Downtown San Diego residents wanting to break leases because of the homeless crisis have options
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- San Diego’s homeless crisis is profoundly impacting both people living on the streets and the people living and working near unhoused individuals.
For some people living in Downtown San Diego, the situation has gotten so bad - they want to leave the area and are even willing to break their leases. But moving out isn't just time-consuming; it can also be costly.
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The key is no matter how many homeless and crime. Property tax goes up baby.
I had a similar problem. Homeless people were breaking into apartments and camping outside the apartment building, so my wife didn’t feel safe. We asked the landlord if they own other properties. Luckily, the landlord owned 5 other properties. They worked with us, so we moved into another property owned by the landlord in a safer neighborhood.
and yet you and YOUR PEOPLE always vote Democrat. You caused this happening all over the country. Congrats.
@@SamuelGriffin I don’t vote because it is waste of time. People are going to do whatever they want no matter what.
Great advice 👍 thanks
Good thinking👍
If they allow this to get out of hand there will be no more safe neighborhoods. Imagine what this state or anyone's state would look like if half the population lived on streets, in cars, vans and Rvs because they could not afford the rent. Maybe the WEF wants the world to look like one big Mad Max movie. The rich can hire private security for protection but everyone else will be poor where there is no middle and upper class people. Like they say " people will own nothing and be happy." Well that is if no one is willing to fight for freedom and only obey like little puppies.
This is a perfect example of why I do not sign a lease anymore. I am month to month now, after having a horrible experience at the last complex I lived in.
Month to month is expensive. You’re at risk of rental increases
my complex charges an extra $800 a month without a lease and of course it could go up at any time, I'm in a medium suburb not a more expensive big city so I highly doubt most renters can afford to do that.
Blackrock thanks you for your service :P
@@PJ-gm1hb $800 a month, EXTRA! That's crazy.
The city needs to be held accountable for allowing this sprawling squalor.
What is Martin v Boise decision?
The ruling held that cities cannot enforce anti-camping ordinances if they do not have enough homeless shelter beds available for their homeless population. It did not necessarily mean a city cannot enforce any restrictions on camping on public property.
Unfortunately they used the pandemic money to bail out there failed programs. They were near paying the piper with there disastrous budget but they were thrown a lifeline so now it will have nice time to disintegrate.
Not going to happen.
What does the city do with them? And do you want to pay for it? You pay the taxes.
@@mamatrain100 Yes, I’d gladly pay the taxes to have them removed from public areas and provide them with a “campsite” with access to public services.
Hiring an attorney could cost as much/more than breaking a lease. Story highlighted a horrible problem, but the proposed solutions seemed vacuous.
"hire an attorney" says the attorney
Just withhold rent until it is a few months overdue. Then the landlord will settle for you paying it, rather than going through with the eviction and likely losing out on thousands of dollars. Works every time.
@Dadda Russia TV San Diego I had already followed you before this video! I recognized you in the video.
loser usually pays all attorney fees
@@popehatesrap Exactly - right after acknowledging nothing she could do about it!!!!!
I consider myself to be a humanitarian but this situation is out of control. Those that have fallen on hard times can and do seek space in the shelters. But those that want to do drugs all day, poop in public and steal stuff will never go into the shelters willingly. Frankly, we should not have to tolerate that second group. We need to empower the courts to force them into rehabs. Enough is enough.
Or, the laws could be enforced, and the perpetrators put in jail.
@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 which law(s) are you referring to, and where is there space to jail all of these peoples?
@@toemblem vagrancy, littering, causing a public nuisance. As for space in prisons, at least they’ll be indoors.
@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 ok, thanks for chiming in but there is a reason that is not being done.
@@toemblem yes, democrats don’t like enforcing laws.
It is getting closer to the point where the homeless complain about the noise the one and only housed person is making.
lol, sadly maybe
Let the dogs out on them
😂😭
100 percent - my son was running to WORK one day and kitty cornered across and lawned easement and buddy in the tent screamed " get off my effing lawn."
😮😂
If you want to live in a major Cali city my advice is to try to live on a high hill grounds, where those homeless won't be able to push their bumcarts uphill.
I just spoke with one of my closest friends who live in San Diego this afternoon, he told me last week while on his way home from work he was assulted by some homeless guy. He also told me today his wife was attacked in their own apartment building hallway. He said the police don't do anything and the building manager doesn't care about anything as long as the rent is on time. He said they're moving at the end of this month, and if the manager and landlord don't like it he's gonna take legal actions against both. I told them both I would do the same thing if that happend to me.
@@raffpants618 .. things like that happen, my dad was a prosecutor for a few years before he became a criminal defence attorney for 30 years. He saw all kinds of things while being an attorney.
Tell them to vote red or else
F*CK RED ... VOTE BLUE, UNLESS YOU'RE A NAZI SUPPORTER.
Isn’t democrat leadership wonderful?
@@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 .. alot better than The New Nazi Party Repugs Want.
I’m from NYC and moved to San Diego in 1989. My rent was $550 a month, in Pacific Beach back then, and I literally lived 1 block from the beach. It was such a beautiful city, and I still keep in touch with the wonderful people I met throughout my stay during those days. I left San Diego in 1993 and will never forget the great memories of such a beautiful city, and now hearing about this is very sad, and disheartening.
Pacific beach is not San Diego 😭😭😭and the 80s and 90s were the worst times for this city lol I’ve heard the statistics from those days match up to Chicago today lol you clearly don’t know nothing about San Diego
Who cares boomer
@@stacks7538 your response is indicative of your ignorance.
The rent for the same place now would be $2500 dollars. California has become unlivable.
My best friend is now paying close to $3000 a month to live in PB. it's crazy.
You voted for it. Live with it don't run away to TX and mess that state up.
Texas is already messed up buddy …
Texas is messed up lol every state is in their own way
Texas sends homeless here... Maybe we should ship them back??
@@learnmathwithme3864 except California voted for this and frowned upon other states on how they deal with this issue. You voted for it Bud Light Drinker, enjoy the homeless.
Texas IS just as bad. It is an absolute dump. So is Florida. Crime is out of control there as well. I visit my sister there once a year. I go in hang with my sister and her husband for one week, eat BBQ, and then get the hell out. I remember walking with my sister in downtown San Antonio and heard gun fire. Didn't even faze them. They said oh that just the projects over there. I was shocked.
This is so sad. San Diego was the last big city in Cali that was not totally gone. LA gone , San Fran -Long gone and now SD. California is truly "Paradise Lost".
They’re getting what they voted for and it’s a beautiful sight to see. Hopefully every democrat voter and their families suffer the consequences of their woke decisions. I couldn’t care less either.
@@ryanblanchard2508 I agree but why don't they learn from their mistakes?
How about the other small towns and rural areas? California is a big state. I had relatives who lived there long ago. I haven't been there in years. I am just wondering how these smaller population areas are doing. I know CA has a big economic structure. I believe their economy is larger than some small nations. If some areas of CA are doing better and don't have these problems, what are they doing differently? BTW, I worked in the educational system in Houston for years and helped a lot of at-risk students get through high school and then go on to community college. So I get that this is a complex problem. If people want to make it out of homelessness, they need shelter but also transportation to a job. This usually means some kind of vehicle plus gas money and money for repairs (meaning they have to have a bank account and be saving up for unexpected expenses.) Banks charge fees if you don't keep a minimum balance. So there's another expense. Then if you have a felony on your record (and it can be easier to have a felony than you think), you are really dead in the water. Apartments often won't rent to you and no one wants to hire you. I have wondered if a non-profit could run a "workshop" making simple products so that people could get some work experience to put on a resume. Maybe a bus could pick up people and bring them to work and there would be showers and basic medical care onsite, maybe drug and alcohol counselling. I know that these types of workshops were used at one point to employ mentally-challenged individuals. Could something like this be done with homeless people? Of course, if an individual is truly stuck in addiction or simply doesn't want to follow any rules (and there are a few of those), then you really can't help them. However, I don't feel you have to allow camping on the street. Ugly as it is, about all you can do is provide an area outside of town, maybe put in a portable toilet and do garbage pickup, and that's about it. I guess my philosophy is help those who will take the help but realize a certain portion are going to go their own way. An ugly fact but a realistic one. They don't have the right to just camp anywhere.
