@Truth Holder - Yup, so give up your home, your rights, and your job. (If you even have one.) You now have zero rights as an American citizen, so an illegal immigrant can take your place. We no longer care to take care of Americans like you, so we can help people from other failed countries. Because that's our problem.
This can happen to anyone of us. I was a journeyman machinist making $55,000 a year, life was good. Then my medical issues got worse and I was not able to work. Then 2008 hit, a few years later were living in a two-car garage. Then one of worst days I have had, was talking to my wife about how we might have to live in our pickup truck. We had to move, but my VA disability check and her part-time minimum wage pay was not going to be enough. I guess you could say we got lucky, now we are just a step above homeless, were called Trailer Trash. It is soul-crushing to be poor in America. We're told to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps! What do you do when you can't afford the bootstraps? You're publicly humiliated by people when they see you use a Link Card in the grocery store. We have had people go through our grocery cart and literally take things out of the cart because they did not think we needed it. Your told being poor is just laziness. Advertising constantly reminds you of how poor you are. Some are crushed so bad they turn to alcohol or drugs to relieve the pain. And I do mean pain, this pain can be so bad at times that you want to die.
CRMcGee2 just because you live in a trailer does not make you trailer trash. Men that have children with multiple women and don't take care of any of them. Same goes for women who keep having babies with no father's around to take care of them. People too lazy to work. I think this is what is what people think of as trailer trash. What happened to you could happen to any of us. I am very aware it could happen to me. This is why I live very frugally. I know if I were to lose my job I would also lose my home. I mean I could live for about 4 or 5 months paying my bills but after that I'd be in trouble. Nobody should be going through your grocery cart ever. You have the right to eat and that Link Card was meant for people in your situation. A situation that could happen to any of us. I hope things improve for you in this new year.
@@stevekambiski6752 No, crony capitalism is the problem. A socialized version of capitalism is the best mixture because socialism and communism have never worked if you want to be honest with yourself! The problem is apathy in this country and the government is run by corrupt people who use it to gain capital instead of what it's supposed to be for which is helping the country. The founding fathers gave the citizens checks and balances but everyone's too busy shopping or watching football to care, this country is done for, it's just a matter of time it's already ruined.
@@trafficjon400 Has it made a difference? Los Angeles officials are bracing for the release of a report that's likely to show little or no progress in reining in homelessness, despite the $619 million they spent last year to grapple with the crisis
After gun control laws, they would be shocked to learn: "Most people who commit murder did not respect gun registration laws for some strange reason. The laws only succeeded in disarming decent homeowners who got robbed and beaten."
Dr. Drew Pinsky says the current efforts are not enough. He thinks serious epidemics are just around the corner and he is livid about it. What a horrible evolution of an interesting city.
The talk Dr. Drew had with Seth Green about this situation was eye opening. Not only is it drug driven, just as long as theft isn’t more than $900/day it’s now a misdemeanor. Wow. I feel terrible for the homeless people. Dr. Drew is right, politicians created the perfect storm for homelessness to escalate. They aren’t doing anything to help fix it, they just want to clean/clear them out like garbage. The majority of these people have mental and/or physical ailments that go untreated (because they can’t afford it or have no support system) so they leave their state and choose to self medicate in California. It’s only going to take a few people getting really ill to infect a huge area. Sadly, that is going to be the real wake up call for big money in California. That’s probably why so many big businesses, especially tech, have left the state and moved to places like Texas.
The homeless in Los Angeles is out of control people that dont live here will never understand how bad it really is. We have no room left to Build anywhere everything is so expensive everything's out of control.
Manny rodriguez this is your liberal socialist system destroying it's self. This is what is happening in France. The difference is the French didn't let it get this bad. You are right, people that don't live there don't know how bad it is.
It's out of control everywhere. A apt in SC where I live that just 5 years ago was $500 is now $900 to $1200. It's insane & more & more people are becoming homeless. Smh
@@erichuff6945 What are you talking about? Whats going on in France and the homeless situation in L.A are two totally different things. The reason this is now an epidemic compared to NY is because Ronald Reagan shut down all the shelters and Mental hospitals across California
Lunchbox a large amount of social services that require high taxes to fund. Extra cost to utilities and fuel do to government regulations. Large influx of unskilled immigrants that can not support the economy, immigrants that keep wages low because they will work for low incomes. Single party political control. Implementing bandaid fixes like minimum wage hikes that puts the middle class farther away from middle class wages. That are the similarities. Then you have to put on top of that no health care, including mental health, for the poor. The very liberal view on illicit drugs and the acceptance of gangs and organized crime. It's a powder keg just waiting to discharge. It's not only France now that is revolting against socialism it is all of Europe and it's not just the right wing, but everyone that works for a living. The wealthy see no problem and the welfare recipients do not see a problem. However the working class tax payers are a little upset with funding the Socialist agenda. Many people see California as the starting point in the US for this same movement.
The reason why there are so many homeless people in Los Angeles is because all the homeless people from other states migrate there, because it offers the best weather to sleep outdoors without freezing to death.
@@randojones2030 Plenty of southern states still rain and snow. Los Angeles is ideal because it's in a chronic state of drought, thus the water is imported from Colorado. There're also no tornadoes or hurricanes. And because it's the bluest state, there're also more people with money, compassion, and tolerance for the homeless. LA is the place to be if there was ever an optimal city to be homeless.
@@htownsmookie6004 Contrary to popular belief, people don't turn homeless over night. There's a reason why most beggars look relatively clean. It starts off with part time panhandling, before going full-time. All they need to do is link up with other homeless networks and do what's trending: catch a Greyhound to Los Angeles.
Bryan Taylor Because we started a drug war in their country to benefit for-profit prison companies in our country. You can’t really help your own country when you’re at risk of dying.
My girlfriend and I went to LA a couple of years ago. We went to Disneyland using public transportation, and it was a really nightmare, we were really scare because of the people we encounter coming back to LA, and you can't imagine what it was looking around for an Uber or a cab or anything at 2 am in LA downtown. The quantity of overdose junkies looking really aggressive to my girlfriend was terrible experience that I never feel in my life (Take into account that I live in Colombia ). It was literally a nightmare, worst moment in my life
@@gregsanchez1930 here in hawaii u still can jog on the streets even midnight.but ofcourse theres a certain locations here that homeless are living.but most of the homeless here are from mainland that thought they can survive the high cost of living and high tax,so when they arrived here they have money,but within a couple months or years,it started to crumble especially if they dont have a family or relatives here.worse if they are a drug users to begin with.
@@batboy3746 We can call them Internment Camps! We also have plenty of prisons that disproportionately takes away the rights of minorities and the less fortunate. So I think they already started your little idea. We need to give people dignity and a helping hand. Offering housing, mental health services, health care and education will make a difference with this crisis. Not everyone will want this help, but every person has the freedom to choose.
Vega Prototype you lose your self worth. You develop more mental problems, traumas, haunting thoughts and mostly importantly no hope. No hope means a soul that has given up.
There are shelters, but they don’t allow animals, girlfriends, and a lot of their possessions. Basically tells them to not come. We need to give them the ability to choose their own path. Either assisted mental health care facility, free housing and job placement, or other viable means. Instead they’re stigmatized further and policy only help to dig them deeper. Or we can send them to Australia like our British cousins.
The best way to help the homeless is to cut them off Welfare, and force them to get a job. Also, the employer should have drug tests as a requirement of employment.
6:40 -- "The strategy is to make everyone pick up there stuff all the time and they'll get tired and leave." Really? Or MAYBE the strategy is to allow an ordinary tax-payer to be able to walk down a sidewalk without walking through the town-dump.
That's right. I had to walk through that neighborhood, and it was scary because they looked mentally unstable. Who wouldn't think that of somebody who chose a life like that?
@@qweqqweq2090 Most people live where they can afford. These homeless poor people with no jobs go to one of the most expensive cities in the US. Super responsible!
So true. The beautiful people fight for causes like no plastic straws yet their limos never drive pass the camp cities. Homeless advocates are laughable they also address issues like belongs but diseases, drugs, violence, and other citizens must tolerate and understand only their issues. California is one messed state and I don’t think it’s an accident. Also watch for the return and rise of plagues and illnesses we haven’t dealt with in ages.
Activists, need not have to work for years, they are paid protesters from soros account for the socialist dems. But the poor citizens have to work very hard to pay income taxas and vacate their homes to stay in tents, no matter how rich they are, unless they know how to carry the dems' balls.
I understand that drugs make the brain believe the body cannot survive without the drug. It’s a mindset of people and the combination of no affordable housing. But pooping in the street and sleeping in their own poop isn’t the answer. Getting off drugs would be a huge step in getting off the street.
This ain't no political issue, this is a socio economic and mental issue coupled with addiction. I have been driving to L.A. the last couple of weeks to go to work and it's pretty bad! I have read the comments below and it goes from one extreme to the other and it's sad to say that people are not even able to talk realistically about coming up with a solution because of their extremist political views!!!
I could just compare blue & red states. Sadly, big part is political. I was in NYC under Mayor Dinkins when homeless people in subways, Grand Central Station, anywhere they can rest and sleep and harass the public. Gone when Mayor R Guilliani took over. Dig further or those people you will dig our graves.
@@imlew7853 it doesn't matter whether red or blue, believe me I live in a very red area and It's the same the only thing they came up with was to give the homeless people a few bucks and a bus ticket to wherever they would like to go. That is not a solution that is saying that the homeless people they got rid of are someone elses problem.
Núm 4 exactly. ppl come from other states because its easier to be homeless due to the weather. the real problem is economical though. when working 2 jobs can barely get you a one bedroom apt, ppl will end up homeless.
