Homeless at Christmas | Family Eviction Crisis | Housing Documentary | UK | Christmas 2023
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- Homeless at Christmas | Family Eviction Crisis | Housing Documentary | UK | NEW From Housing Crisis Journalist Daniel Hewitt | 2023
Shocking Reality for Britains Families this Christmas is evictions and living in temporary accommodation, follow these harrowing stories.
#homeless #christmas #uk
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Where are the fathers of the children they should be taking some responsibility to help the mothers
I agree. Even with 2 parents it is difficult and expensive to bring up even healthy children.
What's ideal isn't always the reality of the situation. 🤷♀️
exactly, its not the tax payers job, they have enough of a hard time paying their own rent or mortgage, the kids fathers should be forced to pay for their kids.
They'll get more benefits when fathers are not in the picture.
The government should force the fathers to pay child support, if the mothers aren't widows. The taxpayers shouldn't pay for deadbeat parents.
Set yourself up financially before you breed. Yes, there are people in dire situations but for the most part it is not the taxpayers responsibility to pay for your irresponsible decisions. 🤔🙄
About time this country think of their own
To blame is, mass uncontrolled immigration, the decline of general morality in society, the decline and frowned upon nuclear family model, the single parent epidemic, the decline in economic GDP and above all successive governments who have created a welfare system where by British people are de incentivised to work, whilst importing cheap foreign labour to subsidise the short fall. This has been going on for years and has had a detrimental effect on social housing. No government will ever get on top of this if you keep importing almost 800,000 people a year into this country. This country is going to break!
People need to think harder about how many kids they have. Life is no longer stable enough to count on a partner or an income.
You can have an acute stroke at a young age and have the same thing happen. Lose everything, not be able to work etc.
@harley8680 I know someone who was 26 when they had a stroke and that's right nothing is guaranteed to anyone is it?
Terrible .. Uk English citizens should be given priority …
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some of these children have never had their own home, so why the hell are these adults gettbg pregnant before being secure. people just have kids willy nilly these days and expect everyone else to pay for it. its not just the councl, landlords, immigrants etc its the british public expecting everything for free
Until you have had an event happen in your life where you lose everything you have no right to judge!
Would you tell the immigrants not to reproduce until they have a home they can pay for themselves and they don’t claim benefits ?
@harley8680 It's called being responsible, not keep getting pregnant, not judgemental.
@@anntaylor4247 thanks, they clearly didnt understand the point. had many events as a child and been through the system living from one b&b to the next, moving schools, no home, no stability etc etc etc knock on effects are horrendous for some, including myself so yes, be responsible and stop having kids until you can afford them. the country is fucked
No money going to council to sort out housing problem these private landlords driving up rents country is in complete mess
This is not only a council problem but from the landlords, with their ridiculous rent prices and a minimum of 40k yearly income requirement, it doesn’t matter if you have a job , if you are on benefits they won’t rent their property to you , they only one professionals or a couple ( no children)
I'm a landlord and l won't rent to ppl on welfare or have children because lve been screwed over.
Having children without financial responsibility is extremely irresponsible
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn I’m not talking about people that doesn’t have a job , have been evicted, is conflictive , have a big debt etc. I’m talking about the ones that have a regular job with no issues but can’t afford the current living cost.
We live in our converted Luton.
We moved about, we stay in homes doing pet sits, work remotely as a software developer.
Every single description that lady gave of temp accommodation and not having your own home and moving about - applies to us. She's wrong. It's about having a routine and a plan and working towards something. It's those factors that make life rough, not the moving or housing issues. We have a fantastic life. Perspective, goals and drive.
@TobyCostaDunkin poor you. I was in Luton 20 yrs ago and felt like l was in the middle east. That was 2005. I can only imagine what it's like now.
London lve been told is totally different than it was in 2005, and not for the better.
It's obvious the UK is way too overpopulated with more than double the population of Canada and half the size of most Canadian provinces..
WHERE ARE THE FATHERS??
In the nick most probably
😓 It's the same way worldwide, especially in the U.S.
We can thank capitalism run amok.
@@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr I thank the idiot Joe Biden for allowing people to just walk in. They are given more then people who have lived here all their lives!
Immigrants don't have any of those housing pobleblys they have no problem getting housed Because they know how too play the system and unfortunately us British people just get forgotten like rubbish and migrant get everything for nothing
I just cant believe the first lady got kicked out, imagine if you spent quite a lot of money on sofas, beds, etc an then having to take it the tip, I would be fuming with the landlord
Same in Australia.
