I really like Professor Green hosting documentaries, like the one he did about suicide. He comes across very understanding, empathetic without being pitying, and just very genuine. I'd love to see him do more documentaries.
I know this place very very well. I know lots of people living Jerome's story. This is exactly the same story told by thousands of men. London born. London raised. Went to school right where they are still living, in all probability still living with their parents or another relative, and some of these men are in their 50's now. Came of age seeing their parents go to work at some factory, or London Transport, or the Ford factory in Dagenham, or worked at some trade probably for the council, or in a garage, or small privately owned shop, Their parents were able to afford a modest home, struggle to put food and clothes on the kids, but were able to do it, but when they left school all the jobs-- that didn't pay a lot anyway, were leaving th UK. On top of that the new immigration wave and people working under the table and off the books pushed wages for the working classes trying to work to fractions of what they were or functionally locked much of the resident labor pool out of those trades. All this during the time when the cost of living, housing in particular in London was climbing through the roof and changing. The Thatcher era planned phasing out of the council house system, to the housing association and private rental was underway. In order to get a flat, it seems like a whole generation now had to pay their dues in a hostel. .. that was new. . .and this scheme only seemed to work for females. Women and children first, and able-bodied males? Not a chance! For a girl, the surest way to a flat of their own and to get benefits was to have a child and/or say that they've been thrown out of the family home. But for males. . .not a chance. London is the place you go where you see that for the unmarried working class people its the women that have the flats, and its' the boyfriend/partners that live with them (notice the genders of the people Jerome references as those where he crashes to sleep every now and then)! When London was booming during the 1990's, it was happening right in front of their eyes, but they were not much of a participant in it or reaped any rewards. Just plugging away at the everyday struggle to earn a living enough to get a flat. "Go to work, earn a wage, and go to the private rental market", you hear people say, yet little to nothing about the public school system (ILEA anyone?) steered or prepared you for college/university or the idea of pursuing a profession or even a trade that might get you a kind of job where you could earn a wage to afford a private rental property (hats off to those that were able to make it despite that system). Even then, a lot of this started back when there were no jobs to go to. People finished school and immediately signed onto the dole. Some are still stuck in the state they were when they left school all those years ago-- economically and vocationally unstable and low wage earning. Social mobility is a myth for most, unless that mobility is down. Many of those that ultimately found jobs, these tended to be jobs that would not ever take you out of the working poor. Just making enough to scrape by. And I mean scrape by with you STILL living with your parents and not paying full private rent on a place of your own because try as you might your regular low wage job and anything 'legal and lawful' you might do on the side/part-time was never enough to take you sustainably over the crest and stay there. These 'regular' jobs never seemed to last long enough to plan and build a life on. Long-term employment seemed more stable if you worked for a big company or the government in some capacity, so the transport system, a teller in a bank (a glorified cashier if we are being real), aid in a school, cleaner in a hospital, employed in some non-managerial retail capacity, etc. . .none earns you enough to be comfortably away from the margins but those tend to be jobs you had for a long time, so, those that had those jobs were well established in the working poor, always a paycheck or two away from disaster. In all of this, London has not become more affordable to live, hell, look at this vid, they are talking about Clapton. CLAPTON!! Back in the day, you couldn't drag anyone kicking and screaming or even pay them to live in Clapton. Now it's on the Hipsters gentrification radar and is already pushing long-term residents out. That rent, $400 a week? $1600 a month?? Back in 1982 you could have bought all of Lower Clapton for that and still had some change in your pocket! Check around there, you'll see older residents that have had their flats/houses for decades still there, and living with them are their full grown male children in their 30's to 50's, mostly because the ability for them to generate that $1600 a month even from the job they have, and likely have had for quite some time would probably take every penny they earn and leave nothing at all for anything else. Wages for many have always been modest and have kept many treading water for a lifetime.
This is sad to much high price living. Like he said Jerome is fortunate enough to at least be able to stay with aunt and his aunts let’s him. He should probably save enough money to move out of London
@@mrwood4557 agreed all these people don't know how good they have got it ... move out of London if u can't afford it .. just like the rest of have had to do ! At least you have a job and family to stay with unlike the genuine homeless population who literally have nothing
I can agree with you on this. There is a mind frame that if I grew up in London I surely can remain to live in London?! Not with these escalating rent prices. Other people move further from London or other cities and commute as a means to survive. There needs to be some sort of compromise by all parties.
