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- The City of Bristol has more people living Homeless in Vehicles, Camper Vans and Caravans than anywhere else in the UK. Bristol has been Named 'Caravan City' by the National Tabloids due to the Numerous Sprawling Homeless Encampments across the City. In this video I visit the homeless camps across the city, what I found was shocking levels of Poverty, Deprivation and Depression. Homeless People living in decaying Caravans amongst abandoned vehicles and Caravans. In Part 1 of Caravan City we headed to the Clifton Downs area of Bristol, in Part 2 we uncover the full extent of the Housing Crisis in Bristol. What I found was thousands of people living homeless in vehicles and Caravans across Bristol, however alongside the Homeless people with no other alternative other than Living on the Streets are a community of Van Lifers, people who choose to live full time in a Camper Van or Motorhome, Van Life as they call it. My return visit to Caravan City was a shocking one, hearing from the Homeless people and residents of the surrounding properties in Street Interviews answered a number of questions that so many people asked in Part 1... Buckle up, if you thought Caravan City Part 1 was bad, we barely scratched the surface.
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I am so angry at our goverment
Not happy
Our housing crisis should have been sorted out years ago. There will always be the argument of running out of brown belt land and avoiding green belt land. My town has tried to provide housing by converting offices into flats, major problems… unaffordable and nowhere to park.
If you continue to do this, why not interview both City Housing unit staff and voluntary housing charities for their views and predictions?
I don’t feel like you are being very fair with the way you are portraying these peoples lives, and the feelings of residents. Someone could legally park most of those vehicles on a residential street and they would still be an eyesore whether they were lived in or not. some people might not want any ugly metal boxes with wheels to litter their streets at all, but you can’t control who or what parks outside your house. Why are you casting everything in such a negative light? Humans have lived unsettled lives for millennia and maybe being nomadic in the modern world just happens to look like living outside your friends house in a van
I am 60 so trust me when I say this is the worst state this country has been in , in my life time 🤷🏽♂️🏦👺
The problem - printing money that is backed by nothing but belief. The big nose gold bugs are at the helm of the fraud.
I’m 82 and I can verify what you say
@@Seashore1403 keep voting though im sure that will solve it lol
@@Seashore1403😊
@@carlbland68😀🤸🙃🤸😀🤸😃
Plenty of hotels for non British citizens which is a disgrace.
The gap between the poor and those that skim off the masses but refuse to pay tax is getting wider that is the real issue too many investors expecting government bailouts
Agreed!!
Spot on 100% country and council goverment in shit creek..
How about the British opening their doors to Ukraine refugees and inviting them to stay in their homes and not being sent to Rwanda, as in the case of non white refugees.
Enough of this racist crap!
The reason why locals are living in caravans or on the streets is because they don’t want to work. Why else would the government allow immigration if there were no jobs to fill?
Absolutely correct. Not looking after our own is a disgrace.
Only through sheer good luck am I not living in Caravan City too. No-one should be without a secure home - NO-ONE. Thank you Joe Fish for The Truth.
Yes a lot are in the same boat! Thanks for watching really appreciate it 👍🙏
Bullshit. You work hard im sure so you have to not live like a tramp
feel for u..am in same situation. peace nd love
cara /van life. peace and love from the guy in the box
I would feel more secure there than my own council flat.
Take me down to the caravan city where the ground is grey and the roads are shitty.
That's a good one 😂👍
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Quality!
best com every love that song
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Its scary how many people are only a few missed pay days away from ending up in the same situation.
Definitely could be one pay day! Thanks for watching please share with any like minded people 👍🙏
If it wasn't for 4 million living with their parents,they too would be homeless, million's of houses gone to those from abroad, pushed up prices for at least 2 decades, more new people higher prices, it's called supply and demand issues equals inflation problems
Tell you, here in Australia the prices for dumps are shockingly high our grandkids will find it hard to get a home of their own without mum and dad bank to help them. Best to you in the UK. Now check out how our Governments are giving millions to a war in Ukraine that has nothing to do with the West. Then people in our country are homeless or not enough council houses built. But the governments have to pick up this rubbish for the sake of every persons health.
@@Jenifer_G I've watched quite a few documentaries about the Oz housing market (I'm UK, BTW) and you're right, the prices are absolutely MAD. A million or more Aus dollars for absolute dumps, crazy!
