{"id":46178,"date":"2025-10-15T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/?p=46178"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:17:05","slug":"bristol-womens-shelter-forced-to-close-waiting-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/bristol-womens-shelter-forced-to-close-waiting-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Women&#8217;s Shelter Forced To Close Waiting List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The shelter blames a lack of social housing and high private rents for Bristol Homelessness<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>A &#8216;lack of social housing&#8217; as well as the &#8216;extortionate&#8217; cost of private renting in Bristol, is contributing towards homelessness in Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring of Hope is the only female-only shelter in the city. The shelter says it has been &#8216;full for weeks&#8217;. This has resulted in the shelter now saying they have had to make the decision to temporarily close referrals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 8 beds at the shelter with a further 13 women on the waiting list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring of Hope says: &#8220;This is the sad reality of homelessness, specifically for women, where Spring of Hope is the only female-only shelter in Bristol.<br><br>&#8220;The 8 beds at Spring of Hope have been full for weeks, with 13 women on the waiting list, the team have decided to temporarily close referrals until further notice.<br><br>The lack of social housing and the extortionate cost of private renting is contributing to homelessness in Bristol, with people getting stuck in temporary accommodation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured Image: inHope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home: <a href=\"https:\/\/backstagebristol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/backstagebristol.com\/<\/a><br>Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/chopsybristol.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/chopsybristol.bsky.social<\/a><br>TikTok: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@chopsybristoltt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.tiktok.com\/@chopsybristoltt<\/a><br>Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backstagebristol\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backstagebristol<\/a><br>YouTube:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/chopsybaby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/chopsybaby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shelter blames a lack of social housing and high private rents for Bristol Homelessness A &#8216;lack of social housing&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":46179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bristol Women&#039;s Shelter Forced To Close Waiting List - Bristol News From Chopsy Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bristol Women&#039;s Shelter Forced To Close Waiting List Temporarily. 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