Some Homeless Tents in LA Have Showers, Electricity and Even ACs | NBCLA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ย. 2020
- During the pandemic, homeless encampments have grown largely unchecked. Joel Grover reported on NBC4 News on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020.
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Not only are the Tents getting bigger so are the Politicians homes and paychecks
Exactly💯💯💯💯💯💯✔
That's California for you Living Large
@@rubenestrada1108 *USA
zing!
@@adumligess9755 He ment what he said. California.
Dude, I'm ready to say screw it and get a tent myself. Housing prices and rent are out of control.
I have never been to l.a. but I have seen an outdoor shower on the beach...it is for swimmers..but the homeless and every body uses it no reason for any body to be walking around dirty.
Me too
I used to rent a single in West LA for $575. My friend looked up how much that apartment is now. Fucken $1650!!
@@deltahomicide9300 thats the problem right there...
@@deltahomicide9300 been to LA recently....seen luxurious apartments probably for the same or higher prices...and right across the street? Tents and beat up RVs. It's weird.
"When did these stop being our sidewalks"...the day the government forgot about its ppl
Exactly
Thank you!!!! 👏👏👏👏
Homeless are people too. Therefore they are allowed to be there. Bye
Except all the super wokes in LA voted them in....
Right. I mean you dont want them on YOUR sidewalks....you dont want them in YOUR neighborhoods....These are people. They have to go somewhere. :(
people dont know how hard it is for homeless people... this lady talks like if she knew how it feels to be like them ... shes a coldhearted lady
Agreed. There's a right way to go about this, and blasting the homeless is not tbe answer.
She is trash ..
Yeah it's actually extremely easy to be homeless. There are a ton of programs and shelters to help out along with clinics. Most of them in California get three meals a day delivered to them by workers and an extra few hundred a week from the state that they use to buy drugs. The problem was never covid it's cities permitting this gross behavior and allowing rampant drug use.
@@skittlemenowhave you tried it?
I got fined for not having proper permits to add, a porch swing.
There is no "living large" when you're homeless. Shame on the news people 😡
oh please. STFU.
Thank you. We are conservative but totally agree with you on this.
Ehm...what?!
Tell me you have no world experience without telling me you have no world experience. Or at very least you've been lucky to be born in the right place from the right people where you don't even have to see certain things.
I was homeless for 1 year and a half when I was 22. I had a small disability pension tho. Which means I had the money to afford a gym where I shaved/showered, I had the money to rent some of those secured boxes near the station where I could leave all my things, I had the money to eat without begging, I had the money to go into places where I could charge all my electronics. I had the money for laundry. I had video games, phones, laptop, a tablet, a damn internet plan for my smartphone LOL.
I had everything. Only thing missing was a home. I was living EXTRA DELUXE LARGE by homeless standards.
So yes, there are homeless that live ''large'' compared to a loooot of others. Electricity, Shower, Tiky Bar, ACs, and me are examples of that. That place would look like a resort for people what were in a worse state than my situation.
@@MegaLivingIt No you're not.
@@TheDorianTube good for you man. But if you think living large is have internet then your dead wrong. If you don’t have shelter that is a problem! This news segment is just for LA residents to get mad at Homless people for daring to have a shower
Please make your homes in front of Garcetti’s and Newsom’s million dollar homes, maybe that will make their asses do something
Leilani, 🤣😂😆😁😍 THE BEST IDEA THIS YEAR IN POLITICS !! OMG THIS SOUNDS SO POWER TO THE PEOPLE, I LOVE IT😘
You forgot Pelosi and her shithole San Francisco and Maxine Waters
Keep voting Democrat dumbass.
You should do it if you are a regular person living in a home and you want to kick out those dirty homeless people to the woods. Homeless people won't do it. why would they? If he kicks out homeless people on his sidewalk, then it will allow other building owners do the same. Think about it.
Very well said!!!! This is sick with all the money of wur taxes and they dont care!!!
The homeless community should move thier tents into bel air and Beverly hills
They are in bevery hills
@@alessandronarom6751 more of them
OMG! Id pay to see that! Id love that.
But you can recall governor
I mean to they're defense the tents are beautiful. 😏
Not ONE suggestion to help the homeless people. Not ONE. That’s the problem.
But you can recall governer
All they have to do is build some decent affordable housing for these people, and give them a budget and maybe some coaching to start getting their life back together. There is no other developed nation that has homelessness as bad as this, except maybe Australia (but Australia is basically just US-light)
Once the homeless go camping on the front yards of city officials, mayor and governors homes that's when they will do something
Like maybe affordable housing and a livable wage? 😹 it costs taxpayers more to incarcerate people than to provide housing.
