I pay £50 a month to live in a skip in London
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- An artist in London was sick of being asked to pay crazy prices in rent.
So he moved into a skip instead.
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No need to demolish it you already put it in the Bin ! Fridge doesn't hold 6 cans even mate.. I understand its a fantastic little build full respect but don't stay there... We are not designed to live in a box as we do already... This planet can hold 100 times the people its the Criminals attempting to seriously imprison us all as they make it sound good but they can't even do that ! They have NO PLANS OTHER DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY
Can I pop over for a cuppa 😊 please.
I live in a caravan on the street of Melbourne. It’s my political protest to the high house prices . It’s the first time I have money in the bank . Based on wages of 55 hour week I will have the money to buy a house in 10 years
Cheers from across the pond. Thank you for sharing ur video.
This is a proactive and clever solution for many.
Sadly many people will judge...& won't understand being "displaced" until it too late & they themselves live in a 📦
Every one should have a safe warm place to sleep ❤
The MOST important question : ' R u SINGLE ?' 😢😢😂😂😂
You know times are tough when even living in a skip requires rent.
Not really.. if I owned the land I would defo be charging people to build their little skip houses on it😂
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 yes
@@ImMamba true
Lol of course because the Royal family pay your bills 😂😂😂😂😂
Real people will flutter. The skip is a sign of shame and remorse. The peasants shall suffer and we shall remain strong!
He's done a good job with it but it shows what a shameful country we live in
Waz da dingy diverz folt!! And dat Garry linakar
I think that's the point.
@@daftdigitalCruella, is that you?!!
(Good job I checked for context regarding your comment 😉)
@@daftdigital Lmao. Sad that most people are saying it none-satirically 🥴
Uk is not a country anymore, it's a cess pit. I've got 72yrs behind me watching the gradual decline turning into a gallop. There's no hope left.
Terry Pratchett wrote in one of his books about how "some people are so rich that they can afford to be poor", they approach poverty "from the other side". This is exactly it. This kind of thing is totally out of the realm of possibility for people who are genuinely struggling with the cost of living crisis and housing.
good point - but works as an artwork / discussion point imo
That's such a shit quote
You can definitely tell he comes from an educated, middle class background, no doubt about that
It's happening in every major city!!!
Not much good for a working man with a wife an kids .
I have the utmost respect for this young man. I wish you the best. 😊
The UK after 12 years of Tory rule.
13 years sadly
Ireland suffering the same with the Blueshirts/FineGael
Its not just the tories, labour had a good stint where they didnt fix the housing market either.
@@disarchitected true, but they aren't in power
Tories? This is thanks to labour.
Im exactly 2 weeks from being homeless and ill tell ya I would live in that skip in a second just to have a place that is warm and safe to sleep . Never been so scared in my life . The problem of people not having a reasonable place to live is going on almost everywhere . The big minds should find a way to invent a small living space for people who need it . I know some have wish they would put some money into making it widespread .
,, all the best brother 🙏, I truly hope everything works out for you ,,
You will own nothing and you will be happy. Klaus Schwab
@@iforgotmyrealname4620 yes I heard that they want everyone living in little coffin sized apartments hooked on the internet all day.
When a door closes, a window opens. God is with you. I am rooting for you in New Hampshire. Stay positive, good things will come.
"We" have "law" enforcers to deal with enforcements.???
Even here in Tucson, AZ, USA, the housing is getting ridiculous. Companies are buying homes and apartment buildings and making the rent more than a single person can afford, especially if they work in food service, stores, or any other lower-paying jobs.
His humbling and honest conversation and tone of voice is just ... If 10 % of people can carry them self as he is. Salute. Great work reporting this.
This is a massive statement on society. The man is living in a skip! A SKIP! and he is already better off then 90% of people who rent. The fact he also needs to pay 600 a year to live in a skip says a lot also. Society is failing hard. You know the world has lost its way when you look at a dude living in a bin and think "Yep he has the right idea"
You stand correct, many people all around the world are experiencing an extreme inflation issue.
Things cost almost the double they costed few years ago, housing is becoming impossible and meat is slowing getting out from the menu for the middle class.
Few people own everything for the rest just the scraps.
Hes not better off, he has no utilities or services, no different to living on a boat ,
He has a non leak roof, it looks well enough isolated, is free of mold, no roommate/housemates. Also, great location!
THANK YOU UK FOR WINNING WW2. this is what you get, also bombings and grape gangs
Or he could just live outside of London
If this caught on and more people started doing it the council would launch a brutal crackdown.
You are absolutely right. Also landlords will start buying plots they can not get palnning permission for houses on, stick a few skips on it and charge a huge amount for inner city living.
is crazy people around the world dont know british people have to go to this extent and live in these conditions just to live in london
Of course...it's London....they need to screw people over
My personal belongings would fit the entire Skip.
One step away from living in a tube with a virtual life being bigger and more important. I am pleased metaverse tanked. this isn't a solution its a side effect from intentionally poor housing policy
Affording luxury is everyone’s dream, the challenge is acquiring money to make your dreams come true
I agree with you, I had a chance to work with Mr. Robert David Trade a financial expert and I’m happy I didn’t wast such an opportunity
That’s right, he’s really using his knowledge and experience to help everyone who is opportune to come across him
Here in America we have tiny houses. They’re small anywhere from 150 sqft to 400 sqft. And are becoming a huge alternative to flats and houses that are harder and harder to afford. Many are becoming communities that people can come together enjoy each other’s company and live more simply and safely. Tiny home communities may be a good endeavor for London. My husband and I live in a 280 sqft home and find it cozy and simple. Because of the small space you don’t fall into the materialistic traps of society you learn that less is more.
