Carlin was based af. It's hilariously dumb when people claim he was a right-winger just because he was gruff and hated PC language. He was on the left of nearly every social and political issue of substance. PC language just bothered him because he was a big English nerd.
@@katyungodly Even his anti political correct points are arguably left in practice. "Shell shock" "post traumatic stress disorder" creating new terms for preexisting problems to detach from the previous cases, is still very much applicable. "Pull up your boot straps" arguements fail alot quicker and harder when you don't use the modern vocabulary. New terminology allows detachment
Anti homeless architecture is one of the most openly sadistic and psychotic aspects of our society. Those benches are so uncomfortable that nobody sits on them. We are rendering them unusable for everyone just to fuck with the homeless. It's insane.
It’s simply an extension of the class / caste system that America has kept firmly bolted down. If they could they’d set up camps to have the homeless penned in. And it would be out in the wilds away from resources.
@@whatsagoodusername823 I mean I know a lot of homeless people and normally cops bug them if they sleep out in plain sight so they choose the ground because there are more spots on the ground where you can actually hide (still think the anti homeless benches are stupid I just don't know many homeless people who'd think a regular bench was safe to fall asleep on)
@@byrnetdown6076 When you're homeless, almost anything is better than the ground. It's a lot easier to fall asleep on a bench than it is to fall asleep on concrete, or dirt where bugs or animals have a higher incentive to hurt you while you sleep. A bench provides more comfort than none at all when considering possibilities such as these, even if they are still uncomfortable. When you're in that bad of a situation, you take what you can get.
I was homeless five years ago and it's still the most traumatic thing to have ever happened to me. Even in Seattle I had little help, constantly being looked down on and shooed away even though I had a fucking full time job and worked my ass off. I was an indignant shit about it for a little bit after I somehow managed to meet one of the best friends I've ever made in that situation and somehow we managed to get an apartment, but after the initial shock wore off, I realised how fucked up everything about it truly was. I got fucking stabbed and left for dead in a park, and still no one tried to help. No one, ever, should have to take on anything alone. We have to give these people homes.
@@trappedinamerica7740 maybe just let both work if they want and pay both enough that either can stop or lower working hours to care for children. Also childcare and kindergarten is a good thing for social interactions too. I feel like america speedran capitalism so hard that living conditions are so fragile and with a little bad luck anyone could be on the streets
@Alec Stanton maybe instead of giving them ownership of a home you can do what Finland do and provide temporary housing where they can use it as a fixed address for job applications providing them a transition to them joining the rental market.
It's almost like... the hawks don't actually give two shits about the troops whose lives they throw away. Almost like... All the bravado about supporting the troops is horseshit.
@@Colddirector The rote way that statement always comes out sickens me. They don't know or care about what the words mean, but know you're Supposed To Say It
@Classical Marxist I mean, it's not their fault they were fed lies of heroism by society and more direct lies from their recruiters about what they're ordered to do. And most of them were too poor to have any upward mobility before joining. Army recruitment is a big counter-incentive for welfare
I was homeless for a little while, my boyfriend was a veteran. We applied for housing and got denied. It was a traumatic experience. I’ll never forget getting my period and having no money to get tampons Or anything it was a very sad dark time in my life and I’m lucky to be alive.
Just want you to know, I hope you're doing better now. I can't imagine how terrible it must be, to be in such situations. Best wishes, for you and everyone else who are or have experienced homelessness.
I've been homeless. My landlord raised the rent from 1100 to 1600, could not find anyplace nearly as cheap. I couch surfed and squatted for 6 months. I'm super lucky cause I met a girl at the time who offered to have me live with her, and I still do. Chad privilege I guess.
The homeless are a woefully untapped workforce, if only there was industry for them to get trained in so they could get a job, fuck i would pay more in taxes just so they could get free bunk, while they do so.
My city has a shamefully underserved, rapidly growing homeless population. It is effectively illegal to be homeless outside of a very few places, and they are constantly harassed by police. We need to take action as a society now, before this gets any worse, especially when it could so easily be so much better.
@@adamsmasher9769 No, but [redacted] is a "progressive" city that used to have a reputation for helping the homeless, so it still attracts a lot of them even though services have been slashed and policing practices have become more harsh.
A lot of homeless people get bused to Salt Lake City, I lived there for a while and they were everywhere. A ton of them freeze to death every winter, and I’m 100% positive that’s why they get bused in
What is that number. You say that a ton of them freeze to death. They get bussed in so that they might actually make a change. Leftists have zero clue how to address homeless people. They go to places where they can sleep outside on purpose. California has every means to take care of mental health problems and drug addictions. If they deny that help then you can't do anything unless you force them to.
@@Onthebrink5 How can they make a change? They aren't given or taught anything, they aren't being bussed to a brand new home. You're just moving the problem somewhere else without giving those people the tools they need to become working, homeowning people. As for the mental health/drug problems, they've been a few attempts to address this, but the problem is these bills get ignored or even voted against by the government as a whole. You want mental health and drug abuse to improve in your communities? Vote for people that actually have policies addressing those issues, rather than giving a vote to those who ignore them.
@@kiwi3085 If someone has to change or starve they will change. It is called biology. The fact that you dont understand the 1st tenet of addiction just proves that you do not possess any knowledge of basic sociology. There is a reason why rock bottom is the most basic rule of change of an addict. Pushing someone against there backs forces them to make a change. You do want addicts to get help right?
@@Onthebrink5 We know how to address homeless people, fund social safety nets that prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place, and give the ones without housing homes. Once you give them a house, you can offer mental health care and addiction programs. The imminent threat of death that comes with winter isn't the motivator to seek help, becoming homeless is enough motivation. If they deny the option for public housing and subsequent care, odds are they are severely mentally unwell and need treatment. Living in Hawaii there is a significant homeless problem and there is no risk of freezing to death, the problem isn't that the homeless are unmotivated. It is untreated mental health issues, the exorbitant cost of living and housing, lack of healthcare, crippling addiction, and the systemic racism that BIPOC (us native Hawaiians) face. The homeless aren't unmotivated. They are legitimately unable to drag themselves out of poverty. To suggest that they need to fear for their survival to "actually make a change" is fucking disgusting and you clearly have lived a sheltered life so that those in your close social circles have not been kicked from their homes by no fault of their own. I hope that one day you will learn to have a crumb of empathy for your fellow man and see those in difficult positions as actual human beings instead of living trash. Edit: I'm ADHD and forgot a word.
@@Onthebrink5 The "first tenet of addiction" is that those who are already mentally, emotionally, and/or physically unwell are the most susceptible. What do you mean, "if someone has to change or starve they will change?" If someone is starving you fucking feed them, you don't wait for them to "change". Once they are no longer starving you can begin to teach them and then allow them to feed themselves. You can't teach a man to fish if he is too hungry and mentally unwell enough to focus on what you're teaching him. Then again, you don't even want to teach them to fish, you want them to "make a change" and magically materialize food into their stomachs. I am astounded that you could make it to adulthood and still believe that those who are homeless become so because of some personal moral failing.
I feel like there's a difference between guilt and shame. I was always of the mindset that shame is the deterrent, and guilt is the one that actually spurs people into action. If I feel guilty about something, I'm motivated to get rid of it by fixing my actions. But if I'm ashamed of who I am a person, I will believe nothing I do will ever fix a problem caused by me simply existing, so that feeling is a deterrent. but under that framing, I feel like Vaush here is describing something that's neither guilt or shame in the traditional sense. The kind of resentment that comes from guilt that individuals shouldn't have because we didn't cause the problem, kind of situation. Structural, systemic problems, etc etc. Idk. Maybe it's still guilt, but I wonder if there's another word that's specific to it. tldr, I don't quite agree with Vaush's framing when it comes to everyday normal situations, but he also isn't wrong at all about the exact context he's using it in.
@@VultRoos guilt re things you can control is somewhat reasonable and can lead to action. Guilt re things you can't control is a waste of time and honestly pretty self serving in the end.
There's also films like sleepers that show place's meant to deal with child delinquency are fucking cesspools of abuse with no hope of rehabilitation for troubled youth. That leads to even more homelessness and crime.
Conservatism (anywhere past the tiny sliver of like "hey maybe traditional handcrafts are based and we shouldn't let them die") is just the cycle of abuse turned into a political ideology. Literally. People think this way because they're mentally broken down by abusive systems to such an extent that they internalize a mindset of perpetually glorifying suffering and seeing punishment as the only solution to every problem.
More homelessness and crime, more money flows into the politicians pockets and the abusive police/prison system. They know what they're doing and it's fucking sickening
Once I saw a bench that was basically two chairs connected by the back parts (with metal "armrests"), the excuse was it was a place for people in wheelchairs to sit...
Most of the homeless people I know just can't afford homes. They have jobs, many work 40+ hours a week. One guy I know lost his job and got evicted then no one would rent to him even after he got a fulltime job. Some have criminal records that prevent them from renting and the fact that they haven't broken a law in decades doesn't matter, they can't rent. I guess basically what I'm saying is the rental system us set up to create homeless people and keep them that way.
Last month my city's mayor held a meeting about our emergency shelter response to extreme heat. It was actually about how we're wasting money trying to help houseless neighbors because they don't want help (all our over-night shelters or transition programs require church attendance) and business owners crying about people trying to use their bathroom or dirtying up their sidewalk. I'd signed up to speak because I had ideas about how to get people to safety and better ways to set these places up to be community building. But by the time they got to me I was so upset I wasted so much of my time trying to collect my thoughts, didn't even read my notes, just told them off for how shameful they were being for caring more about money than people's lives. Not just those without shelter but those without proper AC, or who live in an area that loses power when the system gets too strained.
