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- Sky News was granted unprecedented access to one of the busiest homeless drop-in centres in London, run by Crisis as new figures reveal that homelessness in later life is up 13% from last year.
The housing crisis will be a major issue for the next government. Should they win the general election, the Labour Party is promising 1.5 million new homes in the next five years, while the Tories are promising 1.6 million new homes.
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I work full time in the NHS and can't afford rent, what chance do the homeless have?
And the government will spend billions on weapons in walls supporting countries that Ukraine and Israel where his own people are struggling
None ,exactly how the establishment wants it ,
gov quick to house illegal immigrants
Go on strike again!!
@@ravd8082 bot reply on every comment trying to stoke hatred
Forgotten seems to be the wrong word, I think ignored is more accurate.
forgoten by capitalism coz they have nothing to offer to the system any more
Indifference is more accurate.
It's deliberate immiseration - there's more profit for the rich in that.
They should just grab a Prem. They're actually quite nice. Especially the breakfast.
@@RogerMellie-yk3gw How do they pay to stay there?
that is extremely sad. Ending your life on the street after a life of hard work and suffering is inhuman. Your body hurts, your mind is tired. Gosh... this is not acceptable.
How do you know they have ended upon the streets after hard work?
gov quick to house illegal immigrants
@oeilgris No one mentioned anything about hard work.
In hotels? Thats hardly an extravagant housing solution
This country lacks shame. How can our elders be treated like this?
Look up two penny rope and sleeping coffins of the Victorian era. This country never had shame to begin with. The thing I hate most is that when people want to live outside the system and be self reliant they get battered by that very same system.
It lacks ethics and respect. Plus charities are businesses, they may of started for other people, but now they don’t tend to care.
Their problem WILL NOT MAKE ME shameless. I CAN AFFORD
ME.
What did they do when they were younger and able to Work to Have a better future? ?
@@zaneta3880 probably spent all their money on rent
Trevor seems like a decent human being. He clearly cares about himself, he looks clean and presentable and someone who could be your friend or relative. I live in Cornwall, rent is cheaper here. Also, there is a real shortage of people in the trade for home renovations, maintenance, building. Of course I wouldn't want to force anyone to relocate or do a job that wasn't what the were suitable or capable of doing, but if a man like Trevor was interested in doing contract work in another county where life is cheaper is this a solution? Training, a relocation budget, a set up budget... Then he starts to be a tax payer, worker and just someone back connected with society. I would talk to whomever my MP will be after the general election if this seems like a workable idea.
Brexit made working in another country not even an option for most people.
@@justanothernobody7142 he said county not country. He means if leaving London would be a good option for some people to try their luck elsewhere.
@@sandrafinbar Ok my bad I misread. Whilst it's better than living on the streets and might work for a few people it's still not really a good long term solution, more like a short term fix. Most counties that have cheaper living do so because there's generally less work and wages are lower, plus that work tends to be limited to just a few industries.
On top of that a lot of property agents and landlords are not wiling to take on anyone that doesn't have a full time job or that can't pay a significant amount of rent upfront so any person doing that needs to secure work somewhere before they can even think about relocating.
The anwser really is for governments to build affordable homes and stop letting the rich buy up all the land and property in certain areas.
I keep hearing that Cornwall is becoming more expensive for the locals because of the second home market.
This is going to increase as more adults live alone and stay single. One income is not enough as the cost of living increases. Good luck.
I’ve noticed a lot of people end up homeless after a relationship breakdown. They can just about manage financially as part of a couple, but once the relationship ends….no chance.
Literally thinking this. This plus later life illness with the inability to participate to the same degree in the work force will eventually mean millions of people struggling if they don't have the safety of home ownership and some financial dependence made realistic by having a family.
Yes, having studied my family history back to the 1700s older people always had to endure living with family even if they didn't like it and even if there were 12 people per house but at least they had a home.
So true. Me.
The homeless people need stability
A home
A toilet
a shower
a bed
a living room
Come on
It’s vicious
Once we are safe we can get a job
Pay bills
Live life
I live in a van and love it . Went from working 60 hours and paying contributions to get nothing in return to working 20 hours a week and not contributing a single penny . I work 2 days and spend 5 days doing what i want . Mcdonalds pays my council tax for me as my rubbish goes in their bins 😊
Sounds like legitimate freedom.
Is it not impossible to find places to park though?
