No need to demolish it you already put it in the Bin ! Fridge doesn't hold 6 cans even mate.. I understand its a fantastic little build full respect but don't stay there... We are not designed to live in a box as we do already... This planet can hold 100 times the people its the Criminals attempting to seriously imprison us all as they make it sound good but they can't even do that ! They have NO PLANS OTHER DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY
I live in a caravan on the street of Melbourne. It’s my political protest to the high house prices . It’s the first time I have money in the bank . Based on wages of 55 hour week I will have the money to buy a house in 10 years
Cheers from across the pond. Thank you for sharing ur video. This is a proactive and clever solution for many. Sadly many people will judge...& won't understand being "displaced" until it too late & they themselves live in a 📦 Every one should have a safe warm place to sleep ❤
Im exactly 2 weeks from being homeless and ill tell ya I would live in that skip in a second just to have a place that is warm and safe to sleep . Never been so scared in my life . The problem of people not having a reasonable place to live is going on almost everywhere . The big minds should find a way to invent a small living space for people who need it . I know some have wish they would put some money into making it widespread .
His name was BOSS CAT If you lived in the UK and TOP CAT if you lived in New York which is where he was from, he wasn't a bloke he was a TOM. He didn't live in a dustbin he lived in a Garbage Trash Can, 🤗Fitted out with the latest gadgets & mod cons of that era,This included A Fridge, Microwave, Flat Screen tv, Heat Pump Boiler, Wifi & A hacked Lifetime Netflix Subscription.😏 BOSS CAT Controlled a ruthless Gang of Wisecat Hustlers That operated on the Mean Streets of Manhattan New York In the Mid to late 50s & early 60s, with the most notorious Being Benny the ball ! Or as he was better known BENNY ! 🤫 As Benny was rolled in to the most risky Hustles As the Visual Distraction.😲 If hustles went TITS UP ! and the occasion demanded it, BOSSCAT, would Employ the services Of Canines at the local Police Dog Pound as his muscle To settle scores.🐶 The show was made in response to the Phil Silver's show being controversially taken off the air some say Phil Silver's was the voice Behind BOSS/TOP 😸CAT !
@@funkyalfonso He also had it kitted out with the latest mod cons and gadgets of that era, mid 50s to early 60s. This included A fridge, microwave oven (a luxury at that time & not seen in British homes for another 25 years) flatscreen TV yoga bench, A heat pump boiler, A solar Panel fixed to the lid, Wifi And a Lifetime Netflix Subscription, He also had a bottle of milk delivered By a Milkman/ Milkmaid Direct to his Trash/Garbage Can' Or Dustbin/Recycled bin If you live in the UK. As Top/Boss cat resided in Manhattan NY. USA, Trust me He was one happy Moggy😸 I guess that's why they're called him TopCat.😼
Listen more closely to the video. He is renting the skip container, just as if you had it delivered to a construction site. The land is donated by an artist group to make a point. The toilet is donated by the toilet company or he would have to rent that too. You can't just take over a trash container off the street and build a house over it. The trash container and the land belong to someone else. You might be able to buy the skip outright, but that would cost money too. Nothing is for free, not even public housing. The people who have jobs pay taxes, that pay for that.
@@adam.677 you handicap yourself when you can't even spell a simple work like "losing". How do you expect to get anywhere in life when you can't even read or write a simple sentence?
This is a massive statement on society. The man is living in a skip! A SKIP! and he is already better off then 90% of people who rent. The fact he also needs to pay 600 a year to live in a skip says a lot also. Society is failing hard. You know the world has lost its way when you look at a dude living in a bin and think "Yep he has the right idea"
You stand correct, many people all around the world are experiencing an extreme inflation issue. Things cost almost the double they costed few years ago, housing is becoming impossible and meat is slowing getting out from the menu for the middle class. Few people own everything for the rest just the scraps.
Even here in Tucson, AZ, USA, the housing is getting ridiculous. Companies are buying homes and apartment buildings and making the rent more than a single person can afford, especially if they work in food service, stores, or any other lower-paying jobs.
Big corporations are buying houses all over the country and up renting prices, they’re making it to where you have to be rich to own a home and the rent prices are so high that you have to be rich to rent a nice apartment or house.
You are absolutely right. Also landlords will start buying plots they can not get palnning permission for houses on, stick a few skips on it and charge a huge amount for inner city living.
One step away from living in a tube with a virtual life being bigger and more important. I am pleased metaverse tanked. this isn't a solution its a side effect from intentionally poor housing policy
A better option is to house share with friends or family. Down south east You can rent a 4 or 5 bed house for not much more than a 1 or 2 bed. So instead of 1 person paying 800 to 1200 a month it becomes 3 or 4 people paying 300 to 500 each. Normally bigger house equals better parking, more storage possibilities and better kitchen size. Garage if you're lucky or looking for one.
