I actually recognize Kimberly, I used to work at Lucky 97 Supermarket and I'd see her come in every so often. She wouldn't buy anything major, just a bag of candy. Now that I know her and her story, I can say that if I see her, I'm buying her something warm and telling her that this stranger is thankful she's around and thriving despite being unhoused.
2 years ago I was homeless for 11 months. The summertime was the most freedom I have ever experienced.. and I will always treasure the mindfulness that homelessness taught me. I can relate to every one of these stories. The struggle of loneliness, navigating the system to get into housing, the stigmatization and living day to day. I was fortunate enough to get into my own apartment, and get my daughter back into my custody. I hope that one day we are able to get everyone into safe affordable housing.
I almost died when I was pregnant , I was sleeping under a bridge just a few roads over from Whyte Avenue. A peace officer woke me up, if he hadn't I don't think me and my 4 year old son would be here today . I was homeless on and off in Edmonton since I was about 14 . It's really hard to get off the streets . Really hard.
Who says they are not working ? Most jobs require that you have a fixed address to even be considered for hiring. That's why "Housing First" exists @user-pf1qx3hh4y if you expect people to work, they need some place to go back to afterward, I.e. a home. Can you imagine trying to work while also having to search for shelter every single night? And then be expected to show up at work on time the next day? It's unreasonable/unrealistic for someone in that circumstance
Australia is in a rental crisis, I've been homeless for a year, I've not been on the street luckily but I know what real survival mode is, and how life becomes so small
I m french from the Montreal area been trucking for 35 years and 10 of those years were from Edmonton, AB. on a normal winter many days are -30c and colder ! i can t imagine being outside for more than 15 min.! rent is so expensive you need to have a really good pay to afford it ! I couldn t even afford it as a trucker. i had to pay my chevy silverado 600 $ a month , 170$ for my storage room were all my belongings are, still paying that to this day ! ya !so i was living in motels on my days off. The rest of the time i was staying in the truck ! God bless those homeless ! one day at a time struggling the elements !
@@Staycoolproduction Not having a place to live was because I was trucking long distance all the time, why would i get an appartment when i m never there ? and the silverado was to carry my snowmobile ! ! I ve been trucking coast to coast in Canada for 35 years, Living in trucks. Now i m retired and home all the time ! I live in Quebec. I was in Edmonton for the jobs, not for living there ! ! thanks for reading my comment ! stay safe, bye ! 😎
God bless the couple that is carrying around Noloxone and trying to help those that need it. They are such a beautiful example of giving of yourself even when you have very little to give.
It's disgusting. The parasitic landlords love that people are swarming here from BC & Ontario, and won't be happy until they can charge just as high rents.
We use to have rent control but Doug Ford removed it for all his income property owning friends. That just messed up everything for people to rent a decent place to live. Rent control worked for the people.
@@glenncurley680 none in Alberta at all. It's brutal. And the developers hold municipalities hostage, simply refusing to build anywhere rent controls are implemented, or if they're required to build a % of 'non-market' affordable units. Some get hundreds of thousands in gov't subsidies to do upgrades/repairs and then turn around and raise the rents anyway (e.g. search the ACORN campaign against Avenue Living right now). I don't know how this isn't viewed as classic anti-trust/price-fixing behaviour. It's criminal.
@@RigmorTalonbeard you & I both know that is absolute nonsense. While it used to be that way, generally-speaking, in the past 10 years small "investors" have been tripping over each other trying to "get in the game" of "landlording" so they can milk the tenant cash-cow as much as they can, especially in jurisdictions like NB & AB where there are zero rent-controls. Absolute parasites. Don't even get me started on all the foreign money launderers and mortgage-fraudsters. Tell me how the "landlord" in Brampton who packed 25 - TWENTY-FIVE - students into one apartment is "only charging what they need to". I'll wait.
@@RigmorTalonbeardabsolute hogwash. Landlords are parasites. They could be reasonable but aren't made to so they aren't. They are only in it for quick profits. Housing crisis is a different crime. Oil companies are the top of the food chain as always but we can't blame them of course. They're saints.
I'm a red seal journeyman working and I used to have some disposable income to help with my mental health, to enjoy a hockey game with my son, go bowling or eat somewhere... Those days are long gone and the gross expenditures of the federal government and insane taxes have me barely making it paycheck to paycheck.. and work is now drying up as lower paid new Canadians "sub contractors" are taking all the work ... Politicians use the struggle as a political football
Many of the ‘new Canadians’ are just temporary Canadians looking to cash in on the exchange rate. The Filipinos I work w will retire better than most any of their Canadian coworkers. They can buy a house back home for $30K. That isn’t even half a down payment on the average detached home in Calgary.
Could try working in Fort Mac. Journeyman are in demand, especially in the oil and gas field. Hell, to add on to this, some are even bringing in councilors to talk to while your there.
I don't understand how a solution for homelessness through government created employment hasn't been considered. Why can't they create an ethical labor industry that anyone who is unhoused can apply for and then receive a basic place to live, food and a bit of spending money as they get on their feet and enter a rehab program if need be? If they don't want to work for their housing (obviously excluding those who medically cannot), then I don't see why there should be enormous tax payer funding towards systems that obviously aren't making that much of a difference to solve the problem.
The majority don’t want to work and just want to live with no responsibilities, able to use and drain resources. It’s a conscious choice. Those who want to get better have the resources necessary to do so.
@@smsmsm33434that is so not true! I’m on the verge of homelessness with my family. I don’t have a substance abuse problem. I work. And no. There is no helpful resources available to us.. we’re lucky to be where we are right now. But even this? Is not a permanent and or helpful solution. You are severely misinformed..
Open the temporary foreign worker program for Canadians. It's government subsidized already. I'm paying taxes to lose jobs to them. It's getting sickening.
I lived on the streets of Edmonton during the winter months and I thought many times that I wasn’t going to wake up. -48 with the windchill so damn cold and I was 3 months pregnant to boot.! Never ever want to be in that place again!
It's hard to go to work when you don't want to. I just drove down mainst I saw like 30 of em drinking broad daylight. they just want the handouts they don't wanna work for em.
@@danc2159 you don’t know that. A lot of these people? Don’t start out being where they are. They are where they are, suffering like they are with the battles they have. Because at a point? They did try. And it just was never working out for them. They weren’t as strong as some people to keep on pushing and going. They gave up! I’m not even one of them. I don’t care to say I’m a bleeding heart either.. but I’ve raised and supported a family through these economies for some time now and I’m older, knowledgeable and educated and aware of these lack of and failing resources. Everyone pushes everyone blindly to go to our glorious governments for help. Assuming.. the governments will take care of it, always. Take care of these people enough? To the point. They should no longer be where they are. But the FACT! You all seem to be missing entirely? Is that they do not actually end up helping anyone enough! I would KNOW! I have been in circumstances before? Where everyone sent me to them for help and then they FAILED ME! And could not help me! And now in this day? You ask anyone with any real knowledge in the field and work? Of being who’s supposed to help these people? And they’ll even say and point out. They are maxed out! Overwhelmed. And they can not provide enough to help everyone. Too bad. We’re all on our own. What do you in really expect people to do at that point? They get desperate! And this is how crime raises! Because people are desperate and no is helping them enough! The point you are all clearly not getting!!!!
Max rent for a single person on disability benefits is $500/mth out of the total $1249/mth and OW is less. Then people wonder why we have so many homeless people 😢
Finland solved this. Housing first! then they can deal with the issues through social workers. Tiny homes aren't expensive. Make a village. They just need a small space. Unfortunately, homelessness is a business. Lots of people gain from it
Great idea but we have a way larger homeless problem than Finland ever did. Population of Finland 5.5 million. Population of Canada 39.1 million. I agree its a great solution. Now we need to apply our energy to raising funding.
We as compassionate people need to figure it out cause our goverment is not going to do much obviously. What happened to those days when we all looked out for each other? Why is everything the government's fault? The onus is on us as well as government. Unfortunately we have more people judging these people than helping. It costs no money to be nice to someone.
