All states in America have homeless even Florida . California has certain towns no homeless same as your new home Florida. Luck you didn’t buy home in a homeless town good for you 😃
you need to make $150,000 a year in a household in order to be able to afford a Median Home 30-years fixed comfortably. What you say is an understatement because even if you work 100+ hrs a week in a minimum job, you just won't make it unless you are making some decent cash 😒. I'm from Silicon Valley and honestly, I think its bullshit and full of corruption, Cities are falling all over the place, not just in San francisco and Los Angeles. Redwood City and many more are beginning to feel the effects.
I’ve had to sell my home that my daughter and I have lived in for 20 yrs and am looking for a mobile home to buy. I had no idea how difficult it would be to find a trailer park that would take an aging RN who is about to retire. They are all 55+ and won’t allow my daughter, who is 37, continue living with me there. I have secured financing for up to $180,000 for a new mobile home but got denied by the park itself. They told me I couldn’t afford the lot rent there and that my credit was not good enough to rent their dirt patch. LOL. Even if I were to pay cash for another mobile home in the park..... I still couldn’t live there and my daughter is definitely not welcome!!! The elderly have a market on these mobile home parks. (No offense. ... I’m elderly too.... just trying to be funny to reduce frustration). They get the rent controlled prices etc! ...... I digress.... how did I drive this far off the road. I guess what I mean is.... Who knew I’m not fit for a trailer park in Southern California. I’d be an asset, as @ RN, to an elderly community. I could be their home health nurse and my daughter could run their errands for them. They are missing out on allowing us into their communities.
@@denisebeanblossom1826 Forget about trailer parks - way too expensive. Find an acre or more of empty land that allows mobile homes. Make sure you can install well and septic, and you're in. There are plenty of lots like this that are owner financed (no bank).
The city seems bound and determined not to build any low cost housing. Maybe the fear is if they did they would become projects/slums, I don't know the anwser but this is so depressing....
Keep voting in demonicrats, I am sure they will fix things. I am doubled over with laughter with the way you people keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
most people did not give a $#!T until it started coming to there neighborhood but the ones to blame are your state and local government this has been going on for decades growing each year without a care in this world!
Absolutely right, I moved from Holland to Glendale in 2002, then to the Eastern Colombia building Downtown LA in 2008 and moved back to Holland in 2010. Lots of mentally ill people in LA. People buy $6 steak on creditcard with 10% interest. In debt for life and still buying a new car. Never think of tomorrow and spent it now. Combined with always beautiful weather and people coming from all over the world daily " to make it" what do you expect. It has always been a shit hole in some places. But now at more doorsteps. And don't forget TH-cam and smartphones wasn't that big 10-12 years ago, but "tent city" also existed then. Now just a little bit more and more and more. It's difficult to wake somebody up, who is pretending to sleep
Absolutely true. They kept voting the same SJWs in because they didn't see the homeless/drug street life in their community. Now it is there, and they are pissed. Boo hoo.
I lived in the SF Valley for 24 years, in Pasadena for 7 years. Things started getting bad in 1982 with the "recession" and then Pres. Ronny Reagan cutting funding for mental institutions with a resultant flood of them being released onto city streets. Then came an economic boom in the mid-late eighties when landlords started buying up rental properties and jacking up rents. Then in the late eighties came a surge in gangs, with gang graffiti being sprayed everywhere, on sidewalks, street signs, walls, telephone poles, freeway signs, and on concrete underpasses. After that came high real estate prices that drove house renters out of their homes, with some winding up on Skid Row downtown. Then in the early '90's came the literal hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants looking, no doubt, for a better place to live than the shitholes they came from. I spent numerous hours at the old Busch Gardens in Van Nuys, went to Universal Studios, ate at Le Petit Chateau in Burbank, learned to drive at the Robinsons parking lot on Roscoe Blvd. Hell the first .30-06 I ever bought was from the Alamo gunstore in SF. But by 1994 I was fed up with the place, and I remember on the day I left, stopping at the CA-Arizona border, getting out and flipping off CA. That was in 1994! I doubt that I could go back there today and live...not just because of the high property taxes but because of the filth you see littering every street. Yes this is what a 3rd-world country looks like. Yes this is what "Socialism" looks like - a mix of greed and high taxes on the people. Such a waste of what used to be called the Golden State. Now a graffiti-scarred, tarnished, litter and rodent infested city dump. Sad.
Aldamiras, you’re not lying! I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I still live here and see the deterioration of my hometown accelerate daily. It’s sad and heartbreaking. I don’t see how this situation can or will be improved.
Reagan was 40 years ago and the State has been steadily turned more blue since then. There is basically no Red left. Plenty of time to build as many nut houses as you want if that were the problem. I do not see that as any sort of priority for Democrats. Now they are destroying the tax base. Not sure how the State will survive this one.
Check this out bro, when you say this, "drove house renters out of their homes, with some winding up on Skid Row downtown." You are completely wrong. You just think they ended up on skidrow. You don't know what you're talking about. The people on skidrow and 90 percent of the people homeless is because of drug and or alcohol addiction. You make no sense. Ok people and their families are going to end up on skid row in tents shooting up and smoking crack for breakfawst lunch and dinner. Those people who lost their rental properties and or homes just move to a different city or leave the state. The people on skidrow are all junkies. I don't get why you idiots believe that people who lost their homes automatically turn to drugs or alcohol and end up living in a tent. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life.
@@livingstonseagull2465 Your right and wrong about the LA situation. Yes LA has a drug problem but the sky rocket prices on homes and high taxes on everything just adds to the nightmare. I grew up in LA and moved out 5 years ago to Texas and out here there's drugs and homeless here too. But the cost of living is much cheaper so it's not as bad.
@@gizmo8304 Dude, I never said that wasn't a problem, I said the working class people don't end up on skid row smoking crack idiot. They always have friends or family they can rely on for a place to stay. They don't automatically end up on skid row or under a bridge. Don't you idiots get it?
I’m in LA and in the last week I went and bought 4 random things off Craigslist and each person told me they were moving away when I picked the items up, people have had it and me too.
Because the police here are not allowed to disturb them. I was told it a civil right. Sucks for everyone that paid for an expensive home and now have Homeless neighbors on the sidewalk. The states politicians are to blame for all of this.
The homeless have always gravitated to CA on account of the warm weather. Those who can afford to move will. As people lose their jobs they will lose housing & will be forced to live in their cars or RV's, & then onto the streets in tents with all their possessions. Shelters will take in a few for 1 night-& it's back on the streets. So we will continue to see more tents in front of schools, shut down businesses, empty lots, freeway under & overpasses, & apt. buildings. They're not all drug addicts or mental cases. I would think it wouldn't take long to get on drugs or lose it with this degree of hopelessness. It's hard to climb out of this situation when there are thousands out here with nowhere to go.
I used to get my car repaired at the fiat shop you highlifhted early on. I used to go on echo park as a child..it was lovely. .Heartbreaking to see so people living on streets..gavin newsome..eric garcetti both need to Go
And while tent manufacturers make a killing like other big businesses, they don't pay enough to their own workers to combat the rising cost of property
@@Gledge9 I guess California is doing it's best then to out price the riffraff as they see it on real property. Move them all down to a nice area in Mexico to let them start their own community.
I've been here 61 year's .it's really sad like a bad movie .I just can't believe the City is not doing anything to help these people ..goes to show you it's dog eat dog here .
The homeless problem will only grow because it is too profitable for our current California politicians. They are paid federal funds and our tax dollars to treat this problem. No homeless problem... no money!! The homeless industrial complex.
Lived in the San Fernando valley, Pasadena, Sunland and Glendale for 58 years. I left in May for the south. I know all the places you showed. It’s gotten a thousand times worse since I left. Sold everything I own just to get out. Best decision I ever made. Now it looks like we’re gonna turn America into California. Angry beyond words.
@@refi6438 Because they have 100% controlled policy in the State that has driven the cost of living into the stratosphere and stopped enforcing all the laws meant to curtail this terrible behavior.
@@kjdinoc umm who has a chance to vote on these policies? we do california voters. we had a rent control on the ballets what did voters do they shot it down. How does that make left politicians responsible? We the people voters are part responsible for this mess too. You are talking out of u as..ss .Some blanket statement about controlled policy says nothing.
LA County just voted in a new DA with the promise to empty out jails and ignore crime. I'm sure that's going to help this situation. That city will be completely unlivable.