Right John.I believe in the long run FEMA camps will be used.When the public outcry is at it's highest then this most likely will occur.
YEP.
They won’t do that yet. It’s all coordinated
No they won’t ! Well not on the sidewalks anyway , but for sure their own front lawn will be cleaned up immediately with the help of the cops !!
Damn, they really said homeless people "living large" FOH
It’s SAD!!
Yes, yes they did. And them having a tiki bar, thats lit! LOL
Some Ppl have no idea. About homeless. Living large is a B's statement. Homeless is nothing nice. Plus it's no safety
Hate and resentment. America speaks to the poor and wants us to have less.
Exactly, such a tone deaf statement
These people are doing any everything to survive. Even if it endangers them
That woman is talking about sidewalks and most likely has NEVER walked on a sidewalk anywhere NEAR that area.
Exactly!
Facts 😏
she always driving lol
My father wants to lay da pipe on that woman according to my mother. 3 Way may be possible.
Karen
“Homeless living large”, heartless, also why California had hot spot for hepatitis A. Refusing bathrooms and water to wash hands.
Out breaks of hepatitis A. think about your own health!
It depressing to see? Figure out a solution like making drug dealing doctors to pay for homeless drug addicts!
Why does everyone think you are a drug addict if you are homeless.
@@calebvaughn2165 those doctors dealing drugs mess with anyone whistle blows so it not about the drug addicts, if I was not clear, it about those drug dealing doctors need to give back to the community’s.
When doctors cannot practice medicine to help people if you check your doctor may not be doing head to toe assessment. Get your doctors notes an see. If they charted things about you they did not check nor ask about. Dangerous practices.
@@bswogger4656 if you think doctors are the main way people get drugs, you don't know what you are talking about. And like I was saying NOT all homeless people are drug addicted.
@@calebvaughn2165 most doctor prescribe drugs mostly unnecessary while allow body organs to deteriorate, such as the heart, lungs & pancreases. Many times with all three of those organs it one prescription for say depressions or arthritis which I monitored lead to the chronic need for heart medication, various types, asthma &/or bronchitis, diabetics with all the complications.
Never said homeless people are drug addicts I said doctor drug dealers.
Look at serval cases in chandler Arizona, nice beautiful city bust for 350,000 mile dollars all “health care professionals” & doctors.
Take care. Never said that about anyone struggling with housing.
Opiate epidemic in America is directly related to doctors drug dealing. If they were street drug dealers they get maybe 20 to 25 years. Doctors may not even spend a night in jail or loose their privileges.
If they were “living large” they wouldn’t be homeless now would they!!
Ain't homeless if you built a house with a shower, a kitchen stolen power and a freaking doorbell. Now you are just a squatter.
@@jordanhicks5131 meh
Living large compared to the other single tents
Yeah this title is elitist and stupid
Just shows how pathetic the media is in covering this unfortunate problem.
The sheer lack of empathy is mind blowing
what city do you live in?
@@wtfhlostonparadise8278 i don't live in a city i live in ny state
@Unaccompanied Senior you can not be mad at people that DO HAVE A HOME, especially if we give and support those that are homeless, HOME DWELLERS as you say HAVE THEIR S*** together, yeah check to check, but priority is a order my friend...
@Unaccompanied Senior THIS IS NOT TRUE, we have helped the homeless for years, okay maybe it's true by giving maybe sometimes we are not helping, once you give someone something your not suppose to worry about what they did with the offering YOU JUST HOPE THEY DID GOOD WITH IT...and I just found out it's true some homeless are choosing to be homeless for their own reasons of course... LONG STORY SHORT WE HELP DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE ENCOUNTERED but I am saddened to hear you think this way!! BLESS YOU
The sheer lack of common sense from you is not hard to believe.
How dare these people have basic good that others have thrown out.
"We condone recycling but not the kind that actually helps"
Nobody should be homeless, not in this day and age
That McMansion tent had 20 sheets of plywood that’s a lot of money nowdays
They probably found it
It’s been going on a lot longer than “when the pandemic started”
Exactly. Been watching homelessness in USA going on five years now. Progressively getting worse by 2017 with outbreaks of ancient communicable diseases
Exactly
Maybe try solving your homeless problem instead of complaining about them being an inconvenience to you
Agreed!
Welcome to get depression people
Right, always focused on the WRONG thing.
1. Fix your Fake scarcity/too high to buy/rent problems.
2. Fix your income problems, so people could afford to buy/rent.
3. Fix your lack of mental health and substance abuse programs problem.
4. Fix your reentry programs for people getting out of jail/prison.
Do that and you'll solve 90% of your homeless problems!
