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- Michigan police say contractors discovered a 34-year-old woman living inside of the rooftop sign of Family Fare supermarket during renovations. WEYI's Courtney Bennett reports.
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#Michigan #GroceryStores #Supermarket
THEYRE NOT GOING TO SHOW HOW SHE LIVES IN THE SIGN?!
Right?!?
I needed some design ideas!
Exactly! I stayed for the whole report, wanted to see how she managed that!!!
We all needed ideas for the future.
@@rachellandry3116😂
Y’all saved me time. Video, SKIPPED to next.
The woman is amazingly resourceful. She had shelter, was safe, and was so quiet that no one knew she was even there for a whole year. It just goes to show that it really doesn't take much to house people.
👍
Yeah if society wasn’t so cruel and selfish.
@@theamazingcj4065 but we 'need' gucci ;)
My ❤ goes out to her. Can’t imagine how she made it through winter in Michigan. She has a job & is trying to do all she can to live a safe & better life. She just needs a hand up!😊
@@theamazingcj4065 they don't care about themselves
show us the setup
MTV's Cribs style
@@SirStoneHD😂😂😂
Bruh. I bet it was sweet. 😂
She looked for a roommate, but nobody would co-sign.
_Bu Dm _*_Tsss!_*
Housing crisis is out of hand
Unless your an ILLEGAL immigrant. They have all their shelter, food, and spending money provided to them! SMH
@@tiffinwonderland7243 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@tiffinwonderland7243 Tens of millions of them.
@@tiffinwonderland7243 Unless you are on sec 8 if you got in in the 90's or 2000's you are locked in.
out of hand, and in the sign
She was smart, so many of us are 1 paycheck away from ruin. Most of us would not be experienced in how to survive without resources. Adapt and survive.
100, never forget that instagram stars are edible
Amazing to squat and never have to give all paycheck to the landlord. The housing price is too high
I lived in a burned down building briefly. Not comfortable but good enough shelter, after that you have to deal with the hunger. I would say she was in a good spot. Having the experiences I do I have trouble being bothered with the legality of it as long as no one got hurt and property wasn't too damaged.
Most of us in fact AREN'T one paycheck away from ruin. That is a myth.
They should hire her she's smarter than anyone else
100, meanwhile Elon musk just build housing (for his employees) that looks like its straight north korean camp
@@isaactuuri6488 While paying nearly ZERO taxes mind you.
It’s weird they more applaud her resourcefulness and explain how people need help, but they just let this woman walk off into the sunset and she didn’t receive care, and they tell you for the 2000th day in a row how there’s a housing crisis.
If you live in CA, you know the homeless fix efforts are just ways to grab tax payer money while increasing the 'need for a fix'.
No one who is able to wants to fix the housing crisis. That goes for the Right and the Left. The housing crisis is the modern day version of making it illegal for peasants to read. If they can't read, they can't rebel. If we're too worried about paying rent and being homeless, we can't stand up to our "leaders".
100% agree!
What's your address so we can send her your way?
How do you know she didn't receive care? I'm sure she is getting stamps and everything else. She is just trying to survive.
She is living in her car now...dang. The contractors should have shut her mouth and let her live her life.
100, i would have, probably would have played cards with her on break too
No they shouldn't have. People like this ruin life for everyone else
@@jsncrsohow does someone living in a store sign ruin your life? 💀
@@jsncrso rat
@@jsncrsoas an outreach worker you are so closed minded get your head out of the gutter
I need a tour of this stealth camp!
Me too!
hahaha, next level, she should have air BnB it so she could live somewhere else while collecting the rental fees.
and why have i never heard 'stealth camp' before, i will use and abuse that term now, appropriated..
@@isaactuuri6488@SteveWallis would b so proud. #StealthCamping
"we never want to see someone break the law in order to have housing" idk that's a moral grey area to me. Shelter is a basic physiological need so... But speaking of breaking the law, it seems like it should be breaking the law to charge such exorbitant prices for houses and rent. At least that's the case here in Canada
They sure don't mind housing illegal immigrants breaking the law. They get housed no problem
You people with cartoon photos telling me you live at mom's house keep saying that..and then I show you listings right across Canada MORE than affordable. Then you don't reply lol. Canada is cheap in many many cities..and even in Toronto you just go out a bit more subway stations than you want to and its affordable. Stop buying the propoganda on youtube, i just came in and the country is on fire everybody outside drinking going crazy having fun. TH-cam is just a downer like all media.
FTP
Literally nothing to do with this woman's case. Hope she finds the resources she needs tho
yes, pray she finds a new sign
@@isaactuuri6488tots and pears 🍐
@@isaactuuri6488 maybe she prayed for a "sign" before and that's how she ended up in her digs 😄
She was offered resources and refused
Desperate times call for ingenious solutions
What did the interior look like!!!!? Most of the story went into a different direction, what had she built? Did she hook up electricity? Running water?
