@@jinnyweasley2570 when you go homeless you kinda must hate people..people support the ''system''..being extremely poor and having to pay bills and taxes can lead you to suicide.You are trapped even if you have a place to live.So being a homeless is not a bad idea if you cant survive,if you die you will die free from the cold or starvation leaving a ''F.CK YOU'' note to the world.The system wants you to live to pay taxes even if you live in poverty they dont care,they want everything you can pay,even a dollar.They want you so they can use you.If you are homeless you are useless to them,they cant even send you to war,you are a ghost.
They helped me a lot,when there was probably people who needed it more than me.love these guys.I hope some day I can repay what they did....it's a complicated situation. ...no 1 rule fits all....keep up the good work.st petrocs are the boys...much love guys.
They will not be getting any revenue from me via the holiday I might have had down there. Why is there such a lack of awareness with these goons? Not just Cornwall council, the whole joblot of them. I detest local authorities!
@@helen-marie3562 i was kicked out my flat 2 weeks before christmas and my local council wouldnt look at any temp accomodation because ''i havent lived in the area long enough'' !!
Unfortunately that was the failing of his councillor. They could have argued for a transfer of tenancy or moved to transfer it before his mother died. Though, if it were an OAP bungalow, he probably shouldn't have been resident their in the first place. In the UK native white males, 18-50 without a diagnosed illness or condition are right at the bottom of the housing queue. They house asylum seekers. Ethnic Minority Groups, single women, women with children, people with ALN ahead of single white men.
They left me in a tent for four months and it was only when I was robbed & STABBED by 6 lads tryna rob me (they got my big coat) - only then though did the council begin to help me. If I was a legit smack head, I’d have Atleast got a hostel.
What a joke!!..His mum passes and they kick him out his home????...Wtf is going on???..A very fragile time in the blokes life and he hasn't had chance to mourn the loss of his mum!!!...Instead just put him on the streets!..From my experience I felt ashamed when I was homeless and didn't want to be seen in town by people the way I was ,looking ruff etc altho I shouldn't feel this way I did!
Me an my mother dont talk, I lived with my grandmother she died an my mum sold the house, the bank stopped my cards at one point, I bought a van had lived in it for 6 months the bank rang me an told me I needed an address I told them my situation an the woman on the phone literally sniggered at me on the phone luckily I had a job an managed to hang on to it but it was a nightmare sometimes, these people who help are the real Angel's, god bless everyone that's struggling.
I'm no expert on the subject, but I believe that tenancy's can't be transferred to adult children, only within marriage or civil relationships. It seems wrong that you can live with an ill or aging parent, but at the point where you lose them you automatically become homeless through eviction.
Local councils are the cause of alot of homelessness, unsympathetic and booting the vulnerable into chaos. Hats off to the volunteers who help them out.
that tent with the tinsel really got to me. I am an old feller now, in my seventies. When I was young you never saw beggars on the streets and the only homeless were a few tramps who passed through, men usually displaced because of the war. What is happening to this nation?
I'd say he's got the right ideas with the way mortgages and rent are going at the moment. If I was him, the best I'd aspire for would probably be a nice big motorhome with more room inside and all the mobility a car can offer.
I've known numerous homeless people over the last decade who opted to live in tents in the woods. Some were working and were totally devastated to return to their tents to find that they had been demolished by the council. What gets me is that the council's have a duty to house people but totally discriminate against people living under canvas
Ralph Ley why’s it a disgrace that successful people don’t let homeless people sleep in their properties? So you’d happily let squatters live in your holiday home?, come on get real
It’s sometimes hard 4 people that have a home 2 understand the point homelessness people are at! They can be beyond normal thinking and helping themselves, mentally there so beat up, they lack the will/strength 2 pull themselves back 2 what we would call normal living! (in a house/flat with income) Going and giving food & cigarettes is a great step to building trust and starting dialogue, I respect their work so much, can most ordinary people honestly say they have helped someone in need, and recently?? Keep up the great work.
Rufus Chucklebutty nope, the councils do not help you. You need an address to get work, and you need income to get a home. A controlled point based system designed to destroy the British people....you won't see any Muslims homeless, there would be an outcry from the Governments appointed agents
Most people should build a 3 to 6 month emergency fund in a high yield savings account. If you become out of work, use that money to pay your bills until you can find another source of income.
