'We are forgotten': Inside the UK's late life homelessness crisis
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Sky News was granted unprecedented access to one of the busiest homeless drop-in centres in London, run by Crisis as new figures reveal that homelessness in later life is up 13% from last year.
The housing crisis will be a major issue for the next government. Should they win the general election, the Labour Party is promising 1.5 million new homes in the next five years, while the Tories are promising 1.6 million new homes.
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Forgotten seems to be the wrong word, I think ignored is more accurate.
forgoten by capitalism coz they have nothing to offer to the system any more
Indifference is more accurate.
It's deliberate immiseration - there's more profit for the rich in that.
They should just grab a Prem. They're actually quite nice. Especially the breakfast.
@@RogerMellie-yk3gw How do they pay to stay there?
that is extremely sad. Ending your life on the street after a life of hard work and suffering is inhuman. Your body hurts, your mind is tired. Gosh... this is not acceptable.
How do you know they have ended upon the streets after hard work?
gov quick to house illegal immigrants
@oeilgris No one mentioned anything about hard work.
In hotels? Thats hardly an extravagant housing solution
@Anthiny 4 Star hotels for illegal migrants as legal working brits die on the street is extragavent and unacceptable.
I work full time in the NHS and can't afford rent, what chance do the homeless have?
And the government will spend billions on weapons in walls supporting countries that Ukraine and Israel where his own people are struggling
None ,exactly how the establishment wants it ,
gov quick to house illegal immigrants
@@ravd8082 bot reply on every comment trying to stoke hatred
@@Jdsfbgfvbvxv Even if many people are in agreement?
This country lacks shame. How can our elders be treated like this?
Look up two penny rope and sleeping coffins of the Victorian era. This country never had shame to begin with. The thing I hate most is that when people want to live outside the system and be self reliant they get battered by that very same system.
It lacks ethics and respect. Plus charities are businesses, they may of started for other people, but now they don’t tend to care.
Their problem WILL NOT MAKE ME shameless. I CAN AFFORD
ME.
What did they do when they were younger and able to Work to Have a better future? ?
@@zaneta3880 probably spent all their money on rent
Trevor seems like a decent human being. He clearly cares about himself, he looks clean and presentable and someone who could be your friend or relative. I live in Cornwall, rent is cheaper here. Also, there is a real shortage of people in the trade for home renovations, maintenance, building. Of course I wouldn't want to force anyone to relocate or do a job that wasn't what the were suitable or capable of doing, but if a man like Trevor was interested in doing contract work in another county where life is cheaper is this a solution? Training, a relocation budget, a set up budget... Then he starts to be a tax payer, worker and just someone back connected with society. I would talk to whomever my MP will be after the general election if this seems like a workable idea.
Brexit made working in another country not even an option for most people.
@@justanothernobody7142 he said county not country. He means if leaving London would be a good option for some people to try their luck elsewhere.
@@sandrafinbar Ok my bad I misread. Whilst it's better than living on the streets and might work for a few people it's still not really a good long term solution, more like a short term fix. Most counties that have cheaper living do so because there's generally less work and wages are lower, plus that work tends to be limited to just a few industries.
On top of that a lot of property agents and landlords are not wiling to take on anyone that doesn't have a full time job or that can't pay a significant amount of rent upfront so any person doing that needs to secure work somewhere before they can even think about relocating.
The anwser really is for governments to build affordable homes and stop letting the rich buy up all the land and property in certain areas.
I keep hearing that Cornwall is becoming more expensive for the locals because of the second home market.
Does he really seem decent? In the video he says last time he voted for brexit so clearly he isn't decent if he wants other immigrants to leafe the country due to racism
I live in a van and love it . Went from working 60 hours and paying contributions to get nothing in return to working 20 hours a week and not contributing a single penny . I work 2 days and spend 5 days doing what i want . Mcdonalds pays my council tax for me as my rubbish goes in their bins 😊
Sounds like legitimate freedom.
Is it not impossible to find places to park though?