I have spoken with many seniors living in affordable housing (apartments) that the city has turned into affordable housing for homeless: it’s a nightmare for them. The drug use, prostitution, it’s extremely dangerous, it gets dirty and out of control quickly…. It causes properties to lose value, which is a huge blow to anyone to owns a unit. I have empathy for these people, my own brother was extremely close to this life… I will say, there’s no solution for them until the drug use is addressed. You can’t have a happy, fruitful life slamming dope or high on meth. It wasn’t until my brother quit using, got help, and cleaned up and got a job that he began really living: now he has a common law wife and a child, he’s happier and more importantly clean. Edmonton has a drug problem: period.
They can house criminals for years on end but can't take the time to house addicts against their "will" until they get clean and have the mindset refocused by emotional and mental health help.. If one does not show any recovery than house them in a clean environment where they are fed, cleaned and eventually they'll come around.. They do it with criminals not sure why they can't do it with addicts and emotional broken people..
No kidding. And I looked up the jail systems in Canada, and they seem to be really good. All the benefits of programs for the incarcerated, education, visits, cheerful and bright facilities, at least for the minimum security members which was what these addicts would be, I assume. It would be so much safer for the chronic street addicts and the general public.
@488cisomething changed already. Socialist governments. Ask Vancouver how legalising hard drugs has went... In fact you can find it in TH-cam to see for yourself. It's "The Walking Dead" live in HD, while millionaires teenagers of a certain specific country where the hard drugs are manufactured before they are sent to the Cartels... Drive Lamborghini's and 250k BMWs/ Mercedes, and live in multi million dollar homes that only they can afford. Showing off the avails of living off Canadian citizens suffering. I'm not wrong.
Anyone who abuses drugs or alcohol to the point that it prevents them from finding work should not expect society's help until they have committed to trying to get clean.
Precursors such as the often overlooked PTSD and C-PTSD, those are precursors. We must show empathy to such delicate framework of the human condition, not everyone is as sheltered in life or with a determination to be viewed as being stoic towards the consideration of precursors. Shellshock related to various forms of injuries occurs, these are shoved through the cracks. If depression is a element of PTSD related cognitive challenges, or multi generational concerns that often resulted in a person finding themselves living with PTSD and possibly secondary physical challenges directly related. Are you suggesting sociopathy is more powerful than empathy though, based on your willingness to try to direct society awat from empathy, when empathy choses to not overlook the elemental precursors of the affected individuals? Perspective understood can help people who are cognitively disabled away from empathy, to grow empathy, even to the point of apology for previously overlooking core concerns of precursors. Addictions we see in many forms.
@isay207 where do they leave their belongings? You have to have an address to get employment in most places. Shower and change for work? Easy to say but nor easy.
That's not the issue it's more complicated. These people don't have wallets or ID's. How can you get a ID with no address? Then how can you even get a job or apartment with no ID? See the catch 21 the government put out decades ago that catches homeless in the loop yet?
So Kimberly got housing, yes it’s not ideal but it’s a step in the right direction. So why now has she still not went job searching. Maybe if she got herself a job instead of spending her days inside a statue, more options would be available to her. At the end of the day, you have to want to help yourself. You can’t rely on other Canadians to make your living for you, that’s called enabling.
Exactly,she doesn't want a job and is one of the most entitled people I think I,ve ever seen. She seems to think the taxpayers should design and build her a luxury treehouse to live in for free while she lays around and does nothing,oh I forgot she,s an artist,lol.These people are the biggest scammers out there. .
Her room at the Sally Ann was nice; clean, safe, warm....and a lot more than others have and would give anything to have. Why didn't she try to find even a part time job to get back into the work force and to slowly save up? Her "dream" of living in a tree house is not the least bit realistic. Does she think someone is just going to offer her a fully equipped tree house for free? IMO she did nothing to help herself.
I agree, got a weird vibe from her . She is doing & saying what the interviewer wants to hear but not necessarily wants to do or really believe herself.
My understanding of the housing crisis is that aside from much of it being turned into short term accom like Air BnB, REIT ETF’s as a real estate investment means giant corporations are buying up entire apartment buildings and raising rents exorbitantly. They literally drive people to homelessness. Housing needs to stop being financialized. It should be a basic human right just as healthcare should be. My heart goes out to the many displaced people struggling to survive. God bless.
@7:43 that's poor sweet woman has refused to give up her Rings which makes me believe that their heirlooms or of great sentimental value!!!!! and it's really really hard to live like her and hold on to anything worth money I respect that woman so much!!!!
Don't do drugs. Unfortunate you can't trust them with work, housing, or behaving properly when in groups.... they will always let you down and sell their own mother for a fix. I guess that's why the empathy is just low. Good luck to them!
You know a lot of people got addicted by legal medications prescribed by doctors, right? Do you actually know that? That's how the opioid crisis started. Right around the time it was ramping up, Alberta - astonishingly - decided to close down AADAC, so people couldn't get help to get off them, then rents started (needlessly) rising. Stop blaming victims for their circumstances.
Life is for the living. Any bleeding heart who says some generic 'you don't know what it's like in their shoes' Most homeless Canadians have mental health/substance abuse challenges. If your not independently wealthy, you have to work. Period. It's cold outside, work. Then go home to warm house.
This is difficult to watch , and it’s getting worse each year . More folks falling through the cracks. Praying for all of those affected. Praying for change within the systems in place.
Its estimated 45% of homeless Canadians are disabled and/or mentally ill. They can't afford to rent anywhere and affordable housing waitlists are a decade long.
This is THE comment. 🙏🏻 I got clean, sober, and rehabilitated, and I still almost ended up on the street. Getting from where I was in my addiction to having the assistance needed to get on my feet took immense self advocacy, the help of my family doctor, and a social worker plus so much more. If one of those things faltered even for one month, I would have been on the streets and never been able to get out. Not everyone's story falls into place like mine did. I wish more people could understand how hard it is to exist with disabilities/ mental illness.
They did open both Rexall and Northlands for a couple of years then closed it. Because of the filthy condition. They live in their own waste. So Edmonton said no more
I was 17 years old and homeless in Edmonton . Was homeless November 1968 in ( minus 30 F ) winter weather . There was no place to go to for help at that time . I was on my own . The worst part was avoiding the Police , At that time I would have been thrown in jail for being a vagrant or put into a mental institution . When I realized I was going to die of exposure , out of desperation , I went to a Canadian Armed Forces Recruiting Centre on 103 st and 103 ave. . Much to my relief I was accepted into the Military . I survived the impossible 😊
@@VeryMerryLou The brutality of my father . Got away from the severe whipping and beatings He would go into fits of rage over what amounted to nothing When he told me he was going to kill me , I left with the clothes on my back I was own my own
@@Another-Address If people support themselves but want to be an addict that's up to them.When you expect the taxpayers to prop you up because of addiction that's not ok.Big difference man
This is officially a world where I can work. Not have a substance abuse addiction at all. And my family and I? Are now on the verge of homelessness.. and people still have the audacity to be commenting here as if it’s only heads that end up here and it’s all their fault. Based on their poor life choices.. people really have no idea that it’s even people who work, make all the best choices they can and don’t have substance abuse problems. We are literally on the verge of ending up in the same position. And no. The help and resources aren’t there, they are maxed out! And over whelmed. You guys are really not getting it.. they need to talk to more people like me. Only? My family will just be attacked and bullied for speaking out and telling the truth. That’s crazy!
Absolutely right. My son may be out of a home shortly due to rising rent coupled with all the other rising costs. He works overtime every work week, does not do drugs & hopefully will not get mental health issues due to constant money stress. I am not in a position to help him financially & that hurts.
We need to take a housing first approach or these people will continue the cycle. Not saying let them do as they please as they please but be more understanding and compassionate obout relapses.. it's worked in other countries. We need to deal with the cause of the addiction or things will never change
Why pay taxes as a generational Canadian when you are last on the list and all tax money goes to others and things that do nothing to bring generational Canadians out of poverty?
I am Kimberley Robertson, and STILL HOMELESS. Nevermind the incredible amount of hell added onto the already horrible list of events plaguing me and many others... No one would believe the things in the way of me getting ahead at this time. It's been a year and I'm trying to get word out about this traumatic and dangerous list of problems facing me a this time..I pray for a resolution.
