Meet the people in work but living rough on the streets

This is 21st century Britain. But still there are people without homes, still people living rough on the streets, including some who are in work, even some doing vital jobs in the public sector, low paid and increasingly struggling to keep a roof over their heads. Central government doesn’t keep statistics on the ‘working homeless’. But we do know that overall the number of homeless people is once again on the rise.
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[@lauriecobain9604]

I'm always so proud of the working homeless. My partner got a job when we were homeless for three months this year and held it down but he had all sorts of health issues at the time, like trench foot, and found it hard to find a shower. They have to go through so much, and still hold a job down anyway. That is to be respected.

[@hh-ck3yw]

Laurie Cobain you can shower at leisure centres

[@439bananas]

@@hh-ck3yw But you have to pay leisure centre fees.

[@hh-ck3yw]

Banana bullshit

[@hh-ck3yw]

Banana you dont have to pay for no fees

[@439bananas]

@@hh-ck3yw Well the leisure centres at Tenbury Wells and Malvern, Worcestershire, you have to pay for a swimming session to be able to use the shower facilities, whether you swim or not.

[@skiptonn]

I'm in the same boat I live in Oxfordshire and it's disgusting the prices around here to rent a room is 550 650 a month thats just for a room a flat is around 1200 a month your just working to live in housing no money for fun or pleasure just live for a roof over our heads no wonder people are suffering with mental health things need to change!

[@jackyblue67same10]

troptrip tropical if ur not on drugs u can come to america & stay with me & my dogs & cats & the town I live in has plenty of factory work .God Bless also I'm not crazy just know what it's about I've walked in ur shoes so I do know first hand .

[@MegaPianogenius]

go on benefits or better still take the offer to USA

[@skiptonn]

Jackyblue67 Same i heard Americans were kind but you just proved that lol no I don't do drugs god bless

[@jimibarker4873]

Aron Skipp rent and mortgage are perverse , we build once and family stays for free forever where I live

[@ohmygosh4761]

I honestly don't understand what you expect people to rent their places for? They should ignore their mortgage? That price wouldn't work in London so better there

[@MegaPianogenius]

disgusting private landlords have taken over

[@chris-hu7tm]

what you want thn? communists?

[@donz4real]

Silly.. there is new flats 2 make the richer that much more rich... how about they build houses or flats via our hard working tax payers money to make sure they are in housing

[@marklasy6209]

I am a private landlord, I’m a hardworking person myself

[@seanmurphy9247]

Because councils aren't building more properties

[@Jk-oz5qn]

@@chris-hu7tm not a bad idea

[@cal3207]

People who are working while homeless deserve immediate housing.

[@mjag2834]

Just a never ending cycle of things that just aren't working here in the UK.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Around the world , as well I hate to say it .

[@peterbrown3944]

We are to blame . How on earth people voted the Tory in power ??

[@mjag2834]

They didnt the Royal Family voted them in, as probably did the Banks too.

[@jamessmith84240]

Here is the root of the problem: Minimum wage jobs in the UK don't pay enough to sustain the price of living here. Any ideas how we can fix this?

[@adrianrouse5148]

Totally agree. Minimum wage is not fit for purpose. It was brought in to stop farmers taking advantage of imigrants workers. Then all the factory's jumped on it to save themselves on wage bills. And governments have done nothing to stop them. Minimum wage is not a recommended wage. It's the lowest you can pay without breaking the law.

[@Jk-oz5qn]

Yeah by letting the council building more house instead of giving them all to greedy landlords but the government needs to keep poor in their place so that wont happen

[@jaynestag95]

Zero contract hours

[@martinemjt]

everywhere ,i think the aim is to keep people poor!

[@davidvarley1812]

@@adrianrouse5148 actually the minium wage is extremely successful. The idea behind a minium wage is to set standardised minimum price for hourly labour cost. Without the minimum wage today, one company could employ some for £3 an hour while anther paid £12 an hour.

[@ADAM00717]

Yet! 50 migrants turnup in a boat at Dover and get whisked off in a taxi to a 4* hotel😡

[@patriciarowe6685]

Makes you so f^%$ 😡

[@Boomerfrisbee]

A man who sleeps rough for a couple of nights but knows he can return to his mansion anytime learns f**k all.

[@straightletterz2596]

it was actually just "a night" lol

[@jackyblue67same10]

God Bless all the homeless my heart really goes out to them .

[@leepoole9463]

My heart go out to them too I wish I can help

[@julibr6]

Well why don't you put somebody up in your home and give them a roof over their head

[@bobidos123]

@mrwogo goolies thats a very narrow minded view! I hope you dont have such missfortune!