The same in America.
I'm a pensioner my mom died just before Christmas and I had to find a house share quickly because the landlord wanted to sell the house I'm struggling but coping in Birmingham 😮
This is a problem here in Canada as well. It was 20 degrees celsius below zero last night. There are 22 homeless encampments in my small city here in Ontario. There is simply no affordable housing available. The average rent for a tiny one bedroom here is between 1700 and two thousand dollars a month. This does not include utilities like electricity. Old age pension is around 1300 dollars a month, which is taxed. Only the wealthy can afford decent housing here. The wealthy also pay the least amount of tax. It is obscene and utterly unacceptable.
No...my old age pension is not taxed...I live in Ontario...😮😮
No...my old age pension is not taxed...I live in Ontario...😮😮
Canadian here and yes we are having a housing crisis too much immigration
The wealthy pay the most tax. You don't know what you're talking about.
That's why it's important to save for your retirement.
Most of the ppl in those encampments are drug addicts
Things should be donated to others not the dump landfill
Same thing is happening in Aus. However people can not afford even to pay "tip fees" and instead are leaving their possessions on the side of the road and advertise of Facebook market place for people to come and pick them up for free.
To evict before Christmas is cruel and callous for a young family ? Why not wait until the spring ?
Money and greed sadly
Landlord needs money too 😒 and it can't wait.
I don't understand people throwing furniture away. It's sad she couldn't keep it, but donate it, for goodness sake.
The bloody King should give you a room in the Buckingham Palace, such a greedy King!
Councils are paying a fortune in temporary accompdation. Squatters are costing people and businesses a fortune, all costs eventually land back on mortgage holders, tenants and customers. THIS is why Britain is broken. We need to get building again.
I'm a British born Asian I was near this situation 4 years ago never missed rent payment but landlord wanted to give the house to council to get more rent for migrants etc I took on another 2 jobs refused my lad to be stuck in this situation yes I pay higher rent now for the same type of house but will take on many jobs so my lad don't suffer I feel for people in these videos and yes some dad's need to step knowing your child is going through this is a shame , bless these support groups who help
Why wont the government use tht 1.7 billion temporary accommodation budget to build an affordable housing/ flat
Local councils could push for higher percentages of social housing on every new envelopment coming forward.
What
The last thing we need is more houses. Just in the area I live, there are 3 current campaigns to stop the countryside being built over.
@@teainortakoy our countryside and nature here too, getting swallowed. I'm on the outskirts. Keep moving to follow the trail and have had to move a lot recently in the last few years to keep up. Devastating the countryside with low grade architecture that will look abysmal within the first ten years.
Its the same in Australia
Yes. Irresponsible people breeding before they can afford to. 🤔🙄
Crappy landlord to serve a section 21 weeks before Xmas. Should have waited until at least January.
Why have all these children when you're unmarried and not financially stable?
English ppl should get priority housing never immigrants.
The UK is overcrowded and there isnt enough pieces of the pie for everyone.
Why isnt her kids father helping?
Maybe she doesn't know exactly who the father is.
@@stevenhull5025 that's on her for being stupid
And our government let anyone and everyone into this country and help them
Noticed the two bottles of smirnoff vodka behind the telly next to the bottles of coca-cola when she asked her daughter where she wanted the miniature tree to go? 🤔 yet it says it's a rare treat for her to view properties.. ront buy the booze and save yourself some pennies and do something with little one. 9:59
How do you know someone didn't buy it for her
Yes how dare she have a drink and experience any enjoyment in life.
There shouldn’t be a king or Queen anymore
They live the best life
While most everyone else lives in stress and depression
This is happening in the USA too
The whole system should be re evaluated and better things put in place !!!!
Its a sin the way people are treated and the rubbish money carers get but they got money for Illegals
And what about the 40% of British that they relying on benefit because they don’t want to work. They find all the excuses or they make kids just to not work. But people are scared to say this in television for discrimination? Fuck that and go to work and stop finding excuses to not work
Nah, you want the house, then buy one.
