They kicked them out in my city because they destroyed the hotels. I mean shit everywhere, lots of drugs, holes in walls, broken tv, clogged toilets with bed sheets, etc. It was horrible, I think insurance companies stopped paying for damages. They don't just need housing, the problem isn't that simple.
There's a reason many homeless people are homeless, it's because they've usually burned all their bridges with friends and relatives, so they end up on the streets.
@@JphonskiOK, I was homeless. You wanna know why? I was my nans carer and she died. I lived in her spare room at the end and it was her wish that I stayed there after she died until I sorted somewhere else to live out. Instead of that happening I came back from the funeral and the wake to find the locks changed. My aunt who was in charge of the will changed the locks on me and I couldn't get back in until two weeks later when I finally got in touch to be told my stuff was in the garage. I went to the council for help and advice and they phoned my aunt to find out if what I told them was true. She lied and told them I left of my own accord which the council then said that I had made myself intentionally homeless. My nan and grandad brought me up, they were my parents. My grandad died years earlier of cancer. My nan was literally my last family member except my aunt who I had nothing to do with because she's always been a horrible woman. I was homeless for two years because my head fell off and I fell into a bad depression. THEN when I was on the streets I started drinking, THEN I started taking drugs. I'm now clean again and have my own place. But to see you automatically jump on the bandwagon of "oh they're only there for their own fault"..... you're a closed minded, jumped up prick. And you make me sick.
@@djmicrowave6073 I live in the USA: Private property owners cannot be forced. Our mayor negotiated with hotel owners for 2 weeks. The money was allocated by our Congress as part of the national CARES Act of 2020. (Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security)
Why doesn't anyone mention how there are people like me. I don't do drugs, I was homeless but still worked. I was housed in a hotel free of charge and treated the room and staff with respect. I finally got housing thanks to these foundations. I work at a better job now and have bills to pay, and now I give back by paying my taxes just like every one else. I'm now successful thanks to the helping hand I was givin. Unfortunately people will ignore those facts and try to paint a negative picture on every person that came off the streets
@@sebastianmosqueda5959I don’t think people don’t understand stories like yours. I think people do. I personally just feel like your story is rare and the majority don’t give a shit about respecting others property.
@@sebastianmosqueda5959 because the vast majority aren't like you, what they don't tear up, the shit on! These are private businesses who are trying to make a living, not run shooting galleries.
The Homeless smashed up the hotels and the government refused to pay for the damages. The rooms were also being paid for at a fraction of their normal price so as soon as the hotels could reopen properly they wanted to start making back the losses.
@@seriouslyryan6592 mostly because parasitic lawyers make deporting illegal migrants near impossible and also forced the government to stop using ex military bases. Get rid of the parasites and the system would right itself
I was homeless the first year of the pandemic and he's not wrong got put in a hotel for a short time then sent back out again, luckily I used the time to better my position.
How are things now. Still using or got it under control?? Just wondering - curious. You don't reply I assume things have not gone for the better. Hang in there if that's the case
As a former homeless drug addict yes i am sure that was the problem they where destroying the property and driving away business. Most homeless drug addicts, alcoholics, or just lazy people mess stuff up.
I know "homeless" people in my city and most of them are so antisocial that I don't know if anything would work. They actively eliminating "competition" by beating them and those who really needs help never get in. Police will talk to and buy coffees to members of beggars gang completely unaware what is actually going on.
@@onlyoneofhiskind Most people become homeless because they don't want to or can't stand to live a "normal" life. Keeping a job, paying bills, or just being responsible for theirselves or others is to hard. Being homeless is easier to a lot of people. There's no need to keep up their appearance. No worry about paying the bills on time. There's not as many stressors. You can't take that away by giving them an apartment or money. My wife and I worked normal 9-5 jobs through our homelessness because panhandling or asking for money seemed the harder thing to do for us. The people who would panhandle holding signs or asking people for money made more money than us between $125-250 a day per person cash. They would also get food stamps and disability checks in most cases.
Due to the pandemic, I lost my house and have been living in a motel for over a year now. Yes, there will always be a bad apple to spoil the bunch, but there are a majority of us that cause no damage or drama. Keep to ourselves and try to rebuild their life. It's the people that don't appreciate the help that are the problem. Not the homeless themselves.
Yeah, then the businesses sue for whoever made the decisions, and the people pay for it in their taxes for millions in damage, the people who did the damage could and have cared less about upkeeping something they got for free.
Lmao we have one near us, was 4 star, that's been used to house immigrants and its such a shit hole now just walking past you can see. This country is a complete joke. Shows no point in working hard to make things nice.
