Denver's Homeless Problem Is Nuts! (Behind The Scenes)
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- We will never solve homelessness. We have to get used to that fact.
In this video, I talk with people on the streets as well as other homeless advocates. This episode took place in Denver, Colorado.
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Maybe you could go to Carbondale and document the Venezuelan migrants? It's not far from where I am in Colorado
Are you currently in Colorado?
You're soft like melting table butter. He's speaking the truth. This state is a mess and it's because of Democraps like yourself!
Rocky mountain high
The only way that you can get the carts out of the parking lot is to put the carts upside down and drag them out once you get them 100 yd away the wheels will not lock😂 I seen someone doing it one day and I asked him why they had it upside down and that's what they told me😂
If someone who was once making $100,000 can end up on the streets, then nobody is safe from being homeless.
It takes one major thing to happen
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Shout this louder for the ppl in back ❤ I wish I could like this a million times ❤
It's because families no longer function. Muslims and Jews aren't homeless in the streets. I wonder why. Take note.
Youre right
I hate to see our veterans on the streets, and we're giving billions of dollars to other countries or the migrants😓
That's a damn fact! And they say they want to work. Basically creating a hand out society.
This is not immigrants faults ! This is your POLITICIANS and POLICE officers faults !
@@nanni8629 No. ILLEGAL immigrants.
Just because they say they are a vet, doesn't mean they served honorably. A lot of vets got kicked out.
@nanni8629 Immigration doesn't help, as there isn't enough housing for everyone!And billions goes towards them.
What isn't immigrants fault is these bums taking drugs. I would swap an immigrant who wants to work for these crackheads any day.
Homelessness is everywhere now and it’s getting worse! 😢
All by design.the powers that be used to be ok with people owning some things..not anymore.theyre putting the screw tighter every day.this problem is and has been outta control for a long time.if we all came together we could over take them but they are experts at keeping us divided
Very sad,
I just went homeless. This is why my plan when I get back up on my feet is to leave the US. These problems are only going to continue to get worse as both parties mess up the country.
Truth it’s gotten worse everywhere
Good thing America found $95,000,000,000 to send to Ukraine and Israel...
This is so sad. It's more than just a drug issue; we need affordable housing in this country!!!
Go to Degenerate Uncle Joe for affordable housing
Bums trash the affordable housing and bankrupt the landlords.
These druggies couldn't afford 2000 a month, much less 5 a month.
Its drugs
When you become tolerant of everything, cuz that fits your apparent political ethos, then the snowball becomes a full on avalanche
I was renting in Santa Cruz CA
My landlord told me she was gonna double my rent. I could’ve easily been homeless. I moved to Texas. I knew no one. I got a job. I saved for 2y. I bought a small home in Coleman Tx. I’m doing great now, thx to the landlord who was gonna double my rent
You played you're cards right & you're probably not a junkie. Don't understand why more don't do that, get outta there. Oh but we like it here or all our friends are here. F... that,self preservation for me!
@@richardmorris7063 I love California
The weather is great. The ocean and the mountains. It’s just too expensive for me.
I go back 3-4x a year to visit.
Drugs are the real problem. High rents , normal people move.
What kind of job? Coleman, TX is a pretty small town.
Don't bring your bullshit politics from California to Texas
The dude said he couldn't do random food off the street, but random fentanyl was no problem. Holy holy crap.😢
Courtesy of the federal govt. very nice of them.
@@martinel2450 Anything the government can do for everyone. They are so nice!! Idiots they are!
Good point.
Lmao
Ya..food can mess you up immediately because of bacteria……drugs are synthetic and take time to do the damage
Thank you for opening American eyes to the homeless apocalypse that is spreading across our country. You are making it hard for people to close their eyes to the truth. Maybe when enough eyes are opened we can force the change that needs to happen
The Zombie Apocalypse wasnt about zombies.
My Mom works at a grocery store in Denver and the employees will get fired if they try to stop a shoplifter. Its sad
Disgusting...
Safeway? I qork at Safeway in Denver....yup they come in grab bewr and loads of food and walk out of the door...
I live in Denver and within the past 3 years the homeless & migrants have ruined the city completely. As a native, it’s terrible and definitely not going to change for the better
I am bothered by the fact that the majority of voters voted for this. So, this is what they wanted. Hmmm.
Thank the politicians and the constant Democratic voters. 😂😅
@@Cornbread-gi6kt I think you mean the Californians that invaded.
I believe these ultra left policy states are now owned by china and will be annexed sometime within the next five years. I especially feel this way after Newsom’s visit with the dictator. Canada as well!!! Oddly enough, both Canada and California have plans to ban gasoline vehicles by 2035… coincidence???
@@mountainmonk5874 Biden and his administration. When all those people stormed the capital the guards were shooting the people, people died. But when the migrant population storms American cities the migrants are rewarded with benefits, resources, and privileges.
Sucks ! Grew up in Colorado we didn’t have those problems decades ago . Very disturbing
Positive correlation with turning solid blue. The science is settled
Agree!
Same here in Portland oregon. Portland used to be a place I'd tell friends they should move to. NOT NOW!!!!!!
They voted for this crap
Like the majority of other homeless-plagued cities Denver is under the influence of wacky blues.