@@aleko2136 Now having went too school or coming from money doesnt mean he has the money personally tho. Have a friend that has a well off father but that dad has to die for his son to se a penny.
I really appreciate how the builder/owner was clear that this is not scalable and clear that it was more of a demonstration about the ridiculous prices. So many of these tiny homes or ideas are promoted as being completely reasonable, scalable, and 'why isn't everyone doing it!'. Enjoyable video.
Some Arts Council should fund an extra dozen skip houses on this site - even if just for the last 6 months. This is in one of the world's wealthiest nations, that grew rich on a worldwide empire, in city that can justifiably claim to be 1st or 2nd rank on the planet (vs NYC).
@@butterflyfaerie8140 Ah yes, I knew you’d be along shortly. So lets run down your scenario. There’s an empty lot, let’s say an unused 5 acre parcel owned by the city. The city/government says, “we have opened this up for skip housing!”. The people rejoice. Within a few months the 5 acre plot is nearly full of skip homes in various states of repair. The skip plots are haphazard and everyone has claimed their own small area. There are no plumbed facilities nor electricity, so cooking fires and refuse piles abound. The local citizenry says, “our neighborhood is suffering because of this eyesore! It smells and its simply a haven for the homeless!”. The government steps in to clean it up, regulate it. The skip owners are disgruntled, they don’t want to be told their homes have to be built to a certain code. The next day the first fire occurs, immediately trapping the small family inside, they perish. The community and social media are outraged, they demand answers, they demand the government do something. The government weighs the benefit of providing plumbing, electricity and bringing all the skip homes up to a reasonable standard of code, versus saving those thousands (millions?) of dollars for a housing project that - instead of housing 100 skip homes in squalor - would provide a apartments for a 1000. The government decides to condemn the skip homes. The current mayor vows to increase increase available housing when funding is available. One skip home owner on a plot with a fun tiny home is cute and artistic. 100 desperate families trying to survive by living out dumpsters on random free land is what’s known as a shanty town, which people like yourself (don’t take it personally) complain to the government about because its unkempt, gross, smelly, and bad things happen.
Such an entrepreneurial chap! I'm sure a landlord will buy it off him, convert it into a house in multiple occupation, and rent it out for a lot more than £50.
Sadly that is exactly what will happen. Meanwhile it is a terrible concept for most people. You’d have to be pretty spry, have no kids, not have a disability, not be aged or have any health issues. Be able to get down to the gym for a shower or cook outdoors it’s just not practical.
That's the tidiest looking skip I've ever seen 🙂 Must be cold without heating. I've noticed more and more people living in vans these days, too. Housing is so expensive in UK.
funny enough you saying that i deliver to lots of farms and industrial sites on old working farms and lots of people living in old horse boxes camper vans in the units themselves out of view out of sight I guess
@@redrock1965 We have a community nearby living completely off-grid. There are also quite a few people living on land they own which they aren't supposed to be living on so they have temporary accommodation such as caravans and vans. The council seems to leave them alone, though. I am a member of an online van life community with members from all over UK, and it is growing all the time.
@@Electrowave Trouble is, it only takes one nimby to complain and the council are duty bound to act. Councils don't have the resources to proactively pursue planning breaches.
There's a huge movement in the US for people who are living in their cars, often for financial reasons. It's like an offshoot of the tiny house and van life movements, except the reasons for choosing that way of life is different - often it was not much of a choice at all. Lots of channels on here about the life, mainly from older single women. The cars are usually decent sized hatchbacks and there's lot of clever ideas on how to fit out the inside. Definitely a sign of the times.
@@wilmaknickersfit Sure, there's increasing numbers of people living in cars, campervans and caravans in every city in the UK. The cost of living is spiralling out of control, fuel bills are through the roof, renting accommodation is increasingly expensive and there is a shortage of housing. I got evicted recently by my greedy landlord and had to move 30 miles out of the city to find another flat. I pay almost half my wages in rent and I consider myself more fortunate than many. I've thought about living in a campervan or truck myself. Some people do this as a lifestyle choice, but many don't really have much of a choice.
@@jilllangman9343 I kinda agree. Capitalism could be good if it was more balanced. I'm from Brasil. Here it's very clear how the working class produce a lot but don't make money. Their time doesn't have value. The minimum wage is around $1.400. I paid $600,00 in this phone I'm using now, half a year ago. One of the cheapest Motorolas on the market (Moto E13). A PlayStation 5 is $4.000,00. So it's very unbalanced. Some people born rich and die rich. Some people are lucky and make money. Some other work hard but what they do have no value. Yet are very necessary workers. 🤔
We've lost our moral compass. What a shameful and disturbing world we live in. This brave young man is sadly one of thousands of young people stuck in this situation, and it's only getting worse. Even a blind man can see it's all heading for a crash... Decision makers... Sleep well in your beds tonight..