There is an expensive grand church with a cross but no visible denomination close to where I live with a bench out front. Laying on that bench is a statue of a hooded figure made of what looks like modern high carbon steel. I remember walking past this place when I was homeless trying to find somewhere to sleep and enjoyed the irony that the bench was already occupied by symbolism.
Years before I started becoming better and more politically aware and active, I was living in a first floor apartment with a very small open air patio by the sidewalk with a roommate in Orlando. One night, my roommate walked into my room quaking and freaking out, telling me there was a homeless person in said patio, trying to sleep. My roommate came from a pretty upper middle class background and was like... unreasonably scared of this person outside our very secure back door. He pressured me into calling the police to get them to leave... and I did. Cops showed up on bikes, woke the guy up, and made him go somewhere else. Luckily, there was no belligerent violence on anyone's part (which I say because I do believe what I did in calling the cops there could be classified as a form of violence). I felt horrible after that.
It was really sad to see the homeless people i knew be able to pitch a tent under the over pass just to have it ripped away a few months later. Cops coming in and saying pack up everything right now, anything you can't take will be thrown away
@Jan 6 Rioter Still Hiding You're incapable of having a shred of empathy and compassion for other human beings. We get it. You aren't interesting or special.
I was homeless for over a year in Dallas. Had a full time job the whole time, I made enough to get a motel twice a week, have food for the week and I bought 3 or 4 bikes that year because they constantly got stolen. Eventually my uncle gave me a chance and I stayed with him for 2 months. In that time I found a better job, saved enough for an apartment and bought a cash car. Now I’m doing great, as well as any other poor person. Let me tell you, if I didn’t get that 2 months to save up I could have never gotten out of the cycle. Not saying 2 months is all anybody would need but it’s nearly impossible without outside help
My mother helps get grants for non-profits, usually organizations that work with/help homeless populations. She was working with a decent sized city on the West Coast (I can't remember the exact state or city) and the organization we were helping was working with the City Council of said city. The City Council was going on and on and on about how much they cared about homeless people, how happy they were to help homeless people, and how awful homeless people are treated in the state my mother lives in, which is Oklahoma. My mother does this huge project where she went through about a decades worth of data on homeless numbers, previous funding, which models worked which didn't, and other pertinent information in that city and like sized cities. All the while my mother is doing this, the City Council has begun this process to renovate a hiking trail to bring in tourism. This hiking trail happened to be a very popular area for homeless people to camp because it was in a relatively safe area with little foot traffic. The City Council have the police go in and tear down dozens of tents and kick out the people living there. My mother turns in her report and they tell us this, all while patting themselves on the back that their Liberal city was so much kinder to homeless people than evil Conservative Oklahoma. Never forgot that. They talked about how disgusting (which it is) Oklahoma is about Homeless people and how backward those conservatives were, while literally destroying the one place of safety dozens of homeless people had.
Welcome to reality politicians don't care about anyone but themselves be it a R or a D by their name I'm black pilled to humanity these days everything is all window dressing with no substance the very few and I mean very few who actually care don't have enough resources or reach to really change anything
My dad works in a psych unit of a hospital, and for decades he’s seen some of the effects of the Greyhound treatment. A lot of the homeless people end up where he works after they send them on the bus.
I was homeless for a month i never actually was on the streets and that is why I was incredibly lucky to know kind people that would help me out, and I was so miserable i don't want to know how it is to be homeless, just give them homes is not hard holy shit
Some people say homeless people have failed and don't deserve a home, some say they're mentally ill and can't take care of themselves, but there's a pretty popular video interviewing a homeless guy who was a marine which shows that there's a lot of cases where that's total bullshit. (I mean both those arguments are so totally inhumane that of course they're total bullshit, just saying by they're own metrics they're bullshit) Dude's like 60, washes his clothes every day in a fountain, uses his marine training to maximise comfort on the street, keeps his hair short and shit and does stuff during the day. Like these people are like you and me, some have the mental fortitude to keep going, some don't (perfectly reasonable in their situ) but like fuck me, I hate people who hate homeless people.
actually it can get much easier than a saw! i read somewhere that these types of bars are most likely secured by hex bolts, so you would just need the right size nut wrench!
One who flew over the cuckoo nest was filmed at the Oregon State Psychiatric hospital, located in Salem, Oregon. I work in the mental health field today, and unfortunately what Vaush is talking about is absolutely true. People don't want to 'deal' with those that are houseless. They would rather push them away and continue to disguise that Salem does not have a houseless crisis. Last years fires in Oregon substantially increased those that are now currently houseless.
Hey biden. Howabout a federal program to buy out some of these massive vacant office buildings and retrofit them into units with kitchens and bathrooms for people to live in
I was registering my son for school recently and I've learnt there are special laws and accommodation for HOMELESS CHILDREN attending school. Meaning there are enough of them to influence lawmakers to graft a special law about them. How is that even possible? How can a parent with a school age child not have enough help from the government to prevent said child sleeping on the street is beyond me.
Fun Fact: One Who Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest inspired Metallica to make the song Sanitarium (Welcome Home). Also, give homes to the homeless, it's good to stop suffering.
I grew up in del norte county, it's the next county north of Humboldt and the homeless issue is mind blowing. I was homeless at 17-25, I'm 28 and I'm still technically homeless but was able to move to a different state.
I’m a Canadian liberal and i care about homeless people, it really pissed me off when i realized the reason parks and public spaces and etc, would put dividers on benches was so that homeless people couldn’t sleep on them as well as the various underhanded and sick ways that city governments will do in order to try and force homeless people to leave the city and or be unable ti live or function in the city limits rather than deal with the problem itself I totally support more public housing and affordable housing specifically to give homeless people a secure place to be safe and or to be able to get themselves together to find jobs and etc Yeah, most homeless people are not mentally ill, they are people who lost their jobs and or fell behind (got sick, injured and couldn’t work, or they couldn’t afford or make enough to live off of) and were thrown out of their apartments or Holmes because they couldn't pay the rent or afford to support themselves which is a direct result of an overly capitalist system that has no basic and or functioning social safety net to protect them.
One of my friends was kicked out of their house because they're trans. They've been homeless for nearly two months with a full time job and they're finally really close to getting an apartment. They nearly got raped and filmed in a park. These last three months have been incredibly traumatizing for them.
I remember a great bit by George Carlin talking about "homeless" people. Hell was the first time for me and many other hearing it called houseless people.
I saw one of those idiot memes with carlins face and some anti vax comment...made me literally shake my head. They think because carlin was anti censorship that he would be a Qanon freak. Ignoring the fact he constantly fought conservatives on censorship lol
I work at a homeless resource center and day shelter in Colorado. We just opened a permit supportive housing complex with 60 apartment units. It is staffed full time with social workers to help the clients. The idea of "Housing First" shows that people are orders of magnitude better able to get their lives on track when they have a place to call home, whether they're in recovery for substance use disorder, or other mental health diagnoses. I don't think homelessness is something that will ever be 100% "solved," but there are better ways to address it than what we mostly do here in America which is criminalize it.
Homelessness is also a vet & male problem. I worked in a SNF in a transient college town, I’d wager to say at least 75% of our homeless patients were vets.
the worst violence i have witnessed was teenagers beating an elderly man behind a dumpster i called 9-11 and later heard he died in the hospital a few weeks later and i never heard about any sort of trial…
As a former homeless person, i despise the term houseless. We don't have a safe place to sleep. There's no home in a place where you are in constant danger of getting robbed, raped, and/or beaten, and often the police are the ones doing it. Edit: my survivors guilt has paralyzed me into not doing more. My junkie ass got a place and there are families on the street with nothing. It makes me angry. The street is no place for children or the soft. The street is no place for anyone. I wonder how many of these people will die by this winter. I'm angry.
In 2008 a study was done in Calgary, a city in Canada maybe a bit smaller than Philadelphia, they asked their source of income. 18% of them said they had full time jobs. Over 50% of them had some form of employment. The homeless people aren't lazy, just in a horrid unfortunate situation. It's fucking appalling.
one flew over the cukoo’s nest my moms mom was secretary there when they made that movie she said they cordoned off a third the building for use in movie most not interact much but she said she shook hands with jack Nicholson at some point i live in the city that movie filmed i here salem oregon
I've been homeless and literally work in ending homelessness but homeless people scare me as a young transwoman =/ I've been sexually assaulted by homeless before and so I generally don't feel safe if it's just me and homeless people - and yes, the sexual assault was in front of people. That said I do not at all let it affect my fight to end homelessness. Housing first as a policy is something I strongly fight for and to make sure they can get stability so they can be their best selves, be it a person that STILL doesn't work but maybe lives a more fruitful life in their terms or maybe they become the next Beethoven now that they've had the home stability I have. Though to be honest my stability is pretty paper thin, be it mental or financial.