I appreciate the work you do Nick. I have to mention though Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana was a massive, long overdue development that drew in many types of people, from folks like these here to PhD students, medical professionals, lawyers, and many others. Nobody winds up homeless because of weed though but some stoners are homeless because of the cost of living. I'm one of them. I work full time and would rather save my money than hemorrhage it on rent. I've been in the workforce 20 years and finished college twice while smoking weed everyday. The problem is housing genuinely fails the cost-benefit analysis. It's gotten so out of control that the only way to be financially responsible is to cut it out of my budget.
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Came here to say similar! Thanks
90% of us are one paycheck away from joining them. We are not free.
Me and my family was homeless living in a hotel for 2 years. We are blessed to have our own places now. This upcoming March will be 2 years of me living in my current apartment. Stay blessed everyone!!
How did you manage that? I'm in a 2/2 apartment and it costs me more than a hotel would. How could you afford a furnished apartment with maid service cable TV and all utilities included?
90% of this is not homeless my friend . Drugs and culture and woke Govt is the problem.Good luck to you and yours .
its possible we get alot of homeless at the property i work for most are through united way or a church and most we have to kick out to do drugs and them trashing the room and property the others most of the time get arrested cause of theft or credit card fraud hotels are not cheap now our weekly rate is 535 now was 350 2 years ago but due to inflation and companies taking advantage of it prices are through the roof @@The2ndFirst
@@chloeew4627 There is a reason most people are homeless. It's drugs.
@@chloeew4627 lol go woke go broke ig
Downtown Denver NEVER used to be like this! What a shame. Happening in cities everywhere.
They should have tough love cold shower rehab. Get people off streets.
I worked at the Sheraton Downtown Denver hotel from 2010-15 and there was always an immense amount of homeless and druggies sneaking throughout every crevice of the hotel which was a huge problem. I can't even imagine how it must be now 💀
No sense in loseing sleep over a situation you've no control over😉.
CAREFUL CAREFUL YOU COULD FIND YOURSELF IN THE SAME PLACE SOMEDAY 😐 THERE'S NOBODY BETTER THEN ANYBODY 🕊️
Amen ❤🙏🙏
LOL, no.
Facts people are quick to judge not know the reality of this crazy life
@shoechew um Huge yes , this could be any one of us you never know to think your exempt makes you look silly but do you .
lol, yes@@shoechew
As a young teen, I used to walk the streets of Denver. I never felt unsafe even past curfew. Now I would never walk those same streets. Never.
My husband and I recently went on vacation and stayed on 16th Street Denver. The hotel was clean and the restaurants were nice. I don't understand why people say it's so horrible.
That injury is from drugs not work
@@Spoiled_horsegirlyou just didn't pay much attention. It's worse than you think 😭😒😡
@@healthysupereduardo2222 I had no complaints. The hotel room was clean and I had a great time at the Denver Zoo.
@@Spoiled_horsegirlyou must of been in better area!!
Be kind! Most of this is a perfect example of the mental health crisis! If we don't treat and help the mentally ill, chronic pain patients and other vulnerable people it's not going to get better.
This was an eye opener. Excellent journalism. You get into the causes of homelessness which is good. Our congressmen need to see these videos.
You know it’s getting bad when the junkies don’t mind having a stranger with a camera give a cribs tour of their open air drug markets
It's all good in the Democrat 'hood
@@jamesrecknor6752 court of appeals is setting the rules and standards for treatment of homeless people on the west coast. Local governments such as Portland have tried to enact changes but the damage is already done and now the 9th circuit court of appeals says we can’t tell them they cannot camp here because “there’s nowhere for them to go”
@@Soggygraniteback to work
So, what is your recommendation for solving it?
criminalize drugs
Mat Foley predicted the future: LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!
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What did he say
Matt Foley was a visionary. Too bad he didn't take some of his own advice.
Truth… I run an Amazon delivery team and I won’t even send my female drivers downtown anymore.. it’s too dangerous… so sad.
What are you a 3rd party delivering packages i worked for Amazon they would laugh if you didn't feel safe or maybe they would idk Amazon sure likes to cater towards women which personally i think is bs but 100% sure if you can't deliver packages cause you don't feel safe you would be shown the doors quicker then you can blink cause there's a line of people outside that will deliver in that area regardless
Isn’t that sexist? You don’t think women are equal to men?
Working at a homeless shelter it definitely got worse after Covid
I get it now. "Progressive" means progressively worse!
In a world where apes evolve from men.
Progressing over a cliff usually.
You are wrong this channel shows right wing states in the same situation just look for
This has nothing to do with progressive or leftist or republican or any of that. This has everything to do with the middle class collapsing due to economic reasons. Only the rich are benefiting right now. Everyone else on survival mode
Very true, those homeless people are smart not to trust the evil system.
I live in Colorado Springs and the last time I drove up to Denver I was shocked at what I saw. Rows and rows of homeless tents, block after block. Really sad situation.
Is the homeless situation bad in Colorado Springs?
@@TenFalconsMusic Yes.
My husband and I recently vacation and stayed on 16th Street downtown Denver. The hotel was nice and so were the restaurants. We enjoyed the zoo and the aquarium. We only saw a couple homeless people.
@@TenFalconsMusic I moved from the springs about 3 years ago, and when I left there was constantly homeless people campfires starting wildfires. They were camped out all along I 25 near the Drake power plant
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It’s definitely getting worse but it’s not as bad as Denver Denver has almost 5 times the amount of homeless Colorado Springs has.