👏Well Done! 👏 I am at HOPE myself, and yup, Kim's back, but don't give up "hope" on her! I've watched homeless over 10 years now and it seems like the amount of time you spend IN homelessness is the same amount it takes you to get OUT. Many runs at it must be made, but each time they go a bit further until they reach their dream.
No one will rent to an addict. They destroy everything. They need to kick the habit with some help and then maybe they will get clean and find a better life. Courts need to come down harder on the drug dealers and organized crime groups that control and peddle drugs to these people
let's be honest she's her own worst enemy . as a society we should try to help these people as much as we can but we can only do so much. to quote her own words ( I was happier on the streets ) look living in a treehouse not having to work and having everything paid for sounds lovely. unfortunately it's not realistic so where does our responsibility begin and end. ?
Canada's shame. Alberta's shame. All of this was preventable. There's no good reason a single person should be on the streets. Blame slumlords. Blame rentiers. Blame speculators. Blame our 40% of Members of Parliament who are rentiers and speculators. Blame Edmonton City Council that still refuses to ban whole-home absentee 'host' airbnbs. Blame all the "mom & pop" landlords who deliberately let their "investment properties" sit empty so they can get manipulate supply/demand and claim another tax-writeoff. Blame developers who hold municipalities hostage by threatening to not-build anything if rent-controls are implemented. Blame everyone who says we need only "build more housing!" while ignoring that few if any new builds are affordable. Blame the Bank of Canada for manipulating interest rates that encourage rentiers to buy more property than they need, and push low-income homeowners into negative amortizations and foreclosure when they're raised again. Have your heard "Canada Is Spending 75% of Its Forecast Deficit To Prop Up Mortgages" (Better Dwelling) rather than just admitting the policies they created were a disaster, the debt-bubble is real, the housing bubble is real, the economy is NOT "OK", and just allowing this giant Ponzi scheme we call Canadian real estate to pop into oblivion once and for all? Stupid stupid shelters that boot people out for hours - for what purpose?! For evidence that simply "building more!" will NOT increase affordability or "solve the housing crisis", read "Sick City" (2021), by UBC Prof & Urban Designer Patrick Condon. For years he insisted we need only "build more housing" to restore housing affordability, but he now admits he was dead wrong, and that only "non-market" housing can save us. The book can be downloaded as free PDF from his website "justicelandandthecity".
@@tedlivermore6955 And who exactly is going to give homeless people a job? Who's going to hire them when they can't even bathe? You with your endless altruism?
@@thimblemunch24 you got it backwards. Some homeless are there by their (bad) choices, but these days the vast majority are not. They are there solely because the rent is too damn high. The mental illness, addictions and criminal elements usually *follow*.
Meanwhile, Sohi is the highest paid Mayor in Canada. He gets an annual salary that is higher than the Premier of Alberta. Shame on Edmonton's Mayor Sohi.
Some people want to be rid of them by not helping them. The problem is there will always be poor people just like there will always be sickness. By helping them, we protect our city from diseases and crime. Most faiths require we assist them.🙏
@@Malinxa-k7b I,d last longer than any of them because I,m tougher.Try getting up and going to work every,that's hard to do. None of them are tough enough to do it,they d rather lay around and get high all day.
Giving up is not the same as fighting a battle. They gave up. They didn't see a point to continue fighting. I mean why would they? they fought so hard just to get the bare minimum that everybody else gets so easily. If Only They had the bare minimum and they were able to use that same effort into thriving instead of surviving they would have passed all of us in life. let's be honest they come from the toughest of situations. & to me that makes the strongest soldiers.@@tedlivermore6955
They mention home ed, but they don’t mention how stringent they are. They aren’t just a call away. Getting help from what used to be capital region housing is like pulling teeth. All this money but so much bureaucracy and red tape to get that help. It’s pathetic.
However they are choosing drugs over anything else in their life....if they are choosing that...then they are where they want to be. Hard to have empathy for that.
@9:25 all the black people know where to get a list for housing and exactly what time you need to be there to get it tha Ts a fact!! I got denied for food stamps one time!!!! One of my black homegirls called Social Services for me and got a phone interview she didn't even have to go to the office and I got my food stamp card in the mail 5 days later because she pretended to be me!!!!!!
Kimberly I would love to have a meal and a conversation with you. I am also needing a haircut so you could make some much needed money. How can I get in contact with you?
I am native. No support or anything education and no knowledge of modern society. I came here in 2008. Thrown onto the streets of deadmonton. After a month, I got a job and an apartment. J was arrested many times for being native and lost my house and job and had to start all over. Over and over. The help I got from the homeless was enough to thrive. They know what to do to survive. I met a group of native man and showed them that theh are superior to the white man and they went homeless to business owners in 2 years. I am now a home owner and a business owner. I have made young natuve people go from homeless to business owners. You can interview them and make a movie about them.
If we take 1% of the money that governments piss away everyone could have a place. We are all being taxed to death anyway so why not set aside a certain amount of tax money for that. Everyone should have a safe place to stay especially in the winter months. I found out that for every person in the shelters they charge $1100.00 per person every night. This is why they have to leave every morning by 8am. So when they come back later that night they can charge another $1100.00 per person. This is what the millionaire owners charge the government. So we tax payers are footing the bill anyway.
I'm not sure if it's just me...I'm thinking drugs are not free or cheap. I don't know how anyone can afford substance abuse. Many sad stories for sure.
As expensive as they are to acquire. You can make a lot of money off them, really easily, all the same.. also adds to crime because people get desperate and that’s why a lot of crime happens. Also not just because of drugs but high costs of living and people getting desperate..
There is nothing in this report that causes me to feel more empathetic and understanding towards the homeless. These people are disorganized and irresponsible. They are worse than young children that have to be lead across the street by the hand, that have to be told to clean up their toys, and that have to be told when to go to bed and when to get up. They cast off and disregard structure, rules, and authority at every turn, yet want the stable, comfortable lives that are only made possible by structure, rules, and authority. It is a sad indictment of one's character and priorities when he needs to pause an interview in order to smoke meth. Meth heads have no knowledge and no perspectives that are helpful to society. The meth heads need to get over themselves and stop doing things their way, after all, they are not Frank Sinatra.
Global I see it took you less than 10min to delete my comment re: Vancouver... Ill keave it again every hour on the hour. State Run media/propaganda pretending to have a heart, but refusing to recognize 2 core issues. Or allowing a comment about them. SOCIALIST Governments deisgn of LEGALIZED DRUGS IN VANCOUVER HAVE MURDERED MANY and ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAJORITY OF HOMELESSNESS ... Refuse to recognize the cause the housing market quadrupling every couple years.... IT IS FOREIGN OWNERSHIP FROM A SPECIFIC COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. THE SAME COUNTRY PROVIDES THE PRECURSORS OF FENTANYL FOR THE CARTELS DOWN SOUTH THIS COUNTRY'S TEENAGERS DRIVE Lamborghini's, High end BMWS and Mercedes, live in Multi million dollar homes in Vancouver off the backs of Canadian Citizens, while their parents remain in that specific country of origin. All easy to look the FACTS I say everyone...
You can get to such a bad point in your life that any improvement chances are unlikely and, even worse, anyone who tries to help you will not only fail but be harmed in the process. At that point you're cursed in a sense and could even pass your curse on to others, like a drowning person pulling a lifeguard under the water with them.
its unbelieveable to me how much avail for free dr ug use and drug even now in Bc,. i never thought i would live to see the govt supply anything like this!! im a recovering addict myself, so i know the choke hold it has on a person. Sublocade is what saves my life. why aint the govt giving them that instead of anything else! ?? people think their jobs wont be gone. and they wont ever be in position like that! rude awakening coming for many!!! Tahoe.
Demand a house yet they sit around on government assistance refusing to get a job? Yeah no, these people need to stop spending their money on drugs and get it together.
ALMOST a great piece. Ole Kimberley, you show her getting housing(which is awesome), show her drawing, writing, doing whatever that is to her hair, buy look for a job?? God forbid!!🙄. And again just so disappointing, I feel like showing her filling out applications or going on an interview towards the end would have totally changed the tone for the better.
