Tower Block Kids: Sharing Spaces and Dreams |Real Families

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Part two of two. Documentary following children growing up in high-rise flats, who explain what it is like for youngsters living in tower block communities. Jordan has her first GCSE looming, but sharing a bedroom with younger sister Lexie is not ideal when she needs to revise, while their brothers Harley and Kyron do not get much quiet either, as antisocial behaviour on the estate keeps them awake at night. Siblings Blake and Drew are both animal-mad, but the lack of a garden in their tower block home means that they have had to get creative with their choice of pets.
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@SgtPlmFry 3 жыл бұрын

Kyle and Julia are so well-adjusted and mature for their age. Julia is helpful to her mom and very intelligent. She will go far. Kyle is an absolute sweetheart and great role model for his sisters. I sincerely hope he becomes a pilot.

@Sarah.Riedel 3 жыл бұрын

The two little brothers grinning at each other and saying in unison "My dream home is a mansion" is too damn cute

@michaelwallace1213 3 жыл бұрын

2:10 I’m pretty sure the reason they are not allowed in their parents room is the reason they have 4 kids

@EvadoCouto 3 жыл бұрын

Julia is such a sunny child! She’s so emotionally intelligent

@SgtPlmFry 3 жыл бұрын

41:58 seeing Lexi open that bottle of communal barbecue sauce with her mouth is giving me COVID sweats. 😟😲😂

@kellyweingart3692 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@IXcircle 3 жыл бұрын

Raised and living in New York City, I find it strange that there is a documentary on such a topic... it's like making a documentary on what it's like to live in a house.

@chizobaiwuchukwu2015 Жыл бұрын

The British do a documentary on everything.

@momofmany9954 3 жыл бұрын

Why is the mom guilt tripping her young daughter into staying in the tower blocks once she becomes an adult?! Just because your family has done something for generations doesn't mean you should stop your kids from wanting better! These attitudes of "That's all we have known" is why there is generational poverty. These kids need to learn there is more out there then tower block living and low wage jobs. I hope these kids are given the opportunity to reach their full potential.

@hastingsd3864 3 жыл бұрын

They may not be able to afford it did you ever think about that not all people have a lot of money

@momofmany9954 3 жыл бұрын

@@hastingsd3864 I fully understand not being able to afford other living accomdations but that doesn't mean you stop wanting better for your children and encouraging them to reach their potential... Did you not watch the whole documentary?! The Mom and Grandma were basically guilt tripping a 9 year old to never leave the tower blocks.. Tower blocks filled with drug users in the stairs, violence, urine on the walls etc.

@aebg4069 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, it is true not all people can afford everything but if u want it theres a way to accomplish it. U should encourage kids that they can dream big and try to accomplish it if they really want it.

@amb8959 3 жыл бұрын

I agree! Took the words out of my mouth. If she ends up living there so be it, but they should be encouraging their kids to achieve bigger things so they don’t end up in public housing..

@momofmany9954 3 жыл бұрын

@@amb8959 exactly. Sometimes things happen completely out of our control that land us needing help. I'm glad it's there. However living on handouts should not be the standard for these families. We need to help tho who cannot help themselves, those who can be self sufficient should be given every opportunity and support to do so.

@lonnalonn 3 жыл бұрын

Yea ..um in the u.s we called this the projects.. the pjs.

@guesswho5370 3 жыл бұрын

Yup 😂

@SgtPlmFry 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, I'm saying! 😂😂😂

@JamieYAYme 3 жыл бұрын

Yup. We had our own ghetto right next to my neighborhood except it was skinny townhouses philly style (but in Delaware) and it was indeed dangerous at night with drunks and dealers, sort of like this. But there were enough "good" people around to keep an eye on us kids. We were not allowed outside after dark. We got chased by homeless guys one time on 4 wheelers with some type of long gun when I was a kid exploring the railroad tracks with my friends. This was during the day too. Luckily we ran like the wind! But man I don't miss the city. All cities have their dark corners. It's not just high rise buildings in the UK, that's for sure. It's a worldwide poverty problem. I'm just lucky my parents worked their way out of it and I got to move to a decent house eventually.