If this reply is too long skip to the bottom paragraph. The third. paragraph shows the numbersBased on the picture in your icon I assumed you were American. No matter, while I concede that a great many people do become homeless as a result, most homeless are that way for other reasons. Here in the United States, unless you are deemed dangerous or you are wealthy, or have good insurance, if you are mentally ill you do not get to stay in a mental hospital. It is difficult for mentally ill people to get employment so most end up as homeless people. That is the number one category. The next largest group of people in my state are ex convicts. Since 99% of landlords will not rent to anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime, even minor ones. When a convict is done serving their sentence the are released. If they don't have family they end up living on the street here. If they are on parole they end up back in prison since the law requires them to live indoors. If they were released without a parole obligation they usually spend the rest of their life living on the street. The third largest category are those addicted to drugs or alcohol. They require no additional explanation. The fourth largest category are people who just simply refuse to work and earn an income and so have no money for rent. This comes to: 39% mentally ill31% ex convicts19% drug and alcohol users 18% refuse to work4% undeterminedThe above numbers add up to more than 100% due to the fact that many people belong to more than one category and more than one reason may have contributed to their being homeless.These are the combined statistics for the three urban counties in Florida where I have volunteered at homeless support agencies/homeless shelters. They are between 3 and 10 years old so possibly some progression in some of these numbers has occurred since then. Also Florida may be unique in this mix as other regions in the U.S. may have a different combination of problems. I should also note that about 20% of the above statistics were also military veterans who are not well cared for in the United States. Many countries have comprehensive help for the mentally ill. The United States does not and Florida is among the worst of the states in this regard. While some states have laws restricting a landlord's ability to discriminate against an ex convict looking for housing, Florida's laws strongly favor landlords and landlords can prevent nearly anyone from moving in for reasons that other states and countries may prohibit. In the United States we do not have laws requiring people to work. Some countries have such laws. If you don't wish to work you don't have to. But then you also may have to face the consequences which usually means you don't have an income and therefore can't have a place to live, especially if you have no family. About 5-10% of the population of the Unites States consists of people who have no family and therefore have no support system if they fall on hard times. A great many people are in this category. All the places where I volunteer only serviced homeless men and the above statistics only apply to males. Females make up less than 5% of the U.S. homeless population. Children make up less than 1%. About 90% of what little support systems are in place to help the homeless only help homeless females and homeless families. Homeless men are almost completely ignored by all private and government agencies. Also, all benefits issuing agencies will only issue benefits by mailing them to your legal address. If you don't have a legal address you don't get any benefits. So those who need benefits the most won't get what little is available. In my county there are approximately 20,000 homeless people. There is one homeless shelter providing a total of 40 beds and only to single mothers and their children and only to those children under 16. There is one private agency that provides individual "cottages" (tiny homes) for homeless vets. There are a total of 16 of those. Five of the 300+ churches in our county let homeless sleep in their sanctuaries when temperatures outdoors are bellow 10 degrees f which usually only happens in December-February here in Florida. I know this is a lot of information you probably didn't want to read but I think it is important since the topic was brought up that any American who reads this reply understands the reality of the situation.
@@nunyabiznez6381 Pic is of Haydn, not George Washington (lol). I will read your reply when I get a chance - it seems interesting (and carefully written).
@@nunyabiznez6381 Can’t argue with stats; however, the video focusses on L.A., which I feel needs to be examined separately. Will you at least agree with that?
What ever happened to affordable housing, 52,000 people living on the streets is unexpectedly high. People are perpetually homeless with no chance of getting shelter or into a group home and all they're doing is managing the homeless, and that's not helping them at all, that's a waste of 450 million dollars.
william richardson the homeless problem in California is caused by a few factors. The over night influx of high paying tech jobs. People coming in needing housing and have top dollar to pay. On the other hand minimum wage going up but other wages not matching the rise. Lager amounts of illegal immigrants taking jobs and undercutting the pay. Strick restrictions on energy raises the cost of utilities. More and more social services keep raising taxes, including property taxes. Not to mention political corruption never seen on this level in American history. So keep supporting open boarders and mass immigration. Keep demanding the government create more social programs. Keep implementing heave restrictions on business and industry and I'm sure everything will work out fine.
The $61M,could have placed Homeless People,on a “Shelter w/Healthcare Assistance.” So where’s the $61M went?. That supposed to help homeless people in LA?.
It went to the staff of agencies and their "pensions" and health care while they stood around the water cooler and gossiped about Donald Trump and their next vacation days. That's government bureaucracy, where the staff comes first.
@P. Spit Government complains about business corruption to distract from its own, it seems. And businesses use the money they earn. Government uses the money it takes from business. Government is far more unethical and corrupt. The more wasteful government gets, the more they deflect blame and raise taxes too. People need to call out the real source of trouble.
Very sad! The government always brings refugees from other countries and lodge them in Military Base across the country. Refugees from Kosovo, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. They built permanent and temporary housing and camps for immigrants and their families. Free Food health care, legal assistant. Why not build a permanent camp or housing area for these people to live. There plenty of old abandoned military base available across the country they can use to house the homeless.
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@DD123 I'm sure he arrived at it by observing homeless people his whole life. I have been down in skid row over a 1000 times. I have seen how they live. They are not seeking jobs. They are poor broken people who have accepted that their lot in life is to live in the street. If you believe different, go talk to them. They'll change your mind quick.
@@cortedemico The courts made them store the property when the homeless advocates took the city to court Some anger might be directed at those folks. L.A. has a homeless and rat infestation problem because they tolerate it. Build a tent city like Sheriff Joe had in Phoenix and let them live there if they don't want to get clean and sober and get a job.
@@cortedemico When I read about the boy's father being ordered by the court to let the mother give the 7 year old boy medicine that would help with his transgender conversion in Texas, I realized we had jumped the shark. God help us if Texas goes blue.
Then there's people who cross illegally, find a trade job. In a year or less they own property, pay taxes, some even grow to own a company. Being homeless temporarily is sad and they need help. But when you're homeless for years and make it a career, your help needs to stop.
It sounds so simple, but being homeless long term is about complicated issues with relationships, circumstances, mental health, employment, depression, Substance abuse. There’s no one solution.
Homelessness is not the problem. It is a symptom of a much larger problem. The money they have thrown at this over the last decade could build a home for every American citizen.
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George carlin said politicians will care about the homeless when they figure out how to make a profit off of them. Where are the christians??? Where are the televangelist in their private jets?? There are homeless people where i live who have jobs.they just cant afford housing.
James 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? [15] If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, [16] And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? [17] Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. | By actually helping the homeless and having interactive conversations with some of them, you will find that you share some common ground together; also, homeless veterans can find housing easier if they don't have a history of alcohol, drugs, or violent behavior through the VA. | I Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. | Acts 17:30
Christians are the number one donators for the poor across the world. we just dont brag about it because the bible told us to be humble and kind in secret. but I know what you mean. lots of mega churches you see in media are not doing enough and they are the wrong faces that represent many smaller churches out there doing good
@@Ur2ez4me81 oh boofuckinhoo it's everyones fault.im old enough to remember when reagan turned all the mentally ill out into the streets.i remember when rev.ottwell was feeding the poor in texass and was arrested. Get your shorts out of you're crack, stop whinning.Its Everyone fault!!!
@@thegeminiguy1065 Such a weak statement, some people have mental health issues and can't deal with every day life issues. But yeah they should take responsibility for there actions
The Wayshower rehab doesnt always work. I had to go to a mental facility and they didnt have room upstairs so i had to spend the day downstairs in the rehab unit. The people were kind but they were also sober. They dont want to leave the facility and be homeless again so they stay until they get kicked out and go back or hope for another sponsor to pay for them to go back. They bragged to me about stealing clothes and instead of washing them, they would just steal new clothes. One was on probation and had to charge the tracker on his ankle every few hours. It was mind boggling. Im sure its not always that way tho. I was only there for a day thankfully. They didnt let me leave the same day.
Agreed. Except a lot of times they ignore refuse deny hate dismiss want them arrested jailed moved. None of it fixing anything but making matters worse.
That's what I was thinking. And also how much is this costing? Could those funds not be better spent elsewhere? Also ticketing a homeless person? What's the point? That ticket's not going to get paid and all you've done is added to the jail population.
@@e.m.w.1808 Maybe we should all pretend to be homeless so we dont have a responsibility to pay our bills and to do our part for society. The logic of not paying a fine because your homeless holds no actual logic at all.
I had a bin there. Its a rouse., to keep people's stuff mostly be stuff but sometimes they score. I lost 2 bins to them.for not reporting weekly. I was working. And couldn't make it there. Got my stuff back 1 but not the other 2
@bass reemer You're blaming illegals for the homeless?? How stupid is that??? How many of the homeless are illegals? It's an opioid crisis Moron Go down and check it out for yourself before you make stupid asinine comments
says nothing about a wall either or drugs. and where does it say homeless are criminals for being homeless? like the wall, border patrol has been givin billions to build a million dollar wall. where's the money????????
In Austin there exists a sausage stand, which sells sausage on 6th street from time to time, called the best wurst, and when people have change leftover from their sausage fest, they give their change to the gutter dwellers, out of kindness and compassion, AND Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Don the con, AND the rest of the GOP, HATE the liberal leftists, like AOC, for exhibiting such horrible, patriotic, behavior.
@the jaywezee have you ever imagined having a conversation with God, wherein you tried to lie your way into heaven, after you justified treating other people UNEQUALLY, while you lived on earth, simply because you owned "private property"?
@Jay if you had no shelter, why wouldn't at least live somewhere where you won't die without it? Also, undocumented immigrants don't recieve any welfare or social services genius.
I wonder how many hundreds of homeless they had to interview before they found these few who were lucid - not strung out on drugs or mentally ill. It's amazing the extent these journalists will go to push their narrative.
PPl complain, but they dont do anything to help. My brother in law has mental issues and was living in the streets also, but instead of accepting reality my mom and I searched and found him and brought him home. Then we sought help with government and managed to get him the medication he needs to live a somewhat normal life. He now lives with us and hasn't lived in the streets in over 7yrs. If PPl only cared about their family more.
I agree with you to a point, my great aunt had mental issues lived with her sister (my grandmother) her whole life until she was in her 80s and had to go to an institution for aging people. BUT! She was never a danger to anyone in our family, she helped with household duties, etc. My point is it would be shortsighted to say every situation can be amended by simply taking in your mentally I'll relative. Some are violent, prone to auditory and visual hallucinations which can put caregivers in precarious situations. I agree that in some cases more family Interventions would help but mental illness is not a one size fits all solutions. Congratulations to your family.
The Bin... looks like free and secure storage! When I was homeless I paid to keep my stuff in storage. What I couldn't fit in storage was sold, given away, and or destroyed/thrown in the trash. How does a homeless person have a pet? if you cannot care for yourself, how can you care for a pet? Don't break the law and you probably won't have any Warrants issued for your arrest... there's a whole lot of excuse making going on and next to no personal accountability. I didn't hang out with other folks nor did I obtain a drug problem... too busy working to get out of that situation... which is very wearing to say the least. Never though I would end up in such a situation... I was competent enough not to burn bridges and or wear out my welcome when folks were gracious enough to help out... however, some are perpetual train wrecks and routinely self sabotage. While no one wants to be homeless, there are too many who end up as such who go to great lengths to make the situation as bad as possible. How about focusing on mental illness, the real problem that folks choose to ignore. Many, if not most homeless folks have mental health issues, some severe. Many who are remedially functional end up with mental health issues because of homelessness; it's a brutal existence... although a choice for some. And, regardless the help/assistance, some folks will literally destroy everything they come into contact with; personal choices. Interestingly enough, some of these folks are vividly aware of their situation and just want to be left alone.
@@cooganalaska3249 Who's to say these people are "drug addicts". -There are tons of different people on the streets. Anyone who doesn’t want to pay extortion rents or mortgages.. and do not have enough money resources to buy land and built. A lot of the people do not come from money and do not have assets in the family. So they only option is to work every day of their life to try to afford a place that they will never really be in or see because they will have to work so much just to pay for it; Use YOUR common sense, you nonsensical/ naive person.
