responsibility. Splitting up rooms into separate renting spaces. Nevermind whole halves into flats for extra income. Only serves to make house prices go up.
Communist drivel
Wealth disparity is disgusting in the UK. The rich are so greedy
going to be a lot worse now Labour party now in power
It's amazing how fast the authority's move when a film crew is present.......
Ikr!
They afraid to be called out
It's soul destroying being homeless I was for nine months and I'm living in a hostel now I'm still traumatised by the experience of it I still drink loads to block out the memorys of it there need to be a massive reform on the homeless crisis everywhere
Vote REFORM....
Put us first.... Not the dingy divers who get 4 *hotels and £50 a week spending money.
This is happening all over the globe. GREED is the issue that needs to be addressed.
No, it's lazy people who cannot contribute anything to the society
GREED will destroy the human race.
Kali Yuga… duh 🤷♂️
@@millymurray9324 lol 😂😂😂😂
GREED is not an issue .. It is one of the most primal characters just like ENVY, FEAR, etc.
I had to rough it in my cars for several months a few years back through winter and even with a thick sleeping bag it was still almost unbearable. Glad the young man got somewhere because i don't think he would be here now. It's lovely to see there is still some caring folk out there. ✌️
Even if u find somewhere to live with money for rent, landlords ask for work records, credit checks and bank statements.. If your homeless u don't have them.
@SunnySparkles, well if Thatcher hadn't taken away rent controls to appease the landlords and not sold off social housing we would not be in this predicament.
Absolutely right
All buy design?!
It's such a cruel and hopeless situation.
Landlords basically breaking human rights with these demands
Don't worry about these people as long as rishi has his 2 million pound swimming pool and boris has his 150k wallpaper homelessness won't be a problem
Don't worry about these people when Liebour get into power. They are more interested,as always, in immigrants who will vote for them in the long term than any poor person on our streets already. Absolute hypocrites.
@The Highlander no he even had to upgrade the power grid to heat it
Public money = Public swimming pool... Sounds pretty nice, anyone for a dip?
and the migrants get 25.000 per year total cost british homeless get 0,,how the hell did we get here the left wing la las,,
@The Highlander His house is worth £2,000,000 which was bought in 2015 for £1,500,000.
The swimming pool is said to have cost him a further £400,000. (must be a very nice swimming pool for that sort of cash)
“What is causing England’s rural homelessness crisis?”
The government and politicians, obviously!
yes knowone is homeless when labour are in lol
@@Security848 labour have been in twice in 44 years, issue is FTPT and the two party system.
2nd homes air BnB bring in a bigger profit than rentals and it's just more expensive to live out in the rural community
Abd landlords that wont allow us to get a lodger
Wrong. It's corporations. Blame the tool makers not the tools.
Homelessness in one of the worlds richest countries is crazy to me
So happy when Connoly got his room for 8 weeks. I deeply hope life has turned around for the better for him by now.
I'm really glad that young man in Norwich got somewhere to stay. He looked so thin. I don't think he could have survived much longer. I wish him well
It is heart breaking how little help English people get. The great has been removed from Britain. 😮
Too true!! It's giveaway Britain
Brit here we were never great to begin with.
Left with the Irish tbh.
Male, White, british, no dependents?-
That is below a dog in the UK.
@@MrTheevilmage yes we were.
Before that buffoon oaf churchill dragged us into ww2
This is happening here in America too. Even where I live in Oklahoma, housing prices are on the rise. The rich are buying houses here, fixing them and putting them up for rent. Crazy how this is becoming a huge problem everywhere.
Landlords need to get taxed an extra 1% per property
I live in denver where the average cost of a house is 700,000. A shack is basically 400,000. I make 70,000 which is a lot anywhere else but on my own i cant really buy. It would take a massive downpayment and be like 50% of my income at least. Im getting a camper so i can save to buy somewhere cheaper in a couple years.
capitalism working as intended. the media are currently blaming woke. because purple haired women are the ones scalping houses apparently and not the rich.
That's the problem for me when I'm trying to buy a place. When I go onto online auctions, 9 of 10 are bought by a landlord. They already got a home and just want the extra cash to pay off their mortgage or get some extra cash coming in.
I just want one place, but a landlord can own multiple places. I wish there was a law for how many landlords can own a residential property. Would free up market for people who want own a home and get on the property ladder.