@user-jm3ob3hl2t 3 жыл бұрын

They're not living in bad conditions, it's not really that sad. Im sure they would like more room but alot of kids have way worse living situations. They seem like they have everything they need, are nurtured and loved.

@smileonlegs1 3 жыл бұрын

I think it defo looks that way because they only showed those peoples houses and not much of surroundings. Lots of drugs, domestic violence, fighting and stuff around so at night those kids see and hear things they shouldn’t.

@emberdt7998 3 жыл бұрын

The bad part is the criminal activity.

@Kelly-jn4cp 3 жыл бұрын

I can see how social distancing would be nearly impossible living in a tower block. There are so many people in such a small space.

@DragonQueen78 3 жыл бұрын

Good thing we won’t have to do that forever

@annemariecandyflip6531 Жыл бұрын

That's part of the problem

@JamieYAYme 3 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine living in a place like this during co-vid. The fact that everything smells is worrying in many ways. Shows that no one cleans anything for starters and I doubt anyone is cleaning it now even though they should be.

@CainesNumber1Fan 3 жыл бұрын

i would rather live in my van than that live in a tower block, I love my own space. I have grown up in a place with huge amounts of green space and farms and orchards, I could never live in a big busy city, I just wouldn't cope with so many people everywhere, it would be ok to visit places like that but not live

@JamieYAYme 3 жыл бұрын

@@CainesNumber1Fan I completely agree! I grew up in cities, not quite like that but we weren't far from the tower buildings in the next city over. Then my parents moved me downstate where it's completely different. Sort of like what you describe, but the orchards are further south near the beaches. Tons of farms of all kinds, and we have a humble 2 acres of land, some of it wooded, but that's the basis of where I live really, is in the woods. And my 4 year old NEVER wants to leave the house, because there are endless things to do here with all this space. I can definitely say with living both lifestyles, that the country life is much healthier overall. But we did enjoy visiting baltimore last month for a couple days!

@jaydem2086 3 жыл бұрын

@Jamie Yayme Just look at what happened here in Melbourne, Australia (I live in a rural area). They had to lock down a few public housing towers because of covid outbreaks back at the start, and one more might be about to locked down as well by the looks of the news. Heaps of people on low income, big or multiple families living in the same unit and sleeping in one room, and large, mainly immigrant families/communities spread across multiple units within the buildings and moving between one another throughout the building for lack of understanding otherwise. Covid spread like wildfire and they had to lock the building down and guard it for a while there, and the residents had to live on donated food for a while until the state government scrambled to figure out what to do to actually help them. This documentary just highlights how it got to that point in the first place. Edit: spelling, clarification.

@janicefield9671 3 жыл бұрын

Lots of children in the U.S. live in high rise buildings as well.

@aubreyfasano9814 3 жыл бұрын

True

@hastingsd3864 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the person that started this channel live in the UK not the US

@susanmargaretwills6432 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't look THAT bad

@momofmany9954 3 жыл бұрын

There is a big difference between living in safe and clean high rises and living in high rises filled with drug users. It's not the type of building that's the issue, it's the type of people who are allowed to occupy them. Putting others safety and health at risk is not okay and should not be allowed.

@sahpem4425 3 жыл бұрын

@@momofmany9954 Our equivalent would probably be “The Projects” in NYC. High rises, city-funded, unsafe.

@cobramom3 3 жыл бұрын

This is heart wrenching

@CarolWS004 3 жыл бұрын

Keypad entry or key entry to get in the building to help keep homeless out. Stricter rules if anyone caught using gets put out. And cameras monitored by the police. That may help. I was born in one of the worst cities in the US. Wilmington DE. I know how those kids feel. They need more sunlight for vitamin D.

@imnullandvoid1224 3 жыл бұрын

29:58 They clearly condition the kids to follow the same lives they've had. The mother says "could you imagine when you're older and if you moved to a house and wouldn't have us around?". She guilt tripping her daughter into following the same pattern the rest of the family has. Wouldn't you want bigger and better things for your children? Wouldn't you hope that your children learn from you and improve their lives?