@@kjdinoc Cdcr been letting inmates free early since ab109 that was back in 2011 or 12 . Im livable here and so are thousands of other angelinos . This is another conversation . please stay on topic dont blaming left and right for this mess in la. Its deeper than that.
@@shychick96 Plenty of places to put them, San Onofre NPP comes to mind, it's been vacant for years! Or the military reservation between LA and San Diego, with all the troops out defending Israel there's plenty of room!
I think the weather plays a factor coupled with lax laws-hawaii I remember in the 80s had a lot of homeless from other states, I remember being baffled that they lived there TO BE HOMELESS also middle class is so hard to come by-I live in a small rural town in WA now and think man it would be nice to live in the city-these people get all the big city perks/culture in a way..but don’t pay taxes to use them..sounds harsh but am I wrong? It’s so so sad
My partner and I were in California xmas time in 2019 and couldn't believe how many homeless people and people with clear mental issues just walking around the streets. But i have to laugh about all these people in the comments blaming politicians, politicians answer to big business so maybe not support big businesses that support politicians. I don't know how people can just go about their day like this is normal, i bought so many meals for the homeless in America while I was there
@@bendawson1296oh will yell if I feel like it lol why don't you post a personal image...I just love how ppl have things to say but can not show their face Really? You should hear my yelling at our minister of defense
@Ben Dawson this IS the politicians fault. Nobody is forcing them to take the business bribes. AOC is prime example of being purchased by big business. All her nonsense is based on her Gaines from big business. She’s learned quickly from the cheating democrats.
Neither democrats nor republicans REALLY care about us! Because the real problem is that the rich keep getting tax breaks and the poor pay more and more! Anyone below the poverty line should pay ZERO tax, what we have instead is billionaires paying ZERO tax.. To fight poverty and the overgrowing loss of jobs, not just to covid-19, but also other factors such as automation. Our government needs to not only build cheap housing, but implement a basic income system! A system where everyone, no matter their income or social status receives enough 'basic income' from the federal government to survive with! While abolishing things like food stamps and other low income-related crutches. Because in a basic income system, if you can't get by it really is your own fault! What they should do is reduce the amount of income tax paid by the vast majority of our society, while increasing it for the rich! Something like this; Gross 0 - 40.000 = 0% tax
@@Supersly666 Yeah sounds great, but you forget one thing. The rich didn't get that way by being stupid. With money comes power. The power to pick up and leave wherever and whoever is attempting to tax the crap out of them. They take their money and the jobs they create to a place that shows them appreciation. Look at NYC and California, the wealthy are leaving in droves. We the middle class and poor have no choice but to stay, and who's taxes get raised ? You got it ours.
Lmao, I guess you think the deep south is much better that is why year after year Mississippi comes last in everything. The areas of the nation that vote Republican year after year are the poorest, uneducated and ignorant people in the US. I used to live amongst these people in rural East Texas there is not utopia and by thinking if California were to become a Republican state all its problems will be solved. This is like telling a heroin addict if he switches to meth all this problems will be solved. It took 4 or 5 decades for this problem to get this bad and we have had two major economic crashes in less than 12 years. We must acknowledge these facts if we ever plan on truly solving the problems we face. I truly believe if we work together as our founders envisioned than we can conquer our problems but right now that is not going to happen. Republicans must be taught a lesson for their hypocrisy and holding a Democratic president to one standard and Republican President to a different standard. When you set a precedent for one President and violate that precedent once you are in power is beyond hypocritical. Once they are humbled and balance is brought back into our politics than maybe we can start making some headway on the problems we face as a nation.
@@HammerLeafDid you comprehend my comment ? I wasn't blaming the wealthy for anything, I was just stating the options people have when they have money. All I was saying is the politicians cause them to pick up and leave, taking their wealth elsewhere. God bless the wealthy, I'm working on being rich myself 😉
@@HammerLeaf Hah I'm no fool... First off, the government might get over 3 trillion in revenue, but they also have over 6 trillion in spending. Second, while democrats have often done little to nothing to actually fix the problems, republicans just do everything they can to fill the pockets of the rich (both really solve nothing)! Third, with the system that I propose, 99.99% of the population would pay little to no tax. While the extremely rich would pay much MUCH more tax than they do now (of course use of corporate assets for personal use and off shore accounting would have to be addressed). Fourth, this vast amount of tax money could actually solve most of the issues where finance has an impact and our political leaders weren't just filling their pockets (and that of their investors). Fifth, with such a vast amount of tax coming in from the rich, all basic needs could be taken care of, while education and medical could even be free (education is completely outdated and needs a huge overhaul btw)! Sixth, this system would actually raise the standard of living by a tremendous amount for all, while still allowing people that invest their time and money wisely to become rich! Seventh, if corporate income tax was also based on market share, coupled with a basic income system and personal income tax system like this, it would actually be a dream environment for any startup business. Eighth, this system would actually make it easier for you to become a millionaire, but much harder for you to become a billionaire (such extreme opulence is revolting anyways). I can go on and on, but you probably won't get it anyways...
You will not regret leaving. We left 8 months ago and are so thankful we were able to. I think LA is beyond recovery. We were both born and raised in CA, LA area and so sad to see what has happened, but we live in a free state now.
So tell me, who made it this way? Who voted for laws and candidates that made this possible? Why the NATIVE BORN AND RAISED THERE FOLKS. The voters did this.
@@michelestellar153 you are right the concentration of democrat voters put these idiots in office and they have been doing it for years a conservative voter is ignored in CA.
@@michelestellar153 It's because of the drugs coming in. Everyone who is homeless is a drug addict or alcoholic. It's not that hard to understand. There is also systemic and or systematic racism in the policing, the justice system is garbage. There is no true rehabilitation in LA. It's also a very oppressive to minorities. You don't know anything. All you people do is complain.
I moved out of California in 2009, to the east. Due to not being able to afford to live there anymore, while working 2 jobs..I've never seen Los Angeles look so bad.. Its cheaper and safer where I am now, but I never wanted to leave California, but by seeing this, I'm glad I did... It wasnt as many homeless when I was there, as it is now 😳🥺.
What I think is that every person voting in this State should look in the mirror and say to them self "this human misery and what it is doing to the Community is my fault. I did this by voting for the same incompetent people that let it happen and allow it to continue over and over and over again". It's a nightmare.
They won't in fact you see the similar attitude with rich Ithaca NY places like around Cornell!! Not so much with homeless encampments, but the "displays of wealth" are still felt in Ithaca, when the shut down a Dairy Queen to put in more doctors and lawyers offices!!!! And every other company in town is "College town SOMETHING"!! Hell they ripped out the Dunkin Donuts to make it a College Town Bagels, which already had two other locations!
I'm actually embarrassed to say I live here. If people know what it's been turned into they think you have to have a screw loose to pay so much to live in such a shit hole.
From the 50s to the 90s it went from the placed to be where all wanted to come, to the place to leave where many are fleeing. They are right to flee, it's destruction is coming.
I think I will get me a tent and to sell CRACK, opportunity abounds even if its nickles n dimes, I mean if politicians can make money off the homeless situation, I think I got a CRACK at it.
2018 $600 million , 2019 $1.1 billion, 2020 $750 million approved and allocated for homelessness. It’s NOT a money issue it’s CA’s corrupt leadership. Homelessness is profitable in LA and the rest of the state. Over 60% of the money allocated to help the homeless ends up in the pockets of advocates, real estate holdings, and programs that claim to help but instead pay themselves, staff and partners nicely without doing anything to help the homeless. Homelessness has only gotten significantly worse all throughout the state and will continue to after a year of the state being shut down.
I don’t understand how everyone is so easy to blame everyone else. It’s the governor, it’s the elected officials, it’s the recession. How about these people take some responsibility and get some help. There are resources for mental illness, drug addiction, alcohol abuse. All they have to do is reach out. A community cannot possibly seek out all 30,000 homeless, they have to be able to do the footwork themselves. It’s so sad, the homeless population just seems to grow in this part of California. Florida is bad too. I don’t understand how businesses like fiat in downtown LA are possibly staying afloat with this real estate the way it is, let alone thriving.
I‘m from germany and same here. Ever since i was a kid they made it look like the place to be. Then i went to the US and realized how bad it is there... homeless everywhere, poor people, drug addicts all over the place. Like in a third world country. I was very shocked and disappointed. It‘s nothing like on Tv.
