I live in Tampa, FL. I have worked in the restaurant industry for over 23 years, and when the pandemic hit, I lost my job overnight. I was already struggling with health issues before this, but still worked full time to support myself. When I lost my job, I had no income and was not approved for unemployment. I quickly used my savings to survive for a couple months, then became homeless. There are only short-term shelters in this area, where I stayed at. During this time, we were in lockdown, so getting another job was not in the cards. After 6 weeks, your time is up and I had to leave the shelter. Sometimes you can get an extension, but I was not so lucky. I was on a list to receive housing but never was chosen. Luckily, I do not have children. I was on the street, by myself, with no vehicle. I had to walk and carry my belongings all day long. I have nerve damage in my legs and feet. My legs would be swollen 3 times their normal size during this time. I would sit down to rest and would be yelled at and told to move along. It was impossible to rest or sleep properly. My health became so bad, that I was hospitalized for a month at a time. Now I am stuck with huge medical bills on top of everything. One day, someone who would give me water and something to eat regularly, asked if I wanted to come to stay with them. I was hesitant at first because I had lost trust in people. I thought, what do I have to lose? I gave this person a chance and ended up having a room for myself. Not only that, I found a job working from home and have been employed ever since. I am so grateful that someone gave me a chance that day. It is almost impossible to get out of homelessness without help. I am a very hard worker and have always supported myself, but anyone can become homeless. Next time, if you see a homeless person, please do not judge. You do not know what they have been through. Thank you for listening.
So many people have been there (including wealthy people or people like myself who had $200K jobs). Our nation and the world is being intentionally destroyed by the Globalist Usury International Central Bankers and their agents and allies (causing Recessions, Plandemics, Wars, etc). I was going to sell my house and move the hell out of California, until I fell off a ladder in February about 22 feet, and shattered my leg (37 fractures). Now I am stuck here and fucked for life probably. But I'm happy to hear things have improved for you : )
Can't ignore national security. Want another 9/11? Want WWIII?? We've spent billions on the homeless problem in CA alone. It's done nothing. How much more should be wasted before saying maybe a change in leadership is necessary?
Yeah solve problems in their own back yard instead of pouring money into Ukraine. And not all homeless people are drug addicts or mentally ill. Every day Seniors and Disabled are being evicted simply because they can't afford the high rent, but the government only cares about Grandstanding and white knighting for Ukraine.
@@JessicaZane4realz Dear Jessica: What you so accurately portray is just one sliver of the general decay that has crept over this nation since WW2. In 1945, America generated 50% of the World GDP and our Gold Reserves were legitimately strong enough to back the World Economy. But 75 years of Insane Defense Spending has drained America both economically and morally. America didn't actually defeat the USSR in 1990. We just outspent them until we literally drove them into Bankruptcy. America did this by printing Billions in Fake Money in the 1980's that put us so far into National Debt that America never really recovered. The Geopolitical Fantasy of American Exceptionalism even exists today, even now as Insane Defense Spending has brought down the American Standard of Living to the point where many 1000's are just Homeless. America is STILL throwing away money that needs to be spent at home, even after 75 straight years of doing it. The Technology and the Social Science has been available for decades to displace the Ugly Ghetto Scene to which you allude, but America's priority since WW2 has been "Atom Bombs first, and The People second". It's never too late to turn things around, but sending $40 Billion to Ukraine today is just the wrong way to go. God Bless America !!!
Improving education and not worrying so much about sexuality and skin color. Self improvement and self confidence doesn’t come from handouts. Difference is give a fish or teach to fish!
@@JessicaZane4realz need to stop blaming everything on skin color or sexuality and start realizing giving up DOESNT help any more then letting someone else take care of you. We need to start showing respect to the people like black fathers that do their real job instead of being selfish. And stop blaming everyone else when you make stupid selfish decisions and say your just being true to yourself. COP OUT!!!
Visitors from other Worlds would find this disturbing 😳 this Planet needs to get it together because we are the talk of the Galaxies other beings are whatching 😐🐙🐉
A bit later into the docu he continues saying that bullying by gang bangers contributed to his becoming homeless again later on another part his interview is edited into the piece where he is saying he is just sick of being homeless and advises us not to trust anyone...
@@devintaylor8702 On the same sound bite, others have also theorize that aliens from other galaxies are visiting Earth to try to save us from us destroying this planet.
I find it hard to believe that this homelessness and rampart drugs being flooded in isn't part of a master plan or agenda by the so called elites, remember zee vill own nuzzings and zee will be happy. What comes first the mental health issues or the obvious hard drug usage either way the drugs will accelerate any underlying phycological issues and those pushing their satanic agendas are well aware of that in my humble opinion and use it 2 further their nwooooooooooooo. Its not just the US its worldwide the planned demic (read sociological total control over people and collapsing world trade) shows how desperate they are may they be relegated to the dust bin of history where they rightfully belong. Am I already on watch lists maybe so don't care grey beard here off grid saw this crap coming decades ago and remember these people have not been doing this S*** for not just decades but generations , they in my humble opinion mis judged the internet containing the sum total of human knowledge but also to their demise they misjudged the scope and power of social media.
I’m working class homeless. No home , nothing and working 80+ hrs a week. I really felt that woman saying she wasn’t leaving her dog. I feel the same way. He’s all I got.
Please don't give up. I worked with homeless for 10 years - as a "resource and referral" employee for federal, state, local, and non profit agencies. Sometimes it is meeting the right person who can best advocate for you. I worked in Humboldt County and Del Norte Counties in N. California. It is colder there - but consciousness is different (I worked in Eureka). People with pets need special attention - and many of us really care and do all we can to get people into subsidized housing (and access to other support services).
I was a first responder during the 1960 - 1970 era. During this period it was decided that government mental institution confinement was improper. Such institutions were closed. The patients were tossed onto the streets. Thus, the results.
Such institutions were closed Because The American Government Isn't Big Enough To Handle A Locked Away Population That Large No Nation Can You Ever Seen A Prison Riot Believe Me There's Enough Prisons Out There We Don't Need Asylums Too That's One Thing About National Security Assets Are Always Limited To The Safe Guarding of Royalty And I Can Promise You This It's A LOT Easier To Let Crazy Be Crazy Then To Waste Assets Helping People That Don't Wanna Be Helped Anyway
I just can’t understand why our country is literally sending billions to Ukraine when we have a huge mental health issue! We need to stay out of wars! And help our own citizens!
Thank You! Yes it was inhumane to warehouse folks in the conditions they were in but is this any better? We now have folks pooping in the street and passed out on sidewalks while citizens are scared to walk on the streets! THIS HAS TO CHANGE!
@@bbe3034 We are sending billions to Ukraine because Hunter and Joe Biden share a bank account, Hunter was given $85,000 a month to serve on a Ukrainian company when he doesn't speak the language or know anything about the energy market, "The Big Guy" gets 10%. The kickback to Joe ensured he will continue to send billions to the Ukraine. There are even worse ties to China
I was Homeless [though only a few years or more]. Scared, Too Old and Shameful of myself for falling on Hard Times. With the help of a tiny group of people working in the health dept. was able to get myself out of there.
Did it ever occur to you to go to Slabtown that place is a free place to live there's water there there's Hot Spring electricity to it's a safe place to live and it's free they have rules there just got to follow the rules.. and even if you were homeless at one time that place would have been a better place for you to live instead of Los Angeles city.. Slabtown would have been a place called home you can have your own place grow your own food and weed it is a free place to go to call home. And if you wanted to work even go 15 miles to this other town and got a job being a busboy or paperman or window washer anything and still go and live at the free place to live even if it is 4 EVER. IT'S FREE!!🙏😇TO LIFE FREE 4Ever!
@@kittycatjodie77rainbow76 Sure. thank you. I [when I needed it] could walk [with my walker], and the weed you mentioned, well, I guess I can start being a druggie now. But I'll pass on that for now, ty. Work, ok. as soon as the doc say I can go back to work. ok? So [sigh] thank you for all of the great suggestions. Thank you again. [smiles]
I've been homeless for 25 years since I was about 18 years old I travel all over the place and everybody is a scumbag in my book cuz I have been kidnapped beaten almost killed thrown from a car into a water cops don't do nothing because apparently homeless people are nothing that's why people get away with everything it's sucks man.. now I'm 45 years old and STILL HOMELESS was but I live in the DEEP woods of Anderson away from all the crazy ass people.. I grow my own food and milk my own cow and for the record marijuana is not a drug you jackass. It helps with depression, it help bipolar schizophrenia, it helps with body aches it helps with seizures it helps with heart attacks it helps with a lot of things that is health issues. but if you get weed off of some jackass out there on the street then yes it's laced with all kinds of SHIT.. moving it to Slabtown was just a suggestion because everybody's bitching about Los Angeles looking like a sewer... I went to Slabtown that place is not so bad it's a free place to live and you don't have to worry about so many bad things happening.. but I'm sorry you misunderstood me sir!! Have a good day and please don't kill anybody just because you're pissed off at yourself it's not anybody else's fault but yourself so try to have a good day out there if you can help it.and God bless u
Because , the gov. Is to stupid to see there own Country needs more help than others right now how far our homeless people. It won’t be long before the border is living in our own streets.too!
@@charliepooley373 I agree. We think it is just a local problem, but the corruption starts at the top. You vote in Biden? This is what you get. You vote in liberal Democrats? This is what you get. The best example of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over, and expecting different results. You voted for this.
I served in Iraq with a contractor from LA. He put two bids in to build housing for the homeless. He was told to double his bid by the LA county supervisors and he would get the job. He didn't understand until the permitting process. When he went to apply for the bids the first bribe was expected. He paid 110k for the permits that were worth about 15k to any one else. The balance went into someone's pocket. It was the same every step of the way. All total of the 4 million dollar bid 650k went to bribes. When he tried to report it from day one he was hounded by inspectors holding up the job and weekly payroll disbursements. When the job was finished they wanted him to do another one. He told them to go to hell. He wouldn't get the final payment until he signed a non disclosure contract. All these LA county supervisors are corrupt and greedy as they come. They don't give a shit about the homeless they ignore every day on the way to work. They just want their cut.
One day I was on the 10 frw in DTLA driving bumper to bumper as always, and as I approached a frw intersection or overpass right in between where the freeways overlap or intersect was a pair of feet 🦶 🦶 sticking out of the structure, a poor soul sleeping in between that little cubby hole about a foot in height and I’m wondering how the heck could he get in and out of there safely as it was so high up and eye level with most cars passing by on that freeway, I’ll never forget that!😢 they need to get the rich 🤑 to help out and house these homeless! So sad 😭🙏
@@siry5164 I have a similar story to yours, I live in the San Francisco area and there is a giant billboard attached to a building that is right next to the main freeway that leads to the Bay Bridge- I would pass it every time I had to cross the bay, little did anyone know that a homeless person wedged himself between the billboard and the building and died there and was stuck in that place for a few years. So know one knew that the behind that billboard advertisement was a petrified dead person....
Didn't Maxine WATERS say to the HOMELESS go back to your homes, she's telling them I DON'T see your problem. And if you see the cost of these tiny homes IT'S a crime. EVERYONE in the scam
Most politicians don't have homes in large cities -- at least not those cities in blue states. They may own/rent an apartment to crash at every once in a while, but most are smart enough to know that city life is not the way to go, and it's not a place you'd want to raise a family.
My older sister worked at, and just recently retired from a state mental hospital. What they are saying about 5150 hold it is right. A 72 hour hold is not enough time to fix or treat long term mental health problems.
All medical treatment has been on an out patient bases for decades. It all started in 1963. We went from one extreme to another. The problem is that a 72 hour hold is hardly enough time to diagnose and treat someone who has long term mental illnesses. Then there are the people who refuse to take their meds even after given them. Our entire mental health system needs a revamp.
Thank you, as a registered nurse I was never taught that psych issues retire. People with severe issues have difficulty with… Getting/keeping a job Banking Buying meds Feeding themselves Bathing and paying bills and affording doctors and medicine and scheduling and much more. Thank heavens that stops with retirement.
@@PhatAssObese not just LA, actually country wide. Got my nursing license after training in a long term psych facility. They closed one year after I graduated and it was turned into a golf course that only the rich frequent.
I had cancer and then a stroke. Lost my job. I would have been homeless if I didnt have family to help me pay my mortgage payments. Sometimes, the homeless people are just people with bad luck... but not bad people. It can happen to anyone.
This is a sad 😢 situation.. it's every where... I think, that, if the really really rich people should be taxed , for sure... That will help big time... They don't have to pay nothing.or close to nothing... Just shameful... this is America?? Come on 🤬
Imagine if we used resources to help local people fallen on hard times rather than the billions we spend on providing drug addicts with paraphernalia, illegal immigrants with resources or fighting lawsuits to keep mentally ill people on the street and out of care facilities?
i took in a homeless guy a few years ago, just for a few nights. he lost his young family and all he owned to divorce. he was an alcoholic, but a very good man. He was so lost, that I had to do something. Today, he is alcohol free, in a new relationship, lives in a nice home and works in construction making more money than me. He is a ukrainian man in his 40s with no family here in australia. Today, we are the best of friends and i consider him to be a part of my family. Volodomyr, my beloved 'brate'. This is our story.
@@mrfunkington HA! You silly son of a motherless goat. You clearly have had no similar successes in life. Try living in the service of God's lost children, instead of feeding your own worldly desires. All that matters to me is the beautiful friendship that exists between me and Volody. I was feeling pretty down last week. Then there was a knock at the door. 'Dad. Vlad's here', said my 17y.o. son. My day got better right there and then. We shares a Heineken 0.0, taked about life and of course, the war. Even though I'm happily married with kids, Volody is my best and closest friend, bc I was there when he cried for the loss of his family and how everything went down hill from there. I was there when he was at his drunkest. But I was clear-headed enough to help him tap into the man that he wanted to be, to map out how WE were going to achieve that. And WE did it! We beat the odds and WE won. He will always be my ukrainian brother. Always. I love Vlad like I love my brothers. His new girl's name is Svetlana and she is gorgeous. He now lives in a huge house near the beach, but he makes the trek to my place on the other side of the city every few weeks on a train just to see me, even though he has a whole new friendship group and a full time job. I wish I could help someone as lost as you, but you don't seem to have the right frame of mind. Shame. You have no idea how much one person can change to become a better man. He's happy. I'm happy. My wife is proud of me, as would be my mother who is in heaven. Does anything else matter?
I feel like the reason this homelessness issue persists is because some higher ups are profiting off of this, and thus don't mind the problem as long as it makes their pockets fatter.
No one wants to admit it the reason why is also some rich people are motivated by seeing this "FAILURE" it's a high and just taking a ride down the street I bet folks like Pelosi and Jimmy Kimmel makes them more motivated and successful in their own eye's. Just like seeing our country fail there are people that love seeing others suffer. This also includes other leaders in other countries.
I think all replies are true. Politics, money, drugs. And at the end of the day it’s all about breaking down America ! 🆘Trump 2024 MAGA 🇺🇸. He can do it quickly 👍🏻
To those who are not homeless, prepare yourself to protect yourself from being homeless. Some homeless made bad choices, some homeless lost their jobs and had not prepared for a rainy day. When your salary can't pay your rent , you can end up homeless.
You are completely right. A lot of people want to judge homeless people as if they are all lazy and/or drug addicts. That is not reality. There different reasons to become homeless, I know first hand. I lost my job during the pandemic. I still get people commenting as if it were a choice. Ignorance doesn't help our society grow.
@@goatmansasquatch1485 Very interesting. Does that include drug addicts as well? The cost to build apartments for homeless is astronomical. The cities are paying too much for each one or two bedroom apartments. Are the apartments in your country nice?
@@stormyweather7952 Yes. Add highest welfare benefits and free healthcare on top of that. We call it oil money. You call it “let’s move over to worlds richest country for free education and dental plans while pretending we got the best shit over here” country.
I spoke to a person and he said that homelessness is an EXTREMELY profitable business for politicians and whoever is involved in trying to ""solve"" it. He also said that, that's why homeless problem will never be solved, because if it will, that means politicians will be losing an absorbent amount of money. The love of money is the root of all evil.
Agreed, billions spent on programs to support those who work in that area. But were still looking at drugs & alcohol addiction. Their families refuse to help cause most are antisocial crazy & addicted.
There are very few mechanism in place to monitor how these “non-profits” spend their funding. Millions of dollars are not accounted for. I’m a mental health therapist and I have never interacted with a non-profit focused on homelessness that was not corrupt. They fabricate their client contact statistics and most of the tax money/donations funding their services actually goes to employee salaries; especially administration salaries. Many of these facilities were started and now ran by people who were formerly homeless. They may be experienced, but they aren’t qualified.
