Housing crisis: Renters in Bristol struggle as waiting lists skyrocket
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Bristol City Council says rents in the city are now the highest in the UK outside London, having risen 52% in the last decade.
An estate agent in Bristol says he has a waiting list of hundreds of renters desperate to find places to live in the city - even as rents become increasingly unaffordable.
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When simply putting a roof over your head is considered a luxury
I was a Bristolian, born in Clifton. Lived there for 52 years. When our landlord decided to sale his property. Me and my partner couldn't find affordable housing, anywhere in Bristol. We had to move further away. Now we live in Dursley, Gloucestershire.
blimey..
@@italianstallion9170 It's nice here though..
Tough luck,gotta make way for boat people
@@firstname4865 Yeah. It's not the selling off of social housing, or not building more houses, or not making it known, only 4% of the landmass of Britain is housing, or 600,000+ are born every year. It's the boat people. The amount of which, wouldn't half fill a decent football ground. Yeah it's the boat people.
@@kerryfry1857 try 10 million immigrants
I live in Northern Ireland and there is a massive shortage of private rentals over here too. People can't find a property to rent, even though a lot are offering to pay crazy money every month in rent
…..civil unrest is just around the corner.
exactly why I left. I hope it doesn't come to that.
Doubt it this is britain. Brirs have apathy regarding these things. This country is going down hill. And we won't care to do anything.
@@dec3142 Toxteth.
Yup that's why I moved
@californiadreamin8 I'm Working-class person ( OAP) My personal experience in life is most British
Working-class people "Sit on the fence " thus I doubt your comment will come about.
Anyway, Peace to all.
Nice to hear vital shelter being called a "portfolio"
It's ok they are selling up to create a better balance.
Nothing wrong with anyone calling a collection of owned things a "portfolio".
Bitter little Left wing loser
Any different to.owning a share portfolio of staples & consumerables oil, gas, sugar, coffee wheat, corn? All the same. Its only those who havent invested that complain, perhaps less spent on fags booze and fast food people might have money to invest for their futures
Lol underrated comment
Who would have guessed that doubling the population over the last 50 years and the government selling off the council housing stock . Also when I got my first house in1978 single occupancy was
very rare
I rented a single bedroom in 2022 for 695/month, not even enough space to place a desk, and shared with at least 8 other people. Looking at spare room again, an equivalent room is now 800. For that kind of money, there are more interesting places to live than the UK.
Move somewhere cheaper...?
What mug would pay those prices? What a poor quality life that must be. Be brave and try Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester, loads of cheaper places. Saying that the situation is still a farce.
Bristol is a dump anyway move to Sheffield or Liverpool.
Australia imported too many foreign workers last 3 years. Non-skilled migrants. They are each where aound 370 000 according to news TV 9. They imported them for Corona Virus shortages of workers. They are staying doing nothing. The problem is that they have money. I don't know how, but they bid and increase rents everywhere. Problem can be solved but obviously this artificial increase of rents is twelcome by the government. They have issued visas and they don't send them back after Corona virus problems are over. We will see!
I’ve lived in Bristol for 13 years. When my neighbours sold their house it was bought by investors who now rent to students. Also every other building project in Bristol is student accommodation if they want to fix this problem they need to stop building student accommodation and start building for families and workers
Where do the students go?
Do they party all the time?
@@allykhan8594 Newport! Mwuahahahahahahaaaaa! 😈
@@dylanhealy4359 most weekends and they take drugs as well, which is not nice to be living next door to.
building for families and workers is not profitable if its affordable or social housing, anyway building student accommodation in a city like Bristol has now taken about 15,000 students out of the private rental market demand meaning lower rents.
We turned our 2 properties into holiday let's in Blackpool, because the law no longer protects us as landlords anymore. In covid one property went 12 months without payment and we could do nothing, costing us £35k in renovations and loss of revenue. Never again. I'll sell them 1st.
All the unjustified harassment of the Bulk of Good landlords has backfired onto tenants.
🎻
upnorth is not making that much in rent your so funny
hmm, I wonder if theres some kind of particular factor causing the vast majority of the population growth in this country that could be effecting demand for housing and increasing rent.
Oh, and why is this, our birth rates are going down after all, what is up with this housing shortage?
now come on dont bait the luvvies...
Bring more migrants! There is not enough diversity!!
"Cost of living crisis" that xenephobic attitudes are partly why we are having a cost of living crisis brexit and unfunded tax cuts.