[@johnnyrogers6912]

@mrwogo goolies could be you one day you thick t

[@timmolloy7574]

@@leepoole9463 Don't vote conservative/lib dems

[@randaldavis8976]

lockers and a pile of concrete culverts and a restroom/shower building would be a huge start for the people that can't get a roof yet.

[@magirusdeutzjupiter2234]

For all the ones comfortable and living well..don't forget, it only takes a minute to be on the street. I wish all home less people all the best of luck and God bless them.

[@RAIN-si8sl]

Low paid jobs and greedy landlords not enough help it's disgusting how many of us are only a step away from it ourselves

[@benjudge393]

Great documentary folks let's keep it blessed and do everything we can to make this world better for our brothers and sisters. 💯🙏

[@davidvarley1812]

Let's get something straight, sleeping outside for one night teaches someone nothing about rough sleeping. Sleep outside for one night is called camping and children do that.

[@trutherasitis2109]

DISGUSTING BANKS AND GOVERNMENTS HOPE YOUR VERY HAPPY.

[@Dublinireland5]

It's almost impossible for somebody to go to work when they' are sleeping at night on the streets living on the streets they have no where to cook a meal and no where to have a wash and have to get up in the morning and go to work,, nobody could do this for a very long before they give up.. I find it hard to understand why somebody would even want to go to work and pay taxes when the government of the day are prepared to allow these people to live on the streets.. When Norman tabith said a few years ago go out on your bike and look for work it won't come to you he put nothing in place for those people that may have found a job to have somewhere to sleep at night..

[@Dublinireland5]

England the country is clearly broken it has no time for the poor it is happy to take the Taxes of the homeless people that may find a job but will give nothing back to help the Poor

[@GondaHerszkowicz]

sad sad narcissistic society we live in :(

[@theosworld941]

Narcissism runs the world unfortunately

[@xanderjames8682]

And classism

[@ianhill4585]

'I'm alright Jack ',mentality.....

[@markswift3084]

The world is a lonely place without hope.

[@maylai6549]

1. Before they could build up the millions affordable housing in some areas, why not transform some old buildings into shelters ? 2. The system has failed the peoples in many ways . a) Insufficient jobs b) wages are too low c) Room and house rentals are too high d) Rent and price of the properties are damn high without control e) Inflation rate is not under control f) Is there anything been doing to solve the poverty and homelessness ?

[@Christinebanks11]

To think that your royal family is living in the lap of luxury and spend millions for a wedding .

[@jaxxoceans3866]

All so twisted

[@kashmoney9340]

Yes abolish the monarchy we don't need you to tell us to be humble we'll your sitting on a gold throne and wearing a diamond hat

[@mauriceosullivan6832]

@@kashmoney9340 the queen had a 6 million pay rise this year, discussing.

[@gary36104]

The corgi’s live better

[@lordginder]

2019 nothing has changed

[@JamesStorrie]

Dec 12 Torries stay in power! Things are just going to get worse ??

[@diloo1861]

Because YOU don,t change...

[@Bobsbud100]

Dont judge unless youve walked in someones shoes. Alot of people have no one and have many problems not chosen by them.

[@suzannehaigh4281]

Whilst boat people are living in hotels, nice warm room, beds, 3 meals a day and £40 a week spends, WHY?

[@PianoDisneygal10]

I learned tonight that there are homeless people who do work. I volunteer at a homeless shelter regularly but I am always doing overnights. So I never got to talk to the guests. But today I worked an earlier shift and learned something new.

[@birdyelke775]

Just imagine, we define ourselves as civilised, yet people are living roughly. What a sadness.

[@Townie7177]

I remember being homeless and living in shelters and looking at Christmas trees and people going home and just wishing and waiting for it to be me. And finally I was able to get my housing. But I live in the u.s.

[@GreywolfRaventhorne]

That is the absolute WORST part about it..watching people go home every night and knowing that you have nowhere to go home to. Sadly I'm likely facing this situation again very soon. I've honestly been considering ending it all rather than having to live like that again

[@Townie7177]

@@GreywolfRaventhorne what do you mean you're facing it soon? Where do you live? Listen I know all to well about homelessness and mental health. You don't want to harm yourself just like I don't want to but sometimes life is really hard to live. My life has sucked since as long as I can remember because of mental health but I try looking at what I do have. I really hope things work out

[@GreywolfRaventhorne]

@@Townie7177 currently living in Norristown, Pa. It's awful having to live with it. I lived a year homeless before, and doing it again...just..I don't know

[@Townie7177]

@@GreywolfRaventhorne you're homeless now? We're are you staying? I really hate hearing that people are on the streets. When I walk in from the cold I think hiw do people do it. I live in Boston and down the street we have or had one of the biggest drug encampment just like skid row. The city kept trying to clean up but these would be out there freezing . But the city decided to rewarded the addicted homeless with hotel rooms. I really hope things look up for you

[@GreywolfRaventhorne]

@@Townie7177 in my car, at the moment. And today I found out that I have lost my main source of income. Fun times.