BTW, on a totally different note, just have to say that I LOVE Australian movies. If I notice that a film is made in Oz I will always give it a go, and am usually not disappointed. Makes most of the stuff coming out of Hollywood look like total crap.
Fair play to you for treating people like human beings Joe. It’s clear you are a good lad who shows genuine respect.
Thanks for the kind words and for watching 👍🙏
agreed, he has the compassion woke people bang on about yet never actually display
@@JoefishJ sorry to speak in the third person about you here, good job brother!
As an American, I really love Joe's content. He shows us how life is in the UK from the perspective of people who don't usually have their stories told. Yes it is a bit depressing and not as glamorous as other travel TH-camrs, but it is the truth! These problems are not only happening in the UK (as in regards to homeless and un-affordability) but also in the US. We both have very similar issues going on. Most foreigners (especially from underdeveloped countries) believe everyone in the UK and US are filthy rich and they have money, which is further from the truth. Most of us are just trying to get by, work out jobs, pay our rent/mortgage, build/take care of our families and live a simple, happy life. I can tell Joe really cares for the UK and his fellow countrymen by telling their stories through here. Love the content Joe, keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for the kind words! 🙏 I just hope the videos help in some way. I hope one day soon to head over the pond and visit the United States. Thanks again for the comment and for watching 🙏
You still have to keep it in perspective. The majority of the country is NOT in this state. The majority of people are NOT living in vans or caravans. I'm British, now living in New Zealand & we have similar challenges. Governments have encouraged wealth but it's only the wealthy getting wealthier.
what a state we are in this country
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One world totalitarian socialist government is the stated goal.
"It's better than people living on the street" ❤❤❤ Bless those people ❤❤❤
Absolutely! We need more people like that 👍
Our quality of life has gone down the drain ,
9million foriegners in the UK...
@@hahanah1463That's what they say.
@@hahanah14639 million and another 40 million.
we live in the third world now but the third worlders come here and live better
What a simplified idiotic comment@@hahanah1463
I wish more people could understand/accept why this is happening. If you continually import nearly a million people into the country, year after year, then it drives pressure on wages down and pressure on accommodation up. What we see here is the result of this.
I've argued this for years but apparently that makes me a racist bigot rather than someone who looks at immigration from the aspect of the economy. The first guy interviewed mentioned Brazilian Deliveroo riders, do we really need to import people to work for Deliveroo who then need housing, welfare, healthcare etc? Successive governments have created the low wage economy we now find ourselves with and it's not going to change anytime soon. The fact that even discussing immigration has been, for many years, restricted by calling people racist etc for daring to dispute what's going on has only hindered any meanigful debate.
That's a symptom but the problem started when the government started acting in favour of foreign interests instead of home interests
@@HugeStirz 1997. Tony Blair.
I remember when it came out that a city the size of Southampton came to the UK in a year. Here is the conclusion of this stupidity
Well, Spain has been allowing the same ammount of immigrants in for the last 20 years and you don't see any trailer parks or tents in the streets.
Brilliant Vlog Joe, I’m 48 years old never have I ever seen England in such a state as it is now , it’s just a dump, everything run down , what’s it going to be like in another 25 years 😮.
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A Caliphate.
It’s absolutely disgusting that people are being forced into living in these conditions.
Sad scenes honestly I didn't realise the extent until I began researching and location scouting. It's widespread! Thanks for watching
no excuse to leave bin bags like that . they can afford take aways though .
time to take a rubber boat trip off the coast and return to 5 star luxury...
@@danneal6510 TBF homeowners will have bins outside their homes for trash and recycling and occasionally the overflow will be in bin bags, all OUTSIDE the home waiting to be collected. IF nobody came to collect your household rubbish, the rats, cats, and squirrels would soon be in it & have it strewn all around your home. These people live in a tiny space with barely the room to move, so have no option but to put their trash/rubbish outside. However with no weekly or bi-weekly or monthly trash collection services and I'm going to guess, many have no means of transport to dispose of the trash themselves at a local dump, I can't see what alternative they have.
Maybe it's time to accept that these "communities" are going to be around for a long time and provide them with large dumpster bins for their trash/rubbish and maybe portaloos would be a good idea too. I did watch an Australian video, where tent cities and van dwellings have now been accepted and land is being provided for these people, with dumpsters, toilet facilities/wash facilities etc & local street cleaners are sent to clean the area regularly, as they do local high streets & residential areas etc.