That happened to you, too!? I thought I was the only one. I'm sorry that has happened to you. 😔 I've also been sexually assaulted by a Hispanic man (and I'm a black homeless woman), and another Hispanic just turned his head as his compare sexuallu assaulted me. I had him arrested, but they had let him go an dropped the charges, claiming that I didn't answer the phone when I gave them an email address just in case the police couldn't reach me. I got so passed (welcome to Chicago, a corrupted city!) That was 2018-2019. Funny thing, though, months later, the police chief was fired for being drunk while having the car on sleeping behind the wheel. (2019). So I guess justice served, sort of. I still hope there will be justice for you one way or another. Peace! ✌
the craziest thing about the homelessness problem is that is literally has the most obvious solution-give them homes-and it just doesn’t get done. insane shit
YES VAUSH THANK YOU for mentioning medical reasons as why ppl are homeless- That's WHY I WAS: it's true that Not all, and now not even the majority, of homeless ppl are suffering from addiction and/ or mental health issues: they are "regular" ppl!! (Not that addiction and mental health issues dont absolutely contribute to the problem) so many are like I WAS: HOMELESS FOR 3 YEARS, LIVING ON THE STREET, and awhile on a church floor and for a short time in cheap motels- purely bc I came from an abusive family and had no support when I got a serious chronic illness in a state (FL) that gives literally no one but pregnant women Medicaid, so I had no health care and was not just on the street but DYING on the street. I lost my apt of 10 years when I was finally too sick to work, lost my health insurance Thru My Job, and ended up sleeping in a park next to where I used to work. I could go into the abuse I suffered from police, medical personnel, staff of the Salvation Army I paid $10 / night to have a safe place to sleep and a shower when I could, the PTSD... But Id rather not. Bad memories. I'm so lucky I got out. Not thru any govt help or charity. Friend moved me to a state I would have health care, I rebuilt my life. Most never get that chance.
People don’t realize how many people are illiterate as adults. This has been a long standing issue that people seem blind too. It completely effects your ability to work most jobs if you can get one at all and it goes unnoticed.
I was homeless for 3 months with my now husband. We slept in his truck with our dogs after we lost our apartment. We both had full time jobs. I can’t imagine being homeless long term. It’s horrible.
I would imagine that was because of poor mistakes on your own part. 80 hours of week but cant afford an apartment. 3 months while having 80 hour work weeks. Calling bullshit. There is a lot of information that you are ignoring.
@@Onthebrink5 We weren’t making a lot of money and we had other bills besides rent. You don’t know what our wages were, you don’t know our medical problems, you know nothing about me. It was 5 years ago and now I’m a homeowner. What the fuck do I gain from lying about this? You’re just uncomfortable with harsh truths.
@@bootsandcats1501 Other bills more important than rent??? It doesnt matter what wages were. You had 80 hours of wages per week. I spent almost a decade of ten percent decreases from medical debt. Why do any people lie? Social capital. I acctually know harsh truths. I have been around them my entire life. Someone named boots and cats sounds a lot more like a middleclass kid. So sick of people like you.
@@Onthebrink5 And this is not some ploy to gain social capital? „You don’t even know how hard I had it! I am the hardest of you all!“ Even if life hit you harder than anybody else you just sound silly now.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the best films ever made. If you haven't seen it, you should. If you're a young person, take whatever young people drugs you take to normalize your attention span, and watch it. It will make you a better human being.
well also, i would imagine just how trauma can spark mental-illness - that homeless peoole are more prone to develop mental issues because they are homeless
As a former homeless man. Everything Vaush has said is correct. To top it off its much much worse than he even describes. 1st off the idea that homeless shelters actually help the homeless is only a myth that people whom never been homeless belief to make themselves feel good. Most homeless shelters are apart of a circular network. The premise is not to actually fix homelessness. Because without homelessness there is no shelter and no government and social funding. You can find proof in this by the fact that most homeless people would rather not go to a shelter and is why you see so many outside. In a shelter you are stripped of your humanity, you are treated like a criminal as many act like actual prisons, and the only way they will help you find permanent housing is if your receiving a monthly check. And like Vaush said, most homeless people aren't crazy or in a situation where they can even receive social security. Nevermind everyday people treating you like shit if you even look like you might be homeless (which i managed to hide fairly well) but the police are the biggest bullys to homeless people. One time while i was living in my car, a policeman had my car towed just for the hell of shit and giggles. He wouldn't have had i never told him i was living in my car was always clean to remove the appearance of living in it. Lastly here is the biggest reason why most people are homeless, they lack the social structure of friends and family that most people have. That is to say most people can lean on their family or friends when they fall on hard times. But if you dont have that or in the way most people do, who can you lean on? We live in a society where most people think they have gotten where they are in life by themselves. That is never been true in the history of mankind. Yes you may have did the work and gotten a degree, but did you have to sleep on someone's couch at anytime before you graduated or had to borrow money just to feed yourself? Point is most people overlook the help they received because they dont factor it into their achievement. Everyone needs help, homeless people just lack the social structure to get actual help.
That is so true. I'd also like to add that even janitors and security guards can also be the biggest bullies to homeless people besides police and business staff and even library staff! 😔
Where I grew up we had an abusive facility up until the early 90s that had to be shut down purely due to just how much abuse the staff were doing. It was finally made publicly aware. Here is an anecdote I learned from someone who witnessed it first hand to demonstrate my point. The story comes from the late 80s. There was a severely mentally ill and developmentally stunted man. Let's call him bob. Bob really liked magazines. Any type of magazine, didn't matter, he just liked looking at the pictures and reading them. At this institution, they had all reading material behind lock and key, preventing the patients from accessing them. Due to how much he was checking the magazines out, they ended up limiting him to only one magazine at a time. Mind you this is all under the backdrop of physical, verbal, and mental abuse that was rampant throughout. Bob took exception to that, and because of the policy he refused to turn in a magazine. He took the policy to mean that he was never going to get another magazine (again, we're not dealing with someone who can comprehend the world as anyone else). This resulted in the magazines becoming so worn down from rough use that the staff decided it was best to take them from him by force. Bob didn't like this. Bob decided to harm himself over and over again by bashing his skull against the concrete walls of the facility. This went on and the staff did nothing to prevent it or treat him. Eventually, bob permanently disfigured his face due to how much he bashed it against the wall. The person who told me this story eventually met bob, saw what was happening and was so sickened by it that they immediately worked to get him out. At this time, small group homes were starting to pop up, usually 6 people per household. She succeeded and got him free from the abuse. On one Christmas they brought Bob back to his room to see what his gift was. Hundreds of magazines that had been saved up and donated just for Bob. No lock and key. Just him. Point is, rampant abuse in these facilities existed even after Reagan, but it mostly ended then. Now people are either on the street or in homes like the one I worked in. Even then though, there is still abuse, but it is far more rare and now the abuse normally comes down to unintentional negligence due to how understaffed and overworked Direct Support Professionals are. During COVID's first year I worked 5--6 12 hour shifts a week. I earned 11.70 an hour. The Walmart down the street paid 15 an hour. Needless to say, no one was hired.
Vaush... I grew up in McKinleyville and worked near those areas... humbolts homeless issues have been a roller-coaster of ups and down... biggest issues in humbolt deal with substance abuse, lack of work (the economy is pretty weak there) and the Arcata and eureka rivalries... its pretty crazy
It makes sense that Calif has a high unhoused population. It is a more populous state to begin with & definitely has a housing crisis as far as affordable or low income housing is concerned(SF Bay Area & LA area especially) The weather here in certain coastal regions is fairly moderate compared to other states & even other regions of Calif, so those areas would attract more people out of practicality. Many people end up homeless due to illness/imjury/medical bills & unemployment. There are a lot of folks living in vehicles in campgrounds who lost their homes because a family member got seriously ill. Universal healthcare would go a long way to decreasing the impact of the homelessness problem.
So yesterday I was just told that some Swiss cities had the bright idea to install some of homeless-unfriendly benches and some of these leaning things. Apparently in an act of solidarity multiple construction unions organized together with the two larger left parties and the communist party to go around and just modify them to make them better. They literally had construction workers drive around with party members from bench to bench and cut off or add stuff to make them ‚normal‘ benches. The Swiss left wing parties really don‘t like this kind of shit. When our national railway had the idea to ban homeless people from sleeping the heated train stations the two left wing parties threatened them with massive demonstrations at rush hour to basically shut down the large train stations. Needless to say this idea was quickly dropped.
Loved the end where you talked about getting out there and doing something. Ive really been trying to participate in local hearings and stuff lately. Hope other will do so as well!
I moved to eureka in 2001. I was homeless for a few years before that but traveled until an arrest for locking down after an activist was killed and had to go to court here. I got a job with R. A. V. E. N. and would do outreach in the community. This was one spot we would go. I also used to go back behind the mall all the time to see the graffiti. It was always changing. Wish I still had photos. There was also a nice spot to sit on the concrete on the edge of the bay where you could see the sunset on the mouth and not the pulp mill. At low tide you could see huge fat colorful starfish. I even brought a date out there. At first I felt a little bad because of how nervous they were until they started going back there to take photos (photo student). As long as you advoid peoples encampments and treat people like people it was fine. I was sad when they pulled all that old concrete out. Some of it was unsafe though and graffiti wasn't changing that and we should not have people needing to sleep ruff. It would be a nice spot for temp camping and it would have been nice to put a skate park with some graffiti walls. Being next to the mall would be best because there are buses and it would only help the dying mismanaged mall unless they mismanaged the situation again and I would not be surprised if the did.
hey, whoever is the editor of Vaush's videos, can you normalize his audio levels? this has always been an issue, but it feels like today it got worse. i have to crank the volume to double, for this to be on par with the average TH-cam video. can you please open up Audacity with the audio track, click the Normalize button, then put it back into the video with whatever video software is free or available to you?