I worked in the hotel industry when this happened. My hotel didn’t have this, but the one just down the street did, that was part of our brand, and it was hell for them. Fights constantly, damage to property, no respect for staff, police called often, it was not fun for them.
@@harenterberge2632 In a month.... So not two months... Not three months... Not four month.... And a hotel doesn't come with the responsibility of a house, bills l, maintenance etc. So not a good prospect....
I worked in a hotel at this time, first we where given a piece of paper saying where we work and why we where going to work just in case we got stopped. We had the bin almost everything in the rooms, they would Collect rubbish and take to the room to the point that we where using shovels to clear them. The first person to go in to a room would be a manger to check for Needles so that the other staff would don’t get injured, unfortunately, the housekeeping supervisor which they miraculously class a manger. We would have days like two naked man run around to hallways beating each other with hammers, no joke. One man at another site leg was rotting but the ambulance would not take him and also the hospital refused treatment as well. After the massive bug infestation each week we would move people to a different room to clean them, some where on longer moving at all if you now what I mean. The first three weeks the council would come around with the food in full PPE and we where left with nothing, the company could get the PPE out to use quick enough and the council would no supply them for doing their job. As you know housekeeping is a predominantly female profession which did not help when we are housing predominantly male people. The whole time we worked we a living hell, but we all know now when everything closes the substance trade can still continue. Now I am not saying we should not help these people, but they do need professional assistance when do so. They need to be assessed as we had some which where lovely people and did what they could to make our lives a little easier, then you have to ones which was going through withdraw just going nuts. Only bouncing of the walls three days later after getting a fix.
Oh stop with the BS. In the UK most homeless people eventually get housing. The problem is many of them don’t like the properties they are given, so go back on the streets. At the end of the day there’s only so much help you give then it’s down to the individual.
yup.. they told us we be arrested if homeless on the street untill pandemic is over, couldnt look for work , couldnt really leave the hotel, they mixed crackheads with the rest of us. Most of us got robbed . Whatever left i had i lost in that hotel including my sanity/trust to authorities
People in gov’t who live in ritzy houses don’t know what it is like living rough, or on a tight budget, or living on edge due to fear of others stealing or attacking.
@@marlenegold280 na na na bro living homeless in the uk is joke easy, that's why working people from other countries fly over here. The problem is, is the pretenders, the people that use homeless as a commodity to laundry the money for example, its all for show a clown world.
No because homelessness is a big business. You have the homeless activist making money receiving government grants. There's no incentive for them to solve the problem. Because then they would lose the ability to make money. Don't forget the politicians receiving kickbacks. Placing their family and friends in high paid positions in those nonprofit agencies.
Maybe if the govt could be bothered to address poverty and homelessness, you wouldn't need as many charities. Instead you have Rees mogg gloating because food banks are in place, the govt don't have to pay towards it
This is absolutely correct. Organizations supposedly designed to help the homeless will, first and foremost, attempt to get you on Social Security... so they can take a third of it and stick you in a roach motel. Of course, you'll lose all of that if you try to get a job and better yourself. Then you lose SS and no longer qualify for the low income housing. Guess what? You gotta go back to being homeless if you want more help... or just collect your check, pay your dues and wait to die in a shit hole.
This is why you’re not allowed to complain when a homeless assaults your daughter. Or mentally I’ll man shoots up your school. Or anything bad because people couldn’t get the help they need affects you.
Ah yes, homeless people just don’t have “accountability.” It’s not like the system fucked them over or anything. It’s not like other countries have completely solved homelessness by, you know, providing homes.
Are you being sarcastic because that is actually a good thing? I'm sure they are getting financial/food assistance from at least the federal government to (too) so sounds like they have a good thing going for them.
I guarantee this is 100% true, I used to work in a hotel in London that hosted a couple of ong during the pandemic. We had both homeless people and regular guests after some of the measures were lifted, that basically was for 2 years
If they’ve been lucky enough to be given free accommodation for that amount of time, they should have fixed up and be in a position ready to apply for jobs.
Then they told me I couldn’t leave to go to the job and threw me out when I did. All of my belongings including my car were never seen again. No one was ever held accountable. Los Angeles, California.
If illegal people stopped working in this country society would crash to a halt. You're probably eating, shopping, and getting goods made by illegal people. It's not as simple as you think. Social security is paid into by illegal people who never collect it.
Because the hotel's didn't want to deal with it and in a lot of cases weren't even being paid or if they were being paid they were not getting paid the full rate so the government never did solve it
Nah they did the same in Canada And they kicked them out because the ppl were being a nuisance to the neighbourhoods they were located, and trashing the places, etc. It wasn't a thought out situation, they seemed to just shove ppl in places that patrons weren't visiting, temporarily. Many of the places near me were basically demolished and redone, because they were in such bad shape. 🤷♀️ There is still many breakins and vandalism to homes and shops from the ones that apparently liked the neighborhood and didn't wanna leave. It wasn't like this til they were housed here. This place now looks like a garbage heap, ppl are shooting up in broad daylight and there's attempted robbery and attacks.