@@shelleyscloud3651 I purposely look for work that will allow me the parking , it's part of an honest and upfront interview with me . Currently work for an international parcel firm 2 days a week and am allowed to park it in their secure car park . My van has literally everything BUT a shower so i use a local gym membership with swimming pool for that. My van has a gas cooker with sink , 3kw wood burning stove , 5kw diesel heater , 2 roof vents with intake and extraction electric fans built in , toilet and an 8ft x 5.5 ft bed that goes up to a dining area for all the friends i don't have lol and all my electric comes from solar power or the van alternator . I highly recommend van life for single people or a couple that want to simplify their lives and not work every hour .
@@shelleyscloud3651 I'm lucky in that respect as my work lets me park it in their secure car park
😂 im lovin it
😮 people set tents alight. What the hell. What’s wrong with people.
Seen some footage of this kind of evil acts😢
One of my biggest worries if I ever became homeless. People are truly sick in the head
Thanks to the internet homeless people are labeled useless and worthless to society.. so violent crimes are being committed to these people..
This is going to increase as more adults live alone and stay single. One income is not enough as the cost of living increases. Good luck.
I’ve noticed a lot of people end up homeless after a relationship breakdown. They can just about manage financially as part of a couple, but once the relationship ends….no chance.
Literally thinking this. This plus later life illness with the inability to participate to the same degree in the work force will eventually mean millions of people struggling if they don't have the safety of home ownership and some financial dependence made realistic by having a family.
Yes, having studied my family history back to the 1700s older people always had to endure living with family even if they didn't like it and even if there were 12 people per house but at least they had a home.
So true. Me.
@@janesmith9024 Endure? More like they had the privilege. Nowadays they are forgotten, no matter if they have a home or not.
Why can't they be put in hotels, but random people floating over can?
Surely it's discriminatory?
The homeless people need stability
A home
A toilet
a shower
a bed
a living room
Come on
It’s vicious
Once we are safe we can get a job
Pay bills
Live life
In London there is like 5 hostels in every borough
God is power
Broken Britain. We need to support our most vulnerable by taxing the super-rich.
Not building wealth or businesses like the super rich, but by mugging them?? They can just leave to another country.
Or............. just get off your backside and work hard for a living.
@@T5Zplayerworking hard for a living but only getting a low wage is why they are in that situation.
Yes, I agree. Anybody over with £200K assets should be wealth taxed maybe 5% per year.
Increase inheritance tax to 90% also would help to fight inequality.
Anybody over £80K salary should be also be taxed higher, maybe 60% like in other Nordic countries.
@ablamill8357 These people work and already pay their taxes.its not fair to tax them more because they did good choices in their life! Have fair pay and affordable rents is the only way to go!
But they can house illegal immigrants in nice hotels.
Context matters mate.
@@lionroar26 Context? The same terms have to apply to all homeless people otherwise it's plain discrimination.
@@lionroar26 correct. Citizens should absolutely never be put second to newcomers
@@jarodarmstrong509 Depends.
That is the whole idea because the immigrants will not say no to the government they will obey the government.. we are being replaced by them because of that reason right there
This is the future for generation rent. Elderly without anything to show for it.
so sick !! wtf is he homeless...its not fair to brits that theres no help for him or others, id be more than happy to buy him at least a meal..what is going on !!!...why can he not be put into a hotel???????
Why are they homeless??? What did they do with their working years???
He didn't come over on a dinghy, that's why he can't be put up in a hotel.
@@zaneta3880 typical immigrant comment, a large percentage of the homeless don't deserve to be homeless.
Ironically, billionaire Ritchie Sunak has many spare bedrooms in his multiple mansions.
Ritchy W.E.F.’s home swimming pool was being built at the same time that the local public pool was being shut down due to a lack of funding.
Egyptians and Arabs praise GOD
Yet the UK have money to house Muslim Asylum seekers in hotels who come here illegally, but not our own British homeless?? Something doesn’t add up, does it.
That's because our politicians look after illegal immigrants before their own people.
So all your saying is the homeless have to pretend their an illegal immigrant and they be fine ? ...try it .
It stinks ,there is something wrong with the government.