Vital Chance The people who actually volunteer to protect the vagrants and transients of the homeless population in Los Angeles, CA. They’re the one who actually have the right to say “drug addicts”.
West of the 405 fwy and North of the 10 fwy LA county is massive dude. There are nearly 19 million people living in the greater Los Angeles area taking up 39,000 sq miles of land area. Skid row takes up 0.431 sq miles of that area. Imagine that
joshua huff some are drug addicts, and some are not. I used to work graveyard hours at a 24 HR convenience store in Ventura. You’d be surprised by how many actually have jobs, but just can’t afford rent. Some people are working 2 and 3 jobs to to try to stay afloat.
Yes my former room mate started drinking when he was 12years old. He kept drinking and lost his job and separated from his wife. He moved in with me and he had a few part time jobs but his drinking got him in trouble and he ended up back on the streets.
Seriously? I was homeless in San Francisco for 10+ years. Here's the problem- if you are homeless, you have no right to any property you can't carry on your back. That's why you are homeless. You have no business and no right to own tons of "property" which in 99.9% of the time is hoarding trash. The laws are not strong enough.
What does diversity have to do with homelessness? Most of the political leaders are white. The issue is they’re taxing middle class to the point of homelessness. Most people get annoyed by homelessness because they realize they’re one or two missed paychecks away from being homeless. I suggest you do more research, and look at your own finance to see how screwed every average American is from being in a crap situation.
@@slasher6547 Since you lack empathy, and clearly any strand of humanity, how about you go live in the middle of the ocean. I'm sure you'd be much happier with your own cold blooded kind.
They've been doing this in Oakland too... It's illegal to live on the streets, rent is too high to think about paying. What do people expect to happen?
@@nathanjohnson7419 I'll probably be successful then too. You get what you give, and i'm sure a large percentage of these homeless aren't trying to better themselves, so why make it the burden of others?
I must be horrible, but I would never hire them. One of the things I hate about New York City is, The homeless are not drug addicts, have jobs, and work hard. The rent in New York is higher than most of the working classes wages.
been homless four times in my life. drugs was not the cause of me being homless. some times life just has a domino effect you cant do anything about. dont think it cant happen to you. i had money a great job wife and kidds only to end up living in a car. and i said it will never happen to me. lol
Doña Bárbara PRAY AND BLESS GOD,HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?THIS IS AMERICA.ITS SO SAD I CAN'T SEE FOR THE TEARS .THERE PEOPLE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD ,AND DISREPAIR AND MENTAL ILLNESS HAS TAKEN OVER .GOD BLESS AMERICA,AND ITS PEOPLE.
I know I noticed that too! Maybe that is to build up his immune system to help fight off all the germs an bacteria around him having to live in that type of situation.
@reality check I find people are liberal to a point. When it means sacrificing their own comforts or personal needs...instinct to look out for your own personal well being kicks in. With environmental chaos kicking in...I'm for a wall because I want my loved ones to be safe. They worked hard to have what they have. This is natural.
What happens when homeless individuals CHOOSE to NOT go into the shelters? Hard, cold reality is that many of the homeless avoid shelters because they don't want to follow the rules and many of the facilities are a version of Thunderdome.
Raine Devries I wouldn’t know about the rules but I’ve heard the roaches are just ungodly the hygiene other people make it even extremely worse just thinking of it gives me a weak stomach like I would puke at the smell or scent of somebody that never takes a bath or brushes their teeth especially bad oral hygiene what makes me really in rage is all the drug use and constant and caring for the people that literally die on the sidewalk
Kristen Michelle I FULLY AGREE & UNDERSTAND. I ALSO SEEN “ FIRST HAND THE B/S Favoritism stealing number one I was always being stolen from and the lying and cheating I could go on anon
lol think about what u are proposing, if they could do that, they would've already been fully integrated into our society, they wouldn't be homeless now. people only become homeless because of mental illness or drug addiction; neither of those conditions would make someone a productive contributing member of society.
@@sharonbell8895 Doesn't matter if you'd rather spend the money on drugs than on rent. Those who want to get off the street do and usually fairly quickly, but you can't help people who refuse to help themselves.
Nancy Pelosi we give you all the credit Nancy Pelosi this is your state and you don't care about the people there so you allow thousands of illegal immigrants into the country you pander to them and allow them to vote for you to keep you in office all you DEMOCRAT politicians are destroying America!
@@iloveamerica53 most likely not stress and debt will make any human insane when there is no way out of it. But the world runs on money so what will you do cave and end up homeless if you have no help from family or continue on depressed in a job u hate to barely get by.
@@ws8061 people live paycheck to paycheck in the working class and when the paycheck stops or gets cut short sacrafices need to be made until you get back to work. If you cant get back to work within a month u already miss rent and bills. Its so easy to be homeless its ridiculous how you guys think homes wont help and drugs are the only problem.
That's some faulty "reasoning" you have there. Since Reagan's "trickle-down" policies there has been a *huge* redistribution of wealth from the middle and working class/poor to the wealthy. The poor & homeless are not causing the middle class to decline, the middle class are falling into poverty because of economic policies that favor the wealthy.
Our town of 15,000 in the northwest had 300 new school students this year. All from California. I have 7 new neighbors, all Californians fleeing their sinking ship SS Pelosi.
The Dollar Guy Pelosi didn’t make people charge double and triple to rent out their apartments and homes. You have new neighbors because of greedy property owners.
As an Idaho resident, I have watched the cost of property skyrocket proportionally to the influx of Californian "immigrants." California is a joke with no punch line, run by clowns.
I don't think it's the fault of progressivism. Almost all American cities are rubbish in the sense of drugs and crazy or sick people. It is a matter of personal mentality
The amount of California license plates I see in Oregon now is astonishing. People are not leaving California. They’re “escaping” that cesspool of a State
And people continue to blame captilism when individuals have choices.....check out this link th-cam.com/video/nA2M-35gOYM/w-d-xo.html&lc=z22gfvpxvviyzdnkeacdp431alznkt4gp34okamn3nhw03c010c.1579872773361314
Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) spends half a billion dollars on mental illness issues. The homeless issues just continue to grow and invading into our neighborhoods. A lot of lower income people are being price out by the hi tech employees. The working poor now live in these tents, RVs. In San Jose, Police officers are allowed to live in RVs in the police parking lot because the can’t afford homes in the Bay Area. I find it ironic that some of theses police officers are the ones ticketing and towing peoples homes while they are living the same way behind the protection of a fenced police parking lot.
Yeah but the city and "homeless advocates" think anything less than a luxury condo is inhumane for the homeless. They're completely fine letting the homeless die and wait for their expensive, over budget, and timely condos to be built instead of building rapid shelters that would house tens of thousands in a short amount of time for a fraction of the cost.
I homeless and do not do drugs unless you been around them but the drugs do hurt the the street and you all just past a law to let people do wed and not the other drugs that the government is not doing to much on that fight not everybody homeless people have drug problem
Well done,no one can help anyone if they are not willing to try. I have worked for a homeless shelter in Canada the only one who get ahead are the ones who work for it.
Aren’t some of the richest people on the planet in that same city? I hear lots of talk about helping people coming out of Hollywood. I don’t see much action on their part though. Except Keanu of course, but dudes not human. He’s some kind divine angel.
12:28 wow - even the hard core liberal Venice Beach is absolutely FED UP with the lack of leadership and "solutions" from Mayor Garcettii and City Hall.
Venice Beach has become a horror show! EVERYWHERE you go it smells of pee, mentally ill homeless fighting and attacking each other with knives , sticks and what have you. Needles on the beach.... I used to live in Venice, for many years I been going down to Venice several times a year. This year may be the first time that I won’t . I am sick of literally paying to spend my hard earned vacation in filth. It’s disgusting!
The reason they won’t just build more shelters is because it would waste tax money and not be used. Most homeless people are junkies or have some mental issue. Some other videos that you may find in the video thread said that the shelters the city did invest tax money to build ended up being vacant, because they have strict no drug or alcohol policies and curfews. Simply put, most of these people would rather get high than to live under a roof and be fed regularly. It’s the sad truth 🤷🏻♂️
Jd F I’m sorry, but people who are too mentally ill to realize they need help for their addiction will not get better. The thing is, they don’t have to listen to anyone and are responsible for themselves as they are over 18. The sad truth is that even if these activist groups want to convert the people into productive members of society and help get them clean, it won’t work unless they want to change themselves. And most of the time that won’t happen because they are too ill to even want to get help for their addictions
430,000,000 a year??? That's nearly $9,000 per homeless individual....give them $8000 to leave...a few band together and that's enough to start over in nearly 90% of the country....wtf man???
It might sound like a good plan but that's only in an honest world, you will likely get more homeless folk from the rest of the country coming in just to get that $8,000 award to leave.
Hmmmmm $8000 of drugs, nice! Thanks government!! They are doing that here in Scotland, giving junkie's extra money as well as methadone to continue their habbit and giving alcoholics money for their booze!! I'm terminally ill with a bad health condition and I struggle day to day, every day, I don't drink or do drugs, they all look like it's their world and they can do what they want!!
There is a massive transfer of wealth from the average citizen in Los Angeles to property owners. The property owners in Los Angeles have essentially become the new ruling class.
If you don't own property(anywhere, not just LA), you are not an average citizen. Renting is a luxury for rich people, and if you can't buy something you have to go elsewhere, where you can buy something. Renting has no future return on equity, and you lose money over the long term because you don't own the property you pay money into. Even a payed for trailer(under 20 grand) is a better investment than renting an apartment because lot rent in cheaper than an apartment so you can save more money. At some point, you can sell that trailer for 15 grand in cash and get a real house.
@Jack Smith - you probably think the dems are a bunch of socialists but leaving people to struggle on the streets looks a lot more like capitalism than it does socialism.
I live there to..don't tell me I have done food not bombs.fed on skid row etc..I donate when I can and help when I can so I know these homeless personally so you need to take a seat because your telling the wrong woman wtf is up! I know a lot of them share needles and steal for cracking because I personally know them.why don't you help them since your all high and mighty.when was the last time you actually helped someone get there life 100%together I personally have helped 10..so stfu till you know who your talking to.I am a queen and you should probably address me as such
Wild Woman oh, and WHEN PIGS FLY is when I will call you Queen. That’s NEVER! Now, those that are homeless don’t need your mouth as an example. They need some pure God remodeling. God isn’t in you.
The people who want help, get help. More and more, it is becoming evident to the groups that try to get the homeless off the streets is that ALMOST ALL who remain on the streets don't want help. They don't want responsibility. They just want to drink and do drugs all day. You can't help an addict if they don't want to be helped.