Not as a long-term solution, but as a short-term solution, working with the homeless displaced families instead of AGAINST them, whilst the local governments work at building homes and finding cheap but long-term solutions for the lack of housing. After all, most of these people, simply have no choice, life is already difficult for them, with many living in extremely cold damp living conditions and no means to cook a hot meal, so why make it more difficult?
no one is forcing them
i have lived like that my self..
it is a matter of moving your ass and do some hard work
milions of people have made a better life by moving far away and by hard work.
giving up and being lazy in a caravan is the real problem
like the weed dealer says in the start he likes it he just wants to travel...
that is why he lives there, no because he have to
personally i have gone from living in the streets for 20 years to owning more then most working people..
no one is stopping them from doing the same..
Blame our government not the people for this way of life
The government tell you theres a cost of living crisis when in fact they are allowing the energy companies to keep increasing the prices as the government tax 40 percent of all excess profits which is billions of pounds on top of the already overpriced charges while giving themselves huge payrises.
For Evil to flourish good people need to do NOTHING
No, your responsible for keeping where you live clean, no excuse for dirty practices
No I ble Blair government. Flooded the country with immigrated
. Causing house shortages. And present labour want to do the same. Yet fools will vote for more destruction of Britain.
@@Buddhavibez they meant the government are responsible for them having to live in caravans.
Well done for reporting this Joe.
Thank you 🙏👍
bless Martin, what have we done to our people. Wonderful Brits forgotten.
A really good guy, very sad to see!
thankyou its as truggle everyday. peace
if its all kept tidy and clean and no trouble to other people then good luck to them
Agreed and nearly everyone I spoke with agreed 👍 thanks for watching
That was eye-opening. I had no idea this was going on. Fair play to anyone who is doing what they can to stay human.
Thanks for watching 🙏
JOE ITS THE RENTS its not a shock to me the other thing joe its the council tax to its just getting worse our council tax is a right lot of shite
Correct havin back hander's not just council whats in shite whole country is pal...
Yes, council tax going up and up and they do less and less for their money.
@@eddieward-ev3rv JOE IF YOUR UP IN BIRMINGHAM I COULD TALK TO YOU ABOUT WHATS GOING ON HERE WITH THIS SHIT COUNCIL IT WOULD BE GOOD TO GET IT OUT THERE AND SHOW YOU THE HIGH STREET AND HOW LOW AND SHIT ITS BECOME YOUR WELCOME MAN
Agreed...Bristol is an awesome city , sadly rental prices are INSANE and unaffordable , wages cannot cover rental prices
I was in Bristol last Sunday morning as a visitor.
Around the harbour area rubbish everywhere. The Council can't even clean up after the night before & keep the streets clean .....
Without yours & a few other channels most wouldn’t even be aware of the deep seated social decay, keep up the good work because the mainstream avoids focusing on the real issues going on.
Thanks for the kind words 🙏👍
Good work, Joe. You highlighted a problem that ultimately jerked the council into gear to clean the rubbish. You made a great point . Still no skips or bins. Thank you again for excellent reporting 👏
Thanks for the kind words 🙏 yes it was really good to see the rubbish had been cleared away! See you on the next one 👍
Thank you for your investigative journalism Joe..
Thank you 🙏 greatly appreciated 👍
Terrible really. Rock up on a boat, having already travelled through multiple "safe" countries and the UK will provide illegal immigrants with food, shelter, washing facilities, toilet facilities, financial support and the immigrants need worry not where it will come from.
Yet, here you have people shitting in buckets, living in boxes on wheels wherever they can park them as the UK offers them zero support. This county is totally broken.
what does that say about people in uk treating their own that way...
this is done by yourself no one else..
look at northern europe and show me the same problem, you cant
because there are plenty of different solutions to this situation
and you are trying to make some poor soul looking bad, while your own are the worse
good luck deffending that
I left Bristol in 2015 and it looks like it’s changed so much. I need to visit again to see. Bristol used to be the best city. I’m subscribing to your channel.