Great video Nick, it’s really a shame how your government or any government for that matter treats their vets. Your the guy out there telling it like it really is, talking to the people who are actually suffering the most. God bless you for your caring work.❤️
You acting as if vets are the only people having it hard. At least the vets can get health care. Unless they were discharged with an unhonerable discharge! Do kot a distinction between the people, they are all human beings who are in the same hellish situation!
Humans not bums!😮
The guy's right when he says being homeless is a job. I'm not homeless, but I live in a nice van, and the amount of time and effort it takes to maintain things is a lot! Gathering water, emptying toilet, buying fuel, charging the solar battery, driving to the gym to shower...it's endless. When you pay rent, you're not just paying for a roof and walls, you're paying for infrastructure! Running water, hot water, flushing toilets, gas and electricity at the flip of a switch.
Yep! Fellow Nomad I get it!😢
Absolutely 💯
Lived in a Tahoe in Denver, 2018, not an addict, made $18-20 an hour. Studio apartments are expensive, $900 a month. It was a ton of work, driving to the gym, self storage, fast food, freezing temperatures. The city of Broomfield made it illegal to sleep in your car. Tried to sleep in a VA carport and was escorted out by security.The VA doesn't consider you homeless when you have a vehicle to sleep in!
Been in my buses for years and until my recent illness, keeping on top of your living space isn't easy, but we'll worth it. A proper sence of community. 🏴🇬🇧
I own a home in southern California but I live in a van by choice due to guilt and depression
$12,000,000 for a couple of those tiny tent cities? WHAT?! For 12 million you could build multiple dozens of mobile structures including the over sight of people you would need to make sure they run properly. There are grifters in the charity/philanthropy industry that need to be audited but not enough responsible people to do it. Perry seems like a high functioning addict, I can only imagine what he could get done if it weren't for the hard drugs. Really likeable guy.
Homelessness has become another government money laundering scheme, like healthcare, college debt and war.
Likeable till your being robbed.
They don’t want that! It also takes money to maintain. They don’t want rules or structure and why should they get free anything? While the rest of us fund enough already?
That's because the non profits are owned by the politicians and their rich donors. They can funnel money through there and right back to themselves.
The consultant class isn’t for solving the problem. Instead they take the billions, go to conferences and the sole some of their actions is to tell people like Nick to get lost.
Often overlooked is the glaring fact that when these junkies come down off their high, they steal us blind to pay for their next fix 😢
Never ending cycle
Thats why it needs to be free
They receive $915/month plus $300 in food benefits. $1215 in total. That is gone within 2 weeks for their heroin fix. The remaining money they need comes from crime.
@@heaveymelt not... gonna... happen...
Instead you could pay normal taxes, instead of that itty-bitty compared to us in Europe. For those extra taxes, people down on their luck or wounded or ill are getting enough money to make it through and then back to work. Without losing everything. Without needing to numb to pain of losing everything!
Americans are beyond dumb. They save 2000 to spend 20000.
Couldnt stop watching this , brilliantly done Nick, shining a light on how people survive in extreme conditions , and its not really something thats broadcast over the mainstream media channels, especially over here in UK, keep up the good work man ,
America's lack of concern and respect for their neighbor. Government's concern is helping the rich and business get richer while neither one of these care about anybody or their country. While religion declines in America, the country goes downhill.
Homelessness made me realize that I was dead wrong about the legalization of drugs.
same
No shit. So many liberals that I grew up with helped create this nightmare, at least you are decent enough to admit it.
I thought the same thing when I was younger,I figured just legalize them, and people will be chill, go to work etc, but I was wrong, they just want to get high and lay around and coom all day.
Legalization of weed is less harmful than the legalization of alcohol and cigarettes. But when you decriminalize drugs indiscriminately and don't offer drug rehabilitation help this is wht happens.
As opposed to the Republicans locking them up and charging the tax payer billions for locking them up, releasing them, and having them return. Lol Being "tough on crime" is bullshit
As a Denver native, it's shocking and sad to see what my city has become. Now I know what Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders meant when she sang "I went back to Ohio, but my city wasn't there." Way to go Denver.
Colorado is full of liberal anti Christ, pro drugs. So sad to see
As a 3rd generation 66 yo Colorado Native I no longer go Denver...
This is a national problem, housing is supply side, they make too much money renting at elevated prices and leaving thousands of apartments open than renting for a fair price and filling apartments. Its a national problem, and a city can't fix it, cities just bus homeless people from one city to the next.
@@Gee-xb7rt Yeah, okay, it's the American system at fault. Baloney. It's the communist influence that started with Barry Soetoro and his husband.
She was talking about the development of the countryside. This is something way more destructive and ominous.
This isn’t because of legal weed, this is happening everywhere. All Cities.
Mathew, I wish you all the best, great explanation of some hard to discuss, truthful elements in our collective experience, glad I continued watching.
That wound on Perry's arm is not from no construction accident, it's probably from that drug tranq or whatever it's called, it eats the skin away
You are right. There is no way in hell that is a construction accident. It’s a fentanyl with xylazine accident or more like an addiction
I agree but i would argue hes probably been in construction before just probably let go for that reason
If he was making almost 100K in construction he would have had health insurance. Also, if he got injured on the job it would have been covered under working's comp. That didn't sound right to begin with.