We call ourselves a civilised society. Yet we home individuals who turn up on our shores, all while we have massive problem with individuals who cannot get help with shelter or food & basic health care. Our society is is anything but civilised...
It's just hypocritical. We have empathy for foreign homeless people, but none for local homeless. It makes no sense. I suppose it's virtue signalling rather than actual empathy.
Where I live the council used to have a scheme where they would lend homeless people the deposit and first months rent, get them into usually quite minimal accomodation (bedsit quite often) and then housing benefit and other benefits kicked in and they'd start paying back the loan at say a fiver a week. It worked well and got a lot of people back on the ladder. Now they've scapped it there are homeless everywhere.
Disgusting how any council can kick a man out on the streets after loosing his mum thats the lowest of the low and i dont knoe how these people can live with their concience the guy has enough to deal with having a bereivment to deal with without having to wonder where his next meal will come from and if he still has a tent to come back to ffs😡
I slept rough in the Peak District in 2017. The city centers were too dangerous. I grew up in the countryside so it was more familiar to me and I knew where all the wild food was. Do it again if I had to.
true, the cities are full of drugs and thugs, seen many a person dead after a kicking. I've travelled all over europe sleeping in a tent and on bike, you don't need much, but safety is the most precious commodity.
I agree! but some people are voluntarily homeless, they don't want or can't deal with things like Universal credit and council tax and rent etc, they need help when there isn't any available, and organizations like the council, don't have the time or the resources because of government cuts, so the volunteers are the only available, but limited help, and even they are not able to help some people who have addiction or mental health problems.
@@iamrocketray a high percentage of these homeless people that you refer to are actually ex service personnel. During your service you don't have to do anything about rent, council tax etc as it either doesn't apply or it gets done for you. After discharge you are suddenly thrown in the deep end but haven't got a clue what you are to do or where to go. Many will be suffering from mental health issues like PTSD and because of their military training they find it easier to just go homeless. The Military Covenant that this government set up was supposed to address this problem but I fear it's now the same as every thing else and has been put on the back burner. An ex service person would be better looked after if they borrowed a dinghy and paddled out to sea and rowed it onto the east coast at Dover !
Here in USA homelessness is now an epidemic. In certain parts of the states it's like being in a third world country. High rent contributes to a lot of this homelessness. Service jobs like retail and fast food don't pay enough to afford to get your own place. It's bad everywhere.
Life is getting harder and harder....I wish I was still living at home with my family . to hear my children laugh and snuggle up on the couch together warm and loved... now at 54 I sit alone in a cold house..
This is what happens when you've been put down all kinds of horrible things done to you after that you want to stay away from people because you think they're all the same most of them are .I've been homeless years now off and on . It's hard to make it when you don't make much money carne I pay for insurance and then you got to pay for groceries and then after what all you been through physically and emotionally so that's why people just give up I want being in the mountains and I just want people to leave me alone. Lisa Brown
I spent the last couple of years in my car or in the woods working as a labourer on construction sites, gotta say I prefer it, I feel like I'm going crazy in the city again now, we call this homeless but not everyone hates it living amongst the woods in the south of England would be fine with me, not much different from my childhood and I was born in the 90s, the caveat is I know how to live in the woods, there's plenty of food and water and materials to make yourself more comfortable, if you know how to make rope you can torsion it to split wood and make a fire roll or bow drikl and start a fire, with fire you can make pottery, that means you can cook, which means you can make glue and charcoal, which means you can make clothes and shelter and a warm smokeless fire, the only thing missing is entertainment which you quickly find you only need because your bored and outside there's too much to do to be bored
@@thewaywardgrape3838 pretty good, not homeless, although I still wouldn’t mind, But it occurred to me, you can’t do good for others in the wilderness, so even if I would prefer it, it’s not good for me to do And motivating yourself for others brings you far more joy than any vain ideas about self reliance Doesn’t mean I don’t still feel tempted from time to time
@@thewaywardgrape3838I spent last year homeless in London to save up some money working digging basement extensions on posh houses, did the job I got ahead. Used to sleep under the tree in the drop down at the end of Southwark bridge, I enjoyed it to be honest, But you can’t host people, and I can’t expect anyone else to have my lack of anxiety about it as a living situation
An apostle, yet another wonderful beautiful being, one of many all over the world, that deserves a voice and support! I salute you. And thank you to the crew and founding editor to bringing this to light for others to see, for all this work to go unknown would be a shame
i was homeless 25 years ago and developed a drug habit while on the streets, went to st petrocs for help and the guy who assessed me basically insulted me because of my situation and didn't help me at all because of my drug abuse at that time(maybe the guy was having a bad day), the salvation army at truro did help me which i am extremely grateful for and it put me on the right path. 25 years later i have been clean for 24 years and now have a beautiful wife of 10 years ,a good job ,my own home and 4 cats. Even though my experience with st petrocs wasn't good, its still good to see that they are helping people who do need it.