It's certainly changed! I agree 10 years ago Bristol was great 👍 thanks for the sub! Really appreciate it
This is just all the Middle class kids born in the 80's, for whom Freshers week at Bristol UWE University with Charly and Mandy never ended. Now they are 40 and live in a caravan
Exactly
I'm sure there are a few! Thanks for watching
Ain't that the truth mate. I've lived in Bristol since 1986 and the rental market here beggars belief. My 28yr old stepdaughter has worked in same job since she was 16 and rents a converted garage (Granny flat) for £700 per month and she's one of the lucky ones. Council &Housing Associations waiting lists are unrealistic and despite housing developments springing up all over only a small percentage cater for social housing. Affordable Housing they say but in reality that's Affordable to ppl who qualify for mortgages. Plenty houses recently built in the Montpelier area but no upgrades to local medical facilities etc.. I've no solutions to these problems but then again I'm not a politician paid silly money to do so. Well done Joe for the video, if I'd known you were filming near Greenbank cemetery Id've invited you in for a cuppa
You are doing your fellow man a justice to report onnthis issue, keep going.
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I wouldn't like the insecurity and the lack of facilities, very nice to have the trees outside the door and the birds tweeting, bless them. I have managed to find a little resting place, one room with kitchen, bathroom, and utility room, but had to work at it. Thanks for the information, having too many folks in the world has put property prices up
Moving hundreds of thousands of foreigners in has caused the problem.
@@LilyGazouinvading other peoples countries, stealing their resources etc will cause people to leave their own countries for a better life unfortunately.
I hope you are not one of those people currently supporting us funding Israel to destroy Palestine, don't whine when they end up coming here as refugees
It’s millions upon millions not thousands
Hope you are happy in your abode.
@@LilyGazou shhhhhhh talking about it makes us racist lol
Lived in a caravan for three years on a small campsite with nice facilities, saved a ton of money which was the whole point, a bit hairy when it’s blowing a gale but to be honest i loved it!
Your channel is taking off.superb content won’t be long before you have 100k🤙🏻
Thanks for the kind words 🙏 I hope so! Thanks for the support 👊
TH-cam put him in the algorithm.
Through no fault of their own in most cases, working people struggling Through the coldest winters damp and condensation,ill health , shame on Britain 🇬🇧
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What did we do to get there? This country is becoming a catastrophe... Even in the Channel Islands and particularly in Guernsey, we can no longer even find accommodation because the rents are simply so high that people who were born and lived in their islands are forced to leave... It's is unacceptable!!!
Happening more and more especially within spots like Guernsey. I imagine Airbnb has decimated the rental housing market? It's killing Newquay for locals and other places alike
@@JoefishJ Hello, I myself was born on this island and I have lived in France for part of my life... now I would like to return there to live... but it is impossible with rents which are totally ridiculous, like a bedroom for £1000??? But are you serious here??? I am very surprised why the authorities of Guernsey do nothing to control rents in this island?
It would be good to do a TH-cam report to denounce these abusive rents... it might change things... They will end up killing this island, because everyone will leave because they can no longer find accommodation.
Guernsey is not Monaco or Los Angeles.
You keep voting in crap governments and then fail to hold them to account once they are in power because you are fed a diet of lies by billionaire newspaper owners.
Illegal immigrant’s in hotels and our people forced to live like this .
They're not worth money to the tory donors like refugees are....
Blame?
what does that tell you about your own, treating your own like that..
why are you talking about some poor soul getting a roof over their head 🤣 while your people are treating your own like crap..
Eye opening Joe , well done for reporting on this tragic state of affairs .
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How many of them are from or work in Bristol and how many have come to Bristol knowing they won't be moved on?
you're a great journalist exposing this in a time when true journalism is almost d3ad.
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shout out stiggy am in the exact same boat slowly sinking. peace to all caravan nd trailer dwellers. build a community stay together
I can remember a time - before Thatcher ! - when there were only tramps who were homeless. The selling off of council houses - which has given us more private landlords making a fortune out of housing benefit and reliance on 'market forces' have given us this grim, depressing mess.
Agreed I watched a great documentary on this topic by a fella named Jimmy the Giant. Check it out 👍 thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the rest of the content
Meanwhile in the northern town I live in there are houses sat empty because nobody wants to come and live here even if you can buy a 3 bedroom semi for £100k and the average rent in the town is £600pcm.
You can't tell me this country isn't seriously messed up when you have younger people like my niece leaving a town like mine to go to university to study medical research, then to get a job in one of those cities further down south and add to the already ridiculous housing local shortages in those cities.