@@Fairred6507 i say we force help upon them. they are a clear danger to themselves and the general public. and it is cheaper to force help on them than to continue paying for their medical bills, sanitation, tickets, ect
You really can't help people who don't want to change. It's a tough situation, we've provided millions in programs, and the problem has just gotten worse. I've given up, they need to enforce laws and clean up the streets. The homeless can go to jail and get mental and drug help there.
The problem is with the homeless they depend on the inner workings of city life to panhandle and have access to "cheap" food. Building housing away from areas of access is just going to make them not want to go to that housing in the first place.
The money the city of Venice already have to build the shelter. And yeah some won't want to leave except the truly desperate but its cheaper in the desert anyway
Someone homeless in L.A. should start a TH-cam Channel because people worldwide really do have interest about the information. It's an opportunity to record what life is like providing an educational resource.
it sounds like someone in the city government stole most of the money they raised in tax revenue for that project. i live in california and i've stopped voting to approve repeat municipal tax proposals, regardless of what they're claiming to be for. i just voted no on one for a service bond for a hospital because they didn't even bother to change the language from the 2016 ballot. they got that bond, implemented none of the practical improvements they listed, and now they're asking for _another_ tax increase for the same thing? to me, that indicates there's someone along the line siphoning off the money. if you voted to raise taxes twice to solve this problem and all it's done is gotten worse, it's because the money is getting diverted. plug up that leak and see if the program doesn't start running properly.
You think you are going to fix this? You are insane. Society is dying. In fact it is your attitude and policies that made this happen Some actions / lifestyles do not promote positive results. Very soon They will be coming for you and calling you a hater for not giving freely of your dwindling supplies. At that point you will come to a conclusion you would have held 20 years ago if you were sane. In the meantime sit back and enjoy the show, it will all be over soon.
Bridget Johnson if you care so much then go give them all your money and keep working everyday and all your extra money sent to them. You seem like you care so much
Bridget Johnson you understand that their "stuff" spreads disease and pollutes the streets of our cities. I'm sure you would be singing a different tune if that "stuff" was on your front doorstep. It's ok to be critical against humans from time to time and understand that the majority of the homeless population does not care about the landscape or the disease that is forming in the city that they live in.
You know what LA needs? Refugees! thousands and thousands of REFUGEES!!
They are coming.....!
Yikes...
yeah more to come.
Yeaaaaaa bring em on in!!!!!
@Truth Holder - Yup, so give up your home, your rights, and your job. (If you even have one.) You now have zero rights as an American citizen, so an illegal immigrant can take your place. We no longer care to take care of Americans like you, so we can help people from other failed countries. Because that's our problem.
This can happen to anyone of us. I was a journeyman machinist making $55,000 a year, life was good. Then my medical issues got worse and I was not able to work. Then 2008 hit, a few years later were living in a two-car garage. Then one of worst days I have had, was talking to my wife about how we might have to live in our pickup truck. We had to move, but my VA disability check and her part-time minimum wage pay was not going to be enough. I guess you could say we got lucky, now we are just a step above homeless, were called Trailer Trash.
It is soul-crushing to be poor in America. We're told to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps! What do you do when you can't afford the bootstraps? You're publicly humiliated by people when they see you use a Link Card in the grocery store. We have had people go through our grocery cart and literally take things out of the cart because they did not think we needed it. Your told being poor is just laziness. Advertising constantly reminds you of how poor you are.
Some are crushed so bad they turn to alcohol or drugs to relieve the pain. And I do mean pain, this pain can be so bad at times that you want to die.
We live in a greedy culture that blames the victims of capitalism, because it's capitalistic in nature, it's an animalistic system.
Agreed can happen to anyone
CRMcGee2 just because you live in a trailer does not make you trailer trash. Men that have children with multiple women and don't take care of any of them. Same goes for women who keep having babies with no father's around to take care of them. People too lazy to work. I think this is what is what people think of as trailer trash. What happened to you could happen to any of us. I am very aware it could happen to me. This is why I live very frugally. I know if I were to lose my job I would also lose my home. I mean I could live for about 4 or 5 months paying my bills but after that I'd be in trouble. Nobody should be going through your grocery cart ever. You have the right to eat and that Link Card was meant for people in your situation. A situation that could happen to any of us. I hope things improve for you in this new year.
Stay strong and keep your head up. Things will get better if you are persistent.
@@stevekambiski6752 No, crony capitalism is the problem. A socialized version of capitalism is the best mixture because socialism and communism have never worked if you want to be honest with yourself! The problem is apathy in this country and the government is run by corrupt people who use it to gain capital instead of what it's supposed to be for which is helping the country. The founding fathers gave the citizens checks and balances but everyone's too busy shopping or watching football to care, this country is done for, it's just a matter of time it's already ruined.
No homeless shelters in L.A.? They should focus solving this instead of welcoming and protecting illegal immigrants.
Hugh 100% correct!
Oh My You Can't Say That !
The illegals actually willing to work. I say we trade
Ones an asset the other is liability
Protecting? U mean locking them up?
I read that the city of Los Angeles spent $620 million to tackle homelessness, where did the money go???
How many homeless 100.000 or more 620 million say spent in 15 years on homeless would go fast.
for real dude.. talk about corruption
Eric garcetti went to Maui.
The city audit shows the money went to families of politicians under the guise of "contractors"
@@trafficjon400 Has it made a difference? Los Angeles officials are bracing for the release of a report that's likely to show little or no progress in reining in homelessness, despite the $619 million they spent last year to grapple with the crisis
“Earlier this year, the L.A.P.D. found most of their homeless citations went unpaid. “ The irony.
After gun control laws, they would be shocked to learn: "Most people who commit murder did not respect gun registration laws for some strange reason. The laws only succeeded in disarming decent homeowners who got robbed and beaten."
@@DexterHaven .
Las Vegas just implemented a $1000 fine for sleeping on the street.... WTF!?
@@peterpalffy9302 Good for them! Ever walk near Freemont St. lately? Bums on cardboard on the sidewalk is not Vegas, baby. Go back to LA.
@@DexterHaven or maybe if the homeless had $1000 they wouldn't sleep on the street? How will they pay that fine?
Dr. Drew Pinsky says the current efforts are not enough. He thinks serious epidemics are just around the corner and he is livid about it. What a horrible evolution of an interesting city.
Yeah Drew has a good take on the problem.
Pinsky says it’s a drug addiction issue
@@lovelyeyessee Watch the video "Seattle is Dying" and you'll see EXACTLY that.....
The talk Dr. Drew had with Seth Green about this situation was eye opening. Not only is it drug driven, just as long as theft isn’t more than $900/day it’s now a misdemeanor. Wow. I feel terrible for the homeless people. Dr. Drew is right, politicians created the perfect storm for homelessness to escalate. They aren’t doing anything to help fix it, they just want to clean/clear them out like garbage. The majority of these people have mental and/or physical ailments that go untreated (because they can’t afford it or have no support system) so they leave their state and choose to self medicate in California. It’s only going to take a few people getting really ill to infect a huge area. Sadly, that is going to be the real wake up call for big money in California. That’s probably why so many big businesses, especially tech, have left the state and moved to places like Texas.
@@lovelyeyessee If they aint doing the drugs, they are surely selling them!!
May we have a little sympathy here for the hardworking taxpayers who can no longer walk down the sidewalks, and who are endangered by disease?
Susan Foley yes. Also tho like where do they even go?
Susan, a lot of the homeless people have a full time job. They pay taxes also.
"I pay my taxes" lol head right in the sand. It's passed that, it's corruption
Plus, they get their cars stolen from and houses robbed by bums.
@Dwight Cook How many homeless are partying and living with you at your house right now? ...just askin'
Well I feel sorry for the homeless but if they're going to live there on the street they should at least keep it clean because that is their home.
Lol wow
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true lol
Facts
@Mr. Bob Then throw them in jail. Don't dare to discipline is the new norm.
The homeless in Los Angeles is out of control people that dont live here will never understand how bad it really is. We have no room left to Build anywhere everything is so expensive everything's out of control.
Manny rodriguez this is your liberal socialist system destroying it's self. This is what is happening in France. The difference is the French didn't let it get this bad. You are right, people that don't live there don't know how bad it is.
It's out of control everywhere. A apt in SC where I live that just 5 years ago was $500 is now $900 to $1200. It's insane & more & more people are becoming homeless. Smh
@@erichuff6945 What are you talking about? Whats going on in France and the homeless situation in L.A are two totally different things. The reason this is now an epidemic compared to NY is because Ronald Reagan shut down all the shelters and Mental hospitals across California
Lunchbox it's all related to socialism.
Lunchbox a large amount of social services that require high taxes to fund. Extra cost to utilities and fuel do to government regulations. Large influx of unskilled immigrants that can not support the economy, immigrants that keep wages low because they will work for low incomes. Single party political control. Implementing bandaid fixes like minimum wage hikes that puts the middle class farther away from middle class wages.
That are the similarities. Then you have to put on top of that no health care, including mental health, for the poor. The very liberal view on illicit drugs and the acceptance of gangs and organized crime.
It's a powder keg just waiting to discharge. It's not only France now that is revolting against socialism it is all of Europe and it's not just the right wing, but everyone that works for a living. The wealthy see no problem and the welfare recipients do not see a problem. However the working class tax payers are a little upset with funding the Socialist agenda.
Many people see California as the starting point in the US for this same movement.
The reason why there are so many homeless people in Los Angeles is because all the homeless people from other states migrate there, because it offers the best weather to sleep outdoors without freezing to death.
That's not the only reason, but still true. Same in Hawaii.
What about the southern states?
@@randojones2030 Plenty of southern states still rain and snow. Los Angeles is ideal because it's in a chronic state of drought, thus the water is imported from Colorado. There're also no tornadoes or hurricanes. And because it's the bluest state, there're also more people with money, compassion, and tolerance for the homeless. LA is the place to be if there was ever an optimal city to be homeless.
How do they manage to migrate
@@htownsmookie6004 Contrary to popular belief, people don't turn homeless over night. There's a reason why most beggars look relatively clean. It starts off with part time panhandling, before going full-time. All they need to do is link up with other homeless networks and do what's trending: catch a Greyhound to Los Angeles.
It’s sad we don’t put these people before foreigners
Mexicans are almost as bad as the cops to homeless
@l.t. Evaro illegal detected
l.t. Evaro all the Mexicans I see are lazy, they all just have government assistance and shop at the dollar store.
Bryan Taylor Because we started a drug war in their country to benefit for-profit prison companies in our country. You can’t really help your own country when you’re at risk of dying.
@@BPTtech low wages and crime usually scares them to the USA
My girlfriend and I went to LA a couple of years ago. We went to Disneyland using public transportation, and it was a really nightmare, we were really scare because of the people we encounter coming back to LA, and you can't imagine what it was looking around for an Uber or a cab or anything at 2 am in LA downtown. The quantity of overdose junkies looking really aggressive to my girlfriend was terrible experience that I never feel in my life (Take into account that I live in Colombia ). It was literally a nightmare, worst moment in my life
I'm sorry but being out at 2am is a dangerous notion no matter where you are in the globe, sounds like you thought the US was a utopia.