@hemaleite6331 3 жыл бұрын

At least they have a home. No reason why parents can take the kids out to a park or play with others and meet other families in the building. Happy to see young girl looking for ways to keep busy. Gardening. Parents need to plan well and keep organized when living in an apartment with kids.

@monicaolteanu7490 3 жыл бұрын

All of these kids are great and so well behaved!!

@rebareebs 3 жыл бұрын

There are kids in the US that would kill to live in a place like this. These are nice compared to most low income housing in the states.

@mikao9401 3 жыл бұрын

Not where I'm from low income housing are built in nice areas and are beautiful and kept up.

@smileonlegs1 3 жыл бұрын

The appearance of their house may look nice but the danger and surroundings they move in in mor sure many would want that. Lots of drugs and violence around these places

@jessballard975 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!! And it seems all I keep hearing is the want of a garden? A garden? Like how about warmth in 25 degree winters?

@mendisuarez1595 3 жыл бұрын

I once lived in a high rise it was once a luxury hotel and ran like one only you live there. I loved it but once I left the city & state I was blessed with a home purchase & acres for the kids to run in the country. I know what these people mean it's a shame they don't build suitable affordable housing for families. Bless ya'll

@yukiefromoz2573 3 жыл бұрын

I've lived in apartments all my life. Nothing bad about it. But then again I was an only child up until 12 and even after that it was just the 2 of us kids. Orderly life. No problems.

@elenafab2460 3 жыл бұрын

Exatly. Problems of thoese families are not in appartments ay all

@emberdt7998 3 жыл бұрын

Other kids are a problem sometimes. Dangerous, from abusive homes, ect

@mailainathrone8241 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't have my daughter going out in the hall or getting that elevator by herself. Anything could happen with men in the staircase doing drugs. They could get her in that elevator and put their hands over her mouth and do brutal horrifying things to her.

@trustinsaaya 3 жыл бұрын

I think they let her go without her mom because of the camera man but who knows she could get assaulted harassed or even kidnapped

@deborahgate965 3 жыл бұрын

It's so nice how close the family is at the end. Kids always has their cousins near. The sister's have their mum near. The grandma has her grandkids near.

@Kelly-jn4cp 3 жыл бұрын

Wow those kids are all so well spoken. Proper english, pronunciation, beautiful vocabularies - I didn't hear any slang, profanity, mumbling, nor did I hear a single child mouth off to an adult. Very impressive.

@stephenloudon5833 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Kel. Well said. Not normal behaviour from British kids at all. Wonderful that there are such kids as these. Well done to the parents and family members for educating their kids so well.

@StandedInUtah 3 жыл бұрын

Why do they put addicts in the same place as families? It would be a better policy to set aside places for families aspiring for success in one place, dysfunctional families in another where support is offered and addicts in another place with services.

@purringbaseline 3 жыл бұрын

Ya not a good idea. Who gets to decide what families are teying whoch aren't.

@freyasdottirx5894 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Addicts should never be allowed around kids. Ever. Parents need to choose: kids or drugs not both.

@yukiefromoz2573 3 жыл бұрын

Ya, addicts belong in half way houses

@Sarah.Riedel 3 жыл бұрын

Purpose-built or purpose-specific housing is extremely expensive for housing authorities and social services, so it's easier for them to build large general use tower blocks so you can keep residents moving in and out as needed, especially if it's public housing.

@hippietoes456 3 жыл бұрын

Umm I’m pretty sure those addicts just wondered in there to use in the hallways, they wouldn’t want to use in their own building like that (if so they woulda just done so in private like their own bathroom/living room/bedroom etc) and I don’t think the mismatch of these people is by design nor lack thereof necessarily because I don’t think one deciding force placed them all there together; like a government agency placing them by each other. Rather, I think it’s just very low cost housing where these people put themselves.