There was a mention of a heater, so probably electricity. I've been there and I remember a power cord hanging from the roof randomly one day, but I chalked it up to someone doing repairs at the time. Running water might be hard, perhaps she used bottled water.
Contractors noticed her extension cord and followed it to her living area. She had a coffee maker, so I think she brought up bottled water.
“The woman was able to get electricity through a power cord plugged into an outlet on the roof”
She had a roof over her head, she is trying to stay alive
It's never boring in America
And it’s always sunny in Philadelphia
@@FyreStartr best reply to a comment on the video,
This comment made me think...you're right.
“We never want to see someone breaking the law in order to have housing.” It’s sad that the housing crisis is so bad that people have to worry about getting in trouble just for finding shelter. It shouldn’t even be considered breaking the law. It’s you do what you got to do.
True, I agree!
It’s really scary believe me, especially when the police want you dead
@tja3495 so open your home to them
I wonder what would happen with housing if the millions of illegals were kicked out of the housing market thus freeing up... millions of houses/apartments.
Imagine seeing the silhouette at night with the sign lit up 😂
I actually am impressed by the fact she was able to live in a sign she deserves a job as a interior designer for real
👍
We didn’t see how she’d decorated it so it’s impossible to say that.
@@robertjones8598 true
Or the store should hire her as a component of the worlds’ first Living Sign. - she can stay living within the sign permanently, and her job is to attract customers, somewhat people who wear those sandwich board signs for local customers on the street.
I'll keep an eye out for similar prime real estate. I hope there's still some vacant signs available.
Hopefully she saved a good bit of money doing that.
They could have at least shown the area where this lady was living. I was wondering how she knew there was an area inside the store sign where she could live in the first place and how to gain access to it?
IKR, I would like to know the complete story.
I would like to know why they didn’t take her someplace to get situated! Just saying the police didn’t know where she went is pathetic!
Its what we do when we are homless..crawl around the city to the point we all know every single last nook and cranny.
I was curious, too, so I googled the story and clicked on multiple versions, and a few of them showed the actual sign.
Probably an inside job. Someome Probably worked there and helped her out.
When I was a kid we had a fort inside a large neon sign in a mall parking lot.
It was warm and had cool lighting.
Do they have to evict her legally or can they just kick her out?
Squatters rights 😂
yea how about a story on the lady
they have to file a lawsuit for copyright infringement because of sign ;)
I think they can just evict since its not classified as a residential dwelling and she couldn't get mail there.
@xeon it's a commentary on the situation in Florida and other places before the aggressive political crackdown. If it were in Florida not manh months ago would have required a court injunction to evict. Hence the term "squatters rights," as well as in some euro countries too
Imagine your country being so corporate, and rife with homelessness....that people are LITERALLY ending up living inside company logos...
With everything available in this world there should be nobody homeless, it’s the greed from the rich that are causing all the suffering against less fortunate
Housing is too expensive
I guess she was living in a penthouse set up with large chandelier, daybed and fine vine from her little roof top vineyard. Don't forget the stunning view of the parking lots.
Just show the dang room!!!
She saw the sign
And it opened up her eyes, she saw the sign
Life is demanding without understanding
She saw the sign
And it opened up her eyes, she saw the sign
No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong
But where do you belong?
If she was an illegal she would of been taken care of.
Curious how she got up on the roof?....Also, how no one saw her comings and goings ?
They have pull down latter's for workers
Well she was noticed eventually.
Hope she is safe and is able to get permanent shelter, hopefully a house.
Open your home
Now she's signless. There is an epidemic of signlessness in this country.
What was the first sign that she was homeless?
People of America mustn't be this individual and indifferent towards one another. Taking care one another is a must. When a family member reaches 18, he or she leaves the parents for a new house. That is where the distance gets created between parents and kids. Parents raise kids till 18, but when parents reach old age, kids throw them under the bus or send them old Nursing home. It is sad
My parents chose to have me knowing they would be taking care of me for 18 years. It's not on me to take care of them when they are old. They've had their whole life to be financially responsible and prepare for retirement.
I believe that's what's called "unfettered self-interest", like in Atlas Shrugged. It goes hand in hand with the whole "Greed is good" mantra.
I still flipping hate Michael Douglas because of that movie.
Isn’t it a shame Americans cannot afford a home or rent I can’t imagine why
lets blame the border, and ignore any other evidence, makes it easy for us to yell and salute as told
Even Russia has written into its constitution that every citizen has a right to have shelter.
@@carmenwheatley7316 Yeah I'm sure every Russian citizen is housed and well-provided for by the state
I didn’t say well provided for. Just that every citizen has a right to shelter.