Are there waiting lists for housing at Aboriginal reserves? Addiction, while difficult, is an excuse that simply doesn't make a life better. Yes I have been homeless.
Get mental hospitals open again. Make rent and housing a canadian born first. Then others. And if you wont get help or try sorry cant throw more money and drugs at problem to fix it
Isn't there a bridge you normally reside under? Or are you indifferent to the suffering of others and understanding that actually anyone can face this type of predicament when they're in such a horrible heartless capitalistic society that has no care for the common good? You could easily end up in that position yourself one day. Wouldn't it actually had helping hands in our society in case you actually God forbid one day will end up in that circumstance?
My working full time son is unable to keep up with rising rental costs as well as all other costs. Never has anything left over & has no addiction issues.
Our stories are varied and always different. [Most] seem to share common ground in drugs and booze, but some (mine) are stories of intentional displacement by policy.
I find your ignorance rather disturbing or cruelty depending on how much you know about the psychology concerning chemical addictions in life. One doesn't simply will one's out of these things that's why AA has absolutely abysmal success rate because it's not about willpower it's about actual mental health and ensuring someone actually has a healthy environment in which to be once they have a healthy environment it actually becomes much easier to kick these habits but if they're in a stressful circumstance like these people. Once a positive environment is there it's actually rather easy for people to shake these problems so that's why when you look at problem places like Finland which actually has now a policy of housing people first they actually have drug problems that are receding from their society. So it's pretty obvious it in that case then that the first thing that we need to do is actually establish stable housing and then you can deal with those other problems that you wish to deal with -- That's not dealing with it in that order is inherently counterproductive as we can see by our own approach here my God. Maybe next time don't resort to such an oversimplification yes One would probably make the argument of okam's razor the all things beig equal the simplest explanation is usually the right one but the simplest explanation that doesn't belie the complexities of whatever is you're examining.
Someone please ask Global News this question..When Canadians work lets say 20yrs or more and the person passes away..What's happens to their tax dollars that they paid into the system go..And what does the Canadian government do with the taxes you paid all those years
Well no one gets their tax dollars back but their CPP benefits would go to their next of kin orif let's say they owed money to child maintenance then it would go to their kids IF they filled their taxes. So ultimately if they didn't file their taxes then CPP is never given. Everything else is government money.
I came here to say to the ones suffering, you ARE important. We DO care. We just don't know how to tackle this tough problem. I feel sorry for you guys. I try and help when i can but am on aish myself. My mind goes over horror stories that could play out. Please try and show us some respect and hopefully people will warm up and stop hating on you guys. 😢
We have an abundance of social programs to help them. Most come with 1 requirement. Stop getting drunk and high. If you're homeless in Canada you got there by your own crappy choices, and you renain there by your own crappy choices.
Sadly we do not have robust services. There's many folks that fall through the cracks, and the services are getting even scarcer. This isn't limited to our homeless community members but all folks needing economic, health (including mental health) services. Wait lists are out of control and what's happening now with younger populations are going to create future unwell adults who may experience addictions. It's a myth that folks can immediately access services. It's wonderful when it happens but barriers are increasing.
Homeless is a broad spectrum and it annoys me that we almost always see this programs of the street homeless as representative of homeless. Living in cars, RV's. I also want to see an expose of what it's like in an actual shelter by a few residents who go there on a longer term basis. Just to see how dangerous it really is - so say the street homeless...
@@elizabethklein7073 They wont do that,it doesn't fit the narrative that all these leftist shows want people to believe.And it works because a lot of people believe this nonsense.
Sorry not to judge.... But lulu Lemon AND "charging a cell phone" on a "poor and out" kinda looses it's impact.wjay cell carrier is FREE????!!!!! And YES Ive been homeless, addicted and been the worst me i could be....
I actually recognize Kimberly, I used to work at Lucky 97 Supermarket and I'd see her come in every so often. She wouldn't buy anything major, just a bag of candy. Now that I know her and her story, I can say that if I see her, I'm buying her something warm and telling her that this stranger is thankful she's around and thriving despite being unhoused.
Thanks 🙏
❤
Who cares
@ A lot of people, actually. More than will ever care about you 🙂
@@Taco1011 who gives a crap
2 years ago I was homeless for 11 months. The summertime was the most freedom I have ever experienced.. and I will always treasure the mindfulness that homelessness taught me. I can relate to every one of these stories. The struggle of loneliness, navigating the system to get into housing, the stigmatization and living day to day. I was fortunate enough to get into my own apartment, and get my daughter back into my custody. I hope that one day we are able to get everyone into safe affordable housing.
I almost died when I was pregnant , I was sleeping under a bridge just a few roads over from Whyte Avenue. A peace officer woke me up, if he hadn't I don't think me and my 4 year old son would be here today . I was homeless on and off in Edmonton since I was about 14 . It's really hard to get off the streets . Really hard.
Happy for you and your son and bless that peace officer
I hope everything goes well for you and your child. Never give up hope, be strong.
I wish Kimberly, Leanne, Troy and Adam the very best, and I hope they can find housing, peace and joy❤
What about work? If you didn't work could you keep your housing ?
Who says they are not working ? Most jobs require that you have a fixed address to even be considered for hiring. That's why "Housing First" exists @user-pf1qx3hh4y if you expect people to work, they need some place to go back to afterward, I.e. a home. Can you imagine trying to work while also having to search for shelter every single night? And then be expected to show up at work on time the next day? It's unreasonable/unrealistic for someone in that circumstance
Australia is in a rental crisis, I've been homeless for a year, I've not been on the street luckily but I know what real survival mode is, and how life becomes so small
I m french from the Montreal area been trucking for 35 years and 10 of those years were from Edmonton, AB. on a normal winter many days are -30c and colder ! i can t imagine being outside for more than 15 min.! rent is so expensive you need to have a really good pay to afford it ! I couldn t even afford it as a trucker. i had to pay my chevy silverado 600 $ a month , 170$ for my storage room were all my belongings are, still paying that to this day ! ya !so i was living in motels on my days off. The rest of the time i was staying in the truck ! God bless those homeless ! one day at a time struggling the elements !
Edmonton winters are brutal 😢
You don't need a Silverado, you need a place to live a rental places, don't buy what you can't afford buddy.
@@Staycoolproduction Not having a place to live was because I was trucking long distance all the time, why would i get an appartment when i m never there ? and the silverado was to carry my snowmobile ! ! I ve been trucking coast to coast in Canada for 35 years, Living in trucks. Now i m retired and home all the time ! I live in Quebec. I was in Edmonton for the jobs, not for living there ! ! thanks for reading my comment ! stay safe, bye ! 😎
God bless the couple that is carrying around Noloxone and trying to help those that need it. They are such a beautiful example of giving of yourself even when you have very little to give.
As a Canadian, I feel really sad for our country so called a rich country ! Our governement and society let down those citizens homeless
Just like you and me these people make their own choices, we all face challenges and the only difference is how we react, do not feel sad for them.
SELF PROCLAIMED A FREE AND RICH COUNTRY ONLY.
Not really. Some of the homeless let themselves down.
@@Revolution13878V You may end up eating those words one day.
@@Revolution13878V
Nobody chose $700K avg home prices in Canada at 7% interest.
$2000 for a 1 bedroom just reported on the news in Edmonton right now!
It's disgusting. The parasitic landlords love that people are swarming here from BC & Ontario, and won't be happy until they can charge just as high rents.
We use to have rent control but Doug Ford removed it for all his income property owning friends.
That just messed up everything for people to rent a decent place to live. Rent control worked for the people.
@@glenncurley680 none in Alberta at all. It's brutal. And the developers hold municipalities hostage, simply refusing to build anywhere rent controls are implemented, or if they're required to build a % of 'non-market' affordable units. Some get hundreds of thousands in gov't subsidies to do upgrades/repairs and then turn around and raise the rents anyway (e.g. search the ACORN campaign against Avenue Living right now). I don't know how this isn't viewed as classic anti-trust/price-fixing behaviour. It's criminal.