@@shelleyscloud3651 I purposely look for work that will allow me the parking , it's part of an honest and upfront interview with me . Currently work for an international parcel firm 2 days a week and am allowed to park it in their secure car park . My van has literally everything BUT a shower so i use a local gym membership with swimming pool for that. My van has a gas cooker with sink , 3kw wood burning stove , 5kw diesel heater , 2 roof vents with intake and extraction electric fans built in , toilet and an 8ft x 5.5 ft bed that goes up to a dining area for all the friends i don't have lol and all my electric comes from solar power or the van alternator . I highly recommend van life for single people or a couple that want to simplify their lives and not work every hour .
@@shelleyscloud3651 I'm lucky in that respect as my work lets me park it in their secure car park
😂 im lovin it
Strange. A few doors down the council has privately rented a house to an Afghan family at 2.5k a month! They can manage that.
Yes, the government seems to want to help newcomers instead of helping the British. It's the Kalergi plan in motion.
Yes and it’s not the Afghans fault. Britain were involved in the war on terror and the families of the soldiers and the people involved are being given a fast track.
@@SM-df8fy It's the Afghans fault for not being able to create a functioning state that doesn't breed instability. Regardless the Taliban have restored order, it's safe to go back now. Refugees are not supposed to be permanent settlers, they stay until it's safe to go back, it's now safe to do so. We should not be prioritising foreign nationals over our own people, if bringing in refugees compromises our ability to look after our own then we shouldn't do it.
Nothing compared to all the resources they stole from there
@@Ziinosspeech what resources?
Broken Britain. We need to support our most vulnerable by taxing the super-rich.
Not building wealth or businesses like the super rich, but by mugging them?? They can just leave to another country.
Or............. just get off your backside and work hard for a living.
The super rich mugged us in 2008 when we were forced to bail out their financial ponzi scheme. Theyve also received 885 bn in QE since then which has produced massive asset price inflation especially in property. The entire system is set up to protect these cosseted people
People are already working hard for a living but the super rich have crushed everyone's wages and driven up the cost of living not to mention passed on the costs of their financial crises
Get some self respect!
@@T5Zplayerworking hard for a living but only getting a low wage is why they are in that situation.
This is the future for generation rent. Elderly without anything to show for it.
It's a scary future ahead for them.
Street homelessness in most towns and Cities is simply heartbreaking 💔. The public services housing budgets have been underfunded for decades. Next government need to address this growing issue and fund accordingly - FAST!!
so sick !! wtf is he homeless...its not fair to brits that theres no help for him or others, id be more than happy to buy him at least a meal..what is going on !!!...why can he not be put into a hotel???????
Why are they homeless??? What did they do with their working years???
He didn't come over on a dinghy, that's why he can't be put up in a hotel.
How can he vote,with no address?
Every indigenous Brit should be housed.
Sickening
or pay £1000 at least for a tiny room? London
London is a failed state
He should move out of London then
@@zaneta3880 the real answer nobody likes to hear lol
That's because our politicians look after illegal immigrants before their own people.
So all your saying is the homeless have to pretend their an illegal immigrant and they be fine ? ...try it .
I know a man who is almost 70 years of age, has cancer and heart issue's and he has to continue working full time just to pay his rent and prevent becoming homeless. Local social housing say he has no chance of being housed.
Trevor comes across as so nice and grateful for the help....but this shouldn't be happening. We seem to have lost the ability to provide support for these people and I'm guessing Tory cuts are to blame.
Yep. Labour will definitely sort this out won't they? Won't they? Hello! Anyone? Labour will save these people................oh,.wait. what?
@@stuntmansynyster Their silence speaks volumes!
But they can house illegal immigrants in nice hotels.
Context matters mate.
@@lionroar26 Context? The same terms have to apply to all homeless people otherwise it's plain discrimination.
@@lionroar26 correct. Citizens should absolutely never be put second to newcomers
All by design by the elites gg
Also non self reliance. The Central Banks in tandem with government has Neo feudalism in plans . People being dependent. Made to comply. People need to get their independence, unite.
Great Reset UK
We need to make transitional homes
And we don’t need to destroy farmland doing it
There are so many stores gone bust
So much empty square feet of office space that can be transformed
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Apparently, all we have to do is make sleeping in unsightly tents in cities illegal and that will sort it all out. Mental health problems will disappear. Debt will be paid off by fairies. Beautiful free housing will build itself (but not near us, obviously) and every homeless person will be able to work, for free, in our struggling NHS and other Public Services. It really is that simple #VoteTory
and they only accelerated it.