@@ryanblanchard2508 get off our dick worry about yourself gang
@@ryanblanchard2508 Exaaaaaaaaaactly... Watch me not care.
California in general is expensive to live, but southern Cali even more. I can't imagine paying high rent and you can't even live comfortably due to your surroundings..
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage.
How do they afford drugs? They steal from stores various items such as tools, baby stuff, hygiene products, and such and sell for little just to get next fentanyl pill. It is an extreme addiction with extreme anxieties. They call it boosting.
These people aren’t on the streets because of finances, it’s because of drugs and mental health.
Bay area is the most expensive
I wouldn’t agree.
Never been to the nor bay area?
The new PC term “unhoused individuals” is ridiculous. If your unhoused your homeless…lol
Exactly… or chided for not saying “those experiencing homelessness”” they’re more concerned once again for labels then anything else. Meanwhile they feel freer then ever to loaf around, attack people, do drugs and shoot up heroin in the open. urinate and defalcate openly in the streets expecting the rest of us to feel sorry for them simply due to them being “unhoused”. Which is socialist code word to indicate the STATE must house them.
I know I noticed that too...ridiculous
The PC term “unhoused individuals” is asinine. Some useless bureaucrats or politicians get paid to concoct such drivel. Then they try to guilt the rest of us into parroting their BS.
The word is "you're", as in, "you are."
Houseless*
Time to recall San Diego mayor Todd Gloria because he doesn't do a damn thing about homeless problem.
What is Martin v Boise decision?
The ruling held that cities cannot enforce anti-camping ordinances if they do not have enough homeless shelter beds available for their homeless population. It did not necessarily mean a city cannot enforce any restrictions on camping on public property.
@D G Not all Republicans are the answer either. Voter had a choice to elect Larry Elder by recalling Gavin Newsom. Larry elders was the high vote getter and would be Governor now. He ran on fixing the homeless situation first
so bottom line: tenant will have to pay a lot. lawyers aren't cheap, neither are legal aids. i called a legal aid for some minor issue and was quoted $675. i ended up researching on Google and did it myself for under $60 bucks
Landlords aint angels. They're the real devils in the whole picture here.
You don't need to be an attorney to do legal work. You need to be a licensed attorney to charge others to do legal work for them.
Contacting a lawyer will cost more that just paying the remaining of your lease and bolting.
Money, money, money. Everywhere you turn. Every s.o.b has their hand out wanting your money and more and more are stealing it one way or another. Those doorbell cameras so popular nowadays show people stealing packages, kids toys in the yard, plants, everything and anything that is not chained down, and even stealing your mail out of your mailboxes hoping to find checks and a few bucks. Many are the homeless, but just as many doing this are neighbors or people who do it as an occupation. Disgusting mess we are all in.
Great Job Sami. Keep up the good work.
As a former resident who grew up in Southern California 60s, 70s, and left in 89: you did it to yourselves. You made a hell hole out of what used to be so awesome.
Correct!
@ What'sreal: I moved to San Diego in 1978 and worked downtown for a few years. When I first arrived I remember seeing a few homeless people between the airport and the downtown area but not many. When I brought my wife and children she was shocked by the number even then but it wasn't as bad as now. We lived in La Mesa for 8 years where we never saw the problem at all. We have been gone for some time and can't believe how bad it's become since that time. What is your take on the reason for this change and how to fix it?
Yup, I grew up here and still live here in S. CA. It was the perfect place to grow up and come of age. When I graduated high school in 1975 it was still like a Beach Boys song.
The slide into hell started, IMO, at the end of the 80's into the 90's. By 2000 the writing was on the bathroom walls. It looks like a Mad Max movie now!
But they already knew that there was a homeless problem, Why did they sign a lease and now want to be 'leaseless'?
@wheresimpreza They don't know Murphy's Law, I assume.😷
3 years ago there was approximately 1500 unhoused individuals residing in downtown. A recent report suggests there is now between 8000 to 10,000
I lived in downtown San Diego back in 2002. The homeless crisis in the East Village was so bad then the first thing I was told was not to go there (I lived in Little Italy.) No, this isn't "new". It may be worse, but it isn't "new". Too many of these tenants just didn't do their due diligence and thoroughly research the neighborhood before signing the lease. That's why I have no sympathy for them.
they pay premium...for a ghetto neighborhood...Id get an attorney asap and get my money back....
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage.
How do they afford drugs? They steal from stores various items such as tools, baby stuff, hygiene products, and such and sell for little just to get next fentanyl pill. It is an extreme addiction with extreme anxieties. They call it boosting.
A lot of them are also wealthy foreigners causing rental hikes. They are not in need of housing. They wanted to come now they can deal with the realities that they are apart of.
What would an attorney other than collect money. You signed a contract.
@@hspatel1799 move and be done with it....I know it's a contract but move....You may give up your deposit but whatever...
I can promise these landlords are going to be as difficult about it as possible
the developers created the crisis, its the "jewel city" model that has been developed in about a dozen or so cities, I live in Atlanta which is one of them. The idea was to create a city center for the wealthy to "live work play" only you get this instead. All the "play" gets pushed out too, independent clubs and restaurants can't afford rent, instead we get dollar stores and quick trips, only big corporations like that can afford to do business here. its a total wash, and academics in urban planning were warning of the socioeconomic problems before they started building. There just isn't affordable housing available in these cities, they start an affordable housing project and its filled before they open, its a couple hundred apartments and 3x the applicants.
@@notverynotoriousg5674 Yes. It was an unsustainable model from the very beginning
lol it's Cali tell them you're breaking the lease and moving out and they should give you back fees or you'll stay and stop paying rent. They won't be able to evict you for 1+ year and have to pay a ton of attorney fees. If you stop paying rent they will work with you to get you out.
@notverynotoriousg you're right, and it's the same thing in many other cities in the US. In Orlando, for example, the only place we can afford living is 1 hour from the city. So 2 hours a day just commuting to work.
@@philipp3001 Ugh. That’s a rough commute. Sorry to hear buddy.
I been attacked 3 times living in East Village in the past 5 years. The last one I got hit from behind by a crazy person and was rushed to the ER in an ambulance. The cops did nothing, they issued a citation to the crazy person that attacked me from behind and the City Attorney refused to press charges. I called them for a year and they finally returned my call a day after the one year statute of limitations to file charges ended asking me how they could help me. Absolutely ridiculous! Two weeks ago I went to the post office and a crazy man comes rushing out of a camping tent chasing me with a crack pipe and a gas torch in his hand, I literally ran to the middle of the street as cops were passing by and I flagged them down, the cops waved at me, laughed, saw what was happening and kept driving. I called SDPD to report them and when they found out why I was calling they put me on hold for 2 hours on the phone and then hung up. That's SDPD for you. But you will see them taking naps while on duty around the community college and other quiet areas. Why are we paying their salaries for? BTW All three times I was attacked was in plain daylight going to the grocery store. I carry a high powered pepper spray gun concealed in a bag now every time I walk out the door, its simply not safe!