In London and the UK, the issue is not that we have never heard of tiny houses, it’s that there isn’t actually much affordable or available land with room to go and build even a tiny house. We are a small country with (necessarily) tightly regulated development laws. As he explained in the video, his efforts are not necessarily scalable to other people- he is being generously provided the land for free by an arts charity and the portaloo is provided for free. His neighbour is letting him use water. He is showering at the gym so he has to at least be able to afford a gym membership. He had to be able to build the place - there is a lot of regulation about building structures in the UK. Because you need planning permission, people can’t just build where they feel like. You can build without planning permission- if you want to risk that your house with be condemned and forcibly torn down.m at any moment. If you want to build even a tiny house you would have to take all of that into account and it all costs money. What we need in the UK is landlords to be better regulated so they can’t charge outrageous prices for a room in a shared house which is full of mould and falling to pieces. Also regulation for developers who build lots of new flats and houses but then they also charge the earth for them. The real tragedy here is that there are actually lots of flats and houses but they just cost too much because the landlords and developers know some desperate person will pay the asking price so they can have a roof over their head.
@@songindarkness I was hoping someone had raised these points.
On the subject of home availability, I would like to add that the government’s open arms policy towards dubious characters (with deep pockets) from every corrupt corner of the world has allowed the problem to escalate exponentially, and now the battle is lost. There is no way back from here.
Shrinkflation but with homes!
Tiny homes are a thing all over the world.
@@songindarkness In the USA, many places have strict building laws as well. That is why many, if not most, of our tiny homes are on wheels. That is how we get around building permits, because they are classified as RVs. Of course tons of people who lack the money or building skills or just want to be stealthy about it, opt for van life instead.
Man’s living in a trash container and they still found a way to charge him,crazy 😂
Well, unless he wants to hang the skip in the air.
that is what i was thinking
Humorous bloodsuckers
England was hijacked by the British ideology, that's why.
Listen more closely to the video. He is renting the skip container, just as if you had it delivered to a construction site. The land is donated by an artist group to make a point. The toilet is donated by the toilet company or he would have to rent that too. You can't just take over a trash container off the street and build a house over it. The trash container and the land belong to someone else. You might be able to buy the skip outright, but that would cost money too. Nothing is for free, not even public housing. The people who have jobs pay taxes, that pay for that.
If more people done this the government would make it illegal, hand out fines or introduce a huge skip tax.
Window tax on the skip!
We're in a loosing battle
@@adam.677 you handicap yourself when you can't even spell a simple work like "losing". How do you expect to get anywhere in life when you can't even read or write a simple sentence?
Robin hood all over again
@@adam.677 whatever is loose, we will tighten it
I watched this after this week's episode of Panorama which focused on the state of British housing and particularly social housing. It showed a small former council house that had been sold off and turned into six mini apartments by a private landlord. The former bathroom was a unit for one tenant, the former kitchen was a unit for another. I think all the tenants were on housing benefit and the council was paying over £900 for each room! That's over £60,000 per year in rent for one small house.
Council houses sold off in the 80s and 90s were never replaced and housing associations that were supposed to be small and locally run for the benefit of the community have instead become large commercial enterprises.
I'm glad I emigrated. I bought a villa three months ago that is five minutes by car from a city centre but has views of rice fields and a volcano (dormant hopefully) for under £70,000.
Good for you👍where did you move to?
@Nino Hi Nino. We have a house in a small city in Central Java (My wife's Indonesian).
Cost of living is cheap, the food is great, the people are friendly, it's safe and we're at an altitude of around 400 metres so the climate is relatively cool. It's certainly not perfect here but news from my hometown London sounds so depressing these days that I think I made the right choice.
London’s going the way of San Francisco. I had a friend who slept in doorways and tents there for three years, and he was a smart guy, very talented. The middle class is disappearing all over the world.
He made the best situation he could, considering today's crazy prices. Just a normal dude trying to survive. Much respect my friend
A better option is to house share with friends or family. Down south east You can rent a 4 or 5 bed house for not much more than a 1 or 2 bed.
So instead of 1 person paying 800 to 1200 a month it becomes 3 or 4 people paying 300 to 500 each. Normally bigger house equals better parking, more storage possibilities and better kitchen size. Garage if you're lucky or looking for one.
He's not really homeless, just listen to his posh voice, hes doing this to prove a point and to get attention,. Attention which equals cash
@@FiveDORRA I see, so he looks too clean and sounds like he went to school........hmmm
@@aleko2136 Now having went too school or coming from money doesnt mean he has the money personally tho.
Have a friend that has a well off father but that dad has to die for his son to se a penny.
@@FiveDORRA He stated himself it was more of an art project, but he's bringing attention to an important issue. Nothing wrong with that.
Such an entrepreneurial chap! I'm sure a landlord will buy it off him, convert it into a house in multiple occupation, and rent it out for a lot more than £50.
Sadly that is exactly what will happen. Meanwhile it is a terrible concept for most people. You’d have to be pretty spry, have no kids, not have a disability, not be aged or have any health issues. Be able to get down to the gym for a shower or cook outdoors it’s just not practical.
@@r8chlletters yes not for a family or anyone over 30 !
Haven't we come far as a society? It is so evident by your comments which are totally fact?! :-)) Its destroying humanity?! :-((
Per week
@@karimtabrizi376 I'd do it even after 30 to save money, or if the location was very important to me (it usually is).
I was homeless but found roomate with an apartment he was about to lose because he couldn't afford the rent by himself. That was three years ago. Now this landlord is raising the rent $400 a,month. We can't afford it so everything is going in my storage locker. He has had a courtesy bus which he uses for work as a locksmith. I told him to keep the bus so we would have that to live in if there was no other place to go. He doesn't think we can. I know. we can. I used to sleep at a bus stop 4 years ago
I love this ! We need this in the USA! I’m a world where no one should be homeless! No one should go without food! No one should go without medical care! So many are without or struggling. It’s not okay!!
Jeremy Hunt will probably introduce a ‘Skip Tax’ in his next budget.
🤣
You spelt hunt wrong bro
@@pauljones2389 it's Jeremy cu** lol
Lol
@@pauljones2389
Yeh, it’s spelled Chunt, with a silent h.
