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In the run up to the 2015 general election, a war is going on for the right to live in London. Rapid gentrification - praised as "regeneration" by local councils and property developers, derided as "social cleansing" by critics - is breaking up established communities. In some cases, families who've lived in London for generations are left homeless; in others, they are forced to move across the city or out of it completely. Meanwhile, the real estate opportunities are making lots of people - many of whom do not actually live in London - very rich.
In part one of Regeneration Game, host Daisy-May Hudson visits the Carpenters Estate in Newham, the borough with the biggest homelessness crisis in London. With Westfield shopping centre, the Olympic site and excellent transport links surrounding the area, the land on which people's homes stand has rocketed in value. The council has said the Carpenters Estate is no longer "viable" and has been slowly trying to relocate residents over the last eight years - but a group of local mums are leading the fight back.
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Problem arrises when people working in the civil sector such as teachers, police, firefighters, etc can't afford to live here.
it's not just about social housing. it's lack of affordable housing period in London. It's a joke.
@@francisa7567 lol no. So many of London pop roper try is in the hands of rich foreigners who don’t even live here. And my country is worth more than an economic zone
@@francisa7567 ur talking about the tax evaders that are buying property’s and not even living in them
@@francisa7567 yeah how did this all work out for Paris? The worst thing a city can do is move lower income households to an area and put higher income households in another as its shown to ghettoize the lower income ones of the populace.
Exact same issue in Paris and other European cities. But the problem is that most people want to live in expensive cities which they can't afford.
My mate broke into one of them locked flats and has been living in it for the past 6 years
Still there?
@@GlossaME moved to Scotland
When I was living in London for our apartment we paying 1250 pounds a month. My colleague who was living in a council house was paying 70 pounds a month. They complain about migrants but the truth is that their own people are using all these benefits
People who pay £70 a month on rent are people who can't afford any more. I'm sick of this British tendency to blame the poor. If the wages were better then people could pay more rent. But they don't so they can't. If the rich in London want to still have people emptying bins, cleaning their houses and working in their shops then they need to make it possible for the people working those jobs to actually live alongside them. With the price of public transport these jobs are simply getting less and less worth the commute, especially since people are having to live further and further out.
Sudhir Kakar you mean like somewhere up north where there’s no work and even more people are on the dole and in need of social housing? Yeah, great plan. Britain should just learn to give to the poor instead of the rich, then the place will be better for everyone. There‘s a serious problem when entire neighbourhoods are made up of unemployed people and the only way out for them is either dealing drugs or enlisting in the army. Every penny spent on someone poor comes back tenfold. Every penny spent on someone rich ends up in Switzerland.
Sudhir Kakar Read any recent study on the topic and you'll see that you're mistaken. What needs to end is the poverty cycle. Free school dinners, free or cheap university tuition is what Britain needs. That's the only way they'll manage to get the next generation into a better situation than their parents. Being poor sucks, nobody does it willingly. That's just a myth the Tories want you to believe so they can push their agenda and give rich people tax relief.
@@acmulhern You want everything for free....scrounger.
@@mjh5437 actually no, I'm lucky enough to have never been on benefits. And I'm happy to pay taxes if it can pay for those who aren't as lucky. I'd rather my money pay for people who need extra help than pay for Boris Johnson's covid parties.
You can blame the Olympics for this displacement. It happens in every single nation the Olympics visits.
too many LAZY BRITS in public housing ........here's an idea you finish high school and get a job, save up some money and put a down payment on a house........instead of not educating yourself and having three kids before your 22 and collecting welfare the rest of your life......the government is tired of supporting you
Stanley Sangary You do realize at any given time, there may be 50k to 150,000 jobs available, while there's millions of people who need jobs. In other words, even if every position of employment was filled, there'd still be millions of people unemployed.
Stanley Sangary Respond to my above statement, Stanley.
it's a valid opinion, more relevant than most of the others
Stanley Sangary Now your just repeating yourself...Troll much!?