Allen I’m sorry to hear that 😅same issue here. But it’s close to my work I have no choice and East village is cheaper than Other places in downtown. And quieter than the Gaslamp district! May I ask when what time was that happened that the person hit you ? Just curiosity
@@HeHeHoLo around 5PM on a weekday, came up running from behind, I heard loud running thumping sounds coming up behind me before the lights went out, he was a big guy too, it happened on 14th and J street
@@thenarrowwaydisciples that’s so scary 😟 I thought it’s at mid night. Can’t believe it happened in day time 😭😭😭I only got robbed one time in front of Gaslamp sign there last year at midnight.
This comes with the territory of living in the urban jungle.
Make plans to get out of the state. That's really your only option. It's not going to get better until more people vote with their feet. And think about your voting choices. California's political choices have led to the situation it is in now, not random circumstances or some uncontrollable outside force.
The news needs to stop labeling drug addicts as homeless and call them what they really are. The people who are truly homeless and want to get back on their feet shouldn't be put in the same category as drug addicts. Drug addicts prefer to be on the street and close to where they can get drugs. If they are doing drugs in public they should get arrested. If they get arrested too many times they should go to prison. The City leadership is too busy ribbon cutting and patting self on back.
but so many are drug addicts
LOL. Every city council, board of education and county supervisor meeting I've watched they spend half their time thanking and congratulating each other.
Bingo. Same thing here in New York. But they have the subway system here. That’s where they shoot up when it gets too cold.
They decided years ago that it is cruel to jail people who are suffering from the disease of drug addiction. They will not arrest them. They also will not force them into treatment. They are waiting for them to wake up and choose treatment. Seems pretty inhumane to let them fend for themselves. But what do I know . . .
People don’t generally become addicts out of boredom. They’re usually trying to escape some kind of pain. It may start out as a bad choice but before long it is basically a medical situation. Asking addicts to “just stop” may sound reasonable but it’s not like the world just offers a hand up once you make that move. It is extremely difficult to make that transition. Many of the people who speak so casually about it don’t have the willpower to do it themselves. It serves societies interest to rehabilitate these people. Prisons are not humane or cost effective.
Many downtown shopkeepers want the hell out too! The bad news is there's no guarantee that any new place they go won't turn out this same awful way.
I agree with you about no guarantee because homeless are spreading throughout sandiego. Every area is threatened.
The homeless like warm weather, you need to move to places where it is cold and gets a ton of snow every year. Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, the Dakotas is where I would go if I found myself facing homelessness.
Providing “free” housing is a waste of money and does nothing. Many turn down offers of free shelter because that means they have to be sober. They’d rather live in a tent and be high all day. Arresting them and either offering rehab or time in prison is the only way out of it.
Wrong!!!
Shelters can be dangerous..
Their is no housing in San Diego no options..
I just came from overseas for one month vacation, and initially I planned to spend it all in SD downtown, but one week later I changed my mind and moved to mission valley.
I’v seen ppl vomiting in the sidewalk, using drugs, collapse, and it’s smell bad whenever there are homeless
this getting out of hands, and those ppl need help and attention, we cannot ignore them for ever
We will send them to live in shipping containers put in desert cities soon.
Isn't that too bad that you were inconvenienced. While most of these people who are homeless once lived in houses and were priced out of the real estate as they got older or handicapped. why don't you just go back to where you came from if you don't like San Diego. A lot of these people slaved away at minimal wage and now can't afford the rent if they retire I'll get old. everybody has the right to live and some are not living as well as others isn't that too bad that you were inconvenienced. It doesn't matter what religion you are most religions preach that you should take care of the people who have less. Take care of the old the disadvantaged the week it doesn't matter if you're a Christian or a Muslim. you can't call yourself either if you are complaining and not helping!
@@dougca7086 I could not agree more
Vacation. You’re not even from here. Go home and gather facts about how it is here. Please
MV isn't exactly a shinning jewel either! Alot of human trafficking, homeless, and drugs!
It's horrible downtown. Smells like piss in doorways. Some homeless tents smelling like feces. Crazy people are yelling for no reason. I don't blame them for breaking leases.
That is what water hoses are for.
Money needs to be spent carefully, for me choose investing my money properly rather than spending like a fool.
To get rich in life, you need to spend less and Invest more. You don't expect to spend 90%, invest 10% and sit to make more wealth.
So correct you need to live well below your means
Not really below your means, but have a profitable investment.
For sure, you're right,
Starting early is the best way of getting ahead to build wealth, investing remains a priority. I learnt from my last year's experience, i am able to build a suitable life because I invested early ahead this time.
It's a shame the homeless crisis now CONTROLS the city, and after numerous discussions, meetings, and proposals about how to "solve the problems" for years, it is now an EPIDEMIC!
This report is going to make it more difficult for landlords to get future tenants to sign leases, which will contribute to partially empty buildings, and a decline in discretionary income spent on bars, restaurants, etc.
San Diego is in serious trouble! 🤔
San Diego is on it's way to become another Detroit. That's why they are starting to open up Casinos. They are already planning for the future.
“I have a plan” - a disgruntled painter turned politician from Austria
Arnold Braunschweiger?
All of the "smart" people should have invited a couple of the down and out, dumb homeless people to their meetings, and discussions, or at least had a conversation about rent control and other likewise ways to have an inclusive community the right way.
Some of the landlords purposely keep their buildings partially empty anyways to drive up demand excusing this horrid practice on software and the "market."
It's already happening, and there's always someone who wants to sign a lease.
In case you haven't noticed, the political system in most California cities are allowing the street takeovers by homeless people. There are plenty of laws against living on the sidewalks but are not enforced. The leaders of San Diego allow this blight.
Jails are full, and his isn’t a left/right problem it’s a basic infrastructure problem. It’s also a weather problem. Nobody wants to be homeless in the north east!
@@magesalmanac6424 please tell me how much money the feds have set aside for infrastructure improvements? I'm betting most of the money is going towards the democrats and their pet projects.4300 pages of a budget that just cost taxpayers 1.7 trillion dollars that we don't have...but I'm sure the new 87 thousand irs workers will pry it from your personal bank account.
I can't imagine paying thousands of dollars a month to be surrounded by squalor and destitution. But where do you expect these people to go? Enforce all the rules you want, but you're still going to have 100s of people with no shelter. They can't just disappear.
@@CameronCourts Yeah, OP is not being very compassionate & empathetic. So are a good number of people who leave comments on other videos pertaining to the homeless crisis -- just an absolute, total lack of caring for these poor people in their poor situation! These are NOT vermin or pests to be gotten rid of -- these are HUMAN FREAKING BEINGS, & they should ALWAYS be treated as such.
Also, you sound like one of those A-hole Republicans who unfairly blame all urban problems on Democratic leaders, without actually looking into how, why, & with whom said urban problems ACTUALLY start. I'll give you a hint: These things have NOTHING to do with Democrats!
I was stationed in San Diego from 2001-2004 and the homeless problem was out of control back then as well.
I haven't been to downtown San Diego for 6-7 years. It looks like it has gotten far worse. I recall a concentration of homeless near a Greyhound station and a few here and there. Not overwhelming. I really didn't see any at the tourist destinations. There were lots of condo and apartment complexes going up. Downtown is looking more like Los Angeles' skid row.
It is very bad, my spouse has a channel of all his daily encounters from living out there.