We've lost our moral compass. What a shameful and disturbing world we live in. This brave young man is sadly one of thousands of young people stuck in this situation, and it's only getting worse. Even a blind man can see it's all heading for a crash... Decision makers... Sleep well in your beds tonight..
They will. Sleep well that is. It's good to be king.
I agree :(
I'm 23 I've been homeless since I was 17 saved up 13k no debt paid off car I bought a house so I'm not homeless anymore but seeing these bills I basically live homeless I bought a automatic portable shower pressurized for 500$ go to the park fill up my gallons shower at home I cook off my solar oven another 700$ I have a stove and running water but I after my first bill at 600$ not including electricity SINGLE I knew this was not going to work. I have a home and all the appliances but I don't use em them bills scare me I even bought a solar generator 5000 but my electric bill only 25$ cause of my fridge but my buddy is hooking solar to my fridge so I'll eliminate all my bills besides mortgage and taxes welcome to 21 century America California
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 should have bought a bus ticket to the south. Cheap as crap, beautiful spaces, respect self sufficiency. You just gotta make sure you pick the right area which can be hard to know ahead of time without a local contact.
I'm sure the Midwest and rural parts of the east coast are the same way too.
"You will own nothing and you will be happy"
-Klaus Schwab
And he will own everything including you.
What's great about this is that it can help stir up a bit of creative thinking, particularly for younger people branching away from home and having to face extreme difficulty finding affordable accommodation. Novel thinking gives birth to further novel thinking. Well done!
Well done!!! Great example. Thank you for sharing!!
I really appreciate how the builder/owner was clear that this is not scalable and clear that it was more of a demonstration about the ridiculous prices. So many of these tiny homes or ideas are promoted as being completely reasonable, scalable, and 'why isn't everyone doing it!'. Enjoyable video.
It kinda dont look that difficult from a old fashioned Caravan.
Some Arts Council should fund an extra dozen skip houses on this site - even if just for the last 6 months.
This is in one of the world's wealthiest nations, that grew rich on a worldwide empire, in city that can justifiably claim to be 1st or 2nd rank on the planet (vs NYC).
Exactly. Just like so many people living in cage homes in Hong Kong. It's now "part of society"
It looked pretty scalable to me. All you need is land and a government that works for the people. Easy!
@@butterflyfaerie8140 Ah yes, I knew you’d be along shortly. So lets run down your scenario. There’s an empty lot, let’s say an unused 5 acre parcel owned by the city. The city/government says, “we have opened this up for skip housing!”. The people rejoice. Within a few months the 5 acre plot is nearly full of skip homes in various states of repair. The skip plots are haphazard and everyone has claimed their own small area. There are no plumbed facilities nor electricity, so cooking fires and refuse piles abound. The local citizenry says, “our neighborhood is suffering because of this eyesore! It smells and its simply a haven for the homeless!”. The government steps in to clean it up, regulate it. The skip owners are disgruntled, they don’t want to be told their homes have to be built to a certain code. The next day the first fire occurs, immediately trapping the small family inside, they perish. The community and social media are outraged, they demand answers, they demand the government do something. The government weighs the benefit of providing plumbing, electricity and bringing all the skip homes up to a reasonable standard of code, versus saving those thousands (millions?) of dollars for a housing project that - instead of housing 100 skip homes in squalor - would provide a apartments for a 1000. The government decides to condemn the skip homes. The current mayor vows to increase increase available housing when funding is available.
One skip home owner on a plot with a fun tiny home is cute and artistic. 100 desperate families trying to survive by living out dumpsters on random free land is what’s known as a shanty town, which people like yourself (don’t take it personally) complain to the government about because its unkempt, gross, smelly, and bad things happen.
The problem with a home like this is that it is not sustainable in the long run unless you stay single and don't have kids ever. Also, these tiny homes always require you having a friend/family member who owns a plot of land. If you don't have that, you have to buy the land yourself which can easily cost $50,000 more in addition to the home.
Then on top of that. Building restrictions. Even with the tiny homes. You can’t just pop them up anywhere. But they should have zoned areas in every state. Or if you buy acerage. Not everyone wants to live in a city or subdivision either. The code in my city is 1,000 sq feet to build a home. Something like that here would be considered an RV. And would have to be in an RV park.
I wish they had more areas for first time buyers with starter homes. But even they have gotten rediculous in price. They built those in the 60’s. So those houses are all older too.
With how manufacturing etc has left the country. It’s hard for people to find a good paying job. Even college doesn’t guarentee that.
Did you watch the video? It clearly says that it is more like a "statement" / art project
@@howdarethee Yah that he is “living in”.
Not sure I watched the same video post here that you did…🤔…this has HUGE possibilities for “bridging-a-gap” I think 🤔 yeah - a temporary solution…meant to house ya ‘til you’re on your feet and are able to afford “bigger living”. Time Lines could be in place (ya have a year, maybe 2…?) Just seems plausible to help-out in some way or another 🤔
Buy a plot of land then convert an old van to home and park it in your land.
Living in a place with no bathroom would never work for me. I am in the US and am old and on a fixed income and rent would run over half of what I get a month so I know how you feel trying to find a place you can afford that place is cute I really like it.
I live in a small RV trailer outside of the moderately expensive town in the USA my job is located at. I save ~$600 a month compared to small apartment rent in the area and don't have to pay any utilities. Living cheaply has been a hobby of mine for over 20 years. This video is a fun project and although it does have social commentary as its main "raison d'etre" it isn't too far off from what I believe is the correct response to housing issues these days. Live mobile, live small and live free...it isn't easy but it is worth it if we have the lifestyle to match the challenges.
I lived in a 25 foot travel trailer for 2 years. It was fine. I was happy living small. I got married and moved into his home, which is small too, but feels large after living that small. We don’t need as much space or stuff as we think we do.
