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- ABC News’ Jaclyn Lee reports on the canvassers across the country on the front lines of the homelessness crisis, creating a census of the unhoused in America.
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Too many are just one paycheck away from being homeless....IN AMERICA!
It's designed that way. Greed, too much corporate ideas from Reagan and no great social and family programs like in other countries. Outscoring doesn't help either. Nixon and Reagan started this!
@@ursulasmith6402America was never great 😃👍. The poor BUILT this country but those in power dispose of them like nothing.
@@ursulasmith6402America is an illusion a lie. It was always about money 🤑💰. Nothing else matters in this society.
That's why they call it a dream lol
Yeah.its a war against working class.beat us down till we beg for help and cease our propertys.
Be grateful of what you have today because you may not tomorrow.
Sounds like someone has been persuade that the many must play the rigged rules of the few.
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”-Malcolm S. Forbes.
I'm an actual homeless guy and and one time this old man outside of the gas station asked me for money to buy cigarettes and I told him I'm homeless he shouldn't ask me for anything he said well f*** you you homeless mother f***** and I kind of lets me know about that😮
Nice
"By Any Means Necessary" - Malcolm X
What is scary is how many are at the risk of homelessness as rent continues to increase.
Cost of Living is so high that you are working taking care of elderly and still can't see your way with the bills. There is no heat in the cold and air conditioner in summer. Demands for simple food, electricity, and paying other bills. Your rent/ mortgage not to mention a car for transportation taking Uber/Lyft to even get to work, among other things that it are necessities. Not to add medical costs. It's mentally challenging when you don't know where to turn It is very scary.
whats more amazing is these people continue to vote democrat & rather pay an extra 12,000$ a year w biden because they dont like trump .....
No fear
Good ol' capitalism at work.
Maybe it's time we examine how big of a role capitalism should play for life essentials like water, housing, and public transportation.
@@viperabyss capitalism should not be involved in things like healthcare and limited in housing. Really complex discussion not for TH-cam
It's not always that people are making bad decisions. It's the fact that individuals can't keep up! Employers are not paying enough money for you to keep up. And you don't have support from anywhere else.
Not only that but people are not investing their money either for extra income
@@DirtyInvestor87most likely spending their money on food.
I agree, not to mention jobs leaving the country for the past few decades ain't helping, now the government has to go out of pocket to help these people. Maybe they should have done more over the years to keep the jobs in the US.
People don't have money for investing..
@@Jay-jb2vr yup, for the most part they sure don't. Especially when you have food, lights and transportation on your mind. Who's got time to think about the NASDAQ? 😏
Even honest hard working people are getting priced out of their apartments.Government need to put a ceiling cap on rent increases so that more tenants dont end up being homeless.
Problem is you cant cap greed. Not in this country!
Who's gonna tell them? You?
@@zzzz-sf5lr
I did have a suggestion I've made several times over about a way to cap greed which would be to limit business owners from making more than double their lowest paid employee. Obviously excess funds would either go back to the company or the staff.
The option for housing I've proposed many times (not in office but I should be!) Is to remove property taxes altogether and cap every home to $1/sq ft max for businesses and single family homes, etc.
This massive reset would mean all Americans would receive rent relief, property owners wouldn't be incentivized to raise rent because they would not be paying property taxes, and if we outlawed companies from buying single family homes the market would flood with affordable housing.
If your life partner made as many mistakes as your government you'd leave them. You wouldn't ask them for more help. The only way the suffering gets addressed is when those that aren't suffering begin to suffer. Unfortunately the society will change when the people have nothing to lose. Right now everyone keeps playing by the rules go to work, paying a mortgage or rent, paying an auto loan and so forth. They continue to rationalize the suffering. As long as you have yours it doesn't matter who else doesn't have. Maybe if 50 percent of society has no job and no home then there will be a change. Until then just keep going to work and paying your bills. You're not homeless so don't worry about it.
You're making the mistake that just about 99% of all people (at least in the "democratic" West) make; assuming that the government is your friend, and that it's there to protect you.
It isn't, and it's not.
How is this the greatest country on earth when its citizens doesn't even have a roof over their heads?
what an ignorant comment. Like America is the only country with homeless. About 70% of homeless are homeless because of addiction. is that America's fault? Peopl drop out out school, have no skills and don't want to work but it's all America's fault??
You are not greatest coyntry in the World. Not even close. You all have branwashed. All you live Everybody tell you USA greatest,freedom,,blah blah ,blah. What a joke
Extreme inequality.