It's like a mass exodus of our young from our towns to the cities where the professional jobs are because they think it will make them more wealthy but in reality I'm here earning £30k per year and paying £250 per month mortgage but then you've people in these cities earning £50k per year but half of it goes on rent to begin with. Then the cost of living as whole is higher in those areas such as food costs. Where in a city can you get a loaf of bread for 75p like I can in my town? So they actually end up worse off financially overall.
My belief is that if true levelling up had been carried out whereby the decent professional jobs in this country were spread out evenly rather than concentrated within just a relatively small number of cities then the people would naturally spread out more to cover those jobs and those areas where the housing shortage is most acute, such as Bristol, could be relieved somewhat. Then we wouldn't have people in caravans at the roadside in Bristol whilst we've perfectly good houses sat empty in my own home town.
There isn't a housing shortage for the British, it's a overpopulation problem is migration
how are brazilians allowed to work here? how do they insure mopeds no address? do we even know who they are buzzing around private roads? this country is the wild west
Having worked with Brazilians they come here under the guise of Portuguese 😂. Nice people I guess they are just like us trying to get on in this miserable existence
probably because they are willing to work for peanuts.
Rents are very expensive put bills on top of that and for the average person that can account for around 70% of their wage packet. For most people that means they can only exist living off debt. This effectively means there is no real point in working. Landlords often sell properties putting the tenant needing to have up front month in advance and deposit plus fees to rent another property. Concerns around living on a caravan in an unofficial site would be around health and safety.
I had the pleasure of meeting stigy in thailand, he is a really cool guy.
Yeah absolutely we had a great chat 👍
Many of the caravans look very similar and appear to be about the same age. Normally with a caravan park, there is a random collection of vans of different sizes and ages. The fact that the vans mostly seem to be the same make suggests to me that these people have been housed here as a deliberate policy by the council! Thanks for uploading.
Who knows! Certainly a sad state of affairs! Thanks for watching 👍
When the pressure of homelessness is so great, merely turning a blind eye can turn into "policy" on a local basis. This is definitely deliberate policy by "our" government..
I'm glad they have caravans instead of tents..
Probably, it's a "Sanctuary City".
@@radicalcartoons2766 we don't have those. This is the UK - which is not part of America. I'd worry about your OWN country.. there's enough! 😂
often caravans over 20 years old can not stay in many reguler caravan sites if they are staying more then a few days..
also renting them out can be hard, they become kind of useless when they turn 20 years old
Thanks for sharing the video with us, never knew about this and it's an eye opener ❤️
I only did a few months ago,never knew it was this bad, most of the millions imported go to London pushing people out into homelessness, Bristol is next door to London so it all over flows.
Another year arrives and 1.5 million new people arriving,600k leave,only 90 k were British emigrating in 2023.
But that's still 800 k new people to provide accommodation etc for and their offspring eventually
The British are so tolerant of the situation,so the government keep with the same destructive policies.Its not just the homeless affected by mass migration,high rent's and high house prices etc direct causes are unfettered migration,it will effect and is effecting energy prices as it tries to deal with the demand by higher prices
Thanks for watching 🙏 hopefully it will help or raise awareness in some way
Rubbish bags, not trash bags, this isn't America!
I have a large number of American viewers. You understand the word 'trash', the majority of American viewers do not know what 'rubbish' is. Hope that clears things up for you 👍
Is that the most productive comment that you could muster?
@@Humanity101-zp4sq He's a young lad, who clearly hasn't been schooled in the art of English, I blame the comprehensive system ole boy, which is anything but. Cheerio.
@@JoefishJ Well Joe, if you used the proper vernacular you'd be doing them a service by schooling them in the King's English.
@@bulltraderpt A similarly profound comment....
🎉🎉🎉 Thank you JoeFish for another great video today. This is simply amazing and I really don’t understand it. They seem to be a couple notches up from the true homeless whom a lot of them are drug addicts, Mentally I’ll, and Veterans as I see it here in the U.S.A. 🇺🇸 These ones seem to be making the best of what they can and with what they have. I do feel sorry for these people who just ended up there 😢.
Great reporting my friend and it’s fun to see your subscribers list growing.