@@gregsanchez1930 here in hawaii u still can jog on the streets even midnight.but ofcourse theres a certain locations here that homeless are living.but most of the homeless here are from mainland that thought they can survive the high cost of living and high tax,so when they arrived here they have money,but within a couple months or years,it started to crumble especially if they dont have a family or relatives here.worse if they are a drug users to begin with.
No mental healthcare, no affordable housing, no prospects for getting a leg up.
Exactly
@@batboy3746 We can call them Internment Camps! We also have plenty of prisons that disproportionately takes away the rights of minorities and the less fortunate. So I think they already started your little idea. We need to give people dignity and a helping hand. Offering housing, mental health services, health care and education will make a difference with this crisis. Not everyone will want this help, but every person has the freedom to choose.
Vega Prototype you lose your self worth. You develop more mental problems, traumas, haunting thoughts and mostly importantly no hope. No hope means a soul that has given up.
Tong Po You don’t has the slightest reason why people become junkies.
There are shelters, but they don’t allow animals, girlfriends, and a lot of their possessions. Basically tells them to not come.
We need to give them the ability to choose their own path. Either assisted mental health care facility, free housing and job placement, or other viable means.
Instead they’re stigmatized further and policy only help to dig them deeper.
Or we can send them to Australia like our British cousins.
We should have them organize into a caravan and go seek asylum in Latin America
For real and see how they like it.
@@neo_9568 God forgives you but I don't
@@t500010000 So!
So they could die?
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$430 million for the homeless? Where did that money go!
that's wtf i wanna know i live in Los Angeles and i kid u not there's human feces everywhere, we need more shelters this is crazy.
@Jill D. Nailed it!! In real,they house stuff,no people?? nonsense.bless us all.
craig eliot in the pockets of Feinstein and boxer😲
Jill D. Oh no my friend evil does not go away
Jill D. I was a public safety officer for 30 years of my life believe me these people are doing more harm than good to use folks that are homeless
Democrats: We need to help the homeless!
Also Democrats: Just not in my backyard!
The best way to help the homeless is to cut them off Welfare, and force them to get a job. Also, the employer should have drug tests as a requirement of employment.
That won't stop mental illness and addiction... solve that problem and the homelessness just might decrease.
New York City is democratic and you don’t see that there. We give everyone who asks for shelter someplace to live in New York City.
There a bunch of FAKES!
C H 😲
6:40 -- "The strategy is to make everyone pick up there stuff all the time and they'll get tired and leave."
Really? Or MAYBE the strategy is to allow an ordinary tax-payer to be able to walk down a sidewalk without walking through the town-dump.
If their "strategy" doesn't involve getting rid of illegals and welfare, especially access to drugs it's an epic fail.
Or maybe it’s a strategy to get the homeless to stop being homeless and get their life together to find a place to rent and get a job.
N. Jacobs the housing prices are too high. Denver and colorado has become a communist state
That's right. I had to walk through that neighborhood, and it was scary because they looked mentally unstable. Who wouldn't think that of somebody who chose a life like that?
@@qweqqweq2090 Most people live where they can afford. These homeless poor people with no jobs go to one of the most expensive cities in the US. Super responsible!
And no plastic straws.............who are the insane ones?
Ban plastic straws? pass out free needles that cost a couple million per year . mind blown !
But they don't ban styrofoam which is more dangerous to the environment.
Thats why I dissolve Styrofoam into gasoline and burn it. Makes a huge black cloud of carbon. Dont know what else to do with the stuff.
So true. The beautiful people fight for causes like no plastic straws yet their limos never drive pass the camp cities. Homeless advocates are laughable they also address issues like belongs but diseases, drugs, violence, and other citizens must tolerate and understand only their issues. California is one messed state and I don’t think it’s an accident. Also watch for the return and rise of plagues and illnesses we haven’t dealt with in ages.
Escape from LA is becoming a reality.
Imagine govt hiring homeless people cleaning up the street
We don't want you here, stay in Alabama
@@RedLineShortFilms stay on your lane boi
No no no, they can't do anything to help the homeless
Whassa matta you
Yeah paying $6 an hour. They would still be homeless genius
@@jeffreyjewell75 so what do you propose
"activist" You mean unemployed..
Or enabler
Lazy drug addicts
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Activists, need not have to work for years, they are paid protesters from soros account for the socialist dems. But the poor citizens have to work very hard to pay income taxas and vacate their homes to stay in tents, no matter how rich they are, unless they know how to carry the dems' balls.
Stay school little one, the mind is a terrible thing to waste.
"They're taking our personal property"
Me: you're property has the plague
It goes to false pride. People who do public bowel moment, demand respect for this and that. Only in USA, it's fascinating.
Spot on
I understand that drugs make the brain believe the body cannot survive without the drug. It’s a mindset of people and the combination of no affordable housing. But pooping in the street and sleeping in their own poop isn’t the answer. Getting off drugs would be a huge step in getting off the street.
Lmao...yes thank you
Humble yourself,, know it’s only by Gods grace it’s not you.
This ain't no political issue, this is a socio economic and mental issue coupled with addiction. I have been driving to L.A. the last couple of weeks to go to work and it's pretty bad! I have read the comments below and it goes from one extreme to the other and it's sad to say that people are not even able to talk realistically about coming up with a solution because of their extremist political views!!!
I could just compare blue & red states. Sadly, big part is political. I was in NYC under Mayor Dinkins when homeless people in subways, Grand Central Station, anywhere they can rest and sleep and harass the public. Gone when Mayor R Guilliani took over. Dig further or those people you will dig our graves.
@@imlew7853 it doesn't matter whether red or blue, believe me I live in a very red area and It's the same the only thing they came up with was to give the homeless people a few bucks and a bus ticket to wherever they would like to go. That is not a solution that is saying that the homeless people they got rid of are someone elses problem.
@@nazariog.1155 nah go to any red rural state. Then go to any blue populated city. Diversity, welfare, and immigrants= shithole.
@@nazariog.1155 What State you in? You know those tickets are to California?
Núm 4 exactly. ppl come from other states because its easier to be homeless due to the weather. the real problem is economical though. when working 2 jobs can barely get you a one bedroom apt, ppl will end up homeless.
Drug abuse is the REAL enemy here.
Most homeless people do not do drugs.
@@nunyabiznez6381 In my country (I'm not American) most of the homeless get where they are BECAUSE OF drugs.
If this reply is too long skip to the bottom paragraph. The third. paragraph shows the numbersBased on the picture in your icon I assumed you were American. No matter, while I concede that a great many people do become homeless as a result, most homeless are that way for other reasons. Here in the United States, unless you are deemed dangerous or you are wealthy, or have good insurance, if you are mentally ill you do not get to stay in a mental hospital. It is difficult for mentally ill people to get employment so most end up as homeless people. That is the number one category. The next largest group of people in my state are ex convicts. Since 99% of landlords will not rent to anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime, even minor ones. When a convict is done serving their sentence the are released. If they don't have family they end up living on the street here. If they are on parole they end up back in prison since the law requires them to live indoors. If they were released without a parole obligation they usually spend the rest of their life living on the street. The third largest category are those addicted to drugs or alcohol. They require no additional explanation. The fourth largest category are people who just simply refuse to work and earn an income and so have no money for rent. This comes to: 39% mentally ill31% ex convicts19% drug and alcohol users 18% refuse to work4% undeterminedThe above numbers add up to more than 100% due to the fact that many people belong to more than one category and more than one reason may have contributed to their being homeless.These are the combined statistics for the three urban counties in Florida where I have volunteered at homeless support agencies/homeless shelters. They are between 3 and 10 years old so possibly some progression in some of these numbers has occurred since then. Also Florida may be unique in this mix as other regions in the U.S. may have a different combination of problems. I should also note that about 20% of the above statistics were also military veterans who are not well cared for in the United States. Many countries have comprehensive help for the mentally ill. The United States does not and Florida is among the worst of the states in this regard. While some states have laws restricting a landlord's ability to discriminate against an ex convict looking for housing, Florida's laws strongly favor landlords and landlords can prevent nearly anyone from moving in for reasons that other states and countries may prohibit. In the United States we do not have laws requiring people to work. Some countries have such laws. If you don't wish to work you don't have to. But then you also may have to face the consequences which usually means you don't have an income and therefore can't have a place to live, especially if you have no family. About 5-10% of the population of the Unites States consists of people who have no family and therefore have no support system if they fall on hard times. A great many people are in this category. All the places where I volunteer only serviced homeless men and the above statistics only apply to males. Females make up less than 5% of the U.S. homeless population. Children make up less than 1%. About 90% of what little support systems are in place to help the homeless only help homeless females and homeless families. Homeless men are almost completely ignored by all private and government agencies. Also, all benefits issuing agencies will only issue benefits by mailing them to your legal address. If you don't have a legal address you don't get any benefits. So those who need benefits the most won't get what little is available. In my county there are approximately 20,000 homeless people. There is one homeless shelter providing a total of 40 beds and only to single mothers and their children and only to those children under 16. There is one private agency that provides individual "cottages" (tiny homes) for homeless vets. There are a total of 16 of those. Five of the 300+ churches in our county let homeless sleep in their sanctuaries when temperatures outdoors are bellow 10 degrees f which usually only happens in December-February here in Florida. I know this is a lot of information you probably didn't want to read but I think it is important since the topic was brought up that any American who reads this reply understands the reality of the situation.
@@nunyabiznez6381 Pic is of Haydn, not George Washington (lol). I will read your reply when I get a chance - it seems interesting (and carefully written).
@@nunyabiznez6381 Can’t argue with stats; however, the video focusses on L.A., which I feel needs to be examined separately. Will you at least agree with that?
What ever happened to affordable housing, 52,000 people living on the streets is unexpectedly high. People are perpetually homeless with no chance of getting shelter or into a group home and all they're doing is managing the homeless, and that's not helping them at all, that's a waste of 450 million dollars.
william richardson the homeless problem in California is caused by a few factors. The over night influx of high paying tech jobs. People coming in needing housing and have top dollar to pay. On the other hand minimum wage going up but other wages not matching the rise. Lager amounts of illegal immigrants taking jobs and undercutting the pay. Strick restrictions on energy raises the cost of utilities. More and more social services keep raising taxes, including property taxes. Not to mention political corruption never seen on this level in American history.
So keep supporting open boarders and mass immigration. Keep demanding the government create more social programs. Keep implementing heave restrictions on business and industry and I'm sure everything will work out fine.
The $61M,could have placed Homeless People,on a “Shelter w/Healthcare Assistance.”
So where’s the $61M went?. That supposed to help homeless people in LA?.