Its not just Cornwall Council who boot you out of the council house when your mom dies , Dudley council in the West Midlands did exactly the same to my brother and myself even though my mom had lived in the house since she was 9 years old and she died at 87 and we had both been born in the house and both of us were working , they put a couple on benefits in it .
Funny how they mention a trust issue to me. My mum just died of cancer after 1.5 years of being diagnosed and it's really knocked the wind out of my sails. I'm a self employed floor layer (or was) and I have no trust in people and society. The whole time she was alive I kept telling people what was happening but no one cut me any slack in anything I did. Customers lied and didn't pay up, my conveyancing solicitor and estate agents treated me like dirt (I think I was the butt of their joke the whole time). Noone cares when it comes to money. People spoke nice words every now and then but words don't do anything. It's a sick world we live in and anyone can fall from success to homeless very easily. EVERYTHING is about money and anyone who says differently is lying or stupid. The problem we have is creating a system that provides money for people who can't make it on their own.
Government is spending 106 billion pounds on a high speed train link ( HS2 ) so a few businessmen can shave 10 minutes of their journey. Meanwhile 1000s are homeless. It's shameful. That money could house and help everyone
I was 18 when my dad died and I stopped school and traveled USA looking for work. Finally I moved to Alaska and worked for a fishing company. Alaska kind of put its wing over me and I could always find work here. I made enough to just work summers and go back to college and graduate. I taught school just like my dad did in UK after WWII. Now retired from teaching I write books for kids :) see my work on Amazon
Wish I had the strength you do Miles. It is SO hard to get ahead in this country and I've tried for so long. Still barely any $ to my name besides 5K in a retirement fund from my last job. I'm still young so we will see where life goes...it's already been a nutty 30 years
Really when was the last time we helped our own. Are you sure you not deflecting 😂😂 Sadly international law obliges us to house aslyum seekers, we used to have the Dublin protocol but brexit voters removed that.
It doesn't matter what government is in power there is plenty of homeless people in labour controlled areas. Well done Mark thank God for people like you.
This is even worse now with a lot more people living rough due to fear of COVID in shelters and the lack of help from local authorities many more people living in the outdoors due to no home or help. This really needs looking into now more than ever with people really needing help we should all be disgusted that we have this happening in this day and age.
It is happening more and more all over the world. The divide between have and have-nots is growing & people seems less empathetic. It is heartbreaking here in Vancouver where housing is not affordable. Average rent for a 1 bedroom is $2000. Add in low wages or under employment and it is becomes very desperate.
That government policy of kicking out siblings of deceased parents from their family home has been standard practice for decades. They were probably carers for their parents. Doesn't make sense to eject them from their family home & then re-house them. But they seem intent on exacerbating their grief by making these vulnerable people homeless.
The tent with tinsel just broke me 💔 All credit to St. Petrocs. Shocking that it falls to charitable organisations and not government/ local authority to support the vulnerable.
Canal & River Trust (CRT)have hounded a lot of vulnerable people off the inland waterways over the past decade.Wealthy Tories should be made to subsist on Tesco Value Meatballs.
Stephen Goddard not really, you have to earn and buy them first. You’re always going to find astute individuals or lucky individuals and idle or unlucky individuals. That’s life, sadly. I don’t find that stat disturbing, you can’t rob people’s second homes to give it to people like this.