Please keep filming and I’ll keep on watching. Blessings from, California, Carlos
Hey Carlos 👋
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Love all your videos & your very engaging friendly personality + good looks to go with it! Keep up the great work!👍
Excellent content as usual Joe. Keep showing it like it is mate.
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Thanks for the update 🙂👌
And thank you for watching 🙏
As a boater, the waste is disposed of in an elsan disposal point. There's probably a couple around Bristol Harbour but some require a key entry
It's not free. Boaters have to pay for the facilities...
Keys can be bought off eBay..
Would love to film boat life if you're up for it or know someone?
Thanks for watching 👍
@@JoefishJ Hello mate, thanks for the offer. Unfortunately my free time is limited but the boating community as a whole are very friendly, you'd only need to walk a stretch of the canal and talk to boaters, let them know your work and I'm sure you would get a good response. Popular areas are Bath and Bradford on Avon on the Kennet and Avon. If I see you I'd be happy to chat. Keep up the good work. Love the vids
Blessings for all these residents.
Agreed 💯 thanks for watching
Great report, thanks, Joe! Good to see the main site has been cleaned up.
You can really tell which inhabitants have chosen to live in a camper, and who have not.
The big yellow truck at 21:55 I am pretty sure is there voluntarily. The red Audi convertible parked in front might be the owner's as well...
Hi buddy 👋
Thanks for watching 🙏 yes definitely a huge difference to be fair was really good to see! Coming back to Copenhagen in a few months with the Mrs. I'll give you more notice this time 👍👍 thanks again buddy
Didn't Rishi Sunak just announce that he made another £125 million this year because the economy is so good and everyone in Britain is swimming in cash?!?!
are you expectim him to go and throw money through the windows of caravans 🤣
lets be onnest no one is stopping these people from going away and make a better life for them self..
millions have done that with succes..
incl my self
Great video, Joe
Thank you 🙏😊
Hi Joe TH-cam just popped up this video on recommended - really pleased to see it. I’m subscribed good on you 👍
That's awesome thanks for that! Hope you enjoy the content and welcome aboard 🙏👊
Thanks Joe and thanks for doing Camborne, I was born there but escaped
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if you just come over on a boat from france you get free hotel food and money forever
😂😂😂 that's an utterly manufactured "crisis". The real culprits are selling the UK by the pound and laughing that their ruse works on mugs like you.
Well done for doing the Tories job for them tho.. 😂😂
Bloody hell these are all my old neighborhoods, left 9 yrs ago. It's changed a lot.
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Cost off living is to much crazy these days
Definitely not helping things!! Thanks for watching
We have the same crisis here in Australia 😢its terrible
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We all know that the housing crisis is down to supply and demand. Mass immigration certainly isn't helping, but it obviously suits the govts agenda for it to be allowed to continue....... nice to see some caravan dwellers who keep things tidy. Local councils should provide services and facilities to deal with waste. Health and safety of the general public, both residents and transient's, should be a councils primary concern!
I lived in Bristol for years, left there 2 years ago, and there was None of these caravans there then, The downs was always a nice place to walk around,
This must have happened only in the last few years, I had no idea that things had got this bad.
This is a reflection of a broken society. Rent and property prices have driven so many people to become effectively homeless.
In a fair and democratic society, every person deserves a home.
Second homes need to be taxed to a higher level, this would stop landlord hawks profiting from a necessity, which is housing.
Love the channel mate
It is a lack of housing full stop. UK 450 houses per 1000 people France 550, Germany 580. We build roughly 200,000 homes per year. In 2023, 1.2 million people migrated to the UK, 700,000 net
@@leakybean501We are tiny compared to the other countries, we're already overcrowded
@@dubber4life191 I agree. I am just showing the figures,
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I'm from California and it's bad over here too . Most of the homeless people here are living in tents . If prices keep going up more and more people will be homeless.
As a retired cabin crew, one of my regular layovers was in San José. On one occasion, I spoke with a homeless man sitting on the pavement. Turns out he was an into tech but his firm was taken over and was let go, pointing out that so many people, here and over there, are just one pay check away from destitution.
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Let’s level with people here and not beat about the bush.
Bristol is a very ‘trendy’ and ‘artistic’, ‘hippie’ city.
It has high house prices and many rich kids from London have moved there in recent years.
This has pushed house prices up, and not enough new properties have been built to deal with the increasing population.
BUT…. Many of these people are choosing to live like this as they want to be in Bristol.