"Guilt is a terrible, terrible emotion and it produces nothing. No productivity. If you all feel guilty about that [homelessness], don't. The guilt is what keeps people from acting on it. Guilt makes you push those thoughts away to the back of your mind. Guilt is what causes you to look at them [homeless people] and then quickly avert your eyes so that you don't make eye contact. Don't feel guilty, you can get mad or you can be productive or inspired or something but guilt does not inventivize productive responses." -Vaush
Fun fact, Liechtenstein had to close, I think, their last homeless shelter because there weren't enough homeless people. It has a population of about 38k.
My california town has a huge homeless issue and ive been watching it grow for years now. There has always been homeless people around, but they all lived in specific canyons, when i was a kid you could point at certain areas like "homeless people live in that canyon, don't go there." A specific church, very wealthy, very culty, started an effort to clean up those areas, and being huge donors to the police department the police help them kick all the homeless out. So, where do they go? Parks. Well, again, said church started an effort to clean up the parks, the police help, but where do they go? Well now they're camping wherever they can find where they won't he harassed but now they're all over the place. Same church has been massively investing in down town area, effectively gentrifying it. All the cheap places to live have been massively raising their prices and so the disabled community and other poor people can't afford living by themselves so the homeless population is skyrocketing, wherever they go they go police harass them and all their potential employeers and renters are pricing them out and turn them away while my town stands by and watches it happen. Theres even a group called "RAT patrol" which stands for Redding Area Transient Patrol where people go out and commit hate crimes against the homeless. All of it massively being lead by a church cult called bethel
"Hate Crimes" against homeless. I wonder if weather has something to do with it. I love when idiots in CA talk about this issue. I wonder why there is a difference in one of the poorest cities in America like Buffalo?????? NY helps homeless people and has a lot of welfare. I wonder if a lot of them dont want the help.
@@Onthebrink5 yes, hate crimes against the homeless. What else do you consider a group of people who go out and video tape themselves beating up homeless people and posting it on facebook for chuckles? Or drive by macing homeless people infront of a grocery store yelling "Rat patrol"
Also how does the state i live make me a) an idiot and b) unable to have an opinion on the topic? I'm only speaking on what ive witnessed in my own city.
@@Onthebrink5 when did i say "this is whats happening here therefore its happening everywhere." Infact i stated that i am only speaking to issues happening in my community. You're either being disingenuous or stupid.
I've been homeless for 2 years, Florida's resources to getting you off the street is dog shit and the price of living is way too high, The cheapest I could find for one bedroom apartment was 1200 a month. I moved to Ohio a few days ago and I already have so much more hope about getting off the street. Being homeless humbles you, it makes you grateful for All the things that everyone takes for granted.
0:44 Plus, if you have a home, you can secure your possessions much more easily and thus feel more comfortable buying things, producing more economic activity.
Homelessness is a difficult problem to solve. Not necessarily for the temporary ones, but for the permanent ones. The ones that are crazy are probably a danger to others.
When you say “difficult problem to solve”, you mean that there are people actively working to stop us from caring for the homeless. The solution itself is not difficult at all; just give people homes
nah thats not difficult at all, you just have to actually provide the care they need instead of having mental healthcare tied behind wealth. Plus the truly far gone ones are better off being institutionalized where it's safe for them and society (as much as those places really need better standards of care).
People always say "how is it that the richest country in the world treats it's lower class so poorly?" You literally already answered your question. You don't become the richest country in the world through treating people well.
Police harassing the homeless comment while not wrong, the police are told to pressure them by city council and the community. So fingers need to be pointed at the political class too.
Therapist here. Vaush is actually incorrect about this. The feeling of guilt is natural and something that needs to be felt. The thing he is pointing at is the emotional reaction of shame. Huge difference between those two. The reason why we don't deal with the homelessness problem is because we are ashamed that they exist at all and to do so that is to acknowledge that they exist or treat them with human dignity would mean we would have to acknowledge our shame.
Cute bench in the thumbnail. So anyway, cordless angle grinders start around $50 at hardware stores and online. Bike thieves use them to cut through galvanized steel locks and racks, don't see why they wouldn't work on other metal things.
Thank you for talking about this Vaush. If my parents weren’t so supportive of me emotionally and financially, I would be homeless or dead. It’s an issue I care about a lot
We had something like this in Austin TX Castle Hill It was awesome, but the city sold the land They’re actually “moving” the site, but they’re actually just sanctioning another spot for graffiti
Fyi the Omaha-thing is not a spoiler. The series sets out from the start that James McGill eventually ends up there bc that is part of the end of Breaking Bad. It is a prequel afterall so you probably don't want to watch it before watching Breaking Bad anyway.
We do our best to try to help the unhoused population of Denver. We go to our local food bank and get some food and take it up to Denver. It breaks my heart to see no policy to help these people
my dad worked at that mental hospital too(the one in one flew over cukoos nest). as a strongman. he was fired in the late 80s when he had repeat warnings about cocaine use and his dad my grandfather called his boss after seeing him use a bunch of cocaine right before heading to work dad went to prison not much later after he sold pcp to an under cover cop
I have to disagree that wanting homeless people gone is all about guilt. One big problem is that homeless encampments are often trash-strewn and unsanitary, a condition which makes a neighborhood unpleasant to say the least. Having said that, the solution isn't to teach the homeless population to be tidy. I do agree that we as a society must provide homes for the homeless as well as food for the hungry & mental health treatment for anyone who needs it. We also need to provide realistic opportunities systemically for the 'almost homeless' living on the edge.
As someone who considers himself a Liberal, I too find it quite sad and disheartening. I want to find an economically effective method with longevity to get homeless people some kind of housing and employment. I'm from Seattle, where I work we have a small shanty town outside my place of work. I find it depressing when my coworkers talk shit about them, while many points they make have merit I.E always harassing us, constantly stealing from us, pissing and pooping outside our building and on our building, however. I constantly find my empathy at odds with them. Like, these people didn't want to be homeless and they didn't choose to be homeless. Call me a bleeding heart its true, but idk how people can hate homeless people.
U talking about Pacific NW makes me miss my ol hood in Puyallup 1993. I wanted to live in Redding CA to b with the redwoods but ended up in S Florida 😔
Politically, I advocate for universal housing. But on a day-to-day, I don't like dealing with homeless people. It's not guilt, it's not wanting to be constantly hounded and intimidated to give someone my money when I'm literally one hospital visit from being in their position.
“Poor people are kept poor just to scare the shit out of the middle class.”
-George Carlin
Carlin was based af. It's hilariously dumb when people claim he was a right-winger just because he was gruff and hated PC language. He was on the left of nearly every social and political issue of substance. PC language just bothered him because he was a big English nerd.
@@katyungodly Even his anti political correct points are arguably left in practice.
"Shell shock" "post traumatic stress disorder" creating new terms for preexisting problems to detach from the previous cases, is still very much applicable.
"Pull up your boot straps" arguements fail alot quicker and harder when you don't use the modern vocabulary.
New terminology allows detachment
Anytime there's a video about homelessness, there's always a least 1 George Carlin quote in the comments.
@Katy Leanne it matters not the person but the quote, and you can't refute the quote anyway
@@katyungodly I think he genuinely saw PC language as a problematic tenancy, not just something that annoyed him because he enjoys language.
Anti homeless architecture is one of the most openly sadistic and psychotic aspects of our society. Those benches are so uncomfortable that nobody sits on them. We are rendering them unusable for everyone just to fuck with the homeless. It's insane.
Yo mama so fat she crushes the anti- homeless bench into a bed.
It’s simply an extension of the class / caste system that America has kept firmly bolted down. If they could they’d set up camps to have the homeless penned in. And it would be out in the wilds away from resources.
@@whatsagoodusername823 I mean I know a lot of homeless people and normally cops bug them if they sleep out in plain sight so they choose the ground because there are more spots on the ground where you can actually hide (still think the anti homeless benches are stupid I just don't know many homeless people who'd think a regular bench was safe to fall asleep on)
@@byrnetdown6076 When you're homeless, almost anything is better than the ground. It's a lot easier to fall asleep on a bench than it is to fall asleep on concrete, or dirt where bugs or animals have a higher incentive to hurt you while you sleep. A bench provides more comfort than none at all when considering possibilities such as these, even if they are still uncomfortable.
When you're in that bad of a situation, you take what you can get.
@@UrobourosZero Not to mention if it’s cold, a bench will absorb a lot less of your heat than the ground.
I was homeless five years ago and it's still the most traumatic thing to have ever happened to me. Even in Seattle I had little help, constantly being looked down on and shooed away even though I had a fucking full time job and worked my ass off. I was an indignant shit about it for a little bit after I somehow managed to meet one of the best friends I've ever made in that situation and somehow we managed to get an apartment, but after the initial shock wore off, I realised how fucked up everything about it truly was. I got fucking stabbed and left for dead in a park, and still no one tried to help. No one, ever, should have to take on anything alone. We have to give these people homes.
Glad you made it, keep fighting and keep at it.
@@geraldsmith4184 Countries that do that still have homeless addicts on the streets.
@@crustallos3023 yes, but not the same ones on a permanent basis. People get healed. It’s a good thing.
I feel that. I felt that a month ago when i thought I had to be homeless and leave home.