She's worried about the Sidewalk.....she SHOULD be worried about her wasted tax dollars! It costs LESS money to Keep homeless people OFF the Streets.....Than it does to Keep policing and cleaning up homeless camps!
They got 2 options. Kill them or lock them up. Bc the homless don't want help as in jobs. Just free money.
@@velvetrose7729 I am hearing "murder the exploiters". Why would you say that?
*Living large? They are still homeless! This shows how disconnected this News station is!!*
Wow. I didn't know having a shower, ac, and electricity means you're "living large"
I guess we're all living large then.
"Living large" more like trying to make a better situation out of a bad one.
Right like showing the slide.. nice they put an adult on video.. not the KIDS who are using it because they are living there too.. no you can't use your own poor kids to put on the news.. you can only show foreign poor kids... your ONLY allowed sympathy to the world.. not your own apparently. Nice to know millions of illegals are pushed to the front of the line.. over those who PAY TAXES
So glad to see people picking up on the class divide here. NBC clearly sees the homeless as garbage, glad that humanity doesn’t.
They are not homeless, they are squatters with a house on public street
That's what im thinking 🤔
@@thevinceberry You’re a terrible person.
It sounds like they’re more upset about how fancy the tents are and side walk space than the actual problem.
What’s the actual problem then? Can’t say homelessness when these people have free homes that are damn near as nice as a modern Apartment 😂 saves them an easy $1000+ month to buy more drugs and alcohol lol
I dont think so . Is just that people getting tired of seeing this and becoming worse and worse ,...
Issue is very serious and horrible , and Ones that have to fix the issue
Are acting blind and deaf .
@@lizzetcastro73 Right!? I understand some of the homeless don't want to be there, but a very large amount do. For whatever reason (mental illness, drug addiction, maybe just plain anti social mind set) they like being on the street. And these people are obviously very brasen about illegally using water and electricity and causing tons of damage. I don't live in California, but this is bound to be a huge problem for the people who are working hard and paying the taxes that are being used to fix what is being destroyed and offer any help these people are getting. I hope something can be done to help everyone involved.
@Estela Lopez AHHHH ITS ESTELA LOPEZ FROM THE NEWZ
Definitely trying to throw shade on the homeless and not help them in anyway but get ratings off of covering their life. Did they pay anyone for their interviews? No.
He's having too much fun with that sliding board. 😂
I'm homeless myself and as I'm writing this at 11:30pm in a lonely office building I'm watching out for the late night security... seriously!
Drop da addy for the building and I'll call security for your wake up call.
Rich people "living larger" during the pandemic. Why isn't that a story?
Maybe because they are not shitting on the sidewalk.
@Monni KhanThe government and charity do provide services. Contractors do build houses. But some people won't accept help.
Exactly. The TRUE parasites to our planet. ALSO. Kovid is a CON
thats always a story
@@glennwatson3313 it's not that they don't want to help it's that a lot of them have mental issues and our drug addicts and the cops aren't allowed to do anything about it cops aren't even allowed to stop people from stealing and that was before the pandemic and BLM
I think it makes sense, you don’t have a house, so make one. These people are literally using what they have to survive outside
We need workhouses for these poor souls. They get a place to live and do chores that contribute to the economy.
They are doing what it takes to get a fix.
Yea they need slides in their tents
@Glenn Watson Dear Glenn: It's not drug addiction that causes homelessness. It's homelessness that causes drug addiction. I've got $1000 that says YOU couldn't take living on the streets for more than a month before YOU too would resort to drugs just to dull the horrors of being homeless and on the street. The bottom line is that the Fed Govt just doesn't give a damn about ANY of its people and never has. If you gave every person a FT job at a livable wage, not only would homelessness disappear, but crime would dramatically fall too. NOBODY wants to be homeless, Glenn. It's just that we live in a nation that just doesn't give a damn about ANY of its people and never has. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@JosephKulik2016 Believe me I could take it. but if you think a measly $1000.00 is going to get me to live on the street your crazy.
These people could not hold a job if you walked them to the front door every day with a packed lunch.
Either stingy, wealthy, politicians help them,or more power to the homeless trying not to have to live like animals!!
Well it’s CA’s government fault for not acting until recently. If anyone’s to blame it’s alway the government.
These people crying are still voting in the people who created these problems.
Yep!
Homeless people don't necessarily congregate the way other people do
Missed the opportunity of a lifetime not electing bernie in...
No, most of these people vote Democrat.
@@twocentproductions5326 .. the powers-that-be were against him and he folded
Living large is taking it to the moon looks like survival to me
This is some wild post-apocalyptic sci fi stuff. Amazing.
Cyberpunk might be a good descriptor here.