@jessballard975 2 жыл бұрын

This is so much better than being in the streets lemme tell you. You would think people would be more appreciative for a roof over their head. These little places aren't that awful! It's not like a shantytown, and like I said better than the street!

@confirmationofinformation7714 3 жыл бұрын

In America we call these type of building as Projects🤔🙄😐

@nicole4659 2 жыл бұрын

But with a vîew

@nellymoo635 3 жыл бұрын

Choices. It is what you make it.

@JuMaRi615 3 жыл бұрын

Tower blocks = tenements? I’ve never lived in the big city. Apartment buildings no taller than three floors and houses

@barbaralance7942 2 жыл бұрын

I bet the buildings are not even up to codes and someone said that the homeless people sneak in at night to sleep, so I’m wondering where do the homeless people go to the bathroom, I bet that is part of the smell, and they showed a segment of two homeless people doing drugs on the stairs that is what it is safe to take the lift, at least these kids have clothes on their backs a roof over their heads, and they have toys to play with and plenty of food too eat, their are a lot of kids that don’t have any of this, so I think these kids are very lucky.

@MollsMcDahl12681 3 жыл бұрын

It’s a nightmare these kids need to make new friends and have fun with other kids and go out!!!! It’s so sad if I had to live like that I would lose my mind!!! I get that they live in a small place!!

@karacreswell8437 3 жыл бұрын

This is just life. Families all over the US live in high rise buildings that range from low income all the way to luxury residential. I don’t consider this an immense hardship. Your going to see crazy things in all midsized towns...

@tan_ya_ 2 жыл бұрын

I wish city developers who knock down entire neighborhoods to build towers see this video. So sick of high rises.

@stephenloudon5833 3 жыл бұрын

A different class of Brit than those I have gotten used to seeing on youtube. I have gotten used to seeing low class trash. At least the people featured in this clip are decent!! Keep it up you portray a different, far higher class. Maintain your standards at all costs. Nan has reason to be proud of her family as she was saying in the restaurant. Greetings from South Africa.

@kimmy2049 3 жыл бұрын

Why do they all have so many damn kids they can’t afford??

@janicefield9671 3 жыл бұрын

Kimberley The same reason they have them here in the U.S. Of course a lot of the ones in the U.S. are aborted.

@allisgrace1313 3 жыл бұрын

Children are a blessing.

@kimmy2049 3 жыл бұрын

Janice Field Here’s a silly thought, BIRTH CONTROL

@allisgrace1313 3 жыл бұрын

@@kimmy2049 I suppose it'd be too radical to suggest abstaining during certain times of the month instead of BC. God bless those who choose to let their babies live, even when they are born into hardship.

@kimmy2049 3 жыл бұрын

all.is.grace Why bring the topic of abortion into this?? Are you that desperate for any kind of attention??

@BurtW546 3 жыл бұрын

That's not good.Feel bad for those kids.Wow

@howardnowes4244 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in nyc

@elenafab2460 3 жыл бұрын

And I grew up in Moscow, had happy childhood and still live here . Tower blocks have little to do with problems of those kids

@elenafab2460 3 жыл бұрын

Tower blocks themselves have little to do with problmes of these children. ( if they really have any) Their problems grow out of poverty , have to do with anability of parents to raise so many kids in one family, with lack of infrastructure in such districts, and with an idea stuck in peoples mind that happiness could be only in own house and no other way. I was raised in Moscow and still live in Moscow, surrounded by those tower block. An I am happy with such livestile, because whatever problems сould be caused by life in tower blockes in big megapolice the advantages always outweigh all of them at least in my country.

@sashleigh65able 3 жыл бұрын

So... the projects.

@zephyrr914 3 жыл бұрын

One can have a full house and keep it clean and tidy. Those kids are big enough to help!

@kristinesharp6286 2 жыл бұрын

Year? I thought they were moving kids in council housing out of tower blocks after the fire?