A Van Called Rupert I paid 25,000 in tax last year. With what I have left, I decided to consider buying a 2nd home. So not only is my pay taxed, but what I have left is taken as well. I’m looking like I’m going to pay 45,000 in tax this year. When is enough enough? PS I grew up in a council house and left school at 16, absolutely no privilege here. Just try to think these things through. I used to say this kind of thing when I was 21, perhaps you’re just too young to get a slice of the pie yet, but trust me, once you get a slice you’ll be crushed by having almost half of it removed to pay for everyone else. In fact, you have to earn over £40k to be a net contributor to the welfare state. Got to thank all those tories because they are the only ones propping this society up, mainly because they get up at 6AM and don’t spend their lives on drink and drugs moaning about tories.
best option if your homeless mate is to build a mini four season yurt from recycled materials on trailer platform which folds down into a circle shaped base which the yurt sits on and can be towed by an e-bike or moped/motorbike.
How can another human being, tell a person with no safe place to go, That they are not a priority!. Im sorry I believe everyone deserves a safe bed at night. No matter what happened to them. Its just we allow this.
From personal experience if you are working minimum wage and living alone when you lose your job you have about a month or so of suffering before you are actually homeless. For those of you wondering how you get into that position. 140 applications in the city of Dundee and not one response. And that was 4 or 5 years ago, Im guessing its worse now.
The British have never wanted, and always opposed immigration (1, 2, 3). How is it then that by 2066 the British will represent less than 50% of the population? (4). It was forced upon us by a hostile outgroup following the close of WW2, beginning with Empire Windrush (5). No, they were neither wanted nor needed, as we had surplus Brits enough to populate Australia with 1.5m to build it up (6). Mass immigration began, still against the will of the British in the 90s under Blair who made it Government policy to "rub the Right's nose in diversity" (7). In 2000, the UN explicitly named its ethnic cleansing objective of Europe as "Replacement Migration" (8). Who are the English? Let Laura Towler explain since you're uncertain (9). I will finish with a quote from the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory; "Rising concern about ‘New Commonwealth’ immigration prompted the British Election Study (BES) to begin asking the public about immigration as far back as 1964, although in those early years it did not ask the question to ‘coloured’ respondents. Throughout this period, the majority of people in Britain have agreed that there are too many immigrants in the UK."(3) 1. bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/british-social-attitudes-29/immigration/introduction.aspx@t 2. compas.ox.ac.uk/2011/british-attitudes-to-immigration/ 3 migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-of-concern/ 4. standpointmag.co.uk/issues/june-2016/features-june-2016-david-coleman-demographics-brexit-eu-referendum-immigration/ 5. theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/07/12/jews-the-ss-empire-windrush-and-the-origins-of-multicultural-britain/ 6. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7217889.stm 7. telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html 8. un.org/press/en/2000/20000317.dev2234.doc.html 9. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gxryClKouEQ.html
He likely never put his name on the tenancy. Maybe because they didn’t want the 25% council tax discount to be removed. If your name is on the tenancy and you’ve paid your rent, they don’t kick you out. We don’t know the facts. Councils don’t have bottomless pits of money to get everyone into housing. One major reason for lack of housing, is because for the last 35 approx years people have been able to buy their council homes, thus depleting the stock massively.
His mum probably paid enough council tax to buy the house too, genuinely makes me feel sick and if you ever need the councils help without a lot of money in your pocket then god help you. Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) just isn't enough and is a kick in the teeth. 3°c is it? Back in your doorway you go then. The council have a completely different definition of vulnerable to ANYONE else.
the help for single adults from councils is fucking non existent unless they have drink or drug problems...or unless they have kids....this needs to change....when my partner died my local council couldn't have been more unhelpful!!!
Oh blessed of My Father Come Unto Me All of You who are weary and burdened And I Will Give You Rest Take My yolk upon You and learn from Me For I AM humble and kind in heart In Me You will find rest for Your Souls My yolk is easy and My burden is light For I was hungry and You gave Me food I was thirsty and You gave Me drink I was a stranger and You welcomed Me I was naked and You clothed Me I was a prisoner and You visited Me I Was Sick and You Came to Me THEY WILL ASK When have we done these things for You WHO EVER Does this to the least of My brethren THEY DO IT UNTO ME
And people still vote tory. How very sad that poor chap lost his mum then the Tory council kick him and out never rehoused him, effin unbelievable.. what abourt alll those holiday lets laying empty they could be used....
