‘Expensive homelessness’ - priced out of a home and living in your van

Typical landlord maby charge less rent and people might be able to afford to live un a ban

I decided to move into an apartment after 6 years in my van…after 6 months in the apartment I was so happy to get back into my van!

I live in a mobile home park.
I have a high top chevy express.
It's cheaper living in a mobile home park than in my van.

Others can be put up in hotels and given homes…why not these people?

Funny thing is the price of a decent camper van is more than the deposit on a house or the first year renting 😂

Also Peter isn’t thinking straight 😂 vans pay road tax and you don’t own the road. So yes, they have the right to be there.

Additionally, Someone like Peter (a property developer) could build a building in front of the window and that then obstructions the view…that’s not fair is it Peter?? When you work hard for a nice view and it gets blocked (I wouldn’t know clearly….it happened to me 😂)

Hang on mate. The empty property owners pay thousands of pounds to the council to support social housing. Putting a person fit to to work in a £1000 per wk property and expecting others to pay?

I can’t stand the term expensive homelessness. It’s fucking ridiculous. Owning a van that’s worth £30-50,000 which costs you nothing bar the fuel & maintenance every year is seen as homelessness

Yet renting a property for £20,000+ per year, putting money into someone else’s pocket for something you won’t ever own, is seen as the “good life”

People are delusional I must say 😂

All,over Uk

The government will soon find a way of taxing all you van life people to the hilt. Sadly

The landlords can lobby the government to make homelessness a criminal offence. A win win

Everything in this video is no different than people in houses too, there will always be people who are happy and people who aren't, and there will always be the same risks too.

Mindset is a big part of it, if you go into it thinking you have hit rock bottom then that's exactly how it will feel, not helped by the amount of people who assume that because you live in a van you have hit rock bottom, but that doesn't have to be the case at all.

Yes you do have vehicle expenses, but you would have those if you lived in a house and had a car to get to work etc, if you didn't have a car then the expenses of a van are likely a lot less than having a home to run.

People think that the good life is going to work 9-5 and then going home to the same 4 walls each night, and unless you are privileged you are likely looking out of your windows to other peoples walls, but with a campervan you can park wherever you fancy, and if you work 9-5 monday to friday there is nothing at all stopping you from leaving at 5pm on Friday and going living at the beach for the day, or in the mountains, or by a lake, the options are endless.

Want to go on holiday? you don't need to rent anywhere, just drive your own home to France, Spain, Italy etc, spend the week in the sun, if you can work remotely then you can also do that from anywhere too!

If you kit the van out right then you can have everything you need. I don't live full time in my van as i have a family, but i spend a lot of time in there and it has a toilet, shower, sink, hob, microwave, full size fridge freezer, heating, AC, WiFi, it's got enough solar and battery to power everything fully off grid in the summer, and it can charge from the alternator if it needs a top up when it's not sunny, so it charges when i am moving. I can empty waste and fill up the water at home, but if i was full time in the van i would just pay a campsite a few quid to empty things and fill up with water, in the rest of europe that is all free anyway in most places

If you don't have a shower then many people just have a gym membership, cheap enough and you can use the gym and shower etc

There will always be people who are struggling, but there will always be people who struggle in a house too

A similar thing is happening in Australia. My brother lives in his van too. What he pays for fees is like renting (camping and caravan park site fees in Australia). To each, their own. *I mean some people choose to do it for the lifestyle not necessarily forced.

Elite

Not a true reflection of homeless van life in Cornwall. It's pretty lazy just going to Newquay to interview surf bums who mostly are all from upcountry. The real plight and severe hardship of full time van life in Cornwall, as experienced by many of the local Cornish van dwellers is to be found inland away from the tourist hotspots. There are hundreds of us dottted around in the countryside in tucked away locations with no help at all from Cornwall Council. The winters are brutal. Last winter especially was very bad for many including myself.

I own several properties that i probably let as air b&b but of course its the government's fault!

Wow,thousands of pounds to buy a property.who would believe it😢. In winter temperatures drop too. That guy should be considered a mine of knowledge. 😅

Mad Max was a documentary.

Ban investment properties, then rent is eliminated and housing cost will lower. When greed is removed, then people can afford more. Cost of living is out of this world.

Lol get rid of the dogs

Beethoven

Living in a van is not nice, but this is indeed a beautiful place😢

Yup, count me in Cost me near 70k and 6 years of my life working at it to make it happen

I have slept in a Hyundai Amica and work full time doing deliveries for 1+ year now and I never been happier.