[@ryiin]

About time someone reported this. It's been this way since 2010

[@Christinebanks11]

You might not remember that comment , or this video . But 2010 was the last time I went to England .

[@angusmeigh5141]

@@Christinebanks11 Homelessness has been a serious problem in the UK since at least 1980. But at least many years ago there were a lot of squats and cheap lodging houses which acted as a safety valve. But over the past 20 years or more squatting has almost totally vanished and there is no cheap accomodation anymore anywhere.

[@porsha-Armanii6969]

GOD BLESS ALL THESE PEOPLE 👏🏻❤️

[@buskingkarma2503]

No one who is working,should be homeless!

[@NickEFCMort-gn2fc]

And now it's 2020 and there's more homelessness!

[@NickEFCMort-gn2fc]

@Robert Pearce amongst other things also yes Defo👍

[@NickEFCMort-gn2fc]

@Robert Pearce Cool,Goodman!!. Success is always a bonus and especially when things have been rock bottom!..🙏✝️

[@tonyn9858]

have some bad luck in life and anyone of us could be there

[@lloydfrancis9149]

Exactly this is why I will Never turn or Judge the Poor, Homeless and Needy

[@bernardfranklin6779]

It's just absolutely disgusting how we have got to this point in Britain today the political parties just don't care , homeless people need help

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Here in Toronto, Canada, it seems like 1/3 of people are living ‘al fresco’ in our balmy winter weather.

[@patriciarowe6685]

There are tent cities in thunder bay.

[@Awesometropper]

This is rough feel sorry for these individuals makes you appreciate the little things you have in Everday life when I become wealthy I’m definitely going to do good for this world 100%

[@MegaPianogenius]

pratt when you become wealthy? you might be homeless mate and depend on the likes of me i am rich but i believe in give a man a fish he eat for the day give him a rod and he can eat every day so i bought a couple of bamboo rods for people on the streets

[@angusmeigh5141]

Decades of mass immigration and mass asylum has also caused a big increase in homelessness and has caused a massive housing shortage and has forced up rents and house prices to unaffordable levels!

[@patriciarowe6685]

​@@MegaPianogeniusThose people fishing off the thames was all thanks to you then ?

[@thegoodsgone1965]

Rent is too high, we need rent caps.

[@afgor1088]

or to abolish rent. housing is a human right

[@garyabbot4659]

This country has gone to shit

[@faithhook3567]

it's not just this country it's everywhere

[@trutherasitis2109]

gary abbot WELL NO WONDER IT'S FOLLOWING U.S

[@annebuckley3474]

No it’s this country stop letting scum in

[@williedaniel6194]

Britain 🇬🇧 being homeless in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 must be horrible it's wet and rainy 🌧

[@splinterbyrd]

The tragic irony is that there is actually enough housing available in this country, it's just nowhere near where it's actually needed.

[@therepublic7708]

They keep building housing saving it is affordable however it is extremely expensive

[@scarletbiggs5752]

I had to sleep in a tent for one month, and I was working. The wages deducted to cover the benefits I had before I have found a permanent work. No mercy, and no understanding

[@garethlarner]

Fair play big respect I've worked and slept on streets it so hard so so hard but my heart goes out to ya big big big respect

[@michaelthompson4005]

It's crazy some people have two or three homes while some people have no home the government needs to do better

[@markrothery8719]

Governments across the globe have got an awful lot to answer for.

[@shafishafique6412]

Damm feeling sad for these people. Toris zero hours contact worse for working people good for others....

[@sevjafar8518]

Universal Credit = Hunger Games!!!☠️

[@scamwitness6594]

At some point in the last century, someone came up with a unique and workable way to make houses faster and actually affordable. Cement anyone? This individual made a contraception that had the MOLD of an actual house. Cement was poured into this mold and left to set. When set, the mold of course was removed. These houses were finished off in record time. The reason it did not take was because people did not like the layout of the house - or something like that. Nowadays, this is a real solution and should be reconsidered as a viable way to solve a deliberately created problem under a pretense to force people to find work that is not there relative to the population. What do you think?

[@celestialteapot3310]

He's spent one night homeless, l hope it made him feel better about himself.