Dayum. That's the same question I have been asking for years.
Dayum. That's the same question I have been asking for years.
Housing is a basic necessity. And we literally have enough vacant homes/apts for everyone..
Well if you own them, start handing them out. What's the hold-up?
Empty malls that can get converted
It cost millions of taxpayer funds to convert them. Also, it takes millions of taxpayer funds to sustain the empty malls. @@DirtyInvestor87
Blackrock enters the chat...
@@fauxfox9142the government actually ownes them. Even if you were a billionaire, you don’t own your “property”
Having volunteers go out in the middle of the night in the dead of Winter looking for homeless doesn't seem safe.
You got a better idea??
I was just thinking 🤔 that.@@Jay-jb2vr
Imagine actually being homeless. They can't feel safe
The homeless count should be done in the fall, when homelessness is at its highest. That way, they'll be able to get a better picture of the issue! Homelessness will never be fixed or solved. The reason is that there's no money in it! You can't find anybody if you're sitting in your car! Go out and find these folks! Make sure they're properly counted and represented! Leave no one behind! Nobody should be thrown in jail just because they're homeless!
Exactly!!! In the video you see some of the counters walking around finding people but then that one said that, "It's hard to find people when you're just driving by." I realize that in some of the areas, it might not be too safe to get out and talk to people but that's the only way to have an accurate count. You can't see a guy sitting at a bus stop in dirty clothese and a backpack and assume he's homeless. Plus, in most places fall weather is SO MUCH better.
"It not homelessness, it's houselessness." George Carlin.
I'm a homeless single mother. Lots of homeless people are living in campgrounds.
rapegrounds
grapegrounds
But how do you get your food, what do you survive on ma'am
@@aerokasyeal4840prostitution
Where is the father?
It only takes one or two missed days at work(with no paid sick days),one Doctor visit or surgery,one automobile repair or simply an emergency that sets you back in this crazy expensive time in this "Great Nation" to put you on the streets. Those without savings or financial strong friends or and family that can help during hard times are screwed if almost anything goes wrong.
I agree
I'm 67 and disabled. If I hadn't been able to move with my daughter and SIL, I'd just be bouncing between the streets, the hospital and a few friends.
you've obviously never hear of the Family Medical Leave Act
That is why we need universal health care and other programs like on Europe an Scandinavia. No says anything about it!
@@royharper2003doesn't exist anymore.
They need to roll out rent control to prevent the greed of corporations who own the rentals. 100 million dollars could have built several units of affordable housing.
The corporations are the elites, they cause this.
All these officials they interviewed are masters of passing the buck
I Don't see you doing anything.
@@thegazetteytit's a social media comment. How sad is it you are quick to defend rich politicians in corporate pockets and not those in our society that need it the most
AHAHAHAHA @@AmandaabnamA Again, I don't see YOU doing anything. I volunteer. I have friends who volunteer, and it's a nuanced, complex and thankless situation. Politicians only do what people nag them to do, and even then they don't. So get off your high hat internet horse and go out and DO something if you want something to change instead of projecting your own inadequacies onto randos on the internet.
The Ignorance that you rant about really shows your character and where you morally stand, may you be forgiven in Jesus Name! @@thegazetteyt
@@206remyboyz7 not very Christian of you to be so judgmental, especially about someone you don't know just because it puts you in your feels. You have no idea about my morality but there you go, thinking you know better because you pray to a sky daddy instead of actually putting in the deeds and works your god says to do. But then again, its completely Cristian to do that.
person sleeping out in freezing weather covered in piss, feces, and vomit. Social worker, "do you need anything?" Homeless person, "no" STOP ASKING PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED. THEY NEED A HOUSE AND A MILLION DOLLARS
shiii I wish I had a house and millions of bucks
Tbh 95% of society don’t really care for homeless people. And a lot act like they care.
Well, with the way things are now, 95% of society could end up homeless if they lost their job or had some kind of financial problem such as medical expenses. So they better start caring.
99%
Most Americans are 1-2 paychecks away from being that homeless person they see sleeping on the streets. We should never have the mindset that could never be us.
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Why don't you let them live with you? You will make such an impact on their lives.@@BrownSkinGirl96
Stop putting foreigners in front of your own people
As a current homeless person there is no help or enough resources for us
Politician: "and we're using tax payers dollars, so we want to be sure that they are being used properly"
Someone come back to my comment when the news is finally out that the hundreds of millions used for this "project" has yet again been wasted while the higher ups get paid hundreds of thousands to do nothing. Just like it has happened in multiple US cities like nyc
Im homeless and im never gonna stop the grind. I probably never live a "normal" life in America
I was homeless for 8 years has a flat 6 now it will happen
I’m living in the house I grew up in if I didn’t have I would be homeless. We need to build Tiny Homes Communities.
