A man who was evicted from his home after 45 years has chosen to camp outside the front of it rather than go back to the council’s drug and violence-ridden emergency accommodation.
Neighbours of Gary Lambert are rallying around the 63-year-old, and say the situation is a damning indictment of Bristol’s housing crisis, because there’s a one-bed council flat a couple of streets away that has been empty for months.
Mr Lambert is being supported with tents, provisions and company from the people who have been his neighbours for decades, after he said he was brought to a nervous breakdown and had suicidal thoughts for the four days he lasted in a hostel. Bristol City Council refused to discuss his case with Bristol Live.