LivInADream their mind frame is completely justifiable. Why should people have to alter their lifestyles for a system they didn’t create. Also you’re saying they should move away from all their friends and family? What kind of life is that
@@budsio agree ...but you cannot go on complaining about rents etc in london as thats not going to change for you.So you need to make a change in your location.
I was in care and i was lucky i had a Foster mum that showed me how to deal with the system and ive had my house for 17 years now my brother has been housed 3 times by council and has lost all of them due to not paying his rent he is in hits 30 now on the street ive offered to help him but he smokes too much weed and drinks dont help with simple things like gas or electricity but will buy trainers what can you do when prople dont want to follower the rules , i cant have him around me or my children behaving like that I'm not saying the care system is perfect but a lot of kids cause the drama on to themselves
Jerome seems like a good guy he deserves the best. People that are saying he shouldn’t have had kids have a fair point but are narrow minded. At least he is trying to provide for them and wants the best for them.
2:20 You do that by moving, ur kids will experience the same thing when they grow up, you are just pushing the problem to ur kids when they eventually face the same situation.
Then why not just rent a much cheaper place a few stops north from Clapton overground. It's retarded that it costs so much to rent in some parts of London but that's the reality. Most people cant afford to live exactly where they want.You have to be resourceful sometimes. Prioritise. Maybe less emphasis on looking fresh and save a deposit
Am about to be homeless and am single parent got 2 kids and living on low income because I can’t leave my kids alone and I only work when they are at school and off when they’re off the school and the private landlords with their stupid high rent its just impossible. My problem with the council is that they give their properties to people scamming the benefit system and they being doing it for years and not offering any of those properties to the hard working people who can actually pay the full council rent because it’s stupidly cheap like £500 a month for 4 bedrooms flat and you would pay 4-5 times that rent for private landlord. The private landlords need to be regulated by the council based on the location and put a limit for it but of course they won’t do it otherwise the value of the property will never go higher and maybe will lose some of it value and that’s not what the investors want and that how the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer because of the rich people can’t saying enough.
The same exact thong happend to my mum so she just moved to spain and i am 13 and have been living hear for 2 years with my brother it's pretty shit and I face alot of racism but at least I have a place to stay alhamdouilah
Right Wrong Tube can you imagine the outrage of landlords if they got capped on rent prices? And on top of that, private landlords are a source of income to the government, the government must be bonkers to do that
live shortly outside of London, 400per week is expensive, you can easily find single rooms for 200 per week, and if you have never had a home to house your children, don't have two kids
If he can’t afford to live in London he needs to look elsewhere, not be stubborn and say “why should I have to move out of London?” Well cos you can’t afford it buddy
Who is going to fund it? And with local planning authorities trying to offload the responsibility of providing affordable/ social housing to developers, the chances of ‘just build more houses’ is slim.
To be fair this Jerome seems to be just moaning about his circumstances. He's got places to stay whilst he gets his stuff sorted. If he can't afford yo live in London then it's time to move on, no one's holding him there. He just wants to stay to be close to his family, life isn't all roses. He needs to grow up and sort his life out.
..yea and when men move from their kids and find it difficult to be a successful distant father...most people will label him a dead beat dad. Personally, I don't blame him for suffering to be an active father! Is that a crime?
If u really wanna get better u gotta put in the shifts maybe find 2 jobs 7 days 12 hours a day make enough money to save for a deposit and live outside, learn a trade or apply to a course take out a student loan. Theres plenty of things to do you just gotta be innovative.
Net migration with illegal immigration = a population the size of Birmingham entering our country every year. However, we can't house our own people who have fallen on hard times? Some of these people are ex service men. This is why the far-right is rising.
@@jameswhiteley6843 but Capitalism is an entity that is allowed remain as an untamed beast. It allows for the free market, customising countries and affecting societies for the sake of profit. Accumulated wealth is starving these Capitalist countries. When the government lose control, we all are left at the mercy of those that want more and more.
Capitalism has a better history than socialist or communist societies. I prefer individualism and personal freedom rather than big Government deciding upon my future. Human nature is to want more and more.
I really like Professor Green hosting documentaries, like the one he did about suicide. He comes across very understanding, empathetic without being pitying, and just very genuine. I'd love to see him do more documentaries.
I know this place very very well. I know lots of people living Jerome's story.