@@JoeyXSmith same! And most of the time the landlord can pay cash! How can a 1st time home buyer compete with that??
Bless these people for the work they do to improve the life of homeless people.
A final solution is needed: Allowing developers to supply demand.
Its a disgrace when we're housing illegal immigrants in hotels but dont spend the money on our own homeless.
Yes it's been that way for decades and the reason why is that helping immigrants looks great on paper and a show the the world how wonderful the British government is. UK home grown homeless are just pushed out of the way because it's not good PR, and no incentive to help them.
@@HOLLASOUNDS Show the world and encourage more of them to come here seeking a better life at the expense of the British taxpayer.
Rise up England!
But these people ARE put into hotels or temporary accommodation, so your argument is moot. Plus, they can access benefits which asylum seekers are not entitled to.
@@TruthTortoise81 DONT TALK CRAP ENGLAND HAS NEVER EVER EVER LOOKED AFTER THERE OWN PEOPLE, WE HAVE ALLWAYS PUT FOREIGNERS FIRST NEVER ARE OWN BRITISH PEOPLE ITS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING FACT
people like this worker are saints, my heart goes out to every one sleeping rough in the uk and every where else 😔
I honestly felt like crying when I saw that young man live in tent in the freezing woods because of no fault of his own. I wonder if politicians know why the people become radicalized...
I can't even begin to imagine how lonely and hopeless it must feel to be 24 years old and sleeping in a tent in winter. His hands were just shivering. I hope some Tory voters in their comfortable houses see this video and wake up to themselves.
NO they watch it and think - the lazy sh!t should work harder. That is GENUINELY what they thnk.
Too busy in their bank accounts
Those who vote tory truly are the filth of the earth
I will never vote conservative or Labour ever again they have destroyed this country and the British people and they continue to do so REFORM UK for me Enough IS Enough
All the while illegal immigrants being provided with nice warm homes made just a few months prior. Or 5 star hotels where their three day meals are prepared for them free of charge 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. PRIORITISE BRITISH PEOPLE! THIS IS OUR HOME, THIS IS OUR LAND. THIS IS ALL WE HAVE.
It’s British people who are buying up property for their bloody holiday homes or for renting out as an Airbnb- it’s not asylum seekers doing it
people need something to start with and a leg up when they are down in a hole..
We tried that twice. The guy was smeared as a communist and anti-semite.
Lol, the problem is with private landowners refusing to sell their land at values that allows affordable homes; and a tory government that encourages speculation turning housing into investments.
@@wlsn77 speculation doesn't stop even with a labor govt. This party system including the emotion invested by each 'side' into 'their' party, which is played up and cultivated by the media, is how they divide the people to negate any effective and meaningful change. When in reality politicians, of any party, are owned by just one and the same small group of people. Just look at how alone Bridgen is in his position against the vaxx.. bec the parties: labor, tory, green etc are all owned by Them and not really by their voters
The woman and the group who helped Connelly are Angels.
The out reach team fast tracked myself to a home ,, when i asked for aid they helped straight away
Living in a flat at the moment, heard through the grapevine of other tenants that the property owner is switching over to fully student only accommodation, no email, letter or call to notify me from the company at all and I have 2 months left on the contract,
Where I live it is very very competitive to find housing, I’m actually shitting myself with fear that I won’t find a new place in time, I dont have a backup plan if I can’t find new housing. I manage the logistics for a 55million turnover freight company and in a couple months I could be shivering in a tent like that poor guy. Wish me luck
Thousands have turned up at Dover and been given shelter straight away. The homelessness will become more widespread as migrants fill the available housing!
Spoken like a true government shill. Still, what has the government done about homelessness? What have they done in 13 years to control immigration? Wasn't Brexit supposed to take 'back control'? Maybe if the government wasn't cutting benefits this wouldn't be happening. Or is that the immigrants' fault too?
True.
True, it's absolutely sickening.
Yes that's because it looks good for the British government to show the world how We are so wonderful, the UK homeless dont get good PR.
Dover illegal immigrants will take any housing they can get as they cannot choose. British people on benefit waiting for housing wants its local in their own borough/region. If they really wanted housing as a priority there are other council borough with space.
Completely empathise with that woman from Newquay. I grew up in a seaside community in the westcountry myself and second homes, holiday homes are a huge problem for us here. Young people and families cannot get on the housing ladder and equally, landlords set rents that the market dictates. It’s unsustainable.