@@rudolf91187 pity you have no content so we all could see how you base this remark. I like to see content upload some videos
@@Maxx1066 just do some research
@@rudolf91187 yeah you read more books.
tI can talk with people whatever their situation is but at least the woke government is putting Illegals in hotels and free laundry some are selling or washing cars and pay no tax then load on the NHS is being stretched I take it your happy with situation. Most people are a pay packet away from being homeless we actually had friends who lost they're home this is depressing for family's and then getting the kids to school I dont wear rose tinted glasses but sadly government and woke librals cant see the country is being destroyed.
This lady paid the home owners mortgage for 14 years probably paying off the whole house price in that time and the home owner / landlord decides to evict this family 4 weeks before Christmas 😩🥺 could have gave notice in December and asked them to leave in January... Disgusting.
It sucks to be at the mercy of a landlord. I rented for most of my adult life, and moved over 76 times. I was moving home sometimes two or three times a year. I got "evicted" once because I asked the landlord to fix a leaky tap.
I managed to get a "fixer upper" that I own, it's not flash but it's mine. I couldn't imagine how awful it would be to be homeless at my age. I was homeless as a teenager due to family violence. Have had no help or assistance form anyone. My life is uncomplicated and simple. I consider myself "lucky".
I see women in their 50's, 60's and 70's living in their cars. What has happened to the world. These women are not drug addicts, gamblers or suffer from metal illness. Their crime?..Leaving a bad marriage and because they were stay at home Mothers (working gender based low paid part time jobs) have no Superannuation or savings. All they have is the shirt on their backs after getting tossed out on their ear and a 20 year old banger. These women are Mothers and where are their children in their time of need ?.
🤔And then many people come into the country, day after day, demanding that they be given food and a house because they are doing🤑 badly in their home country🙄.And the governments say OK, come in. Does anyone understand that❓ If so, please tell me why.🥲❓.............................................🙈🙉🙊
I can never understand how budget is spent on such high rents to greedy landlords rather than building houses or is it that greedy developers then step in so the houses then become unaffordable to buy without councils charging ridiculously close to market value rents, bottom line is greed 😞
Seems to be a rash of these no-fault evictions affecting even more prosperous people, especially in the SE. What is going on?
We live in our converted Luton.
We moved about, we stay in homes doing pet sits, work remotely as a software developer.
Every single description that lady gave of temp accommodation and not having your own home and moving about - applies to us. She's wrong. It's about having a routine and a plan and working towards something. It's those factors that make life rough, not the moving or housing issues. We have a fantastic life. Perspective, goals and drive.
This was me 1 month ago in NZ. Literally couldn't find a house to rent for 3 months. At the last moment, the very last moment I got a house. But on that morning I was going to move to another area away from my eldest who is doing an apprenticeship but he too couldn't find a place to live. In the end I found a house but my God it is a nightmare and the toll it takes a toll on you and your kids. I blame the Governments and the market. There are sooooooo many family's that have been destroyed due to the BS that Governments and councils put us through. God Bless this Family.
@marypoppins123 NZ has got so bad, we have a whole generation growing up in motels/hotels/emergency housing. No stability for children or parents. Its a far cry from the NZ I grew up in, so very sad =(
My daughter’s landlord gave her two months notice as she has put her flat up for sale. My daughter decided to move closer to her work in a house share . She moved this past weekend, however the Friday before last she was made redundant.Although she’s not far away from us it’s now a move to another county she now didn’t have to do
10 - 20 years ago it was relatively easy to get on the property ladder in NZ apart from the biggest cities I guess, but it's frightening now almost everywhere. :(
Stop having kids if you can't afford them where arethe fathers of all these kids don't they pay child support
Your simple. Do you want the next generation to completely stop having children unless they are in the top 1% of wealth or fortunate enough to be born into wealth and owned homes? Private renting = lifelong insecurity with regards to housing. And you can't save for a home or stay debt free whilst working and paying 48% of your income on someone else's mortgage. Too hard to rent too hard to buy. I'm writing this from a twin room I'm sharing with my 16 year old son after being made homeless by a private landlord whom I was loyal to for 6 years. 2 rental increases he couldn't get us out because I payed. He didn't do repairs adequately and served section 21 2 days after my son's birthday. 2 months in and minimum of 4 months before will be housed and cannot refuse anything offered. No choice with our own lives. And don't say "work harder, save" that's just insulting to most of us in this same situation. All this nonsense about where are the fathers well it's also working couples with kids British families sofa surfing or in temporary accommodation.