1stMrSceptical people vote Tory because they know that removing work incentives by just giving people free housing or subsidised housing is a bad thing. Also, the issue even a child can see, that providing reasonable subsidised housing will ensure more people present “in need”, in the full knowledge that “need” gets them a subsidised or free house. You’d have half the third world and second world’s poor turning up. Sad but true.
Lol and what would happen under a Labour government you reckon? Socialism and mass immigration. Don't get it twisted a Pakistani family would get a council house over a white homeless person.
I’ve often think that people who sleep on the streets or in tents are mentally strong as I’m not sure I’d survive long trying to sleep outside day after day
Kevin same mum passing with me ,Kevin ur mum loved you and you obviously loved your mum ,she would like too see her son get on ,stay strong ,hard I know ,Mark Cardiff ex rough sleeper mum gone 2006 seems like last week 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧😪
I've been homeless and the truth is that the number of people actually being prevented from being housed by the government is tiny, the vast majority of homeless have either refused accommodation offered or are unable to live a normal life due to mental health, drugs, drink ect these people refuse help and many prefer to live rough with no responsibilities than accept council housing. Some have vandalised or defrauded council housing and cannot be housed. Anyone that wants to get housed can if they put the effort in, the idea that thousands are being evicted onto the street is a fantasy. He way out of homelessness is simple but takes time, 1. Get a hostel place 2. Get benefits or a job 3. Save up for a deposit on a rented room in a shared house 4. Work hard and save the deposit on a flat.
Rufus Chucklebutty In this day and age, there should not be such an outdated way to get a place to live, there are many houses standing empty, that could be used to house the homeless. You do not know everyones circumstances, generalising is not fact
I slept outside in Falmouth, by the sea. It was a bit scary on stormy nights. I managed to hold down a job in a restaurant for a while. keeping my job clothes at work.
Good luck, but as i've found you can only control some of it. When the bad stuff happens it tends to be at the hands of others. All you can do is be prepared as best you can which was my error in not being.
Well instead of thinking about yourself, why not do something for the Homeless, I have been in the Volunteer Community for 12 years now. During that time I have met many people across the Social Spectrum. People who slag them off as lazy wasters, that’s an excuse for ignoring the problem. True , I have met the odd few. But to stereotype a whole section of society, is nothing but a way to salve their concience. Try it for a month and then comment.
Just so people know. We don’t get this in Scotland. In glasgow, a city of thousands of homeless, just like any other major city. We have maybe 10-20 people actually living on the streets at night. The vast majority are in shelters, temporarily accommodation and found homes relatively quickly.
Today the government pledged to give 100 million to FlyBe Airways yet it can't find money to help the many homeless in the UK. This problem will just get worse under the tories.
Bushcraft skills will make it all the better. Axe, saw, Bush knife, parachord. Tarp, air mattress, decent sleeping bag, woolen blanket, headlamp, cooking pot, water reserves. If they’re receiving a benefit they should be able to live comfortably off the grid. No bills, no concrete jungle, no crime, no claustrophobia, no traffic, no taxes, no noise pollution. Just fresh air, peace and tranquility, beautiful nature, living by your means. No over indulgences. You’re living the dream boys.
I've never understood why homeless people don't build shelters out in the middle of nowhere, use a friend's address so they can get a job and live it up like Bear Grylls.
Been there done that working while being homeless in winter. Try & stand still for 6hrs in the snow everyday . That's what it feels like & trust me if you talk to one and he sounds like a baghead . He probably has no self esteem and shutting down . So be nice most didn't deserve it 👍
the housing situation in the SW has been dire for a long time. The rise in second homes and student-only housing leaves residents with no where affordable to live. Good jobs are scarce and the council is squeezed by the government. Second homes should be illegal when so many people don't even have one
Thank you st petrocs for all your doing for all your help and good work for all the homeless thank you to all the staff that work so hard every day and feeding and clothing the homeless and for your out reach work THANKYOU
Im old enough to remember the days when you could choose your own council house. If you needed a bigger house or wanted to live in a different area there was no problem. What happened? Thatcher allowed the sale of council houses. If you want to buy a house, great, but don't buy a council house ! Then second home ownership took off, Airbnb, buy to let ! Is it any wonder we are in this mess !