Free room and board, free hotel service, free food, £40 personal allowance for BS asylum seekers from Pakistan, Albania and a tonne of other safe countries. Not to mention the fact that they likely want to turn to crime as they can’t get a job here because they don’t speak English, don’t have our norms and values etc.
The thing they forget to mention is the amount of resources it would take to continue doing that. Not to mention the amount of lazy free loaders it would create. There are some with issues that could use the help but a lot of them would just choose to get the help so they can have a free place to stay
@Chief puffing bull Not if you're not a part of the "favored few." The U.K. is finally recognizing, as are we, that there's an end point to the free stuff, and we're all WAY PAST IT. Newsome finally admitted it - how about YOU???
i was one of the homeless ppl that was housed during the pandemic and it was exactly the way he said and they said that we caused damage as an excuse to refuse accommodation
as they were not allowed out they could not go find a job get them selves treatment for drug rehab. maybe they should try it again with resources available.
From an ex government accountant at the time of the pandemic...the federal government gave the local municipalities the funds to house them...but those funds were temporary and only for the pandemic
As person who worked in hotels. Hotels were trashed out, hotel employees are not trained in social work, government was overspending so much more money. It was unsustainable solution because, short term housing is not an answer to a long term problem
This happened in the US too. Temporary funding is temporary. The takeaway from this should be it's not as expensive as everyone pretends to house people.
Funny thing was that I worked with the homeless pre-pandemic during and after. Very few of the homeless got covid and in my town the most vulnerable who you would have thought could die because of their health issues related to rough sleeping, got through the pandemic better than those who were in their own homes.
In the US toward the end of the pandemic homeless residents of New Mexico were housed at Motel 6 in Albuquerque and in Flagstaff, AZ. I know this as we drove from Phoenix, AZ to Morgantown, WV and we travel with our two small dogs.
We did this in Philadelphia too and found out that (surprise) homeless individuals that we put into their own rooms did better than in a communal open space shelter. It is essential to package housing homeless individuals with supportive services to make it work though (drug and alcohol, as well as mental health treatment and counseling; helping folks access federal benefits and health care services; helping to reconnect them with family, and connect them with jobs and education/ training, etc). We took some good lessons away from that which is helping us design better homeless shelters in the future with recovery and permanent housing as a goal for our fellow citizens. Taking care of our homeless population is actually saving the City of Philadelphia more money than the cost of treating these individuals when they go to hospital emergency rooms for illness.
The hotels were getting absolutely trashed. My parents lost their housing during the pandemic and got placed in the Vallejo project room key. My parents reported drug activity, people letting their dogs piss and shit all over everything, cigarette buts left snubbed out in the hallway carpet. Some people have respect for the simple luxuries that are given, while others have absolutely no respect for anyone and expect you to just put out for them.
I love that he says “our country” because the US is for everyone. He’s a Brit, but he’s also an American and he loves this country. What a patriot this guy. I love him. We need to protect him.
The same thing has happened here in Lahaina. Homeless-by-choice were making hotels unliveable. But, interestingly, those of us Homeless by fire-responsible business owners and contributors, they are now kicking these people out.
Why doesn't anyone mention how there are people like me. I don't do drugs, I was homeless but still worked. I was housed in a hotel free of charge and treated the room and staff with respect. I finally got housing thanks to these foundations. I work at a better job now and have bills to pay, and now I give back by paying my taxes just like every one else. I'm now successful thanks to the helping hand I was givin. Unfortunately people will ignore those facts and try to paint a negative picture on every person that came off the streets.
Even without the damage, i’m guessing that those hotels are businesses that were on the low then and didn’t need the space. But obviously that changed when things got back on track.
They did solved it i was homeless doing the pandemic in Boston, they did this same exact thing I know 8 homeless people that stopped doing drugs by working out in the hotels and loving their showers everyday. They also saved all the checks that they received from the government 3 of them own their home today. Covid was a blessing for others
Having worked for a charity, supporting homeless and vulnerable people, some of the BS written doesn't surprise me, but it's laughable how many people with no experience of being in that position, seem to be experts on the subject 🤦♂
Russell has pointed out in another interview (maybe even this one). He housed a homeless person previously and that person couldn't adjust and wanted to be back on the streets. Not saying all homeless are like this but a significant amount can't function in normal society. In my experience I also never see people really appreciate anything 'given'. People on Universal credit don't work even though able and all you hear is how they don't get enough and the house isn't adequate. Even illegal immigrants were complaining about being housed in barracks. You sometimes need to accept not everyone can be helped, especially if they are unwilling to help themselves.