The same problem is occurring in Brooklyn. Wow I cant believe its also happening in london
It sounds like these people rent and there contact was up and didn't get renewed... if that's the case that happens every where. Why would you want to live in a city center were the cost of living is about to sky rocket?
***** Actualy what happened here was, that those people cannot afford housing at the moment and so the government provides housing for them. However, for reasons the government decided that the people could not live there anymore and moved them elsewhere. The reasons why people still want to stay in the city though are that they have family and friends there, their children go to school there, they might actually have a job (sometime even up to 3) and they can nowhere else find another job, as the rest of England is slowly going down. And just for the reason, that London is home and lets be honest, people don't like change.
quickquack Thanks for the explanation, sounds like a shitty deal
***** That is life, when you are down it is so difficult to get back up again.
Because it's their home
It's not only council tenants, there are people who own flats who are forced to sell to the council to make way for luxury blocks.
Hello from the USA! I've been following the housing crisis in the UK on KZhead for about a year now ever since I viewed the Documentary "The Great Estate". If you haven't seen it, you must. I'm so saddened by the fact the land under the tower blocks and other council estates is being sold to private, money hungry developers, ,and the tenants are being forced out with very few, and poor alternatives. I decided to research urban development in the US and zeroed in on the Bronx, in NYC. I found many instances of wonderful regeneration/renovations of what we call "projects" - some high rises like those in London. Not only were the building completely transformed and well maintained, the residents were placed back in their apartments at the same low rent! Wow! Now the flats aren't "luxury", but they are clean, modern, and a delight to come home to. I can't help but wonder why the UK can't do the same thing. I know it's expensive, but the money for the Bronx renos came from a variety of groups. It's better than making people homeless and having to send them far out of the city to get a roof over their head! Shame! I'd love to read your feedback, friends, about this. My heart breaks for these people. Everyone deserves a DECENT dwelling. kzhead.info/sun/jdaKl9VupHeap4U/bejne.html
They want to push people out that's it ,look up Grenfall tower what happened was horrific I left London 10 years ago and haven't looked back.
It's quite nice living in London. It's expensive as hell tough.
Society is so dumb down . An excellent view for me is nature Trees, mountains, streams ,Lakes...
Seriously, people of the UK crack me up. In America you get evicted for whatever reason, there's absolutely NO back up for you, no assistance. What a sense of entitlement these people grow up with.
Well that’s because the American government doesn’t care about their people
honestly, why are they fighting to stay in London when the pressure will only grow? If you don't have a job that is specific to the city, go where they tell you to go and make your life there. London is the best city in the world, but only if you're earning £50k+ a year. If you don't have enough to stay, why struggle?
Thanks for the vid Rupert Murdoch
Interesting documentary, thanks Vice
Why do people pay so much for a "view". People are literally paying hundreds of thousands for a keyhole to look through where they get a small glimpse of something they will completely forget about a month after they start living there.
One of the best things the council can do is expedite the permit process. Buildings can sit vacant and unoccupied for years while permits are sorted. It takes time to build new homes but there's no reason it needs to take years for it to even begin. As London gentrifies it will become far more expensive, everything from a loaf of bread to school fees will skyrocket. Those people that don't want to leave London will be begging to, and if they are in a council flat, they're stuck.
The hunger games comes to mind.
I don't get why people are whining, if you can't afford to live in the capital city, then move outside of it, it's as simple as that.
Growing up in housing (in australia) I can sort of relate to where they're coming from and I wish there were other ways to deal with these problems, but I guess in the end the system will play out. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. As the wu tang clan said - "cash rules everything around me"
It is social cleansing, if your lived in London all your life and generations before it’s sad to be made to move else where regardless if your on benefits or working lower.