@@mewbusi Cyberpunk stories from the 80's made a pretty good prediction what neoliberalism would lead to in the future. They maybe imagined even cooler gadgets than we have now, and the aesthetics aren't the same, but the economic inequality, lack of humanity, and corporate power was spot on.
That lady has the classic "Karen" look and opinions
This Karen is losing her mind over someone trying to live not even a tenth as good as she is. Chill out people
Preach
Right.. maybe she should give some of her money to help them move, if she is more worried about someone blocking a path where you have to step around a few feet instead of a human being living there.
And she's fucken nosy an snooty
I wonder if you would feel the same way if he set up shop in front of your house. Actually, I don't
wonder.
@@glennwatson3313 I’d feel the exact same way as I did when I made my comment
I wouldn’t necessarily consider basic essentials like a shower as “living large”
Just out of touch assholes running the station
Utilities for absolutely free? That's living large by my estimation; I pay hundreds a month for mine.
It is in America
@@rndmukn How about you trade with a homeless person then
If you’re not paying for the water or rent or electricity you are living large
You’re making HOMELESS people living in large TENTS a big deal? How about y’all trade living arrangements with them then, since they’re “living large”. Just disgusting and shameful 😑😠
How bout you let them move in with you??
Draino Ownz how about you live in a tent for the rest of your filthy miserable days??
@@vivimr1 I’ve been homeless..worked my way out of it. I have a great life. You on the other hand sound un happy.
Draino Ownz actually, you sound unhappy by even commenting on my comment. You could of just made your own. I get people have different opinions but, it’s my own. Go on about your happy business sir 🤦🏼♀️
They called it a McMansion tent ⛺️😂🤣😭
disgusting. here in Hollywood it's a 3rd world dump. the smell of feces and urine is overpowering and the needles make walking a life-threatening situation.
@Oxyaena They did jackass! They gavem hotels to live in, and the maggots trashed them too!
@Oxyaena BLESS YOU😉
Kids, don't do drugs
@Oxyaena and just why should anyone provide housing for other people when they have to worry about providing housing for themselves? No one has any privilege you racist piece of s*** individual responsibility didn't get the city to look like this idiots like you that have no definition is a person beyond the group you belong to
Get up off of your couch and go pick the needles up... do something positive for your community
It's a shame because this looks worse than Mexico
No this is Mexico. Lol
Lol, not even in Mexico they have this amount of homeless
@tejano151 I actually lived in Mexico, from where I was there was homelessness but it was very different from that in the states, very few in comparison and u hardly saw any out and about. No tent towns from my experience, and nothing on the scale in the states.
California is stolen from Mexico.
@@thelastafroman5639 that's because most people can build little homes for a little of nothing. And a good portion are working for the cartels.
“These are the public’s sidewalks!”. Uh excuse me lady but they are the public. Oh wait I forgot that you don’t see them as human beings. 🤦🏻♀️
I would say equating basic human essentials with the term ‘living large’ is quite irresponsible and ill-informed.
🙏💙
It’s amazing how much this report is targeting the tents, the tents, the tents, just so they don’t have to mention there are people living in them. This whole report is dodging the issue of homelesness and trying to raly public consensus against the tents just so they don’t have to directly state they are against the homeless.
Can't feed the strays, man...next thing you know you'll have an infestation and find them nesting all around your property.
people with money usually dont care just keep them way so someone else can deal with them
@@muddygunswtf is wrong with you
Nothing. Too many problems in the world to take on everyone else's. Focus on family and you won't have homelessness. Everyone has family. Take care of yours
@@muddyguns Dude, what do you say to orphans then? Or widows and widowers?
That’s some skill. Wiring to a double wide tent from a street light is very impressive, considering you don’t fry yourself
Some have outlets right on em
Some skill, but not a lot. Just a guess, but that's one of the reasons LAFD is putting out ten tent conflagrations every day.
They learn that in prison, thats how they would tap the tattoo guns into a live wire either through the lights or power lines in the conduit that run to the tv in the day room.
Yeah. JOB related skills. Hint Hint 😉
Criminals are clever
When I live in California back in 2005 I never saw a tent on the streets.This is very depressing to be honest.
Just tell me about it I was there in the 90s in Echo Park in Silverlake just went back for the first time in about a year or two are used to just drive through there. Left there in 2004 and you are right it is totally changed and it is completely depressing and very sad the same thing has actually happened in the suburbs where I lived for 15 years Oceanside now I live completely off the grid out rural and that’s the best decision I made.
Liberalism
I'm a wheelchair user and I find it very interesting that I never hear people discuss street accessibility until it's time to complain about homeless people. Homeless people who could themselves be wheelchair users, or physically disabled.