This is exactly the same story told by thousands of men. London born. London raised. Went to school right where they are still living, in all probability still living with their parents or another relative, and some of these men are in their 50's now. Came of age seeing their parents go to work at some factory, or London Transport, or the Ford factory in Dagenham, or worked at some trade probably for the council, or in a garage, or small privately owned shop, Their parents were able to afford a modest home, struggle to put food and clothes on the kids, but were able to do it, but when they left school all the jobs-- that didn't pay a lot anyway, were leaving th UK. On top of that the new immigration wave and people working under the table and off the books pushed wages for the working classes trying to work to fractions of what they were or functionally locked much of the resident labor pool out of those trades. All this during the time when the cost of living, housing in particular in London was climbing through the roof and changing.
The Thatcher era planned phasing out of the council house system, to the housing association and private rental was underway. In order to get a flat, it seems like a whole generation now had to pay their dues in a hostel. .. that was new. . .and this scheme only seemed to work for females. Women and children first, and able-bodied males? Not a chance! For a girl, the surest way to a flat of their own and to get benefits was to have a child and/or say that they've been thrown out of the family home. But for males. . .not a chance.
London is the place you go where you see that for the unmarried working class people its the women that have the flats, and its' the boyfriend/partners that live with them (notice the genders of the people Jerome references as those where he crashes to sleep every now and then)! When London was booming during the 1990's, it was happening right in front of their eyes, but they were not much of a participant in it or reaped any rewards. Just plugging away at the everyday struggle to earn a living enough to get a flat.
"Go to work, earn a wage, and go to the private rental market", you hear people say, yet little to nothing about the public school system (ILEA anyone?) steered or prepared you for college/university or the idea of pursuing a profession or even a trade that might get you a kind of job where you could earn a wage to afford a private rental property (hats off to those that were able to make it despite that system). Even then, a lot of this started back when there were no jobs to go to. People finished school and immediately signed onto the dole. Some are still stuck in the state they were when they left school all those years ago-- economically and vocationally unstable and low wage earning. Social mobility is a myth for most, unless that mobility is down.
Many of those that ultimately found jobs, these tended to be jobs that would not ever take you out of the working poor. Just making enough to scrape by. And I mean scrape by with you STILL living with your parents and not paying full private rent on a place of your own because try as you might your regular low wage job and anything 'legal and lawful' you might do on the side/part-time was never enough to take you sustainably over the crest and stay there. These 'regular' jobs never seemed to last long enough to plan and build a life on. Long-term employment seemed more stable if you worked for a big company or the government in some capacity, so the transport system, a teller in a bank (a glorified cashier if we are being real), aid in a school, cleaner in a hospital, employed in some non-managerial retail capacity, etc. . .none earns you enough to be comfortably away from the margins but those tend to be jobs you had for a long time, so, those that had those jobs were well established in the working poor, always a paycheck or two away from disaster.
In all of this, London has not become more affordable to live, hell, look at this vid, they are talking about Clapton. CLAPTON!! Back in the day, you couldn't drag anyone kicking and screaming or even pay them to live in Clapton. Now it's on the Hipsters gentrification radar and is already pushing long-term residents out. That rent, $400 a week? $1600 a month?? Back in 1982 you could have bought all of Lower Clapton for that and still had some change in your pocket!
Check around there, you'll see older residents that have had their flats/houses for decades still there, and living with them are their full grown male children in their 30's to 50's, mostly because the ability for them to generate that $1600 a month even from the job they have, and likely have had for quite some time would probably take every penny they earn and leave nothing at all for anything else. Wages for many have always been modest and have kept many treading water for a lifetime.
Thomas Grey intrest analysis..👌🏾
Thomas Grey Idiot.
Very well said
Thomas Grey you have too much spare time
Bring bbc 3 back to channel 7 and more ppl can watch this
S SS Or alternatively scrap the BBC completely and then the British people can escape their indoctrination.
This is sad to much high price living. Like he said Jerome is fortunate enough to at least be able to stay with aunt and his aunts let’s him. He should probably save enough money to move out of London
The rent outside of London -- in the south of England, at least -- is just as bad.
fuzzylumpkin49 well he will have to go somewhere if he can’t afford the rent there. Or get a roommate
@@loves3965 I think a room mate, or shared house, is probably his best option.