@annemariecandyflip6531 Жыл бұрын

These UK towerblocks look at least decent and neat. The tenants in the video as well. But you should see the Red Road Flats in Glasgow once and how detoriate the place became and it's people. That's a whole different story about people living in towerblocks

@kalimawashington7019 3 жыл бұрын

They are called high rise buildings in the USA

@roberte5057 Жыл бұрын

I think it is sad generations like living there and their families endorse it.

@Ava_Orchid 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah many people live in apartments with little or no yard. These places are relatively clean and decent. The families seem to be making the most of a minor issue and more than anything it seems the families have an assortment of people to help to care for the kids...it takes a village and all. Sure its nice to have a garden but its not necessary. Anywhere that people are is a place of danger. Also the families seem to have a fair bit of financial security or assistance as there are few signs of abject poverty though that could be simply credit to the parents for making it not obvious. Vacation and plenty of toys, food clean water, other children of their age as well as apparently pleanty of time for the families to be with the parents isnt amounting to a tragedy. I dont think that they were trying to rpesent it as some depressing horror show of poverty but still. I feel these kids have as much opportunity as any. The burbs has their share of crime and child abduction so really its the owrld not safe not the tower

@Ragerian 3 жыл бұрын

No man in sight, wouldn't want those benefits to disappear!

@SolvingYourProblemRightNow 2 жыл бұрын

18:52 hand gesture PROOFS she has Italian blood running through her!

@diannerose8030 3 жыл бұрын

Great place to raise a kid 😔 glad the parents enjoy it at lease

@kalijohnston561 3 жыл бұрын

maybe i'm misunderstanding but in my area, single family homes simply... don't exist. the majority of people live in condos or apartments. that's just the way it is because the population is quite dense and housing is expensive. most of these "tower blocks" look exactly like the apartments many of my friends get up in. they're certainly much better than government housing or projects in the US. Idk, i know they aren't the most well off but i don't see what's so bad about it. of course the smells and drug users aren't ideal but that's sort of the norm is you live in a city

@SarahEA1 3 жыл бұрын

Closest neighbors I have on my property is cows, coyotes and deer.

@mailainathrone8241 3 жыл бұрын

We call a garden a backyard in the U.S.

@jaydem2086 3 жыл бұрын

Same in Australia. A garden is where you plant flowers or veggies in the ground as opposed to in pots. A backyard is an area with a grass lawn, and might contain a garden in it somewhere.

@fishynotded3483 3 жыл бұрын

That six year old child from turkey is lucky for getting that many toys i did get toys but my parents stopped because I was never a responsible child but it's fine because I had the TV and stray animals like dogs and cats they never bit me i fed them and my older sister never wanted to play with me I'm glad I live in a house so I can play with my dog now

@TwentyOneOlivers 3 жыл бұрын

I’m just, I thought tower blocks were low income families, but Julia’s mom have iPads and Macs???

@geleefissh4659 3 жыл бұрын

It’s called credit

@victoriaballesterborras2427 3 жыл бұрын

@I Said What I Said. agree

@emberdt7998 3 жыл бұрын

And? Poor people can't have nice things or receive gifts?

@user-fy2bo2hp8z 3 жыл бұрын

Like 🙋🙏👍🔔🌹

@Ranch123 3 жыл бұрын

I am not criticizing them but I would never raise my kids there unless it was the only thing between me and my kids and homelessness but if they want to live their its their choice

@CarolWS004 3 жыл бұрын

Julia sweety, come spend time with Nana Carol. I have two granddaughters your age and a grandson 8. It will give you time to play, get fresh air and play outside. They have a program here in US where inner city kids go to camp at a working ranch or farm. You are cute And happy I would love to give you an experience visiting a new country. It is very safe where I live in a huge 5 bedroom house with 4 bathrooms. A nice back yard. I am am being genuine and would love to have you.

@victoriaballesterborras2427 3 жыл бұрын

So nice from you!❤️

@ray_ayy 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, who are we to criticize these people? Sure, some parts of the building are gross and deserve more attention, but it isn’t these families’ fault. Blaming poor people for being poor doesn’t help anyone. The solution is better public housing. Or, even better, overhauling a society that keeps the poor down while the rich get richer.