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DTLA is mad max now
San Diego is the perfect place for homeless to be all over the place. I am surprised this huge crisis didn't happen sooner because the weather is not bad and the homeless can survive out there because it doesn't really get that cold at night expect for a few weeks during the holidays. The beaches from Mexico to Ventura are literally riddled with homeless. It makes a bad experience for people that want to visit beaches. You are either hit up for money or the benches are dirty or there is garbage or other nuisances all over the place. For example, free parking structures tend to smell like urine. They basically take over the best areas of the City that people go to get away.
We all know the complaints, what we don't do is solve the problem. End stage capitalism puts people on the street. Drugs are a cheap comfort compared to housing and mental health care.
If you had to live out of doors, wouldn’t you also choose the best parts of the city? Just saying
A solution I would suggest is the city could just close a golf course and relocate the homeless there. After all, tents were made for camping on grass.
I avoid parks because the homeless took them over. I miss the balboa park rose garden. 🌹
It's the same for the weather in Central Florida down, but it's generally not tolerated except for liberal Miami(which is turning and sent their homeless to...) and Fort Lauderdale, downtown Lauderdale is the worse, they let a tent city flourish right beside the library, they broke it up after a couple years but they just dispersed over to the train station and McDonalds and the surrounding roads, whole town smells like urine and a young girl got attacked on the main street couple weeks back. I lived in El Cajon back in the 80s, shame SD got so bad.
San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Denver, LA, Seattle . . . . too much enabling, not enough policing, stupid laws passed by progressive city councils, literally too much compassion for people that are homeless by choice and prefer to get high instead of contributing to the community.
I was in San Francisco in 2019 and the homeless situation there was insane. Combine that with the rise in people breaking into cars, and the insanely high prices, many parts of California are a no go for me in terms of living there. I know the homeless situation isn't easy to deal with, but it's a problem that has to be solved.
I spoke at a conference in the 80s in SF....
You could see the homeless problem back then....I was shocked and I come from Chicago...
I've been to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, each city several times from the early 90's into the early 2000's and from what I see in those places just in the last decade alone is about 100 times worse than what I remember.. it is really bad, really, really bad and I thought it was quite bad 20-25 years ago.
It seems like the crisis multiplies at least ten times each passing year. I love California, beautiful state but you couldn't pay me or give me a vacation to go into any of those areas. It's like the people (those with a home) have been conditioned and they either are not allowed to say anything or don't realize just how bad it really has become. I understand some people will get chastised and berated if they speak up.@@mackthnife3
Downtown San Francisco is literally worse than a 3rd world country.
It’s all by design. The homelessness industrial complex. Politicians are the culprit and they should be punished for this crime.
@@marcodarko6941 in terms of your last remarks, I see that here in chicago in relation to violent crime...I used to live on the north side for around 25 years...very hip...lots of fun...safe as can be even late at night...now I see young people on the news being interviewed blocks from where I lived talking about carjackings like they are hot dogs.
I think many are committed by lease or ownership and are in denial to maintain their sense of sanity...very sad...
I can’t believe this is America… what happened to this country? What went wrong..
Drugs happened,tons of them.Illegal and legal.
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We have been sold out are u still asking this question, cmon!
It's just California because it's a shitty blue state that hands assistants to homeless so much they don't bother trying to get out of being homeless. They have the 45 percent of Americas homeless in that one state, which I still dont understand because 80 percent of Americans live on the eastern coast. The rent rate is bullshit 2500 up for a little space that you could be sharing. Just move if you cant afford the roof over your head.
What happened? Oh idk.. Biden? Democrats? Lawlessness? Drugs? Open borders? Illegals? Soft on crime bills? Buying votes by printing money and damage the economy with inflation? Money laundry to Ukraine? Oh trust me a lot have happened from both parties but what the damage the democrats did the past 2-3 years is very severe and you will suffer from it for years and years to come .. 30,00 pages of loans to Ukraine as we speak! We will pay for it for years to come .. so Joe can protect his crackhead son from getting exposed further ..
I visited San Diego just one time in 2015 and was amazed how beautiful and clean it was. I fell in love and planned to move there by 2020. Well, life happened, I didn’t move, but hearing this downtown homeless issue, is very sad.
It'll get much worse before it gets better. The younger generations are largely ultra left wokies, and they will vote in politicians who make today's leaders look like Ronald Reagan.
You got lucky.
Was in downtown on a somewhat quieter Saturday night 5 or 6 weeks ago and noticed the usual homeless person or persons at pretty much every block I drove past. Then parked right next to one that was just standing there watching. Thankfully wasn't accosted. But the thing that really stood out was the smell of urine permeating the air every second of my 3 block walk. That whole area smells....bad.
People are crazy enough to pay 3k+ a month for this!?
State officials within California must really despise their citizens. It's only going to get worse with the coming food and energy crisis.
Why do you think they are leaving?
Why dont they move all those people to the Midwest in the middle of knowwhere cities and make it illegal to camp in downtown and residential areas
They don’t care.they benefit from it.they are in nice locations far from the issues
and the stock market crash of 2024
Why do you stupid people think this problem was caused by politicians? Did Donnie tell you that only he can solve all our problems and you believed him? Like a complete idiot would? We have plenty of food and energy, you moron, what we don't have is affordable housing for the non wealthy, or mental health and addiction services. Couple that with no place to but them and not enough mental health facilities and here we are. That is a greed and speculation problem caused by the real estate industry inflating housing and real estate prices to make easy money, not a political one. What do you think non wealthy families do with a out of control family member with addiction, or mental health problems? They ship them off to a city were maybe the can get some free care, or die in the streets, or they end up in prison. Oh, but it all the generic state officials fault, says the clueless simpleton.
This issue is not a California issue, but a nationwide issue. At this point, it’s criminal negligence of our local government who allow these issues to grow and flourish. We are not safe in our cities, our kids are not safe in our cities. Nothing that has been proposed or enacted has alleviated the problem.
This is absolutely taxation with representation and we must demand that our government enact change.
I'm surprised that there has been no national attempt at a tax revolt. Years of public funds being transferred by federal and state governments into corporate coffers.
You voted for it, you got it.
What is Martin v Boise decision?
The ruling held that cities cannot enforce anti-camping ordinances if they do not have enough homeless shelter beds available for their homeless population. It did not necessarily mean a city cannot enforce any restrictions on camping on public property.
@@edgeinscarride You keep copy and pasting that bullsh!t. Exactly who do you think made that decision and made it happen? That's right, the elected and appointed officials kept in place by the voters who keep voting straight blue no matter what the results.
@@Robnord1 wow you are stupid if you think elected and appointed officials can just overrule the 9th circuit court . I have no idea in what bullshit world you live in but I live in reality.
So how does it feel to be not only stupid but a fucking clown .
@@Robnord1 🤡
Just live it out until the yearly lease is over and move out!
No.
My daughter is leaving her apt in Austin in a nice neighborhood because a low income building was built across the street from her. Somehow, that attracted the homeless. She doesn't have to break a lease, fortunately, but it's expensive to move. The authorities don't care.
Why are we not talking about what caused this crisis !? Corporate America priced people out of a place to live. With how much people are payed to work & the cost of a dwelling........it's upsidedown. ✝️❤️☮️🙏🇺🇸
At least you get it. Other people say it’s drugs and people not working. I don’t live in SD but I work every single day and am still struggling to make ends meet. Everything is so prohibitively expensive that it’s hard to keep off the streets. Hotels are so expensive I can’t get any money saved for deposit, 1st and last, etc. there needs to be affordable housing situations. I don’t ask for much. Maybe somewhere safe to sleep in the car and take showers and the smallest possible storage unit for my belongings. I’m single, no kids. I don’t need much space. But the small spaces I am seeing are too expensive even if I work as much as I possibly can.