The fact that volunteers have to do this, and that HUD are, according to its director, they plan to continue ‘counting’ as they’ve historically done ( she said this flippantly in my opinion ) … is disgraceful . And drones ??!! I can only imagine how traumatic and dehumanizing for a family with kids experiencing homelessness is 😢
Yep!! "We basically do it this way because it's the way we've always done it." That makes no damn sense whatsoever!! I can see using drones to find the hidden homeless but then you gotta send people in there is get an actual count!! You see a bunch of tents together. There could be 5 people, or there could be 35.
You are right on point , I am surviving in a tent in the woods in CT, since last September,
What she said about this historical way of counting us and that it shouldn't change makes me feel sick .
HUD provides funding for all these not for profit incorporated , billions of $$$ every year , still we are more to be in the street or woods or whatever.....where is this money is going or used is mystery
12:27 12:27 12:27
Been a problem for 50 years fix it already
Agree
There's also a category of homeless people who aren't on the street.
Some of us don't want to stand out. So, we sleep in our vehicle. Some park at big box stores.
Others are lucky and find a residential street somewhere.
The PIT count also counts those who are a sheltered but still homeless individual. Those who are in cars...
I hear that people applying for HUD could be wait years for a home to open up.
I know two people that got on the list in my county last April and are still waiting. Whats crazy is that you cant even get on the waiting list whenever because its full so they announce when they are opening it (It was for 2 weeks last April) and you have to apply then, and if approved you have to reverify every 6 months or you are removed from list.
Why are you counting the homeless instead of housing them???
why don't you let them come stay with you?
Why don't they just set up free pad sites with security and facilities were anyone can just set up a tent.
‘Help starts at home’ not with immigrants
one paycheck away from this
So Many Living With Friends or Family Because They Can’t Afford or Find Anything 😒
but providing billions of aid to Israel is more important for America.
Exactly
Israel is our ONLY ally in the region and the ONLY democratically elected government in the Middle East. We are giving Ukraine like 40 times more than Israel.
it will be UNDER ESTIMATED (the numbers) BIG TIME !
5:03 Here let me translate
"It is in our best interest to keep the homeless count low, it's always been done in January, and therefore the only reason to change it to fall would be to get optimal numbers which go against our interests in keeping the homeless count low, be it on paper or in reality."
With these housing and renting prices...
The best solution is common sense.
There is no monetary incentive to help at any level, and society doesn't like giving handouts outside of viral videos.
Way rent is every where that's homeless people
This is beyond sad. 😢
Us at taxpayers should be able to choose where our tax money goes, it should be invested in schools and housing veterans and families in need
These workers and the reporters shining light on this are doing Godly work.
I’m a disabled semi retired gig worker on the verge of being homeless due to rent skyrocketing 33% per year for the last 3 years. Greedy landlords and bureaucrats don’t care
Gets to my heart. ...wish I could help all.... I wanna volunteer ... Let's help !!!
6:20
As the old saying goes:
"Better late than never."
You get on a waitlist and still have to live outdoors for two years. You might get lucky and win a “lottery .” This is on the state level. My experience was in Boulder/ Denver and I am a single white male with no dependents and mental health issues… just a glimpse.
USA! Where the people screaming it's a free country are also the same people screaming you can't do that. It's almost ironic, but I think moronic is a closer word.
In the meantime, we're sending billions to other countries. How many homeless people would be save by just $1 million? Americans are exhausted from being involved in Israel's conflicts. Israel, a country in the middle east should learn to coexist peacefully with its neighbours. No more superiority mentality.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! ISRAEL HAS PULLED AWAY VALUABLE FUNDS AWAY FROM UKRAINE!!!!! OUR DAMN COUNTRY (USA) SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAD UKRAINE GIVE UP THEIR NUCLEAR WEAPONS WHEN THE USSR DISSOLVED! WE PROMISED THEM WE WOULD DEFEND THEM!
And Israel have enough money, they're extremely pampered. When fir generations they have been benefited and protected.
They really have too much money already.
Such a tried argument. Homeless been like this before and during the war. It's not like we don't have enough money but not enough will power to get it done. When was the last time government built housing? Last time government built homes was in the 60s.