I'm 23 I've been homeless since I was 17 saved up 13k no debt paid off car I bought a house so I'm not homeless anymore but seeing these bills I basically live homeless I bought a automatic portable shower pressurized for 500$ go to the park fill up my gallons shower at home I cook off my solar oven another 700$ I have a stove and running water but I after my first bill at 600$ not including electricity SINGLE I knew this was not going to work. I have a home and all the appliances but I don't use em them bills scare me I even bought a solar generator 5000 but my electric bill only 25$ cause of my fridge but my buddy is hooking solar to my fridge so I'll eliminate all my bills besides mortgage and taxes welcome to 21 century America California
@@dersturmerofjewery6038 should have bought a bus ticket to the south. Cheap as crap, beautiful spaces, respect self sufficiency. You just gotta make sure you pick the right area which can be hard to know ahead of time without a local contact. I'm sure the Midwest and rural parts of the east coast are the same way too.
I was homeless but found roomate with an apartment he was about to lose because he couldn't afford the rent by himself. That was three years ago. Now this landlord is raising the rent $400 a,month. We can't afford it so everything is going in my storage locker. He has had a courtesy bus which he uses for work as a locksmith. I told him to keep the bus so we would have that to live in if there was no other place to go. He doesn't think we can. I know. we can. I used to sleep at a bus stop 4 years ago
I've an idea, since it's a mere 400, 200 each...cut down the life expenses and luxuries, and greed. Tighten the bels just a little, because let me tell you you'll wish you did that when you're out there in that wild world where the sky becomes your roof. 200/200, cut out the excess and save your sanity and lives.
@Damien616 what excess? are you talking about food? water? maybe clothes? how do you expect them to pull up their bootstraps if they dont have any boots to strap them on? seriously though you need to stop feeding that horse whatever it is you are before it gets so high off the ground you suffocate from the lack of oxygen. It's seemingly happening already.
Terry Pratchett wrote in one of his books about how "some people are so rich that they can afford to be poor", they approach poverty "from the other side". This is exactly it. This kind of thing is totally out of the realm of possibility for people who are genuinely struggling with the cost of living crisis and housing.
I lived in what is essentially a hut, not much larger than your home here. For 4 years. I am originally from the south of England but had a tough time at school due to family issues. Left without GCSES and I couldn't afford to rent on entry level jobs. So originally went into a hostel. Then moved to the far North East of England where prices are cheaper anyway. Ended up finding this shalet hut thing that was purchased as a holiday property but ended up renting it out to me all year round for dirt cheap. Anyway 4 years of that to save up for a deposit, still up north. 4 years of living in a hut, just to scrape enough for the lowest deposit I'd be accepted for on a mortgage, in the cheapest part of the country. So you're spot on about cost of living. Hard times. This government need getting rid of. Both sides. Let us down drastically.
You've done well to get on the ladder. I know couples with PhDs who can't do it; they have to live in an expensive area for work. I saved for 3 years to get a appt, but I lived in a really small appt to save money. The last year of saving I counted every pound - saved about 70% of my salary. People without a bank of Mum and Dad don't understand how much of your life has to revolve around scrimping for the deposit. For many people it is a mathematic impossibility anyway. Those 4 extra hard years are behind you. Good luck with everything!
Rubber Boat bin your passport 4Star Hotel, Pocket money,and by law yes by law they are responsible for your upkeep haha you think I am kidding,fraid not Boyo.
Even sicker is that the native population can sink in shit, meanwhile all the illegals arriving by the tens of thousands are almost inmediately given free housing, paid for by the state (and thus you and all the other tax payers). It's even come to the point that 80 year old people are being forced out of their rented homes so their landlord can rent it to the government for housing migrants, because the government will give them guaranteed 5 year rental contracts and all reparations and expenses paid, which is of course too much to ignore for those without principles and who are only in it for the money. We have the same thing across the North Sea, in the Netherlands. A group of illegals who went through the asylum procedure and were rejected and thus legally are required to leave the country, they formed a group called "we are here". What they do is wait for business and even home owners to go out, and once the premises are free of people those illegals will force their way in and then barricade themselves there, squatting it. The leftist councils of most of the big cities refuse to take any action. Can you imagine that, people who by law have no right to be in the country forcibly take possession of your property, and no one who will even stop it or help to regain control of it?