Yes, the gov't of CA bilked billions from the taxpayers (state and federal). As they trickle the money down to the homeless EVERYBODY has their hands out. The construction companies and CEO's of these charities make damn sure they get paid FIRST. The reporters keep marketing the homeless so the taxpayer will approve more money and keep donating their hard earned dollars. It's all a scam, they even got Edward James Olmos in on it.
Too late now. AMERICAN'S carry on about democracy. You dont have a democracy, when you only have two parties that switch roles in a continous permanent cycle. Fisrt world democracies have parties that come and go and have multiple choices abd most of the time its not possible for a one party rule. Its a continousely changing cycle deoending on the needs and values of the peolple. You guys just jump between two corrupt parties and claim democracy. Anyway its over for the the US. Biden has sold the US to China.
Logic tells you if they really wanted to house homeless schizophrenic sufferers and the elderly would have been the first housed. Does the National Apartment Association and the California Apartment Association and their lobbyist play a role in limited housing and high rent's, their an IRS 501 (c) 6 organization. You can give international donations. I'm just asking.
I lived in LA for 3 years and the reality is very different from how Hollywood portrays it. From the lack of infrastructure, to the hour long traffic jams, generally unfriendly and bizarre locals, meth and opiate users doing drugs in broad daylight, endless scores of homeless people, overpriced food & products, wannabe influencers, socialites, gold diggers, thieves, scammers, opportunists and liberal art degree dropouts a-plenty, there's no shortage of horrors in that dystopian hellhole. Before moving to LA I lived in Lebanon and as much as I hated living there i'd rather move back then face another day in the City of Angels.
The term Skid Row originated in logging areas. The log "skids" are routes for moving timber for processing. Many transient types looking for quick work sometimes would also set up ramshacle seedy shops or saloons, brothels etc. They often only lasted a short time when the timber was gone and they'd move onto the next area. A niche with many obsconders and ne'er do wells in the woodwork.
I live downtown so I’ve had a front row seat to this for a long time. I’m also an EMT so I also interact with the homeless pretty much all day. I would say in the next 10 years the majority of homeless will be women over 50. Especially over the last few years I’m seeing many more older women by themselves living on the streets. Just as another person who’s job is to help…it’s heartbreaking to see so many older people who’ve lost everything. Half of those are clearly mentally ill, and/or their mental illness is a result of chronic drug addiction. This is a place like nowhere else. You will see what it looks like when someone has HIV that’s untreated. You’ll see what someone looks like at 55 with end-stage alcoholism. A drug habit that seemed recreational and manageable at 30-40 will bring you to the streets at 50. These are all problems that were left untreated for decades and they all end up on the streets in the end. And they most often will die here; often times we have no idea who they are or where they’re from because they died with no ID, no phone, nothing.
Women over 50 are finding it harder to find work. The older generation is being pushed out of the workforce. And they want to raise the retirement age. ??
You have a real good first hand knowledge of what’s going on down there. I would love to see you do an interview on CZcams where you can share your experiences with the world. The public really needs to know
The Homeless People Today Have Phones A Driver's License And Often A Whole Car Paid For They Just Can't Afford A House or Rent Because Their Not Earning Enough The Real Estate Market Right Now Is Into Some Serious Investment Fraud And This Is What Happens When Realtors Are Breaking The Law And Your House Is On Credit Well The Bank Called They Want Their Investment Back That's Why You Don't Play The Stock Market
@@OpnDoarPlcy ??? Was the Good Samaritan of scripture “playing to the lowest common denominator”? Do people who volunteer at soup kitchens waste their time helping the needy? How else are you supposed to play the game of life, hoarding your temporary possessions and living in fear and hatred of your fellow man? Your selfishness and lack of empathy will bite you in the ass one day. Mark my words.
I got divorced and lost house, savings, furniture, everything gone in one day in court. I owed $150,000 in child support. Then I lost my job too. Dam it's hard living when life happens. I had to clean up and start over, find a job, find food and where to shower. I found a new job and started again..... I recovered through hard work.
Are you saying that everyone else that become homeless are not working hard enough to improve their situation? Not being disrespectful your comment just begs the question.
I have a bachelor's degree and extensive work experience, yet have a very difficult time finding employment. My references are wonderful as well, yet at only 51 years of age, I'm still having a hard time getting hired. I'm realizing I'm missing some very specific software skills needed to break back into the communications field. It's sad, demotivating, and very depressing.
Companys don't want to hire people after they reach the age of 45! They want to hire people , who are very naive , and willing to be a total puppet! Very few people can get social security, before 65 !! 45 to 65 year olds , are the most at risk!
@@TheMarcyFran When you go over 45 years old ,the job market doesn't want you! They want naive young people to fill the diminishing work opportunities that have gone overseas! You my friend may be facing a homeless situation! I have known people with PHD degrees who can't get employment!
My sister was homeless out there I live in San Diego and it's the same. Thank God my sister did get out of that and she has a house. Praying for those out there still
I have been homeless in the past and I had a family who tried to tell me there idea of what I should do but politics played a big role. You see they were people who I call trumpanzees and I believe in helping people to an extent. I got lucky when I moved to the north west as I was able to work full time up until covid hit at which time I retired. I'm a Vietnam veteran and I'm in my late 60's and I now live in an upscale high rise apt that I was lucky enough to be the first person to move into the building. There was alot of high dollar apt building's that finished construction during the pandemic and the builders were forced to sell to LIHI (Low Income Housing Institute) because they couldn't rent them out at the 3500 a month. I pay 30% of my SSA for rent which is a bargain at 600 a month. I think other cities could have done the same thing if they tried thinking outside of the box. LIHI bought 4 of these building's in the downtown area.
Yep, Appalachia is the dream. Oh wait....nvm, Mississippi....oh nvm...these problems are nationwide and universal. More people means the problem looks more pronounced. That's the reality of it, whether people want to turn their noses up and pretend it's not, or whether they want to accept it. California is not the problem. Everywhere has poverty. The population is such that there aren't enough abandoned houses to hide out in like in other states that have been left. People in Appalachia are suffering too. People in Mississippi are suffering too. People in Louisiana are suffering too. People in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania are suffering too. And yes, people in California are suffering, but that's one of many populations that are all suffering.
@@Honey_Daddy hell no I live in Cleveland Ohio one of the poorest cities in America and we don't see nothing like tr they are homeless people here but nothing like this I mean nothing
@@highsummonerwill1874 yeah, look at the population difference between Cleveland and LA. Imagine multiplying every homeless person by 12 in Cleveland and it might look like that. Not to mention Cleveland is freezing in the winter. People migrate to LA for weather when they have nowhere else to be. And cost of living is higher in LA, so someone that might be ok with money might make it in Ohio when they'd be on their asses in CA. They're not 1 to 1 equivalents or anything close to that. There are many factors to consider when judging the plight of people in different regions. My point being, everyone is struggling. It isn't just California or LA or SF. The nation is full of people scraping by. It looks pronounced because LA is a better place to not freeze to death and the population is huge and various other reasons, but it's not just as easy as saying "my tiny city like Cleveland doesn't have homeless in those amounts" if we're thinking it through fully.
@@Honey_Daddy no Cleveland does have bums but not like them. Camping out by schools and parks and by children and ppls homes. No. That would not fly here.
@@Honey_Daddy It's not that it's a big city that makes it look worse. It's a failure of leadership. And all the big metropolitan areas vote the same way. This isn't a mystery to the rest of the country. LA, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit.... They keep voting for the same people and keep getting worse and then wonder what's going on. But at least they can feel like they're better than people in Appalachia and Mississippi.
I got hooked on Pain Pills after the VA had me on them for a decade, long story short I flew out to LA/OC for detox/Rehab, the owner took me and some others to LA... then to Skid Row. We walked around for a hour... and it was like seeing a 3rd world Country, for me.... seeing Skid Row and the poor Souls trapped cured my addiction to Opies... It was so bad I haven't touched Narcotics in 7 years!
I’m tired of everyone that keeps comparing this mess to 3rd world countries. In Africa, we rarely see homelessness and crazy drug addicts even if we’re considered “poor”. 3rd world also mean countries that weren’t aligned with either US or Russia in case you didn’t know.
I have leukemia, am a 100% disabled veteran due to the water at Camp Lejeune. I have been prescribed pain pills due to the pain from leukemia and the daily chemo pills I have to take. Guess what, I’m not, nor never will be addicted to the pain pills I am prescribed. I take them as prescribed and don’t abuse them. And guess what, I’m in a lot of pain. I’m just an old fashioned, God help me, RESPONSIBLE PERSON, that doesn’t abuse them.
If there's 59,000 homeless and they say they spent 6 billion on homelessness. Thats a hundred thousand for each person. Wheres the money going? Am i missing something? Honest question.
People who work in the poverty industry get paid pretty well. Check out the salaries of those “nonprofit” executives and government officials who manage fundings for these nonprofits
Too many people coming there with no education and skills expecting everything to be given to them. I offer homeless $15 an hour cash to clean, 1 in 100 will accept it.
I live in Wichita KS,I make 3000 a month and I pay 500 a month for 1 bedroom apartment, so if you can't afford to live in california, get the hell out.
You’re going to have a number of homeless everywhere, true. But what we’re seeing on the West Coast is horrifying! All caused by State/Local government. Votes have consequences. This is on Californians.
Clean and safe affordable housing is a major start. The majority of the homeless are simply priced out of housing, food etc. Los Angeles is what happens when elected officials do nothing. Along with Trillions given to Ukraine. Then free everything for Ukraine settlement in America. Then just damn, American citizens. Right?
Grew up in Los Angeles in the 50s where Dad had a mortgage on 3 bedroom house moms brother built for us of $75/month. Gas in 1967 was 35 cents. Put myself through college on just a 20 hour week job. Writing this from my car with my cat where we live atm
@@helicopterway good luck to you too (i thought the OG comment was someone who was living fine until the last sentence, and prayers to their cat too) (10hrs ago)
This made me so emotional, I am so proud of those who managed to overcome all of the hardships they endured and I hope one day we as a country can come together to help our fellow citizens
@RustyShekelfordstein, wages have gone way up and people still don't want to work. They rather have FREE handout from the government. Well, nothing is really free it comes from those working tax payers, who choose to work multiple jobs.
Wages haven't gone up in keeping with the cost of a house or rent in a city, where most of the work is to be found. Add on the higher cost of food and gas, many other than the very wealthy, are barely making ends meet.
The scariest thing that was never mentioned in this whole documentary is, most people are just one pay check or one disaster away from being homeless and on the street. Once there a viscous cycle can keep you there. Most politicians use these people as pawns to get into and stay in power. I have always lived day to day, week to week and I am scared to death I may end up on the street someday. I think many people just give up and give into what keeps them there. There is no one answer or solution to this problem. My dream is to be able to do something meaningful enough to help put an end to this crisis. God bless those that are hopelessly lost and on the street.
Man, I just visited LA and trust me you won’t fully understand this video unless you actually go and see it for yourself. The amount of potential and lost souls I’ve past by, knowing that they either once had a dream or a story before they ended up there. I think about how fortunate I am everyday after visiting LA.
@@mamabear71234 California gets the BOTTOM of the barrel from south of the border...worst of the worst...lowest forms of life imaginable...the educated and successful stay in mex and central america... WE are the garbage receptacle for their trash
I came from Oroville California a couple days ago, I'm a truck driver for swift and that city had an unusually high amount of homelessness for a city so far from a metropolitan area. I had a 23 year old girl crying in a curb by the side of my truck cause she hadnt eaten. Though I noticed later she had a bag of mcdonalds later on, not sure whether it was empty or not. She told me she had been on the street for 3 months after being kicked out after becoming a addict. We walked to a pizza hut and I bought her pizza. She met up with her homeless freinds in a parking lot. One of them had a car. Probably was her dealer. Before I went back to my truck I asked her what her name was, she told me her name was red wolf. I told her to have a good night and I walked back to my truck. The sad part was that she was very beautiful and she didn't belong in the streets. I'm not saying this cause I wanted to get with her. I have a girlfreind at home and I would never do anything behind her back, but she didn't have to be there. Idk it just really made me sad to see someone so young having to deal with all this. I hope this gets dealt with soon.
I use to be homeless, people who live in houses, apartments, and condos have no idea just how real the struggle is to get affordable housing. The best information I can give a homeless person, is to contact various charities that help the homeless, get on their radar, check with them regularly. Stay on top of social services, get as much information as you can from both. The more you know the better your chances are of getting affordable housing.
@Lady Justice Bad advice, you must have never been homeless or not for long. First, stop using drugs and alcohol. Second, get a freaking job. Many able bodied homeless refuse to work and have drug problems. Work, buy a car and save your money, then you can afford to move away from the price gouging super inflated cities like New York, Miami and Los Angeles.
Wow I was that one person who lived in downtown LA for 5 years ago then I got my SSI and off the streets now no more shelters for me nomore downtown LA and nomore motel sleeping in I'm now I'm in good place by the downtown Fullerton area by the train station it's great the best thing that every happened to me I got my little studio apartment and I'm so happy now love it thanks again 🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏 god bless 🙏
Government social spending, something the Republicans refuse to tax themselves to pay for. Reagan cut the budget to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by 75%. He also oversaw the closure of the federal network of mental health hospitals. Then he gave his rich cronies a huge tax cut, from the previous 70% under Jimmy Carter to 29%.
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This is what happens when you breed like flies and pollute your environment and consume every viable life giving resource. Eventually you are forced to spread out and invade other people's turf, then wars break out and we thin the herd again and again until all resources are so depleted its time for mother nature and man to cleanse the human virus off the earth. and let it try to heal itself. We are just a number and only money matters. People are something you either make money off of or buy, sell or rent. Those who get the most money have to power to do as they please to the endless waves of peasant pawn sheeple. We are just a number and easily expendable as you will all find out soon.
Well done. 19:50, that guy is Ted Hayes who run Tent City near 8th and Grand in downtown LA. His manager and boyfriend (who were homeless living in the encampment) borrowed a car for errands from a television anchor they befriended back when they did a story on how well their Dome City was being run. Long story short, they both ended up kidnapping and raping the newscaster who managed to escape after the brutal attack with foreign objects. Turned out the guy had an arrest warrant for killing his e partner in some other state. That’s one of the many problems with not fingerprinting and double checking on the identity of many homeless people who are not allowed to live near places where children congregate. 🫣😨😞😒😏😔😟😕🙁😣☹️
And voting the way you did in LA is going to ruin Idaho. I live in north Alabama and we are getting a lot of people moving here from all over because of the booming economy and cost of living I wish they would all stay away from Alabama and not ruin my state
Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission… Well Done!! This looks amazing and the Govt should absolutely support you in keeping this going…ultimately at this stage the hand out is needed in order to repair these people enough that they can accept a hand up, and eventually stand on their own feet. Somewhere in the process, the people must begin to pay some of the costs to live here, so that they have self esteem and respect… it’s poor self esteem and a feeling of having no hope caused them to give up. This is the slippery slope …. we have to create hope and joy in these people.
Been homeless in LA, got housing in LA. By the grace of God, you can too if you’re struggling. The storm will pass. Just keep praying! Have a good night y’all.
Good news; glad you got housing. But I disagree 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 ( that is what mean people 😡say when they DONT want to fixed any problems) God does not will GOOD or BAD. God is not your 'girl friday'. people got some nerves preaching this. God is not on anybody's schedule of duties /checklist. Y̲o̲u̲ ̲m̲u̲s̲t̲ ̲u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲s̲t̲a̲n̲d̲ ̲ ̲P̲o̲v̲e̲r̲t̲y̲ ̲i̲s̲ ̲ ̲1̲0̲0̲%̲ ̲p̲o̲l̲i̲t̲i̲c̲s̲ if you see the Federal Government paused rent in the Pandemic. so you know this is a valid statement. The will to do better is not there/ because their bread is already buttered. 2020 2021 Federal & State government literally stop millions from being HOMELESS. remember when they told the public. "you could not work from home? " even rush-hour is politics. We live in a society with man-made rules; and any part of it can be changed by man. MAN, not GOD. You can drive from here to Timbuktuu with empty land unused, and they will tell you Earth is overpopulated; no land is available 1/2 of the USA land is unused by humans. there should be no homeless problem. USA have hundreds of ghost towns. Its the political will that is missing. because the voters love, 💖💓 electing sociopaths to the top political offices and CEOs But you as an individual can make decision on your own. OPTION A: move out of the city/state/country. OPTION B: for anyone with transportation ... find housing in Mexico and drive back. 𝒯𝓇𝒶𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝒶 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝐿𝒜 𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈 (so this can be done) ITS inconvenient but so is the street corner 🇲🇽 Mexican government is civil enough to allow cross border travel. and they are aware young Americans are rushing in to avoid high cost of living in Border states. OPTION C: remote job, remote country🏡
U should have moved out of Cali been out west for 5 years and Cali is overrated and pretty wack didn't know most folks out here are broke and be capping just 2 say they from Cali . They been bussing y'all head's in a state that's not all that but hyped up y'all not winning out here but congrats on ur spot
@@FeliciaQueen17 I got an SRO apartment within 8 month. 4 months in a tent and 4 months in a shelter with a caseworker that got me into my apartment. I'm not working and I don't have ssi either so the pilot program didn't apply to me
@@EsotericOccultist You don't have to receive SSI nor be working to get into the Pilot Program. Now if you are not on SSI they give you about 3 months to find work and they will pay the full rent of the room until work begins. I know because one of my friends went thru the program.