@@d.vaughn8990 if I was married to an American woman, I would want to be as far away as possible too
Buying a home in the metaverse is cheaper to live in.
I buitl a smaller home in the US. It has one closet for the washer dryer. Everything else is under the bed or out in view. Closets are where material possessions go to die. Be well.
See mom, my idea of living in my treehouse wasn’t such a bad idea now was it?!
Your such a clever man and an amazing personality x
An hour ago I met a lady named Cindy in Savannah Georgia sitting outside of the grocery store with her makeshift shopping cart out of a stroller loaded down with all of her belongings. Cindy will be 73 years old this coming Thursday. She was so cool and so okay with her situation I kept trying to determine if she had some kind of dementia but I really don't think she has any issues with her thinking. She was very inspiring and this tiny home is very inspiring.
Well done on making a statement. With awesome ideas like this coming out, we shouldn't have any homeless people within the next 5-7 years anywhere on the planet. I like the clean and cozy look and feel. Sure it's not ideal but for someone who has been homeless it would be a mansion. More and more tiny home communities are popping up in many places in the United States whereas it was about 16 years ago in 2007/2008 during the recession that we first started hearing about tiny homes. It really is taking too long, for the tiny house concept to really get kicked off and that is a shame. But I think it's starting to get reved up and I certainly hope so
I think an alternate perspective is that the government is allowing the great bankers and the rich oligarchs to buy up all the houses, causing the disgusting realities in front of our eyes.
5-7 years is very optimistic. We barely made out of the recession from 16 years ago and now we crashed even harder. But that's how our leaders want it, to not own anything. We can't have children, the world is overpopulated. some of us have to go..
@@DecibelAlex - Over population is a myth. Statisticians say the pop will level out at 10 to 12 billion - then fall. Many developed countries are suffering a depopulation crisis. You are correct there is a massive depopulation agenda by the Globalists. Peace.
@@DecibelAlex do some research the world is not over populated , it your governments lies, more and more land is being set aside as government land ,that in the near future we as non rich elite will not be allowed to set foot on the pristine lands. It may look like overpopulation but that’s because they will have most poor people in the cities they call 15 minute cities. I’ll leave you with that and one question, how you ever been to a big city in china ? Research my friend.
That's the tidiest looking skip I've ever seen 🙂 Must be cold without heating. I've noticed more and more people living in vans these days, too. Housing is so expensive in UK.
funny enough you saying that i deliver to lots of farms and industrial sites on old working farms and lots of people living in old horse boxes camper vans in the units themselves out of view out of sight I guess
@@redrock1965 We have a community nearby living completely off-grid. There are also quite a few people living on land they own which they aren't supposed to be living on so they have temporary accommodation such as caravans and vans. The council seems to leave them alone, though. I am a member of an online van life community with members from all over UK, and it is growing all the time.
@@Electrowave Trouble is, it only takes one nimby to complain and the council are duty bound to act. Councils don't have the resources to proactively pursue planning breaches.
There's a huge movement in the US for people who are living in their cars, often for financial reasons. It's like an offshoot of the tiny house and van life movements, except the reasons for choosing that way of life is different - often it was not much of a choice at all. Lots of channels on here about the life, mainly from older single women. The cars are usually decent sized hatchbacks and there's lot of clever ideas on how to fit out the inside. Definitely a sign of the times.
@@wilmaknickersfit Sure, there's increasing numbers of people living in cars, campervans and caravans in every city in the UK. The cost of living is spiralling out of control, fuel bills are through the roof, renting accommodation is increasingly expensive and there is a shortage of housing. I got evicted recently by my greedy landlord and had to move 30 miles out of the city to find another flat. I pay almost half my wages in rent and I consider myself more fortunate than many. I've thought about living in a campervan or truck myself. Some people do this as a lifestyle choice, but many don't really have much of a choice.
His house is a skip. Nice
My house looks like a skip. Not nice
LOL
😂😂😂
I love his thought process. I wish you well, sir!
Love his globe lights! They are made for decoration so aren't very bright, but that makes them perfect for low power lighting. I have one just like his for power outages, on 3 AA's they last longer than a candle and illuminate much more.
I lived in what is essentially a hut, not much larger than your home here. For 4 years. I am originally from the south of England but had a tough time at school due to family issues. Left without GCSES and I couldn't afford to rent on entry level jobs. So originally went into a hostel. Then moved to the far North East of England where prices are cheaper anyway. Ended up finding this shalet hut thing that was purchased as a holiday property but ended up renting it out to me all year round for dirt cheap. Anyway 4 years of that to save up for a deposit, still up north. 4 years of living in a hut, just to scrape enough for the lowest deposit I'd be accepted for on a mortgage, in the cheapest part of the country. So you're spot on about cost of living. Hard times. This government need getting rid of. Both sides. Let us down drastically.
Good luck mate... I can REALLY identify with your predicament 👉💎👈❗
You've done well to get on the ladder. I know couples with PhDs who can't do it; they have to live in an expensive area for work. I saved for 3 years to get a appt, but I lived in a really small appt to save money. The last year of saving I counted every pound - saved about 70% of my salary. People without a bank of Mum and Dad don't understand how much of your life has to revolve around scrimping for the deposit. For many people it is a mathematic impossibility anyway. Those 4 extra hard years are behind you.
Good luck with everything!
Rubber Boat bin your passport 4Star Hotel, Pocket money,and by law yes by law they are responsible for your upkeep haha you think I am kidding,fraid not Boyo.
@@Newit2 Either English isn't your first language or you're an AI bot, because you can't write properly.