@@RigmorTalonbeard you & I both know that is absolute nonsense. While it used to be that way, generally-speaking, in the past 10 years small "investors" have been tripping over each other trying to "get in the game" of "landlording" so they can milk the tenant cash-cow as much as they can, especially in jurisdictions like NB & AB where there are zero rent-controls. Absolute parasites. Don't even get me started on all the foreign money launderers and mortgage-fraudsters. Tell me how the "landlord" in Brampton who packed 25 - TWENTY-FIVE - students into one apartment is "only charging what they need to". I'll wait.
@@RigmorTalonbeardabsolute hogwash. Landlords are parasites. They could be reasonable but aren't made to so they aren't. They are only in it for quick profits. Housing crisis is a different crime. Oil companies are the top of the food chain as always but we can't blame them of course. They're saints.
I'm a red seal journeyman working and I used to have some disposable income to help with my mental health, to enjoy a hockey game with my son, go bowling or eat somewhere... Those days are long gone and the gross expenditures of the federal government and insane taxes have me barely making it paycheck to paycheck.. and work is now drying up as lower paid new Canadians "sub contractors" are taking all the work ... Politicians use the struggle as a political football
The government are trying to make everyone poor. It makes no sense.
Many of the ‘new Canadians’ are just temporary Canadians looking to cash in on the exchange rate.
The Filipinos I work w will retire better than most any of their Canadian coworkers. They can buy a house back home for $30K. That isn’t even half a down payment on the average detached home in Calgary.
Could try working in Fort Mac. Journeyman are in demand, especially in the oil and gas field. Hell, to add on to this, some are even bringing in councilors to talk to while your there.
Adam & I used to volunteer at The Mustard Seed church together. Such great memories & laughs
I don't understand how a solution for homelessness through government created employment hasn't been considered. Why can't they create an ethical labor industry that anyone who is unhoused can apply for and then receive a basic place to live, food and a bit of spending money as they get on their feet and enter a rehab program if need be? If they don't want to work for their housing (obviously excluding those who medically cannot), then I don't see why there should be enormous tax payer funding towards systems that obviously aren't making that much of a difference to solve the problem.
The government already can’t afford our existing programs, and they aren’t known for getting value for their dollar.
The majority don’t want to work and just want to live with no responsibilities, able to use and drain resources. It’s a conscious choice. Those who want to get better have the resources necessary to do so.
@@smsmsm33434that is so not true! I’m on the verge of homelessness with my family. I don’t have a substance abuse problem. I work. And no. There is no helpful resources available to us.. we’re lucky to be where we are right now. But even this? Is not a permanent and or helpful solution. You are severely misinformed..
Open the temporary foreign worker program for Canadians. It's government subsidized already. I'm paying taxes to lose jobs to them. It's getting sickening.
Thank all of you for sharing your stories with us.
😢🙏 ❤
I lived on the streets of Edmonton during the winter months and I thought many times that I wasn’t going to wake up. -48 with the windchill so damn cold and I was 3 months pregnant to boot.! Never ever want to be in that place again!
So sad we have this problem here in Canada
And one can slip in to this problem so easily
It's all over - any where real estate moguls have inflated rents to unaffordable levels.
Its hard to make wise choices when all the options are crap
It's not an excuse to encourage drug use.
@@Tidaltwistyou’re focused on the wrong part of the problem.. making you equally part of the problem..
It's hard to go to work when you don't want to. I just drove down mainst I saw like 30 of em drinking broad daylight. they just want the handouts they don't wanna work for em.
@@danc2159 you don’t know that. A lot of these people? Don’t start out being where they are. They are where they are, suffering like they are with the battles they have. Because at a point? They did try. And it just was never working out for them. They weren’t as strong as some people to keep on pushing and going. They gave up!
I’m not even one of them. I don’t care to say I’m a bleeding heart either.. but I’ve raised and supported a family through these economies for some time now and I’m older, knowledgeable and educated and aware of these lack of and failing resources. Everyone pushes everyone blindly to go to our glorious governments for help. Assuming.. the governments will take care of it, always. Take care of these people enough? To the point. They should no longer be where they are.
But the FACT! You all seem to be missing entirely? Is that they do not actually end up helping anyone enough! I would KNOW! I have been in circumstances before? Where everyone sent me to them for help and then they FAILED ME! And could not help me! And now in this day? You ask anyone with any real knowledge in the field and work? Of being who’s supposed to help these people? And they’ll even say and point out. They are maxed out! Overwhelmed. And they can not provide enough to help everyone. Too bad. We’re all on our own. What do you in really expect people to do at that point? They get desperate! And this is how crime raises! Because people are desperate and no is helping them enough!
The point you are all clearly not getting!!!!
Max rent for a single person on disability benefits is $500/mth out of the total $1249/mth and OW is less. Then people wonder why we have so many homeless people 😢
Finland solved this. Housing first! then they can deal with the issues through social workers. Tiny homes aren't expensive. Make a village. They just need a small space. Unfortunately, homelessness is a business. Lots of people gain from it
This!
Where is the government going to get money to build everybody houses?
Great idea but we have a way larger homeless problem than Finland ever did. Population of Finland 5.5 million. Population of Canada 39.1 million. I agree its a great solution. Now we need to apply our energy to raising funding.
We as compassionate people need to figure it out cause our goverment is not going to do much obviously. What happened to those days when we all looked out for each other?
Why is everything the government's fault? The onus is on us as well as government. Unfortunately we have more people judging these people than helping. It costs no money to be nice to someone.
@@lotstosayalways
Because those people haven't done much to improve their own situations along with the help enabling them to stay where they are.
Hello Leanne and Troy.. my heart goes out to you both..
God bless.
I have spoken with many seniors living in affordable housing (apartments) that the city has turned into affordable housing for homeless: it’s a nightmare for them. The drug use, prostitution, it’s extremely dangerous, it gets dirty and out of control quickly…. It causes properties to lose value, which is a huge blow to anyone to owns a unit. I have empathy for these people, my own brother was extremely close to this life… I will say, there’s no solution for them until the drug use is addressed. You can’t have a happy, fruitful life slamming dope or high on meth. It wasn’t until my brother quit using, got help, and cleaned up and got a job that he began really living: now he has a common law wife and a child, he’s happier and more importantly clean.
Edmonton has a drug problem: period.
As someone who has experienced homelessness I pray for you all and I love you
They can house criminals for years on end but can't take the time to house addicts against their "will" until they get clean and have the mindset refocused by emotional and mental health help.. If one does not show any recovery than house them in a clean environment where they are fed, cleaned and eventually they'll come around.. They do it with criminals not sure why they can't do it with addicts and emotional broken people..
@488ci definitely did and not for the better.
No kidding. And I looked up the jail systems in Canada, and they seem to be really good. All the benefits of programs for the incarcerated, education, visits, cheerful and bright facilities, at least for the minimum security members which was what these addicts would be, I assume. It would be so much safer for the chronic street addicts and the general public.
@488cisomething changed already. Socialist governments.
Ask Vancouver how legalising hard drugs has went... In fact you can find it in TH-cam to see for yourself.
It's "The Walking Dead" live in HD, while millionaires teenagers of a certain specific country where the hard drugs are manufactured before they are sent to the Cartels...
Drive Lamborghini's and 250k BMWs/ Mercedes, and live in multi million dollar homes that only they can afford. Showing off the avails of living off Canadian citizens suffering.
I'm not wrong.
that their parents back in the home country of origin buy for them***
@@Oo-Pitbull-oO are you referring that there is a higher percentage of Foreigners in our Country living on the streets and are the actual addicts?
Anyone who abuses drugs or alcohol to the point that it prevents them from finding work should not expect society's help until they have committed to trying to get clean.
I didnt read your comment correctly first time around so deleted my comnents. Your idea is a good one
Precursors such as the often overlooked PTSD and C-PTSD, those are precursors. We must show empathy to such delicate framework of the human condition, not everyone is as sheltered in life or with a determination to be viewed as being stoic towards the consideration of precursors. Shellshock related to various forms of injuries occurs, these are shoved through the cracks. If depression is a element of PTSD related cognitive challenges, or multi generational concerns that often resulted in a person finding themselves living with PTSD and possibly secondary physical challenges directly related. Are you suggesting sociopathy is more powerful than empathy though, based on your willingness to try to direct society awat from empathy, when empathy choses to not overlook the elemental precursors of the affected individuals?