@@angieliyah1484 Not necessarily. He could've been an independent contractor with no benefits.
Yeah they say it happens when they miss trying to shoot it up…but I saw a doctor say it happens no matter what.not everyone realizes that when they try it.its flesh eating
Stay safe out there Nick and thank you for showing the world what other parts of the United States really look like. We must protect Nick at all costs.
nothing will happen americas not that rough put it this way ya five times more likely to get robbed and assulted walking through any town centre in the uk then you are in a bad area in america yeah could argue gun violence but honestly the over whelming majority of gun violence and homiscides are domestics as in husband and wife are arguing and she/he has gone upstair got the colt 45 semi automatic come back and unloaded 3 bullets into ya chest yeah theres bad areas anywhere but one thing america still has and thatys a sense of community UK hasnt just brutish out there on the street in the uk in america theres a certain degree of community and we'll work it out
@@magikmycology6660 exactly
Nick needs to travel past the boarders out
Great job Nick...thank you for what you do, semper fi.
It’s a sad testimony to America. Ironically the problem can be solved if the politicians got out of the way.
Wow, this is just awful. Not just Denver but every where. How could we let this happen? And WHY in the world are there SAFE injection sites!!!! they should be putting these people in rehab and. GET RID OF THE DRUGS NO MATTER WHAT!!! My heart groans for my country.😢
Stop voting blue. Not that red is any better but at least they don’t get 100% cover from the media.
Your _war on drugs_ failed decades ago, unfortunately
As a former addict you’re not ready to quit until you’re ready. The facts are that safe injection sites also prevent things like an HIV crisis which puts a strain on the health system and costs taxpayers more money than a safe injection site would. It also prevents needles from winding up on playgrounds. There are a lot of positives that aren’t just about the addicts.
Well come on! How are the politicians and their grown children supposed to become billionaires without all this addiction? It's only fair.
There actually aren't safe injection sites in denver
The current U.S. government letting illegals in to our country and providing means to live off the street is nuts !
most of the homeless people in this video are white americans?
VOTE TRUMP...VOTE RED ACROSS THE COUNTRY...DONT VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT AND DONT VOTE FOR ANY RINO OR LIBTARD..
In Denver you would think that you were literally living in Mexico!!
All I saw were a bunch of white dudes in the video
compliments of
Mark Zuckerberg
& Jack Dorsey
Hey Nick, how are you? I'm watching your video on homelessness in Denver. You should have covered the metro area like Aurora, Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties. It's a nightmare! Now we have buckeye immigrants coming daily.
I work for a few of these counties as a Peer, me and my team outreach everyday, assist, follow up and provide all different sorts of resources available.
Granted we are over run and do not have enough resources but mostly I wanted to give all the people in Colorado and other states that are doing everything they can to mediate between the homeless community and the rest of society.
We don't have all the answers, neither do they.
The best I can offer is for everyone to work together.
I never commented on a video before but you definitely got my attention.
Denver is still a great city!🎉
You have a great sense of humor Nick. ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
This country has always had a crisis. That crisis is that a few have gotten all the control, power, resources, etc., and there is nothing left for everybody else to have a decent life, and opportunities.
The government and those that control it has to go.
you hit the nail on the head. all the $$$ being wasted on wars and tax breaks. Nothing left over to invest in PEOPLE. sad.
Even if we cut back on ALOT of spending. Working class people are extremely treated badly for years
Revolution is coming if this shit keeps going. The rich getting richer, the poor eating shit.
Exactly, they are called jues.
Omg this hit hard reset in peace .. hence why I left Facebook a bit ago even up north here this is the life … it’s so sad I am lucky I refuse to use but I watch and see this on the regular here even it’s so so sad , I appreciate yall for being honest and saying what so many won’t :(
I remember the last time I went to Denver it was very sadly seemingly almost as chaotic as Seattle. Druggies everywhere, shut down buildings kind of reminding you of Chicago, ambulances rushing by, run down houses looking like the run down houses in Detroit, it was almost exactly like Seattle, and sadly, Denver has almost the same overdose deaths as Portland in a year. Just goes to show how bad Denver has become very sadly SMH
Downtown Chicago looks nothing like this..
Same governmental philosophy. Not surprising the results are the same as other cities.
TRUE @@josephjames259
Chicago and New York will look like that in the next 5 years.
Seattle is not as bad as Portland.
I got out of Colorado in the year 2000. Bill Owens was the Governor, Mike Rosen was on KOA in the mornings, everything seemed to be looking up. Three Democrat Governors later and it's officially a shithole.
100%
Yup. Democrats have wrecked the state.
To be expected of The Party
I left in 2003
It sucks in Denver. I’ve been here 35 years and have seen the decline n the state. I do live in a conservative pocket of the state so locally things aren’t too bad yet.
Also, there are tens of millions scrambling from check to check to make rent and under terrible stress. Housing is one of the most corrupted and greedy businesses. The banks, realtors, lawyers state schools etc are all involved and don't give about consequences
Before anything can be done we have to change the politics of America. If people can’t see what’s happening on the top then we are doomed.
All the political class, or the majority in power have dual citizenship with Israel so they have no problem destroying their homeland for another cause.Sell out snakes. All the politicians.