Even sicker is that the native population can sink in shit, meanwhile all the illegals arriving by the tens of thousands are almost inmediately given free housing, paid for by the state (and thus you and all the other tax payers). It's even come to the point that 80 year old people are being forced out of their rented homes so their landlord can rent it to the government for housing migrants, because the government will give them guaranteed 5 year rental contracts and all reparations and expenses paid, which is of course too much to ignore for those without principles and who are only in it for the money. We have the same thing across the North Sea, in the Netherlands. A group of illegals who went through the asylum procedure and were rejected and thus legally are required to leave the country, they formed a group called "we are here". What they do is wait for business and even home owners to go out, and once the premises are free of people those illegals will force their way in and then barricade themselves there, squatting it. The leftist councils of most of the big cities refuse to take any action. Can you imagine that, people who by law have no right to be in the country forcibly take possession of your property, and no one who will even stop it or help to regain control of it?
I predicted 20yrs ago that people would end up living in shipping containers the way house prices were going, a skip is pretty close .
A lot of people do live in containers now… there are homelessness charities building tiny houses and temporary accommodation out of shipping containers too. There’s a little village of them in Bristol
Plenty of well off people live in them too, its adventurous and different. Standard houses can be boring.
except for the fact that it has an open top and is a fraction of the size, yeah really close
@@adamwilliams5426 "Well off" people live in them by choice, which is a completely different scenario entirely 😑.
a well kitted out shipping container actually gives you potential to move your house anywhere in the world....
How so called "royalty" and "elite" can live in such excessive luxury while so many are struggling for survival is evil.
Love comes from the heart, not a person’s wallet. ❤
You date him then
I live in America and the sad thing is.. people build little houses like this for homeless people then police come and destroy it
Yup and it basically comes down to the question “well who’s getting paid to have you live here?”
It’s interesting how the answer to a messed up economic model is people relinquishing a normal, minimal amount of space and resources. I feel like unchecked capitalism is forcing me to live in something akin to a coffin. Here in the US a lot of people have been reduced to living out of their cars. It’s crazy. This is not living.
i wanted to visit SF one day but was stunned to see homeless levels there
Four penny coffin
Capitalists: bUt wHaT iS nOrMaL?? wHo dEfiNeS iT?
Canadians too!
This isn’t capitalism, this is the start of neo-feudalism. You’ll own nothing and be happy…
Some skips have drop down ends and the house could have been designed with this in mind having a proper doorway. Great video ,great thinking, something going to have to give for the young ones today who cannot and will not pay ridiculous house prices whilst on ridiculous wages.
Given that the purpose of the place is an art project, the desire may have been to look very visibly like a house in a skip, an iconic image rather than practicality.
Wow luxury!
@@bearcubdaycare thought that for a young person living in anything that resembled a home or a place of refuge and and a shower would have nothing to do with art but more about necessity????
@@AFuriousCrab not luxury but some kind of refuge and a way to live???
I rent out a couple of wheelie bins to Asian students out the front of my place. They love it, but sadly I once lost one of the tenants when the rubbish was collected, my bad...I just tell them not to have them too close to the curb, so the council truck doesn't empty them on collection days.
This is better than house sharing with people with no privacy and sharing a kitchen, bathroom etc.
Is it f.
@@BeatPoet67 my neighbor Barry in our shared house always shits in the toilet and never flushes the toilet, steals the toilet rolls too
@@BeatPoet67 people get on living with space better than on top of each other
@@haider7866 what a dirty bastard
Yeah, you don't need much. Bare minimum: A bed, a chair, a hotplate, and a toilet. I'm spoiled, I also want a shower and preferably 40 square meters.
Sadly this is the state of affairs in London. I lived in Chiswick and then Perivale for 2 years and spent £2K a month on rent and council tax. I left London in debt for the first time in my life (lucky or careful?) - this piece of art is a brilliant social comment and quite honestly should be up for the Turner Prize.
£2k a month to live in Perivale? Grim.
Did you bankrupt yourself by living somewhere you could not afford?
Oh please! He's living on land he doesn't own, in a skip that's not his, and borrowing a porta potty, water, and electricity. Absolutely zero about this effort can be duplicated by anyone in real need.
London is not for poor people. If you are born into UK and you can't afford it. Consider moving out to different cheap countries. It is what it is.
@@oliver5976 that's one point of view but I lived where I needed to for work and anywhere else in the UK would have been very well off
The problem is the same here in the states. The government has zoning boards and they don't allow small houses. Apartments are restricted as to how many in a given area and so we have high costs and no availability.
Having lived in London for most of my life, it is truly absurd to witness the skyrocketing housing prices and the extreme difficulty in renting a property. Despite the aftermath of Brexit prompting many people to return to their home countries, the struggle we face is still unimaginable.
Daily reminder that horribly small, unreliable places to live in are not a good replacement for proper accommodation and will only make both the housing and the mental health crisis worse over the long term.
Seniors in Canada are being forced to live in Bachelor suites as tiny as hotel rooms. Socially isolated and left to die. For the first time in Canadian history the suicide rate among seniors/disabled is astronomical.
But Trudeau and the Liberal/NDP Communist Coalition has a solution; MAID (Medically Assisted Suicide by lethal injection) is easily available and accessible for all Canadian seniors/disabled, free of charge!
This should help with our housing crisis!
@@MsK-xm7vw Once you realise that it is YOU who is the carbon the global elite want to reduce, then everything else makes sense.
@@MsK-xm7vw That sounds neoliberal, but not communist/socialist to me lmao
@@cata112233 I’m glad you find that amusing!
Wow!
@@MsK-xm7vw I don't
He’s gone above the fill level on that skip 😂 sad state of affairs that it’s come to this, but fair play to the fella I wish him all the very best.
Made me laugh about fill level,,, big ‘greedy boards’ they won’t take it away!!!
You seem a really good bloke,, good luck to you my friend 👍
Worldwide millions of truck drivers live in their trucks. Personally I lived out of my truck for 6 months. Shower, eat, wash clothes at truck stops, I found a routine and liked it.
Great place. Cozy breeds contentment.
Hope the 4 seasons all go well for you👍
This is ridiculous all the hacks are stupid we need to demand housing that does not take half our income on rent.
Sry you wanted mass immigration of brown people so you don’t get affordable housing
Who are you going to demand affordable housing from? Cause neither the government nor the opposition have any ambitions to build.
