A Better Tent City | Alair
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- We believe that housing is a human right. When the urgent need arose to help move 42 Tiny Homes in the Waterloo-Kitchener region and help make 50 “hard to house” homeless individuals live better, we stepped in.
This is a story of the evolution of homelessness, a human crisis heightened by the pandemic, an opportunity to be bold and build community. For more: Www.ABetterTentCity.org
Alair™
LivingBetterStartsHere®
www.AlairHomes.com
www.EarlyBirdFilms.ca
Kind folks like these are desperately needed all over this country
"Be the change you want to see in the world," Ghandi
This is a good example of how a community can respond to the basic needs of homeless people in a sustainable , humane and cost effective way. City governments should take note and try to facilitate the land acquisition process which is the biggest obstacle.
I agree! They need to do something!
They can’t afford rent. So they should build small homes that are affordable
Yes, AZ is finally allowing container home to to built and places on a one peice of city property. It NOT enough but it is a beginning. Thank God for this project and the one on this video!! 🙏🙏🙏 Cool they ask if someone wants a job bc there are good days and bad days for mentally ill and addicts, this gives them a purpose!!! I want to help a project in Fl around Tallahassee if anyone knows of one!
Nothing that a business does privately is more costly and less effective than when the government tries. Politics lead to greed.
Private/non-govt solutions to charity are the answer ❤️🩹
Homelessness is big buisness for these governments and corporations.
Giving people a stable place helps more than just the residents staying there. I've been looking for my biological father for 25 years. Because he had a place to stay, and help with local news segments, I was able to track him down and meet him. Thanks to A Better Tent City and Nadine, and everyone involved for helping me find my father.
Shine On!
Only We can be the miracle someone needs today
Commit random acts of Senseless Kindness Everyday
I love this with the added word "senseless" - yes, just do something nice for some stranger or friend for no good reason and even if it inconveniences you!!!! Amen!
Wow Chris Alair Homes you're so awesome for building the food pantry for people in need! What a wonderful company Alair Homes is! Big hearted people!
I don't know of anyone who aspired to grow up and be homeless. Most of us are a paycheck away from being out there. People deserve a leg up! We are all human beings. There is help for addiction if that help is wanted. I have lived tiny 3 times and loved it! We are getting our van ready to live out of and have plans to travel and start a business. I wish the absolute best for each and every one who is living in this community or in a situation where they need help! R.I.P. Ron. Blessings and Merry Christmas to everyone involved in this project!
Amen! No one says "I think I'd like to be homeless" - or "Gee, I think I'd like to be an addict" - said no one EVER! May God Bless you on your travels and endeavors Tammy!
@@playhooky Thank you so much! You are a thoughtful human being and Many Blessings to you and yours! Happy New Year! I hope this new year brings only good things to you!
Mama I just want to correct you on your addiction comment there is real help if you have money and can pay the high cost of help but for poor addicts not so much and most are poor. Sorry to inform you but the help isn't help at all it is just taking one drug and placing it with another and in base treatment is just not long enough to do anything so unless you know what you are talking about don't comment on it because help is not there for those who want it, it just isn't.
@@Susan-ms1wm There IS help for those who have the drive to help themselves. If you got the money together to get high and chase that monster every day then you can find a clinic that has what's called a 'State slot' which the last I checked was under $20 for an entire week and yes, it is trading one for another, but the other is legal and you can control your life while you are taking advantage of such measures. If you are serious about helping yourself because NOBODY can help you if you don't do the work, you can actually ween yourself off, and no, it may not be the most pleasant thing in the world, but you can get clean and I DO know what I'm talking about. If it is yourself you are talking about, I wish you the best but the negativity has got to go. There are so many jobs out there now. You don't have to stand tall, you just have to stand up.
@@Susan-ms1wm
Stop with the liberal - want to be a victim - whining crap.
Nice to see no garbage out around the tiny home
Shared this to all social media I live in Ontario in the GTA. 5 years ago no homelessness where I live today they are outside my back fence trying to love in the woods. 😞. This could be ANYONE of us. We MUST stand together strong and make sure every person and domestic animale is treated with dignity and respect and has a warm home and food. Nothing less. 💞🙏🙏🙏🕊
when I leave this earth. I hope this right here is heaven. I will be happy forever. Truly.