The problem isn't second homes. Likely developments get blocked by restrictive regulation and nimbys.
@@jonatand2045 That’s a problem too, yes. And there’s definitely a balance that needs to be struck. But there’s no way I’d be able to afford to buy a home in the town I grew up in because it’s an attractive location for people who want holiday homes or, for people who are buying as an investment. Especially considering that when developments are built, they’re not social housing, and if they are, it’s about 10% of the development as a whole and the rest of the houses are too expensive for people to buy.
@jonatand3425 housing is being built all the time in Cornwall but it's not affordable for locals. Very little affordable housing is built
We have a similar problem here on the central coast of California. The 1% pay vast sums for housing, and most of us end up being priced out of the market. Yes, the beaches are beautiful, but the rampant social injustice is infuriating.
Good luck connelly
This will spread real soon REAL fast. I spend 9 months homeless in my own country while paying taxes. I was living in a van. But i was more shocked about how fast it went off the rails out of nothing. This can happen to ANYONE. And its going to happen much more.
Yet the government give everything out to foreign men who invariably commit crimes.
Why is it becoming common in rich countries ,coz the US is becoming worse off , Canda not spared ,i was shocked to see some cases in germany and australia, could their be some thing wrong the govts are not doing right ?
I’m about to become one of these statistics , my mortgage has risen way beyond my wages so we have to get out and have no where to go , no money , don’t see how my husband can continue in his job without a home . We are scared to death , I am disabled too which is another worry as my health isn’t good . We have worked all our lives and payed tax’s but now we’re in our early 60’s and life is a nightmare .
Yeah but Ukraine
@@liamsxa yes Lyam, seems like ukraine is more important than people's lives in UK...
@@ioeieattn1310 and illegal immigrants
@@ioeieattn1310 we must support the terraforming of Ukraine
Please ask your friends for help. It is important that your husband does not lose his job. So maybe rent a room in a shared house, and save for a better apartment.
Hold on. The council literally give people in urgent situations TENTS and now they are acting like they are helping?
Whilst the next dingy load will be tucked up in a nice hotel ready to accommodate their new homes being built for them
@@John-sp9kw Hi, John the Racist.
Oh, which the council will then proceed to cut to pieces with scissors as happens in devon
No room at the inn
@@edmundprice5276 so where as all our council tax payments gone too then and our British income tax payers money gone to ALSO? AS such for instance the local council has had an increase of 2.3% so out of that no social housing for us but a tent if your in unfortunate circumstances . Wtf ?
God bless this homeless team ❤
the unreal increase in disparity between pay and house prices since like the 70s
I love her for helping Connelly. What a wonderful person.
Exact same thing happening here in NZ. Our motels have largely been turned into expensive social housing(expensive for the govt/taxpayer). Its insane how big this problem has become and so quickly.
Not really, what happens when people who are councils but don't know how to manage money or misuing it, which will come out. Landlords or family being disgusting/domestic abuse, this will create this all over the streets and world unless it changes.
Take them to COURT, the people behind it and succeed. That's all. It's a lot of money to get sued for - illegal eviction or domestic violence
The rise of Air B&B is to blame
Do these social housing units actually house your own people, or is it mostly the hordes of third world immigrants, like it is in mine?
@@elmobolan4274 Air B&B plays a big role. Landlords are content to leave homes empty and available for Air B&B rentals
Biggest problem in Cornwall atm is the English moving down here from cities such as London or Manchester paying obscene prices for houses which the locals cannot compete with. Being forced to leave the place we were born
It's a vicious circle, working people priced out of London have no choice but to move driving the rent up for other areas, who in turn are priced out.
The Cornish people selling to rich english people is also the fault of the Cornish
All the while migrants pouring into our country are getting hotels, dominos pizza, even dentists before our own.
*ANY COUNTRY THAT ALLOWS THIS TO HAPPEN SHOULD BE UTTERLY ASHAMED* this is a choice by the Tory party.
Right, because there was never anyone sleeping rough when Labour was in power lol. 😂😂😂
How typical to just sit there and rabbit on about the Tories. Hardcore liberalism within Britain has the most to answer for actually. And there IS help available to those that need it, as seen by the ample amount of support handed to people who arrive by dingy. It's just sly news trying to brainwash some more lefties
@@Cernunnos-2024and the Tories would naturally have a problem with making a profit out of housing and the rights of landlords to do so?