@@jahjoeka But also rents are extremely high (health, universities, ...). And homeless have been increasing.
Something definitely is wrong.
@lillyrocks82 yes. Nobody cares. That's the problem. You think Republicans care about homelessness? You think Democrats want to solve a problem? Nope. People are hired to tend to the homeless, less homeless means less jobs. Like i said before government used to build housing but it doesn't anymore. Capitalism is our landlord and Capitalism always needs to make a profit. This is the American way. It's not surprising that this is an American problem and not a 3rd world issue.
Go to Hawaii there’s Tons of
Homeless there and I’m Sam Fran and La
❤this is beautiful how they are helping us the homeless people.thank you everyone ❤
through my years of homelessness and endless battles to get out. The help was thin. Not the facilitators dedications but the people that knew who you were in the past that turned a blind eye. Still today I bare a large scar of shame upon me but wear a badge of honor of true friendship I lost along the way. People just needing people to listen, share basics and relate to yes the world is F'd. It is not so hard to be awake
Change
When the Declaration of Independence was being written, there was a homeless person laying on the sidewalk outside so this isn’t something new
9:45
It's obviously a violation of a person's rights as a human being.
If the shelters in their city are full. They don't really have a choice.
I'm so sick of this! Let them go away like in the past. If you can't afford it, figure out how to make a life for yourself. Go away! Stop being a burden and waste of space.
Edit- I was homeless living on my car for months and had to give my first son up for adoption because of herion. No one helped me, got clean, cold turkey. Pulled myself up from my boot straps and made a good life. NO EXCUSES!
We shouldn't ignore our fellow man because it could be us ...
You know where you've been but you don't know where you're goin
If Oregon and HUD can't even agree on the amount of homelessness they have, well then, all the best.
The way things are going more and more homeless ! I work a low paying full time tough job and have a hard time paying rent can’t afford Medical Insurance and debt ! I could very easily end up on the street !? 😔🙏
LIVING ON THE EDGE?
Honestly, Wall Street overall is the main reason we have such a homeless problem and they should have to pay to correct it.
In a city of 50K homeless, it would not be possible to put all of them in a jail cell. It would be total bedlam.
0:45 In Lansing Michigan they have a building where people can come off the street at any time but they have to be processed so that it can be determined what their situation is . They are not allowed to lay down, just use the facilities. They will take you in if you are drunk or high but if you act up too much you will b arrested
You don't think a lawyer with a nice car can become homeless???? THINK AGAIN
Because he’s probably a good man and didn’t join their club of Rome
The tribes of ✡️ Are ruthless they can destroy you!
Facts
Never! That is a myth. Doctors either. If i would be a doctor and get millions of commission from Big Pharma for prescribing useless medicine, how would I become homeless?
America is great again 😢
The biggest hurdle to tackling homelessness is taxpayers often don't want to contribute to any solution, so projects and funding don't happen. It's a NIMBY-like attitude where if it's not affecting "me" then I don't care. But at the same time a lot of people complain about the problem and expect governments to wave a magic wand to fix it.
Struggling with finding homes in the land of plenty.😢??WHY!!.
Small or tiny house eco-housing. Everyone needs their own washroom, kitchen, and warm sleeping area. We can do it. Car-culture needs to be phased out. With flooding we can see that trams, be it mag-lev covered solar etc, need to be elevated off the ground in many areas. Greenways to make the urban areas livable please. The building restrictions have to be eased. People should be allowed to construct dwellings according to their needs. Not be forced to comply with onerous building codes and dictatorial inspection requirements. Years ago, I built a log cabin on leased land. The building inspector basically told me it’s illegal, and I moved out.
Hoteliers will need state support
I surrendered myself to a homeless shelter in 2019 after two full decades of under-employment, low wage entry level part-time jobs after I graduated college. There was no career for me, no upward mobility, no savings. I finally just gave up bc I couldn’t struggle anymore.
Damn
Why homeless americans without help are on the streets but the government gives the help of homes food medical services and even school to total strangers coming in our country demanding that we pay for them in instead of our Americans in need on the streets !!!...and some of this people are police agressors how it happened recently in NY!!!
You're one paycheck away from this yourself -
Straight up
No. Other than a maybe a year after college, this has never been the case for me. And I'm pretty typical of a lot of people.
@@joesmith942 good for you, Mr.Smith?
I went to KC during tail end of Covid. I never saw homeless. I been down the east side and downtown.