Sophie Louis administrative costs
I’d bet a high percentage of that went to some guy pushing paperwork
It went to the staff of agencies and their "pensions" and health care while they stood around the water cooler and gossiped about Donald Trump and their next vacation days. That's government bureaucracy, where the staff comes first.
Nancy pelosi drank it
@P. Spit Government complains about business corruption to distract from its own, it seems. And businesses use the money they earn. Government uses the money it takes from business. Government is far more unethical and corrupt. The more wasteful government gets, the more they deflect blame and raise taxes too. People need to call out the real source of trouble.
Keep asking... follow the money trail
Very sad! The government always brings refugees from other countries and lodge them in Military Base across the country.
Refugees from Kosovo, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. They built permanent and temporary housing and camps for immigrants and their families. Free Food health care, legal assistant.
Why not build a permanent camp or housing area for these people to live. There plenty of old abandoned military base available across the country they can use to house the homeless.
They do go too far, I know of a gentleman whose medicine for heart problems was destroyed and he died because he didn’t have his medicine.
Why does a homeless bum act like he's the boss in the streets?
Entitlement, it’s rampant these days.
Norwindian let’s do it!!! Devoted to LA!
@Trevor Phillips See what they did in St.Petersburg,FLA.
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He is an/the advocate/activist for the people in skid row area. Check him out on other videos.
When I was homeless I only would have a back pack,but these people a have so much stuff,how do they move around.
They don't. Where would they go
@@Tk-iz2ws Where would they go? To work.
That's because most of these people want to live this way and don't want to change, they do not want help to change they want hand outs
They are mentally ill hoarders!
@DD123 I'm sure he arrived at it by observing homeless people his whole life. I have been down in skid row over a 1000 times. I have seen how they live. They are not seeking jobs. They are poor broken people who have accepted that their lot in life is to live in the street. If you believe different, go talk to them. They'll change your mind quick.
NBC: the police are destroying homeless people’s property
Also NBC: film this bucket of drug needles we took from the homeless
IKR? and they're storing it... lunatics.
@@cortedemico The courts made them store the property when the homeless advocates took the city to court Some anger might be directed at those folks. L.A. has a homeless and rat infestation problem because they tolerate it. Build a tent city like Sheriff Joe had in Phoenix and let them live there if they don't want to get clean and sober and get a job.
@@slundgr lunatics... they are running the asylum and the rats are infesting texas now...
@@cortedemico When I read about the boy's father being ordered by the court to let the mother give the 7 year old boy medicine that would help with his transgender conversion in Texas, I realized we had jumped the shark. God help us if Texas goes blue.
@@slundgr indeed. will be precipitated by weed legalization. unless it goes legal countrywide.
I earn $50.000 a year in Los Angeles, Yet i find myself struggling financially.
move somewhere else
50k a year here in indianapolis youd be living top of society
Willie Vanderlaan simple solutions come from simple minds smh
Your welcome to live in Canada
Willie Vanderlaan yea move somewhere else and make $25,000 a year lol
Then there's people who cross illegally, find a trade job. In a year or less they own property, pay taxes, some even grow to own a company. Being homeless temporarily is sad and they need help. But when you're homeless for years and make it a career, your help needs to stop.
What help is he receiving?
THE WILL TO DO THINGS.. THE RIGHT WAY....I KNOW PPL LIKE THAT....
It sounds so simple, but being homeless long term is about complicated issues with relationships, circumstances, mental health, employment, depression, Substance abuse. There’s no one solution.
That's because liberals GIVE THEM free housing, free education...
These people have an addiction or mental problem
Notice how most of the homeless seem to be American-born.
Yup, the illegals get free housing.
@@edweiser63 what world do u live in? NOTHING IS FREE! Dumb trump K supporters
@@willyboi3038 it is for illegals. Cost tax payers millions
Send all the illegal aliens back to where they come from and there would be housing in California 😋
@@willyboi3038 you are stupid...and it shows.😋
Homelessness is not the problem. It is a symptom of a much larger problem.
The money they have thrown at this over the last decade could build a home for every American citizen.
@Bambamrubble Not shelters, homes, or some kind. Gotta be cheaper.
@Blue Finally Gets A Clue Isn't it always the way? The rich way - first & only. Dang!😡
devaluation of currency and inflation are the "larger problem"s
Agreed
@Blue Finally Gets A Clue Ppl need to make any polit that wants your
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There are enough like minded ppl to have an impact.
Even if incremental.
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George carlin said politicians will care about the homeless when they figure out how to make a profit off of them. Where are the christians??? Where are the televangelist in their private jets?? There are homeless people where i live who have jobs.they just cant afford housing.
James 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? [15] If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, [16] And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? [17] Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. | By actually helping the homeless and having interactive conversations with some of them, you will find that you share some common ground together; also, homeless veterans can find housing easier if they don't have a history of alcohol, drugs, or violent behavior through the VA. | I Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. | Acts 17:30
Christians are the number one donators for the poor across the world. we just dont brag about it because the bible told us to be humble and kind in secret. but I know what you mean. lots of mega churches you see in media are not doing enough and they are the wrong faces that represent many smaller churches out there doing good
We help the homeless at our church! We have a homeless ministry and food drive as well.
Roxanne needham You are trying to blame Christians in a liberal, secular city? How convenient...
@@Ur2ez4me81 oh boofuckinhoo it's everyones fault.im old enough to remember when reagan turned all the mentally ill out into the streets.i remember when rev.ottwell was feeding the poor in texass and was arrested. Get your shorts out of you're crack, stop whinning.Its Everyone fault!!!
Everything in this world is a joke
A really BAD joke
Wanna hear a joke. It's called personal responsibility for your actions and life.
True
Makes me think whoever brought this world into life has bad taste...
@@thegeminiguy1065 Such a weak statement, some people have mental health issues and can't deal with every day life issues. But yeah they should take responsibility for there actions
Wanna hear God laugh? Tell him your plan.
~The Great Cosmic Giggle
@@leonhenry4861 FAE
This is Los Angeles! I thought it was Venezuela
How could you confuse Beautiful Venezuela To Los Angeles
Yeah. America is all about manufactured hype.
@Phil Hall "the hitler demorats"
No offense, but hitler's belief's and ideological world view does not even align with the democrats one bit.
i saw it on Google maps images
Liberals think it's great!
I don't understand why they don't put that money into an already existing apartment building, etc ... rehab instead of building from the ground up
It's LA, there aren't any empty apartment buildings. And if there were, they could charge $4000/mo in rent for them.
The Wayshower rehab doesnt always work. I had to go to a mental facility and they didnt have room upstairs so i had to spend the day downstairs in the rehab unit. The people were kind but they were also sober. They dont want to leave the facility and be homeless again so they stay until they get kicked out and go back or hope for another sponsor to pay for them to go back. They bragged to me about stealing clothes and instead of washing them, they would just steal new clothes. One was on probation and had to charge the tracker on his ankle every few hours. It was mind boggling. Im sure its not always that way tho. I was only there for a day thankfully. They didnt let me leave the same day.
@@heretictom i just passed a big one today on 7th st and i can think of one in hollywood off the 101
Build from the ground down.
@@fredflintstone6338 lol
Those who do nothing complain the loudest about those who do something.
I'm saving this quote! Well said!
Agreed. Except a lot of times they ignore refuse deny hate dismiss want them arrested jailed moved. None of it fixing anything but making matters worse.
These homeless live illegally on city property and the city has to store the homeless people's stuff? How crazy is this? And unsanitary too.
so the CA Gov't carefully stores INDOORS all the homeless people's belongings, but leaves the people outside?
That was a lot of floor space, lol
Invite them to your house. No? Didnt think so.
That's what I was thinking. And also how much is this costing? Could those funds not be better spent elsewhere? Also ticketing a homeless person? What's the point? That ticket's not going to get paid and all you've done is added to the jail population.
@@e.m.w.1808 Maybe we should all pretend to be homeless so we dont have a responsibility to pay our bills and to do our part for society. The logic of not paying a fine because your homeless holds no actual logic at all.
I had a bin there. Its a rouse., to keep people's stuff mostly be stuff but sometimes they score. I lost 2 bins to them.for not reporting weekly. I was working. And couldn't make it there. Got my stuff back 1 but not the other 2
They should , start bye throwing the mayor away first, and all the other Democrats too , out of California
You know it impeach the mayor
Dont bring them over here. Keepem all right there and let California succeed from the union. It'll be 3rd world over night. It's almost there now
Do you see Oprah helping these homeless? She is so worry people in Aftica.
Very good comment!
@tyler ramsey sure does come around...ask trump voters
Chris Bunch of celebrities in LA in their air conditioned mansion with slaves and they don’t care.
I think she could careless
@bass reemer You're blaming illegals for the homeless?? How stupid is that??? How many of the homeless are illegals? It's an opioid crisis Moron Go down and check it out for yourself before you make stupid asinine comments
He told the cop he wanted to kick him in the face. 😂
But he didn't want to disrespect him either. LMAO
@@thegeminiguy1065 He was angry. Very angry. And still rational.
If he was BLACK he would’ve been shot !🤬
If you check our constitution it dosen't say anywhere about sanctuary cities
Nor does it define the denizens of our nation as liberals or conservatives, dems or repubs, or by color.
says nothing about a wall either or drugs. and where does it say homeless are criminals for being homeless? like the wall, border patrol has been givin billions to build a million dollar wall. where's the money????????
In Austin there exists a sausage stand, which sells sausage on 6th street from time to time, called the best wurst, and when people have change leftover from their sausage fest, they give their change to the gutter dwellers, out of kindness and compassion, AND Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Don the con, AND the rest of the GOP, HATE the liberal leftists, like AOC, for exhibiting such horrible, patriotic, behavior.
@the jaywezee have you ever imagined having a conversation with God, wherein you tried to lie your way into heaven, after you justified treating other people UNEQUALLY, while you lived on earth, simply because you owned "private property"?
Our constitution has been subverted by the u.n charter.
Liberals must be so proud of their policies.
Such a big world we live in...
Why so many in a small space..
Thanks Nancy, Diana, Maxine, and and and just sad
keep 'em in that small space and one small nuke could fix it.
@Jay if you had no shelter, why wouldn't at least live somewhere where you won't die without it? Also, undocumented immigrants don't recieve any welfare or social services genius.
I wonder how many hundreds of homeless they had to interview before they found these few who were lucid - not strung out on drugs or mentally ill. It's amazing the extent these journalists will go to push their narrative.
Could it also be an actor?
PPl complain, but they dont do anything to help. My brother in law has mental issues and was living in the streets also, but instead of accepting reality my mom and I searched and found him and brought him home. Then we sought help with government and managed to get him the medication he needs to live a somewhat normal life. He now lives with us and hasn't lived in the streets in over 7yrs. If PPl only cared about their family more.
Its not as easy as just putting them on medication, also thats expensive and take resources
You are a good person.