After watching many of Nicks videos I’ve come to this conclusion: there are ruined cities/towns, red and blue but they arrived that way differently. Red: industry left, jobs gone then poverty and drugs moved in. Blue: drugs came in, homeless came, then society collapsed. Outward changes for one and the other is deliberate. Both are probably deliberate, to weaken our country and our men.
It's all deliberate. None of it is coincidence. There is no other rational explanation for the way our leaders act. Everyone that can be bought has been bought. Truth is treason. Common sense is a superpower.
Likely a plan drafted by the Chinese government lol.
Reds: drugs moved in. Blues: drugs came in. Common denominator - drugs.
Great observation! I would say that in the Red cities it was not deliberate. Rather, the leadership wasn't competent enough to recognize the decline and stop it. They tried to maintain the past and the world left them behind. But you are 100% correct about the Blue. The leadership of Blue cities did it intentionally.
I’ve been wondering; what’s the end game of this? Who is buying all of this undesired area ultimately to help the cities? It won’t be the govt will it? Another country perhaps? The general elite? This disease x is scary in combo w all of this…. Giving walking dead vibes
I love how we all keep calling it a homeless problem.
Fentanyl is a big problem in CO. The RESIDENTS are the people voting to open more shelters and offer more resources rather than increase consequences, do more sweeps, make it hard to be a junky. "Their just down on their luck" "they just need a tiny home", "they just need more help".
In another 2 years the problem will cause businesses to close just like in Portland and San Fran.
If increased consequences was the answer this would have been fixed long ago. All that does is sweep the problem under the rug. Out of sight out of mind. While the legal system becomes a racket to put money in the pockets of the ones in charge. Look at the. Immigrants and the total mismanagement of funds. Nothing gets solved and working ppl pay more and more in taxes and cost of living expenses. You don't decriminalize crime tho and that is wht they are doing. The purpose in doing that is to implement total control of the population. Make things so bad ppl give up their freedoms for security. The rich get richer and the poor...
Fentanyl is destroying the whole of North America. Big business for some...
@hellooutthere8956 it's democrat policies that are implemented
Ok now that you have filled us in on the problem how about you tell us the solution.. bc this is a problem beyond the individual
I remember weed was legal there and denver being known for that and now look at them. I hate weed smells so i noticed fhat right away many years ago when i visited
They need to have a community that cares! Permanent housing with skill assist...why cant we open boarding houses? Great way to utilize large abandinded property...allowing himeless to help refurbush/establish/ manage! It is time to represebt THOSE we take the $ from...WTP!! Thank you so much for this honest piece of journalism!!! GBYCS! Pimpy is looking to open transitional housing project! 🤷♀️🙏😇🇺🇸
Pot should have never been made legal for these kids .. They are just dumbing this next generation down
This is happening more and more throughout the country. This is so alarming, more and more people getting displaced due to the rising cost of rent. There was a time when companies gave their workers a cost of living raise, not anymore. Many of us are barely able to keep a roof over our heads, even with a job.
It’s deeper than this. When you crush someone’s hope you remove morals. A hopeless society is a godless and morally corrupt one.
Yes, and it's only happening in solid blue, Democrat run cities that were beautiful places to live just a decade ago under Republican leadership. I lived in Portland in the early 90s and it was awesome. Then it turned blue not long after and slowly started to become the dump it is today. Just a coincidence? I think not.
Negative...that is a choice to use dope.
Its the drugs. Nothing to do with rent. Plenty of resources to house these kind people, but they prefer to stay in the streets because they're not ready to get and stay clean. I've been there, done that.
Equity Firms now own 21% of all US housing.For profit Corporate landlords whose first move is superficial improvements like over landscaping and paint,second move is to jack rents up,third move is to have automatic increases and less than 12 mo.leases.Never forget another 20+ percent of housing is AirBnB and VRBO now too, turning apts.and homes into motels.
Refreshing to see politicians delivering on their promises and their constituents getting exactly what they voted for.
Exactly. Hope all those who voted for these liberals are very happy now. Ugh. It's disgusting. Just FYI, Nick. Was a bit disheartening to hear you call it "Bum land." Not all homeless people are drug addicts, at least not here in Houston, although looks like it's the majority in LA and Denver, San Francisco, etc. Some of them are single mothers with kids who can't afford these ridiculous rents we've got, not to mention school supplies, food, health insurance, car insurance, etc. We have a ton of elderly people who are homeless. They've paid on their homes for 40 years but inflation and property taxes, HOA fees, etc, have skyrocketed due to Biden's policies and the Fed with their sky high interest rates, they've lost their homes to foreclosure which is extremely sad. It's a bit better here in Houston but we still have the same issues. The absolute WORST is to see homeless veterans who served our country on the streets, while that bastard Biden and his woke libs are busy feeding and housing illegals and sending BILLIONS to other countries (and taking illegal kickbacks) and the first thing they want to do is talk about cutting Medicare and Social Security. NO. F that! Let's take Congress lifetime benefits first then we'll talk.. It's criminal what he's done to this country!!! They did get EXACTLY what they voted for.
its called Liberalism happening all over
@@mikesrandomvideosThey vote for their own punishment.
@mikesrandomvideos Why are all the poorest states per capita, all federal assistance per capita, are all red states in the top ten?
@@revolverocelot9891 Why dont YOU tell everyone why EVERY city with bum, drug and crime problems, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, is a deep blue cesspool run by DEMOCRATS?