And yes, I would certainly like to use the street, but given that I'm already forced off the sidewalk and in front of cars constantly because of people's garbage cans, store signs, rental scooters, lack of funding or attention for curb cuts, city construction projects--I would at least prefer to be forced off the sidewalk because someone might DIE OF EXPOSURE or wants a shred of privacy under terrible circumstances.
Also, "wheelchair bound" is generally considered to be offensive, so. pretty funny to open with that.
how dare yall say they are living in luxury
thats disgusting, you cant get these people affordable housing in the same area where all the worlds richest elites live.
LA is basically Brazil now
Exactly!
Facts. Thank you for understanding
it's sad to see americans using brazil as a bad example. however this is not a favela like in brazil but some homeless tents. favelas are worse than this...
Can't get affordable housing due to regulations causing steep rises building costs.
They did provide housing and have tried....but they don't want it. What are you supposed to do with people who don't want the free housing the government provides them? You also have many who are mentally ill. Luckily there are doctors volunteering and going out and checking on these people.
the cost of living in LA is just nuts, 2,000 for a one bedroom apartment. Its just crazy. Either make more houses or lower the damn rent.
Lower the damn rent
@@tristanjones429 yes lower the rent
Or move... thats always the simplest option
Move to Detroit and buy a home for $1
Or... don’t live here ! Why continue to live in a place that cost so much? Because they allow it! And the beautiful weather year round. They could make the rent $1000 a month and you’d still see people who’d rather ruin their lives. Acting as if it’s really about the $.
Seriously , these are people struggling just to survive and the only response you have is that they have it too good ... I don't even know why people's narcissist outlooks surprise me any more and yet sometimes they do ...
KAREN: "When did these stop being OUR sidewalks?"
SERIOUSLY? Where would Karen like the homeless folks to sleep?
Seriously such a Karen omg
There are shelters but u have to be clean , like sober.
@@sean123888 Shelters are an emergency overnight resource. Uou have to be in by 7pm and out by 5am. They don't allow pets. You can only bring in one bag, backpack etc. Ultimately, it's not workable for most homeless.
Don't care. They can sleep in the sewers for all I care
So if y'all that worried about the homeless, take one of them massive abandoned buildings and turn it into a FREE homeless shelter. 🤔
You wrote, "So if y'all that worried about the homeless, take one of them massive abandoned buildings and turn it into a FREE homeless shelter." Sounds like a good idea in theory but it will be a disaster in reality because the homeless people will eventually turn the "FREE homeless shelter" into a hazardous dump.
@@motorbikeray www.bridgehrc.org 🤔
@@Marqnificent That's a nice managed shelter for homeless people in Texas. If California offered such a thing for its homeless then that would be great. My reply to your original comment interpreted what you wrote as opening an abandoned building to homeless people and letting them take over the building as they please.
You gonna pay for it jerk nugget ?
every single one of those buildings owned by someone. why is it their responsibility
I am amazed how innovative some of those tents are.
Are you also impressed by the thievery? Stolen materials, stolen electricity, stolen water, stolen public property?
@@andhisband No, they're scum, but they are innovative.
@Hank Hill not impressed with their trash, drug use and their potential for harassing people
& impressed that they used their ingenuity/carpentry skills to get it ✔️
American talent is wasted on the regular
The language used by everyone in this piece, including the title, the reporters and interviewees, reek of privilege, lack of empathy and misinformation. "McMansion tents" and "living large" do not clearly describe homeless living situations. "How dare they want to be clean and live like civilized people" is what I heard. A program to address mental health, housing, shelter, addiction and poverty should be the focus.
100% agree, It infuriates me how out of touch these people are.
That white lady complaining about “our sidewalks” needs a reality check.
Funny how you compl6about tents having house amenities but dont give a damn about them being homeless. All the state workers making 100's of thousands doing nothing.
I totally agree with you on that
Agreed 1000%. I'm currently a working homeless in my van.
Sad truth of it all, at $10.50 an hour around 40-50 hours a week it STILL does not allow me the luxury of affording a place to live.
I've had numerous debates about doing this or doi g that, sad reality is I hold a ft job and still cannot afford it. I make to much to get any help, yet I don't make enough to afford rent.
People always want to claim or say ft job should afford a place to live, but the reality of it is it does not. Unless you've done your research or been in the situation you really do not understand.
I would spend almost 1/3 of my income on just rent, that's not including bills.
@@alpha_y2k438 Corporate media doesn’t care to here the stories of the homeless and educate the public on how they got there, and how the corporations needs and helping them with bailouts is more important then the needs of the working poor and poor and destitute!
@@alpha_y2k438save some cash up, look to relocate to a less expensive area and also look into employment in that area. Maybe even do it on any holidays you get off work so you have a back up.