Hotels and like housing weren't being used when everyone was staying home. So they had the compacity to hold all of them. But when people weren't staying home anymore businesses needed to use them for income.
@@dellystinky r u retarded? And so it turns out that the billionaire class pays much less in tax than average people. And what we found is that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Michael Bloomberg and Carl Icahn, they literally, in recent years, paid zero in federal income tax. And what you do is you let your mountain of wealth grow over time
Because the councils paid either very little, or sometimes nothing. Many of the homeless were damaging the hotels, causing refitting needed and yes the hotels needed to have paying guests as well.
They kicked them out in my city because they destroyed the hotels. I mean shit everywhere, lots of drugs, holes in walls, broken tv, clogged toilets with bed sheets, etc. It was horrible, I think insurance companies stopped paying for damages. They don't just need housing, the problem isn't that simple.
that is horrible. they got free roof over their heads , out of the rain and cold .and they act like fools. it amazes me how stupid humans can be.
Well said
No 😂
Bunch of animals let them rot in the street where they belong
Bull shit a few shit heads do what shit heads gonna do & fuck the families that behaved well & were just happy to have a roof ? I’ll call bull shit
There's a reason many homeless people are homeless, it's because they've usually burned all their bridges with friends and relatives, so they end up on the streets.
True they bring it upon them, And we have people helping them but they refuse to help themselves…
@@JphonskiExactly, people who don't want to be helped can't be helped.
@@JphonskiOK, I was homeless. You wanna know why? I was my nans carer and she died. I lived in her spare room at the end and it was her wish that I stayed there after she died until I sorted somewhere else to live out. Instead of that happening I came back from the funeral and the wake to find the locks changed. My aunt who was in charge of the will changed the locks on me and I couldn't get back in until two weeks later when I finally got in touch to be told my stuff was in the garage. I went to the council for help and advice and they phoned my aunt to find out if what I told them was true. She lied and told them I left of my own accord which the council then said that I had made myself intentionally homeless. My nan and grandad brought me up, they were my parents. My grandad died years earlier of cancer. My nan was literally my last family member except my aunt who I had nothing to do with because she's always been a horrible woman. I was homeless for two years because my head fell off and I fell into a bad depression. THEN when I was on the streets I started drinking, THEN I started taking drugs. I'm now clean again and have my own place. But to see you automatically jump on the bandwagon of "oh they're only there for their own fault"..... you're a closed minded, jumped up prick. And you make me sick.
The Headline should be, "London Screws over hotel owners".
Or british government couldn't give a shit about homeless
Hotel owners got paid plenty tax money.
The hotels were payed a lot more than their standard rates
@@factsoverfiction7826 they didn’t actually, they weren’t payed a penny, hence why they kicked out the homeless as soon as they were allowed to.
@@djmicrowave6073
I live in the USA: Private property owners cannot be forced. Our mayor negotiated with hotel owners for 2 weeks. The money was allocated by our Congress as part of the national CARES Act of 2020. (Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security)
Did that in canada too. My gf said it was a nightmare. Soo much damage.
Why doesn't anyone mention how there are people like me. I don't do drugs, I was homeless but still worked. I was housed in a hotel free of charge and treated the room and staff with respect. I finally got housing thanks to these foundations. I work at a better job now and have bills to pay, and now I give back by paying my taxes just like every one else. I'm now successful thanks to the helping hand I was givin. Unfortunately people will ignore those facts and try to paint a negative picture on every person that came off the streets
@@sebastianmosqueda5959I don’t think people don’t understand stories like yours. I think people do. I personally just feel like your story is rare and the majority don’t give a shit about respecting others property.
Joe you made one big slip there buddy you assume that because someone is homeless they're shooting up or making a
Same thing happened in America!
@@sebastianmosqueda5959 because the vast majority aren't like you, what they don't tear up, the shit on! These are private businesses who are trying to make a living, not run shooting galleries.
The Homeless smashed up the hotels and the government refused to pay for the damages. The rooms were also being paid for at a fraction of their normal price so as soon as the hotels could reopen properly they wanted to start making back the losses.
They can get free small house
36m² in ussr
Rents were rents high as usual
Yet the government pays for illegal migrants to stay in these hotels but not its own people….
@@seriouslyryan6592 mostly because parasitic lawyers make deporting illegal migrants near impossible and also forced the government to stop using ex military bases. Get rid of the parasites and the system would right itself
I was homeless the first year of the pandemic and he's not wrong got put in a hotel for a short time then sent back out again, luckily I used the time to better my position.
I really liked your comment, hope you're doing better 😊, something tells me that your glass is always half full .