Correct but what you will find is land owners allowing this sort of living at affordable rates potentially less than standard council tax rates because you can mass store these at absolutely no risk to land owner..I would rent my field out for this fee if I could get 50 of these on....in a heartbeat
A lot of people do live in containers now… there are homelessness charities building tiny houses and temporary accommodation out of shipping containers too. There’s a little village of them in Bristol
The problem with a home like this is that it is not sustainable in the long run unless you stay single and don't have kids ever. Also, these tiny homes always require you having a friend/family member who owns a plot of land. If you don't have that, you have to buy the land yourself which can easily cost $50,000 more in addition to the home.
Then on top of that. Building restrictions. Even with the tiny homes. You can’t just pop them up anywhere. But they should have zoned areas in every state. Or if you buy acerage. Not everyone wants to live in a city or subdivision either. The code in my city is 1,000 sq feet to build a home. Something like that here would be considered an RV. And would have to be in an RV park. I wish they had more areas for first time buyers with starter homes. But even they have gotten rediculous in price. They built those in the 60’s. So those houses are all older too. With how manufacturing etc has left the country. It’s hard for people to find a good paying job. Even college doesn’t guarentee that.
Not sure I watched the same video post here that you did…🤔…this has HUGE possibilities for “bridging-a-gap” I think 🤔 yeah - a temporary solution…meant to house ya ‘til you’re on your feet and are able to afford “bigger living”. Time Lines could be in place (ya have a year, maybe 2…?) Just seems plausible to help-out in some way or another 🤔
It’s interesting how the answer to a messed up economic model is people relinquishing a normal, minimal amount of space and resources. I feel like unchecked capitalism is forcing me to live in something akin to a coffin. Here in the US a lot of people have been reduced to living out of their cars. It’s crazy. This is not living.
In South Carolina rent used to be low. But since we’ve had the whole country try to move here now it’s ridiculous. For example it went from $450-$650 to $1,500-$3,500. I’m not kidding. That’s RENT! mortgage payments are way lower. Why are we not able to get people in a house they own if they can afford rent like that!? There needs to be a law about price gouging renters.
I lived in a 25 foot travel trailer for 2 years. It was fine. I was happy living small. I got married and moved into his home, which is small too, but feels large after living that small. We don’t need as much space or stuff as we think we do.
I buitl a smaller home in the US. It has one closet for the washer dryer. Everything else is under the bed or out in view. Closets are where material possessions go to die. Be well.
Sadly this is the state of affairs in London. I lived in Chiswick and then Perivale for 2 years and spent £2K a month on rent and council tax. I left London in debt for the first time in my life (lucky or careful?) - this piece of art is a brilliant social comment and quite honestly should be up for the Turner Prize.
Oh please! He's living on land he doesn't own, in a skip that's not his, and borrowing a porta potty, water, and electricity. Absolutely zero about this effort can be duplicated by anyone in real need.
I'd be curious to see updates on this, month by month. Will he be allowed to live there for the whole year, or will someone find an excuse to kick him out?
I love this ! We need this in the USA! I’m a world where no one should be homeless! No one should go without food! No one should go without medical care! So many are without or struggling. It’s not okay!!
I agree with you. It doesn't necessarily have to be a garbage bin though. If people are paying so much for rent that they can't afford food or medical care, they should be able to live in tiny houses for very cheap. No one should go without these necessities but, they must work for it. A tiny house could make those necessities more affordable.
Smart guy living, good for you and so innovative, I love it. I recently converted a Mercedes sprinter into a home because I had enough of exploitation - the only way to bring rents down is to avoid paying them. Alternative housing or off-grid living makes sense and means more independence, more freedom, and a little less control from above.
it take it your not in the UK as its virtually impossible here to do any of what you mentioned.People do van life but its not easy as there is no right of over night stops in the UK and also no rights to buy land and live on it.The above guy must have bought land with residential use, in London a plot that size would run into millions, so he hasn't really achieved anything,he will get his skip taken away or he is in someones garden, most people don't know people with massive gardens who can battle with the council costing thousands to have the right to have a residential dwelling placed on their land or he has "special permission" from the London authority due to it being an "art installation" and its not really classed as a dwelling ie he doesn't live their more than 28 night a year.
Look into shipping containers, find a bad one for sale, repair the holes with sheet metal, find cheapish land to settle in and you have a decent sized studio flat.
It looks really nice inside. Tight but really neat and good looking. I build an off grid tiny house on wheels about 8 years ago to overcome restrictions. Being on a camper trailer frame it was in a gray zone and I was able to stay there. It was mostly recycled or free materials. Mine was a lot bigger than yours tho. I had a shower, running rain water system inside, wood stove for heat and plenty of solar power.
Daily reminder that horribly small, unreliable places to live in are not a good replacement for proper accommodation and will only make both the housing and the mental health crisis worse over the long term.
Seniors in Canada are being forced to live in Bachelor suites as tiny as hotel rooms. Socially isolated and left to die. For the first time in Canadian history the suicide rate among seniors/disabled is astronomical. But Trudeau and the Liberal/NDP Communist Coalition has a solution; MAID (Medically Assisted Suicide by lethal injection) is easily available and accessible for all Canadian seniors/disabled, free of charge! This should help with our housing crisis!