Your worn out leftist talking point is totally and completely ridiculous.
Good job Nick ! Thanks for the the video.
Calling them junkies and bums is just dead wrong! You don't know what those people deal with.
They’re dealing with drugs, which makes them junkies
Enabler 101! Many hundreds of thousands of us have been through trials, tribulations, and devastating drama, however we choose to persevere and not merely 'cop out' which is meekness incarnate!
@@Mel-ce2ry like I said you don't know what people deal with. There is a whole lot more then coping out in life.
@@Mel-ce2ry I'm surprised you don't realize what kind of world we live in. How many homeless people do you know who get hired for a job with no shower, or proper clothing on? Someone must help them. I don't care what your excuse is don't call people junkies. That's completely disrespectful.
@@Mel-ce2ry ignorance enabler 101 spread compassion not disgusting names.
One thing for sure about these people using dope, Nick, they will tell you any story you want to hear. Trust non of them, red or blue and to them you are nothing but potential next target.
Excellent work documenting. I live in Metro Denver. Tragic what has happened to The Mile High City.
Everything has changed and it will get worse by the day!!! We need to do something about it… NOW.
Thx for your videos, sadly many people stay away from those problems and reject them… by showing your videos to some friends and family, there was at least a reaction.
We need to work on all of that together!
Pro Americans have been shouting about homelessness, illegal situation and much more no one wanted to listen now it’s stage 4 cancer.
Their main concern is to oust Trump off the ballot rather than cleaning up their state. Any city in USA that looks like this, the politicians need to be removed immediately and replaced with hardworking problem solving leaders.
Mean tweets hurt liberals more than the homeless crisis or migrants dying trying to get to the US.
Part of the big reason this is happening is because Trump, Bush, Regan gave tax cuts to the rich. When you don't collect revenue you don't have money and have to close shelters and rehab. You don't have rent vouchers or affordable housing. So yes.
Then, maybe it’s time to talk about their statehood.
WEF has a plan to destroy the middle class, you will own nothing and be happy.
Our Governor is Aweful!
I live in Phoenix and the problem is the same if not worse.
Finally someone said it- we will never solve homelessness because homelessness is largely an individual issue and personal choice
Homelessness is solved by a strong group identity, a strong communal identity, and strong families. The government can destroy these things, but it can not build them. The government cannot solve homelessness, it can only create it.
It's not only a socio-economic problem, but a huge mental health crisis. The 1% in the US need to put money into this since they are benefiting from the increasing disparity between the haves and the have-nots. The rest of us are sick of being taxed to death for problems they create.
Wrong.
Its a blue voter problem.
It's drugs to sick of it
The 1% pay almost 40% in taxes. Most people pay 12-24%. 40% of 1 billion dollars is alot more than 12% of $30,000. Taking even more from them leaves no incentive to make the billion dollars in the first place.
Correction, the 1% should be paying almost 40% in taxes. They definitely do not thanks to a myriad of reason we allow them to get away with.@@jojofashosho5344
@@jojofashosho5344they use tax incentives to bring down their taxable income and most pay zero taxes because if this loop hole tax method they’ve created for the elite…they don’t pay gaxes
Holy s*** what the f*** is happening to this country?🤔😕
Bidenomics
Sleepy Senile Joe
Liberalism
Too many are being dumped onto the existing population, harming us indigenous Americans. Biden and his cronies are replacing us with the third world.
Drugs
I sold my home in Denver a few years ago for 650k and recently found out it was forclosed on and turned into a crack house. I can't tell you how glad I am that I got out. I never want to set foot in this city again.
Sobriety saved my life. I promise it gets better. 🙏🏼
My husband was prescribed both Oxycodone and Fentanyl when he was going through cancer treatment. Doctors over prescribed and didn't monitor his withdrawal so that when I finally got him off it I had a huge supply left. Dropped it off at the police department and supposedly they disposed of it. Super scary to think so many in this country are hooked on this stuff.
Oxycodone AND fentanyl 🤯 Sounds like it would kill someone! The medical industry only cares for their pockets and it’s time the American people stand up and make noise over it all. How many have become addicts because of this crap the “doctors” are pushing? 😢
This right here is the real issue. It’s not weed. It’s our freakin healthcare system that pumps everyone up with painkillers and then takes them off to fend for themselves.
Yes my dad was hooked on oxycodone as well for stage 4 throat cancer and when he wasn’t smoking marijuana or taking it he would be in sooo muchhh pain he would want to fight everybody. He than died in June of 2023 as it went down to his lungs and he don’t have to go through that pain anymore he in a better place now
Technically, I've been homeless for my entire life. I've never owned a house, though I own and live in a travel trailer.
i was homeless for 5 year and was an iv meth and heroin addict i have been clean for a year and i had got out by a program in wheat-ridge that was going around and getting homeless people on section 8 housing i struggled with my addiction until i was sent to rehab by a judge after getting so many trespassing charges that they put me on probation and after rehab i was sent to sober living from their i was able to find an apartment that took my section 8 voucher and my felony past and have been happy with my apartment for about 6 months now their arnt many programs now thanks to the migrant crisis because the state is putting them above our own citizens on the waiting list so its only going to get worse
My cousin Drew is homeless in Denver. He is not a drug user or alcoholic. Drew refuses to take meds for a mental illness.