Praise GOD to be the glory ::Thank u JESUS;;Thank u to u all involved for the Tent city:Snd the new little homes 💯❤️🙏💯❤️🙏
What humanity needs is random acts of kindness that helps lift people out of abject poverty.
As an early volunteer at ABTC, it's both wonderful and painful to see the same faces we served 3 years ago. As Laura says, this is the intersection of a drug *and* a housing crisis. Not one, not the other- but both in a wickedly tight embrace. Actually, at the root of both is most often a mental health crisis that more therapists and more meds won't be able to solve.
I was in a tent city back in 2007, it was set up outside a Catholic charities shelter. The St Petersburg FL cops came in and tore it down at 5am one morning. They used knifes to cut up tents while we were still in them. There reasoning was drugs. Out of around 60 people 4 had drug's, women with kids were made to stay in the elements. WFLA in Tampa did huge story on it at the time.
So luducrous! If a street was suspected of having a drug issue would the police come and smash people's windows and doors in randomly to find the problem?! In order to stop this kind of abuse and prevent further waste of public resources law enforcement need some serious training. Each and every one of them should be sent one day a week to work with and help communities like tent cities.
@@elledix3575 I tell you it was well controlled, but like anything on the street it did have drug issues. I had my own problems with back then and my wife was with me also. If you maybe check WFLA TV in Tampa, it was reported extensively buy that TV station and then was picked up by all the national news stations after they came in and stomped on everybody cut their tents it was it was a bad scene. And by the way I have 5 years 6 months clean, lot of hurt and pain but I made it.
That's amazing!!! I wish more communities would do that it also is safety for them and also cleans up the city I don't live in Kitchener I live in Oakville but that is amazing I wish more communities would do that good luck I wish you all the best and you people are amazing
Inspirational and I hope to see this video blow up like it deserves to. Good luck.
Wonderful idea. I hope Washington DC USA see this.
This looks like an obvious, practical way to address the problem. If a person becomes unhoused, house them first before addressing the underlying circumstances. In my city Phoenx the city and county have a large amount of resources allocated that they are sitting in, meanwhile we have a tent city that’s crime ridden, filthy and dangerous. It’s not right.
I'm impressed, if we all respond with compassion & respect we can lift each other up. The. Housing crisis is about to get way worse. Recession is looming.
Amazing! Thank you for this perspective!
It's so wonderful seeing people pull together to do something good. 🙂💞💨 So proud of you al. Ans grateful 🙏
None of this works without volunteers who are committed to the idea that this plan needs to be tried and modified as needed. A community group has the ability to move faster to made changes than any government entity. I have visited this place and was very impressed. You all are doing amazing work.
some people just know how to get things done. Proud of you all!
Amazing work. Would love to see this expanded across Ontario.
do not understand why both levels of government are unable to wrap their heads around this concept, people want their independence, and living in a homeless shelter is not the answer.
Thank you all! You really developed a roadmap!
There are so many rich people with huge plots of land not being used... I pray some of them allow tiny cities like this on their land.
I will never understand why every city cannot build AFFORDABLE HOUSING! And I mean, areas just like this. But, don’t kick them out after a certain time, only kick them out for breaking the rules! People need affordable forever homes. Also, they should have to pay their way, not a freebie. Something to be proud of!
Great idea. Need to move that to a rural environment where the volunteer aspect cn extend to self sufficient life style.
This solution is a no brainer! With this, there is dignity, responsibility, community, and the beginning of healing. Congratulations for caring.
They will destroy it and turn it into a drug den in less than 6 months!!!
Interesting and informative and brilliant..... 🌸
In world where million dollar homes sit abandoned and unused, left to rot because the bank won’t let anyone live anywhere for free, people should be ashamed of themselves that a place like this has to be constructed and operated “illegally” to house homeless people!!!! No one should be homeless EVER!!!! There are enough abandoned and or empty structures all over the world to house everyone!!! It’s absurd that this happens at all!!! The people who built this place are wonderful for doing so and we all should hope that should this ever happen to us, a place like this would be there to help!!!