Although I am based in the midland so most people just think I'm weird.

It sounds great that in Cornwall there seems to be lots of people doing it and supporting each other.

Peter is as delusional as the government wants its people to be 👍🎉

Interestingly it is becoming a very similar situation in Australia. Unaffordable housing and housing shortages seem to be a common theme in many Western countries? How has this happened?

Why don’t all those van people get together and buy a big hunk of land and park their vans on it and be a lot cheaper for them

peter what a dose

Lol @ Peter. Upset by the direct consequences of the behaviour he profits from. Young people work hard too. The ladder got pulled up before they had a chance.

Id rather see "obstructions" of camper vans rather than seeing kids having to playing around thier tent city home

Happening everywhere now. Not fair to local residents having bags of human poo in litter bins and scruffy old vans blocking their view of the sea. Not fair that these hippies can turn up and live in lovely holiday resorts without paying rent or tax. Vote Nigel and he'll stamp it out for good.

In Bristol, they are getting van dwellers to pay council tax!

I witness these people on a daily, trust me most of them are not out working at all, they’re sat with their van doors open taking up spaces all day and night, I could go on and on about it. That isn’t to say there isn’t a massive housing problem at all, I totally agree, but a huge majority of these people are not working at all, I see the same faces at the same places (little fistral, south fistral) all day everyday, I work all around town doing jobs around these places and we just sit and watch them.

England currently in a twenty-year stretch were the 80% of the population that are poor are living at one tenth the living conditions of people from Vietnam. For example the average poor Vietnamese has housing, food, and full-time employment, eating out everyday. No so in England.

Just imagine: aged 22, no parents, without 3rd level education, a trainee in a white collar job.. I married, bought a 3 bed house, furnished it throughout, bought a car etc.
Two years later, I'd two kids, a stay at home wife, and had 2 holidays every year.. one on the continent.. I'd no debts (not even on my car) apart from my mortgage..
How was such a thing possible? Well, it was 1972-74.. greed and banksters wasn't a thing yet; here are some stats:
Income: £1,160 pa.. (not per month)
House: £3,450 total.. garage, OFCH
Today you have greedy speculators, landowners, builders, LAs, banksters and greedy, grabbing legal crooks everywhere.. Back then, instead, we had morals,standards, Christian values, decency, generosity and guts.. no of that exists today..

Working in Sydney , Australia 🇦🇺 at 64 , and doing exactly the same . Able to save = £1,500 a month .
The politicians of both Australian and the UK have totally lost control of their economies and the people are suffering .

You could spend two thirds of your life working every hour to pay a house off. It will then be taken off you when you get old, the proceeds being used to pay for you to live in a box room until you die.
living in luxury is pointless if you have neither the time nor energy to appreciate or enjoy it.
These people are no more unhappy than most people struggling to pay a mortgage and put food on the table.

Watched YouTuber Nahana in one of her episodes, she was pricing Modular prefab homes, tiny homes, bring sold in Sofia Bulgaria for relocation to her land she previously bought with a price on 2000 £
And she attempted to refab a decapitated farm house.


The price was pretty low, Chinese factory made cubicle units.

It's a kind of thing that could work if land was either government owned or cheap.

Moves to a really beautiful, expensive place where everyone would love to live: "why can't I afford a house?"

Why did you change the title ? I'm not priced out of a home , i loveeeeee the liquid cash ( home owners who don't actually own their home , the bank usually does ) don't have.

Lived in a van for 7 years...work fru summer in UK & stay in van...then live in SE Asia for winter...no bills, no stress...just money & freedom!

Yeah because governments are out of control with: printing and debasing our money leading to out of control inflation taxation on everything we do to the point there’s no money left to save a penny. It doesn’t matter who you vote for left or right. Government is now the enemy of the people.

Cornwall has 2 of the top 1 most deprived towns in the UK. The employment is seasonal, money comes into the county for a few months of the year and many of the jobs are at minimum wage. We need to make work pay. Cornwall should make more of its location as a destination for remote workers to live in the area bringing in money all year round. For those few times people need to meet in London or Birmingham, trains booked in advance are reasonable and take 4 to 5 hours from Truro, and will be a deductible business expense. And affordable housing is needed and that could mean new council estates and that should not be considered a bad thing if that fits the long term plan to get people working.