But kicking Trump off the ballet is Priority Number One for the government of Colorado. You people get what you vote for and put up with.
The people in Colorado want this in their community or it wouldn't be like this!
TDS is a real thing. I know people who fully understand we’re in deep doo doo and why but will never admit they made a mistake in 20 and will repeat it next November
Agree with bond servant
ACCELERATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol as if red states didn’t say the same about Obama. You’re right, you get what you vote for and the worst performing states are red states. The reasons people are homeless is a combination of poverty, drugs and mental illness - solving that is too hard so politicians rather play tribalism.
Sympathy solves nothing. Denver needs to elect better people
I'm boarderline homeless I'm in motorhome & work at a campsite on lake. It's cool and all I'm greatful but it's getting harder & harder for me to work , keep up & all. Reckon that's life for us all
Lot of us are struggling.. Not b kuz of flippin drugs. I'm sic of people saying that. Can't they see what these politicians are doing? i can barely eat.. I am blessed in many ways..
I m thankful.
I moved from Denver to Melbourne Florida 4 years ago. Spent the majority of my life living in denver and lakewood. You will see this all over the metro area. Glad I got my son out of there!
made the same move 5 years ago, left a nice 11th floor Capitol Hill condo with a view of the mountains, for a nice house with a huge yard 15 minutes from the beach. After seeing this video, I think we both made the right choice.
I used to have to go to a medical clinic in the area at 5:30 champa/ Broadway. I'd always take the train which requires fifteen minutes of walking thru this area. I did this for years never had any issues with the homeless
For example: one time two guys were in the early stages of a fight like the shoving stage. I approached, not seeing an alternative route to pass by them. They were blocking my path yet I continued and they stopped fighting for a moment to let me thru. This issue is caused by skyrocketing home prices not politics.
Anyone who says "it's only liberal cities with homelessness" is foolish cuz even the capital of Texas is 60 percent liberal. ie conservatives have about zero major cities under their control
Somehow I don't believe they're waiting on him to come back to work. If a man wants to work nobody is stopping him but himself. That guy was high as a freaking 🪁.Come on Man.
Drug addicts are just terrible people to be around.
Should be called Americas drug crisis. This is what Politicians aren’t addressing.
But the drugs keep them 'dumbed down', numb, and makes the sense of hopelessness more tolerable.
@@Blissfulnessence we watched as Nick showed areas that they are giving people opportunities to get out of that life and start over… what were the requirements? Be nice, don’t do drugs or alcohol, shoot they are even giving them free counseling! While they maybe numbing themselves, why? There’s ways out! Shoot in Fl they didn’t expand Medicaid and lots of people are suffering and would like that type of help FOR SURE. Truth is it’s the drugs that have a hold on them and they need addiction counseling which it seems Colorado is trying to give.
This is a spiritual problem. Void of Christ
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its great for the economy though
As the state has gone blue, the homeless have cropped up. I'm up the road a bit and I hate that Greenies run away north to escape what they've done.
Same is happening here in Texas. As counties and cities get more blue the shit just gets worse. The people seem to be blind deaf and dumb.
@@martinel2450 They literally keep voting for homlessness and crime. I came from Texas man. I moved up this way in 2020 as I saw things going sideways there.
@The2ndFirst I'm glad Fort Collins at least puts its foot down on stuff like this. There's a homeless problem here as well but they don't tolerate encampments, thankfully.
@@TheHamburgler123 I dated a girl from Ft Collins for a bit. Every time I've been through there, it's been a decent experience. Good on you guys.
Check out red state of Alaska with the homeless everywhere in Anchorage
Dont do drugs! If you do don't blame the system. Its hard for me too but i don't do drugs and therefore i don't have delusions of grandeur. talking to you Perry.
One thing I never wanted to be growing up, was an entertainer because of not being motivated enough to hold on to a skill. I might have been influenced by the adults I have been watching throughout the communities. Made me unconsciously look at the economy, which some sayings might be true. About what one character starts out to do, somehow during their growing they hold on to the important parts they like. No matter what I did, it still surrounded me around the economy. Even when I try hard to ignore the things in it, those things I try to ignore are the first at my door. Somehow our system has a way to see things they want to stop. Who tries to push me one way, but forces me to go the other way. That helps me to see things so clearly, in who accepted, and who are not. Every time the table turns a different acceptance comes into play. Because we have individual thinkers directing the groups that follow them. Just imagine the presidents that we had, and if all of them made individual decisions, ignoring what the laws of the lands says. We will see generations with all kinds of personalities and behaviors that are bumping into each other from their teachings. That's the reason we look for those we elect to follow the laws set on the books. So we will not grow into accepting organized crime from our high officials.
Greed and politicians are the reason for homelessness.
That and drugs and laziness
Nah...Noone forces done on you.
And until people actually see these pod casts they will skippity-do-dah thru their days not having a clue what is really going on in this country! Completely blind to what is really happening! Keep pressing on Nick. Your work is appreciated. STAY SAFE!
Spot on 👍👍👍
See podcasts 🫠
We know exactly what’s going on, we’re just smart enough to not live in places where everyone votes for socialism.
Comrade Politburist Sanders and The Party want to know your location.@@Acemechanicalservices
Because they don't see what's happening and it doesn't affect them. Not their responsibility to fix it either.
Thanks Cali!
