Sleeping rough in Benidorm: How Brits are living in a homeless encampment after losing everything

The main passage ceremonies of the new town of Benidorm every summer are full of British.

Crowds flock to the town in Costa Blanca for cheap and cheerful drinks, magnificent sunlight and beautiful beaches.

But while Sozzled Stags, exciting chickens and elderly holidaymakers like themselves – a very different story at just a few meters away.

Behind Benidorm’s Irish Pub rows, British cafes and sports bars have a homeless camp full of garbage.

Among the rubble and rubble piles, there is a desperate British, Spanish and Albanian community.

After an increase in BNB -style properties, the group lives in structures flowing water or electricity after pricing them from their homes.

Jodie, a British woman who hasn’t found a job or accommodation in Benidorm since Brexit in 2020, said that people living in the camp have created a ‘community’.

Mailonline told: ‘When I first moved here, everyone was only on the streets, nobody talked to each other, but I did some community’ he explained.

‘I said we had to help each other slowly.’

‘We need help, I went to social services that begged for help and made an appointment for three months and we missed it because we didn’t have the internet, we have nothing to literally.’

Jodie says that a British woman who hasn’t found a job or house in Benidorm since Brexit in 2020, says that people living in the camp have been a ‘community’.

The camp has a direct view of a new town where thousands of British lands every summer to suck and relax the Spanish sun.

Jodie was first moved to Benidorm with his parents in 1994, with his son in 2012 with his son, with his parents, so he was able to join a British university.

He finally came back, but then he learned that he could no longer reside in Spain anymore – it made it impossible to find a job.

Jodie said: ‘I went back to England and they wouldn’t give them to me because I wanted to benefit because I have been out of the country for a long time and now I came home [to Spain] And I am an illegal immigrant. ‘

Jonny Elraiz runs the City Streets Community Project, a charity that offers food to the homeless in Benidorm.

Four times a week, Jonny and a group of volunteers cook 90 meals and deliver it to coarse sleeping in Costa Blanca, Benidorm’s Costa Blanca.

It stands on the ‘commune’ sitting under a cluster of high -rise hotels and high -rise hotels.

The camp has a new view of a town where thousands of British lands on the Spanish sun every summer to suck and relax.

It sits on a sandy hill above a parking lot and is full of garbage and waste of waste from construction areas.

There is a temporary path that passes from a few abandoned features marked with colored towels by colored towels.

Jonny explained that there are many British who saw their homes as Benidorm but forced to sleep hard, because they can no longer afford to rent

Jonny Elraiz (in the picture) operates the City Streets Community Project, a charity institution that offers food to the homeless in Benidorm

Benidorm for many British, neon lights of late at night, cheap pints in the sun, low deer parties and football on large screens. In the picture: ‘New Town’

A relaxing escape visitors from the UK is the symbol of extreme tourism SCURGE for Spanish holidaymakers who flocked to Costa Blanca.

Jonny has now announced that there are many British British, who now sees their homes as Benidorm, but forced to sleep hard, because they no longer pay rent.

He spoke with Mailonline about a veteran who lives in unemployed and living in Benidorm.

‘Mark was a sprout with royal engineers,’ ‘he explained.

“ `Came here a few years ago, a builder and a relationship malfunction, only lived in doing his job, but because of the pandemi there was no job and went to the streets.

‘He lost all his newspapers and tries to ensure that the strange days work here and there.’ ‘

Jonny not only deliver it to the homeless in Benidorm, but also helps those who are stuck in the country return home.

He receives calls from the British who regularly lose their passports, do not have money and cannot return to England.

And most people assume that the party would end in an evening house for a weekend, and the increasing number of British countries was stuck.

In various scenarios, tourists wake up in prison without passports and are forced to stay in Spain to live until a court is released.

Spain is currently locked in a debate with many people in towns that are popular with foreign holidaymakers who are currently protesting on the streets and sometimes attacking tourists.

Protesters claim that a tourist flow that never ends increases real estate prices and removes the locals from their towns and damages the beaches extremely crowded and beauty.

Tourism War Lines in Benidorm, domestic visitors to relax ‘traditional cute streets of the old city and the British drinkers shine for night for the’ new town ‘buzzing pub -filled lanes are drawn.

He told a local mailonline: ‘I want them [the Brits] To stay away from this area, British tourists do not like.

‘Some British tourists are rough – drunks, sometimes very rude and disrespectful.’

There is a temporary road in the camp that passes uphill upholstery and a few abandoned properties

This month, thousands of people walked to Brits to tell Brits to ‘go home’ as part of the so -called protests against ‘tourism’. In the picture: ‘New Town’

The British moved to the region for a better life ruins the reputation of other British behavior among the new Spanish neighbors

In some parts of Spain, anti -tourism protesters spray the British with water guns

Jonny, Benidorm continues to address tourists – the expansion of rental properties and increasing food prices – the natives’ animation costs, he said.

Jonny announced that Benidorm continues to address tourists – the expansion of rental properties and increasing food prices – the natives’ revitalization costs are facing the crisis.

In a statement to Mailonline, he said, “ They have a full -time job and live on the streets. ”

“ There is no place for rent in the price range.

“ There is nothing, you can not find anything, you see that people on social media take a fixed share, you are looking for 400 € to 200 € a week for a room in a common house.

“ An average worker is 1100 € per month, so how does anyone should survive?

And most of the places are empty. It’s a heartbreaking thing about it. You know, many tower blocks and surrounding towns.

“ I have a friend who has an apartment in one of the tower blocks and has eight months of the year.

‘Houses should be about the place where people live, should not be about investment.

‘Tourism was exploited in a way with a harmful effect on the locals.’

• Click for information about the City Streets Community Project Here.