I love how they always show this skyscraper in which KSI has his Penthouse :')
Can someone clarify? They live on public housing, which, as stated in the video, is meant to be temporary. This property is highly valuable and the sale of it can be used to develop the city. They then whine about their evictions. They should either buy the property or live in more affordable areas. This documentary is almost trying to portray that the people being evicted are property owners and are being driven out of their rightful homes
SotNist So by your logic someone can just walk into your house and claim it as theirs? The pieces of paper matter. Also, if they're aren't any affordable areas you move out of the city center to find work elsewhere. You either use your social contacts to help facilitate that move or use government agencies that help find you work around the country. People have always migrated in search of a better livelihood. Living in shitty conditions is meant to be a wakeup call
Ricoh Vegas Are you developmentally disabled? What makes you think rural and suburban areas can handle a large population if an area already designed for a historically dense population can't? Again, you're suggesting that a jug of water be poured into a spoon, so that the spoon can become a jug of water and the already existing jug of water can become a spoon again. It's mindless repetition of destabilization that requires incessant destruction and rebuilding, as a perpetual waste of human resources, energy and time.
SotNist thanks for deleting your previous comment. You sir have added nothing to your argument through your previous comments. You again provide no facts and are using mindless metaphors. Please try again! Thank you! #youareanidioit
Ricoh Vegas You don't need a wikipedia page to tell you that square pigs don't fit in round holes, and that more > less. It's a fact that low density population areas are not built to handle high volume populations. High density population centers exist where they are due to the topographical viability of hosting both the necessary architecture and infrastructure, serving as pivotal transit junctures for regional/global traffic and goods, as well as the basics of sustaining civilized, domesticated human life. Stop being a neanderthal.
SotNist then how do you suppose cities form? They initially start as a low density area that increases with density over time. You're acting as if millions of people are being moved when the case is only a few thousand
Bread & butter vs. Caviar: surely we can just enjoy caviar straight from the bottle, silver spoon and all; we don't need bread & butter.
love him or hate him you gotta respect Russell Brand for getting behind and promoting this campaign.
Why? He lives in Shoreditch which was once an area for working class people that is now the hipster hub of London because high earners like him have flocked there.
William Python rich and poor have lived side by side in London forever. but now people are buying for investment and not to live here. That is the main problem.
Good one, Cameron!
london is overrated.
UNike your mom ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Jaxaa Its not fucked up. Its just overrated.
It may be overrated but only an ignorant twat wouldn't recognize the growing problem in London.
Lived in London for 2 years then moved to Edinburgh, London is shit and overrated. Everyone seems to be living in London for the money, Just a City full of greedy bastards.
MrOfficialmudkip Am i the ignorant twat?
Guten Tag ;) interessantes Video! Gut gemacht... ☘ Sag mal hast du eigentlich dieses gute Wasserstoff Trinkwasser von einem Wasserstoff Generator schon mal probiert? Dieses Getränk ist richtig beeindruckend! ;) Wieso gerade hier? Also das kann ich nicht hier nicht einfach so sagen. und Wasserstoff ist Neurovorsorge Psst: Wasserstoff ist die einzig wahre Energiequelle der neuen Zeit - hast du dich damit schonmal außeinandergesetzt? .
The problem is that real estate has become a volatile and tradable security, one that is too prone to speculation. If only governments would put on their pants and clearly define affordable housing policies, this problem would be much better contained. Such policies would reserve some lands exclusively for the development of affordable housing and would also require developers to build a number of affordable units for each luxury unit they build.
Is the first song at 0:45 seconds A JME instrumental? If so, please do enlighten me and the rest of the world as to which one it is.
Yeah, I found it alone. Obviously it's the trademark track of his. For anyone interested it's JME- Serious. Instrumental is below youtube [dot] com /watch?v=Yj1N9d8P4bg
The same thing is happening in Vancouver Bc and then a huge percentage of the new developments sit empty one they are bought as investment property.
That 15 year old smoking and repping Stone Island
I think it's a number of apartments/flats x land area = cost. if there are a load of 2-floor buildings everywhere, it's not possible to house everyone. With 8-10+ floor buildings, it's a little more feasible but then the cost becomes making those buildings.
In New York City, they have an affordable housing program that gives developers a tax break if they make a certain number of units in new apartment buildings low income. So there are new apartments being built that have rents that cost thousands a month, but 20% of the people living in them are paying a tiny fraction of that. Maybe this could work in London?