I never voted Democrat. It’s unfair to assume I did anything to cause this. I doubt our votes are even counted in California. You may not believe this but there are Americans still here behind enemy lines.
My hometown is wla. Lived in Hollywood on Beachwood and Franklin for 6 yrs this breaks my heart. Just sold my house and moving to Houston. Love the old Cali thanks for 54 years 🤚
don't forget corporations are making more money globally now than they EVER had before and the wealth disparity grows by the day, these people and all people are victims of the true evil parasites up top
It’s true evil that the governor made it legal to shit in the streets and they are using tax payer dollars to hand out clean needles and keep them on drugs.
I use to live in the Palms area, north of Venice Blvd, north of Culver City. I ask my friends and they say that there are homeless over many areas, especially under the 405 under pass. My heart breaks for what is becoming of California. I saw videos of Venice Beach and I can't believe it has fallen so fast. I saw part of downtown, it use to be only skidrow, and now it's over a broad area.
@Zach n' Lindsey G. My rent was $925 from 1991 through 2002. I had a 2 bedroom /2 bath. There was rent control in the Palms area. They raised the rents for the Sun Dial apts on Glendon Avenue up to $2,000+ after I left.
The laws enable this, you can't confiscate their tents or personal possessions. Homelessness is a big business, a lot of people and non-profits are getting rich on it, there is no willingness to want to change things. Things are only going to get worse.
I live is a Midwestern state and have never seen a homeless encampment. There are homeless here but they are not pitching tents on every street corner. Possibly because we have winter here. There is also much more affordable rent here.
We drove to San Diego in 1961 to visit my sister. We drove through LA and I can still remember it. A road sign said population 2 million..that was hard to fathom. Visited a relative in Pasadena...I look at the home movies we made on the trip and it looked so nice. What the hell has gone wrong with America?. Its not just LA ...this country is in a down hill spiral and no one is at the controls.
I was in LA 09/2019 for 3 days coming from Spain. I walked in Venice, santa Monica, hollywood, City Hall and other places. The most beautiful sunset I've ever seen: Venice Beach. I watched the situation above and the two questions that I don't have an answer for is how it came to this? and why (it seems) is only getting worse? I loved Venice Beach but very sad from things that I saw. Cheers
One easy answer. Hyper Liberal Democrats that woke up one day and thought it would be a great idea to stop enforcing all the laws that are supposed to prevent this. They also put all sorts of policy in place to drive the cost of living into the stratosphere. Then they used the Covid to destroy the States economy and here we are.
They told the police not to do anything due to covid, so they go where they want, & unless there is a murder or something that bad, they don’t get involved! They are in most neighborhoods in local parks!
To give you a non political answer, I lived in Rural Indiana and Metropolitan San Diego. California always had an issue with law, order and accountability. Both at the government level and equally important at the parental level. It's been decaying in many areas for a long time. You can prop a society up for a while and not expect them to take responsibility, eventually the cash runs out or you have too many on the system. California now faces both. Many people have no real life skills and no real interest to improve, eventually they wind up on the street add to that a tax situation, rent situation, etc etc etc. It's been the perfect storm. Now people like me are worried we will join them as jobs die and costs continue to rise. I can't wait to leave.
L.A.'s population is huge, so is it's homeless-& that's increasing with businesses closing due to COVID. No businesses-no jobs impacting millions of people whom are living paycheck to paycheck. People want to move but have no resources or family support to do it. The government wasn't prepared for this & can't do anything else but focus on ending the pandemic. There will be a slow recovery once this ends.
Is it really that bad everywhere in California? I am planing to move from Switzerland to the Bay Area. Since we do not have any homeless people in Switzerland, I am worried that it will be too much of a culture shock. Anyone who could help me?
Bay Area? Like San Francisco??? It’s even worse up there. You have no idea. Plus the cost of living is outrageous and I think they will soon tax us if we need to fart.
90% of these homeless here in California are all born from OTHER States. And the ones that are not, they retire back to their own States with their retirement pensions.
I lived in SFV from 2015 to 2017... when I came back in 2020, I noticed the homeless problem like never before. Under just about every highway overpass. It's devastating. I left. My first trip out to LA was 2012... it wasn't like how it is now. Very sad.
Neither democrats nor republicans REALLY care about us! Because the real problem is that the rich keep getting tax breaks and the poor pay more and more! Anyone below the poverty line should pay ZERO tax, what we have instead is billionaires paying ZERO tax.. To fight poverty and the overgrowing loss of jobs, not just to covid-19, but also other factors such as automation. Our government needs to not only build cheap housing, but implement a basic income system! A system where everyone, no matter their income or social status receives enough 'basic income' from the federal government to survive with! While abolishing things like food stamps and other low income-related crutches. Because in a basic income system, if you can't get by it really is your own fault! What they should do is reduce the amount of income tax paid by the vast majority of our society, while increasing it for the rich! Something like this; Gross 0 - 40.000 = 0% tax
@@jackessnvekt Well what can I say, I'm an American that has been around in the world and live in the Netherlands now. I LOVE AMERICA and HATE how the country and it's people have been and still are exploited every day! Yes, my idea is completely alien to modern America, but a basic income system would completely change America for the better. It would not only solve the poverty issues, but illegal activities would be less appealing, due to everyone receiving a basic income anyway. It would vastly increase the income and quality of living for every working American that doesn't make millions a year. Heck it could even revive the American dream and bring a prosperity that not only the American people, but no people in the history of our planet have ever experienced!
Before the pandemic, I've traveled around the world and found every country has own homeless problem. I was shocked when I went to Hawaii in 2009 and found so many homeless around Waikiki beach area. Every big cities in North America have housing issues and this problem isn't just California. Thanks for the video and best wishes.
Living here and watching it grow is different than your opinion when visiting. My experience over the decades speaks volumes. Los Angels always has had homeless people just not at the massive numbers they are now 😢
@@escapetherace1943 it was not even close to being like this in 2014. But it was starting to get here when Obama took office and the. Jerry Brown got to scam everyone out of money for the train to nowhere instead of helping people in need.
@@CrazyDayAdventures oh yeah, it's just a bigger cesspool now. I lived in Seattle a short while ago, big hell hole man... it's jarring and scary to be on the streets, and it's got much worse.
I live on so cal (orange county) the prices on homes are so ridiculous my house 900k, nothing too special, and yet if i go 10 mins down the street this exist too, im leaving for Texas or Florida I havent decided yet. Its like every city is san bernardino now!!!
I'm 65, and got on Section 8 housing a couple years ago, if not for that, I'd be living in a tent somewhere. I thank my Lucky Stars for what I have now. Thanks for posting this video, it sure is sad to see all the homeless. It's the same here in Portland. Mike
If the housing is very expensive, job is hard to get, free camping is the only solution...as we all know sleep in comfort is a luxury thing to have nowadays!
It’s not hard to get a job, they just don’t give work to people who are drug addicts. to the homeless, it’s easier to live off the streets for free, then get a job which unfortunately takes getting off your ass
Getting a job is not hard to do if your not addicted to drugs and the state giving out free needles is NOT helping the situation. The problem is that the state is enabling this to be happening at a larger level and all by design.
True Happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. i haven't come across antone who did't become a better person though love.
Thanks for putting up these vids , we would never see this on British tv news channels !! I visited LA in the late 90’s and Venice Beach was already a little shabby but nothing like this ! How sad 🥲
It's worst in Oakland, where I grew up, you can't recognize it now, same story. We always had the poor, alcohol, and drugs. This is the results of high competition for low end housing. The cheap houses to rent, like when I got out of school 45 years ago. I at 18 having my choice of a lot of houses to rent, cheap! A social worker once told me these are the disconnected American poor. When you flood the cities with harder working poor from other countries, there's going to be losers.
I just moved out of state after living there for 42 years. I feel the same way. I worked in downtown LA and it was horrible. I seen the filth of the filth. I lived in the SFV and all those areas you are showing were not as bad as the video date. I knew it was coming and it's sad. My wife still works there and flys in to town once a moth and it changes and gets worse everytime.
I have watched yesterday few documentaries about Los Angeles I knew for years what was happening there. I have typed in Los Angeles 2021 I was hoping everything is changed and the problem is gone. Well is still very much real. SHOCKING. I was wondering how many streets have you covered? What sort of area? Is that all over LA or just one or two parts?
It’s spreading across the entire state. The politicians are not helping them do anything. One thing they are doing is handing out free needles for them to stay on drugs instead of helping them get off drugs and off the streets. It’s disgusting what democrats have don’t to California. VERY SAD!
