{"id":375017,"date":"2025-08-26T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375017\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:22:11","slug":"bristol-council-writes-to-deputy-pm-for-van-dweller-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375017\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol council writes to deputy PM for van dweller help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his statement, Mr Parsons said: &#8220;Nationally we are taking a leadership role around vehicle dwelling and liaising closely with many other local authorities, which is why we are in a position to be able to make these asks and recommendations to government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Describing Bristol&#8217;s housing crisis, Mr Parsons said that, between 2020 and 2023, average private rents had risen by more than 23%, while house prices were at nearly nine times average annual earnings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While we are developing new homes at pace and working with partners to reduce our use of temporary accommodation, with the right support from central government, we could do more,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his statement, Mr Parsons said: &#8220;Nationally we are taking a leadership role around vehicle dwelling and liaising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115095282975045576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}