I agree with you to a point, my great aunt had mental issues lived with her sister (my grandmother) her whole life until she was in her 80s and had to go to an institution for aging people. BUT! She was never a danger to anyone in our family, she helped with household duties, etc. My point is it would be shortsighted to say every situation can be amended by simply taking in your mentally I'll relative. Some are violent, prone to auditory and visual hallucinations which can put caregivers in precarious situations. I agree that in some cases more family Interventions would help but mental illness is not a one size fits all solutions. Congratulations to your family.
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The Bin... looks like free and secure storage! When I was homeless I paid to keep my stuff in storage. What I couldn't fit in storage was sold, given away, and or destroyed/thrown in the trash. How does a homeless person have a pet? if you cannot care for yourself, how can you care for a pet? Don't break the law and you probably won't have any Warrants issued for your arrest... there's a whole lot of excuse making going on and next to no personal accountability. I didn't hang out with other folks nor did I obtain a drug problem... too busy working to get out of that situation... which is very wearing to say the least. Never though I would end up in such a situation... I was competent enough not to burn bridges and or wear out my welcome when folks were gracious enough to help out... however, some are perpetual train wrecks and routinely self sabotage. While no one wants to be homeless, there are too many who end up as such who go to great lengths to make the situation as bad as possible.
How about focusing on mental illness, the real problem that folks choose to ignore. Many, if not most homeless folks have mental health issues, some severe. Many who are remedially functional end up with mental health issues because of homelessness; it's a brutal existence... although a choice for some. And, regardless the help/assistance, some folks will literally destroy everything they come into contact with; personal choices. Interestingly enough, some of these folks are vividly aware of their situation and just want to be left alone.
Most of those people were likely abused. There's a lot of explanations for why and how people end up on the streets.
I see homeless with pets and usually the pets are better fed because people donate dog food all the time.
Jesus! burn it all !! Build shelters and give the homeless jobs cleaning up the streets and roads
Hey naive person, drug addicts will not work, much less clean streets. Your nonsensical talk is part of the problem. We need real solutions.
@@cooganalaska3249 Who's to say these people are "drug addicts". -There are tons of different people on the streets. Anyone who doesn’t want to pay extortion rents or mortgages.. and do not have enough money resources to buy land and built. A lot of the people do not come from money and do not have assets in the family. So they only option is to work every day of their life to try to afford a place that they will never really be in or see because they will have to work so much just to pay for it; Use YOUR common sense, you nonsensical/ naive person.
Vital Chance
The people who actually volunteer to protect the vagrants and transients of the homeless population in Los Angeles, CA. They’re the one who actually have the right to say “drug addicts”.
@@cooganalaska3249 sure drug addicts work, are you that stupid. Most people who work for day labor agencies are on drugs. Get a clue
Not so easy when they don’t want to work or be clean
This is why I don’t bother to go LA to pressure my movie stuff, it’s just sad this city has become...
Where are the rich and famous in LA?
Malibu
...in the ( Hollywood ) hills and Malibu
In in a gated community in the hills where no one can come in if they don't belong
West of the 405 fwy and North of the 10 fwy
LA county is massive dude. There are nearly 19 million people living in the greater Los Angeles area taking up 39,000 sq miles of land area. Skid row takes up 0.431 sq miles of that area. Imagine that
They forget were they come from 💯
Love how the homeless are victims. They put themselves there. No one put a needle in their arm. You are responsible for your actions.
joshua huff some are drug addicts, and some are not. I used to work graveyard hours at a 24 HR convenience store in Ventura. You’d be surprised by how many actually have jobs, but just can’t afford rent. Some people are working 2 and 3 jobs to to try to stay afloat.
joshua huff Best comment.
Yes my former room mate started drinking when he was 12years old. He kept drinking and lost his job and separated from his wife. He moved in with me and he had a few part time jobs but his drinking got him in trouble and he ended up back on the streets.
It's not "personal property" if most of it was stolen/shoplifted in the first place. You think they paid for those shopping carts?...
Seriously? I was homeless in San Francisco for 10+ years. Here's the problem- if you are homeless, you have no right to any property you can't carry on your back. That's why you are homeless. You have no business and no right to own tons of "property" which in 99.9% of the time is hoarding trash. The laws are not strong enough.
YOU NEED MORE DIVIRSITY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM!LMFAO!
Seems like socialism . the homeless get free maid service. free needles, free everything.
Now now, diversity strengthens us. Just look at how it used to be and is now.
Elvis Presley yea America is sheit now
@@aceshadowins1310 my point exactly
What does diversity have to do with homelessness? Most of the political leaders are white. The issue is they’re taxing middle class to the point of homelessness. Most people get annoyed by homelessness because they realize they’re one or two missed paychecks away from being homeless. I suggest you do more research, and look at your own finance to see how screwed every average American is from being in a crap situation.
Blame the selfish politicians. And the mayors.
Which are all DEMOCRATS.
Trash is considered property now
Jonathan Rosales one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. It doesn’t seem you heard that’s one before.
If you want the used up needles, pee bottles, and all other infectious garments be my guest mate
They need to round up all the homeless and dump them in the middle of the ocean
@@slasher6547 you sound like a crappy human being
@@slasher6547 Since you lack empathy, and clearly any strand of humanity, how about you go live in the middle of the ocean. I'm sure you'd be much happier with your own cold blooded kind.
They've been doing this in Oakland too... It's illegal to live on the streets, rent is too high to think about paying. What do people expect to happen?
ticket the homeless who couldn't pay the fine if they tried. Perfect Liberal common sense.
Just imagine if we cared about the homeless as much as people care about politics.
It seems like politics create more problems than solutions for the most part.
Everyone think it's those people, unitl it happens to them.
Will never happen to me because i'm not a drug addict and worked hard to get to where I am, but thanks.
@@runningdebate2670 what about in your next incarnation numbnuts?
@@nathanjohnson7419 I'll probably be successful then too. You get what you give, and i'm sure a large percentage of these homeless aren't trying to better themselves, so why make it the burden of others?
I must be horrible, but I would never hire them. One of the things I hate about New York City is, The homeless are not drug addicts, have jobs, and work hard. The rent in New York is higher than most of the working classes wages.
been homless four times in my life. drugs was not the cause of me being homless. some times life just has a domino effect you cant do anything about. dont think it cant happen to you. i had money a great job wife and kidds only to end up living in a car. and i said it will never happen to me. lol
At the request of the mayor? What about at the request of the tax payers the citizens who work and deserve to live with dignity and respect?
Doña Bárbara PRAY AND BLESS GOD,HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?THIS IS AMERICA.ITS SO SAD I CAN'T SEE FOR THE TEARS .THERE PEOPLE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD ,AND DISREPAIR AND MENTAL ILLNESS HAS TAKEN OVER .GOD BLESS AMERICA,AND ITS PEOPLE.
Shoutout to anyone reading this.
You a real one
I know.
So no one going to talk about how much garlic dude was cooking?
I know I noticed that too! Maybe that is to build up his immune system to help fight off all the germs an bacteria around him having to live in that type of situation.
All hollyweird actors should be required to live there on skidrow together with the tech company workers:)
Everyone should wear the shoe on the other foot...to really find out a more well rounded view of reality.
@reality check I find people are liberal to a point. When it means sacrificing their own comforts or personal needs...instinct to look out for your own personal well being kicks in. With environmental chaos kicking in...I'm for a wall because I want my loved ones to be safe. They worked hard to have what they have. This is natural.
Oh, don't worry, the tech workers are headed there. I studied tech - BIG mistake. Tech jobs are reverting to min. wage.
@@alexcarter8807 I know. Many have been outsourced for a long time. A $20\hr job will easily go for 40cents an hour to somewhere else.
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What happens when homeless individuals CHOOSE to NOT go into the shelters? Hard, cold reality is that many of the homeless avoid shelters because they don't want to follow the rules and many of the facilities are a version of Thunderdome.
There's not enough shelters anyway ... that's not even a valid concern.
Raine Devries I wouldn’t know about the rules but I’ve heard the roaches are just ungodly the hygiene other people make it even extremely worse just thinking of it gives me a weak stomach like I would puke at the smell or scent of somebody that never takes a bath or brushes their teeth especially bad oral hygiene what makes me really in rage is all the drug use and constant and caring for the people that literally die on the sidewalk
Kristen Michelle I FULLY AGREE & UNDERSTAND. I ALSO SEEN “ FIRST HAND THE B/S Favoritism stealing number one I was always being stolen from and the lying and cheating I could go on anon
Build them a village...have them work fir their keep Gardens, textiles, ect. Landscaping And sale their goods for the up keep.
lol think about what u are proposing, if they could do that, they would've already been fully integrated into our society, they wouldn't be homeless now. people only become homeless because of mental illness or drug addiction; neither of those conditions would make someone a productive contributing member of society.
MENTAL COUNCILING
need dignity and emotional support reform or MAKE RENT A LITTLE MORE AFFORDABLE to the average person
@@sharonbell8895 Doesn't matter if you'd rather spend the money on drugs than on rent. Those who want to get off the street do and usually fairly quickly, but you can't help people who refuse to help themselves.
Brought to you & me by our friends in the democratic party !
Nancy Pelosi we give you all the credit Nancy Pelosi this is your state and you don't care about the people there so you allow thousands of illegal immigrants into the country you pander to them and allow them to vote for you to keep you in office all you DEMOCRAT politicians are destroying America!
Joe’s Garage Democrats are the new Socialists didn't you hear all the presidential hopefuls spew about free healthcare, free college!
Dems and Republicans are the same party you're just another gullible American who believes otherwise
"I just want to kick you in the face! It's not personal" 😂
The frustration of true powerlessness. Hope you never have to experience it.
Much of that is frustration
Housing the homeless in NOT the answer!!
Mental health rehabilitation, drug rehab and teaching peoole self-reliance.
Really easy to stay sane without a home or shelter am i right?
Go Kermit
And they were all sane when they lost their home in the first place??
@@iloveamerica53 most likely not stress and debt will make any human insane when there is no way out of it.
But the world runs on money so what will you do cave and end up homeless if you have no help from family or continue on depressed in a job u hate to barely get by.
Exactly this is a drug and mental health problem more than a housing crisis.
@@ws8061 people live paycheck to paycheck in the working class and when the paycheck stops or gets cut short sacrafices need to be made until you get back to work. If you cant get back to work within a month u already miss rent and bills. Its so easy to be homeless its ridiculous how you guys think homes wont help and drugs are the only problem.
Welcome to the land of Democrats.
This also happens in trumpland btw
But it should not happen in democrats land that’s the thing !!!
Welcome to California. Come enjoy the sunshine, culture, disease and corruption. It's great here
Homelessness goes up in L.A. Guess What? The middle class goes down. Somewhere to go? Get them out of California. No one can afford it anymore.