Having no were to take a dump is living large...REALLY
Theres no winning if you keep making excuses for them. A lot of homeless refuse care And help. It’s becoming a burden for the city. You act like children aren’t affected by this. Cant even go to a park without seeing tents and syringes thrown around. Its public property until they occupy enough of it. These guys won’t think twice to steal your belongings
It's all good, bro. I got my updated poopmap
I’m with you, I am angry at the NBC news, or anybody that came up with that story, saying that they’re living large. that’s horrible.
Their mind set is really typical. The last shall be first, and the first shall be last, that's coming soon. What will they say then?
true story I was in LA six months ago and a homeless guy went in the fast food were in used the restroom that's where they go lol
It’s an unforgivable problem for society as a whole. Especially for those “living large”. Trade places and let me know if your descriptives remain the same. SMH.
With this pandemic and evictions starting to happen again, there's going to be ALOT MORE. Start working on the social problems and change it.
Seriously, who thinks that is living large.
I dunno, the slide looks like fun...
Did you see the tiki bar?
@@cademancaden yeah. Kudos to their ingenuity in creating a livable environment with little to no resources.
Such effort should be encouraged.
I say, with a nation full of abandoned and decaying structures, provide those willing to work with tools, materials and resources to repair and rebuild that which society has discarded.
@Danger Bear of course. However, as you can see based on responses, most people don’t get it. Not many people understand the difference between literally and figuratively.
It sure is its like going from a 30 dollar Walmart tent to 2 80 dollar tarps,with running water,ac,and stove,it be like living at the ritz
Homeless can’t pay fines, small businesses can.. simple
So true unless it doesn’t bring them money they don’t care.
The question they ask 'Why is this happening?!" The answer is "Because your politicians don't care about you. They are reaping as much cash as they can before the house of cards collapses."
"McMansion Tents" omg this story is so detached from reality
But we can recall state governer to solve this issue what do you think ?
Really? “McMansion tents?” “Living large?” What a disgrace to local journalism.
Agree
Well, he started off with L.A.s Streets of Shame
You re4ally thing the problem here is the journalism? wake up.
I love how “living large” is having basic necessities and that it’s a problem for them to have.
Stfu
Riiight
You are missing the point.
@Michael VR Your missing the point I think yes a tiki bar isn't necessary but mostly everything else is especially water and electricity and the fact that the city is paying for it is a joke. Who do you think pays for all the expenses the taxpayers and the politicians never seem to care any other time when they waste money.
It is never a problem until they set up on your front lawn.
1:03 I just find it funny how he casually slides down, enjoying himself
"Homeless Living Large? Why are you ratting out the most unfortunate instead of helping them find adequate shelter? Then they would be off your sidewalks
“Living Large”? Does she think they want to live like this?
@Austin Butler its not good them living there. But that is by no means living large. They're surrounded by rats.
@@mikebolt7048 LA is like New york...not very many rats sweety
@@damien1781 pardon my eyes for seeing rats in la then.
Some do.
Apparently they do I have yet to see a journalist interview a homeless man while he was filling out a job application
Everyone should be real nice to homeless people because soon alot of y'all are going to be their neighbors.
So many people live paycheck to paycheck. What we should think when we see people in these desperate situations is “There but for the grace of God go i.”
Thank you, well said it’s fine till it happens to you
Who will live in houses?:O
@@lukazupie7220 We wait until it reaches critical mass when our numbers are so high that they can't stop us. Then we just take over the houses.
Unemployment money and assistance with rent and mortgage runs out at the end of the month. A lot of people my find themselves in this situation.
Move the tents so that lady can use the side walk 😂😂😂
When did these stop being our sidewalks?! WHEN COVID HIT AND PEOPLE LOST EVERYTHING KAREN! 🤬🤬🤬
Damn right 😏😏
meanwhile politicians are having dinner parties and speaks about war to boost defend budgets...what a great country
Strong, centralized leadership is needed to address problems like these
they need to lower minimum wages not raise it. that is the biggest cause of these homeless people because they cant find work.
Right SMFH
"These homeless are doing illegal things to survive!"
Here's an idea Karen . . . HELP THEM GET OFF THE STREETS IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM THERE! Good grief.
They are not doing anything illegal to survive, water and power and housing should be free for all human beings,no one should be able to capitalize on basic human necessities.
The ones capitalizing on housing,water, electricity are the real criminals guilty of crimes against humanity.
Meth
Mad because they creative. Imagine how much they could do if they actually could get out of the cycle of homelessness. Looking down isn't helping anybody get up
@@ladydragon7777 Housing, water, and electricity cost resources to build and human resources to maintain. That will never be free regardless of what society you think is best. The prices may be too high but blame the mayor and the Federal Reserve and get back to reality.