How are things now. Still using or got it under control?? Just wondering - curious. You don't reply I assume things have not gone for the better. Hang in there if that's the case
I am so pleased you managed to get back on your feet. You should be proud of yourself.
As a former homeless drug addict yes i am sure that was the problem they where destroying the property and driving away business. Most homeless drug addicts, alcoholics, or just lazy people mess stuff up.
I know "homeless" people in my city and most of them are so antisocial that I don't know if anything would work. They actively eliminating "competition" by beating them and those who really needs help never get in. Police will talk to and buy coffees to members of beggars gang completely unaware what is actually going on.
@@onlyoneofhiskind Most people become homeless because they don't want to or can't stand to live a "normal" life. Keeping a job, paying bills, or just being responsible for theirselves or others is to hard. Being homeless is easier to a lot of people. There's no need to keep up their appearance. No worry about paying the bills on time. There's not as many stressors. You can't take that away by giving them an apartment or money. My wife and I worked normal 9-5 jobs through our homelessness because panhandling or asking for money seemed the harder thing to do for us. The people who would panhandle holding signs or asking people for money made more money than us between $125-250 a day per person cash. They would also get food stamps and disability checks in most cases.
Some supported housing rents are £60-£90,000 a year.
Due to the pandemic, I lost my house and have been living in a motel for over a year now. Yes, there will always be a bad apple to spoil the bunch, but there are a majority of us that cause no damage or drama. Keep to ourselves and try to rebuild their life. It's the people that don't appreciate the help that are the problem. Not the homeless themselves.
Guess how the hotels looked afterwards. Solved it🤦🏽♂️
Yeah, then the businesses sue for whoever made the decisions, and the people pay for it in their taxes for millions in damage, the people who did the damage could and have cared less about upkeeping something they got for free.
Lmao we have one near us, was 4 star, that's been used to house immigrants and its such a shit hole now just walking past you can see. This country is a complete joke. Shows no point in working hard to make things nice.
@@karenkilljoyd4235😊l😊😊 lo on l lo let 😊
I worked in the hotel industry when this happened. My hotel didn’t have this, but the one just down the street did, that was part of our brand, and it was hell for them. Fights constantly, damage to property, no respect for staff, police called often, it was not fun for them.
Exception to the rule.
Not all men you guys said right? 😂
He missed the bit were a 1/4 didn't last a month in hotels as they destroyed stuff, were violent, disruptive or just quit.
That wasn't the point😅
@@Norfolk.in.chance You must have missed the bit were he said "they solved it". Nope they didn't.
Proof for that point you just made. Especially the 1/4 point…
So 3/4 didn't and would have a good prospect of reintegrating into society giving the proper means.
@@harenterberge2632 In a month.... So not two months... Not three months... Not four month.... And a hotel doesn't come with the responsibility of a house, bills l, maintenance etc. So not a good prospect....
not all homeless want to live in society. Some just can’t. Being confined is awful when you know you’re not allowed to leave.
Maybe confining them indoors was the plan so they’d get sick and be off their hands.
PERHAPS the hotels went back to being hotels. Okay… that’s really what happened in the majority of the cases. FYI
For migrants lmao
They did that in my city. The city forced hotels to take vouchers that they didn't pay. One motel shut down and they made it transitional housing.
I agree with that but it also show the government had enough money to have these people live there for extended periods of time
Exactly can't believe Joe just didn't know or realise that
Scamdemic that China released 😂
I think this says everything about our system.
Joe nailed this instantly. Rare but good.
I worked in a hotel at this time, first we where given a piece of paper saying where we work and why we where going to work just in case we got stopped. We had the bin almost everything in the rooms, they would Collect rubbish and take to the room to the point that we where using shovels to clear them. The first person to go in to a room would be a manger to check for Needles so that the other staff would don’t get injured, unfortunately, the housekeeping supervisor which they miraculously class a manger.
We would have days like two naked man run around to hallways beating each other with hammers, no joke. One man at another site leg was rotting but the ambulance would not take him and also the hospital refused treatment as well. After the massive bug infestation each week we would move people to a different room to clean them, some where on longer moving at all if you now what I mean. The first three weeks the council would come around with the food in full PPE and we where left with nothing, the company could get the PPE out to use quick enough and the council would no supply them for doing their job.
As you know housekeeping is a predominantly female profession which did not help when we are housing predominantly male people. The whole time we worked we a living hell, but we all know now when everything closes the substance trade can still continue.
Now I am not saying we should not help these people, but they do need professional assistance when do so. They need to be assessed as we had some which where lovely people and did what they could to make our lives a little easier, then you have to ones which was going through withdraw just going nuts. Only bouncing of the walls three days later after getting a fix.