That's some faulty "reasoning" you have there. Since Reagan's "trickle-down" policies there has been a *huge* redistribution of wealth from the middle and working class/poor to the wealthy. The poor & homeless are not causing the middle class to decline, the middle class are falling into poverty because of economic policies that favor the wealthy.
Freya Mikilson , exactly
Our town of 15,000 in the northwest had 300 new school students this year. All from California. I have 7 new neighbors, all Californians fleeing their sinking ship SS Pelosi.
The Dollar Guy Pelosi didn’t make people charge double and triple to rent out their apartments and homes.
You have new neighbors because of greedy property owners.
As an Idaho resident, I have watched the cost of property skyrocket proportionally to the influx of Californian "immigrants." California is a joke with no punch line, run by clowns.
A friend asked me if I knew who Mayor GarbageCity was. I now know
You give somebody a free home they will just abuse it and burn it
Jimmie Long Or turn it into a stinky garbage dump. 🙄
Sad but true
How embarrassing? "Progressive" Liberal, Democrat City USA.
I don't think it's the fault of progressivism. Almost all American cities are rubbish in the sense of drugs and crazy or sick people. It is a matter of personal mentality
Breaks my heart, it's just such a deep, multi layer festering cancer of a problem.
It's going to be a whole lot worse since now Coronavirus is entering this mix.
You couldn't pay me enough to live in that God forsaken state.
Saw the writing on the wall in 93 and l left and never looked back.
The amount of California license plates I see in Oregon now is astonishing. People are not leaving California. They’re “escaping” that cesspool of a State
GOD is not to blame for the behavior of prejudiced and racist liars, in the positions of man made power and authority.
Kyle Holland it was figure of speech. Didn’t need your religious rambling of a response
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If your property wasn’t trash then you shouldn’t worry..those streets are atrocious
Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) spends half a billion dollars on mental illness issues. The homeless issues just continue to grow and invading into our neighborhoods. A lot of lower income people are being price out by the hi tech employees. The working poor now live in these tents, RVs. In San Jose, Police officers are allowed to live in RVs in the police parking lot because the can’t afford homes in the Bay Area. I find it ironic that some of theses police officers are the ones ticketing and towing peoples homes while they are living the same way behind the protection of a fenced police parking lot.
Wow, you know how many people can live where they store all that stuff. Smh!
Ikr
wow nice point there
Yeah but the city and "homeless advocates" think anything less than a luxury condo is inhumane for the homeless. They're completely fine letting the homeless die and wait for their expensive, over budget, and timely condos to be built instead of building rapid shelters that would house tens of thousands in a short amount of time for a fraction of the cost.
California should use 3D printing technology to build those homes quickly and on budget.
One Time look it up 3D house printing is real
It already exists in Portland. Google the maslow cnc!
Government is super strict on building code requirements and new projects regardless of how it's built, hence the homeless problem.
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noone can live with drug addicts there is no one among these homeless ppl who is not abusing drugs
I homeless and do not do drugs unless you been around them but the drugs do hurt the the street and you all just past a law to let people do wed and not the other drugs that the government is not doing to much on that fight not everybody homeless people have drug problem
When I decided to quit feeling sorry for myself. Do Something about It. I Was No Longer Homeless. I Did It Myself.
Well done,no one can help anyone if they are not willing to try. I have worked for a homeless shelter in Canada the only one who get ahead are the ones who work for it.
Aren’t some of the richest people on the planet in that same city? I hear lots of talk about helping people coming out of Hollywood. I don’t see much action on their part though. Except Keanu of course, but dudes not human. He’s some kind divine angel.
It's IS ironic how Hollywood elite are so willing to help out poor nations and overlook what's going on here.
12:28 wow - even the hard core liberal Venice Beach is absolutely FED UP with the lack of leadership and "solutions" from Mayor Garcettii and City Hall.
Venice Beach has become a horror show!
EVERYWHERE you go it smells of pee, mentally ill homeless fighting and attacking each other with knives , sticks and what have you. Needles on the beach....
I used to live in Venice, for many years I been going down to Venice several times a year.
This year may be the first time that I won’t .
I am sick of literally paying to spend my hard earned vacation in filth.
It’s disgusting!
The reason they won’t just build more shelters is because it would waste tax money and not be used. Most homeless people are junkies or have some mental issue. Some other videos that you may find in the video thread said that the shelters the city did invest tax money to build ended up being vacant, because they have strict no drug or alcohol policies and curfews. Simply put, most of these people would rather get high than to live under a roof and be fed regularly. It’s the sad truth 🤷🏻♂️
Jd F I’m sorry, but people who are too mentally ill to realize they need help for their addiction will not get better. The thing is, they don’t have to listen to anyone and are responsible for themselves as they are over 18. The sad truth is that even if these activist groups want to convert the people into productive members of society and help get them clean, it won’t work unless they want to change themselves. And most of the time that won’t happen because they are too ill to even want to get help for their addictions
430,000,000 a year??? That's nearly $9,000 per homeless individual....give them $8000 to leave...a few band together and that's enough to start over in nearly 90% of the country....wtf man???
Most of the money probably goes to 'public servants' and their cronies.
Give a bunch of drug addicts money? That doesn't work
It might sound like a good plan but that's only in an honest world, you will likely get more homeless folk from the rest of the country coming in just to get that $8,000 award to leave.
That makes too much sense
Hmmmmm $8000 of drugs, nice! Thanks government!! They are doing that here in Scotland, giving junkie's extra money as well as methadone to continue their habbit and giving alcoholics money for their booze!! I'm terminally ill with a bad health condition and I struggle day to day, every day, I don't drink or do drugs, they all look like it's their world and they can do what they want!!
There is a massive transfer of wealth from the average citizen in Los Angeles to property owners. The property owners in Los Angeles have essentially become the new ruling class.
If you don't own property(anywhere, not just LA), you are not an average citizen. Renting is a luxury for rich people, and if you can't buy something you have to go elsewhere, where you can buy something. Renting has no future return on equity, and you lose money over the long term because you don't own the property you pay money into. Even a payed for trailer(under 20 grand) is a better investment than renting an apartment because lot rent in cheaper than an apartment so you can save more money. At some point, you can sell that trailer for 15 grand in cash and get a real house.
USA has became a plutocractic societies.
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@Jack Smith - you probably think the dems are a bunch of socialists but leaving people to struggle on the streets looks a lot more like capitalism than it does socialism.
Yeah..... college helps. Get a loan, pay off your mortgage. Old fashioned, I know, but it could work..... theoretically?
I live in Hollywood and seen it grow in 11 years...in the past year itself...doubled
*saw you saw it grow
sturmgewehr357 seen** past tense.
Great job California 👍 your doing a wonderful job. Needles and feces everywhere.
We are ALL a step away from homelessness. YES, EVEN YOU! You could lose it all tomorrow.
Yes but there is always a better place than the streets of LA..a lot of these folks get high..I know seen it myself
Wild Woman I live there. There is homelessness everywhere. Instead of complaining, help them!
I live there to..don't tell me I have done food not bombs.fed on skid row etc..I donate when I can and help when I can so I know these homeless personally so you need to take a seat because your telling the wrong woman wtf is up! I know a lot of them share needles and steal for cracking because I personally know them.why don't you help them since your all high and mighty.when was the last time you actually helped someone get there life 100%together I personally have helped 10..so stfu till you know who your talking to.I am a queen and you should probably address me as such
Wild Woman I think not, as a REAL WOMAN wouldn’t share her alms. You just erased everything good you have done. I don’t post those. I read my Bible.
Wild Woman oh, and WHEN PIGS FLY is when I will call you Queen. That’s NEVER! Now, those that are homeless don’t need your mouth as an example. They need some pure God remodeling. God isn’t in you.
Absolutely heart breaking, how could this be happening in the States. California really needs to wake up and help it's people wow
The people who want help, get help. More and more, it is becoming evident to the groups that try to get the homeless off the streets is that ALMOST ALL who remain on the streets don't want help. They don't want responsibility. They just want to drink and do drugs all day. You can't help an addict if they don't want to be helped.
@@Fairred6507 i say we force help upon them. they are a clear danger to themselves and the general public. and it is cheaper to force help on them than to continue paying for their medical bills, sanitation, tickets, ect
You really can't help people who don't want to change. It's a tough situation, we've provided millions in programs, and the problem has just gotten worse. I've given up, they need to enforce laws and clean up the streets. The homeless can go to jail and get mental and drug help there.
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L.A. County has plenty of space in the High Desert areas of Palmdale and Lancaster... Build shelters out there!
The problem is with the homeless they depend on the inner workings of city life to panhandle and have access to "cheap" food. Building housing away from areas of access is just going to make them not want to go to that housing in the first place.
With what money?
The money the city of Venice already have to build the shelter. And yeah some won't want to leave except the truly desperate but its cheaper in the desert anyway
We don't want them either!
It would turn into a shithole and they'd come back to the city for handouts.
Someone homeless in L.A. should start a TH-cam Channel because people worldwide really do have interest about the information. It's an opportunity to record what life is like providing an educational resource.
The who why what when where. Q&A's. People need to see for themselves before anyone can act professionally about anything.
I follow two homeless youtubers and they talk about all the stuff going on with the homeless community and how they get by as a homeless.
it sounds like someone in the city government stole most of the money they raised in tax revenue for that project.
i live in california and i've stopped voting to approve repeat municipal tax proposals, regardless of what they're claiming to be for. i just voted no on one for a service bond for a hospital because they didn't even bother to change the language from the 2016 ballot. they got that bond, implemented none of the practical improvements they listed, and now they're asking for _another_ tax increase for the same thing? to me, that indicates there's someone along the line siphoning off the money.
if you voted to raise taxes twice to solve this problem and all it's done is gotten worse, it's because the money is getting diverted. plug up that leak and see if the program doesn't start running properly.
i agree
I've lived in CA for 50 years and I've seen a lot of specific tax money go into the "general fund" and never get used for its intended purpose.
You think you are going to fix this? You are insane. Society is dying.
In fact it is your attitude and policies that made this happen
Some actions / lifestyles do not promote positive results.
Very soon They will be coming for you and calling you a hater for not giving freely of your dwindling supplies.
At that point you will come to a conclusion you would have held 20 years ago if you were sane.
In the meantime sit back and enjoy the show, it will all be over soon.
Help me understand....you house their things...but not them 🤔
Crazy right?
You can’t house addicts that would rather be on the streets.
Bridget Johnson if you care so much then go give them all your money and keep working everyday and all your extra money sent to them. You seem like you care so much
they would have to get clean. No booze or drugs. They can stay with you.
Bridget Johnson you understand that their "stuff" spreads disease and pollutes the streets of our cities. I'm sure you would be singing a different tune if that "stuff" was on your front doorstep. It's ok to be critical against humans from time to time and understand that the majority of the homeless population does not care about the landscape or the disease that is forming in the city that they live in.
Monies, monies and monies spent on wars all over the world for the last 20 years......and win nothing......