Street homelessness in most towns and Cities is simply heartbreaking 💔. The public services housing budgets have been underfunded for decades. Next government need to address this growing issue and fund accordingly - FAST!!
Strange. A few doors down the council has privately rented a house to an Afghan family at 2.5k a month! They can manage that.
Yes, the government seems to want to help newcomers instead of helping the British. It's the Kalergi plan in motion.
Yes and it’s not the Afghans fault. Britain were involved in the war on terror and the families of the soldiers and the people involved are being given a fast track.
Nothing compared to all the resources they stole from there
@@Ziinosspeech what resources?
@@simonthegreat543 lithium, opium many more
Just go to Calais, hop on a rubber boat back here, then free home, free food, free money and healtcare, free car and free to do nothing all day. The government keep saying we have a "housing crisis"..... No we dont, there's plenty of houses for natives.... We have an immigrant crisis and that's why there isn't any room for our own. This needs to stop.
Every indigenous Brit should be housed.
What does this mean?
@espon2112 Everyone who's family have been here for generations. British nationals should come first for housing etc.
@@karenrobinson129 no handouts means no handouts tough luck
or pay £1000 at least for a tiny room? London
He should move out of London then
@@zaneta3880 the real answer nobody likes to hear lol
@@arcan762😂
@@zaneta3880👍
Every human needs a home
Come on
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I know a man who is almost 70 years of age, has cancer and heart issue's and he has to continue working full time just to pay his rent and prevent becoming homeless. Local social housing say he has no chance of being housed.
I agree it's the same in America
Same in Australia
People balming asylum seekers for this? Really? The working class British population is BLIND
Really?? Yet we have money to house people in hotels from other countries who come here illegally, but not our own homeless?? Something doesn’t add up, does it.
Too good for Travel Lodge this lot. They will insist on the Savoy
@@kamj2948 the cost of poverty
3 billion next year what a absolute far left comment
@@KiloKnog 3 billion 💀
Sickening
Meanwhile houses are given free to people who just turn up from abroad.Why not do this for people like Trevor and others like him.
There’s no way we should be doing this homing the world.
Then why give refugees homes before the elderly here
How can he vote,with no address?
They can use the shelter's address.
But plenty of housing for immigrants over the past decade no wonder there are no homes for British people.
I will live with friends and we share our income that's helped a lot. Otherwise I would have been struggling we decided to support each other forever.
Exactly. Good living people need to pool together communally, in shared ownership.
It really is survival of the fittest in it’s purest form for everyone to see 😢❤
Not the fittest its the richest.
Trevor comes across as so nice and grateful for the help....but this shouldn't be happening. We seem to have lost the ability to provide support for these people and I'm guessing Tory cuts are to blame.
Yep. Labour will definitely sort this out won't they? Won't they? Hello! Anyone? Labour will save these people................oh,.wait. what?
@@stuntmansynyster Their silence speaks volumes!
There really isn't any poverty in the UK. Literally everyone buys nice houses, nice cars, goes on expensive shopping every week etc.
Anyone homeless is by choice. One quick call to the council and they would put him in temporary accommodation in a hotel which would provide him shelter and food but he prefers a pity party and enjoys begging people on the street.
So many people fake homelessness in this country as an excuse to beg money. Everyday I see so called homeless people in normal clothes with a bucket on busy highways begging for passerbys for money and they clearly aren't homeless
This is utterly disgusting and unacceptable in a country that supposedly is in the top 10 financial institutions kick out all of the illegal migrants out of hotels and put these poor people in.
We need to make transitional homes
And we don’t need to destroy farmland doing it
There are so many stores gone bust
So much empty square feet of office space that can be transformed
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Thought that for years.
This is a national disgrace.
These people are our fellow citizens. However they have ended up here is irrelevant they desrve a roof over their heads.
Even if a shipping container or glamping pod inside a building like they are doing in Stoke for the homeless.
Imagine trying to live like this.
There is no such thing as deserve.
It'll much much worse come 20 years. It'll hit harder to those who struggle to pay rent and bills at the moment.