Cheers
FANTASTIC!
Homelessness is more prevalent not because of housing crisis but because of decriminalization of drugs and shutting down mental hospitals
Okc has a need for this .a better tent city sounds wonderful.i wish okc would do something beautiful like this.
This is brilliant and they should be doing this everywhere!
Everything in life is a choice!!!
ABSOLUTELY 💯! And l for one am sick to death of having my quality of life denigrated by these PARACITES!
@@galegrazutis964speak English, this a English speaking country.
I live in this city . Homelessness is a huge problem here .
Your community is a fine example of housing the often dismissed and vulnerable mentally ill great work!
We must help the homeless get on their feet. This should be short term though and not a way of life for able body people.
It's so easy to descend into street living, but much harder to ascend out of it.
fantastic, I would love to help. what an awesome project. I used to live in Kitchener, loved it didn't want to leave, now Im in NZ, bit too far to lend a hand, bravo for what you have accomplished.😘
Nadine green you’re amazing
I would love to build a small community with no addiction single moms. In house babysitting when working etc
Totally understand the First man. Gave birth to my daughter in 2010.
If I won the lottery I swear I would do something like this. The problem is that zoning laws are so restrictive it just needs to be changed. It really does because it really honestly is a crisis.
Awesome work....
The sheds are better than living on the streets
We here in Ireland live in 2 up 2 down house maybe had a family upstairs and just got along people don't need this outrageous 1000ft or more of a house and say they couldn't live in smaller .. off course we can live in one of these small houses. And truly be happy . If some of the millionaires gave away 1MILLION dollars each you would see a change in the world. From people living in parts of Africa sth America India they would help soooo much . But keeping their £/$/€ BILLIONS ISNT HELPING ..THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. .And to have 6/7 bathrooms you can only use one at a time .and still have to clean your own shit away from your bum when you use them . Be they made of gold.. Ireland says get them to help as much as they can .. when we lived 2 up 2 down back yard loo.we were happy because nobody had more than their next door neighbours...there was nobody out to steal from you..
Ireland 🇮🇪
💜
The biggest hoax/insult was the Bill & Melinda Gates / Warren Buffet 'giving pledge' campaign in which fellow billionaires were invited to pledge (yes, not actually give) the majority of their wealth either during their lifetime or in their will. Yes, in their will! So why do they have to wait til they die?!?!
Thank you 🙏🏽 🥹😔
So if just normal every day people can do this "House the homeless" why can't the government get something like this together wat wouldn't take 3 to 5 years to get moving 'I can tell you why 'Its because the government doesn't care like every day people. Thank you for wat you do just wish we had something or even anything like this heir in Sydney
I wish we could start this in the UK.
I'm probably beating a drum long ago someone else's idea. But everytime I see people demo homes and destroy perfectly good materials that end up in the landfill could be stockpiled and used to build homes for homeless people that would appreciate the structure and save lives ,. Not only save lives but improve lives. How many homeless people who have been discarded as total losses could have been someone that given these opportunities be the next President of the United States or an inventor of a life saving widget or even someone who could have saved a life of a sex trafficked teen. I could go on and on and on.and dont scofff, you don't know either.
Of course is hard to do something good for the people
Bravo!!
Sanctioned managed encampment. What about doing these in unorganized townships. No land rules there. Just an idea. Especially for the ones homeless do to the cost of living alone, that may not need to be near to medical necessity veey close by. They do need to be everywhere though. A better tent city is a dream many would like to see fulfilled 🙏🙏🙏
"homeless industry complex". Crisis is a business.
Beautiful people God's people ❤️❤️☺️❤️☺️☺️☺️❤️❤️☺️☺️☺️☺️
That area is going to look like a Dump after a couple of weeks, bet on it !!
Yes l would say your spot on!!!
This needs to be done or rather expanded to the needs of the people at Victoria and Weber. They need places like this not tents to live in full and have fisalities like toilets, washers, dryers, kitchens to put-are foods and meet people.
1/25/23....JUST came across this video...
ANY such places in Central FL?
We need these in Vancouver! Cost per unit?