The whole 'pandemic' was the most badly managed event ever.
Yeah That was pretty much their goal!!🙄
Plandemic
The whole thing was principally designed to derail Donald Trump... that is a fact.
That was the point 😂😂
What to expect from control freak Bill-ionaires 😢😂
I know a homeless person.He got a £2,000 a month flat/ apartment .He smashed it up.
Couldn't find a job in 2 years of free hotels
They stopped it because their was not enough money left over for them to skim off of it.
Oh stop with the BS. In the UK most homeless people eventually get housing. The problem is many of them don’t like the properties they are given, so go back on the streets. At the end of the day there’s only so much help you give then it’s down to the individual.
@@opctpos. just wake up. It is a farce used to line pockets with tax dollars. Just like every other scam.
yup.. they told us we be arrested if homeless on the street untill pandemic is over, couldnt look for work , couldnt really leave the hotel, they mixed crackheads with the rest of us. Most of us got robbed . Whatever left i had i lost in that hotel including my sanity/trust to authorities
I’m so sorry mate.
I know it means nothing but all my good energy to you 🙏🏼
People in gov’t who live in ritzy houses don’t know what it is like living rough, or on a tight budget, or living on edge due to fear of others stealing or attacking.
@@marlenegold280 na na na bro living homeless in the uk is joke easy, that's why working people from other countries fly over here. The problem is, is the pretenders, the people that use homeless as a commodity to laundry the money for example, its all for show a clown world.
The city of London, one of the richest in the world, definitely has the resources to end homelessness. It's a lack of will by the powerful.
Hotels are not being compensated for damages either by the homeless or refugees.
Joe real af
No because homelessness is a big business. You have the homeless activist making money receiving government grants. There's no incentive for them to solve the problem. Because then they would lose the ability to make money. Don't forget the politicians receiving kickbacks. Placing their family and friends in high paid positions in those nonprofit agencies.
Maybe if the govt could be bothered to address poverty and homelessness, you wouldn't need as many charities. Instead you have Rees mogg gloating because food banks are in place, the govt don't have to pay towards it
This is absolutely correct. Organizations supposedly designed to help the homeless will, first and foremost, attempt to get you on Social Security... so they can take a third of it and stick you in a roach motel. Of course, you'll lose all of that if you try to get a job and better yourself. Then you lose SS and no longer qualify for the low income housing. Guess what? You gotta go back to being homeless if you want more help... or just collect your check, pay your dues and wait to die in a shit hole.
Happened in Canada too. I was at a hotel full of other homeless people for a month . Then just released into the shitty shelter system again
Used the homeless like locust.
You can't manage people that don't have any accountability. Also, I don't want to pay for it: I want to spend my money on me.
Don't worry they're housing Albanian criminals in the hotels on taxpayer dime now
This is why you’re not allowed to complain when a homeless assaults your daughter. Or mentally I’ll man shoots up your school. Or anything bad because people couldn’t get the help they need affects you.
Ah yes, homeless people just don’t have “accountability.” It’s not like the system fucked them over or anything. It’s not like other countries have completely solved homelessness by, you know, providing homes.
@@GW71093which countries? The only kind I know of , are total dictatorships who just deny the existing of homeless. Please, educate me.
You’re rotten and homeless inside…
My state of Nevada gave homeless people a bottle of water and a parking spot to sleep at night on. How nice of them.
That's good
Are you being sarcastic because that is actually a good thing? I'm sure they are getting financial/food assistance from at least the federal government to (too) so sounds like they have a good thing going for them.
I guarantee this is 100% true, I used to work in a hotel in London that hosted a couple of ong during the pandemic. We had both homeless people and regular guests after some of the measures were lifted, that basically was for 2 years
If they’ve been lucky enough to be given free accommodation for that amount of time, they should have fixed up and be in a position ready to apply for jobs.
Then they told me I couldn’t leave to go to the job and threw me out when I did. All of my belongings including my car were never seen again. No one was ever held accountable. Los Angeles, California.
This is why there coming for him. Stay strong Russel
I don’t think he understands that the entire world revolves around rich peoples money
Voicing this doesn't mean he don't understand. What a idiotic thing to say.
@@liamhgd581 it was a bit idiotic of Joe to say what he did
He should do, he is rich enough.
100 percent house the homeless not the illegals
Fcts😊
the homeless are illegals and druggies
Who you think does the dirty work you don't want to do??? The homeless???? Hahaha
@@andi-mg7ry it's not that lot in the hotel
If illegal people stopped working in this country society would crash to a halt. You're probably eating, shopping, and getting goods made by illegal people. It's not as simple as you think. Social security is paid into by illegal people who never collect it.