@@dec3142 Nothing decreases the cost of living more than bringing those millions of pakistani doctors and engineers coming to Europe on boats, innit?
Lol that's why I moved to Manchester. More multicultural. Bigger and better.
Bring more migrants to once cosy and beautiful Italy tooo.......poor Europe what is she getting herself into......😢😢😢😢😢😢...........
Don't forget the rape gangs!
Uk becoming a third world country right in front of our eyes loool
Relying on Private Landlords. It was always going to be a disaster. Thanks Maggie.
@@thelleftaremad7556 How, exactly ??
Marvin Rees created this issue with his introduction of HMO licences required for property with 3 or more bedrooms. This resulted in many houses with 3 or more bedrooms only available to 2 sharers. He intentionally restricted supply of the private landlord market to boost the corporate build to let market. This is the real story.
Very true I moved away from Bristol a while ago, I was surprised to see him still as mayor.
Not just HMO he set up a system.of zones certain areas must be licensed Easton St George Eastville wards.
The gvt made landlords flee. Now they complain there aren't enough houses.
Capping the rent increases won't work, Scotland JUST did this and their rents are rising faster now. As a nice landlord I hadn't put my rents up for years, Rentsmart wales capped welsh landlords and limited the increases, now every landlord is increasing their rents as often as they can as much as they can, who's to say that they won't cap it at a stupid level at some point in the future, they have essentially added another business risk which will be factored into the rent and passed on to tenants, along with the interest rate rises, changes in laws and regulations, and the changes in the taxes paid by private landlords and not large property management corporations.
The housing market as a system needs some kind of fundamental and all-encompassing alteration, and we've known it for years. But there's an element of zero-sum which no one has the balls to touch. There's power in property, and the powerful will resist a transfer of power, so getting change done is going to be intensely hard in a democracy.
Let's try being commie! It may work!
If there was power in property then the powerful would have monopolised the whole sector instead which might have actually created more renter stability than letting hobbyists buy up cheap houses to rent out for a little extra pocket money until they get bored or it stops being worth their time resulting in people being uprooted from their entire lives on someone else's whim. There's no power. Just money. Thank Thatcher. We need more state managed accomodation. If landlords sell up, the property should continue to be rental so that the tenants don't have to go and live under a bridge. Of all the markets to not be standardised and regulated. The food industry is so standardised we're all getting diabetes but housing they've left so wild and lawless that people could find themselves homeless in as little as two months through no fault of their own? This countries a joke and it's at our expense.
@@bethanp3453 if the properties were easy to buy renters must be morons they can't buy them!
We actually don't, all the necessary laws are there, but not being enforced. Capping rents but not capping fuel, food or any other sector is stupid, it creates an additional business risk for landlords and will simply be added to the rent.
the only thing stopping cheap homes being built apart from bureaucracy and planning issues is that it's not profitable when developers have to sell it on to ALMO's and HAs for peanuts.
Ah yes, put a cap on it so that even more houses get sold and there is even less rental stock, at a time where people can't afford to buy either. Not to mention to terms lenders put on BTL mortgages. The short sightedness of all these so-called "interventions" is astounding. Unless councils are going to buy the properties, or lenders are stopped from setting unreasonable terms for BTL, then just leave it as it is or the problem is going to get worse.
Typical stupid politician strategy.
They have been trying to heavily push rent controls in that area specifically since 2022. It's not a coincidence that their supply gap is wider.
Looks like a place overseas.
The weather is a giveaway. 🇬🇧 😁
@@andrewdaley5480it is more stable thats true....
Properties are for living in, not investing
0:40 52% in 10 years???PFFTHAHAHA That's nothing!!! 1:52 that idiot...can he put a limit on the banks to stop raising interest rates? What about inflation? How can he limit rent when he doesn't control anything....what if he builds NEW apartments and houses and puts the limit there... leave the private owners alone ,it is not their job to solve the council's problem
We rent out a flat. They advised us to raise the rent to £750, but we've kept it at £600 as the tenant is really good and long standing. The mortgage is £400 a month. The cost of buy to let mortgages has gone up. That will obviously affect rents. Banks to blame there, not landlords. I'm sure though that in the long run, we'll be the ones selling the property to pay for our care.
Apparently people are offering to pay more than the advertised rent to snap up the property
Interesting. I've been renting in Bristol for 13 years in a nice part of town. We have a good size 2-bed flat. Just under £600, part-furnished, with all white goods on the Landlord's insurance. No, we're not related to the Landlord. Just lucky, I guess?