Somerset, can rent a 3 bed house for 450-500 a month. Why stay in London if you can't afford to
@@mrwood4557 agreed all these people don't know how good they have got it ... move out of London if u can't afford it .. just like the rest of have had to do ! At least you have a job and family to stay with unlike the genuine homeless population who literally have nothing
He should move out of London... it's ridiculously expensive
I can agree with you on this. There is a mind frame that if I grew up in London I surely can remain to live in London?! Not with these escalating rent prices. Other people move further from London or other cities and commute as a means to survive. There needs to be some sort of compromise by all parties.
LivInADream their mind frame is completely justifiable. Why should people have to alter their lifestyles for a system they didn’t create. Also you’re saying they should move away from all their friends and family? What kind of life is that
@@schws001 i left my family and friends and started elsewhere and am glad i did.
Beggars aint choosers .
@Balance I think the problem is there shouldn't be beggars in the first place. More equality would be better for all of us.
@@budsio agree ...but you cannot go on complaining about rents etc in london as thats not going to change for you.So you need to make a change in your location.
From the thumbnail I thought that the interviewer was the homeless one
Blaithin. Keaney looooooooool
Housing should be prioritised for young people leaving the care system!
I was in care and i was lucky i had a Foster mum that showed me how to deal with the system and ive had my house for 17 years now my brother has been housed 3 times by council and has lost all of them due to not paying his rent he is in hits 30 now on the street ive offered to help him but he smokes too much weed and drinks dont help with simple things like gas or electricity but will buy trainers what can you do when prople dont want to follower the rules , i cant have him around me or my children behaving like that I'm not saying the care system is perfect but a lot of kids cause the drama on to themselves
Professer green is d realest interviewer that works 4 d BBC respect 2 him
Jerome seems like a good guy he deserves the best. People that are saying he shouldn’t have had kids have a fair point but are narrow minded. At least he is trying to provide for them and wants the best for them.
Jerome is a powerful and the wise man he really is one of the realist people
Why is the world so cruel. Such a good person. So sad. Why??????
The world is cruel because of those who dominate, influence and appropriate it for THEIR benefit.
Its been made extremely hard to gain council propertys and private rental prices have risen drastically the goverment need to sort this out
This guy was speaking to the homeless with a CANADA GOOSE jacket 😂
The homeless guy is wearing a monc jacket
2:20 You do that by moving, ur kids will experience the same thing when they grow up, you are just pushing the problem to ur kids when they eventually face the same situation.
He has to move out from London. Maybe dont stay too far from London so that he can go visit his family maybe 2 times a month.
So many broken families......
His coat alone is one months rent 🤧
Then why not just rent a much cheaper place a few stops north from Clapton overground. It's retarded that it costs so much to rent in some parts of London but that's the reality. Most people cant afford to live exactly where they want.You have to be resourceful sometimes. Prioritise. Maybe less emphasis on looking fresh and save a deposit
I couldn’t think of a worse place to live in England than London
Worst poison you can give your kids is not support them emotionality and financially. Truth.
Seriously i see people daily sleeping in the station in suits waiting to hop the train to go to work, i salute them
Am about to be homeless and am single parent got 2 kids and living on low income because I can’t leave my kids alone and I only work when they are at school and off when they’re off the school and the private landlords with their stupid high rent its just impossible. My problem with the council is that they give their properties to people scamming the benefit system and they being doing it for years and not offering any of those properties to the hard working people who can actually pay the full council rent because it’s stupidly cheap like £500 a month for 4 bedrooms flat and you would pay 4-5 times that rent for private landlord. The private landlords need to be regulated by the council based on the location and put a limit for it but of course they won’t do it otherwise the value of the property will never go higher and maybe will lose some of it value and that’s not what the investors want and that how the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer because of the rich people can’t saying enough.
Look into housing benefit, you will be surprised by how much it could help, I wish you good luck mate.
The same exact thong happend to my mum so she just moved to spain and i am 13 and have been living hear for 2 years with my brother it's pretty shit and I face alot of racism but at least I have a place to stay alhamdouilah
mr. T 123 racism is everywhere, but make the most of what you can
Right Wrong Tube can you imagine the outrage of landlords if they got capped on rent prices? And on top of that, private landlords are a source of income to the government, the government must be bonkers to do that
@@nadim2769 yes it is
why would you have kids if you cant support yourself kmt.
Why would you allow rent prices go up so much that working class can't afford them?
Same reason there are people who are anti abortion, knowing the babies will be born to conditions like Jerome's
Maybe him and the other was on track and something happened
U dont know
Statically that is unlikely.