I relocated to a few months ago to Florida from Maryland. I was surprised at how many people I’ve met so far from California. Everyone’s relocating here and Texas!
Yup…. I also moved to FLORIDA AND I LOVE IT. Just make sure to vote RED to keep this state part of America. Democrats are obviously destroying every state they get their hands on.
Where it’s legal to do drugs, any of them as long as it’s not a felony amount, prisoners have more rights than us , free food at the taxpayers expense. Taxpayers have no rights , as this is happening in their neighborhood, their kids can’t play outside anymore 😨
In regards to real estate, the city would have to own/lease no less than 5 acres of vacant land and establish it as a homeless facility. Always remember this... 1 acre equals 43,560 square feet.
I left LA over 8 years ago, not because of the homeless problem but because I saw myself in them and if I stay that would be me. Not because of drugs or any vice but because it was too expensive to live there on my salary. So I moved out of my apartment moved in my Van lived in it for 6 months to save some money then quit my job and moved to New Mexico to start over.
wtf? Even MEXICO looks better than some parts of LA County!! "if" y'all think this is Bad, just wait until Rent Eviction Moratorium & Foreclosure Moratorium $ that extra Federal $$ on Top of your typical EDD Benefits EXPIRE. Gonna be Homelessness on a Massive Scale!!
Dude I left in June 2018 with Newsom on the horizon. My prediction of California becoming San Francisco under Newsom came true. Really sa for everybody.
I left Venice Beach in June of 2019 for Florida, best decision I’ve ever made. It’s bad out there.
@A Yeah let's all go to the crapitol..
What part of FL? I’m in TAmpa right now.
@A they always do.
Democrats are destroying this country, they are evil and incompetent.
All states in America have homeless even Florida . California has certain towns no homeless same as your new home Florida. Luck you didn’t buy home in a homeless town good for you 😃
Even if you work 40 hours, it's not enough to afford a home.
Working 80 hours a week still isn't enough there anymore
you need to make $150,000 a year in a household in order to be able to afford a Median Home 30-years fixed comfortably. What you say is an understatement because even if you work 100+ hrs a week in a minimum job, you just won't make it unless you are making some decent cash 😒. I'm from Silicon Valley and honestly, I think its bullshit and full of corruption, Cities are falling all over the place, not just in San francisco and Los Angeles. Redwood City and many more are beginning to feel the effects.
I’ve had to sell my home that my daughter and I have lived in for 20 yrs and am looking for a mobile home to buy. I had no idea how difficult it would be to find a trailer park that would take an aging RN who is about to retire. They are all 55+ and won’t allow my daughter, who is 37, continue living with me there. I have secured financing for up to $180,000 for a new mobile home but got denied by the park itself. They told me I couldn’t afford the lot rent there and that my credit was not good enough to rent their dirt patch. LOL. Even if I were to pay cash for another mobile home in the park..... I still couldn’t live there and my daughter is definitely not welcome!!! The elderly have a market on these mobile home parks. (No offense. ... I’m elderly too.... just trying to be funny to reduce frustration). They get the rent controlled prices etc! ...... I digress.... how did I drive this far off the road. I guess what I mean is.... Who knew I’m not fit for a trailer park in Southern California. I’d be an asset, as @ RN, to an elderly community. I could be their home health nurse and my daughter could run their errands for them. They are missing out on allowing us into their communities.
@@denisebeanblossom1826 Forget about trailer parks - way too expensive. Find an acre or more of empty land that allows mobile homes. Make sure you can install well and septic, and you're in. There are plenty of lots like this that are owner financed (no bank).
yeah youre lucky to get a studio
Boulevards of Broken Dreams is what I see.
Prohibitively high housing costs
No jobs, no homes
No self respect
@@richardscathouse nice
Complements of the Democratic government creating a high cost of living with high minimum wage. All it did is make the cost of housing go up.
Opium....21st Century. we're getting what the Brits did to China back in the Opium Wars.
The city seems bound and determined not to build any low cost housing. Maybe the fear is if they did they would become projects/slums, I don't know the anwser but this is so depressing....
It’s not just California! It’s every big City in the United States. We have the same problem here in Seattle.
Keep voting in demonicrats, I am sure they will fix things. I am doubled over with laughter with the way you people keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
Also in LAS VEGAS NV
Just came from Dallas and can say they have it somewhat under control very little homeless and a lot of security/police around.
In democrat cities
Correction ; it's every big city run by Democrats that care soooo much about poor people.. Supposedly....
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?? WE LIVE IN A SELFISH UNCARING WORLD.
bingo
I feel sorry for the mentally ill people out there but there are so many lazy people who panhandle just for crack and alcohol smh
Exactly. And to think there's no homelessness in North Korea... Ouch! Who would've thought?
NOT IN CHINA
Amen.
most people did not give a $#!T until it started coming to there neighborhood but the ones to blame are your state and local government this has been going on for decades growing each year without a care in this world!
Absolutely right, I moved from Holland to Glendale in 2002, then to the Eastern Colombia building Downtown LA in 2008 and moved back to Holland in 2010. Lots of mentally ill people in LA. People buy $6 steak on creditcard with 10% interest. In debt for life and still buying a new car. Never think of tomorrow and spent it now. Combined with always beautiful weather and people coming from all over the world daily " to make it" what do you expect. It has always been a shit hole in some places. But now at more doorsteps. And don't forget TH-cam and smartphones wasn't that big 10-12 years ago, but "tent city" also existed then. Now just a little bit more and more and more. It's difficult to wake somebody up, who is pretending to sleep
Absolutely true. They kept voting the same SJWs in because they didn't see the homeless/drug street life in their community. Now it is there, and they are pissed. Boo hoo.
there should be a way for average citizen to find out what government officials are doing. we are giving them way too much respect and authority.
Mental health in my area hands out tents to people. That’s there solution to a homeless person with mental health issues 😠
Since when is it the State and Local Government to \Financially Support the Public?
I lived in the SF Valley for 24 years, in Pasadena for 7 years. Things started getting bad in 1982 with the "recession" and then Pres. Ronny Reagan cutting funding for mental institutions with a resultant flood of them being released onto city streets. Then came an economic boom in the mid-late eighties when landlords started buying up rental properties and jacking up rents. Then in the late eighties came a surge in gangs, with gang graffiti being sprayed everywhere, on sidewalks, street signs, walls, telephone poles, freeway signs, and on concrete underpasses. After that came high real estate prices that drove house renters out of their homes, with some winding up on Skid Row downtown. Then in the early '90's came the literal hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants looking, no doubt, for a better place to live than the shitholes they came from. I spent numerous hours at the old Busch Gardens in Van Nuys, went to Universal Studios, ate at Le Petit Chateau in Burbank, learned to drive at the Robinsons parking lot on Roscoe Blvd. Hell the first .30-06 I ever bought was from the Alamo gunstore in SF. But by 1994 I was fed up with the place, and I remember on the day I left, stopping at the CA-Arizona border, getting out and flipping off CA. That was in 1994! I doubt that I could go back there today and live...not just because of the high property taxes but because of the filth you see littering every street. Yes this is what a 3rd-world country looks like. Yes this is what "Socialism" looks like - a mix of greed and high taxes on the people. Such a waste of what used to be called the Golden State. Now a graffiti-scarred, tarnished, litter and rodent infested city dump. Sad.
Aldamiras, you’re not lying! I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I still live here and see the deterioration of my hometown accelerate daily. It’s sad and heartbreaking. I don’t see how this situation can or will be improved.
Reagan was 40 years ago and the State has been steadily turned more blue since then. There is basically no Red left. Plenty of time to build as many nut houses as you want if that were the problem. I do not see that as any sort of priority for Democrats. Now they are destroying the tax base. Not sure how the State will survive this one.
Check this out bro, when you say this, "drove house renters out of their homes, with some winding up on Skid Row downtown." You are completely wrong. You just think they ended up on skidrow. You don't know what you're talking about. The people on skidrow and 90 percent of the people homeless is because of drug and or alcohol addiction. You make no sense. Ok people and their families are going to end up on skid row in tents shooting up and smoking crack for breakfawst lunch and dinner. Those people who lost their rental properties and or homes just move to a different city or leave the state. The people on skidrow are all junkies. I don't get why you idiots believe that people who lost their homes automatically turn to drugs or alcohol and end up living in a tent. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life.