I've been homeless since the 13th of February sleeping on a mountain in South Wales it's snowed it's rained so many times my camp is literally like a muddy bog I cut my fire wood for my fire it is hard doing this life but I get on with it till I can get a place one day
Stay strong brother
Unfortunately this is also happening in Australia too. Families and individuals left homeless, sleeping in tents, in cars, on benches at the park, motels turned into temp homes, it's really heartbreaking. Prior to record house prices here, we never saw people sleeping rough or being homeless, back then homes were affordable and welfare payments weren't severely below the poverty line. Now homes for rent and for sale are so expensive, there's not enough supply, and welfare payments (post covid) are below the poverty line.
And anyone down on their luck can experience homelessness. I was sick in 2019-2020, and if it wasn't for my brother, I'd be homeless too. Because he was there to catch me, I was able to get better, find a new job, and now able to afford an apartment.
And the government keeps importing foreigners to compete with Australians for housing.
All by design..
Its so crao because they cant put down roots have a family stability grow a patch of veggies make neighbourhood friends ...its a huge loss for all of us in siciety. What do the bloody vultures who buy up homes do for anyone. Nothing
Lump in Canada on that list.
Literally everywhere, I mean it’s crazy.
There is a crisis im 37 i moved out of home at 21, I pay over £1000 a month to stay in my rented flat, just with bills council tax etc etc. I earn around £25,000 a year After food clothing and everything else we need to live and be clean, I'm left with about £80 a month to save. The average house price is over £200,000 how am i ever meant to ever afford a house? For example when my dad was my age he earned £19,000 a year and his first house price was £17,000.
£1000 with BILLS!? Here 1 bed = £1,200 then another 300+ for bills
Giving everything to people who arrive on a dingy and not looking after our own could be the problem maybe? 🤷🏼♂️
20 years ago I was in Margate when the Kosovans flooded the area and ever hotel full.
It’s called division. It’s also a massive distraction. Banks are collapsing all over the place. Inflation in the UK is at 10.4% interest rates have been raised 11 times in a few months.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I went to Margate once, absolute shithole
Part of the problem yes but not the whole causal factor
@@Ryzanu it's not even close to being the main reason. the primary problem is inflation. the government could deport every single immigrant and there would still be a huge homeless problem.
the problem happened back in the 80's selling of the council housing stock and not replacing the stock has resulted in a shortage it was a great idea council tenants could own their property but for everyone sold it needs to be replaced simple.
Many haven’t sold. They went on to be landlords making more profit than actual real estate investor, as these benefit council social housing people got fat discounts by Margaret thatcher.
Lies to get votes .
Unfortunately Labour had 13 years but didn't build anything
@@pedazodetorpedo tories have now had same amount of time and they've also built nothing
I see this in the village I live in. All the best council houses were purchased.
All that was is left is pretty much crappy blocks of flats built in the 50's!
Good luck in your life Connelly.❤
I work for a social housing provider so i have some knowledge on the subject. Problem is that we keep selling off council housing stock without replacing it and anyone who is british born is at the back of tbe queue, whereas anyone who enters the country illegally gets prioritized for housing. Disgrsceful that we dont look after our own first
I was made homeless almost a year ago. I worked and lived in a hostel and in one day I lost my home and job when I fell out with the owner. Luckily we had a great summer and I just stayed in Regent’s Park in London (basically pretended I was camping) I’m a skilled worker but so hard to keep up with work when I have to keep moving around. Park, sofas, spare rooms, whatever I can get and basically impossible to save for a deposit
Oh man, good luck, hope everything turns around soon. The system is failing. Hug!
Yeah, it was sunny from March - September in 2022. This yeah, been so damp. Must be even worst with those without a home.
@@ritaamor283
Basically not enough housing is allowed. There are still plenty of single family homes where property owners should aren't allowed to build skyscrapers in the middle of London megacity. This is the work of nimbys.
Are there programs in the UK to help with a deposit?
@@sweethomechicago There are but I’m so far down the priority list that it’s basically impossible. HOWEVER I just got housed today!!!!! Have my keys and tenancy agreement!
Any homeless person in the UK should simply make their way to the south coast, enter the sea, then claim asylum. That way they’d get put into a hotel.