@@mdsolomon27 No friends helped me
If you don’t want to deal with homeless people, give them homes
If you don’t want parents to use daycare, give them enough money for one to stay at home
That’s what they did in echo park
@@trappedinamerica7740 maybe just let both work if they want and pay both enough that either can stop or lower working hours to care for children. Also childcare and kindergarten is a good thing for social interactions too. I feel like america speedran capitalism so hard that living conditions are so fragile and with a little bad luck anyone could be on the streets
@Alec Stanton true
@Alec Stanton maybe instead of giving them ownership of a home you can do what Finland do and provide temporary housing where they can use it as a fixed address for job applications providing them a transition to them joining the rental market.
The largest group of homeless in Alabama is veterans. Which, given the wardrum that's been beating my whole life, is a little disgusting.
@@NocturneJester it’s not just southern states, even blue states are often shitty about this
It's almost like... the hawks don't actually give two shits about the troops whose lives they throw away. Almost like... All the bravado about supporting the troops is horseshit.
@@Phoenix7726 that’s not true. they’ll care exactly enough to thank a veteran for their service and nothing else.
@@Colddirector The rote way that statement always comes out sickens me. They don't know or care about what the words mean, but know you're Supposed To Say It
@Classical Marxist I mean, it's not their fault they were fed lies of heroism by society and more direct lies from their recruiters about what they're ordered to do.
And most of them were too poor to have any upward mobility before joining. Army recruitment is a big counter-incentive for welfare
I like having older clips show up here
A subtle way to say: "I told you so"
Back when he had the hippy dippy belt
@@thefamilyfriendlyskeet4465 did he loose it?
I was homeless for a little while, my boyfriend was a veteran. We applied for housing and got denied. It was a traumatic experience. I’ll never forget getting my period and having no money to get tampons Or anything it was a very sad dark time in my life and I’m lucky to be alive.
Just want you to know, I hope you're doing better now. I can't imagine how terrible it must be, to be in such situations. Best wishes, for you and everyone else who are or have experienced homelessness.
I've been homeless. My landlord raised the rent from 1100 to 1600, could not find anyplace nearly as cheap. I couch surfed and squatted for 6 months. I'm super lucky cause I met a girl at the time who offered to have me live with her, and I still do. Chad privilege I guess.
Hope you're doing well, man!
Maybe get a job and not do drugz 1600 is extremely cheap lozer
pretty privilege
@@acdesegurgels8663I hope this is satire..? Just see the jump percentually and I think it will make sense to you. It's almost 1/3 more!
@@angelicreinforcement3373 Yeah it was ridiculous. It was for this tiny back guest house that had black mold problems
My dad was homeless for a while, I can’t stand to see conservatives saying shit like “Homeless? Get a job.”
The homeless should just buy a home then they wouldn't be homeless. It's so easy
Right? Almost no one will hire you if you're homeless. You have to have an address.
If you think the homeless people problem is bad now wait ✋ till the Tsunami that's coming in America in the next few months 😫
The homeless are a woefully untapped workforce, if only there was industry for them to get trained in so they could get a job, fuck i would pay more in taxes just so they could get free bunk, while they do so.
@@spaceman7019 We need a federal job guarantee
My city has a shamefully underserved, rapidly growing homeless population. It is effectively illegal to be homeless outside of a very few places, and they are constantly harassed by police.
We need to take action as a society now, before this gets any worse, especially when it could so easily be so much better.
Do you live in ohio by chance? Thats where i was homeless and vagrancy is an actual crime there
@@adamsmasher9769 No, but [redacted] is a "progressive" city that used to have a reputation for helping the homeless, so it still attracts a lot of them even though services have been slashed and policing practices have become more harsh.
@@earthwingbomber ah. Thats a real shame isnt it?
@@earthwingbomber Would that be Portland by any chance?
A lot of homeless people get bused to Salt Lake City, I lived there for a while and they were everywhere. A ton of them freeze to death every winter, and I’m 100% positive that’s why they get bused in
What is that number. You say that a ton of them freeze to death. They get bussed in so that they might actually make a change. Leftists have zero clue how to address homeless people. They go to places where they can sleep outside on purpose. California has every means to take care of mental health problems and drug addictions. If they deny that help then you can't do anything unless you force them to.
@@Onthebrink5 How can they make a change? They aren't given or taught anything, they aren't being bussed to a brand new home. You're just moving the problem somewhere else without giving those people the tools they need to become working, homeowning people.
As for the mental health/drug problems, they've been a few attempts to address this, but the problem is these bills get ignored or even voted against by the government as a whole. You want mental health and drug abuse to improve in your communities? Vote for people that actually have policies addressing those issues, rather than giving a vote to those who ignore them.
@@kiwi3085 If someone has to change or starve they will change. It is called biology. The fact that you dont understand the 1st tenet of addiction just proves that you do not possess any knowledge of basic sociology. There is a reason why rock bottom is the most basic rule of change of an addict. Pushing someone against there backs forces them to make a change. You do want addicts to get help right?
@@Onthebrink5 We know how to address homeless people, fund social safety nets that prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place, and give the ones without housing homes. Once you give them a house, you can offer mental health care and addiction programs. The imminent threat of death that comes with winter isn't the motivator to seek help, becoming homeless is enough motivation. If they deny the option for public housing and subsequent care, odds are they are severely mentally unwell and need treatment. Living in Hawaii there is a significant homeless problem and there is no risk of freezing to death, the problem isn't that the homeless are unmotivated. It is untreated mental health issues, the exorbitant cost of living and housing, lack of healthcare, crippling addiction, and the systemic racism that BIPOC (us native Hawaiians) face. The homeless aren't unmotivated. They are legitimately unable to drag themselves out of poverty. To suggest that they need to fear for their survival to "actually make a change" is fucking disgusting and you clearly have lived a sheltered life so that those in your close social circles have not been kicked from their homes by no fault of their own. I hope that one day you will learn to have a crumb of empathy for your fellow man and see those in difficult positions as actual human beings instead of living trash.
Edit: I'm ADHD and forgot a word.
@@Onthebrink5 The "first tenet of addiction" is that those who are already mentally, emotionally, and/or physically unwell are the most susceptible. What do you mean, "if someone has to change or starve they will change?" If someone is starving you fucking feed them, you don't wait for them to "change". Once they are no longer starving you can begin to teach them and then allow them to feed themselves. You can't teach a man to fish if he is too hungry and mentally unwell enough to focus on what you're teaching him. Then again, you don't even want to teach them to fish, you want them to "make a change" and magically materialize food into their stomachs. I am astounded that you could make it to adulthood and still believe that those who are homeless become so because of some personal moral failing.
Your point about guilt being a deterrent is exactly what I've been trying to pinpoint within myself. Thanks for putting it into words
I feel like there's a difference between guilt and shame. I was always of the mindset that shame is the deterrent, and guilt is the one that actually spurs people into action. If I feel guilty about something, I'm motivated to get rid of it by fixing my actions. But if I'm ashamed of who I am a person, I will believe nothing I do will ever fix a problem caused by me simply existing, so that feeling is a deterrent.
but under that framing, I feel like Vaush here is describing something that's neither guilt or shame in the traditional sense. The kind of resentment that comes from guilt that individuals shouldn't have because we didn't cause the problem, kind of situation. Structural, systemic problems, etc etc. Idk. Maybe it's still guilt, but I wonder if there's another word that's specific to it.
tldr, I don't quite agree with Vaush's framing when it comes to everyday normal situations, but he also isn't wrong at all about the exact context he's using it in.
@@VultRoos guilt re things you can control is somewhat reasonable and can lead to action. Guilt re things you can't control is a waste of time and honestly pretty self serving in the end.
There's also films like sleepers that show place's meant to deal with child delinquency are fucking cesspools of abuse with no hope of rehabilitation for troubled youth. That leads to even more homelessness and crime.
Conservatism (anywhere past the tiny sliver of like "hey maybe traditional handcrafts are based and we shouldn't let them die") is just the cycle of abuse turned into a political ideology. Literally.
People think this way because they're mentally broken down by abusive systems to such an extent that they internalize a mindset of perpetually glorifying suffering and seeing punishment as the only solution to every problem.
More homelessness and crime, more money flows into the politicians pockets and the abusive police/prison system. They know what they're doing and it's fucking sickening
Once I saw a bench that was basically two chairs connected by the back parts (with metal "armrests"), the excuse was it was a place for people in wheelchairs to sit...
"This isn't anti-homelessness! It's... wheelchair chairs!"
.....--wait a minute 🤔
Hmm…
Most of the homeless people I know just can't afford homes. They have jobs, many work 40+ hours a week. One guy I know lost his job and got evicted then no one would rent to him even after he got a fulltime job. Some have criminal records that prevent them from renting and the fact that they haven't broken a law in decades doesn't matter, they can't rent. I guess basically what I'm saying is the rental system us set up to create homeless people and keep them that way.
Last month my city's mayor held a meeting about our emergency shelter response to extreme heat. It was actually about how we're wasting money trying to help houseless neighbors because they don't want help (all our over-night shelters or transition programs require church attendance) and business owners crying about people trying to use their bathroom or dirtying up their sidewalk.
I'd signed up to speak because I had ideas about how to get people to safety and better ways to set these places up to be community building. But by the time they got to me I was so upset I wasted so much of my time trying to collect my thoughts, didn't even read my notes, just told them off for how shameful they were being for caring more about money than people's lives. Not just those without shelter but those without proper AC, or who live in an area that loses power when the system gets too strained.
There is an expensive grand church with a cross but no visible denomination close to where I live with a bench out front. Laying on that bench is a statue of a hooded figure made of what looks like modern high carbon steel. I remember walking past this place when I was homeless trying to find somewhere to sleep and enjoyed the irony that the bench was already occupied by symbolism.