Or alternatively, they could just start building housing that people will use and not just attempt to sell to the rich. Considering the percent population of the wealthiest people, I can't see the point in building all these incredibly expensive to live in condos and housing developments. I don't know many rich people that would like to buy a condo in the first place. Honestly, they need to spend their money on low income housing overall and focus on accommodating the locals first.
They do... For a lot of the new housing developments but these are always snapped up very quickly by the council. What happens to the people inbetween like me ? I earn okay Money about 30k per year and yet an average one bed flat in this documentary costs 300 k which is 2000 pcm . Which is my entire salary.. I pay taxes , help the economy but all I can do is rent a one bed studio at 1200 quid a Month... Ffs ..
A Healthkit It's the location that you pay for, the rest is just icing on the cake. Without tax cuts it would be almost impossible to create low income housing at desired spots (i.e. in London). There is no sense not using the land to its fullest potential. All in all its a matter of maximizing the city's tax revenue. Of course people buying these properties expect a certain standard of living and thereby there is a demand for services. To make a long argument short I would say that you wont see much change until the commute time from home to work becomes so long that the city-centre jobs doesn't attract any employees.
A Healthkit The cost of the apartments are dictated by the location. A local council is throwing money down the drain if it gives flats to low income families, when they can be sold privately to foreign investors.
I guess it's up to the local council whether not London locals go homeless, then.
Cities in general are expensive to live in, but this is just ridiculous.
and the whole time im thinking "KSI lives 5 minutes from there" lul
Haha
Happening here in working and poor sections of new york city and Brooklyn
I'm originally from Hungary. My mom is from Hungary, we both live in the UK with my stepdad who is british I've been living in the UK for 8 years while my mom almost 14. We are all hard working and never lived in a council flat. My mom worked 3 jobs, 2am till 7pm for years to provide for us. We didn't live in London but still. We now have our own house in the countryside. Meanwhile, my stepdad's sister who is british lives in a big council house, barely pays any money for it, drinks away everything and are constantly poor and are the black sheep of the family.
What are housing prices like in Kent?
This is the same problem Vancouver in Canada is going thru
This is happening everywhere. It's happening here in Denver.
i feel the same way for my city, everyone wants to move to austin texas and the city is growing rapidly and it has gotten more exspensive!
Why were those flats unused? Was the city just waiting for a fat offer from private developers? Or?
Housing Crisis - London high fives San Francisco high fives New York. It's already ridiculously expensive even further away from London / from the city in places like Watford where I lived (the rent was quite high). In San Francisco things are simply bizarre. Whereas in let's say Vienna I could work and live in Bratislava cause of the public transport was so well done. But if you're forced to live twenty kilometers away from a place where you work and it takes you two hours to get to work, then that slowly drains your energy. I rather like living in cities (I actually stayed in all of the ones I'll mention) - Berlin, Prague, Vienna, since you have more of a mix there of affordable and expensive housing / living / rent and the prices weren't so stiff. I mean - you could rent an apartment in Vienna or Berlin for like 500-600 euro, but you couldn't do that in London (well you could, but it would be ultra broken and far away from the city). And in those places it only took a few minutes to get anywhere. Public transport, mixed affordable, high-end housing and offices / commerce is important. Very important. Many people think that making 8.000$ in San Francisco or London is "WOW!" until they and up paying 2-3.000 for rent. Or need to travel four hours a day to work, because they want to save cash. Then they save cash, but they don't have the time. At the end of the Month they save shit. But their family and friends are all excited for them making all that nice sweet cash, not understanding that the expenses are extremely high. If you can, than you might be better off working for half the money (when compared, let's say you'd work in Manchester for half of what you'd work for in London or you'd work in Portland for half of what you'd work for in San Francisco) you'd be BETTER OFF, because you could rent some place WAY cheaper. There is one argument that says "but I want to live where all the action is" - so if you don't have any cash, nor time, than how does living near the action help, huh? That's mostly the argument of young people who want to "experience something". But - I'd rather live in a cheap place & then travel to places like London & Rotterdam or NYC with money than live in those places 24/7 and afford shit.
