The Bristol Housing Festival Newsletter: Home is Everything

Note from the Editor: 

Home is Everything. 


Last Monday was #WorldHomelessDay2022, and opportunity to consider those society tends to forget - those who don't have anywhere to call home. 

Homelessness takes many forms. It includes people sleeping rough, but it also includes the individuals and families in Temporary Accommodation waiting for a settled home. Shelter reported in 2017 that 35% of people are in Temporary Accommodation for over a year. Children are sometimes required to change schools, conditions can be overcrowded, and placements aren't aways in their familiar community. 

The Bristol One City Plan for 2050 is that everybody has access to an affordable home in a safe, thriving community. The council have set ambitious targets for social housing, as these are critical to achieving this goal. There is also much work being done on the system change required to tackle our housing crisis, for example the international Climate Smart Cities Challenge, which is looking at new financial models to deliver affordable, climate smart housing. 

While the challenges are great, so is the human capacity to create, innovate and bring change. We hope you'll join us this week in raising awareness for the city's most vulnerable, supporting our local charities where you can and celebrating the progress being made as the council works towards its ambitious housing goals. 

And so the festival continues…
 

Jessie and the BHF Team

 

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