Perspective understood can help people who are cognitively disabled away from empathy, to grow empathy, even to the point of apology for previously overlooking core concerns of precursors.
Addictions we see in many forms.
I'm so happy people are able to use the hope mission, I was able to have a temporary job to help clean and build part of it.
The addictions are a problem . No one wants to rent to them .
They are fit speak well why can't they get jobs!!!
@@isay207 Because the jobs that are left go to our new guests, while Canadians get passed over. Get it? That's Trudeau's Canada.
@isay207 where do they leave their belongings? You have to have an address to get employment in most places. Shower and change for work? Easy to say but nor easy.
That's not the issue it's more complicated.
These people don't have wallets or ID's. How can you get a ID with no address?
Then how can you even get a job or apartment with no ID?
See the catch 21 the government put out decades ago that catches homeless in the loop yet?
@@isay207 do you think they want jobs?
So Kimberly got housing, yes it’s not ideal but it’s a step in the right direction. So why now has she still not went job searching. Maybe if she got herself a job instead of spending her days inside a statue, more options would be available to her. At the end of the day, you have to want to help yourself. You can’t rely on other Canadians to make your living for you, that’s called enabling.
Exactly,she doesn't want a job and is one of the most entitled people I think I,ve ever seen.
She seems to think the taxpayers should design and build her a luxury treehouse to live in for free while she lays around and does nothing,oh I forgot she,s an artist,lol.These people are the biggest scammers out there.
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Her room at the Sally Ann was nice; clean, safe, warm....and a lot more than others have and would give anything to have. Why didn't she try to find even a part time job to get back into the work force and to slowly save up? Her "dream" of living in a tree house is not the least bit realistic. Does she think someone is just going to offer her a fully equipped tree house for free? IMO she did nothing to help herself.
Don’t judge what you don’t know.
@@river8760 We all know her very well,she s the same as the rest of them , lazy.
I agree, got a weird vibe from her . She is doing & saying what the interviewer wants to hear but not necessarily wants to do or really believe herself.
My understanding of the housing crisis is that aside from much of it being turned into short term accom like Air BnB, REIT ETF’s as a real estate investment means giant corporations are buying up entire apartment buildings and raising rents exorbitantly. They literally drive people to homelessness. Housing needs to stop being financialized. It should be a basic human right just as healthcare should be. My heart goes out to the many displaced people struggling to survive. God bless.
Hurts when family is on verge of homelessness & not able to help because of low resources.
Thanks to government bureaucracy making long-term renting unviable.
I wish we could find a solution to this. No one should have to live like this. Substances are a crutch. Lots of damaged people out there.
Damaged for the sake of "civilization".
@7:43 that's poor sweet woman has refused to give up her Rings which makes me believe that their heirlooms or of great sentimental value!!!!! and it's really really hard to live like her and hold on to anything worth money I respect that woman so much!!!!
fent and rent do not mix
True, I know this! I stopped the fent tho ... thankfully. Seems this problem in Edmonton is virtually same as kelowna.
But crime and time give you a roof over your head
Don't do drugs. Unfortunate you can't trust them with work, housing, or behaving properly when in groups.... they will always let you down and sell their own mother for a fix. I guess that's why the empathy is just low. Good luck to them!
You know a lot of people got addicted by legal medications prescribed by doctors, right? Do you actually know that? That's how the opioid crisis started. Right around the time it was ramping up, Alberta - astonishingly - decided to close down AADAC, so people couldn't get help to get off them, then rents started (needlessly) rising. Stop blaming victims for their circumstances.
Sadly, a lot of these people end up addicted as a result of being homeless. Not always, but it often happens...
Life is for the living.
Any bleeding heart who says some generic 'you don't know what it's like in their shoes'
Most homeless Canadians have mental health/substance abuse challenges.
If your not independently wealthy, you have to work. Period.
It's cold outside, work. Then go home to warm house.
This is difficult to watch , and it’s getting worse each year . More folks falling through the cracks. Praying for all of those affected. Praying for change within the systems in place.
This is beyond sad...💔🥺
Its estimated 45% of homeless Canadians are disabled and/or mentally ill. They can't afford to rent anywhere and affordable housing waitlists are a decade long.
This is THE comment. 🙏🏻 I got clean, sober, and rehabilitated, and I still almost ended up on the street. Getting from where I was in my addiction to having the assistance needed to get on my feet took immense self advocacy, the help of my family doctor, and a social worker plus so much more. If one of those things faltered even for one month, I would have been on the streets and never been able to get out. Not everyone's story falls into place like mine did. I wish more people could understand how hard it is to exist with disabilities/ mental illness.
😢I lived in Edmonton for 7 years. 2003-2009. 20 years ago you could rent a nice 2 bedroom apartment for 800-1000
The root is mental illness, then drug addiction. You can’t solve the homelessness issues without solving these issues first.
There are over 100 million homeless people in China, although there are unfinished apartments enough to house 1.4 billion people in the country.
You gotta remember there is 2.2 billion people living there.. Canada has 1.2 million.
evidence?
@@Bilgewatercommie?
How much money did you get posting this?
This is Canada. Who cares?
Build rehabs first and then house the successful applicants.
I’m on the verge of homeless with my family and I don’t even have a substance abuse problem or addiction..
@@srealone788Son works overtime every work week but does not earn enough & to survive rising rent, food & other costs. On the edge of eviction.
Should use rexall place for them in the winter
**Daryl Katz has entered the chat** 😮
Too dangerous. No agency wants to take on that due to the layout of the building
They did open both Rexall and Northlands for a couple of years then closed it. Because of the filthy condition. They live in their own waste. So Edmonton said no more
We need to stop enabling people like this. We are taking money from the middle class and throwing it into the burn pit of addiction.
Not all homes are addicted.
@@keilana6
But many are.
They were originally going to do "Surviving Winnipeg" but quickly remembered it would be the mission of no return
I was 17 years old and homeless in Edmonton . Was homeless November 1968 in ( minus 30 F ) winter weather .
There was no place to go to for help at that time . I was on my own . The worst part was avoiding the Police ,
At that time I would have been thrown in jail for being a vagrant or put into a mental institution .
When I realized I was going to die of exposure , out of desperation , I went to a Canadian Armed Forces Recruiting Centre
on 103 st and 103 ave. . Much to my relief I was accepted into the Military . I survived the impossible 😊
Happy to hear a success story ❤ What drove you to homelessness in the first place? Just curious here....
@@VeryMerryLou The brutality of my father . Got away from the severe whipping and beatings
He would go into fits of rage over what amounted to nothing
When he told me he was going to kill me , I left with the clothes on my back
I was own my own
@@BlueSky-eb7ru God bless and loves you 🙏 Thanks for your service to the country, sir.
Lol, they are looking for stability while doing drugs?
Yep and we're supposed to feel sorry for them,nah
@@Another-Address If people support themselves but want to be an addict that's up to them.When you expect the taxpayers to prop you up because of addiction that's not ok.Big difference man
It's hard to imagine a harsher major city to live in if homeless than Edmonton.
Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and to an extent, Montreal.
This is officially a world where I can work. Not have a substance abuse addiction at all. And my family and I? Are now on the verge of homelessness.. and people still have the audacity to be commenting here as if it’s only heads that end up here and it’s all their fault. Based on their poor life choices.. people really have no idea that it’s even people who work, make all the best choices they can and don’t have substance abuse problems. We are literally on the verge of ending up in the same position. And no. The help and resources aren’t there, they are maxed out! And over whelmed. You guys are really not getting it.. they need to talk to more people like me. Only? My family will just be attacked and bullied for speaking out and telling the truth. That’s crazy!
Absolutely right. My son may be out of a home shortly due to rising rent coupled with all the other rising costs. He works overtime every work week, does not do drugs & hopefully will not get mental health issues due to constant money stress. I am not in a position to help him financially & that hurts.
Strong lady and she never gave up 😊
We need to take a housing first approach or these people will continue the cycle. Not saying let them do as they please as they please but be more understanding and compassionate obout relapses.. it's worked in other countries. We need to deal with the cause of the addiction or things will never change
It feels me to see this... yet we send all this money to Ukraine..it doesnt matter if some are on drugs or not..were still humans..