@left_blank Well done for displacing yourself so landlords can gentrify the area and get rid of your friends/neighbours.
@left_blank and you rent?.. That's pretty good pension. What did you do for work?
@left_blank You live in a council flat and lie about your income, don't you?
Made me smile, Harry Potter finally got an upgrade after living in the cupboard under the stairs XD
Harry Potter and the confused first date.
Skips are expensive AF in London, so much so I actually looked these guys up in hope of finding a deal.
You can clearly see on the side the company is RMS skip hire, the smallest skip they have with walls is a 10 yarder: that's £315 for a week plus £63 in vat in zone 4 - about 40% more expensive than rent for that volume in that location - so unless he bought that skip off that company, or "liberated" it, I'm calling BS.
Side note - if anyone has a skip in BR3 that's more affordable in BR3, hit me up ✌😅
The Housing situation in London is straightforward.
It's always been a supply and demand issue even before the cost of living crisis.
People want or need to move here because of work and opportunity and ultimately push the prices up unintentionally.
This does mean that if you're from London and working-class... You'll most likely be forced to move elsewhere and have the prices be pushed up to the point where you can't live hence why there's so much hate towards gentrification
Around the time of the 2012 London Olympics, there was massive anger against the gentrification of London from the people who were actually brought up in London....In 2023 we only hear small snippets of it because it's been gentrified so badly by others who aren't from London and don't understand it.
I've seen my poor working-class family turn to ruin in the past 13 years. We're never leaving London though.
I don't really think there's any space for your art here.. You don't have to put a £1000+ tiny home in a skip for others to understand how the situation is causing issues.
"Excuse the mess, this place is a skip!" 😁
I would be worried that I would come home from work and find an old mattress poking out of the kitchen window!
Joking aside, interesting use of space. Total respect to this man of action. 👍⚒️🏆
It looks really nice inside. Tight but really neat and good looking. I build an off grid tiny house on wheels about 8 years ago to overcome restrictions. Being on a camper trailer frame it was in a gray zone and I was able to stay there. It was mostly recycled or free materials. Mine was a lot bigger than yours tho. I had a shower, running rain water system inside, wood stove for heat and plenty of solar power.
If you know planning laws then you wont be fooled by this , you can't just plonk a skip hut anywhere and live in it, more likley that it's not his full time home . Like he said its an " art project".
Even though there’s no bathroom, I just love it. Some simple improvements can be made to make it even more comfortable depending of people priorities. I really love it.
The skip company should pay him, they're getting free advertising. Good luck to the guy. My niece lives in London and the prices are ridiculous. Thanks for sharing 💕
Oh please he only pays £50 a month compared to 1700 for tiny 2 bedroom.
BLESSINGS to this guy
@@rosahacketts1668 jealous?
I would happily live there for £50 a month. I'll just take anything that beats a tent tbh. Rent is draining me dry each month.
i agree the rent is ridiculous leaves you with hardly anything
I've actually considered living in a tent.
@J oh yes because it's easier to find a place in Manchester, Leeds or Glasgow nowadays? ...
@@bramvanduijn8086 Same, atleast one with a stove and near a stream wouldn't be too bad. Warmth and water is all you really need. Even better if you have a nice partner to live with. That's all we humans need. Food, warmth, shelter, companionship.
@@georgeh5075the skip would be full and ready for collection if you build a house in it.
Right to the dumpster.
Keep dreaming 😂
And I used to think that sharing a house with 7 other people was bad enough...
I chose to move to France in 2006 to escape the house crisis in the UK. We bought a tiny field and built an eco cabin for €20'000.
I come home every summer to work seasonally, and live in a tiny post office van during contracts, in between staying outside friend's houses and wild camping.
I miss my family and I'm getting too old for this. My family can't join me any more because of new pressures from Brexit.
Tory policies destroy lives. It's all about short termism, financial gain and nothing about long term, sustainability, community or social care.
There are half a million empty homes in the UK, still making money for shareholders.
There are millions without adequate housing.
The UK was broken by removing most of our council stock and de-funding the social housing. Private landlords are not supervised.
Second homes lie empty in rural areas too, so that wealthy city home dwellers can go on holiday for a few weeks a year to their "own" space
Smart guy living, good for you and so innovative, I love it. I recently converted a Mercedes sprinter into a home because I had enough of exploitation - the only way to bring rents down is to avoid paying them. Alternative housing or off-grid living makes sense and means more independence, more freedom, and a little less control from above.
it take it your not in the UK as its virtually impossible here to do any of what you mentioned.People do van life but its not easy as there is no right of over night stops in the UK and also no rights to buy land and live on it.The above guy must have bought land with residential use, in London a plot that size would run into millions, so he hasn't really achieved anything,he will get his skip taken away or he is in someones garden, most people don't know people with massive gardens who can battle with the council costing thousands to have the right to have a residential dwelling placed on their land or he has "special permission" from the London authority due to it being an "art installation" and its not really classed as a dwelling ie he doesn't live their more than 28 night a year.
@@stevenwallacebaker9169 I'm in Canaderp, good luck Vannin in or near a community of any sort.
This is the definition of "you will own nothing and be happy"
He owns the skip, he's renting the spot it's sitting on. Which is low for London. That's the only reason he's happy. I hope he is saving to buy land.
Well, we never really own anything, just temporarily. You can never be free until you give up on possession. Anyway, I believe the context of your words is different, but for me personally the people who carry their lives for the one thing that doesn't matter will never understand. I pity them.......
ownership is an illusion
@@stefanfilipov7254 You might as well give up your life too because even if you have nothing or you truly believe that giving up everything you own including the things that would have sentimental value to you will give you freedom then I pity you even more. If you let go of the things you own and the things you cherish it will only become somebody else's burden
@@JamesMichaelDoyle No, he rents the skip for £50pm. A charity lets him use the land for free. The build cost him £4k.
I love the design, very well thought out.