Stop blaming the victims! No one expected hardships.
It's not just rental costs it's .............references, employment status and affordability checks that prevent people from securing a room in a houseshare let alone their own studio/apartment. And the landlords working with councils are not doing so out of the kindness of their hearts, their actually charging more rent for people in shitty situations because they know that no one in a good position would ever rent from them. And on top of that, these shitty landlords that work with the council are taking advantage of people that are in bad positions and treating them like ex-prisoners/children by telling these tenants ( despite them paying £850 pcm for an unfurnished shoebox that they will be showing up every three months to inspect the shoebox just in case you damage their shoebox. They honestly love the power. All under the disguise that there good people because they are helping homeless people.
What a wining, just move to another place where they have more accommodation. If you get free accommodation, be thankful, this is portrayed in such a negative way. Many people do not even get a roof over their head nor benefits. Just sort out your life.
This is why my friend hasn’t moved out from his parents, he still needs some support in everyday life, everything is expensive
Those so called temporary places arent temporary are they?
When I got evicted last year i had seen it coming for ages so it wasn't a surprise when everyone received the section 21 letters back in the July of 2022 but still it was a shock!
what a horrible landlord. she never missed a payment , place looks update, dude couldnt give her awhile to look for a place before selling?
In the US this is spelled out in the rental lease. Tenants are usually given 60 days to move out if landlord wants to sell or doesn’t want to renew the lease.
@@barbaravyse660 wrong. 30 days if they have a lease.
My evil father gives his tenants 2 weeks
Students have taken over houses as they can adjust in students' flats/apartments.
this is so sad. here in australia we have nothing like this, well not where i have ever lived here. we have shelters but you have to of lived on the actual streets for 2 weeks until you can apply to stay the night and they are not cheap, and then you have to reapply every 24 hours. these places are run by charities and ive heard they are worse than living on the sts, people are physically assulted, have there possesions stolen, there is drugs all throughout (even though they have a no drug no alcohol ruling), people are terrified living in these type of places, so often choose to pitch a tent somewhere instead. the actual public housing lists in most major cities is a 10 plus year wait with tens of thousands of people already on the list. i love our beautiful country but so many people, who did not choose to live like this, live a very lonely horrific life, out in the elements every day with no or little help available. we have had my adult daughter and her friend and her friends daughter stay with us since december as they were sleeping in the car (her friend and her daughter). so we have taken them in and we only have 3 bedrooms and 6 people living here. its a tight squeeze, and they are all having to share a small bedroom and sleep on mattresses on the floor. but for them, its better than the alternative, especially as we just hit winter last wk. what a sad situation for all. and i have terminal cancer, so not sure how long i have left
The real problem is 20-30 years back the previous generation parents of these families made money but spent it all on lifestyle and luxuries instead of saving and buying a house or spending it on their kids education. Now those very next generation have no house no proper education to sustain. The same is happening in India where now people are spending on social media showoff, lifestyle living off the rent, not much of savings for their retirement and these very people will face the same fate. I hope this generation of India does not get swayed by this fake superficial societal norms.
So sad
I would like to hear the full back stories from the tenant problems and the landlords problems to find the the true reasons why the landlord has decided to sale , ie Goverments over taxing the landlord , bad landlord or bad tenant. No one is giving the full stories. We have to get to the Nuts & Bolts of the problems on al sides to get relief until they start building more homes
Exactly. I'm.sure some of these ppl didn't pay their rent. When you're not working your children aren't going to live well.
Having kids without financial stability and marriage is why they're in this situation
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7ynHow do you know they werent in a stable relationship at some point. 51% of marriages end in divorce. The lady with an autistic son had paid rent for 12 years & had a good job until the sons needs escalated & he needed 24hr care. Edit: With a child that disabled, the Housing Dept will be putting her housing needs as priority.
A landlord buys property usually with an interest only mortgage. On a 5 year fixed mortgage at 2% the landlord would make a reasonable profit. Interest rates are now close to 3 times what they were. If the rental does not cover mortgage payments, insurance, management and maintenance costs the landlord will be financially forced to serve a section 21 notice.Tenants must understand private landlords are normal people who invest in property for a financial return and are NOT charity organisations.
@@stevenhull5025 exactly. It's a business like any other.
I was street homeless in Brighton 10 years ago and there was no help whatsoever from the council. I'm now in a tower block 200 miles from my old life and know I'll never be able to move back or move anywhere else as I'm "lucky" to have somewhere.
