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)
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
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.
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.
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
@@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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
@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 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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
A lot left because they wanted to go back on the streets. If the government can do that, then they should do more to help them with their mental health, drug addiction, or other reasons. I live in the UK and they do more to help other countries than our own people. They should do so,so much more. A lot of people dress up and pretend to be homeless to get money. They are taking it from the poor people who need it.
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
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.
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'm ' homeless' in the UK. I don't ' shoot up' anywhere. Y mom died, which felled me. my landlord wanted to sell the property before i could sort out other accommodation. You've just exposed the stigma! You've believed the propaganda. Check your info please. I have no rights suddenly. Corruption in the system is rife here.
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
I’m going to make a wild statement now and say that homeless people are homeless FOR A REASON and can’t just have their problems solved by other people paying for their housing. Crazy eh
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.
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.
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
okay, i was a homeless person housed, first of all they got over 4k a month per person to house them, they DID NOT ASK NICE HOTELS TO HOUSE PEOPLE. THEY ASKED RUN DOWN HOTELS THAT HAD 0 BUISNESS BECAUSE THEY WERE FALLING APART, there's a 0 tolerance policy for bs , they just kick people out if they break rules including no visitors etc , they neglect already neglected buildings that are being lived in by homeless people because why would you offer maintenence to homeless people , they don't put any of the money into the buildings when it's already run down and then blame homeless people when the ceilings black mold and water damage and broken heaters adds up. lmao I KNOW the building owners. they don't want to put a money into anything involving homelessness . only make money.
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 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
Trust me, homless people in england give no shits about other people's property, some of the places that agreed to take in the homless probably regretted that decision and would've been happy to kick them out, in all honesty.
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.
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 back out onto the streets because the hotels were losing money and left to clean up the messes they left behind. If the hotels are losing money the cities are losing money.
I've worked them. Fires, OD's, fights, rooms full of trash, needles, have drunk beers and bottles of urine. While the government wouldn't let people travel, it was a welcome source of revenue for hotels. A high percentage of these people are homeless by choice. Or a reluctance to engage with the support that is readily available to those who want clean up. Addict life isn't easy. But it's easier than sobriety or working to pay for your own drugs.
Americans have you beat presently in Texas we are building whole communities for illegal immigrants.... Houses, neighborhoods, and free healthcare.... and they said it couldn't be done.....
Could you imagine the damage a homeless person would do to a property? I can tell you as a landlord, the property would be unlivable in less than two days. And after about a month you would have to condemn the property. There’s a reason why people are homeless. It’s because they cannot care for a home.
@@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
I‘m not sure that, if I were a Hotel or Hostel owner I would have wanted the gov impose on me to give them a place to stay. I mean, I could imagine that some would change their business and keep the homeless ppl, but who would pay me? Tax payers? Then obviously the problem of homeless ppl isn’t solved just by giving them a roof over their head. I read that usually there are mental health problems, addiction problems etc. So is RB saying, that the gov could solve the homelessness temporarly and just wont do it in a holistic way?
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.
I can see how lock down would affect begging and crush the homeless economy, and how this would then in turn lead to a rise in crime, muggings, burglaries etc. but throwing them back out again is terrible.
This didn’t just happen in the UK, this happened in NYC. In every hotel so keep that in mind when you guys come and these hotels are charging you $500 a night. Know that junkies stayed in the hotels for a year without paying anything
Same thing with solving remote work in multiple sectors and then taking it away once the pandemic was declared over. All the disabled people who could work or go to school again got screwed bc they took away the accommodations they claimed they could never make.
It wasn't as simple as that. I knew a guy who was pushed into a hotel to be off the street, he lasted half a day, then a security guy kicked him out for smoking a blunt on the pavement. Some of those hotel rooms were windowless cells, probably meant for staff. It wasn't a solution to homelessness at all. Now a couple of those hostels are being used for refugees. Still very expensive, and not a solution.