People need to build there own homes like they used to we have the tools we have the lumber young people need to get off the ass and go to work
I wish they had this in Toronto instead of them destroying the beautiful little tiny homes that guy built?
I'm.gonna be homless in 2 months my land lord served me an n12 and rent is way to expensive everywhere I ho estly never thought I'd be here how do I find shelter
Every person in the United States is at risk of being homeless with the war corrupt corporations have waged against home buyers and renters alike.
I'm a 45 yr old RN and made over 100k for 2022, i could qualify for a loan...that i can't AFFORD...i don't want to struggle paycheck to paycheck to pay astronomical mortgage & interest rates because corporations are manipulating the prices of 700-1500 sqft homes worth $60-75k &charging $150-200k for them
In my area you can't find a house for less than about $400,000 and that's a dump. I qualify for maybe $250,000 which I could never really honestly afford. It would take so much of my income. It would be a struggle. But even if I wanted to go that direction, there are no houses here for that much money. Nothing nada. I fear for the people who have been left behind both young people and also older people who just didn't end up with a bunch of money and a home. Just watched a movie about just called 99 homes. You might want to look it up. It's on TH-cam Big companies that have a whole bunch of people and they buy up foreclosed homes. It's an absolute travesty.
"Be the change you want to see in the world," Ghandi
In my opinion, people for their state not just community, which government must feed and help them survive. People are valuable natural resource - main resource. If an authorities cannot figure out how to manage this resource keeping people working, healthy, satisfied, so, this is bad management. The authorities have to go to school again to study math, sociology and communication. The problem - too many lawyers and financial in government and they support kind of "virtual resources system" - laws and finance, they don't know(don't care) how to manage natural resources. The virtual economy and wealth based of "constant growth", while natural economy based on saving resources and sustainability. Wrong people have got power.
Its a greed crisis
great idea it is, just the site looks really dumpy when you head up the on ramp for the hiway I wish it could be cleaned up and look neater
I hope this catches on it's a great idea but at some point you have to want the help unfortunately you can't help everyone some could work but but they don't
WHA?? I didn’t think Canada had homeless people too!
yes they do especially in B.C and Ontario there are druggies all over the place here...
Why don't we make a federal/state/donations with like recreational vehicles so they can be relocated when need, are taken all over the Americas. No stairs inside at all to fall off, some tiny homes have no rails, are very narrow and how you going to change the sheets & clean up in the loft when you are eighty and too old to move?? Most of these people are thinking economy no old age. No stairs. My rv is a home and safe and already ready to go or custom same price like buying a vehicle you can always hook on and move not in boxes but with all your stuff in place. Also none of this tear down for one function and then put back or change around to function for something else. Nope I have a porcelain toilet and my shower has three glass doors on it not two. So different & pretty. A huge medicine cabinet with a mirror. So wonderful, I don't change around stuff to live. Mine all just stays in place where it is. Always a place and everything in it's place. Easy, nice & clean.
What an excuse get clean get a job ask god to help he helped me you have to pray alot and have faith
The problem rent who controls rent prices they are problem deal w them
I new that looked familiar.
Its just down the street from me.
What I don't understand is why they choose to put at that location across from Catholic school board. That's a bit odd to me
Considering that drug rehab has a 97% failure rate; maybe we should change our approach? Considering that most addicts use methedrine so they don't fall asleep and freeze to death at night, perhaps getting them off the street would help? Just saying...
And who is ment to pay fir all this housing!!??
..then the charge the homeless small rents which get bigger,then they will all be back on the streets in tents 🤷♂
JUST AMAZING............!!!!!!
& so called CELEBRITIES with their $$"FORTUNE"$$
don't DONATE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for projects like this.....
Saying goes........"THE RICH GETS RICHER"!!
The rich don't do anything good
"illegal" though SMH.
All I ever see are new condos being built and they start at like 400k.
Why dont they ever build cheap basic living for people? The demand is huge.
Build cheap and basic.... a roof, some walls, water, a bathroom etc.
Build what most people can afford for fuck sakes.