I've been in California for 61 years, and it's heartbreaking to see what's become of this state. But even worse, is the suffering of fellow Americans. We've always had homeless, but never at these levels. It's not just California, it's everywhere. I think globalization plays a huge part in it. Millions of well paying manufacturing jobs were outsourced to China, tech jobs are outsourced, call centers etc. In the meantime, housing costs are through the roof. I think people get broken down when things are so hard, and give up.
I agree, here in Canada which is not as bad we are starting to see the trend. Last year in my town homelessness was not something you saw often, now it’s all spread out and slowly growing. I hope we can find a solution to help everyone, so much money in this world.
I don’t understand how everyone just passes up drug addiction . Literally over 90% of homeless are addicted to drugs . But yeah , blame EVERYTHING but addiction right ? We have plenty of jobs . ThTs not the issue at all. The issue is being addicted to meth or dope man. People need to wake up , you don’t get adults to make a change by pampering them . California has been doing that. UBI, food stamps , etc , but nearly every homeless person brings up …DRUGS !! But noooooo, yeah , blame capitalism or something or republicans
@@lonewolffullmoon : during his administration is not that he closed the facilities, but there are people who prefers drugs to being responsible and at the time there were activist who were against the homeless and or mentally ill been held against their will, therefore, they were not thrown out but were allowed to leave and that worked against them. LA is a liberal State and lots of money are being thrown at the situation, and because of allowing people to be free to live on the street, and addiction it becomes a vicious cycle. Some people are not willing to be compliant in a structural situation as well as the workplace. There are young people who ran away from home because they wanted to do as they please and therefore they find it hard to hold a job as well
It is critical that any program designed to help those who are homeless and destitute provide intensive long term counseling services particularly for those who cannot understand how underlying mental health concerns can impact their life as well as day to day existence.
I work with the homeless everyday as a care manager in a healthcare setting. What people don’t understand is that, unless you have the family support, homelessness can happen to anyone. Especially in California where it’s so expensive. A lot of patients we work with become homeless because they get sick and are no longer able to work. I pray for these people everyday.
Expensive? Well, I live in THEE most expensive area in the NATION. I was alone, no family, no college degree of any kind but I always kept a roof over my head. No, it was not a palace but It was at least some place to live. Wow, I must be alot more resourceful than I thought.
Most addicts I speak with believe that by handing out harm reduction supplies, having hotels converted into apartments for safe drug use, & allowing them to sell each other, fentanyl, aka pants, down, & speed/meth aka side, this is a euthanisation of the homeless by the government, to solve the homeless problem by allowing them to exterminate each other, I don't know what to believe, but the dope has spread past the street to suburbs, country & high schools. The "conspiracy" started as an experiment in Seattle 20 years or so ago due to a large homeless heroine addicted population & got out of hand, that's word on the street!
No disrespect but that’s crap a lot of them chose drugs to be cool and have fun and it got out of hand and they are homeless some rather be homeless than try hard I kno some are trying and some had bad fortune but it’s no excuse I drive the city buses all around la it’s ridiculous skid row is crazy
As a college student we would go to skid row to feed the homeless, as a war veteran it broke my heart to see kids living in this dangerous place. It's sad.
BLAME SPOILED AMERICANS WHO OVER SPEND ON MATERIAL ITEMS YET ONLY TALK ABOUT HOW SAD IT IS TO SEE THE SICK AND HOMELESS DYING. WHY DON'T AMERICANS DONATE TO THE POOR AND SICK WITH EVERY PURCHASE THEY MAKE EVERYDAY? IF YOU WENT TO THE SUPER MARKET ON YOUR WAY HOME DID YOU STOP BY THAT HOMELESS PERSON AND LEAVE THEM A BOX OF FOOD OR ATLEAST A SANWICH AND BOTTLE OF WATER? NO RIGHT? THATS BECAUSE YOU ONLY CARED ABOUT BRINGIN HOME FOOD TO YOUR FAMILY AND JUST WALK PAST THE POOR AND SICK. EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT WHOS TO BLAME BUT IT TAKES A COMMUNITY TO CHANGE A COMMUNITY. AND YOU ALL MAKE PART OF THAT COMMUNITY. SO NEXT TIME BE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE YOU STILL HAVE JOBS AND A ROOF OVER YOUR HEADS.
When the cost of living is pushing people away, the government isn't making any attempt to stop the ridiculous price hikes in that state! As long as their greedy asses are well taken care of, the rest of the state can suffer!
Cannot ignore national security or we could have another world war on our hands. Billions are spent on the homeless and guess what? This compassionate, liberal approach isn't working.
At this point, it is a MOOT point because all of our good paying manufacturing jobs have left. Call centers are all overseas. Companies including hospitals are sending IT, Payroll, Business office, medical record coding and purchasing to overseas. Our REAL jobs are gone, about all you have now are service jobs, or health care, that's it
I have to say that it doesn't matter what city or state you live, Homelessness is on the rise and lack of housing and proper treatment are not helping the entire country. Here in Iowa we have 2,900 homeless and 650 just in the county I live in. I have been on the streets and saw things that made me either sick or depressed. If we all don't work together to find solutions it's only going to get worse.
Our government can spend Billions on other people's wars but we can't take care of the homeless problems. It's because if our government can't get something in return they don't want anything to do with the problem. It's we the people who need to stand up and hold our local state and government officials responsible either do your job or we will find someone who will.
I first visited L.A. in 1991 and thought much of it was dirty and run-down. I didn't move there until 1997 and then left in 2016 because the congestion of people and traffic was getting way out of hand, rent prices were absurd for what you were getting, and the topper was that overcrowding in the jails was leading to mass early releases, which I felt would lead to greater crime. I loved L.A. from 1999 to 2013, then things started going downhill and the homeless problem appeared to be getting worse. I don't regret living there, and I don't regret leaving when I did. Looking at the state of the city since leaving, I'd say I made a good choice.
Downhill since 2013? What about the rolling black outs and the serial killers? During the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles was a city gripped with fear as more than 20 serial killers were operating simultaneously within a five-mile radius. Killers like “The Hillside Strangler” and “The Freeway Killer” became household names as their crimes struck panic among Angelinos. Notfornothing, the corruption and crime committed by the LAPD. I lived there during the 1970's - 1981: the people with whom I lived warned me, "Never get pulled over by the LAPD - they will [take advantage of you (as a female)], and they will steal from you."
I'd say so!!! Look at it now, police aren't allowed to arrest looters and rioters, but were cheered on by the democratic party! When you stop prosecuting criminals and let them all out of prisons 10s of years early, defunding the police and trying to prosecute them for doing their jobs! Then holding your hands up saying "we don't know why this is happening?" PRICELESS! More Californians have moved out to Red States in historic numbers in the last few years then all 100 years combined! I can't figure out why the Californians keep voting in people like Gavin Newsom??? Or Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi ????
I live in one of those cold climate areas and I was homeless for almost 2 years. Luckily I had 2 pairs of coveralls, a good pair of boots and plenty of wool socks and caps. In the summer I'd sleep in the cemetery, in the winter I'd walk around at night until the library and bus station opened, I'd trade off between the two. I ate 2 times a day at the soup kitchen. The soup was real watery and the day old bread was older than a day old and it took the watery soup to soften the hard bread.
Im in ny, where we have our own well documented homeless crisis going on, and i wanna know what type of progress has been made in LA since this aired. I probably already know the answer to it but i wanna know from folks on the ground & not these politicians & newscasters who go home to their 3 BR house every night.
It fell lower than anyone could imagine a long time ago, and now we’re just seeing the fallout from it. LA has been the epicenter for debauchery and exploitation for decades and there’s literally a curse on the city from all those years of so much evil being done to so many people. There’s no fixing this problem.
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I was homeless as a child and it was extremely difficult. I had to couch serf and steal food to survive. I was lucky to break away from the streets. I'm proud of how far I've come but will never forget the struggle. I made the choice to not do drugs. These people still have choices!
I was homeless myself from 17-23 the first three I was on the street.. the rest of the time I was couch surfing from different friend's house to different friends house...I was out on the street homeless filling out job applications I had a few friends that would let me use their address so I can get a job.. I fought damn hard to get off the streets and to stop being homeless... Me being homeless was probably one of the hardest test that I've had in my life so far..I was fortunate enough to pass that test now I'm 38 almost 10 years married and three daughters... I'll tell you one thing I do not miss those homeless nights in New York City during the winter time (that rap music most of you hate it was a few artists that kept me pushing forward wanting to see the light at the end of the tunnel..not every rapper is the same nor is every rap song)
A lot people don't give a shoot about the homeless population because they never had to survive on the street like the homeless have to survive. Hell, they only care now that the tents are beside their jobs, schools, homes and parks. Your story gives hope for the rest that still need help getting out. God Bless you Corey. Btw We listen to pac,biggie,dre,snoop,wu-tang. All of the middle and late 90's rap and r&b. Ginuwine, boyz 2 men,TLC, destiny's child. Can't forget Whitney and Mariah.
In our small town we have a fellow gets SS , housing, medical because he’s a drunk ! My constitution doesn’t say I have to finance him . Helll put him down like you would a bad dog !
I am weeping in silent alone. This documentary hit home..my❤! Congrats to the father giving bk& staying sober..his"baby-girl"..what grace& compassion to 4give like that!! God Bless you, sweetheart.. Just in general, this doc..(Out of ALL I've watched).Mahalo for sharing! Absolutely phenomenal insight! Kudos to the ☆aged-out of the system kiddos☆..WHO ALREADY DESERVED BETTER..already with horror stories! So unfortunately unfortunate! My heart goes out to ALL of you! I just hangin on knowing God has something much better in-store me..He can take me any min♡?! "Aloha"to Everyone who reads this& those who can't. Stay safe..God Bless us All 🙏 🙌 ✨️
@@J_Clean_1996 I'm sure you're mommy saved the day by taking care of you. You have no clue what it's really like. I can tell you're soft and privileged. You don't speak from a place of someone who has REALLY had it rough. You're not fooling anybody jack
As a native Californian, I am old enough to remember when most of the State run mental health facilities were closed down. The City where I grew up tore it down, sold the Land to developers and built luxury Condos! With the exception of the sever cases, these people were put out on the street! The, Drugs, alcohol takes over....Whatever Kennedy was thinking had a detrimental Domino effect on these poor souls & mainly large cities. This has been a train headed to derail for years! $800K for one unit to build? Somebody is making money & profiting from this! The problem will continue to explode! When my Grandparents 70 year old 1,100 sq. Ft bungalow in North Hollywood is now going for almost a Million Dollars! who could afford anything to buy or rent in LA? While the rich get richer! insanity!
Leaders @ the top aren't looking to resolve the issues, they're just trying to pull on the heartstrings of taxpayers to justify billions more, that will continue to go to their crooked contractor, NGO and (supposedly) Non profit friends. Look @ all the highly overpriced food and shelter programs that have already cost taxpayers Billions and produced very little. Example: A "tiny home village" where they claim the handful of 8x8 sheds built cost $48,000 each. Also, most people arent aware of the fact that around 2015-2016, a program began where other cities and states around the country started giving free, one way bus and plane tickets to their homeless populations and shipping them out west. The program involved/involves the entire west coast, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado. They used climate and the extensive free public assistance programs to entice them. Up until recently, this has been the primary cause for the "explosion" in homelessness in these areas.
Closing the border won't do anything. Legalizing all plant and fungi drugs is the only solution. These dangerous research chemicals aren't going anywhere. Too easy and cheap to produce, and they're very potent. Plant and fungi drugs are orders of magnitude safer. Also, demand isn't going anywhere either. People want recreational drugs, so they should have access to the safest and natural options. Promote true harm reduction.
@@Cbd_7ohm you want drugs, for crying out loud, why do you have to drug yourselves silly? Survival of the fittest comes to mind. Don't feel sorry for no one as nobody forced drugs on them.
@@Cbd_7ohm Papaver Somniferum, the Opium Poppy, is a plant... The ephedra plant... Most drugs have a natural source where they began. Then came the extracts and tweaking of chemicals. But I do, agree, they are safer for sure.
@@Cbd_7ohm I'm living in a country that is tough on drugs....NO tolerance. As a result, people rarely risk the consequences and rampant drug addiction is not a problem. Having said that, if people insist on avoiding reality through drugs, I would agree that natural substances are likely the less toxic option over chemical blends. Both usually have consequences though.
Like that man said these are people who once lived regular lives,this breaks my heart because everyone has a story,god bless everyone who is going though hard times 🙏🏾 ❤️
You should see how many homeless are everywhere in Hawaii. And I'm not talking about homeless that need affordable housing, I mean most are psychotic drug addicts and alcoholics that will attack you out of nowhere. There are homeless camps everywhere, and the state lies about homeless numbers declining. everyone that lives in Hawaii, especially Honolulu, knows homeless rates are up HUGE!
@@joewitz49 A couple months ago a lady was beaten to death with a stick right on the stairs of the Kapolei police station and not even a couple weeks ago, someone was stabbed right by a police substation in Waikiki. Homeless just don't care any more and ask anyone from Hawaii what it's like outside of I.H.S. during the day. Homeless everywhere just chillin' and literally doing drugs and drinking alcohol all on the streets in that area. It's truly insane and has gotten waaaay worse over the last decade.
With the knowledge and reforms in mental health treatments( past decades horrors) 5150 not working, public violence, psych/ addiction hospitals /facilities need to be re opened.
It was during the administrations of Ronald Reagan that our national network of mental hospitals was closed and the patients turned out onto the street. Reagan also cut the budget to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by 75%. Then, with the savings from social spending, he gave a huge tax cut to the richest Americans, cutting the taxes from 70% to 29%. Fox News just lied to you.
This is a very important documentary. I was homeless for 6 months in Tacoma Washington. I lost everything I knew in Nebraska so I packed my car and me and my son. Went to California searching for a new life. My car kept over heating so we headed north. We lived in our car until we found the Salvation army and they took us into the shelter. I didn't know that Homelessness was an entire different universe filled with fear and massive hurdles to have to overcome. How do you get a job without an address? And how you get an address without a job. Plus you need 3 to 4xs the rent to get a small place to live. 15 dollars an hour doesn't cut it not when you base it on the cost of living. Plus how do you get a job without clean clothes and proper hygiene. There's not enough jobs for everyone. I was fortunate to have a car and the social security income to keep my car going but that income was no where near what I needed for a place to live. You want to know why ppl piss and shit in the streets bc there's no bathrooms for ppl to use. Businesses won't allow ppl to use their bathrooms only employees allowed. Not even paying customers can use their bathrooms. So humans have to go outside like animals. I was fortunate to be able to get to 3 public places to go to the bathroom the library..Walmart and the park ..then the shelter at night. Health care was better in Tacoma. Plus the shelter had a computer space so I could search for work. I found a job but couldn't find housing I could afford. It's like this system sets us up to fail. I ended up leaving the west coast. I believe with all my heart that God was watching over me..even with the bad things that happened..I survived and I'm grateful every day for that. I have a job and a little house I rent. But so many ppl need help..without my Social security I would most likely be homeless bc this life is so expensive and costs keep going up. It's horrible and scary that at any moment things you know can be whipped right out from under your feet. We need law makers and leaders set rules in place that we can't fail like that. If they can create safety nets for banks and big businesses not to be able to fail. They can make sure that their consumers who buy their products can't fall to the streets..A living wage..affordable housing..education..rehabilitation..universal health care..Mental health care 90 day programs. Jobs for the disabled..ptsd..adhd sensitive jobs. We could create a better world if everyone in charge of making things possible could see these hurdles and care enough about human lives instead of bottom lines. Plus a Universal Basic income will be critical in the technology that will send us all into Homelessness ..We are being replaced right now with machines..Then what happened..The rich will survive and the rest of us will fight to just get basic needs met but alot of us will die..Is that the plan? I hope not. Thanks for reading my comment..and for the documentary..its been 6 year now since I was homeless ..I don't want to experience that again.