Years before I started becoming better and more politically aware and active, I was living in a first floor apartment with a very small open air patio by the sidewalk with a roommate in Orlando. One night, my roommate walked into my room quaking and freaking out, telling me there was a homeless person in said patio, trying to sleep. My roommate came from a pretty upper middle class background and was like... unreasonably scared of this person outside our very secure back door. He pressured me into calling the police to get them to leave... and I did. Cops showed up on bikes, woke the guy up, and made him go somewhere else. Luckily, there was no belligerent violence on anyone's part (which I say because I do believe what I did in calling the cops there could be classified as a form of violence).
I felt horrible after that.
Austin, TX is overwhelmingly liberal and voted overwhelmingly to criminalize the homeless :(
It's still Texas
It was really sad to see the homeless people i knew be able to pitch a tent under the over pass just to have it ripped away a few months later. Cops coming in and saying pack up everything right now, anything you can't take will be thrown away
@Jan 6 Rioter Still Hiding You're incapable of having a shred of empathy and compassion for other human beings. We get it. You aren't interesting or special.
@Jan 6 Rioter Still Hiding lol the homeless will take over the city? Based.
@@NocturneJester essentially, a lot of apathetic people want them to dissappear :(
I was homeless for over a year in Dallas. Had a full time job the whole time, I made enough to get a motel twice a week, have food for the week and I bought 3 or 4 bikes that year because they constantly got stolen.
Eventually my uncle gave me a chance and I stayed with him for 2 months. In that time I found a better job, saved enough for an apartment and bought a cash car. Now I’m doing great, as well as any other poor person.
Let me tell you, if I didn’t get that 2 months to save up I could have never gotten out of the cycle. Not saying 2 months is all anybody would need but it’s nearly impossible without outside help
My mother helps get grants for non-profits, usually organizations that work with/help homeless populations. She was working with a decent sized city on the West Coast (I can't remember the exact state or city) and the organization we were helping was working with the City Council of said city. The City Council was going on and on and on about how much they cared about homeless people, how happy they were to help homeless people, and how awful homeless people are treated in the state my mother lives in, which is Oklahoma.
My mother does this huge project where she went through about a decades worth of data on homeless numbers, previous funding, which models worked which didn't, and other pertinent information in that city and like sized cities. All the while my mother is doing this, the City Council has begun this process to renovate a hiking trail to bring in tourism. This hiking trail happened to be a very popular area for homeless people to camp because it was in a relatively safe area with little foot traffic. The City Council have the police go in and tear down dozens of tents and kick out the people living there. My mother turns in her report and they tell us this, all while patting themselves on the back that their Liberal city was so much kinder to homeless people than evil Conservative Oklahoma.
Never forgot that. They talked about how disgusting (which it is) Oklahoma is about Homeless people and how backward those conservatives were, while literally destroying the one place of safety dozens of homeless people had.
Welcome to reality politicians don't care about anyone but themselves be it a R or a D by their name I'm black pilled to humanity these days everything is all window dressing with no substance the very few and I mean very few who actually care don't have enough resources or reach to really change anything
My dad works in a psych unit of a hospital, and for decades he’s seen some of the effects of the Greyhound treatment. A lot of the homeless people end up where he works after they send them on the bus.
More vacant homes than homeless people. Yeah, what a disgrace.
I was homeless for a month i never actually was on the streets and that is why I was incredibly lucky to know kind people that would help me out, and I was so miserable i don't want to know how it is to be homeless, just give them homes is not hard holy shit
I live in Finland. I have seen only one homeless man in my life, and he was in Helsinki.
Some people say homeless people have failed and don't deserve a home, some say they're mentally ill and can't take care of themselves, but there's a pretty popular video interviewing a homeless guy who was a marine which shows that there's a lot of cases where that's total bullshit. (I mean both those arguments are so totally inhumane that of course they're total bullshit, just saying by they're own metrics they're bullshit) Dude's like 60, washes his clothes every day in a fountain, uses his marine training to maximise comfort on the street, keeps his hair short and shit and does stuff during the day. Like these people are like you and me, some have the mental fortitude to keep going, some don't (perfectly reasonable in their situ) but like fuck me, I hate people who hate homeless people.
Someone should take a saber saw or cutting disc to those damn benches & remove the dividers.
Haha yeah...someone
actually it can get much easier than a saw! i read somewhere that these types of bars are most likely secured by hex bolts, so you would just need the right size nut wrench!
@@narikobeilschmidt You can even sit there and with a bit of practice, inconspicously remove them.
Consider wearing a high-visibility vest if you do. People are less likely to question you if you're appropriately dressed.
No Lefty is going to do that, they don't even come armed to skirmishes where the enemy is heavily armed.
when i see homeless people i feel empathy remembering the years i was homeless
i try to talk with them humanly
One who flew over the cuckoo nest was filmed at the Oregon State Psychiatric hospital, located in Salem, Oregon.
I work in the mental health field today, and unfortunately what Vaush is talking about is absolutely true. People don't want to 'deal' with those that are houseless. They would rather push them away and continue to disguise that Salem does not have a houseless crisis.
Last years fires in Oregon substantially increased those that are now currently houseless.
So old the F emote is still around :o
I'm glad this got uploaded, I hadn't seen this segment before
My ears pricked up a bit when he mentioned One flew over the Coo Coo’s nest (I forgor how to spell it), that’s my parent’s favorite movie lol.
Entire buildings of empty rooms, and outside, in the empty parking lot, a man sits with a cart of his belongings. thats rough.
Hey biden. Howabout a federal program to buy out some of these massive vacant office buildings and retrofit them into units with kitchens and bathrooms for people to live in
@@benfiander40 Or yknow. abandoned malls
I was registering my son for school recently and I've learnt there are special laws and accommodation for HOMELESS CHILDREN attending school. Meaning there are enough of them to influence lawmakers to graft a special law about them. How is that even possible? How can a parent with a school age child not have enough help from the government to prevent said child sleeping on the street is beyond me.
Fun Fact: One Who Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest inspired Metallica to make the song Sanitarium (Welcome Home). Also, give homes to the homeless, it's good to stop suffering.
I love that song but never knew that
I grew up in del norte county, it's the next county north of Humboldt and the homeless issue is mind blowing. I was homeless at 17-25, I'm 28 and I'm still technically homeless but was able to move to a different state.
I’m a Canadian liberal and i care about homeless people, it really pissed me off when i realized the reason parks and public spaces and etc, would put dividers on benches was so that homeless people couldn’t sleep on them
as well as the various underhanded and sick ways that city governments will do in order to try and force homeless people to leave the city and or be unable ti live or function in the city limits rather than deal with the problem itself
I totally support more public housing and affordable housing specifically to give homeless people a secure place to be safe and or to be able to get themselves together to find jobs and etc
Yeah, most homeless people are not mentally ill, they are people who lost their jobs and or fell behind (got sick, injured and couldn’t work, or they couldn’t afford or make enough to live off of) and were thrown out of their apartments or Holmes because they couldn't pay the rent or afford to support themselves
which is a direct result of an overly capitalist system that has no basic and or functioning social safety net to protect them.
One of my friends was kicked out of their house because they're trans. They've been homeless for nearly two months with a full time job and they're finally really close to getting an apartment. They nearly got raped and filmed in a park. These last three months have been incredibly traumatizing for them.
I remember a great bit by George Carlin talking about "homeless" people. Hell was the first time for me and many other hearing it called houseless people.
I saw one of those idiot memes with carlins face and some anti vax comment...made me literally shake my head. They think because carlin was anti censorship that he would be a Qanon freak. Ignoring the fact he constantly fought conservatives on censorship lol
Yeah I remembered that bit when Vaush brought up the “woke” term being houselessness lmao, golden bit
I work at a homeless resource center and day shelter in Colorado. We just opened a permit supportive housing complex with 60 apartment units. It is staffed full time with social workers to help the clients. The idea of "Housing First" shows that people are orders of magnitude better able to get their lives on track when they have a place to call home, whether they're in recovery for substance use disorder, or other mental health diagnoses. I don't think homelessness is something that will ever be 100% "solved," but there are better ways to address it than what we mostly do here in America which is criminalize it.
Glad this got uploaded, it's such a great segment
Homelessness is also a vet & male problem. I worked in a SNF in a transient college town, I’d wager to say at least 75% of our homeless patients were vets.
the worst violence i have witnessed was teenagers beating an elderly man behind a dumpster
i called 9-11 and later heard he died in the hospital a few weeks later and i never heard about any sort of trial…
As a former homeless person, i despise the term houseless. We don't have a safe place to sleep. There's no home in a place where you are in constant danger of getting robbed, raped, and/or beaten, and often the police are the ones doing it.
Edit: my survivors guilt has paralyzed me into not doing more. My junkie ass got a place and there are families on the street with nothing. It makes me angry. The street is no place for children or the soft. The street is no place for anyone. I wonder how many of these people will die by this winter. I'm angry.
In 2008 a study was done in Calgary, a city in Canada maybe a bit smaller than Philadelphia, they asked their source of income. 18% of them said they had full time jobs.
Over 50% of them had some form of employment. The homeless people aren't lazy, just in a horrid unfortunate situation.
It's fucking appalling.