This just seems like one of those things that is completely harmless but then some 70 year old woman would see it and complain and then the police would utilize some weird ass law from the 1500s to demolish it
He's making a good point, my parents are both from London and after they got married all they could manage financially was a studio flat, they loved their landlady but to start a family and need larger home wasn't possible so they moved out of London at the end of the sixties. And other family members my aunt's and uncles did the same. None of them have moved back, as they don't recognise the London they grew up in anymore.
Sad truth.
We’re in the process of moving from our London flat to our little loophole too, apart from ours is a boat 🛥️ best thing is we can live wherever we like, centrally or not. Or even cruise up north if we need to. Absolutely unfathomably done with renting now 😒
The canals are super-crowded in London. It's not an easy life believe me and not as cheap as you might think. Also the CRT are complete asshats.
There are thousands of unoccupied properties in London too. They're just bought as investments.
@@cornishhh Mostly by Russians.
Hello fellow London boater!! I have been living on boats for almost 6 years in London, and unfortunately it’s getting expensive now. Finding a permanent mooring is luck of the draw, and Marina prices are basically like paying rent now. In November I spent £10 a day on an electric metre at a marina, that was £300 on top of the mooring fee, crazy!! If you have a job and need to stay in one area that’s commutable distance to your job you have no choice but to find a marina or fixed mooring, otherwise CRT make you move to a distinct new area every two weeks. The licence fee is going up every other month, the price of coal nearly doubled in the past couple years, and Sadiq Khan has been working on trying to ban wood burners. Then there’s the green agendas having issue with diesel fuel. I think the boating lifestyle is under threat because it’s too freeing and the powers that be don’t like us being off grid and free to roam. They are making boating harder for sure. They want us in high rise pods where they can control us, and the energy we use.
@Joanna un FATHOMably...🤣. Very apt, if living on a boat👍👍
❤ it I live in a old travel trailer myself. An it was gutted of all the built in furniture along time ago an the front room was half repainted an the floor tiles redone... So I got to kinda figure it out myself. A pipe in the back room was leaking. The shower drain is still a thing. But my work around has been a 45 gal storage tote, as a tub with wheels to transport it. The toilet works but clogs very easily. So I'm very careful. Put in a new bathroom sink and faucet in the kitchen and bathroom. The original one in the bath broke in my hands an, leaked. Painted most of it. Loved finding shelves and, things. Got a futon in my room and tried three beds. Tv mounting definitely made it feel better my towel rack off the original towel bar. Stuff like the over the sink drying rack. Make it feel twice the size.
i lived in a skip once but it was not like this. ppl were useing that skip and i was in ther sorting it all out and basicly it was mad! i love this project. i know a guy who made a house on a trolly. so great.
I'd be curious to see updates on this, month by month. Will he be allowed to live there for the whole year, or will someone find an excuse to kick him out?
I'd bet my ass the rent goes up XD Oh man. This isn't even funny actually
It's 100 percent fake, just listen to his posh voice, I guarantee you this hipster is loaded
@William Tell That depends on what a skip qualifies as. He has permission to be on that land.
@Tom Thumb A mobile home, does that mean he's classed as a pikey
I recommend purchasing a foldable solar panel (and battery) if you have the funds! I think they are able to adapt to your roof type.
Great idea!
Need an inverter too. For that hut. You'd need to spend about $2,300
Caravan/camper supplies sometimes sell mini panels, enough for a couple of lightbulbs and a socket.
Yeah, add electrics to the tinder box
In 20 yard skip he could possible build full fledged house! And there are bigger ones ...
This is brilliant idea, easy to move, easy to flip for bigger/smaller skip. Durable enough to survive multiple location changes. This can probably survive mild land slide or flood without damage!
Let's assume you meet someone, you have 12 yard skip, he/she have 8 yard skip, you flip the both for a 20 yard skip and move it to your old location!
All the guy needs is a set of skip wheels and then , on purchasing that skip , being mobile , could practically live rent free , and get an income if he were to advertise on his creation .. Facilities also can easily be availed of at no cost . AND in passing he could make his real statement to a far broader audience .. I admire the guy and wish him all the best .. 👍💯
as much as i take my hat off to him for this, because it is awesome. i feel it wont be too long before the idiotic youths of today start tryin to mess with it
Yes security is an issue with this for sure.
Of course. Harassment isnt taken seriously unless its a public figure ...
He is also the youth of today before you open your big mouth. Not every youth is an idiot since we have the most amount of youngest engineers and scientists that we ever had. ( including me, an AI Scientist )
I never understand why tiny homes aren't purpose built in the UK specifically for people who WANT to buy and own their own property but can't afford HUGE house prices, or like me, don't need a large home, and would prefer to live in a tiny space which is more affordable to run and heat
Planning and zoning regs and insider dealing on property is my guess
Beautiful little house. Could work well with skips that have been "retired". Like cargo container homes. Imagine a little plot of land covered in skip houses and a communal garden.
Here in the South west VA United States. A 125,000 house became a 390,000 house in a matter of two years time?? There never was real talk of a housing shortage prior to the pandemic at least in my area?? Housing prices do not match the income requirements to pay these prices in this area. What we are now seeing is out of state wealthier people coming in and paying these ridiculous prices for mediocre at best homes. This is pricing locals out of the area. Home ownership WAS the dream for most Americans. Now many have realized it is just a dream. So sad. This could have all been prevented. Pandemic. Need i say more?
I live in the Atlanta area in the US and its the same here. The town we moved to 30 years ago has definitely priced a lot of people out of being able to live here, near their family and friends. Rents are crazy high and houses very expensive now a days. Good luck to you, love what you are doing.
Looking at house prices in texas and it’s so cheap? As an American yourself can you tell me why they are, really curious as I’m genuinely tempted to leave the UK and go over there😅
I bought my dream home. 200 year old farm house on 4 acres..in rural NY. 100k.
I'd pay not to live in Atlanta.