California, Los Angeles is ridiculous with no bathrooms. Every business should have a bathroom for humans who work there and are customers. You cannot serve food or drink in Maryland without a bathroom for customers.
@@patcollins2311 best weather ever 48 degrees to 85 degrees year round. No mosquitoes, no crocodiles, no alligators, no killer bees, no barracuda. You do understand 18 million people live here.
Yet you were hopeless in Nebraska and headed for the most expensive state thinking you could fix your problems…..well just wow, i don’t know what to say 😢 except that along with everything you said. People need to live within their mean’s and think before leaping. California citizens taxes should not be going to pay for the homeless that come from other states. What the serious hell were you thinking?
@@pinchebruha405 maybe there were no job opportunities in Nebraska and the person headed to California because it is a democratic prosperous state that helps people. A lot of states don’t have general relief and California does.
I remember talking to a PHD student who was working on this subject two years ago. When I mentioned the 500k homeless number in America he laughed and told me that is was several times worse than that, contrarily to what the official numbers were telling. I'm really starting to believe him, more and more.
If you see the real situation. The homelessness is a GREAT BUSINESS for the politicians, for eagle business people, for opportunists , for the sharks etc, etc, etc, etc,
I never realized how bad CA was for construction until I visited some family friends living in San Diego a few years ago. The husband, knowing that I worked for a water utility company in Indiana, asked me how much our company would charge for a fire hydrant installation and how long it would take. He had been trying to get one installed on his street for years. I told him between $3-$5K, depending on surrounding utilities and once we received payment, installation would be within 2 weeks. He told me in his area, the cost was between $15-$20K if not more and installation, if it happened, could take months if not longer. I don't care how great the weather is in CA - I'll take Indiana and its crappy weather over this.
Los Angeles is not country living, people born here haved never seen corn fields in their lives. When I first moved out of l.a I was depressed for a couple years but rent and mortgage was way cheaper.
AAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You guys are out of your minds if you think running away from the problem will solve this. It WILL just spread I won’t give a time but give it time and it WILL
You have to research online and gather bids from multiple companies. A fire hydrant is a VERY complicated endeavor, requiring engineers, a massive and heavy steel object-probably lifted via crane-and shutting down public water supply. Cost goes up based on the city size and population. Can't really just go put one in.
I lived in the woods for the past 3 years, in Boston (after getting 2 Masters Degrees and working for years as a Behavioral Therapist for Autistic children). After escaping domestic violence multiple times over the past decade (and in childhood), it was almost impossible for me to support myself with Complex PTSD, panic attacks, and hypersensitivity from Autism. And even when I was working in a good environment, it was still impossible for me to afford my own apartment (even at double minimum wage, and full time)... I recently got a Section 8 mobile voucher, and moved into my beautiful new apartment near the Boston Common 3 weeks ago (which will support me for life). Without it, idk how I would survive long term..
There is an urgent need for people in the behavioral health field. It sounds like you are no longer working? I don’t understand how you can earn two masters degrees with PTSD, Autism and Panic attacks and not be able to work. I hope you are able to get help for your mental health issues.
I once got called to an o.d. for a homeless guy. We administered narcan on the way to the e.d. When the guy woke up and found out we took his high away he became extremely agitated and began trying to punch people. So he ended up in cuffs and was back on the street by the next day. We found him a few weeks later dead of another o.d. in some ladies garage that he broke into.
@@RuthyLook maybe not to that extreme. But the vast majority are not just people down on their luck. They are addicts whose life becomes easier when they are living the homeless lifestyle. I lived that life and still have many friend who do.
Having been homeless was a real changer for me. These officials who tried for one day got a tiny glimps. Once on the street, its so hard to get off, and the longer there the worse one's mental health. It's a struggle just to sleep. At a certain point, youre like a jackrabbit in headlights and if or once stable again, it takes time to get over the trauma...I still have PTSD.
I was living in a school bus long before folks thought it was a cool thing to do, and am glad it is still there in storage, just in case- But NEVER was I a druggie or a drunkard. I was severely injured while trying to start off as a laborer in construction.
And that's why the compassionate thing to do is to outlaw vagrancy, get everyone off the street, and get them cleaned up so you can figure out what to do with them after that.
@@jjg1501 that’s extremely tough . And that, imo, is the root cause of homelessness. Everyone goes through tough times, well maybe not everyone , but if you’re struggling with addiction or mental healthy , overcoming those tough times becomes that much harder . I don’t think we’ll ever fix what we got going on until we get people off drugs and actual help . We got 40 billion for war but where can someone be sent who needs 6 months break from reality ? we need to wake up. I believe adults need TOUGH love . At some point we need to give people an ultimatum, if you’re willing to help yourself , ALL OF US will stand behind you as a society ; but if you’re not willing to take that step , will shit you gotta leave the area . And that sounds harsh , but we can’t just let people live like this. It’s not right . We have a responsibility to demand and expect more from one another . We truly are in this together , and what we decide is what makes our world . I know we can be better . I know it . Having this MANY people down and out , nah man , this ain’t it . We gotta change
Legalize all plant and fungi drugs. Most rehabs are scams. Psilocybe mushrooms, cannabidiol, curcumin and other plant compounds have potent anti addictive effects as well anti depressant, anxiolytic etc. effecysb
WE NEED TO START TAXING THE RICH THE WAY WE DID BEFORE RONALD REAGAN CUT THEIR TAXES AND ALSO CUT SOCIAL SPENDING. When Jimmy Carter left office the tax rate on the richest Americans was 70%. Under Reagan it was cut to 29%. Reagan also closed the federal network of mental health hospitals and cut the budget to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by 75% !!!! So what did Reagan do with all the savings that made the quality of life worse for most Angelenos? He gave the Rich a huge tax cut.
I live in a third world country in Asia but this looks worst and scary. We do not see homeless people so many as these in the streets. I’m glad asians have a strong family support system. The older generation are being taken cared of by their family and not thrown in the streets or sending to home for the aged. The younger ones stays with the family until they’re able to have a stable job or to have a family of their own.
Exactly. And you make this possible because people are responsible and caring enough not to become addicts or assholes who are impossible to live with. You guys have it right.
Does Asia have thousands of illegals coming from other countries every day with no money that end up living in government apts meant for disabled Americans. The rest are on bad drugs coming into this country.
You're looking at this all wrong.....Americans have a stong family support system and always have but the US is extremely expensive to live in and that's the problem. We're talking about a capitalistic system here. Also, I have many many Asian friends and they talk about how dysfunctional and toxic Asian families are. That's why suicide is extremely high.
@@Allhoney33 untrue. american culture is about striving for independence. parents encourage (read: kick out) their children to leave home when they become of legal age. divorce rates are far higher in the US. crime is higher in the US because of lack of respect for others. this is the exact opposite of asian culture. respect for elders, supporting elderly parents, children living with parents well past their mid 20s and even 30s until they are married, 3 generations of family living under one roof.
not sure if you're from LA, but i think the cost of living also plays a role. Likely not the biggest role, but hearing about how that high school in oakland was building temporary houses for its teachers really showed this. When people with a 4 year degree are forced to sleep in their car, there's more than only mental health and drug addiction. Although, i do agree. Those both play a massive role as well
Instead of buying drugs or alcohol save some money for bus ticket to cheaper state and start there u will never make in it l.a because of cost of living
In biblical times, debts were forgiven every 7 years. This greed in the housing industry is ridiculous. Devote a fancy sman-shy building to the homeless! I dare you!
It has to be a huge sweeping Donald Trump style en-actment of "government." Yes it will hurt all the heartless people who work hard for what they have and dont mind driving by these people - but it is needed.
Michael Shellenberger wrote two books and gave countless number of interviews on homelessness and fentanyl addiction. He is the only one who proposed all-in-one solutions.
All I know about fentynol is evidently there's no us pharmaceutical companies that make it here. All production must be out - sourced jobs in other countries. Looking for this info directs you to illicit drug stories. News reports show dirt farms with big cauldron pots over an open fire cooking it 🤔 weird 💰
It’s complicated to solve. Even if you provide housing, the homeless people need resources. Medical, dental, mental health, job opportunities, drug rehab, etc.
Right, how about a bus or plane ticket back from where they came,pressure wash the streets, and take back your city angelinos,and while your at it, stop voting these clowns in that have ruined your city
Illinois here. Yes, homelessness is an issue. Good paying jobs leaving our country due to greed, high taxes and regulations. Our government has turned us into a service industry with temporary jobs everywhere. People need stability not temporary, low paying jobs. And now look at our border problem! It is only going to get worse. And this isn't a COLOR issue, this is a HUMAN issue.
Housing is only one part of the solution, it’s like a chair with one leg, it will fail without all the legs. If you don’t do it right you end up with the problems the Chícago housíng prøjects faced. They were extremely dangerøus víolent places that ended up rundown and places the políce wouldn’t even go. So the solution to that was tear then down and what happened? It spread out the víolence and bad behavior, so it actually made things worse all over. Also, don’t think that money and resources solves víolence, it doesn’t. That needs to be addressed on a cultural level, it’s the culture itself that needs to change.
@@GhostSal I agree 100%. They destroyed the family unit by introducing welfare, then housing, government trapped them in those projects, without a man in their houses the boys searched elsewhere. Government housing was created so the poor can kill each other, remember Margarite Sanger and her quotes.
@@Annie59Oakley Certainly government has been responsible for some serious crímes against humaníty and a long list of racíal injustíces. I don’t think the wèlfare program was meant to do the actual hàrm it did though. I think that was just a popr understanding of what it would cause in the way it was ímplemented. Now, the wàr on drugś was íntentional to destroy the “hippíe” líberals and BłackAmerícans. The housing projects too, it isn’t that housíng is bad, it was just implemented and managed horríbly. You do know that Cabriní Green was full of Italíans before it was Błack right? Also, culturàl values are very ímportant and if víolence is acceptable, overlooked, condoned and advocated for… It’s the culturè itself that needs to change.
It may seem like a fairly obvious statement, but you are absolutely right. I did an analysis of several different variables, and the one that tied the closest to homelessness is relative cost of housing. The next highest is general cost of living, followed by population density. After that, the next biggest predictor is the percent of the population that has a Bachelor's Degree or higher. I'm guessing this is for a couple of reasons. First, more people with advanced degrees making more money increases the wealth gap in a community and drives up the cost of housing so that those without advanced degrees can no longer afford to be a part of the community. Second, tax payers often foot a portion of the bill to send people to school and also pay for extra government jobs at Universities, etc. where people with advanced degrees work. So those on the poor side are paying so much in taxes to support these college graduates that they don't have enough money left over to pay for housing. Also, people with advanced degrees often deal with things conceptually instead of with reality, so I suspect these people with Bachelor's Degrees are making the problem worse by coming up with and implementing their "brilliant" solutions to a problem they don't really understand. And they likely feel more comfortable funding that through expensive government programs - once again increasing the tax burden on the poor, and creating the opportunity for people to commit fraud and siphon off some of those funds. Of course, those are just my speculations. But anyway, yes, that is the number one predictor of homelessness from the variables that I have tested.
nope, not the problem restless- its your fraudulent, corrupt worthless democrat politicians that dont care about nothing but their bank accounts and remaining millionaires at the public expense...
Drugs and mental health are the top factors by a huge margin. Saying it is due to rising housing costs really shows you don't know much about the homeless situation we have in this state.
@@jayspot8894 Well maybe it's changed in the last few years since I have been studying this issue for a very long time, but according to the research actually done on this issue addiction and mental health typically combine to contribute to between 15 and 30 percent of all homelessness. Obviously, it changes from year to year and from community to community, but it tends to stay in that range. So yes, addiction and mental health certainly contribute to the problem and need to be addressed. However, to say they are the top factors is factually incorrect. I have run several linear regressions using multiple indicators, and by far the greatest predictor of homelessness is the cost of housing. I have always said homelessness really can't be treated as just one issue. Solving the part of homelessness due to addiction and mental health issues is very different than solving homelessness for those who can't afford housing for whatever reason. And that is also a very different problem than those who are homeless because they have done their time and "paid their debt to society" in prision, but no one will rent to them because they are ex-felons. And then there are those who want to be homeless because they are tired of being a part of a materialistic society and of paying a fortune just for the priviledge of having somewhere to sleep at night and somewhere to use the bathroom. But if you really want to get into facts, the cost of housing is definitely the number one predictor of homelessness that I have found.
I have family in Pasadena, so I’d stay with them during the summer. It’s insane how much LA has degraded. I wouldn’t live in that city if you gave me a house for free. It’s not this beautiful paradise that is portrayed in movies. It’s smelly, overpriced, stressful, crime-riddled, and it’s only getting worse. Misguided compassion and a need to virtue signal has led the city to ruin. Do not move there! You will regret it!
and if you do live there, stay there. People are moving from Cali to other states and ruining them. The rest of the USA is going to end up looking like this.
Most people don't realize how easy it is to go homeless and after a long time even hopeless. I was in that place for 5-6 years. My sister gave me an opportunity to start over and that's all it took to make a "normal" life...
@@larryharding1185 Started in my early teenage years and depression and an overwhelming sense of worthlessness that lead me to two suicide attempts. After becoming a father of two daughters my brain made sense of my hearts power to change for my girls and that’s when I took my sisters offer. She was always standing by waiting on me taking the first step. Wow this was a big confession!
I was born and raised in LA County, and I lived there for 34 years. We have always had homeless people with us, and it has gotten worst than I have ever seen. This is to our shame and disgrace.
For the most part the government is to blame, I live in canada our winters hit minus 44 and with the windchill could hit minus 55 at times, then there's the heat waves! and we have so many people in tents everywhere, our government worldwide needs to pull their heads out of their asses and start fixing what they started! Instead they are killing us all slowly while sitting with their families for dinner, watching movies snuggling up to their children. It makes me sick! Stay strong and safe brothers and sisters! 😘🇨🇦♥️
Get a piece of federal land couple hundred square miles then build a city for the homeless like an Indian reservation, relocate nation's homeless there.
@@charleshoang7687 the government want's that land too! Maybe your right they should give a nice piece of land and help the homeless why not it's only 1 maybe 2 family vacations they would miss out on!
@@shivashanti9357 Build hospital, grocery stores and state parks like a regular city, concentrate all the homeless in one city is more easier and cheaper to monitor, control and taking care of them than let them spread out the whole country.
I'm not ashamed...I was among the homeless there for 2&1/2 months in 2014 and I came back for 22 days in 2019 and did a missionary trip to minister to the homeless. We must 🙏
Our house received an arson threat, from someone we allowed to move in. They were raised to pretend that fact is fiction and that arsons cause the victims to go off to a better place, that he smilingly says in the sky. His mother has bi polar manic depression as has been clinically diagnosed. Her smiley tall cleptomaniac arson threatening son seems even further into the spectrum of cognitive dissonant willful ignorance. They downplay sociopathic behavior, and they display the elements of stockholm syndrome, as his mom was heard yelling out loud, though she was alone in a room at the time. Voices in her head she was having a argumentive dialogue with, and I heard her doing that from below while i was in my basement apartment. My older brother met her after our parents passed away, and she moved in a month later. She was on her best behavior for about a month after moving in, and then, her smiley cleptomaniac arson threatening son moved in. I really dont expect you will even reply back to this comment, due to the nature of what i have read about stockholm syndrome that will probably prevent you from acknowledging that you are narcissist living with a cognitive dissonant desire to pretend that somebody walked on water, and that nonbelievers of that will walk on a lake of fire for all eternity, after they die trapped inside of arson fires and such. Is that correct?
@@mitchnidey2453 Have you been clinically diagnosed for smiley willful ignorance? You are morally dissoconnected to have downplayed the fact that arsons never produce after lives. Research about stockholm syndrome, and then look in the mirror.
I love the way that he says Los Angeles is " dying " ,like it's some mysterious thing and no one can understand how or why it's happening , when in reality every bit of it is intentional and avoidable.
Someone explain to me how Section 8 rent costs 30% of a persons income for rent while regular rent costs 50%-70% of what we make. 30% should be the regular rent not the section 8 rent.