*paid
Yes!!!
@@tybarker5038 I know how you can make more money with only the shortest of continued education.......the job is CNA. CNA is certified nursing assistant. I don't know what state your in but a lot of places sometimes schools sometimes facilities will even pay for your education. I think it only tooke 2 months training or educating me before I started my job. It is the world's hardest job but I am mow making over $25 an hour & I have job security like you wouldn't believe.......I don't even look for jobs but I get emails begging for me to work for them. The job is very hard but also rewarding. Sometimes a facility will have you work as an aid while your getting your certification. Like I said don't know what state your in but check into it.
@@saraxdouglas8577 Good information. Thanks for sharing.
Open air insane asylum .
smells like a sewer too
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage.
How do they afford drugs? They steal from stores various items such as tools, baby stuff, hygiene products, and such and sell for little just to get next fentanyl pill. It is an extreme addiction with extreme anxieties. They call it boosting
You can thank Ronald Reagan for the mentally ill out on the street .And ohh the was a republican .
Well put
Well stated....
We have the same nightmare in San Fransico where city and state government have severely mismanaged the situation, I have no companion or patience for the homeless drug addicts. Hope they all expire from overdosing!
99.9% of the homeless prefer living in their own filth and outside civilized society. Put them out to sea on a cruise ship that "accidently sinks", but make sure there are no innocent animals involved in the "accident"
The lack of affordable housing in metro San Diego is rediculous. I'm amazed that there aren't hundreds of thousands more homeless here.
Every local government it the US caused this problem by mandating single family homes and restricting density. If you're going to be homeless, take a bus to a sunshine state.
@@fluxcapacitor1621 In most states there is still affordable housing. In San Diego area the California Realtors Association ownes the politicians and local government, making all housing scarce, contruction rare, and prices obscenely high.
Thank you Newsome, Pelosi, Harris, and Biden. You've done a bang up job.
@Neil Deep you have issues.
the fact that u facebook dwellers can really blame an entire crisis on politicians just because you don’t like them due to things told to you by whatever party u favor when this is a crisis that has been going on for decades is actually embarrassing and so ignorant. Get a life
I left California in 1978 because I thought it was becoming unlivable even then. All of its problems for the past 20+ years have been completely foreseeable. The same situation exists with many US cities now. Yet… so many people who live there refuse to realize they are getting exactly what they voted for.
Oh wow, what a friggin genius you are, right?? GFY, you lying pos. Why do you hate filled, useless Donnie lovers think the homeless problem is the fault of politicians?? Besides the fact you are stupid??
The stench is horrible! I am so glad I don’t have to live nor work down there😔 Wishing the best to those that have to deal with it AND I hope there will be a solution to fix this someday soon🙏🏾
yup! really bad
yeh quit voting blue libtards
“Talk to the landlord about a settlement”. … it is the bad actors in the real estate market on a national level who have been ARTIFICIALLY INFLATING RENTAL PRICES by working together almost as one large company.
😂 Ok. But id you want to understand real estate prices, then take a look at zoning and regulation. Or, you can blame developers.
Stop using unhoused. It is homeless. I left downtown for this exact reason. They are disgusting and have ruined the area. The city needs to remove them and do something with them. It is horrible!
"unhoused"? What a stupid term.
It's the new politically correct terminology...oh my
Shocking how the Government of California has allowed this to happen all over that great state
Shocking that the *people* of California keep voting straight democrat ticket no matter what kind of results that consistently gets them.
@@Robnord1 Shocking at how the Donnie party has no solutions in mind whatsoever. Besides concentration camps, of course.
Exactly how is the " Government of California " whatever the hell that is, responsible for our homeless problem? Or are you just parroting something a hysterical liar told you? Why does that dictator wanna be think he can just wave his hand and all our problems just disappear, poof, like a magic trick? Also, why do you people think everything is political? Is that something else Donnie told you to think?? Next thing you know, the Dems will be blamed if the weather is not perfect everyday. ' They are controlling the weather now too, I tell you!!! '.
@@ww2remembered983 I'll let you in on a little secret ww2remembered. IF you were a real person, with at least 1 video showing me your face and revealing even a little of who you are, I'd give you a nice, well thought out reply to your comment. Instead you are some nameless, faceless human, and it's as if you're standing behind a 15' high wall flinging balls of sh!t at random people you don't like or agree with. Rather cowardly tactics. I travel a lot and speak with lots of street people. I am a centerist...not a leftie or a rightie. I live 40 miles north of the sh!thole called Seattle. I know exactly what the strategies of my community are that keeps this a nice and relatively safe place to live. I would share those insights with you if you were a real person, and if you had an open and inquiring mind, but alas...you are not and you do not.
Rob,
a 69 year old man out in the sticks in northern Washington.
@@Robnord1 Republicans nearly bankrupted the state, prioritized luxury developers, destroyed thriving communities of color to build more freeways, marketed proposition 8, would've definitely allowed COVID to spread even more, handled the crime wave of the 80's and 90's pathetically by just shoving people in jail thinking that crime was just going to disappear😀 not to mention their current support of laws targeting women, immigrants, and the LGBT community is unacceptable.
When you participate in gentrification by buying & renting overpriced condos & apartments whose construction kicks out & displaces residents from affordable housing & you’re mad that those past residents are now homeless have no where else to go & would rather stay in the city for easy access to everything & shelters & now it’s an inconvenience to u 😢
the government should force these people to shelter. if they refuse, send them in jail or mental health facilities, if needed to be.
We don’t really have mental health facilities. We need to open up asylums again
The other night I came across a woman wedged in between a small structure and the convenience store at a gas station between Del Mar and Solana Beach. She was clean, neat and had her belongs packed into small satchels. When I came back out of the store I was prepared to give her 20 dollars if she needed it (and did) and she was in the midst of collecting her belongings (again neatly packed bags for travel) and moving off the gas station property. I drove away but could not stop thinking about her possibly having to stay as close to that brightly lit convenience store as possible all night long (it was only 6pm at that point). I thought out my plan and then went back and asked her if she was in trouble. She nodded "yes" and then briefly told me her name and that she was an artist. She had come down from Northern California and thought she could find housing (am thinking some sort of agency help with finding shelter). I don't know anything about how she wound up her situation but she could have left an abusive partner and had to come up with some sort of plan quickly (she came down from another extremely expensive town on the California coast), she could have reached the end of the line economically in Northern California and thought she could fix her situation better in San Diego, or I don't know what. All I knew is that I couldn't bear the thought of a woman in her mid to late 40s, maybe early 50s, sitting out on a curb in the dark and the cold alone all night. I got her a room at the Hilton across the street. At least she had a warm room, a nice bathroom, and a lock on the door from around 6:30pm to 11am. Unfortunately, that was a god send to her that night but what happens after? The receptionist at the Hilton told me San Diego is notorious for not having enough shelter space or housing for people in this woman's situation. The woman did not in the least come across as mentally ill and she wasn't on drugs. If she has to live on the streets for an extended period of time, she will come across like that to most.
San Diego…no….the whole country is a shadow of its former self.
You get what you vote for, and lot's you didn't
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage.
How do they afford drugs? They steal from stores various items such as tools, baby stuff, hygiene products, and such and sell for little just to get next fentanyl pill. It is an extreme addiction with extreme anxieties. They call it boosting.