What a lovely society we live in, older people left on the streets in addition to all the rest failed by the UK's housing system. Councils, and the laughable housing system are at the centre of this national disgrace. But in general it's our society's contempt for homeless people. "300,000 houses" were supposed to be built and that didn't happen. Two years ago the government trumpeted a £654 million homelessness funding package, promised for councils to target support at those who need it the most. It was part of a wider £2 billion package of support to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the next 3 years.
300 000 houses wouldn't cover 300 000 illegal young men that ate priority housing in next 2 years
I live in Eastbourne so many homeless, at the weekend went to Nottingham homeless people yes, however, mass students Developments all over Nottingham. Pass through London Kings Cross alot of homeless outside the station i definitely can see the increase. No political party will ever address this issue.
Why though
@Dipo_Miller Labour have said they will build over 1 million new properties this won't even touch the sides of how bad it is.
@@ywiggan Yes, building properties isn't the sewer…a lot of new builds are getting brought up by landlords and buyers/renters are still priced out of the market. Two party system is a joke. Hope everyone gives Reform a chance…the only party to talk about treating our veterans better too.
Why would they address an issue they caused, they make it worse every year, it's all by design, population explosion
Homeless in Manchester city centre has skyrocketed in recent years. Let's see if Kier Starmer comes up with a strategy to turn things around.
Silly question but why can't they have hotel room too ....they are in need ...why aren't they deserving the same care that others are ??
All by design by the elites gg
Also non self reliance. The Central Banks in tandem with government has Neo feudalism in plans . People being dependent. Made to comply. People need to get their independence, unite.
Great Reset UK
Homes have to be affordable. 300,000 isent affordable. People are moving out of London there is no point. It is disturbing the amount of homeless people who are on the streets . Where is the dignity 60,70,80 year olds homeless. Shocking
Housing will never be affordable as long as people insist on living in London or some other big city where there are people, citizens and foreigners alike, willing to pay higher prices to live there.
Could I just add a few years ago I fell into a spiral of depression. I ended up in debt, homeless, and living rough on the streets in the middle of winter and the middle of a pandemic. I have both physical and mental problems and am in my 50's. The government and charities have helped me so much.
Horrible💔and a failure
An advanced society should be at least able to protect both younger and older population 🙏🏻
Land law goes back to 1066. People borrow against housing assets so if prices fall, then the borrowers can be insolvent. That is the political basis for not building more (i.e. not allowing prices to fall).
How about just working for a living?
@@T5Zplayer agree . But circumstances varies in the long life of a person . Bad health can be a great obstacle to be employed.
@@camillac.s.279 Yes, been there.
and dirty air and water in the uk just speed the decline up
Years ago in England many of the homeless were older. Over the years young people became homeless which was manly due to drugs and the cost of living including rent.
Where are these drugs coming from? Hmmmm.... seems like Britain is being pumped with poison and venomous individuals. On mass scale! It's getting spooky 😮 👻
should all get together buy them selves a rubber boat land on the Britain shoreline they'll get a house within weeks
Apparently, all we have to do is make sleeping in unsightly tents in cities illegal and that will sort it all out. Mental health problems will disappear. Debt will be paid off by fairies. Beautiful free housing will build itself (but not near us, obviously) and every homeless person will be able to work, for free, in our struggling NHS and other Public Services. It really is that simple #VoteTory
and they only accelerated it.
VITE REFORM. UK NEEDS REFORMING. IT IS A MESS.😢
CARE IN THE COMMUNITY.
...WHAT CRAP.
Yo .. old people die outside... nothing?
Crazy a Syrian or Ukrainian family can get a 2/3 bedroom house in a matter of days but an elderly British tax paying citizen has to sleep in a tent or On the streets waiting for months if not years for somewhere to call home. Mental.
facts
The responsibility is all Labour's for London homeless situation. Sadiq Kahn, nearly 50% of social housing in London is occupied by foreign nationals.
I can see people living in cars and vehicles like they have in the US
Thats the very lucky homeless who have a car to live in.