I am from a dirt poor family, but I worked hard in school and tried my best. Even I am struggling but that is the free market. Adapt or die. ,
I dont understand then... i dont ever want anyone asking me for nothing
live shortly outside of London, 400per week is expensive, you can easily find single rooms for 200 per week, and if you have never had a home to house your children, don't have two kids
If he can’t afford to live in London he needs to look elsewhere, not be stubborn and say “why should I have to move out of London?” Well cos you can’t afford it buddy
How hard is it to build more houses? We have plenty room for it
Quite hard. Maybe we should protect our countryside and have less people come into our country?
Anna K And presumably we should just give houses to these wasters and freeloaders? Where’s the money going to come from genius?
Who is going to fund it? And with local planning authorities trying to offload the responsibility of providing affordable/ social housing to developers, the chances of ‘just build more houses’ is slim.
Somethinglie 3,000 homes empty in London because *CHINESE NATIONALS* use them as investments without the intention of actually living in them
Maybe if property wasn't treated as commodity people would actually be able to afford homes
I am almost in the same situation, rent is terribly expensive here in Czechia.
Hope this guy gets the break
Basically I'm homeless. I live aid my parents.
Rent a room £400-£500 pcm
where?
Wf Mike I rented a room in west London for £400 I’ve seen places even cheaper then that given there not the best rooms but if your desperate
So what your saying is if we don’t own a house we are homeless, so am I homeless because I sleep in my mums spare roon
Goalie got twatted at 0:48
I live in giant hamoc in friends living room .
Back to channel 7
If you can’t support yourself why have kids
London is fucked it's gentrified to the point that you have to be a millionaire to own a property
"Homeless" but wearing a £1200 jacket... Maybe if he saved his money rather than splashed it on luxuries he wouldn't be living on a sofa...
I don't think you understand, how much I love Professor Green and if you are looking for a wife, hit me up!
To be fair this Jerome seems to be just moaning about his circumstances. He's got places to stay whilst he gets his stuff sorted. If he can't afford yo live in London then it's time to move on, no one's holding him there. He just wants to stay to be close to his family, life isn't all roses. He needs to grow up and sort his life out.
..yea and when men move from their kids and find it difficult to be a successful distant father...most people will label him a dead beat dad. Personally, I don't blame him for suffering to be an active father! Is that a crime?
“Not to be big headed but I dress alright, I got my trainers I look fresh” yeh no dont worry mate no one’s jealous of you
0.21 driving around in your f last shy mercedes
And yet the Tories still don't care!
Having a good luxury house and having nothing, Still the sleep is the same, both you dream both you getup
Be Humble One is slightly warmer in the Winter...
Anybody can be homeless but it’s weird when someone says they have been homeless for months or years
Jerome, stop smoking weed and rent yourself a home
I've been on the dark web, makes homeless look easy!
The thing is if this guy was female he would get housing from the council easily coz he's got a kid
P Green looks I'll in this has he lost weight?
Did he go barbers tho ...
If u really wanna get better u gotta put in the shifts maybe find 2 jobs 7 days 12 hours a day make enough money to save for a deposit and live outside, learn a trade or apply to a course take out a student loan. Theres plenty of things to do you just gotta be innovative.
Move out of LDN THEN! He is not desperate to get his own place.
Net migration with illegal immigration = a population the size of Birmingham entering our country every year. However, we can't house our own people who have fallen on hard times? Some of these people are ex service men. This is why the far-right is rising.
Because capitalism isolates, and it's inability to recognise its own faults only perpetuates things like identity extremists.
And Thatcher was the devil
And socialism/communism only makes people equally poor. Controlled capitalism is good.
@@jameswhiteley6843 but Capitalism is an entity that is allowed remain as an untamed beast. It allows for the free market, customising countries and affecting societies for the sake of profit. Accumulated wealth is starving these Capitalist countries. When the government lose control, we all are left at the mercy of those that want more and more.
Capitalism has a better history than socialist or communist societies. I prefer individualism and personal freedom rather than big Government deciding upon my future. Human nature is to want more and more.
Meanwhile refugees welcome smh
Stop bombing their country's for oil n gold then maybe u won't have refugees
You are aware countries such as Syria have less oil reserves than the UK?
Night on?
@@jameswhiteley6843 Average IQ of 65?
iq-research.info/en/average-iq-by-country
we need communism
No, communism is more evil then capitalism, capitalism is the lesser of the two
Ukrainian famine says otherwise