Caring in Bristol is made up of around 500 volunteers from across Bristol who respond to the needs of city’s most disadvantaged, both through providing food, shelter and support for those who find themselves homeless or vulnerably housed in and around the city of Bristol.
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00:00We are in the Youth Hub at Caring in Bristol, which is our space for young people who are experiencing or facing homelessness.
00:08And tell me a little bit about the Youth Hub then.
00:11The Youth Hub is part of our project which is called Z-House.
00:14And the Z-House is an emergency youth shelter for young people who find themselves without anywhere to live.
00:24And in terms of the building here then, what does it entail?
00:30So this building is the Caring in Bristol space in general, but it is home to Z-House as well.
00:37It means that we've got a hub where young people can come, get the advice, information and support that they need
00:45so that they can address their housing insecurity issues.
00:49It also means that they get that personal support as well.
00:53We know that homelessness can be quite traumatic and we have a team of youth practitioners
00:59who are really skilled at building positive relationships with young people.
01:04And tell me a little bit about the factors that could lead young people in the city of Bristol to need your services then.
01:11We know that in Bristol it's a very expensive place to live.
01:15There have been many people who have said it's the most expensive place to live outside of London.
01:21That means that housing is becoming more and more unaffordable to younger people
01:26who might be on a lower rate of benefit, who might be on a lower rate of pay as well.
01:31They might even be working on zero-hours contracts, things like that.
01:36So it is difficult to afford the rent.
01:38Also what we need to remember is as well that because there's a shortage of affordable housing in Bristol
01:45it means that young people often go to the back of the queue with landlords preferring different people in their properties.
01:52And so young people are really not very well provided for in the housing system currently.