@@livingstonseagull2465 Your right and wrong about the LA situation. Yes LA has a drug problem but the sky rocket prices on homes and high taxes on everything just adds to the nightmare. I grew up in LA and moved out 5 years ago to Texas and out here there's drugs and homeless here too. But the cost of living is much cheaper so it's not as bad.
@@gizmo8304 Dude, I never said that wasn't a problem, I said the working class people don't end up on skid row smoking crack idiot. They always have friends or family they can rely on for a place to stay. They don't automatically end up on skid row or under a bridge. Don't you idiots get it?
I’m in LA and in the last week I went and bought 4 random things off Craigslist and each person told me they were moving away when I picked the items up, people have had it and me too.
Exodus from California. Just don’t vote Blue anymore. Republican states don’t have these problems
Every homeless person that I have talked to have said that they are from out of state.
Because the police here are not allowed to disturb them. I was told it a civil right. Sucks for everyone that paid for an expensive home and now have Homeless neighbors on the sidewalk. The states politicians are to blame for all of this.
@@CrazyDayAdventures the hands off policy is just nuts.
The homeless have always gravitated to CA on account of the warm weather. Those who can afford to move will. As people lose their jobs they will lose housing & will be forced to live in their cars or RV's, & then onto the streets in tents with all their possessions. Shelters will take in a few for 1 night-& it's back on the streets. So we will continue to see more tents in front of schools, shut down businesses, empty lots, freeway under & overpasses, & apt. buildings. They're not all drug addicts or mental cases. I would think it wouldn't take long to get on drugs or lose it with this degree of hopelessness. It's hard to climb out of this situation when there are thousands out here with nowhere to go.
Rather idiotic to relocate to a location that's losing jobs, costs are high. DO YOUR RESEARCH, FIRST ! 🇺🇸
Interesting
I used to get my car repaired at the fiat shop you highlifhted early on. I used to go on echo park as a child..it was lovely. .Heartbreaking to see so people living on streets..gavin newsome..eric garcetti both need to Go
Democrats destroyed what was once a beautiful state.
They criminalize living in your car, but it's perfectly legal to sleep, shit on the sidewalk, do drugs and live outside.
Why can't people sleep in their cars? that is nuts
It's a Democrat thing you wouldn't understand.
Yeah it doesn’t make sense
It’s about money. Always about money. If you have a car then you probably have something left they can squeeze out of you.
@@DennisTheMenace5150 Don't go there because the worst poverty in America is in the Deep red dixie states
Camping Tent manufacturing companies are gonna make a killing durring this Great Depression $$$$
Maybe it is a good time to buy the old FEMA trailers.
Many options to make money. U fortunately the best part is stolen by Gavin Newsom and he thinks we don’t see what he’s doing
@@sloppydog4772 180%....get out of here. that was a real whopper.
And while tent manufacturers make a killing like other big businesses, they don't pay enough to their own workers to combat the rising cost of property
@@Gledge9 I guess California is doing it's best then to out price the riffraff as they see it on real property. Move them all down to a nice area in Mexico to let them start their own community.
I've been here 61 year's .it's really sad like a bad movie .I just can't believe the City is not doing anything to help these people ..goes to show you it's dog eat dog here .
Keep voting for liberals!!
@@gregbenwell6173 The Rich liberals and the rich Republican conservatives. This is even deal...
VALERIE BLOUNT no it’s not.
I grew up in huntington park , in the 80s , now it's super dog eat dog 🐶
@@bigvalley4987 Except you have to think who actually is making the decisions
The homeless problem will only grow because it is too profitable for our current California politicians. They are paid federal funds and our tax dollars to treat this problem. No homeless problem... no money!! The homeless industrial complex.
Democrats don’t care about the people. They are only looking to get money.
Recall Newsom and his aunt Pelosi !!!
THAT'S WHAT'S UP.
85tapedeck thank goodness 😅
And Garcetti!
HeadNtheClouds correct
Recall... And EXECUTE THEM ON SIGHT.
LA was very nice....
Last century
Exactly. And to think there's no homelessness in North Korea... Ouch! Who would've thought?
Yeah, in the Times of Charlie Chaplin..
California was once such a beautiful state.
Lived in the San Fernando valley, Pasadena, Sunland and Glendale for 58 years. I left in May for the south. I know all the places you showed. It’s gotten a thousand times worse since I left. Sold everything I own just to get out. Best decision I ever made.
Now it looks like we’re gonna turn America into California. Angry beyond words.
It’s a sad story
Why aren't they camping out on Newsome front lawn? Pelousy has ice cream just have to ask.
Totally! What that heartless, corrupt, devil spends at the French Laundry for one dinner with our money could feed a normal family for months!
exactly. HIm and Jerry brown should have a community of what they created in their yard.
He doesn’t stay at his crib in Sacramento. There’s been protestors everyday.
I wonder
spent 30 years in los angeles 30 in oakland. im out of here too much of this for me
It’s too much BS to deal with. Liberals destroyed a beautiful state
You can thank the Democrats and liberals for this mess!
Why is it their fault please explain ???This is result of capitalist not left or right! Personal responsibility..
@@refi6438 Because they have 100% controlled policy in the State that has driven the cost of living into the stratosphere and stopped enforcing all the laws meant to curtail this terrible behavior.
@@kjdinoc umm who has a chance to vote on these policies? we do california voters. we had a rent control on the ballets what did voters do they shot it down. How does that make left politicians responsible? We the people voters are part responsible for this mess too. You are talking out of u as..ss .Some blanket statement about controlled policy says nothing.
LA County just voted in a new DA with the promise to empty out jails and ignore crime. I'm sure that's going to help this situation. That city will be completely unlivable.
@@kjdinoc Cdcr been letting inmates free early since ab109 that was back in 2011 or 12 . Im livable here and so are thousands of other angelinos . This is another conversation . please stay on topic dont blaming left and right for this mess in la. Its deeper than that.
It's because it's warm and cali gets homeless from everywhere . Relocate them to open fields .
Do something for you damned six-figure salaries, lazy cops
Exactly. Relocate them to Slab City where its completely lawless
@@shychick96 Plenty of places to put them, San Onofre NPP comes to mind, it's been vacant for years! Or the military reservation between LA and San Diego, with all the troops out defending Israel there's plenty of room!
But let in billion of other people give them homes ., jobs. And the people that are USA citizens. Get thrown out in the streets.
I think the weather plays a factor coupled with lax laws-hawaii I remember in the 80s had a lot of homeless from other states, I remember being baffled that they lived there TO BE HOMELESS also middle class is so hard to come by-I live in a small rural town in WA now and think man it would be nice to live in the city-these people get all the big city perks/culture in a way..but don’t pay taxes to use them..sounds harsh but am I wrong? It’s so so sad
My partner and I were in California xmas time in 2019 and couldn't believe how many homeless people and people with clear mental issues just walking around the streets. But i have to laugh about all these people in the comments blaming politicians, politicians answer to big business so maybe not support big businesses that support politicians. I don't know how people can just go about their day like this is normal, i bought so many meals for the homeless in America while I was there
Walk a month in someone else's shoes...GOVERNMENT IS TO BLAME
@@loriannmcdavid1621 no need to yell
@@bendawson1296oh will yell if I feel like it lol why don't you post a personal image...I just love how ppl have things to say but can not show their face Really? You should hear my yelling at our minister of defense
@Ben Dawson this IS the politicians fault. Nobody is forcing them to take the business bribes. AOC is prime example of being purchased by big business. All her nonsense is based on her Gaines from big business. She’s learned quickly from the cheating democrats.
You wanted Sanctuary and Democrats there are your results
Neither democrats nor republicans REALLY care about us! Because the real problem is that the rich keep getting tax breaks and the poor pay more and more! Anyone below the poverty line should pay ZERO tax, what we have instead is billionaires paying ZERO tax..
To fight poverty and the overgrowing loss of jobs, not just to covid-19, but also other factors such as automation. Our government needs to not only build cheap housing, but implement a basic income system! A system where everyone, no matter their income or social status receives enough 'basic income' from the federal government to survive with! While abolishing things like food stamps and other low income-related crutches. Because in a basic income system, if you can't get by it really is your own fault!
What they should do is reduce the amount of income tax paid by the vast majority of our society, while increasing it for the rich! Something like this;
Gross 0 - 40.000 = 0% tax
@@Supersly666 Yeah sounds great, but you forget one thing. The rich didn't get that way by being stupid. With money comes power. The power to pick up and leave wherever and whoever is attempting to tax the crap out of them. They take their money and the jobs they create to a place that shows them appreciation. Look at NYC and California, the wealthy are leaving in droves. We the middle class and poor have no choice but to stay, and who's taxes get raised ? You got it ours.