In Charlotte NC right as you enter the city there's a homeless camp right in front of a bunch of empty brand new luxury apartments
Yeah its fucking awful and i have a feeling its only gonna get worse
i don’t feel guilty
i feel empathy
one flew over the cukoo’s nest
my moms mom was secretary there when they made that movie
she said they cordoned off a third the building for use in movie
most not interact much but she said she shook hands with jack Nicholson at some point
i live in the city that movie filmed i here salem oregon
she said him and Robert Kennedy had best handshake she experienced. whatever that means
I've been homeless and literally work in ending homelessness but homeless people scare me as a young transwoman =/ I've been sexually assaulted by homeless before and so I generally don't feel safe if it's just me and homeless people - and yes, the sexual assault was in front of people.
That said I do not at all let it affect my fight to end homelessness. Housing first as a policy is something I strongly fight for and to make sure they can get stability so they can be their best selves, be it a person that STILL doesn't work but maybe lives a more fruitful life in their terms or maybe they become the next Beethoven now that they've had the home stability I have. Though to be honest my stability is pretty paper thin, be it mental or financial.
That happened to you, too!? I thought I was the only one. I'm sorry that has happened to you. 😔 I've also been sexually assaulted by a Hispanic man (and I'm a black homeless woman), and another Hispanic just turned his head as his compare sexuallu assaulted me. I had him arrested, but they had let him go an dropped the charges, claiming that I didn't answer the phone when I gave them an email address just in case the police couldn't reach me. I got so passed (welcome to Chicago, a corrupted city!) That was 2018-2019. Funny thing, though, months later, the police chief was fired for being drunk while having the car on sleeping behind the wheel. (2019). So I guess justice served, sort of. I still hope there will be justice for you one way or another. Peace! ✌
the craziest thing about the homelessness problem is that is literally has the most obvious solution-give them homes-and it just doesn’t get done. insane shit
YES VAUSH THANK YOU for mentioning medical reasons as why ppl are homeless- That's WHY I WAS:
it's true that Not all, and now not even the majority, of homeless ppl are suffering from addiction and/ or mental health issues: they are "regular" ppl!!
(Not that addiction and mental health issues dont absolutely contribute to the problem) so many are like I WAS: HOMELESS FOR 3 YEARS, LIVING ON THE STREET, and awhile on a church floor and for a short time in cheap motels- purely bc I came from an abusive family and had no support when I got a serious chronic illness in a state (FL) that gives literally no one but pregnant women Medicaid, so I had no health care and was not just on the street but DYING on the street. I lost my apt of 10 years when I was finally too sick to work, lost my health insurance Thru My Job, and ended up sleeping in a park next to where I used to work. I could go into the abuse I suffered from police, medical personnel, staff of the Salvation Army I paid $10 / night to have a safe place to sleep and a shower when I could, the PTSD... But Id rather not. Bad memories. I'm so lucky I got out. Not thru any govt help or charity. Friend moved me to a state I would have health care, I rebuilt my life. Most never get that chance.
People don’t realize how many people are illiterate as adults. This has been a long standing issue that people seem blind too.
It completely effects your ability to work most jobs if you can get one at all and it goes unnoticed.
It blows my mind that someone could see the issue with homelessness that we have, and think the fault lies with the individual rather than the system
I know, right?! Them and their "bootstrap mentality" bullshit! 😡
I was homeless for 3 months with my now husband. We slept in his truck with our dogs after we lost our apartment. We both had full time jobs. I can’t imagine being homeless long term. It’s horrible.
I would imagine that was because of poor mistakes on your own part. 80 hours of week but cant afford an apartment. 3 months while having 80 hour work weeks. Calling bullshit. There is a lot of information that you are ignoring.
@@Onthebrink5 We weren’t making a lot of money and we had other bills besides rent. You don’t know what our wages were, you don’t know our medical problems, you know nothing about me. It was 5 years ago and now I’m a homeowner. What the fuck do I gain from lying about this? You’re just uncomfortable with harsh truths.
@@bootsandcats1501 Other bills more important than rent??? It doesnt matter what wages were. You had 80 hours of wages per week. I spent almost a decade of ten percent decreases from medical debt. Why do any people lie? Social capital. I acctually know harsh truths. I have been around them my entire life. Someone named boots and cats sounds a lot more like a middleclass kid. So sick of people like you.
@@Onthebrink5 And this is not some ploy to gain social capital?
„You don’t even know how hard I had it! I am the hardest of you all!“
Even if life hit you harder than anybody else you just sound silly now.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the best films ever made. If you haven't seen it, you should. If you're a young person, take whatever young people drugs you take to normalize your attention span, and watch it. It will make you a better human being.
well also, i would imagine just how trauma can spark mental-illness - that homeless peoole are more prone to develop mental issues because they are homeless
As a former homeless man. Everything Vaush has said is correct. To top it off its much much worse than he even describes. 1st off the idea that homeless shelters actually help the homeless is only a myth that people whom never been homeless belief to make themselves feel good. Most homeless shelters are apart of a circular network. The premise is not to actually fix homelessness. Because without homelessness there is no shelter and no government and social funding. You can find proof in this by the fact that most homeless people would rather not go to a shelter and is why you see so many outside. In a shelter you are stripped of your humanity, you are treated like a criminal as many act like actual prisons, and the only way they will help you find permanent housing is if your receiving a monthly check. And like Vaush said, most homeless people aren't crazy or in a situation where they can even receive social security. Nevermind everyday people treating you like shit if you even look like you might be homeless (which i managed to hide fairly well) but the police are the biggest bullys to homeless people. One time while i was living in my car, a policeman had my car towed just for the hell of shit and giggles. He wouldn't have had i never told him i was living in my car was always clean to remove the appearance of living in it. Lastly here is the biggest reason why most people are homeless, they lack the social structure of friends and family that most people have. That is to say most people can lean on their family or friends when they fall on hard times. But if you dont have that or in the way most people do, who can you lean on? We live in a society where most people think they have gotten where they are in life by themselves. That is never been true in the history of mankind. Yes you may have did the work and gotten a degree, but did you have to sleep on someone's couch at anytime before you graduated or had to borrow money just to feed yourself? Point is most people overlook the help they received because they dont factor it into their achievement. Everyone needs help, homeless people just lack the social structure to get actual help.
That is so true. I'd also like to add that even janitors and security guards can also be the biggest bullies to homeless people besides police and business staff and even library staff! 😔
I thought I had listened to this long before this upload, good to know I'm in the loop
I think it's time to create safe homeless camp areas with portapotties and needed resources including paid security.
Help preserve some dignity
Where I grew up we had an abusive facility up until the early 90s that had to be shut down purely due to just how much abuse the staff were doing. It was finally made publicly aware. Here is an anecdote I learned from someone who witnessed it first hand to demonstrate my point. The story comes from the late 80s.
There was a severely mentally ill and developmentally stunted man. Let's call him bob. Bob really liked magazines. Any type of magazine, didn't matter, he just liked looking at the pictures and reading them. At this institution, they had all reading material behind lock and key, preventing the patients from accessing them. Due to how much he was checking the magazines out, they ended up limiting him to only one magazine at a time. Mind you this is all under the backdrop of physical, verbal, and mental abuse that was rampant throughout. Bob took exception to that, and because of the policy he refused to turn in a magazine. He took the policy to mean that he was never going to get another magazine (again, we're not dealing with someone who can comprehend the world as anyone else). This resulted in the magazines becoming so worn down from rough use that the staff decided it was best to take them from him by force. Bob didn't like this. Bob decided to harm himself over and over again by bashing his skull against the concrete walls of the facility. This went on and the staff did nothing to prevent it or treat him. Eventually, bob permanently disfigured his face due to how much he bashed it against the wall.
The person who told me this story eventually met bob, saw what was happening and was so sickened by it that they immediately worked to get him out. At this time, small group homes were starting to pop up, usually 6 people per household. She succeeded and got him free from the abuse. On one Christmas they brought Bob back to his room to see what his gift was. Hundreds of magazines that had been saved up and donated just for Bob. No lock and key. Just him.
Point is, rampant abuse in these facilities existed even after Reagan, but it mostly ended then. Now people are either on the street or in homes like the one I worked in. Even then though, there is still abuse, but it is far more rare and now the abuse normally comes down to unintentional negligence due to how understaffed and overworked Direct Support Professionals are. During COVID's first year I worked 5--6 12 hour shifts a week. I earned 11.70 an hour. The Walmart down the street paid 15 an hour. Needless to say, no one was hired.
Vaush... I grew up in McKinleyville and worked near those areas... humbolts homeless issues have been a roller-coaster of ups and down... biggest issues in humbolt deal with substance abuse, lack of work (the economy is pretty weak there) and the Arcata and eureka rivalries... its pretty crazy
It makes sense that Calif has a high unhoused population. It is a more populous state to begin with & definitely has a housing crisis as far as affordable or low income housing is concerned(SF Bay Area & LA area especially) The weather here in certain coastal regions is fairly moderate compared to other states & even other regions of Calif, so those areas would attract more people out of practicality. Many people end up homeless due to illness/imjury/medical bills & unemployment. There are a lot of folks living in vehicles in campgrounds who lost their homes because a family member got seriously ill. Universal healthcare would go a long way to decreasing the impact of the homelessness problem.
So yesterday I was just told that some Swiss cities had the bright idea to install some of homeless-unfriendly benches and some of these leaning things. Apparently in an act of solidarity multiple construction unions organized together with the two larger left parties and the communist party to go around and just modify them to make them better. They literally had construction workers drive around with party members from bench to bench and cut off or add stuff to make them ‚normal‘ benches.