@@carmenwheatley7316 it's like china there's no homeless people anymore because they stop reporting on it so it must be true!
Would be a good sitcom. Signfailed
😂😂😂
my lord, you are my hero at this time for that comment
That's great. Have not had a good laugh in a few days. Cheers from West Australia.
This is by far the best comment 😂
Lol I'd like to thank my mom for teaching me to comment😂
Was the sign lit? If so, how did no one notice her silhouette? And how can a person sleep in a brightly lit sign? So many questions!
Nah bro. You cant come at me about housing but then not show me these conditions she was living in. Right now im imagining a exquisite estate.
"a stunning estate" - Tim Dillon
honestly if it was clean and taken care of they shoulda let her stay least till they can get her a home
That's the truth
100, and if she fixes bulbs going out, HIRED!
@@isaactuuri6488 ya she def could be janitorial or handywoman for em
@@AbiyBattleSpell Only problem with that...the wages from such a job would never be enough to get a decent apartment.
SHOW US THE SIGN SHE LIVED IN
Google the story. A few versions show the actual sign.
I'm happy to see "Woman found living..." instead of "Woman found dead..."
Exactly! 🎉
That may yet come since they kicked her out. Now she's out there with the street thugs and druggies, I imagine.
1) That's kind of horrifying 😅 2) At least she was safe, and there are people that can help her... and 3) The US is definitely in a crisis of that, and they really need to fix that.
she was not homeless. they just said she was living in a sign
the sign housing market has really inflated this year.
You're right she found a safe home for herself
@@TheMpo1986 If they made house For Sale signs a little thicker we'd have DOUBLE the residences!!
But send trillions to Israel
@@kevinl8604 Republilcans veto any help to the american citizen, they greenlight money to foreign lands. Stop blaming the wind and point to the villain.
I just read this story and had to look it up! At first, i thought it was a light up type of sign, but judging from this sign, it looks as if she was living in an attic!
If she wasn't bothering anyone or damaging anything i can't see why someone wouldn't just look the other way. Why is everyone a karen now.
Better yet. Help her find safe4 housing!
Here are the reasons why that I can think of, and bear in mind, I don't agree with these and would rather see her left alone as well...legal liability and theft of electricity. Just the world we live in.
And no cribs version of sign living?? I will not be able to sleep tonight without seeing her living quarters!!! 😖
Ive volunteered half of my life at these "shelters," and the thing that's so utterly irritating is that these "do gooders" get on these shows and talk about "shelters" people can go to, but shelters are disgusting petrie dishes full of filth and disease, and are nothing more than INTERNMENT CAMPS for the homeless. It's no wonder people would rather sleep in the street or live in a sign than catch tuberculosis or hepatitis, or flu or or or... at a shelter. We call them "shelters" bc it sounds better than "internment camp." Every person deserves their OWN PLACE TO LIVE with heat, a/c, and running water even if it's just a studio or tiny house.
For a split second, I thought 0:43 was the inside of the sign
Little home community ❤
I would like to know how she came and went for a year without anyone noticing, not to mention moving furniture up there 🤔.
I want to know the whole story too!
where did she poop?
Access too? Someone commented on pull-down ladders?? Read also, that she was employed so this is crazy. You know ppl going shopping looking around the building 🤔
It's funny how no one ever says "_____" has an airbnb shortage..
The homelessness has literally tripled…
Some of the affordable housing problem could be solved with changes to local building ordinances. They generally don't allow for small homes that are adequate for singles or couples and therefore affordable. They want all housing to be big. Be honest, large apartment complexes are built to be money makers, so will never be affordable, unless subsidized.
Wow. That woman was pretty smart. She reminds me of Newt from the Aliens movie lol.
Prices for rent and houses so high in America, people think this mysterious lady is a hero!
It's not lack of housing..it's the outrageous costs with rent
How?
Nobody got shot and nobody went to jai! Amazing.
At least she had a roof over her head.
True!
Okay but what sign? The one above the store? Like an attic? Or the one out front that's like 2-3 feet wide? They could've shown us, it's like they missed the pinnacle of this story.
i cant even afford an apartment. im disabled and im having to rent my old room from my parents. the wait list for "affordable housing" is over five years. and even then theres only a small number of locations available and not enough for those of us who need it
The rent was cheap. Used to be, in the old days, when a store row was built downtown on a main street, there were upper floors over the stores that were professional offices and rooming rentals. Maybe we need to get back to that. Building codes could require places like Walmart and others to build a floor of inexpensive living space above the stores. The problem, would be allow good , quiet tennents like the homeless lady here, and keeping the criminals, drug addicts and crazies out.
These people are all talking about "we need to solve the crisis" but did any of them offer the woman housing?