It's already happening in the UK, people living in cars etc masses of homeless , most are working and can't afford the rents or find anywhere, demand is huge and supply not keeping up with population explosion every year... Blame the politicians policies
@@MC-mv2wrthey still die in their cars from the cold
Already happening. The invisible homeless.
more money to Ukraine. own people are sleeping rough
And to I s real.
And zero money to aslym seekers and illegal immigration please
This government is a disgrace
Wow! Brent - what has gone wrong? I guess gentrification. When I was growing up there was always a room to rent somewhere. At least in the area that I grew up in. No one that I knew charged eye-watering prices either.
I work full-time and can't make ends meet. What chance do they have.
I probably will be joining them soon.
They want us dead.
A crisis. Same here in the US
So flood the country with other people.
Why can't be live in a hotel
Britain is a large psychiatric hospital😂
it is a hospital, not just a psychiatric one.
I am starting to believe Johnny English
Years ago back in the 1990's, I thought it had become like an open prison - but psychiatric hospital is now more apt.
Good grief - getting them to vote when NO BODY in Parliament is going to help them ever!
Similar situation in much of the US. Affordable housing just hasn't been a priority for the past 40 years.
BS
Working hard, planning, saving, and making good choices by individuals hasn't been a priority.
Under 40 somethings today are soft and lazy
@@virgilhilts3924 LOL 'hard working' and 'good choices' doesn't change the fact that the house I bought in 1999 for under $40K would cost about $300K now. That was about one year's salary for me at the time. Comparable salary for that job today is less than $60K. That's the problem in a nutshell.
Really disgusting with thie government how dare they give houses to the immigrants first our poor
Why does sky never ever feature white british homeless??.... they are forgotten about and are victims of huge unlimited immigration into this small country which cannot adapt to these huge numbers, its a lie to say that immigration doesnt make homelsssness worse for the british😮😮
This is going on in the United States as well.😮
Just keep sending millions to Israel.
Give some credit to the Ukraine... ffs
ISRAEL IS GETTING MONEY FOR PROTECT US FROM ISLAMIC RADICALS
@@adiintel1 What are Ukraine giving UK back apart from people?
@@ItsThePrimeTimeShow Lol they mean Ukraine is just as bad as Israel for receiving our cash…one big money laundering scam.
@@ItsThePrimeTimeShow They are fighting against Russia, that's the only reason other countries are funding them, they are hoping it's going to weaken Russia in the long term if they keep the war going for as long as they can. Plus war is always good for business, arms manufactures still get paid.
There would be a housing shortage, why because people born here are not the priority its the foreigners mainly of Islamic domination or others that get first refusal on most social housing that becomes available, most of us born here can't even get on the housing list, i have been trying for the last five years
Yep never seen a Somali or Afghan homeless.
I agree and I've been on the housing list for the past 15 years with no light in sight I'm hoping but I do agree it's unfair we need a government who puts our citizens first how can we be homeless in the country were born in is disgraceful and scrap the right to buy thatchers policy has depelted our 5 million social housing stock for the past 40 years!
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If this poor guy has been on the streets for 10 or more years, it's quite sad. But 10 years ago the cost of living wasn't as expensive as now. So what was he doing 10 or more years ago? We cannot expect that govt should be the one to house healthy and young folks. Did this person go and get a skill or meaningful employment for all the time he wasn't in school? Did he decide to drop out of school and was expecting to depend on the govt for a living? Questions questions and questions.
I am 54 and gonna be homeless soon
Need a new type of government one that puts Britain and British people first nobody shpuld be on the street unless that were they wamt to be
Give Reform a chance!
The government and the media need to be honest with the people that there will never be available homes in London because they don't really want regular and poor people living there. They should support people to move to other towns and support the whole process to ensure they get proper social support wherever they go to avoid isolation and loneliness and to make it easier for them to integrate.
It is bad throughout the country and an influx of people from London or anywhere else would be a disaster for any town. It's not only London, the whole country is a mess.
Disgusting. Even the guy interviewing the homeless guy was not british. Wtf is wrong wirh this country
Racist
@@JatinSankla Not that again.
SUNAK CANNOT AFFORD SKY TV
a bunch of irresponsible adults. no one fault but their own. sad and pitiful people.