Similar to what's happening in Houston,Tx
Same thing in NYC:(
It also looks like they are not keeping track of their vacancy rate. You will be surprised how many vacancies can slip pass management when they are dealing with hundreds to thousands of rental units. You will be surprised.
Man, London used to be (25 years ago +) used to be the best metropolitan city in the world, now its own people cant afford/ find housing because the government is letting 1/2 a million foreigners live in London a year! There is no logic in that whatsoever, the government has let this happen and is there own fault! Foreigners are Buying land/housing in London and living offshore and don't even plan on living in it, and all they do is keep it as an investment, the same thing is happening in Auckland, New Zealand. Give Auckland 20 years and it too will be full of foreigners and foreign investors, aswell as skyrocket the Auckland city pop. from 1.5 million to who knows how much!
That's right, blame the immigrants...
John Smith Its true mate, Im not being racist I'm being factual telling it how it is?
***** Yes its a shame, who do you think started it, some say Margret Thatcher laxed immigration?
Ahh...tht explains it, later 90's london grew extremly populus...
Mark Graham What do you mean "the government is letting" - it's the landlords that are "letting", go and complain to them. Also it's the property owners which are selling the properties at these insane prices laughing themselves to the bank not the government - no one is forcing them to sell to foreigners or to anyone for that matter. Sure the government owns some properties which they want to sell, which is what this video is about if you would bother to watch it, but how can the government ever please you if you hate social housing being sustained on that land but wait you also hate foreigners buying flats built on that land in place of the social housing - so come up with a solution then instead of complaining. How is it fair when the british benefit from owning property abroad but it is not fair when foreigners benefit from owning property in Britain? It's not a free market if just one side can participate in it. British people pay a pittance for lovely properties abroad for exactly the purpose of playing the market while foreginers have to pay relatively a few orders of magnitude more to do the same thing the other way around - if this is unfair, it's only unfair to the foreigners since this difference is ridiculously out of proportion. The British Isles are a tiny blimp on the world map but used to own half of the world due to scheming and now that some brown person bought out a fish and chips near you, you suddenly are against free trade and the power of money... So nah man, you are not nessesarily racist you are just greedy and crying like a litle baby because you believed actual racists when they assured you that only blue eyed white people have the mental allacricy to own property and manipulate the market. Do you realise who built the London underground? Do you think the suez canal was built by fat Steve and bald Andy or maybe by those foreigners you are afraid of so much? Face it, greedy white imperialists sold you out, you who you believe to be their people, sold you out to whoever wants to pay the most and how do you not deserve it and how is your fate worse than the fate of people around the globe? Oh boohoo it's a bit harder than it used to be.. boo hoo hoo.
Ppl don't seem to understand that investing in real estate and expecting this property to always increase in value is why there is such a huge decrease in housing. It comes close to almost forcing people to take out ludicrous mortgages just to pay for measly living space at an absurd rate. It's a bubble created by municipalities, government and the private business world. Its getting ready to burst.
I've lived in London for two years while I studied. I have changed two apartments during this time and both of them were council flats. The owner takes the apartment for 200GBP/month, then rents it for 800GBP per month and does nothing positive for the society, just abusing the system. There is a lot of fraud involved with council flats, even though they are actually rubbish and at very low standard. Thank God I don't have to live in London.
Khapele Your landlord is defrauding the government and should go to jail. This is another reason why rents are so high.
Most ppl do this cause they bought their council flat
@@sophaiamamolokofarmer-moru2853 this is an exception. Most do it while renting.
Interesting the Tower Block here is one of the towers that just burned isn't it ....
Heart Centred no that's Kensington
If they got this organized when it comes to working and work - they wouldn't be homeless. That has to be WAY more work than a 9-5 job.
I don't understand this. How is it bad that value of your property is increasing? And how can someone force you out of your own property?