Because the hotel's didn't want to deal with it and in a lot of cases weren't even being paid or if they were being paid they were not getting paid the full rate so the government never did solve it
Thank heaven for men of courage and character to speak the truth.
Joe. Your rich entitlement is showing. Not every homeless is in drugs.
They've kicked the homeless out so they can house refugees in a nutshell.
Nah they did the same in Canada
And they kicked them out because the ppl were being a nuisance to the neighbourhoods they were located, and trashing the places, etc. It wasn't a thought out situation, they seemed to just shove ppl in places that patrons weren't visiting, temporarily.
Many of the places near me were basically demolished and redone, because they were in such bad shape. 🤷♀️
There is still many breakins and vandalism to homes and shops from the ones that apparently liked the neighborhood and didn't wanna leave. It wasn't like this til they were housed here.
This place now looks like a garbage heap, ppl are shooting up in broad daylight and there's attempted robbery and attacks.
Illegals, but yeah.
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz the refugee housing happened in europe, they wrecked a ton of hotels in the UK.
Free room and board, free hotel service, free food, £40 personal allowance for BS asylum seekers from Pakistan, Albania and a tonne of other safe countries. Not to mention the fact that they likely want to turn to crime as they can’t get a job here because they don’t speak English, don’t have our norms and values etc.
Illegal immigrants
The thing they forget to mention is the amount of resources it would take to continue doing that. Not to mention the amount of lazy free loaders it would create. There are some with issues that could use the help but a lot of them would just choose to get the help so they can have a free place to stay
Wasn’t taking up to much time, they needed all the hotels for all the illegal immigrants
So since when did you know you were a fucking retard ?:)
They kicked them out and replaced them with migrants
Not true. U.K. DEPORTS illegal aliens with NO exceptions! Understand???
@@trebor357shot 😅where have you been, theres video online of them doing it!
@Chief puffing bull Not if you're not a part of the "favored few." The U.K. is finally recognizing, as are we, that there's an end point to the free stuff, and we're all WAY PAST IT. Newsome finally admitted it - how about YOU???
i was one of the homeless ppl that was housed during the pandemic and it was exactly the way he said and they said that we caused damage as an excuse to refuse accommodation
Joe says his actual opinion, reads the reaction and pivots
And then they housed illegal immigrants.
as they were not allowed out they could not go find a job get them selves treatment for drug rehab. maybe they should try it again with resources available.
From an ex government accountant at the time of the pandemic...the federal government gave the local municipalities the funds to house them...but those funds were temporary and only for the pandemic
As person who worked in hotels. Hotels were trashed out, hotel employees are not trained in social work, government was overspending so much more money. It was unsustainable solution because, short term housing is not an answer to a long term problem
Most people who live on the streets HATE RULES!
"they solved it"
This happened in the US too. Temporary funding is temporary. The takeaway from this should be it's not as expensive as everyone pretends to house people.
They didn't put them in hotels, they put them all in prison.
I live in DTLA and the homeless were staying at The Grand hotel on Fig. Which means “someone” can afford to help those in desperate need.
Funny thing was that I worked with the homeless pre-pandemic during and after. Very few of the homeless got covid and in my town the most vulnerable who you would have thought could die because of their health issues related to rough sleeping, got through the pandemic better than those who were in their own homes.
They reached anarchy saturation point.
That’s why they kicked them out.
In the US toward the end of the pandemic homeless residents of New Mexico were housed at Motel 6 in Albuquerque and in Flagstaff, AZ. I know this as we drove from Phoenix, AZ to Morgantown, WV and we travel with our two small dogs.
Classic Russell Brand solution to a problem:
Homeless people? Just put them in homes! Who pays for it? Who cares? Problem solved! Ah Russell
Its wicked how they treat them
I'm from London. I didn't notice what Russell mentioned.
Can't have the homeless seeming to be free when the rest are locked up.
Omg.......
They did that in Brantford Ontario and cost the Hilton 3 million dollars in damage.
It was a hand out to closed hotels... dont be fooled. Mr Marriott got saved.
We did this in Philadelphia too and found out that (surprise) homeless individuals that we put into their own rooms did better than in a communal open space shelter. It is essential to package housing homeless individuals with supportive services to make it work though (drug and alcohol, as well as mental health treatment and counseling; helping folks access federal benefits and health care services; helping to reconnect them with family, and connect them with jobs and education/ training, etc). We took some good lessons away from that which is helping us design better homeless shelters in the future with recovery and permanent housing as a goal for our fellow citizens.
Taking care of our homeless population is actually saving the City of Philadelphia more money than the cost of treating these individuals when they go to hospital emergency rooms for illness.