What's attractive about Bristol?
@@thelleftaremad7556sounds like paradise. 🇬🇧 😁
It's a money laundering place... that is why... There was also a Bristol coin as well, wasn't there? And they were actually bankrupt.. so which country uses these so called "electronic tokens and coins" ? Mostly China, and from SE Asia... That is why. But the UK government is not intervening on this at all. When they should do.
Close your borders.
That's not the problem. Landlords are parasites.
@@dec3142 nah calling landlords parasites is part of the problem, u see believe it or not they dnt like being abused and decide to call it a day. result is one less property available for ppl to rent
Uk is falling apart
Most of my UK friends
Leaving to Dubai or Canada
UK is falling
Just build more houses, increase tax on empty houses, and ban airbnbs. The solution to housing shortage everywhere is just to build more, the only barrier is the government and the nimbys.
I have 2 air bnbs. Both were once homes to tenants, but never again. The laws don't protect me as a landlord. The last tenant cost me £35k. I worked long hard hours all my life to pay for my proprties, so why should I rent them out privately when I cant do anything if they stop paying? No chance. I'll sell them first.
who is going to build and where is the money coming from?
Airbnb's do bring in tourists, which every economy needs.
😂 People can't afford to live in the houses they borrowed to buy... Can we please stop this boom-bust economy and introduce a rate floor at 5% that keeps valuations in check?
we printed too much money
Technically we don't need to build any more homes we need to stop landlords owning large amounts of homes.In Southampton we have a landlord who has 1000 properties lots of landlords owning 100 plus homes and many who have 50 plus homes
and these are owned outright.Rents should be set no higher than a mortgage,it should be law.But we have a Chancellor Mr Hunt who bought 10 apartments on the waterfront in Southampton all on rent.The working man or woman in the street have very little chance owning a home.
Maybe stop most migration, legal and otherwise, until infrastructure and services catch up.
Maybe stop giving rich people tax cuts and cutting public services. Able workingnpopulation is shrinkibg in this countries and right wingers are responsible for that.
@@dec3142 The rich are taxed. They pay a higher ratio of tax on their gross income over lower income earners.
It’s insanity to allow over a million people per year into the UK when accommodation, infrastructure and services are in crisis.
@@dec3142 Give your pea brain head a wobble sunshine, there's an additional one million people who are able to work through (illegal) migration !
maybe we should stop paying them to stay here as free loaders of the working class and put them to work
No, no, no, adding 606,000 (legal) people in the last twelve months applies zero pressure anywhere.......the thousands sitting in hotels are also keeping our NHS afloat 😕 🤔
Supply and demand, wake up.
I just checked, airbnb has 168 places available for tomorrow night
And?
@@harmony3395 that could be 168 tenants
@@susanb4816 that's not much at all.
Filmed in St Werburghs. I lived there 13 years moved away and rented made a fortune. Bought in 1996 the property has grown 10 fold.
Buy to let mortgages have to be paid. If the rent doesn't cover the mortgage, the property will be sold off.
Even less supply.
Development needs are infinite. Unfortunately with nine million plus from overseas and Bristol being attractive to People from London etc Green belt will go. I have seen North Bristol going from a Rural feel to a suburban concrete jungle . If the Government builds over the Environment and lessen the demands it will build again. Our economy as been run on an increasing Population need which in the long term is unsustainable. Our infrastructure ie doctors and Hospitals can’t cope with millions more and a cut in budgets. Our green and pleasant land along with Nature is no longer a priority and as Cities grow and merge the population will lose their feel for the environment. How many retail parks and Hypermarkets do we need ? How many Ring roads ?
A rent cap is long overdue.
Many problems came from house price hikes, and to hear the council is trying to put price caps on housing serves not only the homeless but home owners too who have little quality of life because of being held ransom to having to pay so much for a home that there is little residual income to do much else. Where is the quality of living in that.
So landlords are expected to lower rents, but councils can raise council tax exponentially, banks can make a fortune by charging ridiculous interest rates on your mortgage and Tesco etc. can raise your food prices to dizzy heights? Apparently, all that is the fault of landlords! 🤣
The Landords legislation and buy to let restrictions have really helped haven't they?
I've lived in 3 HMOs in Bristol, of 15 housemates 3 were British.