Lmao, I guess you think the deep south is much better that is why year after year Mississippi comes last in everything. The areas of the nation that vote Republican year after year are the poorest, uneducated and ignorant people in the US. I used to live amongst these people in rural East Texas there is not utopia and by thinking if California were to become a Republican state all its problems will be solved. This is like telling a heroin addict if he switches to meth all this problems will be solved. It took 4 or 5 decades for this problem to get this bad and we have had two major economic crashes in less than 12 years. We must acknowledge these facts if we ever plan on truly solving the problems we face. I truly believe if we work together as our founders envisioned than we can conquer our problems but right now that is not going to happen. Republicans must be taught a lesson for their hypocrisy and holding a Democratic president to one standard and Republican President to a different standard. When you set a precedent for one President and violate that precedent once you are in power is beyond hypocritical. Once they are humbled and balance is brought back into our politics than maybe we can start making some headway on the problems we face as a nation.
@@HammerLeafDid you comprehend my comment ? I wasn't blaming the wealthy for anything, I was just stating the options people have when they have money. All I was saying is the politicians cause them to pick up and leave, taking their wealth elsewhere. God bless the wealthy, I'm working on being rich myself 😉
@@HammerLeaf Hah I'm no fool...
First off, the government might get over 3 trillion in revenue, but they also have over 6 trillion in spending.
Second, while democrats have often done little to nothing to actually fix the problems, republicans just do everything they can to fill the pockets of the rich (both really solve nothing)!
Third, with the system that I propose, 99.99% of the population would pay little to no tax. While the extremely rich would pay much MUCH more tax than they do now (of course use of corporate assets for personal use and off shore accounting would have to be addressed).
Fourth, this vast amount of tax money could actually solve most of the issues where finance has an impact and our political leaders weren't just filling their pockets (and that of their investors).
Fifth, with such a vast amount of tax coming in from the rich, all basic needs could be taken care of, while education and medical could even be free (education is completely outdated and needs a huge overhaul btw)!
Sixth, this system would actually raise the standard of living by a tremendous amount for all, while still allowing people that invest their time and money wisely to become rich!
Seventh, if corporate income tax was also based on market share, coupled with a basic income system and personal income tax system like this, it would actually be a dream environment for any startup business.
Eighth, this system would actually make it easier for you to become a millionaire, but much harder for you to become a billionaire (such extreme opulence is revolting anyways).
I can go on and on, but you probably won't get it anyways...
You will not regret leaving. We left 8 months ago and are so thankful we were able to. I think LA is beyond recovery. We were both born and raised in CA, LA area and so sad to see what has happened, but we live in a free state now.
So tell me, who made it this way? Who voted for laws and candidates that made this possible? Why the NATIVE BORN AND RAISED THERE FOLKS. The voters did this.
@@michelestellar153 you are right the concentration of democrat voters put these idiots in office and they have been doing it for years a conservative voter is ignored in CA.
@@michelestellar153 It's because of the drugs coming in. Everyone who is homeless is a drug addict or alcoholic. It's not that hard to understand. There is also systemic and or systematic racism in the policing, the justice system is garbage. There is no true rehabilitation in LA. It's also a very oppressive to minorities. You don't know anything. All you people do is complain.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, left 5 years ago the city got many times worse since.
Let’s to Florida. You’re right I can’t imagine going back to
That hellhole
I moved out of California in 2009, to the east. Due to not being able to afford to live there anymore, while working 2 jobs..I've never seen Los Angeles look so bad.. Its cheaper and safer where I am now, but I never wanted to leave California, but by seeing this, I'm glad I did... It wasnt as many homeless when I was there, as it is now 😳🥺.
What I think is that every person voting in this State should look in the mirror and say to them self "this human misery and what it is doing to the Community is my fault. I did this by voting for the same incompetent people that let it happen and allow it to continue over and over and over again". It's a nightmare.
Is it possible to even think the people have voted these crooks into office with all the voter fraud running rampant?
What about those of us who've never voted for Democrats and always supported Republicans in the Central Valley?
@@STMSGGG you are right it is the fault of the people of cal
Not everyone in the state voted for these idiots and who knows if our votes are even counted.
I lived in Anaheim for 25 years I left 12 years ago and I can't believe how bad it's gotten!
It’s an unfortunate situation
Welcome to Obiden's America, enjoy..
this was in the making long before that.
YAWN on that obama hate.
Trump 2024
Basically Obama 2.0
" When There Is No Room Left In Hell , The Dead Shall Walk The Earth ! " 😨
Wow I’ve never heard this quote but seems perfect for the times we’re living in
ALL are Welcome here come on in ...
That’s cute. LA is currently hell for many of its residents.
Maybe all the Californians can take the 'we are better than everyone else' snobbery down a notch or two. Tables have turned lol.
They won't in fact you see the similar attitude with rich Ithaca NY places like around Cornell!! Not so much with homeless encampments, but the "displays of wealth" are still felt in Ithaca, when the shut down a Dairy Queen to put in more doctors and lawyers offices!!!! And every other company in town is "College town SOMETHING"!! Hell they ripped out the Dunkin Donuts to make it a College Town Bagels, which already had two other locations!
I'm actually embarrassed to say I live here. If people know what it's been turned into they think you have to have a screw loose to pay so much to live in such a shit hole.
Exactly!!!!
From the 50s to the 90s it went from the placed to be where all wanted to come, to the place to leave where many are fleeing. They are right to flee, it's destruction is coming.
@First Last let me guess your from Texas
I think I will get me a tent and to sell CRACK, opportunity abounds even if its nickles n dimes, I mean if politicians can make money off the homeless situation, I think I got a CRACK at it.
@CPS NEWS NETWORK well we will start that way, there is competing going on.
Crack is wack
The elected leaders who failed to remedy this should be recalled now
The people who voted for them are to BLAME.
Democrats are to blame
The only defense is snow and altitude, they are repelled by those things.
Not true. A lot of homeless in the coldest places
This is true. Also the ease of getting drugs on the streets.
I dont see tents in the tv shows... Do they clean them up when they film outdoors now?
I’m sure they choose streets without homeless tents for filming or just film in studios
2018 $600 million , 2019 $1.1 billion, 2020 $750 million approved and allocated for homelessness. It’s NOT a money issue it’s CA’s corrupt leadership. Homelessness is profitable in LA and the rest of the state. Over 60% of the money allocated to help the homeless ends up in the pockets of advocates, real estate holdings, and programs that claim to help but instead pay themselves, staff and partners nicely without doing anything to help the homeless. Homelessness has only gotten significantly worse all throughout the state and will continue to after a year of the state being shut down.
This all happed on Gavin Newsom’s watch. Democrats ruin everything they touch
I don’t understand how everyone is so easy to blame everyone else. It’s the governor, it’s the elected officials, it’s the recession. How about these people take some responsibility and get some help. There are resources for mental illness, drug addiction, alcohol abuse. All they have to do is reach out. A community cannot possibly seek out all 30,000 homeless, they have to be able to do the footwork themselves. It’s so sad, the homeless population just seems to grow in this part of California. Florida is bad too. I don’t understand how businesses like fiat in downtown LA are possibly staying afloat with this real estate the way it is, let alone thriving.
You can thank democrats.
There is nothing to thank them for. California is now a shit hole because of them.
States receive $47,000 a year per homeless person now. It seems like they don’t use that money for our homeless population as it is.
Dirty Democrats destroying our country
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Where do they all go to the bathroom, and where do they bathe?
In the streets, wonder why no covid deaths in the thousands in the homeless population.
Streets
They poop in the streets. It’s legal to drop your pants in front of everyone and drop a deuce
I live in England and we still have adverts on tv about holidays in California but we don't see this they say it's wonderful
I‘m from germany and same here. Ever since i was a kid they made it look like the place to be.
Then i went to the US and realized how bad it is there...
homeless everywhere, poor people, drug addicts all over the place. Like in a third world country. I was very shocked and disappointed. It‘s nothing like on Tv.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. I’m showing the truth of Los Angeles
Cali: We need to raise taxes for a homeless program, roads, and teachers union.
Also Cali: Those taxes aren't working. We need to raise taxes.