Same for every other western country who sent money, yes the war is bad but each country that sent money has massive homelessness, no health care etc. Looking good to other countries is most important, having issues in your own backyard, it's not going to be cared about by other countries.
Homelessness is part of the capitalism scheme...it says "keep working or this will happen to you". We all know employment is modern slavery, 😒 there has to be a threat to keep you subservient. Seriously who would rent when you could own and just sell your house if you need to move. It all part of the plan.
@@heathermcdonough8401 exactly. Cannot ignore national security issues. We have spent billions on the homeless issue and it's getting worse. So it's time to follow the money and see how it's being spent and mismanaged by the politicians in CA.
Affordable housing should be addressed, but we'd like to see affordable utility bills. It's outrageous what they charge. In my city, they slap a condemned sticker on houses when the utilities are shut off and make you move.
affordable?!? i think it should be free just out of respect for life, they were all once children who were let down. I understand money but i feel like the whole world and society is cruel putting that into the system which was working fine without "currency"
There's a free place to live it's called Slabtown look it up on your phone it will tell you everything about Slabtown there's also a place called Jesus Hill or Jesus Mountain like 5 or 6 minutes away from Slabtown there was a man that owned it long time ago in the 1940s he turned it into a place for people that don't have no other place to go and can't afford any other place to go they go to Slabtown it's an old army base used to be there's water there's electricity TOO
My big question is how can it effectively be addressed? It's easy to point out problems. It is a lot harder to point to a real, viable solution. It's pretty obvious to see why utility bills are out of control. Conservatives said if certain environmental regulations were passed it would cause utility bills to skyrocket. And sadly most Democrats basically said, "Good. If that's what it takes to fight Climate Change, so be it." The reason they can say this is that many of them are rich enough that utility bills tripling in price doesn't really affect them, or maybe they don't live in the community that has to actually pay the price of the policies. In fact, the ONLY impact many of these environmental policies are intended to have is that they make the price of energy so high that the poor will be forced to use less of it. That is the only climate change protection that the bills acheive. So, are you willing to oppose so-called climate change bills to make sure the cost of utilities don't get out of control? Also, most forms of alternate energy right now actually are worse for the planet than coal energy, and that will continue to be true unless we can ever figure out energy storage/batteries. Basically, coal energy doesn't work well as a backup. It takes a ton of energy to increase and decrease output. So things like solar panels and windmills make great alternatives as backups to coal power when coal power fails, but only power sources that are 100% consistent and predictable are useful alternatives when it comes to saving the planet. So Niagra Falls isn't a terrible alternative. And nuclear power is actually a really good potential alternative. But heavy reliance on solar panels actually makes the costs of running the grid go up, not down. And any utility company in California has to go through a ton of red tape to stay in business, which is a cost that has to be covered by someone or the utility even as a monopoly will go bankrupt. Actually, the biggest problems with affordable housing tend to be the same ones. In Arizona it takes an average of 3 months to get a building permit. That same permit will likely take years in California to get becaue of a ton of extra red tape. A building permit in Arizona that costs $95 will likely cost thousands of dollars in California for similar reasons. So of course building doesn't keep up with demand. Of course, it doesn't help that companies like Black Rock and Vanguard and the Chinese Government have been allowed to buy up tons of property and gain monopoloy or oligarchy type power in the California housing market. Monopolies and Oligarchies always cause major problems and high prices for the customer. Government spending doesn't help. Programs like HUD drive the price of housing up because government funds are competing with private funds for home. Basically, these programs only change who is homeless. Without HUD, the poorest are homeless. With HUD, the poor that aren't poor enough to be eligible for government programs are now the ones priced out of the housing market. Of course, I have also seen innovative solutions that private individuals in California have used to address the problem, and California has blocked and shut down those solutions. So this tells me it is more than just market pressures. I have heard the theory that some people are getting rich off of homelessness initiatives, and they know if the homeless problem gets worse they get more money. If the homeless problem gets solved they get no money. So they are incentived to make sure the problem doesn't get solved. Based on the charitable inititives I have seen shut down by the California government, I'm convinced government corruption and people getting rich off the homeless problem is definitely part of the picture. That's a long response, but yes, you are right. The utility problem also needs to be solved. However, the utility problem was solidly predicted, so we know exactly what is causing it. That problem could liekly be solved in a few months or maybe even in a few days if some of these impractical climate change regulations and programs were reversed. However, if we double down on those initiatives these problems are only going to get worse.
skyhawk_4526 Very true! The American people did this to themselves for electing the wrong leaders who don’t truly care for them! California is a blue state and look how corrupt and bad it’s become
it's most of the cities in the US, if not ALL. People don't set out to become homeless, aren't all drug addicts. Life throws a curveball, landlords impose astronomical rent increases, employers refuse to raise pay, a bad medical situation and piss-poor health insurance all lead to homelessness
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson
@@missf4681 Believe Me This Is Just The Calm Before The Storm When That Deflation Hits Even The Richest Man In America Is Gonna Be Left Flat On Their Ass Broke Homeless Donald Trump Is Really In For A Huge Shitstorm Because The Destruction of All Private Wealth Is All Directed At Him We Know Who The Richest Man In America Is And Believe Me What You Are Baring Witness To Is A Demockracy On It's Knees They Are Using Everything They Have Control Over To Bankrupt That Man So He Can't Run For Office Again And They Don't Care About The Economy If They Can Destroy All Wealth In This Nation To Stop Him They Will And That's Exactly What Their Doing No We've Never Had A Homeless Problem Like This Before Because It's Never Affected The Working Class Before Whose Next Investors Auctioneers Donald Trump Come On People It Doesn't Take A Genuis To Know What The DNC Is Doing Now
BS. I live in Florida, where I see on average one homeless person a day and they've been followed back by people on our community Facebook to nice homes. This is a progressive policy problem.
@@carollangley2984 the corporations and greed of the ones in charge happened. we live in what is called a democracy yet .02 percent pay for who gets to run for president. Then we get to vote but no matter what, we end up with garbadge. rich getting richer. until we change the way people get to run for president we will stay stagnant or continue to decline
I agree. We think it is just a local problem, but the corruption starts at the top. You vote in Biden? This is what you get. You vote in liberal Democrats? This is what you get. The best definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over, and expecting different results. You voted for this.
I live in Tampa, FL. I have worked in the restaurant industry for over 23 years, and when the pandemic hit, I lost my job overnight. I was already struggling with health issues before this, but still worked full time to support myself. When I lost my job, I had no income and was not approved for unemployment. I quickly used my savings to survive for a couple months, then became homeless.
There are only short-term shelters in this area, where I stayed at. During this time, we were in lockdown, so getting another job was not in the cards. After 6 weeks, your time is up and I had to leave the shelter. Sometimes you can get an extension, but I was not so lucky. I was on a list to receive housing but never was chosen. Luckily, I do not have children. I was on the street, by myself, with no vehicle. I had to walk and carry my belongings all day long. I have nerve damage in my legs and feet. My legs would be swollen 3 times their normal size during this time. I would sit down to rest and would be yelled at and told to move along. It was impossible to rest or sleep properly. My health became so bad, that I was hospitalized for a month at a time. Now I am stuck with huge medical bills on top of everything.
One day, someone who would give me water and something to eat regularly, asked if I wanted to come to stay with them. I was hesitant at first because I had lost trust in people. I thought, what do I have to lose? I gave this person a chance and ended up having a room for myself. Not only that, I found a job working from home and have been employed ever since. I am so grateful that someone gave me a chance that day. It is almost impossible to get out of homelessness without help. I am a very hard worker and have always supported myself, but anyone can become homeless. Next time, if you see a homeless person, please do not judge. You do not know what they have been through. Thank you for listening.
Wow,terrifying..I'm so happy to read your in a much better situation.i too have been in the same situation in my past..God bless
So many people have been there (including wealthy people or people like myself who had $200K jobs). Our nation and the world is being intentionally destroyed by the Globalist Usury International Central Bankers and their agents and allies (causing Recessions, Plandemics, Wars, etc). I was going to sell my house and move the hell out of California, until I fell off a ladder in February about 22 feet, and shattered my leg (37 fractures). Now I am stuck here and fucked for life probably. But I'm happy to hear things have improved for you : )
and if your in hospital with no home or apt they treat you homeless want you gone and social workers do nothing
all these orgs with money do nothing
@@godblessacountrygirl5324 i am too great news
The US government should to stop interfering another countries around the world and pay more attention to solve the problems in the country.
Can't ignore national security. Want another 9/11? Want WWIII?? We've spent billions on the homeless problem in CA alone. It's done nothing. How much more should be wasted before saying maybe a change in leadership is necessary?
Yeah solve problems in their own back yard instead of pouring money into Ukraine. And not all homeless people are drug addicts or mentally ill. Every day Seniors and Disabled are being evicted simply because they can't afford the high rent, but the government only cares about Grandstanding and white knighting for Ukraine.
@@JessicaZane4realz Dear Jessica: What you so accurately portray is just one sliver of the general decay that has crept over this nation since WW2. In 1945, America generated 50% of the World GDP and our Gold Reserves were legitimately strong enough to back the World Economy. But 75 years of Insane Defense Spending has drained America both economically and morally. America didn't actually defeat the USSR in 1990. We just outspent them until we literally drove them into Bankruptcy. America did this by printing Billions in Fake Money in the 1980's that put us so far into National Debt that America never really recovered. The Geopolitical Fantasy of American Exceptionalism even exists today, even now as Insane Defense Spending has brought down the American Standard of Living to the point where many 1000's are just Homeless. America is STILL throwing away money that needs to be spent at home, even after 75 straight years of doing it. The Technology and the Social Science has been available for decades to displace the Ugly Ghetto Scene to which you allude, but America's priority since WW2 has been "Atom Bombs first, and The People second". It's never too late to turn things around, but sending $40 Billion to Ukraine today is just the wrong way to go.
God Bless America !!!
Improving education and not worrying so much about sexuality and skin color. Self improvement and self confidence doesn’t come from handouts. Difference is give a fish or teach to fish!
@@JessicaZane4realz need to stop blaming everything on skin color or sexuality and start realizing giving up DOESNT help any more then letting someone else take care of you. We need to start showing respect to the people like black fathers that do their real job instead of being selfish. And stop blaming everyone else when you make stupid selfish decisions and say your just being true to yourself. COP OUT!!!
Outrageous. The guy who relocated from skid row to the side of a major highway said “ the sound of traffic is better than screams “. Wow
Visitors from other Worlds would find this disturbing 😳 this Planet needs to get it together because we are the talk of the Galaxies other beings are whatching 😐🐙🐉
That's heartbreaking 😢
A bit later into the docu he continues saying that bullying by gang bangers contributed to his becoming homeless again later on another part his interview is edited into the piece where he is saying he is just sick of being homeless and advises us not to trust anyone...
That's deep the sound of traffic is better than screams hea right
@@devintaylor8702 On the same sound bite, others have also theorize that aliens from other galaxies are visiting Earth to try to save us from us destroying this planet.
It isn’t just LA, it’s every city in America.
Even in the town I live in.
And they are bringing in millions of immigrations??
Yes, some cities give these lucky homeless zombies free drugs all the drugs they can ingest!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Its only in the democrat cities.
I find it hard to believe that this homelessness and rampart drugs being flooded in isn't part of a master plan or agenda by the so called elites, remember zee vill own nuzzings and zee will be happy. What comes first the mental health issues or the obvious hard drug usage either way the drugs will accelerate any underlying phycological issues and those pushing their satanic agendas are well aware of that in my humble opinion and use it 2 further their nwooooooooooooo. Its not just the US its worldwide the planned demic (read sociological total control over people and collapsing world trade) shows how desperate they are may they be relegated to the dust bin of history where they rightfully belong. Am I already on watch lists maybe so don't care grey beard here off grid saw this crap coming decades ago and remember these people have not been doing this S*** for not just decades but generations , they in my humble opinion mis judged the internet containing the sum total of human knowledge but also to their demise they misjudged the scope and power of social media.
I’m working class homeless. No home , nothing and working 80+ hrs a week. I really felt that woman saying she wasn’t leaving her dog. I feel the same way. He’s all I got.
Please don't give up. I worked with homeless for 10 years - as a "resource and referral" employee for federal, state, local, and non profit agencies. Sometimes it is meeting the right person who can best advocate for you. I worked in Humboldt County and Del Norte Counties in N. California. It is colder there - but consciousness is different (I worked in Eureka). People with pets need special attention - and many of us really care and do all we can to get people into subsidized housing (and access to other support services).
Get into truck driving
@@kiturselassie813 Truck driving is worse than homeless. Truck drivers are treated horrible by their dispatch.
@@kiturselassie813 that’s what I do. Live in the truck. Used to be because I wanted too. Now at these prices it’s because I have too.
@@carolconny2763 mine treats me ok but you are correct. It feeds me and my dog. That’s what matters right now.
I was a first responder during the 1960 - 1970 era. During this period it was decided that government mental institution confinement was improper. Such institutions were closed. The patients were tossed onto the streets. Thus, the results.
Such institutions were closed Because The American Government Isn't Big Enough To Handle A Locked Away Population That Large No Nation Can You Ever Seen A Prison Riot Believe Me There's Enough Prisons Out There We Don't Need Asylums Too That's One Thing About National Security Assets Are Always Limited To The Safe Guarding of Royalty And I Can Promise You This It's A LOT Easier To Let Crazy Be Crazy Then To Waste Assets Helping People That Don't Wanna Be Helped Anyway
It’s ridiculous. Those who said insane asylums are inhumane should be forced to take in 2 crazies into their house
I just can’t understand why our country is literally sending billions to Ukraine when we have a huge mental health issue! We need to stay out of wars! And help our own citizens!
Thank You! Yes it was inhumane to warehouse folks in the conditions they were in but is this any better? We now have folks pooping in the street and passed out on sidewalks while citizens are scared to walk on the streets! THIS HAS TO CHANGE!
@@bbe3034 We are sending billions to Ukraine because Hunter and Joe Biden share a bank account, Hunter was given $85,000 a month to serve on a Ukrainian company when he doesn't speak the language or know anything about the energy market, "The Big Guy" gets 10%. The kickback to Joe ensured he will continue to send billions to the Ukraine. There are even worse ties to China
I was Homeless [though only a few years or more]. Scared, Too Old and Shameful of myself for falling on Hard Times. With the help of a tiny group of people working in the health dept. was able to get myself out of there.
just get a job
It's sad 😭 that sum people r homeless 🏘️ & trying 2 survive
Did it ever occur to you to go to Slabtown that place is a free place to live there's water there there's Hot Spring electricity to it's a safe place to live and it's free they have rules there just got to follow the rules.. and even if you were homeless at one time that place would have been a better place for you to live instead of Los Angeles city.. Slabtown would have been a place called home you can have your own place grow your own food and weed it is a free place to go to call home. And if you wanted to work even go 15 miles to this other town and got a job being a busboy or paperman or window washer anything and still go and live at the free place to live even if it is 4 EVER.
IT'S FREE!!🙏😇TO LIFE FREE 4Ever!
@@kittycatjodie77rainbow76 Sure. thank you. I [when I needed it] could walk [with my walker], and the weed you mentioned, well, I guess I can start being a druggie now. But I'll pass on that for now, ty. Work, ok. as soon as the doc say I can go back to work. ok? So [sigh] thank you for all of the great suggestions. Thank you again. [smiles]
I've been homeless for 25 years since I was about 18 years old I travel all over the place and everybody is a scumbag in my book cuz I have been kidnapped beaten almost killed thrown from a car into a water cops don't do nothing because apparently homeless people are nothing that's why people get away with everything it's sucks man.. now I'm 45 years old and STILL HOMELESS was but I live in the DEEP woods of Anderson away from all the crazy ass people.. I grow my own food and milk my own cow and for the record marijuana is not a drug you jackass.
It helps with depression, it help bipolar schizophrenia, it helps with body aches it helps with seizures it helps with heart attacks it helps with a lot of things that is health issues. but if you get weed off of some jackass out there on the street then yes it's laced with all kinds of SHIT.. moving it to Slabtown was just a suggestion because everybody's bitching about Los Angeles looking like a sewer... I went to Slabtown that place is not so bad it's a free place to live and you don't have to worry about so many bad things happening.. but I'm sorry you misunderstood me sir!! Have a good day and please don't kill anybody just because you're pissed off at yourself it's not anybody else's fault but yourself so try to have a good day out there if you can help it.and God bless u
Incredibly sad. Why are we not sending aid to ourselves? Charity begins at home.
Because the government are owned by the usurious bankers who create all this inflation and poverty.