@@voodootrucker1896 yup.
Florida has never had it better....even after getting rocked by a hurricane.
@@johnbeckwith1361 damn here in San Diego there’s homeless everywhere
This doesn't even look like my hometown of San Diego. I lived downtown between 1990 and 2005 and we had like 4 homeless people, typically begging on 5th Avenue and a small cadre at Island and 7th... hardly any homeless people. Glad I escaped in 2006 to Joshua Tree, CA. San Diego went from a paradise town of a few hundred thousand in 1949 when I was born there in Ocean Beach, to an overdeveloped nightmare of millions when I finally fled in 2006. It's unrecognizable to me now. Sad.
It’s a shame California local & state government allows this to happen. Residents pay taxes & help to build their community, but have to live amongst dangerous & unsanitary encampments that have rats, needles, feces, and urine. There should be an ordinance that nobody is allowed to live/sleep on sidewalks or at parks. Homeless people who have mental issues or drug addiction should live at state run shelters or facilities because they can’t take care of themselves.
Who pays for the "state run shelters or facilities"? Oh, that's right. 💡💡
@@Harry-nn4px Fools do
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage.
How do they afford drugs? They steal from stores various items such as tools, baby stuff, hygiene products, and such and sell for little just to get next fentanyl pill. It is an extreme addiction with extreme anxieties. They call it boosting.
@@Harry-nn4px dummy we already do. You leave them out there they’ll cost you ten times what it’ll cost to shelter them, the public eyesore, unsanitary health and living conditions that someone pays for, you got ppl breaking leases and losing money, it’s a public safety risk so you gotta hire more cops. It just costs so much money that it’s better to house them
That’s the problem. Everyone wants the homeless people gone but no one wants to pay for it. So now what? Do you just start taking the homeless out Old Yeller style?
I left 14 years ago and use to go downtown all the time. I’m so glad I left but it was bad then and whenever I go back to visit it’s even worse. My heart goes out and many prayers regarding this situation 😢
It's Like Going Into A Lost World. We Left & We Don't Look Back. San Diego To Seattle All Democratic Disasters. How People Can Live With Themselves Is Astonishing. I Have My 40 Acres & A Mule. No Your So Called Leaders Have Failed The Masses. Greed! How The Covid Situation With The Homeless! All B.S.
@Dadda Russia San Diego News omg I’m so sorry that’s awful wow
I used to live and work in San Diego for 2.5 years between 2019-2021. I used to live in East Village on the 13th street which was only 5 minutes walk from Convention Center. Beautiful part of downtown of San Diego, so it was not long time ago that I left San Diego. I remembered that during my time in San Diego there were not many homeless people in East Village. It seems like the homelessness increased very rapidly in the last 1.5 years.
The homeless bums are going to California from all over the country. CA offers them benefits and has better weather than Chicago!
It's the new western migration only this time, they are on drugs!
If you offer it,,,,they will come! Tell your friends. We can all live in tent communities do our drugs, steal, shit on the streets and harass the working residents. CA will provide, you can walk into any store, grab what you need without paying with no consequences for theft.
When Biden took over everything turning to a disaster!
Those residents should be suing the city for having to move. It's incredible to me that people will pay taxes to live in those cities then not hold the city responsible for not doing their job. Which is what people pay taxes for. Literal clown world.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage.
How do they afford drugs? They steal from stores various items such as tools, baby stuff, hygiene products, and such and sell for little just to get next fentanyl pill. It is an extreme addiction with extreme anxieties. They call it boosting.
Then American blue collar works should sue the State Gov for losing their jobs due to harboring and exploiting foreign blue collar workers living here illegally.
drug-addict problem, not homeless problem
That goes hand in hand.
Plus laziness.
Affordable housing crisis. Look at San Diego rents. Can you work a normal grocery store job and afford these insane rents? How can a society function if low paid workers are forced to live on the streets? Why do only rich people born into money get to have a home?
@@tybarker5038 At some point you have to ask yourself...If housing is universally high priced in an area, exactly *why* do the poor remain there. Take the time to interview street people. 1.climate 2.free handouts 3.their addict and criminal behavior is tolerated. Overpriced housing 🤣🤣
That has nothing to do with it. They don't want housing. They want 1,2, and especially 3.
@@tybarker5038 There are many places you or I cannot afford to live...move to where you can afford to live.
FYI... Homelessness will always persist in areas where affordable housing options are no longer unavailable🥴
That's basic cause & effect, guys🤷♀️
You can't price people out and expect them to disappear.
THAT PART.
These aren't regular people without homes. People who can't afford to live here have moved elsewhere. These are all drug addicts and mentally ill people for the most part.
@@ucsbgirlie18 The rest of us know mental illness should receive treatment, NOT punishment & cruelty... We also know people in hopeless situations are far more likely to turn to drug abuse, self deletion & criminality for obvious reasons... Many likely wouldn't have ended up on the streets had there been more affordable housing options available, but
whatever generalizations & excuses you need to believe in order to continue ignoring actual humans in need, go for it🥀
@@corlenajames1381 yes
@Corlena James1 How many addicts have you personally tried to get into treatment? If you did, you'd know it's extremely difficult. The homeless outreach team is constantly trying, with very little success. Hopeless situations are not a new thing. A society that allows addicts to freely use drugs on our streets is. We have to stop enabling drug use. My safety should not be less important than someone else's refusal to get help.
I've lived in Detroit my entire life and we never have allowed tents on the streets... this is such a west coast thing I'll never understand it. The city provides shelters for the homeless for the most part. I dont blame these people leaving San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. Truly disgusting there is no law enforcement out there to fix this problem with the homeless.
You can provide shelters, but you can’t force people to live in them. They want to use drugs, and shelters do not allow that, so they stick to the streets.
@@stephenlight647 ... but you can force people to use them. You provide shelters, food, medical and work programs. They must present a photo ID and are allowed to stay for 6 months, if showing improvement they can stay longer to succeed. If not, they get bussed out of county and cannot return for 2 years. The city/county has a 2-hour loitering law, a no camping law, a no panhandling law, no littering law, no being "under the influence" in public law, etc. The police should be arresting them, anything on their person gets put in an envelope and returned upon release. Anything not on their person gets impounded (just like anyone else), they either pay for the return of their impounded items within 30 days or they get sold at auction or thrown away. You can make people follow the law ... the government and police just aren't doing their jobs ...
I was born & raised in San Diego, laws like I mentioned used to exist. I have wonderful memories of San Diego, I was fortunate. The West Coast's Democratic/Lliberal attitudes have ruined some truly beautiful states. We need to bring back RESPECT & TOUGH LOVE
@@kimmidojo6102 This is so true. This is how Detroit works, and is only getting better which is why downtown is booming with new construction projects and people moving back downtown. They feel safe and its clean. There are homeless in every city but Detroit is nothing like what you see out west. I have friends in San Francisco that pay over 5000 a month for rent and there is human feces and needles and tents when they walk out their front door. And only getting worse.
Don't they live in abandoned houses? And no one has a tent in Detroit cause that's how you die in the winter 😂
No they dont.... thats just the media spin on detroit. You can't even get a studio for less than 1500 downtown. The bad houses are in the outskirts of downtown. The city has been progressively tearing them down and turning them into new apartment buildings. Major gentrification going on, but the homeless are dealt with entirely different than like out west. Tent living would never be accepted, or any of the bs that the west coast allows. No wonder everyones leaving California. Its ran by morons.
What a shame. I've only been to San Diego once, about 12 years ago, and It was one of the nicest cities I've ever visited.