That isnt what HMK's staff says!!
Ukraine is defending democracy and the free world not drug addicts we pay for rehab and as soon as theyre out back at it again
There's money for Ukraine and Hamas except for the local people , this country needs to change government the sooner the better.
@@isay207 how have we benefited from Ukraine?
@FreedaPeeple-in2mn i live in Toronto where the majority of unhoused that live in the tents arent immigrants
Why pay taxes as a generational Canadian when you are last on the list and all tax money goes to others and things that do nothing to bring generational Canadians out of poverty?
Indeed
I am Kimberley Robertson, and STILL HOMELESS. Nevermind the incredible amount of hell added onto the already horrible list of events plaguing me and many others... No one would believe the things in the way of me getting ahead at this time. It's been a year and I'm trying to get word out about this traumatic and dangerous list of problems facing me a this time..I pray for a resolution.
👏Well Done! 👏
I am at HOPE myself, and yup, Kim's back, but don't give up "hope" on her!
I've watched homeless over 10 years now and it seems like the amount of time you spend IN homelessness is the same amount it takes you to get OUT.
Many runs at it must be made, but each time they go a bit further until they reach their dream.
No one will rent to an addict. They destroy everything. They need to kick the habit with some help and then maybe they will get clean and find a better life. Courts need to come down harder on the drug dealers and organized crime groups that control and peddle drugs to these people
let's be honest she's her own worst enemy . as a society we should try to help these people as much as we can but we can only do so much. to quote her own words ( I was happier on the streets ) look living in a treehouse not having to work and having everything paid for sounds lovely. unfortunately it's not realistic so where does our responsibility begin and end. ?
Canada's shame. Alberta's shame. All of this was preventable. There's no good reason a single person should be on the streets. Blame slumlords. Blame rentiers. Blame speculators. Blame our 40% of Members of Parliament who are rentiers and speculators. Blame Edmonton City Council that still refuses to ban whole-home absentee 'host' airbnbs. Blame all the "mom & pop" landlords who deliberately let their "investment properties" sit empty so they can get manipulate supply/demand and claim another tax-writeoff. Blame developers who hold municipalities hostage by threatening to not-build anything if rent-controls are implemented. Blame everyone who says we need only "build more housing!" while ignoring that few if any new builds are affordable. Blame the Bank of Canada for manipulating interest rates that encourage rentiers to buy more property than they need, and push low-income homeowners into negative amortizations and foreclosure when they're raised again. Have your heard "Canada Is Spending 75% of Its Forecast Deficit To Prop Up Mortgages" (Better Dwelling) rather than just admitting the policies they created were a disaster, the debt-bubble is real, the housing bubble is real, the economy is NOT "OK", and just allowing this giant Ponzi scheme we call Canadian real estate to pop into oblivion once and for all? Stupid stupid shelters that boot people out for hours - for what purpose?!
For evidence that simply "building more!" will NOT increase affordability or "solve the housing crisis", read "Sick City" (2021), by UBC Prof & Urban Designer Patrick Condon. For years he insisted we need only "build more housing" to restore housing affordability, but he now admits he was dead wrong, and that only "non-market" housing can save us. The book can be downloaded as free PDF from his website "justicelandandthecity".
How about blaming the people themselves who choose to sit around doing nothing all day instead of working
@@tedlivermore6955 And who exactly is going to give homeless people a job? Who's going to hire them when they can't even bathe? You with your endless altruism?
Sadly, almost all share the blame including the homeless themselves. Each of us could be called a 'victim of our own bad choices."
So everyones mad bad choices accept the homeless? I know some homeless are not there from there choices but the vast majority are.
@@thimblemunch24 you got it backwards. Some homeless are there by their (bad) choices, but these days the vast majority are not. They are there solely because the rent is too damn high. The mental illness, addictions and criminal elements usually *follow*.
God Bless everyone reading this 🙏❤️🔥🙏🙌
It's sad and yet hard to believe that nobody in this story has family
that can house them, even in a garage, for the winter.
Meanwhile, Sohi is the highest paid Mayor in Canada. He gets an annual salary that is higher than the Premier of Alberta. Shame on Edmonton's Mayor Sohi.
Hello kim..love you girl..watch over her Lord watch over her..shes my friend..
Some people want to be rid of them by not helping them. The problem is there will always be poor people just like there will always be sickness. By helping them, we protect our city from diseases and crime. Most faiths require we assist them.🙏
I thought the couple was going to be a nice change from the norm, but these people are hopeless, can’t even stay off drugs for a television interview.
Yep,absolutely pathetic
People are so judgmental. I bet you couldn't last an hour in their shoes. Sober.
@@Malinxa-k7b I,d last longer than any of them because I,m tougher.Try getting up and going to work every,that's
hard to do.
None of them are tough enough to do it,they d rather lay around and get high all day.
Giving up is not the same as fighting a battle. They gave up. They didn't see a point to continue fighting. I mean why would they? they fought so hard just to get the bare minimum that everybody else gets so easily. If Only They had the bare minimum and they were able to use that same effort into thriving instead of surviving they would have passed all of us in life. let's be honest they come from the toughest of situations. & to me that makes the strongest soldiers.@@tedlivermore6955
@@Malinxa-k7b
Yet they can't last even 10 seconds being sober in the poster's shoes. LOL
They mention home ed, but they don’t mention how stringent they are. They aren’t just a call away. Getting help from what used to be capital region housing is like pulling teeth. All this money but so much bureaucracy and red tape to get that help. It’s pathetic.
exactly the homeless industrial complex
She is an example that is worth helping
However they are choosing drugs over anything else in their life....if they are choosing that...then they are where they want to be. Hard to have empathy for that.
@9:25 all the black people know where to get a list for housing and exactly what time you need to be there to get it tha Ts a fact!! I got denied for food stamps one time!!!! One of my black homegirls called Social Services for me and got a phone interview she didn't even have to go to the office and I got my food stamp card in the mail 5 days later because she pretended to be me!!!!!!
Kimberly I would love to have a meal and a conversation with you. I am also needing a haircut so you could make some much needed money. How can I get in contact with you?
Not a lot of homeless people have any contact information!!!
She has Facebook
I,d keep an eye on your wallet if you're gonna hang out with her.
@@tedlivermore6955 happy to take my chances. I say again "it is hard to make good choices when all the options are awful"
@@lotstosayalways Gettin a job is awful? Yeah I guess I never wanted to work either but I been doing it for over 40 years.
It is only going to get worse.....heartbreaking
Surviving Trudeau.
Surviving laziness
@@tedlivermore6955
Surviving envy and entitlement.
I am native. No support or anything education and no knowledge of modern society. I came here in 2008. Thrown onto the streets of deadmonton. After a month, I got a job and an apartment. J was arrested many times for being native and lost my house and job and had to start all over. Over and over. The help I got from the homeless was enough to thrive. They know what to do to survive. I met a group of native man and showed them that theh are superior to the white man and they went homeless to business owners in 2 years. I am now a home owner and a business owner. I have made young natuve people go from homeless to business owners. You can interview them and make a movie about them.
If we take 1% of the money that governments piss away everyone could have a place. We are all being taxed to death anyway so why not set aside a certain amount of tax money for that. Everyone should have a safe place to stay especially in the winter months. I found out that for every person in the shelters they charge $1100.00 per person every night. This is why they have to leave every morning by 8am. So when they come back later that night they can charge another $1100.00 per person. This is what the millionaire owners charge the government. So we tax payers are footing the bill anyway.
I'm not sure if it's just me...I'm thinking drugs are not free or cheap. I don't know how anyone can afford substance abuse. Many sad stories for sure.
Government gives them money and when that runs out they steal from the working people.
As expensive as they are to acquire. You can make a lot of money off them, really easily, all the same..
also adds to crime because people get desperate and that’s why a lot of crime happens. Also not just because of drugs but high costs of living and people getting desperate..
Selling sex and crime
@@turtleanton6539
I thought it was just buying sex. That's one thing you can blame Harper for.