I gave up being a landlord in bristol as the tax changes in 2017 added to rediculous ever changing beauocracy like HMO's and how to handle bad tenants made the profit smaller and smaller even though rents were increasing. Further to this after brexit it became impossible to find good builders as so many went back to their home countries. So the goverment messed it all up royally and now wants to cap rents and still over tax and mis-manage this sector. Is that all the mayor can come up with? Obviously not someone who has ever tried running a business in the uk but i expect he gets year on year wage increases like all our beauricrats....
It would help if more landlords were indigenous Bristolians.
Wouldn't make a difference.
Bristol is a batshit bonkers housing area. I had to move out 30 miles away to be able to afford a flat after living there 31 yrs plus
Cap rent prices… landlords sell… renters have no properties to rent… rent prices go up. Councils should build more houses for normal people (not the lazy, not immigrants, not students) to rent at an affordable price. If landlords supposedly can make money renting properties without raising prices, why can’t the councils?
Councils aren't allowed to. Thatcher put in a borrowing cap on Councils in 1980.
how can councils built homes they are all going bust from investing millions in solar power and wind farms
Normal people?
Who are the normal people
Small landlords want the security of fixed term contracts. The Rent Reform Bill is driving them out. Sensible reform would tax fixed term contracts higher so as to encourage landlords with good tenants to move to permanent tenancies but allow them to first monitor new tenants with a fixed term contract first.
Why not just put them up in hotels?
If the Mayor makes it more difficult for private landlords in Bristol, there will be fewer rental properties and even higher rents!
That’s why landlords can’t just be regulated, they need to be replaced. They work against the interests of the people.
only white person was the journalist himself lol
DIVERSITY !
Rents caps = Hiigher rents. Look at Scotland.
Wow, let's rent bristol and adul ayoub are very good lettings agents.
Australia imported too many foreign workers last 3 years. Non-skilled migrants. They are each where aound 370 000 according to news TV 9. They imported them for Corona Virus shortages of workers. They are staying doing nothing. The problem is that they have money. I don't know how, but they bid and increase rents everywhere. Problem can be solved but obviously this artificial increase of rents is twelcome by the government. They have issued visas and they don't send them back after Corona virus problems are over. We will see!
Does anyone remember the Fair Rents Officer? Back in the 1990s
I do, i had 2 HNO's in 1986, £16 per person per room per week, they got the rent officer in and she reduced it to £11. It was unviable so I chucked them out and sold it at a loss. that was the eighties.
@@jamesmc1272 I guess they didnt help landlords back then, but kept the prices down that way i suppose. i own my house now thanks god! i remember the last place i rented in the 90s where i had to make up the shortfall in rent that housing weren't paying, i couldn't afford it and had to do a runner in the end! Fair rent officer wasn't much help really was he ..
The joys of diversity !
Hmm immigration?
I live near UCLA
What tax levels are applied to profits made on land granted planning permission after purchase? Does land banking attract any tax penalties?
Will the Establishment Tories who apparently now care about poor people (net zero reversal) do anything?
Rent controls won't work. We need to build more social housing. This crisis began with right to buy.
and who is going to that and with what money?
@@italianstallion9170 hammering private landlords with more and more regulations and taxes will mean fewer houses to rent. There needs to be intervention by increasing the number of quality affordable homes. It's a problem of supply. The laissez-faire approach has got us to this point. If Thatcher had not prevented reinvestment of tax receipts from right to buy we would have a stock of social housing. Society has to decide if it wants to raise taxes to build more homes. There isn't a free get out if jail option. Someone has to pay or the issue will continue and tinkering with regulation will just create more problems with supply and will not fix the problem of the housing crisis.
Why bristol . I thought its a rubish place to live
42% of Social housing given to Foreigners. Ten thousand Somalians given homes in Bristol and Newport while Native Brits cannot get a home. In London the Mali Boys are one of the most feared gangs with stabbing and drug runs. Yet the whole of Barton Hill given over to Somalies so far peaceful. Hopefully if there is a Military call up most duel passport foreigners will leave and Native Brits will have a chance of a new home. Not the fault of Ethnics but the three Parties and the EU pushing Homogeneous Society
I think its easier to buy a house in AMERICA
Build towers,build more houses its a win win jobs and money!
Yeah! Just print money innit!
Where will the extra land come from for houses and food production?
@@motey99 and where the money comes from too?
Bananarama were from bristol
knock down all the houses and everyone sleeps on the street, that fairer
Typical right wing numb skull responce missing the point entirely.
Try weston-super-mare