People balming asylum seekers for this? Really? The working class British population is BLIND
Really?? Yet we have money to house people in hotels from other countries who come here illegally, but not our own homeless?? Something doesn’t add up, does it.
Too good for Travel Lodge this lot. They will insist on the Savoy
@@kamj2948 the cost of poverty
3 billion next year what a absolute far left comment
@@KiloKnog 3 billion 💀
This is terrible, Britain wilfully neglected it’s own population (white & black) and instead imported a new population to replace the British population and gave them all jobs, houses, cash, cars and help we didn’t get.
We are the neglected people and this country doesn’t care if we are all left living on the streets. Britain is a terrible country, wish I wasn’t British. Look at how this country treated the Windrush generation and it’s own people 🤮🤮.
Hope they all get some help, this is extremely sad and unacceptable.
God help us all!
Vote Reform!
the windrush were illegal unwanted immigrants
What a lovely society we live in, older people left on the streets in addition to all the rest failed by the UK's housing system. Councils, and the laughable housing system are at the centre of this national disgrace. But in general it's our society's contempt for homeless people. "300,000 houses" were supposed to be built and that didn't happen. Two years ago the government trumpeted a £654 million homelessness funding package, promised for councils to target support at those who need it the most. It was part of a wider £2 billion package of support to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the next 3 years.
300 000 houses wouldn't cover 300 000 illegal young men that ate priority housing in next 2 years
VOTE REFORM.
Horrible💔and a failure
An advanced society should be at least able to protect both younger and older population 🙏🏻
Land law goes back to 1066. People borrow against housing assets so if prices fall, then the borrowers can be insolvent. That is the political basis for not building more (i.e. not allowing prices to fall).
How about just working for a living?
@@T5Zplayer agree . But circumstances varies in the long life of a person . Bad health can be a great obstacle to be employed.
@@camillac.s.279 Yes, been there.
and dirty air and water in the uk just speed the decline up
I live in Eastbourne so many homeless, at the weekend went to Nottingham homeless people yes, however, mass students Developments all over Nottingham. Pass through London Kings Cross alot of homeless outside the station i definitely can see the increase. No political party will ever address this issue.
Why though
@Dipo_Miller Labour have said they will build over 1 million new properties this won't even touch the sides of how bad it is.
@@ywiggan Yes, building properties isn't the sewer…a lot of new builds are getting brought up by landlords and buyers/renters are still priced out of the market. Two party system is a joke. Hope everyone gives Reform a chance…the only party to talk about treating our veterans better too.
Why would they address an issue they caused, they make it worse every year, it's all by design, population explosion
Homeless in Manchester city centre has skyrocketed in recent years. Let's see if Kier Starmer comes up with a strategy to turn things around.
Ironically, billionaire Ritchie Sunak has many spare bedrooms in his multiple mansions.
Ritchy W.E.F.’s home swimming pool was being built at the same time that the local public pool was being shut down due to a lack of funding.
😮 people set tents alight. What the hell. What’s wrong with people.
Seen some footage of this kind of evil acts😢
Meanwhile houses are given free to people who just turn up from abroad.Why not do this for people like Trevor and others like him.
There’s no way we should be doing this homing the world.
Every human needs a home
Come on
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The government and the media need to be honest with the people that there will never be available homes in London because they don't really want regular and poor people living there. They should support people to move to other towns and support the whole process to ensure they get proper social support wherever they go to avoid isolation and loneliness and to make it easier for them to integrate.
But plenty of housing for immigrants over the past decade no wonder there are no homes for British people.
Homes have to be affordable. 300,000 isent affordable. People are moving out of London there is no point. It is disturbing the amount of homeless people who are on the streets . Where is the dignity 60,70,80 year olds homeless. Shocking
Housing will never be affordable as long as people insist on living in London or some other big city where there are people, citizens and foreigners alike, willing to pay higher prices to live there.
Yo .. old people die outside... nothing?
And economic migrants get put in 4-star hotels.
Damn now it’s economic migrants too apparently 😂
I will live with friends and we share our income that's helped a lot. Otherwise I would have been struggling we decided to support each other forever.
Exactly. Good living people need to pool together communally, in shared ownership.