There is nothing in this report that causes me to feel more empathetic and understanding towards the homeless. These people are disorganized and irresponsible. They are worse than young children that have to be lead across the street by the hand, that have to be told to clean up their toys, and that have to be told when to go to bed and when to get up. They cast off and disregard structure, rules, and authority at every turn, yet want the stable, comfortable lives that are only made possible by structure, rules, and authority. It is a sad indictment of one's character and priorities when he needs to pause an interview in order to smoke meth. Meth heads have no knowledge and no perspectives that are helpful to society. The meth heads need to get over themselves and stop doing things their way, after all, they are not Frank Sinatra.
and going around saving everyone SAVE YOURSELF
They should have moved Chinese 🇨🇳 Xi to stay with the homeless people
since he's been talking about them a lot.
Canada should learn lesson from Finland to resolve homeless problem absolutely
Does Finland have mass immigration?
If you are homeless in Edmonton you need to take a bus to Vancouver now. It is a lot warmer.
Global I see it took you less than 10min to delete my comment re: Vancouver...
Ill keave it again every hour on the hour. State Run media/propaganda pretending to have a heart, but refusing to recognize 2 core issues.
Or allowing a comment about them.
SOCIALIST Governments deisgn of
LEGALIZED DRUGS IN VANCOUVER HAVE MURDERED MANY and ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAJORITY OF HOMELESSNESS ...
Refuse to recognize the cause the housing market quadrupling every couple years.... IT IS FOREIGN OWNERSHIP FROM A SPECIFIC COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
THE SAME COUNTRY PROVIDES THE PRECURSORS OF FENTANYL FOR THE CARTELS DOWN SOUTH
THIS COUNTRY'S TEENAGERS DRIVE Lamborghini's, High end BMWS and Mercedes, live in Multi million dollar homes in Vancouver off the backs of Canadian Citizens, while their parents remain in that specific country of origin.
All easy to look the FACTS I say everyone...
How do they get money to go to Vancouver when they are on the street? 🥹🥹🥹
@@tailrj
Hitchhiking?
11:27 it's happened once but small trailers attached to each other metal ones
You can get to such a bad point in your life that any improvement chances are unlikely and, even worse, anyone who tries to help you will not only fail but be harmed in the process. At that point you're cursed in a sense and could even pass your curse on to others, like a drowning person pulling a lifeguard under the water with them.
its unbelieveable to me how much avail for free dr ug use and drug even now in Bc,. i never thought i would live to see the govt supply anything like this!! im a recovering addict myself, so i know the choke hold it has on a person. Sublocade is what saves my life. why aint the govt giving them that instead of anything else! ?? people think their jobs wont be gone. and they wont ever be in position like that! rude awakening coming for many!!! Tahoe.
Demand a house yet they sit around on government assistance refusing to get a job? Yeah no, these people need to stop spending their money on drugs and get it together.
Yep,sitting in a statue all day ain't gonna get you anywhere
Refusing to get a job? How is a person supposed to get a job when they slept on a bench and their hands are blistered over. Do you know that employer?
Not true of all homeless. Lots of workers on edge of homelessness or there already.
@@keilana6 Are they laying around some back alley sticking needles in their arms?
ALMOST a great piece. Ole Kimberley, you show her getting housing(which is awesome), show her drawing, writing, doing whatever that is to her hair, buy look for a job?? God forbid!!🙄. And again just so disappointing, I feel like showing her filling out applications or going on an interview towards the end would have totally changed the tone for the better.
Canada has become a second world country thanks to Trudeau who has brought in too many immigrants and Canadians are suffering
Are there waiting lists for housing at Aboriginal reserves? Addiction, while difficult, is an excuse that simply doesn't make a life better. Yes I have been homeless.
Get mental hospitals open again. Make rent and housing a canadian born first. Then others. And if you wont get help or try sorry cant throw more money and drugs at problem to fix it
It's very hard to get ahead if you don't work and use drugs.
And stfu anyone who is about to say something.
Is what it is
Isn't there a bridge you normally reside under? Or are you indifferent to the suffering of others and understanding that actually anyone can face this type of predicament when they're in such a horrible heartless capitalistic society that has no care for the common good? You could easily end up in that position yourself one day. Wouldn't it actually had helping hands in our society in case you actually God forbid one day will end up in that circumstance?
My working full time son is unable to keep up with rising rental costs as well as all other costs. Never has anything left over & has no addiction issues.
No body builds AFFORDABLE HOUSING🤯 Doesn’t need to be subsidized, just small and cheep.nothing fancy.
They're all but completely illegal to build.
Our stories are varied and always different.
[Most] seem to share common ground in drugs and booze, but some (mine) are stories of intentional displacement by policy.
Stop doing drugs
I find your ignorance rather disturbing or cruelty depending on how much you know about the psychology concerning chemical addictions in life. One doesn't simply will one's out of these things that's why AA has absolutely abysmal success rate because it's not about willpower it's about actual mental health and ensuring someone actually has a healthy environment in which to be once they have a healthy environment it actually becomes much easier to kick these habits but if they're in a stressful circumstance like these people. Once a positive environment is there it's actually rather easy for people to shake these problems so that's why when you look at problem places like Finland which actually has now a policy of housing people first they actually have drug problems that are receding from their society. So it's pretty obvious it in that case then that the first thing that we need to do is actually establish stable housing and then you can deal with those other problems that you wish to deal with -- That's not dealing with it in that order is inherently counterproductive as we can see by our own approach here my God. Maybe next time don't resort to such an oversimplification yes One would probably make the argument of okam's razor the all things beig equal the simplest explanation is usually the right one but the simplest explanation that doesn't belie the complexities of whatever is you're examining.
Homeless when it's 35below outside. Canada has outdone itself again...
Someone please ask Global News this question..When Canadians work lets say 20yrs or more and the person passes away..What's happens to their tax dollars that they paid into the system go..And what does the Canadian government do with the taxes you paid all those years
Well no one gets their tax dollars back but their CPP benefits would go to their next of kin orif let's say they owed money to child maintenance then it would go to their kids IF they filled their taxes. So ultimately if they didn't file their taxes then CPP is never given. Everything else is government money.
This issue will only get worse after April 1 carbon tax increase
I came here to say to the ones suffering, you ARE important. We DO care. We just don't know how to tackle this tough problem. I feel sorry for you guys. I try and help when i can but am on aish myself. My mind goes over horror stories that could play out. Please try and show us some respect and hopefully people will warm up and stop hating on you guys. 😢
It’s really scary to be homeless
We have an abundance of social programs to help them. Most come with 1 requirement. Stop getting drunk and high. If you're homeless in Canada you got there by your own crappy choices, and you renain there by your own crappy choices.
Sadly we do not have robust services. There's many folks that fall through the cracks, and the services are getting even scarcer. This isn't limited to our homeless community members but all folks needing economic, health (including mental health) services.
Wait lists are out of control and what's happening now with younger populations are going to create future unwell adults who may experience addictions.
It's a myth that folks can immediately access services. It's wonderful when it happens but barriers are increasing.
You are correct,that's why this show purposely didnt go into any of these peoples past as it would have explained why they are on the street
Homeless is a broad spectrum and it annoys me that we almost always see this programs of the street homeless as representative of homeless. Living in cars, RV's. I also want to see an expose of what it's like in an actual shelter by a few residents who go there on a longer term basis. Just to see how dangerous it really is - so say the street homeless...
@@elizabethklein7073 They wont do that,it doesn't fit the narrative that all these leftist shows want people to believe.And it works because a lot of people believe this nonsense.
@@sykassler8491
If more people would help the homeless people it wouldn’t get to this level , it doesn’t have to be like this , why can’t people give a little
Well, drugs will have this effect.
Plenty of money to send to Ukraine and some random app developer though.
They spend a lot on these people too
Sorry not to judge.... But lulu Lemon AND "charging a cell phone" on a "poor and out" kinda looses it's impact.wjay cell carrier is FREE????!!!!! And YES Ive been homeless, addicted and been the worst me i could be....
You cannot please these people. Makes it difficult to care about them.
I grew up in Edmonton during the 70s-80s. This was unheard of. Sure, we had a little bit, but not like this.
Moved from winnipeg to Edmonton and back bc its literaly the same 😂😂