The hard part for people like us to understand is there are thousands of people, mostly addicted, alcoholic and basically mentally ill who actually basically refuse to remain housed no matter how much society is willing to spend. Many are veterans with post traumatic stress. It's complex and "NORMAL" people don't understand it. Just ask them. A high percentage will say they are happier in the street
They put a homeless gentleman in my mums warden assisted flats... then they sent the warden home. Then they sent the cleaners home. Then the homeless guy forgot how to use any form of lavatory and got himself stuck in the bin area where he defecated and peed for hours on end, before he figured out how to open a door. The 55 year old plus residents (oldest 92) were left to clean that mess up then there was a £2k bill for the damage he did in the room they had given him. The residents had a British stiff upper lip mentality and told the council to bugger off when they were informed they had to NOT SEE EACH OTHER. They hadn't been outside and they'd had no visitors, they weren't allowed to see each other but the council felt it was ok to drop any old homeless guy on them with no warning... They told the council that if they gave a fuck then they would worry about following their rules but since they obviously didnt, they could stuff it. NOT ONE OF THEM GOT COVID.
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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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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? 😂
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 😂
Some supported housing rents are £60-£90,000 a year.
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 😢😂
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.
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.
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.
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 know a homeless person.He got a £2,000 a month flat/ apartment .He smashed it up.
Hotels are not being compensated for damages either by the homeless or refugees.
Joe real af
Joe. Your rich entitlement is showing. Not every homeless is in drugs.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Couldn't find a job in 2 years of free hotels
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 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
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
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
Classic Russell Brand solution to a problem:
Homeless people? Just put them in homes! Who pays for it? Who cares? Problem solved! Ah Russell
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 ?:)
And then they housed illegal immigrants.
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
Used the homeless like locust.
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.
Can't have the homeless seeming to be free when the rest are locked up.
Omg.......
Got to get them off the streets, out of sight. Can't have them visibly "not dying" during a deadly pandemic...
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
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.
A lot left because they wanted to go back on the streets.
If the government can do that, then they should do more to help them with their mental health, drug addiction, or other reasons. I live in the UK and they do more to help other countries than our own people.
They should do so,so much more. A lot of people dress up and pretend to be homeless to get money. They are taking it from the poor people who need it.
Thank heaven for men of courage and character to speak the truth.
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
They reached anarchy saturation point.
That’s why they kicked them out.
The hotels in my area were completely trashed from this. It looked like a post apocalyptic film set.
Well it’s a good thing you live in your own place then. Kinda weird for someone to go to a hotel in their own town of residence don’t you think?
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.
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'm ' homeless' in the UK. I don't ' shoot up' anywhere. Y mom died, which felled me. my landlord wanted to sell the property before i could sort out other accommodation. You've just exposed the stigma! You've believed the propaganda. Check your info please. I have no rights suddenly. Corruption in the system is rife here.
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
I’m going to make a wild statement now and say that homeless people are homeless FOR A REASON and can’t just have their problems solved by other people paying for their housing. Crazy eh
It was a hand out to closed hotels... dont be fooled. Mr Marriott got saved.
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.
This is why there coming for him. Stay strong Russel
They have put homeless in multiple hotels here in a Toronto and taxpayers continue to pay for this today.
Its wicked how they treat 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.
I think Russell was talking about Britain .
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
Money 💰 that's the reason. You get more time for money than murder in the UK. And that's facts 💯
okay, i was a homeless person housed, first of all they got over 4k a month per person to house them, they DID NOT ASK NICE HOTELS TO HOUSE PEOPLE. THEY ASKED RUN DOWN HOTELS THAT HAD 0 BUISNESS BECAUSE THEY WERE FALLING APART, there's a 0 tolerance policy for bs , they just kick people out if they break rules including no visitors etc , they neglect already neglected buildings that are being lived in by homeless people because why would you offer maintenence to homeless people , they don't put any of the money into the buildings when it's already run down and then blame homeless people when the ceilings black mold and water damage and broken heaters adds up. lmao I KNOW the building owners. they don't want to put a money into anything involving homelessness . only make money.
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 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
Most people who live on the streets HATE RULES!
Trust me, homless people in england give no shits about other people's property, some of the places that agreed to take in the homless probably regretted that decision and would've been happy to kick them out, in all honesty.
it's true! The UK I live near a hotel and saw the group of homeless and boy did they have fun 😂😂 the neighbours didnt tho lol
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.
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.
True!!