If you actually believe he lives in the skip then you're gullible, the guy is a left wing artist that comes from a rich family, he's only doing this to get attention
@@FiveDORRA not surprised AT ALL lmao. these people are a dime a dozen.
well done, totally agree, social housing is a 'tick box exercise for the government and developers" great to see you bringing attention to a very important subject. I live in Devon very similar situation, local families just can't afford rent prices. Air b&b and second home owners, doesn't help taking housing stock of the market that could be using for people to live in. Greed comes to mind!
"Living Big in a Tiny House " another great initiative eco sustainable!! Love your Skip House. Brilliant
yes london is quite warm in the winter and cool in the summer
I’ve lived in my little Mazda Bongo for 2 years now which I park near my place of employment. It’s a minibus one with the seats folded down and a memory foam mattress topper on top. Now That I don’t feel like I’m missing out on living in bricks, I’m genuinely happy that I am as free as a bird knowing I can take my little home everywhere I go :)
I like the idea of portability with the skip (dumpster?) But yeah... power, shower, toilet, land availability, fire code, etc.... Tough to reconcile. I love the idea of art projects too, but tiny houses are already a thing. Go with the idea of the hybrid skip/tiny house with modular water and power access, plug and play, easy pick up and transport. 😁
Council could provide mobile shower/toilet blocks id there were several of the skips on a block of land.
Katbar.... shipping containers are cheap and would give more room!
It's seriously quite nice. As a tiny house watcher, who needs a place, this seems good & yes, definitely a well-done statement.
The only problem is the shingles on the sides are inside the Skip and I don't see any kind of overhang to drain the water 💦 from getting into the bottom of the Skip and flooding the whole thing. But it is a good 👍 idea, but it's needing more of a ledge over the sides of the Skip to keep the Water out....I may be wrong but just looks it will catch ALOT of water and flooding the floor....
Well done - enter it into the RIBA House of the Year competition.
Amazing Spaces would eat this up!
Fantastic suggestion!
with NO toilet NO shower?
Honestly been looking into living in my car, it's got ridiculous. I can't afford to rent a place on my own.
Don't think it's goin to be that cheaper but only slightly! fuel and food still cost money!
Same, except with a van. Then again diesel prices have rocketed too 😢
You in Kernow? Crazy here too!
@@ninamartin1084 the holiday homes and second homes….. it’s such a shame. Locals can’t afford to live. It’s the same where I am in Wales
Get a caravan
I'll say you should try to find a jackery or some other portable power stations which have solar panels in the bundle to decrease the overall electricity charges and reliance on the grid and have better 24/7 electricity access and avoid power down situations in your skipper due to a blackout.
It's amazing what you can do when thing get rough. at least he's got a roof over he's head. and not sleeping on the streets Iike so many others. good on Joe. at least joe made it. you either made it or you don't. from 🇬🇧 an old cockney gal
Not just in the UK, we have the same problem here in Australia with rent and housing affordability. It's absolutely horenduos especially with ghost properties sitting vacant for years that could be used for a family or someone who urgently needs somewhere to live. And homelessness is on the rise, and to think that we're living in the 21st century you'd think governments and estate agents would be more understanding. 🤔
I've been watching the tiny house movement. You guys have got it going on! Much more sustainable way to live.
It won't be long mate, before slum dwellings make a resurgence in Aussie cities in about 10 years ....the Govt wanna eliminate middle class , widening the gap btw rich vs poor ....just like what happened during the Great Depression era
Same issues in the states as well, some places rent out literal closets with beds for hundreds, if not thousands, all part of our new world governments plan. We will own nothing and we will be happy is what they say. Get ready to start seeing bugs on your menu.
@@srmaliajosfefa3739 - why should there be slums? As long as there is sanitation & no overcrowding there is no reason to create slums. Slum living in public housing is created by people.
If we banned foreigners from owning real estate in our countries, that would cut back on those ghost properties big time. Frankly, I don't think investment firms should be allowed to own single or two family dwellings at all, while we are at it.
worlds fifth richest country.... and this isn't a bad idea at all, in fact I'm sure a huge chunk of the under 40 population are envious.... WHY ARE WE STILL ELECTING TORIES!!!!!!!!
A number of reasons. One is the thickest electorate in the world bar North Korea. Millions will never learn and it will worse than this in a decade, two decades, take your pick. On and on.
Not 5th anymore. 7th if not worse.
They own most the media outlets even the BBC is run by tories. The elites are taking as much money out of the country while they point the media barrel at the poor.
@@eightiesmusic1984 majority of voters don't vote Tory, but you can thank those holier than thou lib dem voters who sit on the fence and let the Tories get away with everything
@@noneoftheabove5816 The Liberals have split the left in various iterations going back to the early 1900s. But millions do not bother to vote. Even if under FPTP they have had repeated opportunities to remove the Tories from power since 1979 and earlier.
It looks super comfortable actually and you have everything you need in there.
Talk about a TINY home! This is great.. Nice and clean design, modern, outside design is nice.. Very cozy.. Love it! Good on ya!
Thanks for taking the time to show us your home. I'm an american and the rent prices here where I am are getting out of hand as well. Hopefully before long you'll be living somewhere with indoor plumbing and a flushable toilet. Maybe Skiphome 2.0
It's a skip!
Every single human being deserves a clean, safe home to live in. We have a lot of homeless people here all over the United States because of both a housing shortage plus the very high cost of rent. Also, where we live, the landlord can raise our rent up almost 15% this year. These are very scary times for many.
They need to work harder. We dont owe u
I highly doubt there's an actual shortage of houses, it's just speculation, lot's of empty unaffordable places and lot's of people who have actual full time jobs and cannot afford do pay rent. When houses are a for profit product and not a basic human need that's what happens. That's capitalism at it's finest.
@@m-linko go away
This is a brilliant idea, well done to him for being practical and enterprising.😊 cheap rent, save up. No brainer😂❤❤❤