The hotels were getting absolutely trashed. My parents lost their housing during the pandemic and got placed in the Vallejo project room key. My parents reported drug activity, people letting their dogs piss and shit all over everything, cigarette buts left snubbed out in the hallway carpet. Some people have respect for the simple luxuries that are given, while others have absolutely no respect for anyone and expect you to just put out for them.
I love how Russel put the pressure on Joe. Very indirectly. To see what Joe is truly about.
The room service tab was competing with the defense budget
WA state did the same thing. They also provided prepared food delivery in addition to housing in hotels.
They did that in Chicago too
He is right about this. When we want it, we can do it. It's just, we don't want it.
Joe looks baked af here
They did temporary housing for homeless in Australia to , and yes they're all back on the streets
Once the hotels got their government money, they were torn down to make way for expensive condos. A real "win-win" situation.
Got to get them off the streets, out of sight. Can't have them visibly "not dying" during a deadly pandemic...
Money 💰 that's the reason. You get more time for money than murder in the UK. And that's facts 💯
Joe got it right. I’m from London it’s complicated and help costs money
his point is simple they have the money to help their people if needed and they don’t simple as that
They did that in downtown Torinto.
True!!
My wife worked in many hotels, ensuring the “homeless” were safe and given essentials such as clothing and footwear etc. 🤣🤣💂♂️🇬🇧
I love that he says “our country” because the US is for everyone. He’s a Brit, but he’s also an American and he loves this country. What a patriot this guy. I love him. We need to protect him.
I think Russell was talking about Britain .
He's right you knew it when a small hotel had a security out side all of a sudden
The same thing has happened here in Lahaina. Homeless-by-choice were making hotels unliveable. But, interestingly, those of us Homeless by fire-responsible business owners and contributors, they are now kicking these people out.
Glasgow, Scotland has continued and has almost no rough sleepers.
Been local government and charities working together.
He’s a truth teller
That man is a hero!
He's right I was part of that operation as a volunteer
Why doesn't anyone mention how there are people like me. I don't do drugs, I was homeless but still worked. I was housed in a hotel free of charge and treated the room and staff with respect. I finally got housing thanks to these foundations. I work at a better job now and have bills to pay, and now I give back by paying my taxes just like every one else. I'm now successful thanks to the helping hand I was givin. Unfortunately people will ignore those facts and try to paint a negative picture on every person that came off the streets.
Philly worked at hospital during height of pandemic. Tested homeless people Positive sent them back in streets with a bus pass
Good times
Used to hate Russell Brand for some reason but I recently realised I was wrong
As sad as it is, some people belong on the streets and there are those who deserve a second chance.
It was part of their drama tactics. "Look we need to care for the homeless" of which the never do.
Even without the damage, i’m guessing that those hotels are businesses that were on the low then and didn’t need the space. But obviously that changed when things got back on track.
They did solved it i was homeless doing the pandemic in Boston, they did this same exact thing I know 8 homeless people that stopped doing drugs by working out in the hotels and loving their showers everyday. They also saved all the checks that they received from the government 3 of them own their home today. Covid was a blessing for others
Nashville arrests it's homeless before big events like the NFL Draft, CMA Fest...etc.
Same concept in the winter time. Then kick them out in the good weather. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Having worked for a charity, supporting homeless and vulnerable people, some of the BS written doesn't surprise me, but it's laughable how many people with no experience of being in that position, seem to be experts on the subject 🤦♂
Russell has pointed out in another interview (maybe even this one). He housed a homeless person previously and that person couldn't adjust and wanted to be back on the streets. Not saying all homeless are like this but a significant amount can't function in normal society. In my experience I also never see people really appreciate anything 'given'. People on Universal credit don't work even though able and all you hear is how they don't get enough and the house isn't adequate. Even illegal immigrants were complaining about being housed in barracks. You sometimes need to accept not everyone can be helped, especially if they are unwilling to help themselves.
I have a SOULution. It will take work and patience but it will work for most.
Hotels and like housing weren't being used when everyone was staying home. So they had the compacity to hold all of them. But when people weren't staying home anymore businesses needed to use them for income.
He quite literally explained why I didn't work as he was asking why I didn't work
800 billionaires in america who pay no taxes
Source: trust me bro🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dellystinky r u retarded?
And so it turns out that the billionaire class pays much less in tax than average people. And what we found is that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Michael Bloomberg and Carl Icahn, they literally, in recent years, paid zero in federal income tax. And what you do is you let your mountain of wealth grow over time
@@dellystinky keep laughing
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@@DrUFO___bytch nobody wants to listen to you if you’re being condescending, it hurts your credibility
Because the councils paid either very little, or sometimes nothing. Many of the homeless were damaging the hotels, causing refitting needed and yes the hotels needed to have paying guests as well.