Because , the gov. Is to stupid to see there own Country needs more help than others right now how far our homeless people. It won’t be long before the border is living in our own streets.too!
Our replacements are here that’s why!
I agree, 100%
@@charliepooley373
I agree. We think it is just a local problem, but the corruption starts at the top. You vote in Biden? This is what you get. You vote in liberal Democrats? This is what you get. The best example of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over, and expecting different results. You voted for this.
I served in Iraq with a contractor from LA. He put two bids in to build housing for the homeless. He was told to double his bid by the LA county supervisors and he would get the job. He didn't understand until the permitting process. When he went to apply for the bids the first bribe was expected. He paid 110k for the permits that were worth about 15k to any one else. The balance went into someone's pocket. It was the same every step of the way. All total of the 4 million dollar bid 650k went to bribes. When he tried to report it from day one he was hounded by inspectors holding up the job and weekly payroll disbursements. When the job was finished they wanted him to do another one. He told them to go to hell. He wouldn't get the final payment until he signed a non disclosure contract.
All these LA county supervisors are corrupt and greedy as they come. They don't give a shit about the homeless they ignore every day on the way to work. They just want their cut.
Corruption kills, corrupts must face death penalty becouse they really don't give a s..... about anybody else., is just greed.
I agree one hundred percent, it is also corrupt in San Francisco and San Mateo county- I have seen it first hand.
Best comment so far f that
One day I was on the 10 frw in DTLA driving bumper to bumper as always, and as I approached a frw intersection or overpass right in between where the freeways overlap or intersect was a pair of feet 🦶 🦶 sticking out of the structure, a poor soul sleeping in between that little cubby hole about a foot in height and I’m wondering how the heck could he get in and out of there safely as it was so high up and eye level with most cars passing by on that freeway, I’ll never forget that!😢 they need to get the rich 🤑 to help out and house these homeless! So sad 😭🙏
@@siry5164 I have a similar story to yours, I live in the San Francisco area and there is a giant billboard attached to a building that is right next to the main freeway that leads to the Bay Bridge- I would pass it every time I had to cross the bay, little did anyone know that a homeless person wedged himself between the billboard and the building and died there and was stuck in that place for a few years. So know one knew that the behind that billboard advertisement was a petrified dead person....
The homeless need to move their tents in front of politicians homes. If they get kicked out keep going back. They’ll get tired of it.
They should
How does one aquire those addresses?
Didn't Maxine WATERS say to the HOMELESS go back to your homes, she's telling them I DON'T see your problem. And if you see the cost of these tiny homes IT'S a crime. EVERYONE in the scam
Most politicians don't have homes in large cities -- at least not those cities in blue states. They may own/rent an apartment to crash at every once in a while, but most are smart enough to know that city life is not the way to go, and it's not a place you'd want to raise a family.
Yes! @Amanda Greene - what she said.
My older sister worked at, and just recently retired from a state mental hospital. What they are saying about 5150 hold it is right. A 72 hour hold is not enough time to fix or treat long term mental health problems.
i heard that when los angles closed down a majority of their mental hospitals they opened the doors and litteraly released them in the 80's/90's
All medical treatment has been on an out patient bases for decades. It all started in 1963. We went from one extreme to another. The problem is that a 72 hour hold is hardly enough time to diagnose and treat someone who has long term mental illnesses. Then there are the people who refuse to take their meds even after given them. Our entire mental health system needs a revamp.
Liberals think it's cruel to hold someone totally nuts against their will.
Thank you, as a registered nurse I was never taught that psych issues retire. People with severe issues have difficulty with…
Getting/keeping a job
Banking
Buying meds
Feeding themselves
Bathing and paying bills and affording doctors and medicine and scheduling and much more. Thank heavens that stops with retirement.
@@PhatAssObese not just LA, actually country wide. Got my nursing license after training in a long term psych facility. They closed one year after I graduated and it was turned into a golf course that only the rich frequent.
I had cancer and then a stroke. Lost my job. I would have been homeless if I didnt have family to help me pay my mortgage payments. Sometimes, the homeless people are just people with bad luck... but not bad people. It can happen to anyone.
This is a sad 😢 situation.. it's every where... I think, that, if the really really rich people should be taxed , for sure... That will help big time... They don't have to pay nothing.or close to nothing... Just shameful... this is America?? Come on 🤬
Imagine if we used resources to help local people fallen on hard times rather than the billions we spend on providing drug addicts with paraphernalia, illegal immigrants with resources or fighting lawsuits to keep mentally ill people on the street and out of care facilities?
It's so obvious that you've never been homeless.
i took in a homeless guy a few years ago, just for a few nights. he lost his young family and all he owned to divorce. he was an alcoholic, but a very good man. He was so lost, that I had to do something. Today, he is alcohol free, in a new relationship, lives in a nice home and works in construction making more money than me. He is a ukrainian man in his 40s with no family here in australia. Today, we are the best of friends and i consider him to be a part of my family. Volodomyr, my beloved 'brate'. This is our story.
Cool.
liar.
@@mrfunkingtonYOU, sir, are not okay. And I wouldn’t say you have manners either.
@@mrfunkington HA! You silly son of a motherless goat. You clearly have had no similar successes in life. Try living in the service of God's lost children, instead of feeding your own worldly desires. All that matters to me is the beautiful friendship that exists between me and Volody. I was feeling pretty down last week. Then there was a knock at the door. 'Dad. Vlad's here', said my 17y.o. son. My day got better right there and then. We shares a Heineken 0.0, taked about life and of course, the war. Even though I'm happily married with kids, Volody is my best and closest friend, bc I was there when he cried for the loss of his family and how everything went down hill from there. I was there when he was at his drunkest. But I was clear-headed enough to help him tap into the man that he wanted to be, to map out how WE were going to achieve that. And WE did it! We beat the odds and WE won. He will always be my ukrainian brother. Always. I love Vlad like I love my brothers. His new girl's name is Svetlana and she is gorgeous. He now lives in a huge house near the beach, but he makes the trek to my place on the other side of the city every few weeks on a train just to see me, even though he has a whole new friendship group and a full time job. I wish I could help someone as lost as you, but you don't seem to have the right frame of mind. Shame. You have no idea how much one person can change to become a better man. He's happy. I'm happy. My wife is proud of me, as would be my mother who is in heaven. Does anything else matter?
@@girumzemichael704 thank you, girumzemichael704. Your support is appreciated. Be Well.
I feel like the reason this homelessness issue persists is because some higher ups are profiting off of this, and thus don't mind the problem as long as it makes their pockets fatter.
I agree, a certain kind of politics is correlated to the decline...
No one wants to admit it the reason why is also some rich people are motivated by seeing this "FAILURE" it's a high and just taking a ride down the street I bet folks like Pelosi and Jimmy Kimmel makes them more motivated and successful in their own eye's. Just like seeing our country fail there are people that love seeing others suffer. This also includes other leaders in other countries.
drugs are the core of the problems.
I think all replies are true. Politics, money, drugs. And at the end of the day it’s all about breaking down America ! 🆘Trump 2024 MAGA 🇺🇸. He can do it quickly 👍🏻
@@mamabear71234 some not all. How can folks without much money even afford drugs?
To those who are not homeless, prepare yourself to protect yourself from being homeless. Some homeless made bad choices, some homeless lost their jobs and had not prepared for a rainy day. When your salary can't pay your rent , you can end up homeless.
You are completely right. A lot of people want to judge homeless people as if they are all lazy and/or drug addicts. That is not reality. There different reasons to become homeless, I know first hand. I lost my job during the pandemic. I still get people commenting as if it were a choice. Ignorance doesn't help our society grow.
It’s impossible to get homeless in my country as you automatically would be transferred to a community apartment or government paid hotel. Thanks
@@goatmansasquatch1485 Very interesting. Does that include drug addicts as well? The cost to build apartments for homeless is astronomical. The cities are paying too much for each one or two bedroom apartments. Are the apartments in your country nice?
@@stormyweather7952 Yes. Add highest welfare benefits and free healthcare on top of that. We call it oil money. You call it “let’s move over to worlds richest country for free education and dental plans while pretending we got the best shit over here” country.
Perhaps if the gov't , Everyone in California gov'tmental offices had their salaries cut by half till they fixed the problems, It would get done!
THANK YOUR POLITICIANS FOR WHATS GOING ON BEFORE OUR EYES....ITS PURE GREED AND WICKEDNESS ....
AND EVILNESS, IF IT ISN'T BAD ENOUGH.
Is it me or these things seem to happen in only blue states?
I spoke to a person and he said that homelessness is an EXTREMELY profitable business for politicians and whoever is involved in trying to ""solve"" it. He also said that, that's why homeless problem will never be solved, because if it will, that means politicians will be losing an absorbent amount of money. The love of money is the root of all evil.
Agreed, billions spent on programs to support those who work in that area. But were still looking at drugs & alcohol addiction. Their families refuse to help cause most are antisocial crazy & addicted.
exorbitant
There are very few mechanism in place to monitor how these “non-profits” spend their funding. Millions of dollars are not accounted for. I’m a mental health therapist and I have never interacted with a non-profit focused on homelessness that was not corrupt. They fabricate their client contact statistics and most of the tax money/donations funding their services actually goes to employee salaries; especially administration salaries. Many of these facilities were started and now ran by people who were formerly homeless. They may be experienced, but they aren’t qualified.
Yes, the gov't of CA bilked billions from the taxpayers (state and federal). As they trickle the money down to the homeless EVERYBODY has their hands out. The construction companies and CEO's of these charities make damn sure they get paid FIRST. The reporters keep marketing the homeless so the taxpayer will approve more money and keep donating their hard earned dollars. It's all a scam, they even got Edward James Olmos in on it.
Same logic with the border crisis. All the politicians have much to gain by the status quo.
Homelessness has gone from bad to worse due to corruption and greed
Too late now. AMERICAN'S carry on about democracy. You dont have a democracy, when you only have two parties that switch roles in a continous permanent cycle. Fisrt world democracies have parties that come and go and have multiple choices abd most of the time its not possible for a one party rule. Its a continousely changing cycle deoending on the needs and values of the peolple. You guys just jump between two corrupt parties and claim democracy. Anyway its over for the the US.
Biden has sold the US to China.
Period
Yes corruption greed and late stage capitalism.
Logic tells you if they really wanted to house homeless schizophrenic sufferers and the elderly would have been the first housed. Does the National Apartment Association and the California Apartment Association and their lobbyist play a role in limited housing and high rent's, their an IRS 501 (c) 6 organization. You can give international donations. I'm just asking.
No it’s mostly due to Gavin newsroom and if you can’t see you’re blind
I lived in LA for 3 years and the reality is very different from how Hollywood portrays it. From the lack of infrastructure, to the hour long traffic jams, generally unfriendly and bizarre locals, meth and opiate users doing drugs in broad daylight, endless scores of homeless people, overpriced food & products, wannabe influencers, socialites, gold diggers, thieves, scammers, opportunists and liberal art degree dropouts a-plenty, there's no shortage of horrors in that dystopian hellhole. Before moving to LA I lived in Lebanon and as much as I hated living there i'd rather move back then face another day in the City of Angels.
Part 2 to this video here: "How The US Should Have Spent The Afghanistan War Budget" by 'Second Thought'.
California Nightmare.
you are so right
Wow that says a lot!!!
@@endtimes9763 Lost Angeles is a Los cause of the city. I will not moved there.
The term Skid Row originated in logging areas. The log "skids" are routes for moving timber for processing. Many transient types looking for quick work sometimes would also set up ramshacle seedy shops or saloons, brothels etc. They often only lasted a short time when the timber was gone and they'd move onto the next area. A niche with many obsconders and ne'er do wells in the woodwork.
I live downtown so I’ve had a front row seat to this for a long time. I’m also an EMT so I also interact with the homeless pretty much all day. I would say in the next 10 years the majority of homeless will be women over 50. Especially over the last few years I’m seeing many more older women by themselves living on the streets.
Just as another person who’s job is to help…it’s heartbreaking to see so many older people who’ve lost everything. Half of those are clearly mentally ill, and/or their mental illness is a result of chronic drug addiction.
This is a place like nowhere else. You will see what it looks like when someone has HIV that’s untreated. You’ll see what someone looks like at 55 with end-stage alcoholism. A drug habit that seemed recreational and manageable at 30-40 will bring you to the streets at 50. These are all problems that were left untreated for decades and they all end up on the streets in the end. And they most often will die here; often times we have no idea who they are or where they’re from because they died with no ID, no phone, nothing.
wow! thank-you for imparting your insights from your vantage point - profound and (like this doc.) saddening - good luck to you as an EMT
Women over 50 are finding it harder to find work. The older generation is being pushed out of the workforce. And they want to raise the retirement age. ??
@@Emmy-J makes no sense at all. Can only hope and wish for an upturn in the economy.
You have a real good first hand knowledge of what’s going on down there. I would love to see you do an interview on CZcams where you can share your experiences with the world. The public really needs to know
The Homeless People Today Have Phones A Driver's License And Often A Whole Car Paid For They Just Can't Afford A House or Rent Because Their Not Earning Enough The Real Estate Market Right Now Is Into Some Serious Investment Fraud And This Is What Happens When Realtors Are Breaking The Law And Your House Is On Credit Well The Bank Called They Want Their Investment Back That's Why You Don't Play The Stock Market
“A Nation’s Greatness Is Measured by How It Treats Its Most Vulnerable.”
- Mahatma Ghandi
Mahatma Gandhi was a racist who hated African people. He was also a proponent of the Indian caste system and its divisions. His quotes mean nothing.
Playing to the lowest common denominator is no way to play the long game of existence.
he was an idiot
basically everyone who is not a straight white male is now considered vulnerable
@@OpnDoarPlcy ??? Was the Good Samaritan of scripture “playing to the lowest common denominator”? Do people who volunteer at soup kitchens waste their time helping the needy? How else are you supposed to play the game of life, hoarding your temporary possessions and living in fear and hatred of your fellow man? Your selfishness and lack of empathy will bite you in the ass one day. Mark my words.
I got divorced and lost house, savings, furniture, everything gone in one day in court. I owed $150,000 in child support.
Then I lost my job too. Dam it's hard living when life happens. I had to clean up and start over, find a job, find food and where to shower. I found a new job and started again..... I recovered through hard work.
Where do u put the the illegals. To our government, mayor, governor's, across the country vow to house the illegals not Americans.
Are you saying that everyone else that become homeless are not working hard enough to improve their situation? Not being disrespectful your comment just begs the question.
@@Andrealwhitmire Yes. The majority of CA homeless people are such by choice. lazy, entitled, amoral, drug users..
this country/system is set up to screw you over
@Ben Dover If you are bending over all the time, of course you don't.
I have a bachelor's degree and extensive work experience, yet have a very difficult time finding employment. My references are wonderful as well, yet at only 51 years of age, I'm still having a hard time getting hired. I'm realizing I'm missing some very specific software skills needed to break back into the communications field. It's sad, demotivating, and very depressing.
Companys don't want to hire people after they reach the age of 45! They want to hire people , who are very naive , and willing to be a total puppet! Very few people can get social security, before 65 !! 45 to 65 year olds , are the most at risk!
Consider moving to Europe.
@@TheMarcyFran When you go over 45 years old ,the job market doesn't want you! They want naive young people to fill the diminishing work opportunities that have gone overseas! You my friend may be facing a homeless situation! I have known people with PHD degrees who can't get employment!
@@mellowtopia5376harder at 51
My sister was homeless out there I live in San Diego and it's the same. Thank God my sister did get out of that and she has a house. Praying for those out there still
Why couldn't she live with family?
@@honeybunch5765
Now she has her own by the city
But she had you? Maybe other family? Heart breaking. Glad she’s ok
I have been homeless in the past and I had a family who tried to tell me there idea of what I should do but politics played a big role. You see they were people who I call trumpanzees and I believe in helping people to an extent. I got lucky when I moved to the north west as I was able to work full time up until covid hit at which time I retired. I'm a Vietnam veteran and I'm in my late 60's and I now live in an upscale high rise apt that I was lucky enough to be the first person to move into the building. There was alot of high dollar apt building's that finished construction during the pandemic and the builders were forced to sell to LIHI (Low Income Housing Institute) because they couldn't rent them out at the 3500 a month. I pay 30% of my SSA for rent which is a bargain at 600 a month. I think other cities could have done the same thing if they tried thinking outside of the box. LIHI bought 4 of these building's in the downtown area.
Why didn't you help your sister if you knew she was out there why didn't you help her??
How anyone sees California as a dream is beyond belief.