Why raise taxes because the government has the printing press to create money as much as they wish Brrrrrrrrrrrr........
Here comes inflation because too much money was printed.
My question is HOW DID YOU VOTE? DID YOU HELP CREATE THE MESS THEN RUN AWAY?
I never voted Democrat. It’s unfair to assume I did anything to cause this. I doubt our votes are even counted in California. You may not believe this but there are Americans still here behind enemy lines.
How it's South Central or Compton now with homeless crisis ?
WHAT PART OF SF VALLEY IS THIS? I grew up mostly in Granada Hills in the 60’s/70’s
The beginning is Balboa and Devonshire
My hometown is wla. Lived in Hollywood on Beachwood and Franklin for 6 yrs this breaks my heart. Just sold my house and moving to Houston. Love the old Cali thanks for 54 years 🤚
The old Cali was amazing. It’s sad what Democrats have done to that state. I hope people wake up
And make better choices next election.
This is really sad what's happining now all over the world. So many people struggling to live. Gzzz wishing for the better.
don't forget corporations are making more money globally now than they EVER had before and the wealth disparity grows by the day, these people and all people are victims of the true evil parasites up top
It’s true evil that the governor made it legal to shit in the streets and they are using tax payer dollars to hand out clean needles and keep them on drugs.
I use to live in the Palms area, north of Venice Blvd, north of Culver City. I ask my friends and they say that there are homeless over many areas, especially under the 405 under pass. My heart breaks for what is becoming of California. I saw videos of Venice Beach and I can't believe it has fallen so fast. I saw part of downtown, it use to be only skidrow, and now it's over a broad area.
@Zach n' Lindsey G. My rent was $925 from 1991 through 2002. I had a 2 bedroom /2 bath. There was rent control in the Palms area. They raised the rents for the Sun Dial apts on Glendon Avenue up to $2,000+ after I left.
Venice beach is a utopia for the homeless with drug addiction
Are these places close to skid row?
This is not Skid Row anymore. It’s the entire state that is suffering.
The laws enable this, you can't confiscate their tents or personal possessions. Homelessness is a big business, a lot of people and non-profits are getting rich on it, there is no willingness to want to change things. Things are only going to get worse.
It’s crazy how this is happening. Unbelievable
I live is a Midwestern state and have never seen a homeless encampment. There are homeless here but they are not pitching tents on every street corner. Possibly because we have winter here. There is also much more affordable rent here.
It’s legal for them to shit on the sidewalk in California
We drove to San Diego in 1961 to visit my sister. We drove through LA and I can still remember it. A road sign said population 2 million..that was hard to fathom. Visited a relative in Pasadena...I look at the home movies we made on the trip and it looked so nice. What the hell has gone wrong with America?. Its not just LA ...this country is in a down hill spiral and no one is at the controls.
I was in LA 09/2019 for 3 days coming from Spain. I walked in Venice, santa Monica, hollywood, City Hall and other places. The most beautiful sunset I've ever seen: Venice Beach. I watched the situation above and the two questions that I don't have an answer for is how it came to this? and why (it seems) is only getting worse? I loved Venice Beach but very sad from things that I saw. Cheers
One easy answer. Hyper Liberal Democrats that woke up one day and thought it would be a great idea to stop enforcing all the laws that are supposed to prevent this. They also put all sorts of policy in place to drive the cost of living into the stratosphere. Then they used the Covid to destroy the States economy and here we are.
They told the police not to do anything due to covid, so they go where they want, & unless there is a murder or something that bad, they don’t get involved! They are in most neighborhoods in local parks!
To give you a non political answer, I lived in Rural Indiana and Metropolitan San Diego. California always had an issue with law, order and accountability. Both at the government level and equally important at the parental level. It's been decaying in many areas for a long time. You can prop a society up for a while and not expect them to take responsibility, eventually the cash runs out or you have too many on the system. California now faces both. Many people have no real life skills and no real interest to improve, eventually they wind up on the street add to that a tax situation, rent situation, etc etc etc. It's been the perfect storm. Now people like me are worried we will join them as jobs die and costs continue to rise. I can't wait to leave.
L.A.'s population is huge, so is it's homeless-& that's increasing with businesses closing due to COVID. No businesses-no jobs impacting millions of people whom are living paycheck to paycheck. People want to move but have no resources or family support to do it. The government wasn't prepared for this & can't do anything else but focus on ending the pandemic. There will be a slow recovery once this ends.
Democrats did this. It’s not hard to see
Are there tents also in Beverly hills ?
There are also tents in certain places in Beverly Hills but not in residential areas.
Is it really that bad everywhere in California? I am planing to move from Switzerland to the Bay Area. Since we do not have any homeless people in Switzerland, I am worried that it will be too much of a culture shock. Anyone who could help me?
Bay Area? Like San Francisco??? It’s even worse up there. You have no idea. Plus the cost of living is outrageous and I think they will soon tax us if we need to fart.
isn’t the governor passing bill to tax any one who moves out of cali
The Quicker you can get out the better now
I left Northern California in late 2019. The crud was spreading from LA and SF at a rapid rate.
It's right wing Democrat mayors who allow it..that's why
@@renesagahon4477 RIght WIng DeMOCraTs MAyoR
It’s unbelievable what has happened to California
The city has one big mess to clean up
Charles, they'll never get around to it. SMH
@OhHell_TooTheNo Gee That's right! Biden said he was gonna Halt the Wall project immediately. SMH.😠
It’s a citywide mess
I would like to know what streets you are covering
From the San Fernando Vally to Hollywood, West Hollywood and down Town LA.
90% of these homeless here in California are all born from OTHER States.
And the ones that are not, they retire back to their own States with their retirement pensions.
Looks like the opposite of MAGA.
Precisely why everyone is moving to red states. Dems = Commies
Basically Democrat run euphoria
Great footage
Very sad ending to a dream city
It’s not the end for Los Angeles if people started voting those that did this out of office.
sad to see, everybody should have a place called home
They definitely need some new leadership in California this is ridiculous.
I moved here in '89 have lived in Hollywood and North Hollywood currently. Everything has gone to hell.
We need to vote for better people. Gavin Newsom and his Aunt Nancy Pelosi did this to California.
I lived in SFV from 2015 to 2017... when I came back in 2020, I noticed the homeless problem like never before.
Under just about every highway overpass. It's devastating. I left. My first trip out to LA was 2012... it wasn't like how it is now. Very sad.
This is what happens to all Democrat run states. We need to change the leadership in this state from Gavin Newsom to Nancy Pelosi
Remember, democrats.....you wanted this. You voted for this.
No one gets what they vote for in California, it's totally corrupt
Neither democrats nor republicans REALLY care about us! Because the real problem is that the rich keep getting tax breaks and the poor pay more and more! Anyone below the poverty line should pay ZERO tax, what we have instead is billionaires paying ZERO tax..
To fight poverty and the overgrowing loss of jobs, not just to covid-19, but also other factors such as automation. Our government needs to not only build cheap housing, but implement a basic income system! A system where everyone, no matter their income or social status receives enough 'basic income' from the federal government to survive with! While abolishing things like food stamps and other low income-related crutches. Because in a basic income system, if you can't get by it really is your own fault!
What they should do is reduce the amount of income tax paid by the vast majority of our society, while increasing it for the rich! Something like this;
Gross 0 - 40.000 = 0% tax
@@Supersly666 Mostly, but not all, of your diatribe is about as anti-American as you can get.
@@jackessnvekt Well what can I say, I'm an American that has been around in the world and live in the Netherlands now. I LOVE AMERICA and HATE how the country and it's people have been and still are exploited every day!
Yes, my idea is completely alien to modern America, but a basic income system would completely change America for the better. It would not only solve the poverty issues, but illegal activities would be less appealing, due to everyone receiving a basic income anyway. It would vastly increase the income and quality of living for every working American that doesn't make millions a year. Heck it could even revive the American dream and bring a prosperity that not only the American people, but no people in the history of our planet have ever experienced!
@@Supersly666 Apparently around tax time... I heard a report this morning over 80% of the unemployment was not taxed,
Heartbreaking on so many levels. I can't imagine how many pets have been abandoned.
Animals have it a lot better than some humans
@@pjgreen1786 Not in the U.S. 🤬🤬🤬
See them all of the time, jc, confused animals running every which way.
@@josephkelley8641 That breaks my heart. I just can't believe this is our America.
Thanks Joe Biden for making America a 3rd world country.