The Swiss left wing parties really don‘t like this kind of shit. When our national railway had the idea to ban homeless people from sleeping the heated train stations the two left wing parties threatened them with massive demonstrations at rush hour to basically shut down the large train stations. Needless to say this idea was quickly dropped.
Loved the end where you talked about getting out there and doing something. Ive really been trying to participate in local hearings and stuff lately. Hope other will do so as well!
I moved to eureka in 2001. I was homeless for a few years before that but traveled until an arrest for locking down after an activist was killed and had to go to court here. I got a job with R. A. V. E. N. and would do outreach in the community. This was one spot we would go. I also used to go back behind the mall all the time to see the graffiti. It was always changing. Wish I still had photos. There was also a nice spot to sit on the concrete on the edge of the bay where you could see the sunset on the mouth and not the pulp mill. At low tide you could see huge fat colorful starfish. I even brought a date out there. At first I felt a little bad because of how nervous they were until they started going back there to take photos (photo student). As long as you advoid peoples encampments and treat people like people it was fine. I was sad when they pulled all that old concrete out. Some of it was unsafe though and graffiti wasn't changing that and we should not have people needing to sleep ruff. It would be a nice spot for temp camping and it would have been nice to put a skate park with some graffiti walls. Being next to the mall would be best because there are buses and it would only help the dying mismanaged mall unless they mismanaged the situation again and I would not be surprised if the did.
hey, whoever is the editor of Vaush's videos, can you normalize his audio levels? this has always been an issue, but it feels like today it got worse. i have to crank the volume to double, for this to be on par with the average TH-cam video. can you please open up Audacity with the audio track, click the Normalize button, then put it back into the video with whatever video software is free or available to you?
"Guilt is a terrible, terrible emotion and it produces nothing. No productivity. If you all feel guilty about that [homelessness], don't. The guilt is what keeps people from acting on it. Guilt makes you push those thoughts away to the back of your mind. Guilt is what causes you to look at them [homeless people] and then quickly avert your eyes so that you don't make eye contact.
Don't feel guilty, you can get mad or you can be productive or inspired or something but guilt does not inventivize productive responses."
-Vaush
shelter is a human right
Positive human rights are not human rights
@@staraptorflock3661 *not dying of exposure is a human right
is that better?
Yo I painted there lmao that spot was sick
Fun fact, Liechtenstein had to close, I think, their last homeless shelter because there weren't enough homeless people. It has a population of about 38k.
My california town has a huge homeless issue and ive been watching it grow for years now. There has always been homeless people around, but they all lived in specific canyons, when i was a kid you could point at certain areas like "homeless people live in that canyon, don't go there." A specific church, very wealthy, very culty, started an effort to clean up those areas, and being huge donors to the police department the police help them kick all the homeless out. So, where do they go? Parks. Well, again, said church started an effort to clean up the parks, the police help, but where do they go? Well now they're camping wherever they can find where they won't he harassed but now they're all over the place. Same church has been massively investing in down town area, effectively gentrifying it. All the cheap places to live have been massively raising their prices and so the disabled community and other poor people can't afford living by themselves so the homeless population is skyrocketing, wherever they go they go police harass them and all their potential employeers and renters are pricing them out and turn them away while my town stands by and watches it happen. Theres even a group called "RAT patrol" which stands for Redding Area Transient Patrol where people go out and commit hate crimes against the homeless. All of it massively being lead by a church cult called bethel
"Hate Crimes" against homeless. I wonder if weather has something to do with it. I love when idiots in CA talk about this issue. I wonder why there is a difference in one of the poorest cities in America like Buffalo?????? NY helps homeless people and has a lot of welfare. I wonder if a lot of them dont want the help.
@@Onthebrink5 yes, hate crimes against the homeless. What else do you consider a group of people who go out and video tape themselves beating up homeless people and posting it on facebook for chuckles? Or drive by macing homeless people infront of a grocery store yelling "Rat patrol"
Also how does the state i live make me a) an idiot and b) unable to have an opinion on the topic? I'm only speaking on what ive witnessed in my own city.
@@somedudeonyoutube1605 Applying what you have seen in California to every other state in the union is the sign of a genius in your book.
@@Onthebrink5 when did i say "this is whats happening here therefore its happening everywhere." Infact i stated that i am only speaking to issues happening in my community. You're either being disingenuous or stupid.
I've been homeless for 2 years, Florida's resources to getting you off the street is dog shit and the price of living is way too high, The cheapest I could find for one bedroom apartment was 1200 a month. I moved to Ohio a few days ago and I already have so much more hope about getting off the street.
Being homeless humbles you, it makes you grateful for All the things that everyone takes for granted.
This is so true I was homeless twice at 11 and 16 but both times it was for a couple months and then we were back on our feet
This channel is BASED
0:44 Plus, if you have a home, you can secure your possessions much more easily and thus feel more comfortable buying things, producing more economic activity.
Doesn’t the weather in California also contribute to homelessness too, I would rather be homeless in California than in Cleveland Ohio
Barely. I think only about 10% of homeless people in LA immigrated there.
Homelessness is a difficult problem to solve. Not necessarily for the temporary ones, but for the permanent ones. The ones that are crazy are probably a danger to others.
When you say “difficult problem to solve”, you mean that there are people actively working to stop us from caring for the homeless. The solution itself is not difficult at all; just give people homes
nah thats not difficult at all, you just have to actually provide the care they need instead of having mental healthcare tied behind wealth. Plus the truly far gone ones are better off being institutionalized where it's safe for them and society (as much as those places really need better standards of care).
@@emylily8266 it’s not easy to just “instotutionalize” someone, even if they seem absolutely crazy
@@garfieldGG well yeah thered obviously need to be a process, but i put that there mostly to address the fearmongering about the few unreformable.
People always say "how is it that the richest country in the world treats it's lower class so poorly?" You literally already answered your question. You don't become the richest country in the world through treating people well.
Police harassing the homeless comment while not wrong, the police are told to pressure them by city council and the community. So fingers need to be pointed at the political class too.
Therapist here. Vaush is actually incorrect about this. The feeling of guilt is natural and something that needs to be felt. The thing he is pointing at is the emotional reaction of shame. Huge difference between those two.
The reason why we don't deal with the homelessness problem is because we are ashamed that they exist at all and to do so that is to acknowledge that they exist or treat them with human dignity would mean we would have to acknowledge our shame.
YOOOO I just noticed if you focus on the Intro on 1080p it looks 3D!!!
People who have lived in Humboldt county are super aware of homelessness because it’s a staggeringly severe issue there.
He really did just spoil breaking bad lol
Cute bench in the thumbnail. So anyway, cordless angle grinders start around $50 at hardware stores and online. Bike thieves use them to cut through galvanized steel locks and racks, don't see why they wouldn't work on other metal things.
Defo worth listening to again
Thank you for talking about this Vaush. If my parents weren’t so supportive of me emotionally and financially, I would be homeless or dead. It’s an issue I care about a lot
I was homeless/couch surfing for about 2 years I've gotten helped by the state program.
We had something like this in Austin TX
Castle Hill
It was awesome, but the city sold the land
They’re actually “moving” the site, but they’re actually just sanctioning another spot for graffiti
I don't make eye contact because they always ask me for stuff.
I really really appreciate his whole spiel about not feeling guilty!!!
It's super fucking inspiring.
Fyi the Omaha-thing is not a spoiler. The series sets out from the start that James McGill eventually ends up there bc that is part of the end of Breaking Bad. It is a prequel afterall so you probably don't want to watch it before watching Breaking Bad anyway.
We do our best to try to help the unhoused population of Denver. We go to our local food bank and get some food and take it up to Denver. It breaks my heart to see no policy to help these people
Vaush capitalizing on the Vaush clip market
We could view housing as a human right.
my dad worked at that mental hospital too(the one in one flew over cukoos nest). as a strongman. he was fired in the late 80s when he had repeat warnings about cocaine use and his dad my grandfather called his boss after seeing him use a bunch of cocaine right before heading to work
dad went to prison not much later after he sold pcp to an under cover cop
this is my favorite vaush video
I have to disagree that wanting homeless people gone is all about guilt. One big problem is that homeless encampments are often trash-strewn and unsanitary, a condition which makes a neighborhood unpleasant to say the least. Having said that, the solution isn't to teach the homeless population to be tidy.
I do agree that we as a society must provide homes for the homeless as well as food for the hungry & mental health treatment for anyone who needs it. We also need to provide realistic opportunities systemically for the 'almost homeless' living on the edge.
As someone who considers himself a Liberal, I too find it quite sad and disheartening. I want to find an economically effective method with longevity to get homeless people some kind of housing and employment. I'm from Seattle, where I work we have a small shanty town outside my place of work. I find it depressing when my coworkers talk shit about them, while many points they make have merit I.E always harassing us, constantly stealing from us, pissing and pooping outside our building and on our building, however. I constantly find my empathy at odds with them. Like, these people didn't want to be homeless and they didn't choose to be homeless. Call me a bleeding heart its true, but idk how people can hate homeless people.
i never abused drugs or any illegal
but i was homeless most of 2003 through 2005
U talking about Pacific NW makes me miss my ol hood in Puyallup 1993. I wanted to live in Redding CA to b with the redwoods but ended up in S Florida 😔
Politically, I advocate for universal housing. But on a day-to-day, I don't like dealing with homeless people. It's not guilt, it's not wanting to be constantly hounded and intimidated to give someone my money when I'm literally one hospital visit from being in their position.