"This one even has a pool"
THEY'RE ON THE STREET. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
See what happens when minimum wage goes to $15.00 an hour. They get bigger tents.
Don't kid yourself: these are not working people.
It's sad that at no point of this clip are they speaking to helping the homeless...empathy isn't hard...well so I thought
@Arthur Vega if you’re complaining with no solution, just stfu with all that extra noise
Oh yeah people like yourself have empathy until those tents and garbage is right outside your front door lol.. Then let's see how long your empathy last
We're not their mommy and daddy and we have our own problems to deal with. Did you ever think of that?
Help? They don't want help! They'll accept your money but won't work for it, or enter a program or shelter. Why? Because those places have rules and they don't want to abide by any rules.
So true
Someone should pay these homeless to move in front of the mayor’s neighborhood
Well I guess there's always ROOM for growth huh
The councils complain now that homelessness is out of control BUT they did nothing to help the situation back when it was more manageable. They should follow Finland's example: " Housing first".
When you provide people with a decent place to live and support them through rehab, medical, education or retraining then they do not return to the streets. It all starts with a safe place to live in, detox, shower, sleep.
That's social-democracy, not sure the US oligarchs will allow it. With Sanders you might have gotten some of it. Maybe.
It's the governments fault. We should treat everyone as human beings.
Good for them. That's their freedom.
@@RetroHabit82 Not when they infringe upon others! 👎
How many vagrants have you invited to your home?
Government is worthless and can't help anyone.
Not really the people at fault are the ones that live their they're the ones that keep on giving the same people power even though they do nothing for them
These people are doing what they need to survive. Maybe we should create a system for homeless housing. We always end up neglecting this issue's.
Like insane asylums
@@qjtvaddict Honestly, we do need more housing for the mentally ill. Never think for a moment it can’t happen to you. Karma might come around and show you what she’s made of.
Maybe they should get jobs and the rest with severe mental illness back to the loony bin where they can be cared for but hey that makes sense and that’s not for liberals
@@qjtvaddict not every homeless person is insane, it's hard to get in a place. I'm homeless I just don't make 3x rent, or have good credit sense my divorce. In LA rent is around 2,000$ for a 1 room shack.
Time to find a new city to live in...
I'm so confused... Why would someone spend this much effort on a tent instead of looking for a job and a cheap apartment?
Lazy
Addicts
I just wanna high five the guy with the slide connected to his tent, btw these people can be engineers, they’re so smart in providing and building
Yeah, I'm surprised they are not working for Boeing. Maybe the drug test had something to do with it.
@@glennwatson3313 lol, you think Boeing drug tests engineers? I would assume just plant workers if that. Where do you work?
@@wills242 I can assure you they do. As to where I work, its none of your business. But I am curious as to why you want to know.
Oook if you build an 4ft slide made with plastic??? Your an architect or engineer??? Wow!!!
@@princeofthestars5558 Right, I'm surprised we don't' have homeless on the moon and mars already what with their engineering skills and all.
“When your make it a million dollars to own a house. Don’t be surprised when a million people live on the street.”-Sean Vobel
Like one gentleman said, the only way to fix these issues is by praying and people actually voting out all these politicians who are incompetent of doing the job they signed up for. California is an all blue state so it's more of the people voting for these people who spend their tax money on public services to help people be homeless rather than coming up with problems to fix homelessness fault. One day all of this will get bad enough to where we'll see a full revamp.
@@tylerbenton4495 YEAH WELL IT'S BAD ENOUGH RIGHT NOW, I will say that I am starting to notice more and more people are moving out of LA to cheaper States, I THINK THAT'S WHAT BIG MONEY WANTED THEM TO DO, so that they can build there HIGH RISE MANSIONS, I SAY DON'T GO LET'S GO AND BUY BIGGER TENTS 😆🤣😘
Exactly
so you think if prices drop, more family would be able to live in one house? spend a few minutes until that sinks in.
@@Teolulz spend a few minutes and shut the F up.
The government charges 60,000 per tent and 59,900 goes into their pockets.
What about all the rich people with bran new exotic cars during the "pandemic" ?
PPP loans bought them , they were buying up houses too this is how many of them bought up "100-200k over asking price"
Did we forget that the public INCLUDES the homeless?
Some people forgot apparently. How soon they may be reminded when they walk in the shoes of others ;)
@ capstar633.... once a person crosses that threshold into homelessness, they have contempt for "the public".... hence, the feces and urine so prevalent in "the public" spaces they frequent, like parks, subway stations and sidewalks.... By the way, these were the rowdy kids that goofed-off in school....