I mean that's cheaper than a campsite in most places. Campsites by me are like $20/night just for a tent space without electricity and that's only in the colder months.
There are apps that show you free camp sites. If you can figure out a small heating source and battery you'd be good. I lived off the land for a decade. For a job. Heated rocks buried in dirt or foliage makes a good earth heater overnight. Good thing to do is leave a bunch in the coals when falling asleep so you can add more during the night. If you're in a car just get a metal tool box to put them in with blankets, radiant heater for free99 after the tool box fee.
We’re in the process of moving from our London flat to our little loophole too, apart from ours is a boat 🛥️ best thing is we can live wherever we like, centrally or not. Or even cruise up north if we need to. Absolutely unfathomably done with renting now 😒
Hello fellow London boater!! I have been living on boats for almost 6 years in London, and unfortunately it’s getting expensive now. Finding a permanent mooring is luck of the draw, and Marina prices are basically like paying rent now. In November I spent £10 a day on an electric metre at a marina, that was £300 on top of the mooring fee, crazy!! If you have a job and need to stay in one area that’s commutable distance to your job you have no choice but to find a marina or fixed mooring, otherwise CRT make you move to a distinct new area every two weeks. The licence fee is going up every other month, the price of coal nearly doubled in the past couple years, and Sadiq Khan has been working on trying to ban wood burners. Then there’s the green agendas having issue with diesel fuel. I think the boating lifestyle is under threat because it’s too freeing and the powers that be don’t like us being off grid and free to roam. They are making boating harder for sure. They want us in high rise pods where they can control us, and the energy we use.
"Excuse the mess, this place is a skip!" 😁 I would be worried that I would come home from work and find an old mattress poking out of the kitchen window! Joking aside, interesting use of space. Total respect to this man of action. 👍⚒️🏆
well done, totally agree, social housing is a 'tick box exercise for the government and developers" great to see you bringing attention to a very important subject. I live in Devon very similar situation, local families just can't afford rent prices. Air b&b and second home owners, doesn't help taking housing stock of the market that could be using for people to live in. Greed comes to mind!
I often look at alternative houses on YT. Vans, Skoolies, RVs, etc. I am ALWAYS disappointed when they show me something without a bathroom. I can see using an outhouse if it’s a permanent structure. But, if it’s mobile, the bathroom has to move with the house. A home, no matter how small, needs to accommodate the basics needs of life. A bathroom is a basic need.
London’s going the way of San Francisco. I had a friend who slept in doorways and tents there for three years, and he was a smart guy, very talented. The middle class is disappearing all over the world.
Well, we never really own anything, just temporarily. You can never be free until you give up on possession. Anyway, I believe the context of your words is different, but for me personally the people who carry their lives for the one thing that doesn't matter will never understand. I pity them.......
@@stefanfilipov7254 You might as well give up your life too because even if you have nothing or you truly believe that giving up everything you own including the things that would have sentimental value to you will give you freedom then I pity you even more. If you let go of the things you own and the things you cherish it will only become somebody else's burden
The problem is a small solar panel would struggle to power everything in real time. Batteries run out quicker than solar can charge them. Especially now we are getting to autumn and winter.
I live in a small RV trailer outside of the moderately expensive town in the USA my job is located at. I save ~$600 a month compared to small apartment rent in the area and don't have to pay any utilities. Living cheaply has been a hobby of mine for over 20 years. This video is a fun project and although it does have social commentary as its main "raison d'etre" it isn't too far off from what I believe is the correct response to housing issues these days. Live mobile, live small and live free...it isn't easy but it is worth it if we have the lifestyle to match the challenges.
as much as i take my hat off to him for this, because it is awesome. i feel it wont be too long before the idiotic youths of today start tryin to mess with it
He is also the youth of today before you open your big mouth. Not every youth is an idiot since we have the most amount of youngest engineers and scientists that we ever had. ( including me, an AI Scientist )
I never understand why tiny homes aren't purpose built in the UK specifically for people who WANT to buy and own their own property but can't afford HUGE house prices, or like me, don't need a large home, and would prefer to live in a tiny space which is more affordable to run and heat
The skip company should pay him, they're getting free advertising. Good luck to the guy. My niece lives in London and the prices are ridiculous. Thanks for sharing 💕
@@bramvanduijn8086 Same, atleast one with a stove and near a stream wouldn't be too bad. Warmth and water is all you really need. Even better if you have a nice partner to live with. That's all we humans need. Food, warmth, shelter, companionship.
