BBC Panorama | Cashing in on the Housing Crisis | DW | Free Documentary 

Maybe the councils should buy the office buildings and convert them into proper flats. It would save them money in the long run.

Major breaches of human rights and failure to protect children and families

172 flats x £750/month = £222,40/month. If they only have 4 staff working the office & grounds, they're paying the staff a tiny amount, whilst the owners/people in the head office are making a killing. Making only 2% profit has got to be an absolute lie. They could pay several more guards & make that place safe, while making their claimed 2% profit.

How can you really be 5th richest country in the world when you can no longer house and feed your people?

Just a few of the reasons homeless people won't go to shelters or refuse to remain in them.

I was in a Hostel this time last year and the drugs and alcohol and they had kids in there was awful. We were supposed to get support that depended on what support staff you have been given. I was grateful to have a roof over my head but for me (I’m autistic adhd and bipolar) it was awful. To the point where it would have been so easy to get drugs or off myself. The worst thing was someone died and wasn’t checked on in 2 days. Still breaks my heart he died and wasn’t found for 2 days when you were meant to have been seen at least once a day. We had a room with a camp-bed and a shared kitchen and they wanted £220 a week per room. That’s more than my one bedroom flat I have now. It’s all just about ££££

I seriously feel like crying I’m so upset watching this we need to do something

It’s very sad to watch unfortunately uk housing crisis is very bad and the councils doing nothing about it

I feel fell victim to a scam 2 years ago and only 2 months after I moved in with my partner (after trying to leave an abusive home my whole life) he threw me out. After trying to stay with family and having to let a morbidly obese man sleep with me for a roof over my head then losing my live in job partly due to my employer relocating and severe illness, I found myself sleeping on the floor in a hostel for 6 weeks(didn’t even have my own room or access to a kitchen so was reusing plates, cups and cutlery for a week. Within the first week someone was stabbed, there were fights and screaming matches with police and paramedics attending daily, I was asked to sell drugs and had an unwanted sexual advance by another resident (I have a history of child abuse and sexual assault). The fire alarms went off constantly (I am autistic, this was torture). Since I moved to another hostel it feels like a prison where they’re overly strict which is the opposite extreme, but somehow there is still extreme violence and the security/fire alarms set off every 10 days or so, so we’re piled out in the car park with police and fire engine at 4 in the morning wondering what the hell is happening this time. Considering the amount of hoops I had to jump through proving my multiple health issues and long history of abuse, domestic violence and trauma Since early childhood to be able to stay at those hostels, being in the most vulnerable group with no criminal record, I have no idea how/why I was housed with violent criminals with a history of sex offences, hard drug use etc. Cannabis is the least of their concerns (Better than taking Valium or diphenhydramine to help you sleep) but the amount of people drinking and shooting up is. There’s a silverfish infestation but that’s better than the maggot infestation that was an issue before I came here. I was paranoid about using the ancient looking cooker to begin with and on the 3rd time using the hob in as many months there was a huge bang and a white flash. The engineer that came a few days later shower me that at the back of the cooker it was all charred and the melted plastic telling me I was extremely lucky to not have had a fire in my hands. haven’t had a cooker since Monday night and after learning that my next door neighbour had the saw, thing happen, I am concerned about the safety of all the appliances throughout the building.

I’ve been living in a block run by Caridon - it’s a shit hole. Next door neighbours kicking walls and shouting outside the front door - antisocial behaviour on a nightly basis and nothing gets done by management. Once you’re in you’re stuck there, I’d rather be homeless again then stay there.

This is terrible my friend was in the same sort of place with her child it’s bloody terrible how can this be happening Jesus Christ

I’m so upset for these people when you get made redundant there should always be help there for them especially being self employed and losing work it’s those sorts of working people who make the world go round seems like government are just dispatching them in the bin it’s so bloody sad to see

Is it really all about the quality of the accommodation being offered? Watching this Panorama report, it seems that there are some anti-social "residents" who would make living anywhere an absolute nightmare for their neighbours, and that is a problem that won't be solved by offering up better accommodation.

When i was homeless i was in a mother and baby hostel, it was full of pregnant mums, violent controlling boyfriends who kept taking their prescription drugs and constant police visits looking for young men who were held on s136 and then they come looking for their girlfriends in the hostel

For centuries the British establishment have never known how to house their people, fine if you have money, many people will help you but if your skint then they don't want to know, £Billions on nuclear weapons for wars we will never fight, guns, bullets, army uniforms and tanks, submarines, aircraft carriers, no shortage of money for these things but housing for the less fortunate, sorry we're skint mate, let me point you towards the tent shop.

Was homeless in brighton for 6 months. And i got a better nights sleeping on the streets, than a hostel, where people are shouting all night, constantly asking you for money and your stuff getting nicked. I conned the local YHA in the end, wore a shirt and tie, gave a false address and stayed there from time to time instead - saying i was working away.