They get put into a hotel or temporary accommodation in any case. Only a tiny number of "homeless" people sleep on the streets.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There's alot of jobs out there, don't know what's going on, feels like ppl just giving up
@@chiefxvi403 jobs require qualifications
Here here
awww bless the women who got him a place to stay god bless her
Second homes should not be allowed in rural areas. It killed village life and businesses. There should be no second homes until everyone has one single home.
We never look after our own, we were told it was the big bad EU but it’s our own Government and councils that prioritise the wealthy second homeowners and private landlords and its locals that suffer. Nothing to do with immigration, the whole system needs prioritising and investment.
be intreresting to see how many homes are fully occupied all year round...
YES!!!
“Nothing to do with immigration” it is though isn’t it let’s face it
@Atlas & Gabriel The less layers government have to hide behind and blame, the more obvious it is how badly this country and it's people are cared for.
Migration etc has alot to do with it aswell as other issues arisen
this is not only an issue in rural england but australia where I live, there isn't enough housing, private rentals are stretched to the limit and social housing waits are really long.
Plenty of jobs in Aussie
@@HectorBanana no there's not
Yes there is Zhimin, but most pay fark all. That's why 90% of migration to Australia is from Asia.
Plenty of space to build a lot more.
@@hyramhackenbacker3953 Yep, but due to Gov decisions to buy and import instead of gathering and manufacturing domestically, most half built houses are abandoned by builders due to lack of materials.
The council says they'll support rough sleepers. They refer them to a council funded "charity" who will pick them up and offer them a place to sleep.
They then lock the homeless person into a two year contract where they'll be kicked out if they become employed.
These charities get paid £1000 a month per homeless resident.
Alot of evil hide behind alot of charities
@@sctsmith yep. Used to live next door to a property that had 5 homeless people living there, where they'd take in £5k for this property alone. They had multiple properties in the town.
They hire a few minimum wage staff members who would only be able to offer minimal support due to how stretched out they are. There are some absolutely amazing staff members but there were several undesirable ones too (including previous occasions of drug dealing offenses).
I heard this following story through other residents.
Someone with known health issues had died in their room. He hadn't been seen in 11 days. A staff member had fraudulently written that he met with him and that he was okay a few days prior. That person still works there.
I would really like to know where the money is going.
It's become an industry all by itself. Our government does not want to end these problems because of the jobs it creates and the money they earn. - It's legal fraud.
My local night shelter charge over £700 per person for a week!!!!! - they can only be in there from 6pm to 8.30am.
@@Nic01a I knew a bloke tht was homeless several Yr ago for a while. He got a room in a salvation army place,, he says they charge the dole like 200 a week rent
As a person which lived in UK for few years I have to say that this problem propably started a long time ago.
I found really good job in one village around my town of residence and been unable to find ANY kind of affordable accomodation, at least affordable for someone with around 1600 pounds per month wages.
“As an as a, I’m an as an as a, I can confirm I’m an as an as a”
They care more about "refugees" then their own people.
It's all about the nugget
I live in Blackpool they have thousands of immigrants filling the hotels while or homeless people or on the streets and in rural areas, absolutely discussing!!
Too many people own second homes and are only in them for a couple of weeks a year , its so wrong .
And Airbnb
Owning a second home should be a criminal offence. Giving funding to immigrants or foreign aid should be illegal whilst British people are homeless.
Could it be something to do with the population in this country expanding at an unsustainable rate!
Give over, it wasn't that long ago we finally recovered passed pre ww2 population. There's plenty of homes for everyone, it's just so many are owned as second, third or fourth homes being used as investments with the off chance that maybe they can be rented for an absurd amount.
Houses in the UK, unlike other countries, last for hundreds of years. But in 1969, a factory worker on a low £15 a week wage, fresh out of school at 15 could expect to spend less than %10 of his wage on rent for a 3 bedroom house.
Too much government intervention into the free market is making people poorer, it’s disgusting
Twice as densely populated as France.
The population isn't expanding. It's shrinking while being replaced by blacks and browns who are the ones taking up what should be homes for natives
@@MrGerrymagic, always has been that ratio.
Poor Connelly 😢❤
Traveling through England about 4 years ago I could not get over the poverty, one can only imagine it now?
It was getting really bad before. After covid. It's well on it's way to being a third world country
1) Uncontrolled immigration
2) Central protections for the housing market
3) Banks offering buy-to-let
4) A requirement for work to have: a bank account, and an address
I wonder why nobody talks about how selfish and mean people have become. People in society would rather have someone sleep out like a beast rather than giving a stranger a place to sleep even if it's in a basement or attic. We should all begin thinking about the less fortunate and they are many in this economy.