What does rodayo drive look like in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills has its own police and they kick people out to the bigger cities to keep it looking clean.
Before the pandemic, I've traveled around the world and found every country has own homeless problem. I was shocked when I went to Hawaii in 2009 and found so many homeless around Waikiki beach area. Every big cities in North America have housing issues and this problem isn't just California. Thanks for the video and best wishes.
Living here and watching it grow is different than your opinion when visiting. My experience over the decades speaks volumes. Los Angels always has had homeless people just not at the massive numbers they are now 😢
I grew up in Hawaii and remember a lot of homeless moved there so it would be easier to be homeless and this was the 80’s.
Thanks for keeping it real.
I try
So sad. I love LA so much. I lived there for several years. I have never seen it like this 😢💔
It’s not getting any better. They just move them from one place to another now. 😢
you obviously haven't been there in several years then
looked like a shithole back to me in 2014
@@escapetherace1943 it was not even close to being like this in 2014. But it was starting to get here when Obama took office and the. Jerry Brown got to scam everyone out of money for the train to nowhere instead of helping people in need.
@@CrazyDayAdventures oh yeah, it's just a bigger cesspool now.
I lived in Seattle a short while ago, big hell hole man... it's jarring and scary to be on the streets, and it's got much worse.
Since you’ve lived there for 40+ years some type of commentary would have been cool, telling us about certain spots and what not.
Great vid tho 👍🏻
Great music🎶 love the jazzy vibe what's the name of the song?
The music was provided by BenSound.com
Hola😄, gracias por mostrarnos,no sabía q existia esa degradacion,pero es debido a la droga?
LA is infested with drugs and illegal immigrants. It’s a sad situation
Hola 👋
I live on so cal (orange county) the prices on homes are so ridiculous my house 900k, nothing too special, and yet if i go 10 mins down the street this exist too, im leaving for Texas or Florida I havent decided yet. Its like every city is san bernardino now!!!
I moved to Florida and I LOVE IT HERE!!!! Just be sure not to vote for democrats again or they will do the same thing that happened to California. B
As someone who lives in the San Fernando valley I can say I’m surprised if I don’t see tents at freeway underpasses.
It sucks. Gavin Newsom ruined what was once a beautiful state
Left LA. County 5 yrs ago.......so glad....live. Riverside County.... no regrets.....2 yrs Florida here i come
Can I come with you?
Yeah, born and raised in LA. Now in Murrieta. It's nice here but I'm sure the blight is coming. Need to move outta state.
I moved to Florida and can’t be any happier. Just remember to vote RED and leave the problems democrats created behind you.
What you see will be nationwide in 5yrs . It's the fall of America ! Ain't karma a bitch ? 😃
What Karma?? This is what happens when you vote for democrats!!!
I'm 65, and got on Section 8 housing a couple years ago, if not for that, I'd be living in a tent somewhere. I thank my Lucky Stars for what I have now. Thanks for posting this video, it sure is sad to see all the homeless. It's the same here in Portland.
Mike
I hope things will change but we all know it’s the Democrats that created this horrible situation.
If the housing is very expensive, job is hard to get, free camping is the only solution...as we all know sleep in comfort is a luxury thing to have nowadays!
It’s not hard to get a job, they just don’t give work to people who are drug addicts. to the homeless, it’s easier to live off the streets for free, then get a job which unfortunately takes getting off your ass
Getting a job is not hard to do if your not addicted to drugs and the state giving out free needles is NOT helping the situation. The problem is that the state is enabling this to be happening at a larger level and all by design.
True
Happiness comes from giving.
Helping others along the way
makes you evaluate who you are.
I think that love is what
we're all searching for.
i haven't come across antone
who did't become
a better person though love.
What if these people don’t want love and help. What if all they want is drugs?
I agree with you. In Los Angeles area , So many homelessrs stick to road.or side.walk. It is horrible.
They are now allowed to shit on the street
Thanks for putting up these vids , we would never see this on British tv news channels !! I visited LA in the late 90’s and Venice Beach was already a little shabby but nothing like this ! How sad 🥲
The government can’t be trusted
It's worst in Oakland, where I grew up, you can't recognize it now, same story. We always had the poor, alcohol, and drugs. This is the results of high competition for low end housing. The cheap houses to rent, like when I got out of school 45 years ago. I at 18 having my choice of a lot of houses to rent, cheap! A social worker once told me these are the disconnected American poor. When you flood the cities with harder working poor from other countries, there's going to be losers.
LA is worse than Oakland. I can put money on it.
I just moved out of state after living there for 42 years. I feel the same way. I worked in downtown LA and it was horrible. I seen the filth of the filth. I lived in the SFV and all those areas you are showing were not as bad as the video date. I knew it was coming and it's sad. My wife still works there and flys in to town once a moth and it changes and gets worse everytime.
Glad to hear you also escaped. Where did you end up moving to? I chose Florida
It;s the heroin, meth, crack, and fentenyol
And Democrats politicians and Illegal Immigrants
@@CrazyDayAdventures like the homeless and illegals who landed on plymouth rock samething .
This is a shame. I left California in 2018 for retirement. My family arrived in Calif in the early 60s. It started going down hill back in the 80s.
I remember when California was beautiful
I have watched yesterday few documentaries about Los Angeles I knew for years what was happening there. I have typed in Los Angeles 2021 I was hoping everything is changed and the problem is gone. Well is still very much real. SHOCKING. I was wondering how many streets have you covered? What sort of area? Is that all over LA or just one or two parts?
It’s spreading across the entire state. The politicians are not helping them do anything. One thing they are doing is handing out free needles for them to stay on drugs instead of helping them get off drugs and off the streets. It’s disgusting what democrats have don’t to California. VERY SAD!
I relocated to a few months ago to Florida from Maryland. I was surprised at how many people I’ve met so far from California. Everyone’s relocating here and Texas!
Yup…. I also moved to FLORIDA AND I LOVE IT. Just make sure to vote RED to keep this state part of America. Democrats are obviously destroying every state they get their hands on.
So what’s the problem ??? THIS is democratic Utopia don’t you know. Get with the program dude.
Where it’s legal to do drugs, any of them as long as it’s not a felony amount, prisoners have more rights than us , free food at the taxpayers expense. Taxpayers have no rights , as this is happening in their neighborhood, their kids can’t play outside anymore 😨
lol, ans so true.... Democrats have had this state of California for decades and Los Angeles???? A big fat sewer
I don’t like that program dude
Hi brother!! Happy I found you. I agree
Why don’t they designate a certain part of LA for the homeless rather than having tints and RV’s all over the city ??
In regards to real estate, the city would have to own/lease no less than 5 acres of vacant land and establish it as a homeless facility. Always remember this... 1 acre equals 43,560 square feet.
Because they're to much trash to pick up in one olace
Can you imaging all the drug use, criminal activity and horrors that would happen in such a place?
Wonder how homeless live to get food, water and shower alone, food stamps, public homeless facilities?
It’s given to them by the politicians just like they hand out free needles for drugs 🤦🏻♂️
I left LA over 8 years ago, not because of the homeless problem but because I saw myself in them and if I stay that would be me. Not because of drugs or any vice but because it was too expensive to live there on my salary. So I moved out of my apartment moved in my Van lived in it for 6 months to save some money then quit my job and moved to New Mexico to start over.
Wow interesting thanks for sharing
How is New Mexico treating you?
wtf? Even MEXICO looks better than some parts of LA County!!
"if" y'all think this is Bad, just wait until Rent Eviction Moratorium & Foreclosure Moratorium $ that extra Federal $$ on Top of your typical EDD Benefits EXPIRE.
Gonna be Homelessness on a Massive Scale!!
It’s already on a massive scale. Democrats ruined this state
Why are there huge piles of literal garbage everywhere?
EXACTLY!!! Why aren't COALITION'S & city leader's standing up against this in America's metropolitan/ major cities!!!?
Tweakers rifle through it, then leave it.
It’s a shit show and Democrats are the producers
Dude I left in June 2018 with Newsom on the horizon. My prediction of California becoming San Francisco under Newsom came true. Really sa for everybody.
Super sad
WHAT PART OF LA IS THIS?
Hollywood mostly and also party of the San Fernando valley.
Former Mayor of San Francisco , now governor Gav No Newsom is turning Los Angeles in to San Francisco. Creating homelessness is his pet project.
This is the result of voting for Democrats that are liars. We need new leadership in California. God Forbid that idiot becomes president.