I would take myself out long before I ended up on the street. With health problems homelessness is not an option for me.
So flood the country with other people.
It'll much much worse come 20 years. It'll hit harder to those who struggle to pay rent and bills at the moment.
Why can't be live in a hotel
I can see people living in cars and vehicles like they have in the US
Thats the very lucky homeless who have a car to live in.
It's already happening in the UK, people living in cars etc masses of homeless , most are working and can't afford the rents or find anywhere, demand is huge and supply not keeping up with population explosion every year... Blame the politicians policies
@@MC-mv2wrthey still die in their cars from the cold
Already happening. The invisible homeless.
Wow! Brent - what has gone wrong? I guess gentrification. When I was growing up there was always a room to rent somewhere. At least in the area that I grew up in. No one that I knew charged eye-watering prices either.
SUNAK CANNOT AFFORD SKY TV
Good grief - getting them to vote when NO BODY in Parliament is going to help them ever!
more money to Ukraine. own people are sleeping rough
And to I s real.
And zero money to aslym seekers and illegal immigration please
Why can't they be put in hotels, but random people floating over can?
Surely it's discriminatory?
This is a national disgrace.
These people are our fellow citizens. However they have ended up here is irrelevant they desrve a roof over their heads.
Even if a shipping container or glamping pod inside a building like they are doing in Stoke for the homeless.
Imagine trying to live like this.
There is no such thing as deserve.
Britain is a large psychiatric hospital😂
it is a hospital, not just a psychiatric one.
I am starting to believe Johnny English
Years ago back in the 1990's, I thought it had become like an open prison - but psychiatric hospital is now more apt.
It really is survival of the fittest in it’s purest form for everyone to see 😢❤
I agree it's the same in America
Just go to Calais, hop on a rubber boat back here, then free home, free food, free money and healtcare, free car and free to do nothing all day. The government keep saying we have a "housing crisis"..... No we dont, there's plenty of houses for natives.... We have an immigrant crisis and that's why there isn't any room for our own. This needs to stop.
A crisis. Same here in the US
CARE IN THE COMMUNITY.
...WHAT CRAP.
Years ago in England many of the homeless were older. Over the years young people became homeless which was manly due to drugs and the cost of living including rent.
Where are these drugs coming from? Hmmmm.... seems like Britain is being pumped with poison and venomous individuals. On mass scale! It's getting spooky 😮 👻
sod that,If I become homeless,I rather sleep in a tent and sleeping bag,Or,I go some where out in the middle of no where,Build my self a home,Cant be nothing worth than no roof and no bed to sleep in,Sleeping outside shop door ways,late at night,I be more scared thinking,Who is about,Could be horrible people ready to stab me up,That goes on a lot now days,Rather go some where,Where I can feel safe
should all get together buy them selves a rubber boat land on the Britain shoreline they'll get a house within weeks
Need a new type of government one that puts Britain and British people first nobody shpuld be on the street unless that were they wamt to be
Give Reform a chance!
Why should people work FT for someone if they are not receiving a fair livable salary.
I'm beginning to agree with Gen Z to just stuff it. Companies are too greedy.
Disgusting. Even the guy interviewing the homeless guy was not british. Wtf is wrong wirh this country
Racist
Disabled... same... 🤜🤛
Not where I live,they get huge benefit support
I always wonder about their family or friends. Dont they have anyone to help them to avoid homelessness
I tell him, go back home Rishi sunak
This country don't care.
Homeless had rised in King's Lynn town,Amount of times ive gone there at 2am in the Morning,See tons of people all sleeping outside shop doorways in sleeping bags
Well done Tories! Vote for any party but the Tories.
How many of those working in the homeless field are actually British and NOT immigrants themselves?
I am 54 and gonna be homeless soon
Yet the UK have money to house Muslim Asylum seekers in hotels who come here illegally, but not our own British homeless?? Something doesn’t add up, does it.
I work full-time and can't make ends meet. What chance do they have.
I probably will be joining them soon.
They want us dead.
Really disgusting with thie government how dare they give houses to the immigrants first our poor
There would be a housing shortage, why because people born here are not the priority its the foreigners mainly of Islamic domination or others that get first refusal on most social housing that becomes available, most of us born here can't even get on the housing list, i have been trying for the last five years
Yep never seen a Somali or Afghan homeless.