Yep, Appalachia is the dream. Oh wait....nvm, Mississippi....oh nvm...these problems are nationwide and universal. More people means the problem looks more pronounced. That's the reality of it, whether people want to turn their noses up and pretend it's not, or whether they want to accept it. California is not the problem. Everywhere has poverty. The population is such that there aren't enough abandoned houses to hide out in like in other states that have been left. People in Appalachia are suffering too. People in Mississippi are suffering too. People in Louisiana are suffering too. People in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania are suffering too. And yes, people in California are suffering, but that's one of many populations that are all suffering.
@@Honey_Daddy hell no I live in Cleveland Ohio one of the poorest cities in America and we don't see nothing like tr they are homeless people here but nothing like this I mean nothing
@@highsummonerwill1874 yeah, look at the population difference between Cleveland and LA. Imagine multiplying every homeless person by 12 in Cleveland and it might look like that. Not to mention Cleveland is freezing in the winter. People migrate to LA for weather when they have nowhere else to be. And cost of living is higher in LA, so someone that might be ok with money might make it in Ohio when they'd be on their asses in CA. They're not 1 to 1 equivalents or anything close to that. There are many factors to consider when judging the plight of people in different regions. My point being, everyone is struggling. It isn't just California or LA or SF. The nation is full of people scraping by. It looks pronounced because LA is a better place to not freeze to death and the population is huge and various other reasons, but it's not just as easy as saying "my tiny city like Cleveland doesn't have homeless in those amounts" if we're thinking it through fully.
@@Honey_Daddy no Cleveland does have bums but not like them. Camping out by schools and parks and by children and ppls homes. No. That would not fly here.
@@Honey_Daddy It's not that it's a big city that makes it look worse. It's a failure of leadership. And all the big metropolitan areas vote the same way. This isn't a mystery to the rest of the country. LA, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit.... They keep voting for the same people and keep getting worse and then wonder what's going on. But at least they can feel like they're better than people in Appalachia and Mississippi.
I got hooked on Pain Pills after the VA had me on them for a decade, long story short I flew out to LA/OC for detox/Rehab, the owner took me and some others to LA... then to Skid Row. We walked around for a hour... and it was like seeing a 3rd world Country, for me.... seeing Skid Row and the poor Souls trapped cured my addiction to Opies... It was so bad I haven't touched Narcotics in 7 years!
Sure blame on the VA....it's your fault so fees up.
Bravo ! Good for you. You should tell others what you went through and climbed out of to encourage and inspire them.
I’m tired of everyone that keeps comparing this mess to 3rd world countries. In Africa, we rarely see homelessness and crazy drug addicts even if we’re considered “poor”. 3rd world also mean countries that weren’t aligned with either US or Russia in case you didn’t know.
@@ZXR-uk9rk You are absolutely clueless!!!!!
I have leukemia, am a 100% disabled veteran due to the water at Camp Lejeune. I have been prescribed pain pills due to the pain from leukemia and the daily chemo pills I have to take.
Guess what, I’m not, nor never will be addicted to the pain pills I am prescribed. I take them as prescribed and don’t abuse them. And guess what, I’m in a lot of pain. I’m just an old fashioned, God help me, RESPONSIBLE PERSON, that doesn’t abuse them.
If there's 59,000 homeless and they say they spent 6 billion on homelessness. Thats a hundred thousand for each person. Wheres the money going? Am i missing something? Honest question.
People who work in the poverty industry get paid pretty well. Check out the salaries of those “nonprofit” executives and government officials who manage fundings for these nonprofits
@@DAWN001 That’s exactly it, none of the money is going to actually helping solve the Homeless crisis.
I can't understand why it's so expensive to live there. It's just insane to pay $2200.00 for a one bedroom apartment.
The love of money
Too many people coming there with no education and skills expecting everything to be given to them. I offer homeless $15 an hour cash to clean, 1 in 100 will accept it.
It is plain STUPID.
I live in Wichita KS,I make 3000 a month and I pay 500 a month for 1 bedroom apartment, so if you can't afford to live in california, get the hell out.
@Lisa Surlie I live in low income housing.
Homeless is throughout the ENTIRE Country. Each state must step up and figure out how to help.
Good, TRUE. But Fox News produced this to soften Garcetti up so they can shove another shill like Arnold Schwarzeneggar into office.
It's simple change the politics and lower the taxes
You’re going to have a number of homeless everywhere, true. But what we’re seeing on the West Coast is horrifying! All caused by State/Local government. Votes have consequences. This is on Californians.
raise taxes on big corporations and stop sending money to other countries, problem solved
Clean and safe affordable housing is a major start. The majority of the homeless are simply priced out of housing, food etc. Los Angeles is what happens when elected officials do nothing. Along with Trillions given to Ukraine. Then free everything for Ukraine settlement in America. Then just damn, American citizens. Right?
Grew up in Los Angeles in the 50s where Dad had a mortgage on 3 bedroom house moms brother built for us of $75/month. Gas in 1967 was 35 cents. Put myself through college on just a 20 hour week job. Writing this from my car with my cat where we live atm
Prayers for you!
God Bless you. Me too
@@helicopterway good luck to you too (i thought the OG comment was someone who was living fine until the last sentence, and prayers to their cat too) (10hrs ago)
Well you can always come work for AMT…😭😭😭
thats back when $200 a week pay was real good money .
This made me so emotional, I am so proud of those who managed to overcome all of the hardships they endured and I hope one day we as a country can come together to help our fellow citizens
This isn’t just LA. Housing is unaffordable everywhere. Everything is more expensive and wages stay the same for decades
@RustyShekelfordstein, wages have gone way up and people still don't want to work. They rather have FREE handout from the government. Well, nothing is really free it comes from those working tax payers, who choose to work multiple jobs.
Wages haven't gone up in keeping with the cost of a house or rent in a city, where most of the work is to be found. Add on the higher cost of food and gas, many other than the very wealthy, are barely making ends meet.
@@dadmalafrance4417 okay boomer
OKC is affordable.
@@Schnippen_Schnappen1 Dam right and pride of it. I feel sorry for the lot of you, this generation IS doomed.
The scariest thing that was never mentioned in this whole documentary is, most people are just one pay check or one disaster away from being homeless and on the street. Once there a viscous cycle can keep you there. Most politicians use these people as pawns to get into and stay in power. I have always lived day to day, week to week and I am scared to death I may end up on the street someday. I think many people just give up and give into what keeps them there. There is no one answer or solution to this problem. My dream is to be able to do something meaningful enough to help put an end to this crisis. God bless those that are hopelessly lost and on the street.
maybe don't buy unnecessary things
This one paycheck claim is utter nonsense. The general rule is to have 3 months of bill money in reserves, for some of us, that isn’t nearly enough.
They need to just pull up their bootstraps and work harder
If you don't save money for the rainy day you will join the crowd for sure.
Liar.
Man, I just visited LA and trust me you won’t fully understand this video unless you actually go and see it for yourself. The amount of potential and lost souls I’ve past by, knowing that they either once had a dream or a story before they ended up there. I think about how fortunate I am everyday after visiting LA.
drugs
Can someone please call out Jimmy Kimmel or Pelosi? Where's Kimmel's fake crocodile tears at? He drives past this almost everyday and so does Pelosi.
California wants open borders.The result is an overwhelming influx of drugs.
@@mamabear71234 California gets the BOTTOM of the barrel from south of the border...worst of the worst...lowest forms of life imaginable...the educated and successful stay in mex and central america...
WE are the garbage receptacle for their trash
I came from Oroville California a couple days ago, I'm a truck driver for swift and that city had an unusually high amount of homelessness for a city so far from a metropolitan area. I had a 23 year old girl crying in a curb by the side of my truck cause she hadnt eaten. Though I noticed later she had a bag of mcdonalds later on, not sure whether it was empty or not. She told me she had been on the street for 3 months after being kicked out after becoming a addict. We walked to a pizza hut and I bought her pizza. She met up with her homeless freinds in a parking lot. One of them had a car. Probably was her dealer. Before I went back to my truck I asked her what her name was, she told me her name was red wolf. I told her to have a good night and I walked back to my truck. The sad part was that she was very beautiful and she didn't belong in the streets. I'm not saying this cause I wanted to get with her. I have a girlfreind at home and I would never do anything behind her back, but she didn't have to be there. Idk it just really made me sad to see someone so young having to deal with all this. I hope this gets dealt with soon.
That girl going to find her father is every fathers dream..and that hurt might have been painful but because of it your now way stronger..and wiser.
I use to be homeless, people who live in houses, apartments, and condos have no idea just how real the struggle is to get affordable housing. The best information I can give a homeless person, is to contact various charities that help the homeless, get on their radar, check with them regularly. Stay on top of social services, get as much information as you can from both. The more you know the better your chances are of getting affordable housing.
I do 🙏🏿 and was on skid row with my children in the late 1980s
@Lady Justice
Bad advice, you must have never been homeless or not for long.
First, stop using drugs and alcohol. Second, get a freaking job. Many able bodied homeless refuse to work and have drug problems.
Work, buy a car and save your money, then you can afford to move away from the price gouging super inflated cities like New York, Miami and Los Angeles.
@JVC DISPATCH OMG your a genius, why hasn't anyone come up with this idea.
You forgot STOP DOING DRUGS
Yea, like homeless people are gonna be watching CZcams and getting your advice.
Wow I was that one person who lived in downtown LA for 5 years ago then I got my SSI and off the streets now no more shelters for me nomore downtown LA and nomore motel sleeping in I'm now I'm in good place by the downtown Fullerton area by the train station it's great the best thing that every happened to me I got my little studio apartment and I'm so happy now love it thanks again 🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏 god bless 🙏
aww thats so great so happy for you enjoy!!
Government social spending, something the Republicans refuse to tax themselves to pay for. Reagan cut the budget to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by 75%. He also oversaw the closure of the federal network of mental health hospitals. Then he gave his rich cronies a huge tax cut, from the previous 70% under Jimmy Carter to 29%.
I’m so happy for you. Stay safe and keep kicking butt doing so well. ❤️
So happy for you Linda! That's awesome.
@@Deepbluecat thanks for lhearing me out I'm happy you iv even got married in March to my daughters dad it's been great to have someone who loves you right 💜🌼🌻🌼I'm blessed ❣️ god 🙏🕊️🙏 bless you 💘 may god 🙏 be with also 🙏🕊️🕊️🙏🙏😇😇🙏🙏😇😇🙏🕊️🕊️ thanks again for listening to me 🤠
The elderly and veterans should be taken care of no matter what.
What about the kids man
How about we stop importing illegals and use the money we spend on them to take care of ALL American citizens? CITIZENS!
@@Abby3678xxThen dont have kids. wear a condom
Children two buddy
This is what happens when you breed like flies and pollute your environment and consume every viable life giving resource. Eventually you are forced to spread out and invade other people's turf, then wars break out and we thin the herd again and again until all resources are so depleted its time for mother nature and man to cleanse the human virus off the earth. and let it try to heal itself. We are just a number and only money matters. People are something you either make money off of or buy, sell or rent. Those who get the most money have to power to do as they please to the endless waves of peasant pawn sheeple. We are just a number and easily expendable as you will all find out soon.
It also has to do with the value of the dollar. The cost of living and the availability of good paying jobs.
Here's some life advice: if you ever find yourself having to choose between food and rent, always, ALWAYS choose rent.
no matter how poor we are, there are people poorer than us. So we need to appreciate what we have.
Amen!!!!
I escaped from Los Angeles 18 years ago. Moving to Idaho is one of the smartest things I ever did.
Amen..
Well done. 19:50, that guy is Ted Hayes who run Tent City near 8th and Grand in downtown LA. His manager and boyfriend (who were homeless living in the encampment) borrowed a car for errands from a television anchor they befriended back when they did a story on how well their Dome City was being run.
Long story short, they both ended up kidnapping and raping the newscaster who managed to escape after the brutal attack with foreign objects. Turned out the guy had an arrest warrant for killing his e partner in some other state. That’s one of the many problems with not fingerprinting and double checking on the identity of many homeless people who are not allowed to live near places where children congregate.
🫣😨😞😒😏😔😟😕🙁😣☹️
You take yourself wherever you go, Loving God and no other before Him, is you salvation.
And voting the way you did in LA is going to ruin Idaho. I live in north Alabama and we are getting a lot of people moving here from all over because of the booming economy and cost of living I wish they would all stay away from Alabama and not ruin my state
Faxx I moved there from nc...stayed six years and went straight back
Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission… Well Done!! This looks amazing and the Govt should absolutely support you in keeping this going…ultimately at this stage the hand out is needed in order to repair these people enough that they can accept a hand up, and eventually stand on their own feet. Somewhere in the process, the people must begin to pay some of the costs to live here, so that they have self esteem and respect… it’s poor self esteem and a feeling of having no hope caused them to give up. This is the slippery slope …. we have to create hope and joy in these people.
Been homeless in LA, got housing in LA. By the grace of God, you can too if you’re struggling. The storm will pass. Just keep praying! Have a good night y’all.
Good news; glad you got housing. But I disagree 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 ( that is what mean people 😡say when they DONT want to fixed any problems)
God does not will GOOD or BAD. God is not your 'girl friday'. people got some nerves preaching this. God is not on anybody's schedule of duties /checklist.
Y̲o̲u̲ ̲m̲u̲s̲t̲ ̲u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲s̲t̲a̲n̲d̲ ̲ ̲P̲o̲v̲e̲r̲t̲y̲ ̲i̲s̲ ̲ ̲1̲0̲0̲%̲ ̲p̲o̲l̲i̲t̲i̲c̲s̲
if you see the Federal Government paused rent in the Pandemic. so you know this is a valid statement. The will to do better is not there/ because their bread is already buttered.
2020 2021 Federal & State government literally stop millions from being HOMELESS.
remember when they told the public. "you could not work from home? " even rush-hour is politics. We live in a society with man-made rules; and any part of it can be changed by man. MAN, not GOD. You can drive from here to Timbuktuu with empty land unused, and they will tell you Earth is overpopulated; no land is available
1/2 of the USA land is unused by humans. there should be no homeless problem. USA have hundreds of ghost towns. Its the political will that is missing. because the voters love, 💖💓 electing sociopaths to the top political offices and CEOs
But you as an individual can make decision on your own.
OPTION A: move out of the city/state/country.
OPTION B: for anyone with transportation ... find housing in Mexico and drive back.
𝒯𝓇𝒶𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝒶 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝐿𝒜 𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈 (so this can be done) ITS inconvenient but so is the street corner
🇲🇽 Mexican government is civil enough to allow cross border travel. and they are aware young Americans are rushing in to avoid high cost of living in Border states.
OPTION C: remote job, remote country🏡
How long did it take you to get housing? Did you go thru the pilot program?
U should have moved out of Cali been out west for 5 years and Cali is overrated and pretty wack didn't know most folks out here are broke and be capping just 2 say they from Cali . They been bussing y'all head's in a state that's not all that but hyped up y'all not winning out here but congrats on ur spot
@@FeliciaQueen17 I got an SRO apartment within 8 month. 4 months in a tent and 4 months in a shelter with a caseworker that got me into my apartment. I'm not working and I don't have ssi either so the pilot program didn't apply to me
@@EsotericOccultist You don't have to receive SSI nor be working to get into the Pilot Program. Now if you are not on SSI they give you about 3 months to find work and they will pay the full rent of the room until work begins. I know because one of my friends went thru the program.
I've been in California for 61 years, and it's heartbreaking to see what's become of this state. But even worse, is the suffering of fellow Americans. We've always had homeless, but never at these levels. It's not just California, it's everywhere. I think globalization plays a huge part in it. Millions of well paying manufacturing jobs were outsourced to China, tech jobs are outsourced, call centers etc. In the meantime, housing costs are through the roof. I think people get broken down when things are so hard, and give up.
I agree, here in Canada which is not as bad we are starting to see the trend. Last year in my town homelessness was not something you saw often, now it’s all spread out and slowly growing. I hope we can find a solution to help everyone, so much money in this world.
It’s not Globalization…it’s your voting.
I don’t understand how everyone just passes up drug addiction . Literally over 90% of homeless are addicted to drugs . But yeah , blame EVERYTHING but addiction right ?
We have plenty of jobs . ThTs not the issue at all. The issue is being addicted to meth or dope man.
People need to wake up , you don’t get adults to make a change by pampering them . California has been doing that. UBI, food stamps , etc , but nearly every homeless person brings up …DRUGS !!
But noooooo, yeah , blame capitalism or something or republicans
The government is not held accountable for any misery it causes, it is up to us people to stand up for each other.
More population on the planet.