Shouldn't drug addicts be housed separately? Ask for police records when letting the properties - and place tenants accordingly - it seems like the tenants are causing most of the issues - I have not got the best of backgrounds but I work hard and stay out of trouble - and I am quite frankly fecking sick of funding people who can't be bothered to do the same

This is happening everywhere

Councils and the government should be building and owning affordable social housing. Make the developers looks like idiots for buying up office blocks and hoping to make their money back in 18 months of rent. It's the government's fault that this is the case. They could build better housing, but they don't. They could lease better housing, but they don't. They could refuse to lease the office blocks until they are brought up to minimum standards, but they don't. It is 100% the government's fault that people live like this.

I live next door to a 4 bed terraced house turned into 5 flats for homeless men. They all have addiction and alcohol issues. It’s a bigger problem than just housing them. The trouble and crime they bring is horrendous. They party all night, fight, overdose, the doors are kicked in constantly . Masked men chasing them up and down street for drug debts plus they attract others to the house who are struggling with MH issues and prostitution. I go nights with no sleep. The company that own lots of these houses they set up in our area does not care. It’s all about the money

Where I live on a large council estate they have not built any new houses since early 80s yet there is plenty of spaces to build more they building a whole bunch on a old school field but not for council renting but private renting most of the houses here have been bought by the people who used to rent it’s appalling cramming family’s in flats it’s disgusting all over the country councils do not do work much on properties anymore they wasted 40 million last year on god knows what

I slept rough on of 20 years the fact the council are paying these developers and putting life's at risk mans wife dying no bus route for hospital no space if was fire be grenfell because there just painted rooms fire risk

So basically the office blocks are hostels. The very thing the govt ended 15 year ago 🤔

What happens when hard working tax paying people pay for this, then they cannot pay there bills and for there home...they end up needing this...game over. That's what there seeing a country going from great, to good, to average, to mediocre, bad, and, now, unsustainable. Tax paid money to over paid public servants on every level, is not in the interest of working people to do. Individuals in public servant positions responsible spending ones money ought to do it responsibly. They are not

How.much does Polly - the Shelter spokesperson - get paid ? She's making money out of misery ??

The housing scandal is still on going

The yobs are the scariest part of Britain, not the migrants.

I was on the streets for 6 years.

Most of them are veterans, not many are immigrants though,there in hotels, with breakfast , this country is a back yard of the world, things will get worse, those that are paying there way is getting less and less, people that are working, is getting less people, less people paying tax, scary uh!!!!😊

What the help

The man at the end is correct, Carrendon are not the criminals here, they are business people that saw an opportunity and without the Government building suitable low cost homes, they are filling a gap!!!!! For the last 20 years not enough homes have been build, planning is archaic and difficult and the population has gone up 10 million, what a mess!!!!

I'm bloody sick and tired of being told to ceel sorry for rapists, murderers and druggies.

I am a client of Caridon and they treated me like shit.

Governments have to stop letting ppl from other countries coming over & living in an already over crowded country who can hardly feed, clothe and house their very own

Why is this happening covid really fxxxxx everyone up this is so sad

Never gonna be solved

Nothing has changed we have a place in a city' in the UK housing 200 people it's 2024 .

Assam in India /There are thousands thousand villages in Assam/Every villages has big big fishery with surrounding banana tree and vigatable/Every villages has countless bamboo/Bamboo very useful for poor family/Sagun tree very useful for furniture /Sagun wood perfect for furniture/ Long long tea gardens /wild animals and biggest river Brahmaputra

5 richest country in the world....NOT anymore

Nothing has changed

8;39 thats not a bad place wtf r u ppl on about.

it bothers me when councils give ground disabled flats to nob phisically disabled people , each side of mine theres two people fully abled in disabled flats , its wrong as people who are disabled are waiting for disibility flats ,

Whilst illegals arrive and go to hotels ! How on earth have we allowed this ot happen, Caridon should be defunded and not paid again with tax payers money.. It sickens me that some decent English families live like this while criminals arrive in boats and are set up in luxurious hotels and more adequate accommodation,, Its a disgrace

It's not the buildings ! It's the people who live in them ! Why is it always someone else's fault that these scum behave like that ??

I've been in hostols. Staff forget it. Residents 97% I'd not sling alive on a fkin bomfire.

Government is a fecking joke 🙄 immigrants get 4star 🤯

The girl in head wrap is hilarious.... She is moaning about the people yet SHE was one of them... With her alcohol problem. And bothering people to borrow stuff... Nightmare

Watching from Guwahati city (India) Mother Kamakhya temple City

PAEDOS IN THERE

So, everyone with no money should be getting a private police officer, a maid and a 5 bedroom flat with 3 bathrooms. Whos gonna pay for this??

Buy land and build affordable homes.

Perhaps there is some editing going on, but I wish that some people like the woman at 15:00 would, in addition to acknowledging that this isn't a safe place to house people, also acknowledge that this is rock bottom and they shouldn't have put themselves in a position to have to live there. Like if she wasn't spending lots of money on make up, and if she lived in a cheaper part of the country, then she would probably be in a better situation. Like boohoo, the FREE version of housing that hard working people pay a sizeable proportion of their salary for isn't very good?? Who could have guessed? It's not like social housing has ever been fantastic. This should have been on your radar before, during and after having a child (who shouldn't have a dummy in when she's that old tbh).