❤my heart goes out in prayers
I live in Denver. The decay has been breathtakingly fast. Most of the problems you just witnessed were not here 5 years ago. Coors Field used to be extremely safe; now it's dangerous, along with the surrounding areas. Interesting part? I've never heard a local living here actually blame drugs and heavy drug use. It's almost invisible to some people, chiefly the people who voted to decriminalize. Also, the Denver Metro area has gone downhill since legalizing marijuana, since it didn't attract the right people (productive members of society) but rather the "living in mom's basement, unemployed/unemployable crowd". Good luck!!!
I need to vacation there 😃
I lived in Colorado 6 years ago and you could 100% see this coming, thus why I left in 2020. I had a friend who lived across from Coors field and there were bums all over then too.
Democrats
I'm an RN & have heard patients say they were going to Colorado so they can get weed legally. A lot of them are still drug seeking (pain & anxiety pills) & see marijuana as an alternative to narcotics - instead of getting clean. To see drugs so freely available on the streets is Kensington all over again.
@@jamesrecknor6752 Denver never votes agianst its best intrest.
Something tells me that construction worker didn't get hurt on the job and isn't going back to work anytime soon.
These guys are out there because they want to be out there. So sad. The solution is creating a non permissive environment and give either help or jail.
I disagree in that I don't think they're choosing it. Who wants to live in garbage? Homes don't last 100 years anymore without lead-paint & arsenic-treated-wood. We can't afford to repair modern housing b/c there is no more lead & arsenic.
Im from denver. I left in 2003 only came.back to stay with mom during covid. I used to rent a studio apt in 2003 for $525/month that same studio is now $1200 Its ridiculous. They tried to upgrade it to make it seem paying that much is justified but the old building is still there . I miss the old denver 20 years ago. It was fun to go out. Now all my favorite bars are closed its sad.
San Fran, Portland, Seattle, Denver... same city, different states.
You are spot on Nick. I spent 3 decades visiting all of these cities on a regular basis, and all this was so obviously foreseeable 10 years ago, and more to the point, preventable.
VOTE TRUMP...VOTE RED ACROSS THE COUNTRY...DONT VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT AND DONT VOTE FOR ANY RINO OR LIBTARD..
Your right , very preventable but the leadership needed to be change. The liberal Democratic leadership are killing these cities, with de-fund the police initiatives, taxes increase to unbearable unsustainable levels are killing these cities.
These cities just need to vote for Democrats instead lol
California is the starting point. Most of these cities have high populations of transplants from California, their disease is spreading across the country. Has encompassed most of the western part of the country, Oregon and Washington wasn’t this way 25-30 years ago
@@jamesrecknor6752they are democrat ran cities
You should do another video interviewing people in Denver who can afford the super high rents and what they do to be able to afford them.
They might skim money off the 12million dollar tent area.
That’s what I want to know, what do people do for a living that they can afford those overpriced under built condos in Denver.
They probably don't do drugs
@joe9349 Dude. You have to be on drugs so you can be that deluded to pay $2500 a month for a place in downtown Denver.
@@joe9349 I didn’t do drugs, had a decent office career and STILL couldn’t afford the cheapest rents out there. I guess I missed the boat on 100K + a year jobs cause that is what it takes to get by on your own in Denver.
Nick Johnson - You handled yourself and others EXCEPTIONALLY WELL well enough to get a media/radio/tv job in Denver. I know as a resident of MILE HIGH CITY while I was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base as Food Service Administrator on The Air Training Command site. Those were the days NEVER to be forgotten. 1964 -1968
It is easy to point your finger and condemn these people, but there are reasons why they find themselves in such utter misery and not simply just their own poor decisions. This is a hallmark of our utter economic, political and social failures. People with hope, a sense of community and family do not end up drugged out and on the streets. This culture is being destroyed by radical inequalities where a small few live like kings with less and less for the rest of us. This is what happens when the middle class is destroyed.
I moved to Denver in 1994 and the homelessness has only gotten worse throughout the years. Now there are so many homeless that Denver resembles some 3rd world countries in places. It's all by Democrat design - cronyism and corruption are how polis and his government operates there now. Great work Nick. 👍
As a Denver Native I've watched helplessly while West Coast voters moved to Colorado. Colorado changed from a Conservative Red state to bright blue marxist hell.
White Flight is everywhere, I myself sold my Denver home in Washington Park and moved to Northern Colorado. Best move I've ever made, Sad!
Sure home prices are still up, but that's because Biden Bucks aren't worth what the U.S. Dollar bought 3 short years ago. So it's no shock rent and purchases cost more. You can't buy a Big Mac for what you once could.
Thanks Democrats, you ruined America !
Loved Washington Park when I resided in Denver.
Im a blood red ex Californian who moved here to restore your republican population
@@jongallardo8006well I guess it didn’t work 😂
When a McDs combo meal is over $8 that’s the end!
They sure have. 😔 Liberalism is a mental disorder...
The problem is far greater than these unfortunate souls. Put the blame where it belongs instead of being so angry. I was one of these folks, but extremely blessed today. Love and compassion helped me out of my hell, not hatred and intolerance .
Yeah, none of our states have a homeless problem. They have a corrupt politicians problem. Hate and don't tolerate Them.
But you chose to get clean and get your life together. They aren't. Thats the difference. Love and tolerance is what is keeping them sick.
It’s simple ppl shouldn’t do drugs