The person who keeps faith in the Lord is gonna be alright
There's a lot to survey!
"Some people are gonna have to be creative" like how is creativity gonna keep anyone off the streets? WHAT DID I MISS?
Oh me
Everyone, we are chatting about the Super Bowl, not random stuff. Sorry to be rude!!!
Outreach personnel: "We are doing some street outreach...need anything?" Homeless person: "Yeah, $1MM lady!"
Lol
Only if we actually had politicians that do their jobs
There should not be a single homeless persons in a rich country like America. Something is not right.
It's easy to blame homelessness on the homeless, but that's extremely short sighted.
Almost every homeless person can tell you about loosing their job, about low wages that no long cover even the cheapest apartments.
Medical costs have forced many people out of their housing. Even people who owned homes can loose them because of big medical bills because someone in the family had a serious illness.
Many homeless people have jobs they go to every day, but can't make enough to cover a damage deposit, current and last month's rent.
If they have an eviction on their records, if employers find they're homeless, it's just that much harder for people to get hired or find housing.
Homelessness is going to keep growing until people receive a living wage, to redesign our healthcare system so hardworking people, even those with health insurance, can't be forced into bankruptcy if someone becomes seriously ill, and getting a handle on soaring rental rates that even middle class workers are struggling to pay.
Unmitigated greed is driving it all.
Millions being spent to hire and start agencies.
30 years later.
Nothing done.
For the people it was designed for..
High GDP with no regards for Gini coefficient
Wait, so you will be criminalizing homeless? How is it a solution?? 🤦♀️
Surveying! Yeah they been doing that for decades. Homeless people call it STARING though
If homeless people had homes what would all those govt workers do then???
Pick count or point time count - what is the reason this can’t be done at least twice a year? Being that the un-housed numbers have grown. Sometimes you don’t have to reinvent the wheel and are there successful homeless communities that worked out the kinks?
Interesting footage on homelessness in the USA.. 🙏🇺🇲🙏
check out the homelessness in Europe, Canada, India, Africa, Germany, and on and on
It’s so y’all can wake TF up and fix it
go back to sleep
There's a lot people living in cars near where i live.
The part i don't understand is their living in a vehicle newer than what I'm driving to work.
That make sense to you?
Should be a answer
In many cases it is actually easier for a poorer person to get financing for a new car than a used car, especially if the buyer has negative equity they want/have to deal with.
@@unwound9869how is it easier?
Yes, they are people just like you and me who have recently experienced some form of tradgedy...medical bills, loss of job, flooding, fires...could be anything....having a huge bank account is not going to save you...if it dwindles and solutions are not presented....anyone could be next....yes, it is growing...
Buddy, try paying a car payment,full insurance and a rent.
Then tell me which you rather let go of first if financial hardship🥴
@@roverandmorerestore7266
Financial hardship?
We just call that Biden.
The elderly are the fastest growing homeless population.
The city of Henderson Nevada doesn't have a homeless problem and the city receives Government money to help the homeless isn't this called inbeselment by the city of Henderson Nevada of taxpayer money
Mental illness is probably one of the many reasons to why alot of individuals are homeless we need to fix the mental health problem in this country .........
Why don't we hear news especially good news on this topic ...but you hear about neuralink ...we need these scientist to work harder for us ......I'm living with schizophrenia
small homes are the answer ,organized encampments are good. with reduced rent, food, transportation. labor temp service with van transport to and from job site.
please help us abc news. help the homeless
it's always been done in January
well change it if it doesn't work
wtf
it boggles my mind that no mention of the need of public housing units are need it across the country, restore public housing budget now!!! no local government or city or state its going to solve homelessness without Federal Funding, think about it!
they tried that, they all turned into crime infested slums and ghettos
not that hard to understand. people get old. you get more tired when your older. some people aren't born with the energy to work 8 hours a day let alone 2 jobs.
George Carlin predicted the future.
If you don’t smoke or drink or do drugs life is extremely easy.
And 95% of success is simply showing up.
If you’re struggling I can guarantee you if you’re honest with yourself it’s because of a self-inflicted wound.
You know with this administration migrants come first so I don’t know what to tell these guys
I can't get proper help in Hawaii with my homelessness. Evil people here.
the cherry on top is also the insane Criminalization of homelessness in the U.S.
people don't like to see the "blight"...... so try and use C.J. system to remove "undesirables".
even though, this is a SYSTEMIC issue, and is going to take Federal & State intervention to fully tackle.
would you like them to come camp out and defacate and pee all over your front yard?