I live in the Atlanta area in the US and its the same here. The town we moved to 30 years ago has definitely priced a lot of people out of being able to live here, near their family and friends. Rents are crazy high and houses very expensive now a days. Good luck to you, love what you are doing.
Looking at house prices in texas and it’s so cheap? As an American yourself can you tell me why they are, really curious as I’m genuinely tempted to leave the UK and go over there😅
If you actually believe he lives in the skip then you're gullible, the guy is a left wing artist that comes from a rich family, he's only doing this to get attention
We don’t need living solutions, fit for contortionists. What’s required is rent control. One of the most damaging things the Blair govt did, was abolish the Fair Rent Councils. From the moment that was done the destination was obvious and lo and behold, here we are. Landlords, many of which are operating with no minimum standard for habitability, are given free reign to charge whatever they like, very often for unbelievably shitty properties. This kind of venture while alleviating need in the here and now, is no kind of solution. It in fact acquiesces to and normalises, the horrifically abusive, exploitive reality that we now live in.
He's making a good point, my parents are both from London and after they got married all they could manage financially was a studio flat, they loved their landlady but to start a family and need larger home wasn't possible so they moved out of London at the end of the sixties. And other family members my aunt's and uncles did the same. None of them have moved back, as they don't recognise the London they grew up in anymore. Sad truth.
worlds fifth richest country.... and this isn't a bad idea at all, in fact I'm sure a huge chunk of the under 40 population are envious.... WHY ARE WE STILL ELECTING TORIES!!!!!!!!
A number of reasons. One is the thickest electorate in the world bar North Korea. Millions will never learn and it will worse than this in a decade, two decades, take your pick. On and on.
They own most the media outlets even the BBC is run by tories. The elites are taking as much money out of the country while they point the media barrel at the poor.
@@eightiesmusic1984 majority of voters don't vote Tory, but you can thank those holier than thou lib dem voters who sit on the fence and let the Tories get away with everything
@@noneoftheabove5816 The Liberals have split the left in various iterations going back to the early 1900s. But millions do not bother to vote. Even if under FPTP they have had repeated opportunities to remove the Tories from power since 1979 and earlier.
Here in America we have tiny houses. They’re small anywhere from 150 sqft to 400 sqft. And are becoming a huge alternative to flats and houses that are harder and harder to afford. Many are becoming communities that people can come together enjoy each other’s company and live more simply and safely. Tiny home communities may be a good endeavor for London. My husband and I live in a 280 sqft home and find it cozy and simple. Because of the small space you don’t fall into the materialistic traps of society you learn that less is more.
In London and the UK, the issue is not that we have never heard of tiny houses, it’s that there isn’t actually much affordable or available land with room to go and build even a tiny house. We are a small country with (necessarily) tightly regulated development laws. As he explained in the video, his efforts are not necessarily scalable to other people- he is being generously provided the land for free by an arts charity and the portaloo is provided for free. His neighbour is letting him use water. He is showering at the gym so he has to at least be able to afford a gym membership. He had to be able to build the place - there is a lot of regulation about building structures in the UK. Because you need planning permission, people can’t just build where they feel like. You can build without planning permission- if you want to risk that your house with be condemned and forcibly torn down.m at any moment. If you want to build even a tiny house you would have to take all of that into account and it all costs money. What we need in the UK is landlords to be better regulated so they can’t charge outrageous prices for a room in a shared house which is full of mould and falling to pieces. Also regulation for developers who build lots of new flats and houses but then they also charge the earth for them. The real tragedy here is that there are actually lots of flats and houses but they just cost too much because the landlords and developers know some desperate person will pay the asking price so they can have a roof over their head.
@@songindarkness I was hoping someone had raised these points. On the subject of home availability, I would like to add that the government’s open arms policy towards dubious characters (with deep pockets) from every corrupt corner of the world has allowed the problem to escalate exponentially, and now the battle is lost. There is no way back from here.
@@songindarkness In the USA, many places have strict building laws as well. That is why many, if not most, of our tiny homes are on wheels. That is how we get around building permits, because they are classified as RVs. Of course tons of people who lack the money or building skills or just want to be stealthy about it, opt for van life instead.
Having lived in London for most of my life, it is truly absurd to witness the skyrocketing housing prices and the extreme difficulty in renting a property. Despite the aftermath of Brexit prompting many people to return to their home countries, the struggle we face is still unimaginable.
Living in a place with no bathroom would never work for me. I am in the US and am old and on a fixed income and rent would run over half of what I get a month so I know how you feel trying to find a place you can afford that place is cute I really like it.