There are hundreds of towns up north in England where you can buy property to live in on a modest full time income. They are not willing to move out of the central areas to less expensive suburbs or even other towns, where they could afford to live in a house if they had a regular full time job.
There are also clearly many socialist agitators, who are trying to make a point, that everyone should have free/government subsidised housing, so are intentionally parking their vehicles in the most expensive areas; it’s pretty transparent really that it is political and not simply an inability to find a home to live in.
At the end of the day, Bristol is a highly middle class city, with high house prices and rent, there are plenty of places around the country people could live, but many people are CHOOSING to live like this.
Having said all that, I have genuine sympathy for the native Bristolians who have been out priced by Wealthy Londoners and at the bottom end , migrants moving from overseas.
Socialism isn't about free handouts. I know that. I have lived in such a country.
Just subbed mate, great video, shocked me to see this, just over the bridge...
Hey mate thanks for that 🙏 yes and it's only increasing! Thanks for watching 👊🙏
There is something fundamental important to this scenario along with COL , that is the price of caravan and camping sites has rocketed ,just 10 years ago a night on a site was a low as £3.00 a night , now many will charge as much as £50.00 a night ! With majority no less than £30.00 ,driving out many who would of camped on site even in winter places could be found ,this pushing out of the people unable to afford the outrageous prices in the UK is surely part of the problem a long with COL , there needs to be sensibly priced campsites ,its not rocket science just that old thing greed . The UK is lacking behind everywhere else I've seen in regard to spaces available ,taking into consideration the huge growth in alternative accommodation and the ridiculous prices to rent properties something should be done ,there are plenty of sites that could be used ,its a case of priorities ,and less snobbery and one upmanship ,something the UK needs to focus on ,it does not help shutting down areas here and there with signs saying no overnight parking ,that only diverts the issue to other areas .So council's need to act and open sites up with sensible costs ,or at least supply faculties for waste .
This is just the beginning as housing will become more and more unaffordable for people.
Caravan and tent cities will begin proliferating throughout other towns and cities, just like in the Land of the Free, across the pond.
Rental costs in Bristol are insanely high! Thanks for watching 👍🙏
Composting toilets at sites like this would make the world of difference, don't even need to factor in water supply just need sawdust.
Would definitely help those in need there. Thanks for watching and the comment 👍🙏
Good reporting.
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Well, it’s more organized than Seattle.
This will be happening everywhere, not enough housing and rents too high.
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10:32 "And up the back alley was poo" is a great line.
New sub here mate just wanted to say your channel really is great 👍 glad I found it
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@@JoefishJ thank you 👍
Does the City of Bristol town politicians have future plans for the people of Caravan City. This surely is not sustainable. Great Video Joe. Hope you are doing well 😁 All the best .
Jim and Harriet
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fuck me Joe, that seems to have expanded since your last visit.
Mate.... On my first visit I wasn't aware of the other sites across the city! Insane. Thanks for watching
Some people won't believe this...
I'm mid 50's worked 37 years in the NHS. Brought up four children and now face this lifestyle as a real consideration. The cost of living and spiraling rents mean I will soon have to work more than full time hours to make ends meet.
It's a ridiculous way to live. Millions are now close to this point with no clear option for their future. I'm holding out till the end of the year, once my rent goes above 1.2k I'm out, whatever way I can.
If you're young, migrate if you can.
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ive had to move home 19 times in 57 years,according to statistics it's at most average 8 times in a given lifetime,long story, mainly just couldn't afford the rent and the housing benefit only pay the minimum,im now with a number of health problems and partially disabled and im dreading it if ever im made homeless again! You do great commentary and interviews and are a help to many who need to prepare as many more are becoming homeless here in the uk through no fault of their own,Thanks for all you do good man😀
Council should put portaloos out.
Would certainly help! Thanks for watching 👍
caravans as far as the ikea can see
That's a good one 👍 thanks for watching
@@JoefishJ I have been to Bristol once for work. Saw the suspension bridge and the castle that over looks it. Also the churches that were bombed out in ww2. High street seemed nice.
This was my home town, I got out of the UK 25 years ago, best thing I ever did
another banger mate well done
Top man! Thanks for watching mate 👊
Hi Joe, I am from the US. How did all these caravans arrive in one spot. I do not see any vehicles in the video that towed them to the spot they are in.