If only they found a way to go to France, then come back on a dingy across the channel, then they would have a room and 3 meals a day.
Give it a rest.
@@sfd672 No thanks
@sfd672 why because its a fact, they get free room, money and food.
Literally lol, recently looking for a hotel to host a wake…..in my town they are all "no longer open to the public". This would be a legit workaround
@@sfd672 No why should we leave people like Trevor to rot? What a heartless comment.
Where are the 4 star hotels for British homeless people??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
"This centre is full of people who have been failed by the housing system" is quite a loaded and ideologically driven statement, nothing more. Cleon is homeless neither because of his age or nor because of the dramatic increases in rent. Rather, Cleon is homeless because he was living in an apartment where he was not the lease holder and the lease holder, his partner, passed away. Cleon is homeless because he did not complete the paperwork required to be added as a lease holder and would face eviction regardless of his age and the cost of rent. The moral of the story: tend to your adminatrivia because it might very well keep a roof over your head.
Disabled... same... 🤜🤛
Not where I live,they get huge benefit support
England is finished.
I never seen an Indian homeless . Those people will have multiple people in the house by any means . Where are these peoples friends and family
‘These’ people. We here are they. Don’t make Presumptions.
it is the ones who have no support network that end up homeless. Indians usually keep in touch with one another, they do not allow their own to die on the streets.
@@swojnowski8214 What a Load of Old Cobblers.
@@joancooley1387 Literally 🤣 Oh man
Always one step from the street is a hopeless place to find yourself. Dreams dead hope slashed and it’s too hard a journey to get out of it without help. And the tories didn’t care so that’s why they are being punished. We hardly saw homeless people back in the 60/70’s wots gon rong? Cheap stuff from China is one thing
Here in America our senior citizens 'had' Apts, but were priced out. They have income, they just can't find an affordable place to live
Wow I never know this happen in England .
Where there is a will there is a way. Sadly, there has been no will in the UK to fix the housing crisis. If there had been, thousands of new homes would have been built. They would have fixed the immigration crisis by now also, but instead it has become worse. What is the solution? As unpalatable as this implies, taxes are going to have to be raised as without additional revenue the next UK government will not be able to fund improvements in education, healthcare, defence, infrastructure, housing etc. Is it me or is the UK becoming more like the US?
WHY SHOULD THE WORLD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DOWNFALL.
THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAN THEIR FUTURE THE SAME
WAY I DID.
HAND OUT HAVE BECOME A PATTERN FOR MANY.
SORRY I REFUSE TO BE A PART OF THE TEAM.
Mate... I do understand many cases and why so many get in that situation.. Now... I'm 50 and I wasted lot of money and time, not focusing on what matters. Now for the past years, I am frugal, I don't waste and most of all, I'm focused on bettering myself so I don't end up homeless. I can't blame the government and society for me not pulling my finger... but most of this people just point fingers at the wrong cause... we have to help ourselves first, between demand from the government
Shocking conservative mess 😢
scary times 😢
There's a housing problem because the government just keep letting more & more people on our little island
This country don't care.
Purgatory.
These folks have been condemned and are carrying out a sentance.
The blind will never see it.
This is such a danger to the public. And the boats keep coming
Hotels?
They have plenty of council houses for immigrants though
Well done Tories! Vote for any party but the Tories.
“Honor your Father and Mother”
-a biblical solution and a GREAT place to start
Why should people work FT for someone if they are not receiving a fair livable salary.
I'm beginning to agree with Gen Z to just stuff it. Companies are too greedy.
This is happening everywhere, ever since politicians will prioritize corporate interests over people.
Everyone is waiting for labour to come and save the day. Wait and see what horrors they will do when they get in 😂😂🤣🤣
People are blinkered by just the two parties, Lab and Tory. Cons will probably go out, so the default is Labour at the moment. People only seem to think only two parties exist.
@@ianhill4585 Yes it's why the two party system was invented, illusion of choice and all that. It's ridiculous
Just like post-Churchill pre-Thatcher Labour.