Yes you are.🙄
This is worldwide like the great depression
50% children!
You need more Social housing and not Private housing. Life is toigh you need plan Young not when you're an adult. It was not nice to have section 21 at the end of the year. More private landlords are selling up. Seems irresponsible to have children without being in a marriage and not have secured a good paying job...in the past most married stayed in their parents home. The average cost to build a home in the u.k is between £1500-£2000 /m2. There seems to be a plague of single parents, what's the problem?
An estimated 500,000 landlords have sold up since 2019.
As far as single parents, husbands/parents get divorced, walk out, die. Victim-blaming doesn't solve the problem and sounds demeaning.
No, but it explains part if the shortage of housing. What historically would be a family with 1 housing unit is now 2 units, needing 2 houses/apartments
Sir Kier is going to increase public social housing and make sure our young families have a place for their kids to grow and prosper.
@@joshuaclewes1883 lol. M9st politicians are iars, he' a big one.
the UK needs less foreigners coming in and leeching off the system.
Hmmmm. Sounds just like what's going on in the US. $1600-$2200 for a 1 bedroom apartment
I remember all the help i got off my local council after my landlord went bankrupt and first i knew about it was when i came back off my holiday to a repo house and locks changed, got told not our problem
When two loaves of Tip Top and a tub of margarine hit the spot. Where's the National Enquirer...
One thing about the US, it's against the law to evict tenants without a porbable cause. The UK tenant law is both cruel and inhumane. If the tenants has not missed a single rent and is forced to moved out, they should be reimbursed with at least 5 months rent. The UK tenants deserves the tenant protection from the landlords.
The rich run this country, it has always been that way. Time for change.
😢that's sad 😢😢😢
You haven’t seen the cities in the US, they’re like tent cities in Third World countries. Do you think the problem could stem from people having children they can’t afford? Greed is a big problem too. Stop having children and where are the fathers? Boy, if I were these people, I wouldn’t take a chance on getting pregnant. This is what happens when the importance of family and I’m talking marriage mother father children, planning first, is disregarded. The children suffer. I asked again Where are the fathers? Nothing will be better until we put God first.
You can thank Biden for that. He ruined America.
Poor woman😒i hope she gets a lot off LUCK in her live!!!
vote Reform
😂👏🏼
Terrible
Does anyone work full time in England?
Many work just enoigh to get Welfare suppport, it was meant to help but it actually made some work less hours.
It's ridiculous life is tough nowadays I can't get a house anywhere rent these landlords looking for is mad i love I'm a one bedroom flat with my partner for 13years we still can't get nothing we nearly had a house last yr payed deposit landlord never give us the keys messed us bout for months finally for the deposit bk off her didn't know what her prob was she sed at the beginning no pets we have a cat then she was ok for a Pet to live in the house with us all off sudden she turned us down outta blue coz we were on benefits
You say landlords are mad for charging a market rent. Is it the landlords fault property prices have gone through the roof and not just here in the UK. It is also not landlords who set interest rates but central banks. Landlords typically buy rental property with interest only mortgages using their own savings as deposits. If Interest rates increase so must rents otherwise the landlord cannot make a profit. At the end of the day, landlords are investors NOT charity workers
I wouldn't rent to anyone on welfare either. Get a job. Being a landlord isn't about charity. You can't even write a simple sentence
Life is tough? Get a job
I am Assamese man however now a days I am understand all English by you tube /Assam famous for tea gardens and one horn rhinos
Yes, we have Assam tea here in England. Your english is good. Keep learning and you will read and speak it really well.
Hahaha
Hi.lm.so.so.sorry.pleaess.put.a.stop.to.it.just.for.me.lm.paying.bedroom.tax.which.is.all.rong.xxxx
No it isn't. Your in a council or housing association property with more rooms than you need. Too right you pay bedroom tax.
@@Lotusflower1983he's in a property too big for him because there are not enough smaller ones. Have You even researched this before commenting.
All caused by selling the council homes and not building new ones. Tories to blame
4:04 it's obvious she can't look after two children on her own, why not let the younger child go to a loving family
Bloody easy to say
She's staying the course and devoted to her kids. You have no idea what you're talking about
@@pianoreigns denial doesn’t help anyone
@@annacarter6559 You do not have kids .