Many people are not willing to risk their own tenuous experience *or the safety of their family members* out of a spirit of charity. Sorry. With the human trafficking and other problems currently extant? Not worth it at all.
Could be deadly nowadays...I was going to let a friend sleep on my sofa until I found out he was using drugs...smh.
People haven’t become more selfish or meaner, their lives have become harder so they’re are less able to help and even if individuals could or did help it wouldn’t fix the root of the issue. It’s not individual’s responsibility to help the homeless it’s the governments.
Capitalists greed is endless
This is happening all over the world.
I wonder why....
I am not from UK, so I am confused on how the council provides hotel rooms for temporary housing for the homeless. It seems expensive and makes it harder for the people to apply for a new job: living in a hotel just makes it obvious that they are homeless, some employers may not like it. Is it impossible for the council to build connections with normal landlords rather than hotel owners?
The problem is that your comment makes sense and we know that politicians don't know what that is
It isn’t for us it’s for the illegals who crawl into our country
Normal landlords also charge ridiculous amounts for temporary accommodation because these are charged at a nightly rate as opposed to a set weekly/monthly amount. It’s been happening for decades. In 2008 I was in a one bedroom upstairs flat the landlord was charging almost £400 a week on nightly rates. More than double the actual rent for a similar property on the street. Same goes for hotel accommodation.
@H Mull was going to say the same about landlords. Some are better characterised as slum lords.
Landlords are after money..as much is possible.
And politicians too.
Add it up and we are all going same direction.
Q: What is causing England's rural homelessness crisis?
A: a corrupt government...
I spent two years homeless, living in the woods in Somerset when I was in my early twenties. It wasn't the easiest of times, but now I'm in my forties and settled a big part of me misses the freedom and biophilia that I felt living like that
Having to pay half your income to a Landlord.
A Tory landlord
Well a landlord has to have an income. Not all landlord are tyrannical overlords ya know. Someone who's worked hard and has a 1 or 2 investment properties and treats their tennants well isn't a bad thing.
@@ama7efc784 landlord's greed is the product of a failed system the government created by not building enough houses and letting in too many people causing the demand to skyrocket and giving power to the landlords to exploit.
Prince William's Daughter has over 2 billion dollars already...
Where did she get it 🤔
People often need psychological help, and solving financial problems is only half the job. Their reasons for being homeless don't go away just because someone gives them a new home.
I remember a guest on Joe Rogan said something about it. First u need to solve their housing situationen but then its the drug addiction then its healthcare then its therapy then they need to get education and a job etc. It's a complex issue indeed.
@@tpeterson9140 Basicslly everything theor parent was meant to teach them has to be taught all over again.
@Alastair Wallace can u read? his guest said it, not Joe. And that guest had been working on skid row for last 7 years to take care of addicts.
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'' Not their fault''
Blaming others for your own mistakes is a very common affliction of people on unemployment benefits and later homeless. A healthy approach is noticing the problem and looking for the causes in yourself. People with chronic problems blame others. A young healthy man in a tent did not land there within 24 hours after losing his job. For some reason, he couldn't deal with the situation, and the state should help him find those reasons. He needs help with planning and temporary shelter.
Smart help is not about giving free homes and money to healthy young people. The life of a young, healthy person cannot be an endless charity event.
Those volunteers and nuns deserves a Nobel prize!🙏 Doing what the governments (not only UK) fails to do!
Same thing is happening here in Australia. There is a shortage of rentals and rates being passed on to renters.
Same in ireland
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Same in the Netherlands
Europe is slowly been ruined. If its bad now imagine in 5 10 15 20 years time.
All because of inflation due to covid mismanagement. Idiot condescending authoritarian governments.
Been in temporary accomodation for 10 years. I didn't realise until recently that technically that makes my family homeless. I mean, I am glad to have a roof over my head. And I fear one day I won't, because I'm disabled and can't work, and my parents (who I live with) are my only family. My heart aches for people who are fully homeless and on the street, while people who arrived yesterday can get set up in a hotel and the nine yards. Our councils and politicians just take take take from us, and give nothing back. I pray the situation changes.
Was rough sleeping in January.