Govt owns the property. Individuals 'rent' the property at a low income rate. The property's value rises, the govt notices and sells it from underneath you, because you are only a low income renter, you don't matter to the owner of the property.
not sure about the guys in the video but in the UK there are things called council houses where you rent off the government for very low prices. the problem in London is that the government are kicking people out at a level where people need to leave the city to find available housing
Owning a property is not the same as renting it. Even if the owner don't tear the place down they can raise the rents forcing you out that way. What is odd however is that flats stood unoccupied for 8 yrs and are yet to be demolished. I guess the investors have too much going on at the same time.
Now I understand. Thanks guys.
Aron Liljeskog it's not the investors that own the property. it's the dumb retarded councils that own it. the idea was to kick people out and sell the land to raise money but everything takes decades to get anything done in london. it's beyond pathetic.
If the properties are owned by individuals or the government the people have no say in the matter. This happened with Cabrini green in Chicago during the 90s I believe too.
I live in a Department of Housing house in Australia that is apparently worth $ AUD 100,000.
It's not even just London all over the UK
Move to canada. We need more people lots of space toooooooo
From Ireland going to first finish college and head to your country right away :P
MrPsychoDog Where you choose to live in Canada is really important for housing, as it goes from very affordable to ridiculously expensive.
***** Well, the thing is we are a more supportive country than our neighbors, free healthcare, schools, etc. social services which aren't based on the productivity of an individual. That fact makes it more complicated to accept anyone. It sucks but we are constrained by the bullish capitalism of the U.S. and others. We can't have open borders because the influx of poor people and people plagued with health problems' we feel would be to great. So we resort to programs like the investor programs or schooling programs which guarantee a more sustainable economy.
Ive been in canada for a year now and im moving back. In alberta its almost impossible for any british person to gets residency. Nice country but ur government are assholes and expect ridiculous things from foreign workers.
I agree, I live in Montreal, Quebec, was born there. Canada is/was one of the most egalitarian countries of the world but immigration has always been an issue. Millionaires and neurosurgeon don't come here to make the country more accepting of low education middle-class workers.
Serious playing in the background at the begining
Isn't there any housing outside of London ? If you would live outside the city there would be much nicer scenery the air isn't polluted and the prices are lower ?
But the majority of jobs are inside the city and trust me as a Londoner, it's a pain in the backside to get in and out of London on most days. And yes there's housing on the outskirts but they can be expensive as well and there's fewer social services available outside London. This leaves people with a question "Do they try to make this commute from outside London into the city so they can get to work which will mean having to be awake earlier and will get to sleep later? Or do they stay in the city running the possibility of eviction" And if you live in social housing you don't really have the money to afford to move and purchase a new house, on top of that if you have children you want to be as close to a school as possible. And lets say that all these people move out of the city, the outskirts will become urbanised unless it's a designated section of land owned by the national trust which will forbid any mass urbanisation of natural sites so there will be less natural sites left in the country. And the unprotected sites will become ever so urbanised that we will face this problem in several decades or even a centuries time.
***** Lets say it in numbers: you have to travel approx. 2.5 hours by train out of London until you come to an area where life gets cheaper, however there are only very limited jobs there.
***** Yes there are jobs out side of London but the jobs inside the city are the more desirable jobs for many because of the high wages they offer. But do you know these women personally? it's easy to assume that they don't have jobs but I suspect neither of us know if these women have jobs but it's easy to assume that they don't and I assume that some if not the majority of these women don't have jobs.
So all the Londoners on minimum wage, all the people that work in shops, and coffee shops and bars, and supermarkets, etc, should move out of London to make way. For new developments that they can't afford, and then pay to commute for those shitty jobs? Haha, Yeah, sounds like that would work!
I live just out of London in Surrey, its the same as London basically, same air pollution and traffic, but I love it here despite all the chavs and dodgy pavements and migrants I will always be here, its also not the best housing but still..
Same bullshit in the USA. almost half a neighborhood for sale, yet across the street a whole new neighborhood is being built.
But the intro music tho good choice Vice..serious.