Open your home
Not surprised, I worked retail, and a lot of the roof edges have large facades, and the sighs have electricity. Perfect spaces to live. Though, if I was living up there, I would try to patch roof where possible to avoid detection
Definitely a "sign" of the times we're living in.
There are a LOT of working people who are struggling & one paycheck away from asking her to borrow a cup of coffee. It's horrible that this country are allowing the gas to stay high just because, crued oil prices have been dropped! They're allowing rent to ne raised astronomically, food prices. The government is allowing this, what are we supposed to do?
Gotta give it up to her, I've slept rough from time to time and this is inventive.
That’s very resourceful for her, and the safest way for her to.
I’m sure she had already tried the other options but nothing helped her and found that it’s the only way to make her safe.
Sometimes I wonder if there’s other places I heard all kinds of things I think there might be someone living in my roof since I heard a lot of creaking and there’s so many homeless around here in my neighborhood.
So they will show how the person lived in a storage unit but not a store sign. They don’t want too many people getting ideas
Can we get a sneak peek picture of her living situation? I think we're all curious.
I drove through Grand Rapids the other day, and the amount of homeless people on the streets was baffling. Not only are they not safe, but God knows not every homeless man or woman is a saint. I pray for everyone in the area.
I support this woman and will vote her into congress by any means above or below board. I also know my next move ;)
When I was a kid I used to day dream what it would be like to live in a grocery store 😊
Points for ingenuity
She livin lavish fr
My brother in law lived inside a Hugh sign by the side of the turn pike for 2 weeks ,he had gotten a job across the highway in a rest area . He worked there until he got on his feet to get a place to live. Got a few promotions until he could buy a car & drown down to Texas & work on oil rigs fora few years.
The unfortunate woman was no danger to society, living in the sign. I hope her life vastly improves. Respect from Ireland.
Why would someone feel ashamed for needing help? That’s stupidity. Everyone needs help sometimes.
I want to know more about the lady in the sign and what it looks like inside the sign. Clickbait
My favorite part was when they showed it.
I want to see pictures of her setup!
Please help me contact her, she is my daughter and doesn't deserve to live like that 🥲
I just want to help her situation.
I love you Mija 🥰🌹
how???????
One of the problems with the "housing" that they offer people is that when you live there you basically have no freedoms at all. It's not a "home", it's just a crash pad with very strict curfews and rules. Most people hate these places and will purposely live on the street rather than give up their independence and be treated like a child. Not to even mention all the people trying to psychoanalyze you all the time. No smoking, no radio playing, lights out! Just like prison.
The woman was right, she was trying to retain what little personal freedoms she had left.
It was her working on the vehicles up there that gave her away.
Lemme get this straight..... It takes minutes to get a squatter out of a business.... but it takes Months & court orders to get a squatter out of someones private home? Business gets police assistance.... but when it happens to a private homeowner.... they refuse to remove them ? That's Beyond F'd up..... Squatters do NOT have rights when it's not their property! Laws need to be changed/addressed Immediately....
You would think that if they were going to publicize this story, they would show the inside of the make shift shelter in the sign. If you are going to tell the story, back it up with proof (photos).
Is this what those articles mean when they say housing is affordable in Michigan?
So sad
This is what this country has come to 😢
I'm more interested on what was on that laptop and what she was printing and for what purposes.
Okay so show us her living space inside the sign? This is one of the things I hate the most here is clicking and not seeing!
Can't show the less resourceful how its done. Can't have everyone doing it. Why would anyone pay ridiculously high rent, when there's all these unoccupied signs.
WTH? What about the homeless lady living inside the sign. This whole video was a commercial for homeless help.
Police chose not to identify her.
there’s not much info on her, people don’t know how she got up there or what the logistics are, this is my hometown and we don’t even know much about it
they keep showing us how horrible people live in these horrible places but don't explain how the govt has made it impossible to get a place to stay, unless you don't work.
Ummmm, not sure the unless you don’t work is true. Many people who work are still technically homeless, or unable to find affordable housing.
BAN HOUSING AS AN INVESTMENT AND COMMODITY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS THE SOVEREIGN RIGHT OF EVERY AMERICAN
Try a country that is already communist. See how you like basic housing.
Open your home to them
Is this a story about a woman living in a sign or groups that help the homeless?
its a story to get you to vote for homeless solutions by which rich people get richer and the poor get poorer
When I was in high school there was a large ventilation grate in the library and I always thought I could possibly live there.
Sad to be homeless but this house hack was like a boss. Hope she's ok and been assisted.
Well now I’ve officially heard of everything 🤦♀️
Just when I think people can’t surprise me anymore 🤦♀️😩😐
Housing is to much in Michigan 1500 a month for 2 bed 1 bath
In Florida 2beds one bathroom is $2500
@@haydar378floriduh