My wife worked in many hotels, ensuring the “homeless” were safe and given essentials such as clothing and footwear etc. 🤣🤣💂♂️🇬🇧
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 back out onto the streets because the hotels were losing money and left to clean up the messes they left behind. If the hotels are losing money the cities are losing money.
Joe looks baked af here
Im glad we can all agree in the comments that homeless & poor are F'ing disgusting & we all hate them.
They kicked them out because hotels wanted to operate again as normal 😅 it’s not that deep
I've worked them. Fires, OD's, fights, rooms full of trash, needles, have drunk beers and bottles of urine.
While the government wouldn't let people travel, it was a welcome source of revenue for hotels.
A high percentage of these people are homeless by choice. Or a reluctance to engage with the support that is readily available to those who want clean up.
Addict life isn't easy. But it's easier than sobriety or working to pay for your own drugs.
Americans have you beat presently in Texas we are building whole communities for illegal immigrants.... Houses, neighborhoods, and free healthcare.... and they said it couldn't be done.....
Could you imagine the damage a homeless person would do to a property? I can tell you as a landlord, the property would be unlivable in less than two days. And after about a month you would have to condemn the property.
There’s a reason why people are homeless. It’s because they cannot care for a home.
That man is a hero!
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
@@dellystinky ask mommy to show you “ google “ go learn something pumpkin 😘☺️
@@DrUFO___bytch nobody wants to listen to you if you’re being condescending, it hurts your credibility
Used to hate Russell Brand for some reason but I recently realised I was wrong
I‘m not sure that, if I were a Hotel or Hostel owner I would have wanted the gov impose on me to give them a place to stay. I mean, I could imagine that some would change their business and keep the homeless ppl, but who would pay me? Tax payers?
Then obviously the problem of homeless ppl isn’t solved just by giving them a roof over their head. I read that usually there are mental health problems, addiction problems etc. So is RB saying, that the gov could solve the homelessness temporarly and just wont do it in a holistic way?
Poverty is by design. Wake up
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.
The room service tab was competing with the defense budget
"they solved it"
He is right about this. When we want it, we can do it. It's just, we don't want it.
As sad as it is, some people belong on the streets and there are those who deserve a second chance.
All of these very intelligent, conservative men are starting to scare the libs.
I can see how lock down would affect begging and crush the homeless economy, and how this would then in turn lead to a rise in crime, muggings, burglaries etc. but throwing them back out again is terrible.
Also the homeless destroyed the property. In SF they found dead people in rooms regularly.
This didn’t just happen in the UK, this happened in NYC. In every hotel so keep that in mind when you guys come and these hotels are charging you $500 a night. Know that junkies stayed in the hotels for a year without paying anything
Same thing with solving remote work in multiple sectors and then taking it away once the pandemic was declared over. All the disabled people who could work or go to school again got screwed bc they took away the accommodations they claimed they could never make.
Joe says his actual opinion, reads the reaction and pivots
It wasn't as simple as that. I knew a guy who was pushed into a hotel to be off the street, he lasted half a day, then a security guy kicked him out for smoking a blunt on the pavement. Some of those hotel rooms were windowless cells, probably meant for staff. It wasn't a solution to homelessness at all. Now a couple of those hostels are being used for refugees. Still very expensive, and not a solution.
The hard part for people like us to understand is there are thousands of people, mostly addicted, alcoholic and basically mentally ill who actually basically refuse to remain housed no matter how much society is willing to spend. Many are veterans with post traumatic stress. It's complex and "NORMAL" people don't understand it. Just ask them. A high percentage will say they are happier in the street
They put a homeless gentleman in my mums warden assisted flats... then they sent the warden home. Then they sent the cleaners home. Then the homeless guy forgot how to use any form of lavatory and got himself stuck in the bin area where he defecated and peed for hours on end, before he figured out how to open a door.
The 55 year old plus residents (oldest 92) were left to clean that mess up then there was a £2k bill for the damage he did in the room they had given him.
The residents had a British stiff upper lip mentality and told the council to bugger off when they were informed they had to NOT SEE EACH OTHER. They hadn't been outside and they'd had no visitors, they weren't allowed to see each other but the council felt it was ok to drop any old homeless guy on them with no warning...
They told the council that if they gave a fuck then they would worry about following their rules but since they obviously didnt, they could stuff it. NOT ONE OF THEM GOT COVID.