I like the idea of portability with the skip (dumpster?) But yeah... power, shower, toilet, land availability, fire code, etc.... Tough to reconcile. I love the idea of art projects too, but tiny houses are already a thing. Go with the idea of the hybrid skip/tiny house with modular water and power access, plug and play, easy pick up and transport. 😁
I’ve lived in my little Mazda Bongo for 2 years now which I park near my place of employment. It’s a minibus one with the seats folded down and a memory foam mattress topper on top. Now That I don’t feel like I’m missing out on living in bricks, I’m genuinely happy that I am as free as a bird knowing I can take my little home everywhere I go :)
Not just in the UK, we have the same problem here in Australia with rent and housing affordability. It's absolutely horenduos especially with ghost properties sitting vacant for years that could be used for a family or someone who urgently needs somewhere to live. And homelessness is on the rise, and to think that we're living in the 21st century you'd think governments and estate agents would be more understanding. 🤔
It won't be long mate, before slum dwellings make a resurgence in Aussie cities in about 10 years ....the Govt wanna eliminate middle class , widening the gap btw rich vs poor ....just like what happened during the Great Depression era
Same issues in the states as well, some places rent out literal closets with beds for hundreds, if not thousands, all part of our new world governments plan. We will own nothing and we will be happy is what they say. Get ready to start seeing bugs on your menu.
@@srmaliajosfefa3739 - why should there be slums? As long as there is sanitation & no overcrowding there is no reason to create slums. Slum living in public housing is created by people.
If we banned foreigners from owning real estate in our countries, that would cut back on those ghost properties big time. Frankly, I don't think investment firms should be allowed to own single or two family dwellings at all, while we are at it.
Skips are expensive AF in London, so much so I actually looked these guys up in hope of finding a deal. You can clearly see on the side the company is RMS skip hire, the smallest skip they have with walls is a 10 yarder: that's £315 for a week plus £63 in vat in zone 4 - about 40% more expensive than rent for that volume in that location - so unless he bought that skip off that company, or "liberated" it, I'm calling BS. Side note - if anyone has a skip in BR3 that's more affordable in BR3, hit me up ✌😅
Thanks for taking the time to show us your home. I'm an american and the rent prices here where I am are getting out of hand as well. Hopefully before long you'll be living somewhere with indoor plumbing and a flushable toilet. Maybe Skiphome 2.0
Every single human being deserves a clean, safe home to live in. We have a lot of homeless people here all over the United States because of both a housing shortage plus the very high cost of rent. Also, where we live, the landlord can raise our rent up almost 15% this year. These are very scary times for many.
I highly doubt there's an actual shortage of houses, it's just speculation, lot's of empty unaffordable places and lot's of people who have actual full time jobs and cannot afford do pay rent. When houses are a for profit product and not a basic human need that's what happens. That's capitalism at it's finest.
Same problem here in Canada. Rents are outrageous. Sad to know so many people are homeless all around the world. Our government isn't taking immediate responses to the housing crisis either.
There's plenty of available housing, it's a constant almost everywhere that there's more empty homes than homeless people. The problem is capitalism, there's nothing more to it; it's the ownership model of basic necessities.
Student Accommodation for 1 year: £4000 building cost, £600 Rent. Or 12 easy payments of £390. Water supply not included, electricity supply not included, shower not available, car parking not available. (Must supply own plot of land. Must make own arrangement with portable toilet supplier). You are 1 of 315 applicants, good luck. 📃🧐
This guy is all over the media. It's just like living in a van down by the river :) Srsly tho housing in London & Home Counties is a total f-ing nightmare
We are such a progressive nation and society, I feel so proud that my fellow citizens are living in conditions like this. Damn all those other countries that have awful human rights.
its not just a problem with london its the entire Uk rent is insane, and worse having lived in caravans and vans for about half my life, doing something like this isnt even bad its just a homemade static the issue is placement and the only reason he can have it there is its and art project, if it was a home then planning permission would prevent him from having even a temporary structure on the land
I watched this after this week's episode of Panorama which focused on the state of British housing and particularly social housing. It showed a small former council house that had been sold off and turned into six mini apartments by a private landlord. The former bathroom was a unit for one tenant, the former kitchen was a unit for another. I think all the tenants were on housing benefit and the council was paying over £900 for each room! That's over £60,000 per year in rent for one small house. Council houses sold off in the 80s and 90s were never replaced and housing associations that were supposed to be small and locally run for the benefit of the community have instead become large commercial enterprises. I'm glad I emigrated. I bought a villa three months ago that is five minutes by car from a city centre but has views of rice fields and a volcano (dormant hopefully) for under £70,000.
@Nino Hi Nino. We have a house in a small city in Central Java (My wife's Indonesian). Cost of living is cheap, the food is great, the people are friendly, it's safe and we're at an altitude of around 400 metres so the climate is relatively cool. It's certainly not perfect here but news from my hometown London sounds so depressing these days that I think I made the right choice.