To be honest, London is mainly a stepping stone for my career. Sure, I'm hoping to get the most out of this city culturally, socially and of course financially. But my career is never going to generate enough income for me to buy a house (or rather, a 2 bed in Walthamstow). Hopefully I might have an opportunity to live abroad, meaning I won't have to pay attention the ridiculous house prices or try to keep up with inflation that doesn't match most people's living wages. I like London, but there are some serious problems when it comes to affordability in this city.
Ain't no money in the cities these days for non-office workers in the states these days. I stay in the burbs and have to drive 1.5 hours north of Detroit to work my machinist career. Can I write my travel expenses off in my taxes?
London? Just London? Ah come on!!! New York, Paris, Barcelona, Zagreb, Milan, Moscow...You just name it.
@BadMouseProductions What are you talking about, Houston is way more expensive to live in than in San Antonio which is where I live! Houston is definitely not cheaper than the other small surrounding city's!
@TheCoBBus #transportpoverty. It's actually unaffordable to commute into London as well, the further out you go the more expensive it becomes. It's a catch 22
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO SPEND IT IN AN OVER CROWDED CITY. Time to move.
Exactly I wish I can in a remote area
Yes me too, it's beginning to seem rather attractive... but I have to work.
you can't just move.there are no jobs in the arse end of nowhere. wake up and grow up, shite hawke
When you rent, you can get f**ked. Stay in school kids. Get a good job and purchase property. I own land in another town I don't even live in. If push comes to shove I can pitch a tent on that sh*t and no one can tell me I have to move.
There are countless people in the UK who pay their own rent without the luxury of their council providing a cheap place to live, who would love to live in London. People being evicted are LUCKY to be offered somewhere even in the south east of England. Millions of pounds of tax payers money is wasted by putting people in prime real estate areas. If you want your rent paid for you, you shouldn't be picky about where you live. Give them a choice of paying their own rent in London or a cheap place in Birmingham or Manchester.
I for one look forward to visiting utopia/Gattaca London
What do they mean by unlivable? Is there asbestos? Is there lead paint? Is there mold?
Please continue this expose, New York is in the middle of the same type of housing situation!... Vice please rep your home town on this issue!
the presenter is beautiful
It doesn't take much to impress you...
She's definitely got something.
That(s what Vice is all about. Having a beautiful hipster as journalist. They are bourgeois in the sociologic but also anthropologic way.
***** You are an abuser of the English language. And your comment is BS. Most of the Vice correspondents I have seen are unattractive men.
Johnny with a Shotgun How did I abuse it, please ? I have seen a lot of attractive females. That one, for example kzhead.info/sun/aJxyfqWnemuHaZE/bejne.html
Everything has a dollar value, nothing any of you can do about it without violence. Peace is never an option.
we need to stop charging people for shelter. It's 2015....don't say humans have made all this progress if we are still charging people to not be homeless...that's just crazy.
In part one, we meet British protesters fighting rapid gentrification in the UK, hoping for the chance to live in housing-crisis-hit Newham, England. WATCH PART 2 NOW: bit.ly/Regeneration-Game-P2
Two things must be done. Tax the big corporations who set up business in our country, and descrease the influx of immigrants. Equals more money in Britain and less people to take up space. Also, stop the fucking social cleansing, you fucking rich twats. People have a right to live here. Yes, we are talking to you VICE, who works for Murdoch.
MrCool Mug Murdoch only ones 5% of Vice. I wouldn't say that they work for him based on 5%.
MrCool Mug You're probably also in favor of Mansion Tax I'm guessing? Imposing massive tax laws on British people who have done honest hard work to earn their money, just so it gets taken away from them. Why? Because people who haven't put in the effort to work feel justified.
MrCool Mug decrease the influx of immigration, decrease of profit from cheap labour, and tourism. tax big corporations, even more of the few remaining companies go to another country because tax on them is already pretty high
VICE FFS, just put it on KZhead. Why make us suffer your shitty video player?