[@straightletterz2596]

he learned a lot that night and can teach us a lot

[@davidvarley1812]

Sleeping out for one night is easy. Even in dreadful rain its perfectly OK. Its when you've been out for three or more nights and your bones are aching and your bedding if you have any are wet and dirty that your troubles start.

[@ianhill4585]

One night out,is just a photo shoot.

[@kablatcher]

Count your blessings. I’m homeless in a MUCH colder place and would love UK weather.

[@dobstar5776]

Where's that?

[@phattebytch]

"A country that works for everyone."

[@alanmccaffrey8950]

is that irony i hope

[@celticwarrior777]

disgrace this zero hours hows anyone meant to pay bills and the minimum wage is NOT ENOUGH to pay bills

[@dcc9dcc9]

And 6 years later things have progressively got worse

[@davidthomas-jv5ye]

i left britain in 1960 on free ticket to australia, anyone could have gone but they didnt want to go, northern australia is not a bad place to be homeless in

[@mranonymous8725]

Got another ticket for me?

[@curtismaize]

If they gave them out now everybody would be taking them.

[@britain2brasil]

Horrible and shameful and it’s only gonna get worse for some on this universal credit absolute shambles!

[@MadderMel]

I hope that Danny and Carla's situation is much better now ! Danny is gold !

[@patriciarowe6685]

Amen ❤

[@michelinewaldroup2410]

Have a fundraiser benefit with business and locals for the homeless

[@tonyblack3957]

They thought Council Housing was bad, but sleeping on the street and the risk of freezing to death in the winter is far worse,

[@mikekinsella2822]

if you don't have enough money what can you do. Some people just get forgotten and nobody helps them.

[@WAKE-UP-BRITAIN]

Cost of living goes up alot quicker than minimum wage....all the money in this country and we cant spend on helping the homeless its disgusting

[@afgor1088]

thats what you get after 11 years of torry government 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jeffreyjackson5229]

We so often forget how blessed we are until we see these realities. Never think that it cannot happen to you, because all that is required is one of two things: some unwise decisions on your part or a change in your external circumstances for which none of us have control.

[@northwestcoast]

Very true

[@lovealways729]

true

[@kenturner8557]

Reminder to the church. “No room at the inn” open the churches 24hrs

[@TeaLover1208]

No one should ever be homeless.

[@princesshassim6009]

ONE NIGHT ON THE STREETS ISN'T ENOUGH - GET HIM TO SLEEP TWO WEEKS ON THE STREETS THEN COME BACK AND LECTURE ON IT.

[@kenward6306]

Oh yeah let's build more house's, for all the immigrants

[@ryiin]

Grant Shaps. The chocolate fire guard of politics. Empty words.

[@martinlinahan6398]

Mass scale pre fab houses cheap and quick yet totally dismissed..

[@paulbaker1505]

When are the gonna make houses affordable. Or bring the wages up so the single person can afford the rent.. I mean under 21 gets penny's. What happens if you have no family for help. Your fucked

[@hariowen3840]

How can you work and have a bank account in order to get paid if you're homeless. Are they also therefore possibly being exploited by an employer.

[@juliewills8034]

Yet the Tories still insist that employment is the way out of poverty.

[@toffeebluenose7331]

This is what david icke meant about the system repeating and highlighting bad situations but really they dont care because ignorance is bliss.

[@stevejenkins4035]

Grant sapps,is after a gold star,maybe some glitter and prit stick,1 night on the cobbles haha

[@jaynestag95]

My son and wife with their dog are homeless. He works full time but can't afford London prices. I've encouraged him to move somewhere cheaper outside of London , not sure what he's going to do.

[@fariborzheydari8418]

There should be one off covid..tax on anyone who has more than 5 million pounds to spend on the homeless...billions will be raised..just need a quick legislation

[@afgor1088]

that's not gonny happen. most the torry MP's have more than 5 million

[@billyramone3413]

Same in Ireland !

[@stocktonful2]

Similar in New Zealand very expensive housing

[@julielarge6120]

Homes should be built for the homeless. Perhaps those with a lot of palaces in this country should all share one Palace and one holiday home as they are very big and require a lot of staff and heating.

[@annebuckley3474]

For British people

[@solohands8177]

The individual advocating at the 2:40 Mark has certainly been well fed! Everyone plays a part in homeless, I wonder if that advocate recognises that?