@@rocketcab Wow. "
@@rocketcab they don't have contempt for the public,just the rich greedy thieves extorting everyone.
Thanx for saying this I was so mad to hear that ...the homeless r the public too ..what a nightmare that people think they r so much better than everyone else
Living large is hardly the thing to say,they are homeless
No they are not, they have a tent therefore they have a home, human beings lived in tents for centuries before the house was invented.
Rather live in a tent than a house , a tent cost 100.00 or less , a house costs 200k or more , a tent sounds nice
Sounds like the city needs to come up with plans to solve this problem
I’m curious if they expect us to be mad or smt, these tents r cool asf and everyone who lives there is smart asf
Try living in the streets and then say that they are “living large “!!!
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Exactly
speaking from experience, Deb?!
We have a homeless problem because of a corporate bailout problem.
@Bob Cali I'm homeless and I'm not a junkie lol. Wait until this time next year and our numbers grow to about 30 million. You might even be one of us soon. When I was a kid I laughed at a homeless guy now look at me. God punishes us for what we can't imagine.
@Bob Cali I go to dry towns all the time. Enjoy your plagues, when you lose everything you will know why.
Wrong.... Because of liberal democrat policies of turn the other cheek.. Higher taxes and socialist policies of lockdowns and anti business mentality as well as drugs and letting crazy people roam free
@M. L. you know he F***ING with you right? That's what TROLLS DO THEY F WITH YOU, that's probably the only attention they will get all week LMAO 🤣😆
That my friends are not homeless, they are anti gov , they just don't want to pay taxes like all of us , not fare to citizens who work and follow the laws and PAY TAXES that pays for the city officials salaries
And you think the money they earn at work to pay for these tents aren't taxed?
Blame it all on greed. Apartments and houses are too expensive to afford.
Only guy who was " Living Large " was Homey with the Slide in his tent lol
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Lol yea not gon front mans was doing too much
Did you see how happy he was
Lol
Lmao
This is because that many city leaders have been sweeping the homeless and affordable living problems under the rug for that long!! We all have to come together and deal with the problem and stop complaining about the problem!!!
Amen 🙏 and why aren't the homeless affected by cov¡d.. if it was as bad as they're making it out to be then we wouldn't have any homeless.
Sweeping problems under the rug. Circa 1980s.
Ok you put out the problem. What are your ideas for a solution? People are always saying that people need to come together to do things but they never ever come with any kind of solutions so why even speak?
those government officials are next to useless. they just look important in their business suit and we actually expect them to solve problems.
@@arleneaugustahair8393 Affordable housing, price caps on housing prices, and the use of empty lots for shelters.
MTV Cribs mega ultra homeless edition: Yo yoyo welcome to my crib come on in
4 Story Tent Mansion, 25 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, 40 Servants, 8 car garage, 2 pools, tennis court, basketball court, 30 acres of land, several gardens, a museum, private jet, A lambo and a Rari 😂🤣
Serious question. If we as a society, put our elders and those with dementia in special facilities where they are fed, cared for and given proper medication with daily activities, why couldn't that be done for the homeless?
All talk about the inconvenience of the encampments but nothing on root causes or precautions..😓😓😓
Greedy thieving Landlords, judges,law enforcement and Politicians are the root of the problem.
@@ladydragon7777 Democrats
@@lefthanded5473 Red states are welfare states. Republicans stole their policies from the 3rd world. The problem is the democrats are mostly right wing republicans.
Only Socialism will fix this, as it has in first world countries.
"McMansion Tents"
NBCLA - where bare human dignity is characterized as a luxury.
Thank you.
I followed a link saying the homeless were "Living Large". Someone needs to re-evaluate their definition of that.
Yeah I caught that too. Thank you.
Thank you
Exactly
These homeless with showers and kitchens, it must make all the rich in LA very jealous
Not really bc they don’t pay their fair share of taxes anyway, just annoyed if their businesses r flipping the bill for ⚡️ 💦 & gas.
@@Boriquenmamichula then the homeless should be helped, a rich country like America with scenes like this(all over the country), its a disgrace, have you ever been homeless, I doubt it(I have, over 3 years sleeping anywhere I could find), so I don't blame them for trying to get get electricity or showers in one way or another
"When did the sidewalks stop being ours "
I'm sure those people would gladly give you back your sidewalk for a stable decent place to call home.
"Think about the wheelchair individuals who don't have access to the sidewalks "
🤔 Or think about the homeless people. They're not there for the fun of it or because they want to be for the most part.
What’s more sad is that most Americans are just one or two paychecks away from being homeless.
Is it because of high rents. I don't understand - I live in London.
@@budekins542 _"I live in London"_
Where the rents are low?