The poverty gap has grown, but only people not in these situations will argue against them. We should have mandatory town and city council veiwings once a week to get all sides of the story, not discriminate because someone in a far worse situation than yourself is homeless because of the same guys who brought us the recession.
Displacement like this is way worse in fast developing countries like China, so it's not at all localized to just one country or one immigration or economic policy. It has much more to do with urban planning and concentration of capital, only a select few will ever be able to live permanently in urban centers designed to house commerce, offices and services regardless of where that city is, while the majority of the population get zoned away into suburbs and housing away from these centers. People living in Europe near Urban centers with their own communities may feel it's reasonable to preserve that standard of living and their community, but the rest of the world is moving towards this much more economically competitive mode of civil planning. Living far from the urban center and driving or taking public transit 45 minutes to an hour to work every day is routine for those living in North America or developing Asia.
This pisses me off... its impossible to do but if everybody just moved out of London in "protest" then things would suddenly change when they realise they actually need people to live there to maintain the housing boom, what value do you put on a derelict city?
Yeah! Lets create a housing problem in all other cities in the UK to!
Roller sail bullshit.
Roller sail LOL good observation
It's gonna come full circle. The things that make London attractive as a city to invest property in, like culture, nightlife and diversity are being eroded away by the effects of this demand. Eventually London will become a cultureless wasteland, and people won't want to invest there anymore.
Barry Richards that's what's happened to it. Ldn town was once great
I watched a documentary of pregnant women sneaking in to London just in time to give birth and then the UK gives her housing food Cash. Then she continues having more kid's when her boyfriend sneaks over. The benefits get bigger and bigger. Bigger house etc. I have never been to the UK because I don't have the money. What a bunch of B.S!!!
Restarting the right to buy is just gonna make the problem worse
If we build more homes, once all the investors leave and take their profits with them, the economy will crash. This is why we have to kick out all the investors who only use homes for investment purposes to fix the housing crisis.
BUILD MORE HOUSES. It's literally that simple. All the housing problems in these urban areas could be solved with one rule: every new development must replace the original housing volume that it replaces, plus extra.
bte320 they do build more places. last block built in London was private and a one bedroom flat sold for 500k. they don't want working classes. in London . they want to make it a tax haven exclusive for millionaires
"build more I can afford" but you can't afford shit.
Jasmine Stones has got the perfect family name I reckon
1:46 fucking killed me ahaha
2:59 very sad :(
I know some of those buildings
Poverty strikes hard by the looks of it.
So daisy and her mum was evicted. Why? Anyone else notice that she didn’t say. You don’t just get evicted. I guarentee they didn’t pay the rent
I'm assuming these mothers don't work, therefore i have no problem with them being cleansed out of London. If you don't have a job in London, you shouldn't live in London. Goes for rich, poor disabled, old, all. Workers should have priority, not benefit scrounging mums or foreign investors.
She didn't have to wait for a year, she could have charged a private flat to the council. This doco is well partial. Yeah, there's some rough shit, like the heygate, but this isn't the whole story
Knock down all the old housing and build LOADS OF MODERN MID-RISE. Homes for rich and poor!!
Spending on policing in Newham? Much crime? Negatives? Just empty house, not that simple.
Hello, friends from across the pond come to America where we have tons of empty houses!
Applies to Every town & city and n the UK, Families who have worked & lived in neighbourhoods for generations being priced out of housing (if you can get a mortgage) but all the greedy landlords with thier scandalous rents & dodgy foreign property investments leaving entire blocks empty, bought & paid for by owners & not lived in or even rented, just empty investment...........
That's why it's best to live in zone 5
There's no place like home.
Every person I see in the video looks like they are capable of working. Free housing should be reserved for people who have a mental or physical illness that prohibits them from doing so. To me these are folks who never developed any kind of skill or acquired an education, and now they're complaining about not being able to live on the government's dime
I wouldn’t want to live in a high rise box in the cesspit known as London if the rent was free . What an awful way of live crammed into those overcrowded estates , overrun with millions of immigrants who have caused the problem . Simple fact - say what you want , it’s true