[@davidharness1507]

3 YEARS LATER.....More talk no action. Round and round they go.

[@richardpedley6291]

I was homeless adicted to heroin metherdon for 10 years around england im clean now

[@hh-ck3yw]

It shows that rent nowadays is terrible

[@charlotteb31]

the worlds a mess

[@stevejefferies2122]

why is it native brits that are homeless

[@trutherasitis2109]

Steve Jefferies I GUESS YOUR HITTING ON MUSLIMS YEH? WELL YOU HATE OUR COMMUNITIES BUT WE LOOK AFTER OUR NEIGHBOURS AND GIVE CHARITY..EVEN THOSE COMMUNITIES ARE SUFFERING ..MANY MOSQUES OPEN UP SOUP KITCHENS FOR HOMELESS AND ELDERLY FOR ANYONE WE GIVE FOOD CLOTHES SHOWER SUPPORT ETC GOVERNMENT'S COUNCILS DON'T CARE ..

[@mjag2834]

Its called 'Dont Care In The Community'.

[@ohmygosh4761]

They were born POOR

[@leslieoconnor4111]

It’s Gods Duty to Help The Homeless Jesus Has Risen From The Dead ❤️❤️💖💖

[@eliseolopez6504]

How could this be

[@lawrencebishton9071]

should help people who want to earn their keep get somewhere to live instead of giving homes to any 1 who says there mentally ill

[@YoniNadi]

What has happened to Britain’s social safety net/ utopian schemes?

[@Christinebanks11]

It only applies to the royal family .

[@isaacharkton6169]

Social services got overran with foreigners

[@odacirreis7193]

Great Nick God bless you

[@Mikee22ification]

Slept rough for about a month in total, couple weeks in Miami and couple in Europe, broke and no money The main concern, esp. in Miami, is safety, and then that you are tried all the time and so cannot really get enough energy to work or get out of the situation, and then keeping clean and watching your stuff In Japan they have 'capsule hotels' which work quite well - if they had those in US or UK would help. In Europe and Canada you can sleep in a park in summer and is OK A few times I got a bed in a hostel by agreeing to clean which is a good deal The upshot is I am now 50 and worth over a million so it worked out Problem now-a-days is that the dope-cannabis is too strong and makes you dumb, empty and 'gloomy on the pipe', i.e. short fused when not smoking usually

[@garyeales676]

Going like America

[@Dylanesque]

Britain has been heading that way for years. More so since 2016, the Brexit fiasco and Trump's calamitous America. Same politics, same chaos. Little brother trying to emulate its big brother.

[@blackfordbetea3189]

End zero hour contracts , end sanctions smash the skull ofToryism .

[@barbaranew1546]

Thank you so much for sharing I will solve this s problem

[@user-wg2qz6gw9x]

I feel it, man "dark and wet" on the street

[@Laura-ki4wf]

Why is the help and the job for you people

[@AAAA-jt6lp]

I am not smartest ! It come from my own experience from the past ! Try to find privately rent rooms without agency's- is hart to find but is possible. No bank account? HSBC bank offer bank account without proof of address. Find / buy cheap (no MoT,insurance,road tax) van size of vauxhall combo, Peugeot Partner you will have space for two people and so called own place you can park on driveway or plot of land for free or small fee (£100 a month) is safer than sleeping on the street ! I've seen "few" time homeless people has been assaulted on London streets. You can try to stay at work place if your boss will agree - keep place clean and tidy ...

[@destinedtodevinespiritualc119]

It won't be long before I probably find myself in this situation again but with my children in tow, plans are in the making but I find many people round me in the same situation who don't posses the skills I have to do what must be done and survive I long understood that I can't and won't rely on the government as when I did I found myself left in despair and would rather live in a tent than put up with the nasty tricks they pull getting you into debt with them and there constant goal post changes so off grid is were we shall go

[@cradleygirl]

Stop letting immigrants in

[@ohmygosh4761]

They had a homeless situation long before they opened the immigration flood gates however I'm very happy that it's their fellow European brethren that are bleeding their system dry

[@isaacharkton6169]

@@ohmygosh4761 you’d like to think that, as your underpinning mentality is outright hatred for Europeans and White people. The reality is it’s both East Europeans and Middle Eastern South Asian immigrants swamping the system

[@lesliearadi3747]

Perhaps the homeless can speak with a foreign accent and claim to be refugees and they will quickly be given hotel accommodation

[@shobhabu]

Grant Shapps “ governments are struggling “ Clearly we see how you are struggling 😒

[@williedaniel6194]

United Kingdom 🇬🇧 homeless economic crisis

[@leehollebon6041]

Zero hour contracts are disgusting they should be illegal

[@dongmingzhu666]

It can happen if you work for MCD‘s

[@raerae3844]

That is in Ealing. A lot of the people that attend that Centre are not homeless. Around 65% that attend that Centre are lonely and find it useful to obtain handouts meant for homeless user's.

[@mayaji9205]

Good job