Here in the South west VA United States. A 125,000 house became a 390,000 house in a matter of two years time?? There never was real talk of a housing shortage prior to the pandemic at least in my area?? Housing prices do not match the income requirements to pay these prices in this area. What we are now seeing is out of state wealthier people coming in and paying these ridiculous prices for mediocre at best homes. This is pricing locals out of the area. Home ownership WAS the dream for most Americans. Now many have realized it is just a dream. So sad. This could have all been prevented. Pandemic. Need i say more?
Bought a 2 bed house in 1987 (£66k) 4x the cost of a similar house up north.Saw it was sold recently for £1.5 m. Moved back north in 2000 bought a 6 bed house for £10k less than the first.
When i moved to Australia from the uk after 45 years this sums up exactly what I always said, The place is a dump and to have to live in a skip bin in 2023 puts that harsh statement in to reality I feel for all my younger friends and family and there future…….
I think the skip house is LOVELY! I have an idea for the heat of summer. Rig up washing lines (or something else, fixed on poles around the house) Washing lines are good because they're cheap and strong. Then fix up a tarp (with a slope on it in case of rain) with reflective material facing outwards, something like the same material used on car windscreens. You could fix it with cable ties through the tarp eyelets, cranked tightly. You could even fix up a tiny shower inside with drainage to containers outside, but of course they would have to be emptied into a main drain daily. And a 10 litre (or more) container could be fixed up above the shower, filled via the hose. Maybe a small solar panel above could warm the water?
I mean... it's just absolutely shameful. I don't get why we aren't just building Japanese style 1LDKs. Skinny long apartments for 1 or 2 people with a balcony to dry your clothes and an air con unit. Mine in Kochi in 2019 was the equivalent of about £250 per month, plus power costs for the air con. It was small but I saved so much money that I could eat out all the time. Same sized place in London would be a studio for £1300 :(
@Alf Smith why are you dehumanising people on the other side of the world? I had a really good life there living someone safe, affordable and clean. The UK builds the smallest homes in Europe, we might as well start building them to a small smart design that makes sense, instead of just shrinking the traditional spaces.
@Alf Smith I think people should live in safe affordable spaces, which right now they cannot. Every single place I could afford to rent in London had something horribly wrong with it- mould, carpet moth infestation that was there when I moved in, broken oven, broken shower. And I was still living in a space smaller than my Japanese flat because I could only afford a room here.
Some time back (last century? certainly pre the ‘tiny house’ thing) I saw the ideal housing solution at some exhibition or other- a complete accommodation unit, pre-fabricated and presumably capable of being mass produced, in a 5m cube. Two floors, fully plumbed, proper kitchen, shower room, two bedrooms upstairs… It was pretty roomy on the inside from memory- living room would have been 16ft long. The only reason I don’t think it could have been a 4m cube was because there was loads of headroom throughout- although a 4m x 4m floor plan with 5m vertical would work. You could stack ‘em too…
I’ve seen numerous affordable housing demonstrations like this. The one and only problem; the government favours zoning laws over housing their citizens!
It kinda baffles me that people have such an aversion to "Commie Blocks", but I mean they literally provided housing for millions of people. We shouldn't be scared of such concepts because they've historically been pioneered by communist governments - the idea works. Small apartments around a communal model works, East Asia's been doing it for decades. It also doens't help that this country has an aversion to any largescale apartment blocks, we associate them with social degredation, lower class people etc. It's all pretty snobby and entirely the result of people assuming that everyone should own their own house (an unachievable thing in this day and age). We need a social attitude change to actually drive livable and affordable spaces. But let's also be honest - we have houses, the market is just entirely broken and impossible for new people to enter. Landlords and the entire industry are just as much of an issue as the existence of places to live.
Yeah, there are lots of really cool solutions. The problem isn't building design. Lots of designs out there. The problem isn't production capacity, that can scale up really fast and the companies are chomping at the bits. The problem is zoning. At least around here it is.
That's so bloody creative!...I love it! I wonder if Port-a-loo could also make Port-a-shower cubiles too?....it would be a great idea. We have a company in Australia, that has 2 guys with a van that has a washer and dryer in it..they go around 2 where homeless people are, they bring folding chairs, & everyone sits around chatting, while their laundry is being done..it's also a great idea. (I think it's called Orange Sky???) Perhaps we could bring the services to you!
Nice home! I live in a 12 square metre box in the Kent countryside. It's nice. Off grid. No bills. I consider myself privileged. Most people couldn't hack it but for me I'm living the dream!
The problem is the same here in the states. The government has zoning boards and they don't allow small houses. Apartments are restricted as to how many in a given area and so we have high costs and no availability.
Good insulation will help with both the cold and heat. A good thing to know is that if you put the kind of insulation that has a reflective side, put the reflective side away from the inside (shiny side towards the walls, floor and ceiling. It will make a huge difference.