Hi bud, firstly thanks for watching. Honestly I have no idea, and frankly the majority aren't in a fit state to be towed. Don't think they've moved in a long time. Hope you enjoy the rest of the content 👍
Yes bloody mystery it is all very strange
Ask the same of Slab City 🤷♀️ It kinda organically develops over years..
No doubt they paid someone to drop it off there or people donated them
shout out again to every1 living this life ssdd! same sh*t different day! keep your heads held high! ive met so many friendly people just by becoming homeless nd broke! peace nd love x
Wonderful life ❤
They thought they had managed to kill off the new age travellers / hippies by wrecking their vehicles etc but people need affordable living accommodation and this will be it for so many people now and the future
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So why can't they turn the council park into a proper caravan park with a public bathroom and laundry?It would get the vans off the street.Im sure the local home owners would support that rather than vans down the side of the road
They don't do it for Romanys and travellers, so they're unlikely to do it for these people either.
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Good grief!! What an eye-opener! But I'm wondering why I'm so surprised considering I was brought up in the UK and experienced homelessness as a youngster. Housing, and affordable at that, has always been a low priority in the UK. I remember having to wait several months for a flat to become vacant after I left home. It's a combination of high rents, not enough housing, no community support, social division, and that little or no priority in this is given while the majority is concentrated on economic freeloaders coming across the Channel - most of whom are. It would be nice if homeless Brits could also be put up in expensive luxury hotels at the taxpayer's expense! Since I left I don't think i've seen anything as bad. Great video. I look forward to more.
This is so cool. I’m on my way
How do these people get their mail? Also why is there no homeless or temporary housing there? Or is it at capacity? I feel so bad for the people having to live like that in the 21st century 😢
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If its a choice between the streets, living in a tent or a camper van or make shift home I know what I would chose every time! The latter!
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I love a caravan and a nomad life but that's a choice rather than a must. Us Brits do love a caravan. Have to say it's been a long time since I visited Bristol. Never knew of this.
What a lovely older couple
Definitely 👍 thanks for watching
Fascinating, but also sad and shocking video. I was a student in Bristol in the late 1980s and whilst Bristol was a great place then, at least when the sun was shining, I never could have imagined that it could have become so socially and economically divided that thousands of people would be living in caravans without running water an their own toilets 30-35 years later.
I understand that this situation was on a couple of the mainstream news channels (I think Sky News and GB News) a couple of weeks ago, but it needs to be a headline story on the prime time news bulletins e.g. 12 noon, 1pm, 6pm, 9pm, 10pm on all the major mainstream TV channels - BBC, ITV and Sky.
Also some good 50-60 min documentaries and/or current affairs programmes about this for more in depth coverage for the rest of the (non-TH-cam watching) population.
Thanks for watching and the comment 👍🙏 I totally agree, so many comments saying they live in Bristol and had no idea of the issue. Hopefully something can be done, I hope you enjoy the content 👍
Lots of these people choose the lifestyle. If you speak to them, so many i have spoken with sold their house and invested the cash, to retire earlier in life. Its not all poverty at all
Out of the residents I spoke too, 2 of which are in the video would be on the streets otherwise but there definitely is a community of van lifers 👍
Correct, a few years ago i watched a documentary abt squatters in bristol, at the end it was admitted by 1 that they owned a house which was rented out, so squatted for free living/playing at being a artist, while living on the rent money, lol.
Fair play to the guy who put his recycling out, i know plenty in houses who cant seem to manage it
Definitely 👍 I thought the same!!
Bristol is such a good city for cafes , lovely scenery and low crime figures. It used to be tents there.
Why dont they move to a different city or town ? Cumbria for example lots of cheap homes there , you can buy a 2 bed home for £60 grand up that way , or county Durham or Lancashire anywhere up north is a lot cheaper
Is certainly cheaper up north! Thanks for watching and the comment 👍
@@JoefishJ Yep 👍 and Cheers 🥂
Maybe some of them work in the city
@@rbxrockettrio8650 Yeah but screw that , Why live in poverty when you can live like a King up north ?
@@christineayres7199 they might only do it for so long save and buy a place, retire early
Looks just like the USA these days!!
Certainly is! Thanks for watching
They have the exact same policies
peace good job mate
Your the man Martin, thanks again 🙏