You get what you vote for. CA state has been mismanaged for a while now,...while San Diego used to be a jewel in Southern California, it is turning into Los Angeles South. Delusional leadership and glad this is happening because sadly people/voters have to learn through pain. High rental rates because of high mortgage rates, and when ppl cannot afford homes, they stay in the rental market. You can also thank your debt growth measures (Inflation reduction act, Non stop stimuls spending, printing money, etc.) for all that. Talk about people being instruments of their own destruction. Have no sympathy for the current residents of CA (used to live in San Diego and San Francisco. Glad I left years ago, best decision I ever made. Nice weather, beaches and in n out are great for visits but unsustainableon a faily basis). That state is rapidly declining due to the politics. I know this comment may sound harsh but come on ppl, time to wake up. You can only tell people so much, sadly ppl have to experience this pain themselves before waking and the cracks in the managementare really starting to show. The homelessness is sadly just one vignette of other problems (debt, immigration, crime, housing sustainability/affordability, revenue, etc.)
Right on! Just fled San Diego a month ago after being a lifelong resident of 50 years. I can’t believe they said “unhoused”!?! Just WOW. Maybe by giving them that term it will magically solve the problem. Meanwhile Mayor Gloria says he’s working on it and is called out by Bill Walton for being the typical politician of broken promises. What a circus of a city and state. Couldn’t stand living there anymore with the outrageous housing prices on top of gas taxes and everyday essentials. Only the rich can’t be bothered by it. They’re in a glass bubble out there enjoying the weather.
Of course, everything you've said is true, but you'll never get straight democrat ticket voters in California's major cities to do anything different. They will keep voting for this utopia until they die...or when their cities burn. The sane amongst them get out, and move where human leeches are punished and ejected.
My dad delivers mail in DT and got assaulted with on of these the homeless/criminals. They attack people unprovoked! And they know calling the police is nearly useless. Advice: start carrying pepper spray or self defense tool.
Or, better yet, a gun.
that's a pretty big deal beating up a postal carrier. Pop's might want to have the postal inspector types deal with this instead of the local cops.
Recent example comes from Chula Vista where a homeless guy came up behind a young woman sitting on a bench waiting for the trolly and dragged a knife across her throat.
Before I moved downtown I used to feel bad for the homeless. But after constantly walking around their feces, urine, used needles and garbage, my sympathy has begun to run out. We shouldn’t have to put up with this. Downtown is not supposed to be some paradise for the homeless to lay around in their own filth-while news anchors tell hardworking citizens how to break their lease early so they can move out.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Assuming unhoused people are in living in some outdoor urban paradise laying in their own filth, is ignorant. Shelter is a human necessity. This is a policy problem NOT an individual problem, offer tangible resources or keep your negative unhelpful comments to yourself.
The more homeless, the more billions the city and county get and they spend a small percent. They use majority for special interest projects, bike lanes, pension debt etc. If no home
Also, paying those who work for the Government within the Homeless Industrial Complex six figure salaries. My neighborhood has a canyon next to it and it's 3 miles from downtown, I went for a run on trail this weekend, human feces everywhere. Disgusting.
@@TheSnerggly More human feces than dog feces and rats galore in East Village
A few years ago Austin (another city with ever increasing cost of living and an ever increasing homeless population) bought a building somewhat near where I live for homeless services. The city paid 9 million for that building yet the price of the building was listed at 3 million. Rampant corruption across federal, state, and city governments. I don't know how that particular example of money laundering worked but it's obvious certain individuals made out like bandits on that one.
Hey San Diego , you voted for Gov Gavin , so you literally voted for this problem. This is what you chose
Not me.
This story is crazy. Where I live, even though it's a 1-year lease, they don't legally bound you to it. If you move, they just want a 30-day notice if your lease is going to be broken. That way they can go through other tenant applications.
It's these overpriced downtown luxury condos that are contributing to the homeless crisis in the first place. Granted, it's only one of many causes, but I have trouble feeling sorry for the tenants and landlords.
True those luxury towers replaced the cheap hotels many of those people lived in giving them nowhere to go.
@@danieldaniels7571 Bingo. Reno is going through it. I see all kinds of buildings going up with luxury in the title. No affordable housing being built.
Luckily from here on out every development is required to set aside at least 15% affordable. State housing law.
@@WizardDonrune that's not enough, and still for many it's not affordable.
They replaced the affordable residential hotels and businesses with overpriced everything. They called it redevelopment.
San Diego's government has caused this problem because they only have homeless services downtown. Homeless services need to be supported in each community not just downtown.
Every local government it the US caused this problem by mandating single family homes and restricting density. NIMBYs are to blame.
this goes back to the 50s, the real cost of building the white suburbs was shouldered by the inner cities. There are are nifty tricks the govts and businesses pull if they want something to pass or not because they know the voting base, the city residents vote progressively, and the suburbs vote against everything progressive. If you don't want public transit tax to pass you get all the neighboring counties to vote on it too. if you want the tax to pass you just get the city to vote.
@@silentcatshhhh there 18 cities within San Diego yet homeless shelters are downtown where are the other homeless shelters?
Are you kidding? The more homeless services that are created, the more homeless people come to take advantage of these services. Why do you think the problem keeps getting worse?
@@jasonjames4254 so how you doing in your narrow minded world with shelter and food🤯
Imagine paying $4,000 for a 1 bedroom with a balcony just to overlook people pissing in the streets.
It's not just San Diego it's the whole state of California that is messed up. Before moving back to Boston when I was in Southern Cali 2012 I had never seen anything like it before just homeless people everywhere but, now it seems all U.S. cities are having an influx of homeless people moving into cities all over. We complain here about the methadone mile in Boston but, California's homeless population just doesn't compare. I never saw anything like that before in my life. I have heard that it just keeps getting worse out on the West Coast. Many of the people I met and made friends with have since moved out if San Diego. It's truly sad that this is happening all over 😢
What is Martin v Boise decision?
The ruling held that cities cannot enforce anti-camping ordinances if they do not have enough homeless shelter beds available for their homeless population. It did not necessarily mean a city cannot enforce any restrictions on camping on public property.
It’s the entire west coast including Seattle and Portland.
California is idiotic. Losing millions in tourist dollars. Always wanted to see more especially the north coast, but now there are nicer places to visit.
@@cherryfireice8216 go see the north coast it’s still fine just stay out of SF.
Boston???? Oh you should worry because this crap will hit your city too.....Your goon of a mayor, Michelle Wu is your version of AOC and hell bent on making that city more "progressive"....
California you voted for this!
Not only the lease issues, but a lot of the apartments downtown dont have parking garages if they do i know its an extra $$$ for a spot (in some). So that means a lot of residents have to park their car out in the street where the homeless are just going around breaking in to cars or damaging them for no reason. You also have to park blocks away on weekends because its still very busy. I moved to the east village in 2017 and moved out 2018 because we noticed the homeless issue was just getting started and it was ridiculous having to smell sh!t and physically see it on the ground day after day and being harassed. Its so sad but glad i got the heck out of there
I work in that area, IDK how anyone would want to live there. Downtown San Diego is beautiful but it's not worth paying all that money in rent for an area that is overrun by the homeless. It's dirty, dangerous, and full of unsightly going ons.
Goings-on
@@zachkonicek thank you so much for that! You knew what I meant though right?
Every large American city has these problems.
My city is 500k. Fast growing area. Not one sidewalk tent or park tent.
@@GUITARTIME2024
Very doubtful.