So cold at night my bones felt like they were burning. The town council where I lived put me up in a hotel for one night only because it was snowing.
In the neighbouring hotel rooms, there were Afghanistans who'd been housed there for mohths. I don't blame the migrants but my council should provided for me first, I paid council tax for decades.
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So sad respect to these ppl helping . Suffered homelessness previously eats u up mentally too.. I managed to recover. My heart goes out to these ppl
Id imagine people buying second homes in rural areas putting up rent and house prices has had a huge impact on locals
We cleared 1 million visa least year ! Why is nobody taking about this. The boat people are a drop in the ocean. We can't even house our young people where is the infrastructure!?
I'd imagine it's something along the lines of 90% of the budget to tackle homelessness goes towards the wages of the people who's job it is to tackle hopelessness.
The poverty pimps
These people saves my life from homelessness it's hard for them as it is for us. We are all in this together
Makes me so angry that migrants can be housed in 4 star hotels in the UK but British people are sleeping in the streets. Charity begins at home.
God bless him and all the homeless people 😢❤
Brutal... I've been homeless in Australia, the cold must bring a whole new harshness to it 😐
The cold is the worst
kills people.
ofcourse it does, people freeze to death over night.
I’d rather be cold than have giant spiders and snakes in my tent 🙄
4 o'clock in the morning has a coldness all of its own....whatever time of year....in the UK....
been there/done it for a short while....
sooner go to prison or be sectioned....
Well around by me no affordable housing is ever built in the countryside. Gentrification explains it all really.
@@toomanynpcs7710 and people who can pay more
And second home owners 😩
It's also true that there are loads of wealthy people living abroad who buy properties in the UK they don't live in or rent out, just purely for investment purposes. Some own whole buildings of apartments or flats they turn into office blocks etc. Sometimes maybe not all the flats are rented out as either domestic living or offices
This is something the government needs to address, because it loses money here anyway.
UK born People on the street could be renting these places, because with a address they would get a job more easily, bank account etc and .able to pay tax, buy food, clothes etc to contribute towards the economy.
Whereas a rich person owning a property working overseas is not contributing any monies here, or only a small portion in the UK from his business abroad etc.
UK government at most gets only property tax. It's just crazy.
Every house built is affordable in what it cost. Same new build house up north that cost £120-150k will cost £300-450k in south east.
@@prasanta5139 Four bedroom houses are always unaffordable to the vast majority of people who need shelter and are not practical for single people or couples jaut starting out in life. And sadly that is all that is being built on every piece of spare land in villages around me. Hence, no affordable houses are been built. Regardless of the local value.
Its amazing they can refugees in hotels but not their own people here who are homeless
I made myself homeless and lived on the downs for 18 months and absolutely loved it, I had no pressure up there and the day was mine , the concern of family brought me back to reality
If it's a choice, it's an adventure. For most homeless people, it's not a choice
why do this people expect the rest of us to give them a home?? i pay a ton of taxes and my neighbours are ALL benefits. I get the stress from work and all the trouble while they stay rent free. Give me a tax break please...bet no one will agree to my comment.
A vision of the future.
Millions of people on minimum wage will be living out of their cars and in tent cities in 5 years time if we don't get rid of the tories.
I’m minimal salary worker myself. My bills and rent is pretty much all what I earn. When my wife lost a job first time in my life we was applying for UC. Because I’m working we qualify for 47£ per month. And that’s all help what we could get.
Sooo many people hate others on benefits, till they realise UK benefits are WAAAY Below the poverty line. It's inhuman
67 and homeless in england, couldn't afford a council bungalow in Northumberland , was ending up in debt to heat the bungalow and feed myselfbut on the state pension I couldn't afford to do both.
If more council houses are built then they should not be allowed to be privately bought or be for life, only for people who are in need
if more council houses are built they will go to illegals and immigrants like they have been doing .... lmao come on bro wake up
I pass tents on the way to work as I walk through an industrial estate to do a night shift. This is in Glastonbury. The UK is a pitiful place.
Be nice to everyone...
Anything can happen along our way.
I was in supported housing for the homeless and had an abusive support worker, I had enough of how he was treating me and reported it to the manager. But they evicted me instead while telling me a bunch of lies and stopping my support networks for my mental health as some sort of revenge. They’re job was to support me and help me obtain a better future but sadly they were more interested in making £40k a month from us. The staff were worse than the residents living there and they protected each other like a little family.