The reason why so many of these people do not know what they are talking about are the differences between the housing crisis and health crisis. You absolutely cannot build a community like the one in this video with hardcore addicts. That is referred to as “transitional housing” where very few active addicts can be housed together in a manner that does not require constant police presence. The only way a tiny house encampment works is with the non-addict homeless which makes up a very small part of the homeless addicts in many areas. However, to discriminate against aiding a homeless person because they suffer from the health crisis of addiction will not be allowed. So you have a total nonstarter for any of the programs this video would otherwise suggest.
I don't know about Canada for sure, but we in the U.S.A. definitely need a whole new (to the majority of our country) way of approaching treating addiction. I believe the best way is how Portugal is doing things. No one wants to be an addict, and the current treatment methods of 30 to 90 days and then you're on your own has been failing for decades. Addicts need long-term and multi-faceted support.
I understand this, i live in canada b.c not far from vancouver and have been in a toxic drug crisis for over 7 years now, "fentanyl" and we have had “transitional housing” for the homeless too for over a decade now, mostly called wet housing because they allow drug use on cite with clean needles and more. So most shelters over here do require round the clock security guards, as most tenants of these places are hard core drug addict's, causing fights, fire-setting, overdosing, and other things that require the police and ambulances on a regular basis, and raise the crime level around the neighborhood wherever theses places are opened. Since that place in the video looks like its run by a church group, i assume they do not allow drug use or condone violence there in any form. which is the main difference between waterloo and vancouver, the media over here keeps calling this situation a housing crisis but in reality it is called like you say a "health crisis"...
WAIT, WAIT WAIT A MINUTE All these people look CAUCASIAN!, I thought we were all privileged kings who are born in mansions????????? Did I miss something?????
This is the basic root and seed as many living things are, of America. Once you have lost shelter and food you have not got a country. We are there and import about a million per year when you count the life of foreigner people as families arriving within months. However, we want perfect lives, we want family that will work lol to pay taxes and government. They cannot make enough money to eat, but magical events say they will have wealth a lifetime. Said to say, but when twenty years have passed the neighbors will have laws that will destroy this in some way. The fact is; new coming lives lived these horrors. If they see their plight they might push to have tiny homes as the answer to life. Life has a pushing away point. We do not want elderly, women can only make so much and have only such jobs, people of race live better over there. If you fail never hurt or else you are crazy insane and heavy metals will end your pains. When scientists in the far off future present arms to government let this be a reminder; we are preborn. Do you give your babies food, love, shelter, clothing and such?? Has the sentient sapient declined into an entropy so deep they only know adulterated living where they can kill by ignoring a life??? Most would answer yes.
This is a great idea why do they have to junk it all up there should be a rule
This video seems rather biased, one sided and amateurish. At times the interviewer seems almost sadistic or at least lacking in empathy. When a person being interviewed becomes emotional he then says something snarky as if to rub salt in the wounds. More than likely inexperienced in documentary film making.
why dont you insist that there be no trash in the yard? I dont understand why homeless can not live clean and neat, this place will be destroyed soon if no one takes pride in their surroundings. there is no need to collect broken junk or scrap or garbage outside your home
Bet you folks will keep on voting dem though ay 🙄
🐑🐑🐑🐑
Well at least everyone has cigarettes that's an important commodity right, how they spend there money they do get alcohol drugs whoo yah 🤮 priorities I can see why there's limited help! This is insane
If it was about Beyonce, Mia Khalipha, Bruce Willis, Biden, Elon Musk or other immoralities, there would be millions of views, clicks, likes, etc., etc.
As for this video, only two comments, shame on humanity while big bravo to these wonderful people who made this project possible.
God will never forget you!
We all need to share the video - on our FB pages, by email, however you can!
Praise GOD to be the glory ::Thank u JESUS;;Thank u to u all involved for the Tent city:Snd the new little homes 💯❤️🙏💯❤️🙏
So if just normal every day people can do this "House the homeless" why can't the government get something like this together wat wouldn't take 3 to 5 years to get moving 'I can tell you why 'Its because the government doesn't care like every day people. Thank you for wat you do just wish we had something or even anything like this heir in Sydney
Praise GOD to be the glory ::Thank u JESUS;;Thank u to u all involved for the Tent city:Snd the new little homes 💯❤️🙏💯❤️🙏