The safety of tenants absolutely should be a valid reason to break the lease
There’s a law that says you can’t block a sidewalk. The police need to get the green light to enforce it. Then they need to find a place to put these people. They stay downtown because that’s where the shelters are and they want to stay near them. It’s a shit situation but either house them or move them or arrest them for breaking the law. Go politics 😂
Chief of police works and carries out MAYORS agenda.
They also stay downtown to be near the dealers, same as in SF.
@@thomasgentry6201 That Sissyneck ?
@@coheedfan1012 Good thing Fentanyl is a final solution
The disability act prevents people from blocking the street.
Can someone explain how unhoused is a better term than homeless? Silly wokeness and word games.
60 years ago these folks were called "vagrants".
Some call their vehicles home.
be quiet sheep. put your mask on and line up for your bimonthly booster.
@@thebroham5239 Far from a sheep. My comment proves I’m not a woke loser. Need to learn reading comprehension. Very plain to see. If you’re that stupid you must be the sheep voting democrat.
Would ' outdoorsman ' suit your manly-hood better? How about this: Let's not make a political mountain out of a grain of sand here, okay Donnie? Also, you have a better chance at understanding something if you are fully awake. Not living in a alternate dream state were confusion, delusion and paranoia rule the day. So, have a great daylight hours!
This is a very sad sign of the times. I lived in the Golden State for a decade and San Diego was always the city everyone wanted to live in.
The last time i visited Balboa Park in 2014, it was still nice, but this video does not make me want to go back.
You vote for clowns you get a circus.
should have looked before they leapt...don't blame the homeless, many are decent
@@MONEYAINTATHANG100 I only care about the ones not on drugs. How much is that, like 1%? .... The others can move to their own island.
Do you really think you have a choice in 2024 of who gets elected??? If you haven’t figured it out yet, they are chosen….
Why do people in CA all seem to put up with this living situation? They say the rental market is hot and they could easily fill the unit at higher prices. So if people don't like it, why don't they move somewhere else and why do they keep voting in the same people with the same failed polices. If we want change, we need to do something different.
Imagine paying $4000 a month to walk outside and see people pooping and pissing in front of your apartment. To have to listen to these people at night yelling and screaming "you took it, where's it at." or listen to a female screaming "stop" is super annoying and scary.
I don't have to imagine I lived through this and moved.
Anyone who pays that much to live in downtown San Diego needs their head examined. Fyi: the East Village has ALWAYS had this problem. It's not new. The only difference now is as opposed to being concentrated in one area (East Village), the homeless are now EVERYWHERE. But still ..it isn't a new problem here.
I live downtown and also feel this way. What’s the point in living downtown when you can’t even enjoy the experience because it’s so nasty with eye sores everywhere. I can’t believe these worthless politicians allowed it to get this bad.
You don't live downtown. You fool nobody.
Keep voting democrat 💙
You forgot the Open Sores as well
@@BradPitbull and crime, inflation, taxation, pestilence, and pestilence is all you get
@@BradPitbull democrats and republicans will not solve the homeless issue because they make too much money off of their gullible voters by telling them it’s the other political party’s fault for their misery.
Let the homeless claim California, if you are a rational human being just move out of that state
Some of us can't unfortunately
@@Baraka_Obama_ Can't means won't. I was born in California but am elsewhere because I refuse to tolerate what it has become. The ONLY people who truly can't leave are those behind bars or those without the mental capability to escape.
I live in a small town here in south Texas outside of Corpus Christi. There was a proposal to add a mini bus station so residents could travel between towns. Many were upset when the residents in my town demanded and local politicians shut the proposal down. The neighboring towns when through with it and called us small minded. I wondered why and later understood to keep the homeless and panhandlers from taking bus rides to our town. We have no homeless and panhandlers in my town because residents will not give out money or food and there is no bus stops for them to hang out at. There neighboring towns are now dealing with the homeless people issues.
What a bunch of heartless pussies. ' Oh, we are so scared of people who are not just like us and may have some problems, since we are perfect and all and have some things that others don't '. How Christian of you chickenshits! ' Oh, we can't have transportation for young, old and working people because we are afraid of some homeless people might be commuting to panhandle in our perfect little town '. Pathetic, but typical of Texas. Don't you wimpy a-holes kidnap immigrants and bus them all over the country to try and piss everyone off and blame the Dems for all our problems? Talk about undesirables.
@@ww2remembered983 put your money where your mouth is and be a good Christian. Why don't you take 10 of those filthy meth heads into your home give them a places to bathe eat and sleep. I bet you will do like all the other good Christian folks.
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I'm glad we don't have homeless issues in my town.
I am living in Galveston, Texas since November 2021, and we have no homeless nor homeless people issues as well. I have been in Corpus Christi twice, and I liked it. Beautiful town.
@@neuronneuron7304 not what it was 15 years ago. The it was the sparkling city by the sea
@@tranger4579 I was in Corpus Christi in 2022 and in 2023.
Voting left has consequences.
Hunter, you are mistaken those poor people don't need or want jobs they require treatment for drug dependency and or mental illness. The homelessness problem is complicated and made worse by those politicians who enable them.
I live outside Seattle and see the destruction drugs take on those vulnerable people every day. It's heartbreaking.
Other metro areas ship their homeless to San Diego County, offering one way bus ride.
Those with mental health issues need to be forced to receive the care they need.
Those with drug addition issues need to be forced into rehab.
You are correct...but the Dems don't want that.
I don't live in downtown but I work there everyday. There isn't a day where I don't see meth heads pissing out in the open, harassing people. Not too long ago some crack pot was throwing the silverware and dinner plates at the customers in my restaurant until security was called, it's crazy out there.
I made a few trips to San Diego back in the late 90s…didn’t see anything like this. Sad what America is turning into as this situation is widespread.
If I could. I would move as well.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage.
How do they afford drugs? They steal from stores various items such as tools, baby stuff, hygiene products, and such and sell for little just to get next fentanyl pill. It is an extreme addiction with extreme anxieties. They call it boosting.
Same here. I love my high rise apartment but downtown is unbelievably nasty.
You can move now. You can get in contact with me and I’ll pay you more than you pay for your rent and take care of your place!
Can't means won't. ANY reasons you formulate are excuses.
But they still keep voting blue
I'm in Seattle and we have the same thing. The entire West Coast is like this.
Left coast.
The West Coast tolerates this. If a mayor were to actually do something they will certainly hear it from the homeless advocates. I think it's time for some tough love action now. Being nice isn't working.
I heard Seattle has homeless. Still better than any part of California. I moved to New York last summer, and it was in my opinion better than California. However, this month, I am temporarily back in California due to some issues, so unsure when I can return back to New York or even leave California.
Clearly, the solution is for us Californians to continue to elect the same kind of politicians who have let this problem begin, grow, and fester. The ones who tell us that more “task forces” and clean-needle programs will put things right. No matter how badly things are mismanaged, no matter how ineffective are the measures taken, no matter how obvious it becomes that our current ruling class has absolutely no idea how to fix this, CA voters must continue to vote for anyone with a (D) after their name.
I live in DTLA, Downtown San Diego isn’t anything close when it comes to homelessness lol
Newsom sanctuary state policies have consequences- yet most voted to not recall him and actually voted the dolt back in office 🙄
You're an idiot that is talking about something completely different than the homeless AMERICAN problem. If you weren't so ignorant, you would take a look at the majority of the homeless and realize that they are white people who were born in the United States who have drug problems or mental health issues.
I hate people like you.
Many who voted for him are far removed from the results of his policies unfortunately.