I agree and I've been on the housing list for the past 15 years with no light in sight I'm hoping but I do agree it's unfair we need a government who puts our citizens first how can we be homeless in the country were born in is disgraceful and scrap the right to buy thatchers policy has depelted our 5 million social housing stock for the past 40 years!
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Well, he can't vote can he?? No address.
Where are the 4 star hotels for British homeless people??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Why does sky never ever feature white british homeless??.... they are forgotten about and are victims of huge unlimited immigration into this small country which cannot adapt to these huge numbers, its a lie to say that immigration doesnt make homelsssness worse for the british😮😮
He has AirPods but he’s been homeless for a decade?.. how did he get AirPods?
Thumbnail looks like an album cover.
Wow I never know this happen in England .
Always one step from the street is a hopeless place to find yourself. Dreams dead hope slashed and it’s too hard a journey to get out of it without help. And the tories didn’t care so that’s why they are being punished. We hardly saw homeless people back in the 60/70’s wots gon rong? Cheap stuff from China is one thing
These men simply have to go to France and come back on a dinghy on the channel and theyll get free hotel stay and 2 meals a day paid for by us... (yes thats sarcasm highlighting how awful our immigration system is)
Trevor should be working and forming meaningful relationships then he wouldn’t be homeless
Cleon 😢
As his big age should be able to rent a room no
House Tax: 150£ per month
Rent: 600-900 £ per month
Bills: 100-200£ per month
People in the UK are living pay TAX.
Why its so expensive to live on earth? Lets find a different planet to live free
The UK is a tax haven, it has been for years. Instead of the wealthy paying it's fair share of tax the responsiblity is shifted onto normal people to make up for it.
I just came here for the comments blaming the government and immigrants for everyone’s problems.
He can get a house but not in Brent. A home outside Brent or park bench?
The housing crisis is everywhere
Brent or a tent ⛺️ 😂
Conservatives say that they would build 300,000 homes a year but Labour say 1.5 million over five years. It's the same thing. lol
Everyone is waiting for labour to come and save the day. Wait and see what horrors they will do when they get in 😂😂🤣🤣
People are blinkered by just the two parties, Lab and Tory. Cons will probably go out, so the default is Labour at the moment. People only seem to think only two parties exist.
@@ianhill4585 Yes it's why the two party system was invented, illusion of choice and all that. It's ridiculous
Just like post-Churchill pre-Thatcher Labour.
How or why is “Trevor” homeless?
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Greed
@@paulgibbons2320
Ignorance.
Our Planet today:
Overpopulation, Limited Resources
Disappearance of the Middle Class
Energy crisis, Inflation, Job Insecurity
No. Most places on the planet have compassion and humane programs for their elderly citizens. It's mostly in the UK where the elderly, infirm or handicapped can be outright ignored and neglected by their own government. And sadly, their fellow countryman. Effing heartless.
Keep bringing more….
I never seen an Indian homeless . Those people will have multiple people in the house by any means . Where are these peoples friends and family
‘These’ people. We here are they. Don’t make Presumptions.
Well your indifference is symptomatic of the selfish society isnt it?
I dont believe for one minute youd take in a homeless friend or relative
it is the ones who have no support network that end up homeless. Indians usually keep in touch with one another, they do not allow their own to die on the streets.
@@swojnowski8214 What a Load of Old Cobblers.
@@joancooley1387 Literally 🤣 Oh man
Purgatory.
These folks have been condemned and are carrying out a sentance.
The blind will never see it.
With Labour planning to tax retired people out of the homes that they worked so hard to buy, we could see a big increase in these numbers.
Good. They can join the rest of us then.
I wish they would tax more if it meant the country wouldn’t be falling apart. Sadly they’re not rising taxes
@@infosuge
But that would be just delaying the inevitable.
This is rapid in the USA too
And so many countries
Hotels?
Just keep sending millions to Israel.
Give some credit to the Ukraine... ffs
ISRAEL IS GETTING MONEY FOR PROTECT US FROM ISLAMIC RADICALS
@@adiintel1 What are Ukraine giving UK back apart from people?
@@ThePrymeShow Lol they mean Ukraine is just as bad as Israel for receiving our cash…one big money laundering scam.
@@ThePrymeShow They are fighting against Russia, that's the only reason other countries are funding them, they are hoping it's going to weaken Russia in the long term if they keep the war going for as long as they can. Plus war is always good for business, arms manufactures still get paid.