I really like Dr. Drew Pinsky.👍
. Just by him saying we need to build and open up adequate mental hospitals~~
he's got my vote and respect.
I wish that was the answer, but they don't pay people enough at those hospitals and they take it out on the patients 😕
They just closed them all 3 years ago, now they take them to ER, medicate them and boot ‘em back out the door 😢
This started with Reagan and it’s been down hill ever since
@@lonewolffullmoon : during his administration is not that he closed the facilities, but there are people who prefers drugs to being responsible and at the time there were activist who were against the homeless and or mentally ill been held against their will, therefore, they were not thrown out but were allowed to leave and that worked against them. LA is a liberal State and lots of money are being thrown at the situation, and because of allowing people to be free to live on the street, and addiction it becomes a vicious cycle. Some people are not willing to be compliant in a structural situation as well as the workplace. There are young people who ran away from home because they wanted to do as they please and therefore they find it hard to hold a job as well
Why so many mental illness in the US? Why so many drug addicts in the US?
It is critical that any program designed to help those who are homeless and destitute provide intensive long term counseling services particularly for those who cannot understand how underlying mental health concerns can impact their life as well as day to day existence.
I work with the homeless everyday as a care manager in a healthcare setting. What people don’t understand is that, unless you have the family support, homelessness can happen to anyone. Especially in California where it’s so expensive. A lot of patients we work with become homeless because they get sick and are no longer able to work. I pray for these people everyday.
Expensive? Well, I live in THEE most expensive area in the NATION. I was alone, no family, no college degree of any kind but I always kept a roof over my head. No, it was not a palace but It was at least some place to live. Wow, I must be alot more resourceful than I thought.
@@jeankeats3200 No amount of resourcefulness can ever make up for your narcissistic attitude and overall lack of human empathy.
Most addicts I speak with believe that by handing out harm reduction supplies, having hotels converted into apartments for safe drug use, & allowing them to sell each other, fentanyl, aka pants, down, & speed/meth aka side, this is a euthanisation of the homeless by the government, to solve the homeless problem by allowing them to exterminate each other, I don't know what to believe, but the dope has spread past the street to suburbs, country & high schools. The "conspiracy" started as an experiment in Seattle 20 years or so ago due to a large homeless heroine addicted population & got out of hand, that's word on the street!
It’s more than that. Not just people that get sick. Some are sent here from other states. Others are drug attic‘s
No disrespect but that’s crap a lot of them chose drugs to be cool and have fun and it got out of hand and they are homeless some rather be homeless than try hard I kno some are trying and some had bad fortune but it’s no excuse I drive the city buses all around la it’s ridiculous skid row is crazy
As a college student we would go to skid row to feed the homeless, as a war veteran it broke my heart to see kids living in this dangerous place. It's sad.
Don't just feel sad, inquire about their story. This country has SO MANY PROGRAMS FOR TEENS, they don't have to be in the streets.
Their are even some college students that are homeless as well that I know, some sleep infront of store fronts.
BLAME SPOILED AMERICANS WHO OVER SPEND ON MATERIAL ITEMS YET ONLY TALK ABOUT HOW SAD IT IS TO SEE THE SICK AND HOMELESS DYING. WHY DON'T AMERICANS DONATE TO THE POOR AND SICK WITH EVERY PURCHASE THEY MAKE EVERYDAY? IF YOU WENT TO THE SUPER MARKET ON YOUR WAY HOME DID YOU STOP BY THAT HOMELESS PERSON AND LEAVE THEM A BOX OF FOOD OR ATLEAST A SANWICH AND BOTTLE OF WATER? NO RIGHT? THATS BECAUSE YOU ONLY CARED ABOUT BRINGIN HOME FOOD TO YOUR FAMILY AND JUST WALK PAST THE POOR AND SICK. EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT WHOS TO BLAME BUT IT TAKES A COMMUNITY TO CHANGE A COMMUNITY. AND YOU ALL MAKE PART OF THAT COMMUNITY. SO NEXT TIME BE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE YOU STILL HAVE JOBS AND A ROOF OVER YOUR HEADS.
When the cost of living is pushing people away, the government isn't making any attempt to stop the ridiculous price hikes in that state! As long as their greedy asses are well taken care of, the rest of the state can suffer!
@@curtiswilson4737 REMEMBER, PEOPLE ELECTED THE POLITICIANS THAT CREATED THE ECONOMIC POLICIES THAT YOU ARE FACING TODAY.
America needs to halt the Big business in wars and foreign aid. Not only for homelessness , but for all Americans!
America 1st
Biden is giving Billions to the Ukraine 🇺🇦
Cannot ignore national security or we could have another world war on our hands. Billions are spent on the homeless and guess what? This compassionate, liberal approach isn't working.
Don't worry Biden's got Build Back Better,that'll save us
At this point, it is a MOOT point because all of our good paying manufacturing jobs have left. Call centers are all overseas. Companies including hospitals are sending IT, Payroll, Business office, medical record coding and purchasing to overseas. Our REAL jobs are gone, about all you have now are service jobs, or health care, that's it
Trillions of Americans taxes gets used up a year for war/occupation, billions a year get used for foreign aid, and millions for domestic.
I have to say that it doesn't matter what city or state you live, Homelessness is on the rise and lack of housing and proper treatment are not helping the entire country. Here in Iowa we have 2,900 homeless and 650 just in the county I live in. I have been on the streets and saw things that made me either sick or depressed. If we all don't work together to find solutions it's only going to get worse.
Our government can spend Billions on other people's wars but we can't take care of the homeless problems. It's because if our government can't get something in return they don't want anything to do with the problem. It's we the people who need to stand up and hold our local state and government officials responsible either do your job or we will find someone who will.
They don't care about Our Country
they look important in their business suits but suck at their job.
TPTB are intentionally destroying everything so they can rule the rubble and rebuild for their glorious new world order.
@@cindyoteri1869 No....they sure don't.
It's called high treason
I first visited L.A. in 1991 and thought much of it was dirty and run-down. I didn't move there until 1997 and then left in 2016 because the congestion of people and traffic was getting way out of hand, rent prices were absurd for what you were getting, and the topper was that overcrowding in the jails was leading to mass early releases, which I felt would lead to greater crime. I loved L.A. from 1999 to 2013, then things started going downhill and the homeless problem appeared to be getting worse. I don't regret living there, and I don't regret leaving when I did. Looking at the state of the city since leaving, I'd say I made a good choice.
They did not mention the effect of mass releases from jails.
Downhill since 2013? What about the rolling black outs and the serial killers? During the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles was a city gripped with fear as more than 20 serial killers were operating simultaneously within a five-mile radius. Killers like “The Hillside Strangler” and “The Freeway Killer” became household names as their crimes struck panic among Angelinos. Notfornothing, the corruption and crime committed by the LAPD. I lived there during the 1970's - 1981: the people with whom I lived warned me, "Never get pulled over by the LAPD - they will [take advantage of you (as a female)], and they will steal from you."
I'd say so!!! Look at it now, police aren't allowed to arrest looters and rioters, but were cheered on by the democratic party! When you stop prosecuting criminals and let them all out of prisons 10s of years early, defunding the police and trying to prosecute them for doing their jobs! Then holding your hands up saying "we don't know why this is happening?" PRICELESS! More Californians have moved out to Red States in historic numbers in the last few years then all 100 years combined! I can't figure out why the Californians keep voting in people like Gavin Newsom??? Or Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi ????
Being homeless, especially in cold weather areas is the hardest job, ever.
I bet you have never worked in a coal mine!
I live in one of those cold climate areas and I was homeless for almost 2 years. Luckily I had 2 pairs of coveralls, a good pair of boots and plenty of wool socks and caps. In the summer I'd sleep in the cemetery, in the winter I'd walk around at night until the library and bus station opened, I'd trade off between the two. I ate 2 times a day at the soup kitchen. The soup was real watery and the day old bread was older than a day old and it took the watery soup to soften the hard bread.
@@tonyhelton2788 Maybe we should make you work in a coal mine. You're a sociopath. We don't need you.
Other than having an actual job. That's actually harder, but the pay is much better.
@@jessechristian8665 Thank God you're safe now! God bless you!
Im in ny, where we have our own well documented homeless crisis going on, and i wanna know what type of progress has been made in LA since this aired. I probably already know the answer to it but i wanna know from folks on the ground & not these politicians & newscasters who go home to their 3 BR house every night.
My home city, such a shame to see how far LA has fallen.
LA's been a Sh*thole from the beginnig, and will always be.🤣
It fell lower than anyone could imagine a long time ago, and now we’re just seeing the fallout from it. LA has been the epicenter for debauchery and exploitation for decades and there’s literally a curse on the city from all those years of so much evil being done to so many people. There’s no fixing this problem.
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I KNOW RIGHT 🎈🤡🎈
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I was homeless as a child and it was extremely difficult. I had to couch serf and steal food to survive. I was lucky to break away from the streets. I'm proud of how far I've come but will never forget the struggle. I made the choice to not do drugs. These people still have choices!
an abandoned unwanted toddler named Aristotle Onassis didn't know he couldnt become the richest man on earth:)
Everyone does not do drugs, That have mental issues.
They do drugs to distract themselves from they trauma they endure or the hardship they're facing. They need something to numb the pain.
Some of those people aren't on drugs. Rent's must be insane 2k a month... Landlords and politicians are the reason for this.
i'm proud of you man , best wishes from England 👍💪
I was homeless myself from 17-23 the first three I was on the street.. the rest of the time I was couch surfing from different friend's house to different friends house...I was out on the street homeless filling out job applications I had a few friends that would let me use their address so I can get a job.. I fought damn hard to get off the streets and to stop being homeless... Me being homeless was probably one of the hardest test that I've had in my life so far..I was fortunate enough to pass that test now I'm 38 almost 10 years married and three daughters... I'll tell you one thing I do not miss those homeless nights in New York City during the winter time (that rap music most of you hate it was a few artists that kept me pushing forward wanting to see the light at the end of the tunnel..not every rapper is the same nor is every rap song)
Big N small.
A lot people don't give a shoot about the homeless population because they never had to survive on the street like the homeless have to survive.
Hell, they only care now that the tents are beside their jobs, schools, homes and parks.
Your story gives hope for the rest that still need help getting out.
God Bless you Corey.
Btw We listen to pac,biggie,dre,snoop,wu-tang.
All of the middle and late 90's rap and r&b. Ginuwine, boyz 2 men,TLC, destiny's child.
Can't forget Whitney and Mariah.
In our small town we have a fellow gets SS , housing, medical because he’s a drunk ! My constitution doesn’t say I have to finance him . Helll put him down like you would a bad dog !
@@susieballard4957 what's funny is my playlist on my phone has a lot of those artists 🤣..90s had banging songs the whole decade
@@dmo7815 you can't be serious 🤦🏾♂️..this why the earth and especially America is in the shape it's in..that thinking right there...sad and shameful
I am weeping in silent alone. This documentary hit home..my❤!
Congrats to the father giving bk& staying sober..his"baby-girl"..what grace& compassion to 4give like that!! God Bless you, sweetheart..
Just in general, this doc..(Out of ALL I've watched).Mahalo for sharing! Absolutely phenomenal insight!
Kudos to the ☆aged-out of the system kiddos☆..WHO ALREADY DESERVED BETTER..already with horror stories! So unfortunately unfortunate! My heart goes out to ALL of you!
I just hangin on knowing God has something much better in-store me..He can take me any min♡?!
"Aloha"to Everyone who reads this& those who can't.
Stay safe..God Bless us All 🙏 🙌 ✨️
I've been homeless, and a lot of it is definitely by choice.
Once I got sick of it, I got sober.
Excellent point
So lack of affordable housing is not really a problem?
@@markhernandez8361 Well, nothing is affordable if you're not willing to work at all.
Once you're panhandling, you're gone.
@@J_Clean_1996 I'm sure you're mommy saved the day by taking care of you. You have no clue what it's really like. I can tell you're soft and privileged. You don't speak from a place of someone who has REALLY had it rough. You're not fooling anybody jack
Yea. It's your choice to be poor and dies poor.
As a native Californian, I am old enough to remember when most of the State run mental health facilities were closed down. The City where I grew up tore it down, sold the Land to developers and built luxury Condos! With the exception of the sever cases, these people were put out on the street! The, Drugs, alcohol takes over....Whatever Kennedy was thinking had a detrimental Domino effect on these poor souls & mainly large cities. This has been a train headed to derail for years! $800K for one unit to build? Somebody is making money & profiting from this! The problem will continue to explode! When my Grandparents 70 year old 1,100 sq. Ft bungalow in North Hollywood is now going for almost a Million Dollars! who could afford anything to buy or rent in LA? While the rich get richer! insanity!
Leaders @ the top aren't looking to resolve the issues, they're just trying to pull on the heartstrings of taxpayers to justify billions more, that will continue to go to their crooked contractor, NGO and (supposedly) Non profit friends. Look @ all the highly overpriced food and shelter programs that have already cost taxpayers Billions and produced very little. Example: A "tiny home village" where they claim the handful of 8x8 sheds built cost $48,000 each.
Also, most people arent aware of the fact that around 2015-2016, a program began where other cities and states around the country started giving free, one way bus and plane tickets to their homeless populations and shipping them out west. The program involved/involves the entire west coast, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado. They used climate and the extensive free public assistance programs to entice them. Up until recently, this has been the primary cause for the "explosion" in homelessness in these areas.
YEP! It's Greed,it's Selfishness, it's Evil,no one cares Anymore!
Kennedy? Don't you mean Reagan? Homelessness began increasing in the early 1980's.
Thanks for the information.
luxury condos rented/bought by Democrat voters
Get the hard drugs problem under control. Close the dadgum borders. That being said, all homeless aren’t junkies.
Closing the border won't do anything. Legalizing all plant and fungi drugs is the only solution. These dangerous research chemicals aren't going anywhere. Too easy and cheap to produce, and they're very potent. Plant and fungi drugs are orders of magnitude safer. Also, demand isn't going anywhere either. People want recreational drugs, so they should have access to the safest and natural options. Promote true harm reduction.
sonicblast123 Fentanyl is not a recreational drug
@@Cbd_7ohm you want drugs, for crying out loud, why do you have to drug yourselves silly? Survival of the fittest comes to mind. Don't feel sorry for no one as nobody forced drugs on them.
@@Cbd_7ohm Papaver Somniferum, the Opium Poppy, is a plant...
The ephedra plant... Most drugs have a natural source where they began. Then came the extracts and tweaking of chemicals. But I do, agree, they are safer for sure.
@@Cbd_7ohm I'm living in a country that is tough on drugs....NO tolerance. As a result, people rarely risk the consequences and rampant drug addiction is not a problem. Having said that, if people insist on avoiding reality through drugs, I would agree that natural substances are likely the less toxic option over chemical blends. Both usually have consequences though.
Like that man said these are people who once lived regular lives,this breaks my heart because everyone has a story,god bless everyone who is going though hard times 🙏🏾 ❤️
You should see how many homeless are everywhere in Hawaii. And I'm not talking about homeless that need affordable housing, I mean most are psychotic drug addicts and alcoholics that will attack you out of nowhere. There are homeless camps everywhere, and the state lies about homeless numbers declining. everyone that lives in Hawaii, especially Honolulu, knows homeless rates are up HUGE!
That's scary.
@@joewitz49 A couple months ago a lady was beaten to death with a stick right on the stairs of the Kapolei police station and not even a couple weeks ago, someone was stabbed right by a police substation in Waikiki. Homeless just don't care any more and ask anyone from Hawaii what it's like outside of I.H.S. during the day. Homeless everywhere just chillin' and literally doing drugs and drinking alcohol all on the streets in that area. It's truly insane and has gotten waaaay worse over the last decade.
With the knowledge and reforms in mental health treatments( past decades horrors) 5150 not working, public violence, psych/ addiction hospitals /facilities need to be re opened.
@@JessicaZane4realz Becuse these homeless addicts have ABSOLUTELY no consequences fir ANYTHING they do!!
It was during the administrations of Ronald Reagan that our national network of mental hospitals was closed and the patients turned out onto the street. Reagan also cut the budget to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by 75%. Then, with the savings from social spending, he gave a huge tax cut to the richest Americans, cutting the taxes from 70% to 29%. Fox News just lied to you.
This is a very important documentary. I was homeless for 6 months in Tacoma Washington. I lost everything I knew in Nebraska so I packed my car and me and my son. Went to California searching for a new life. My car kept over heating so we headed north. We lived in our car until we found the Salvation army and they took us into the shelter. I didn't know that Homelessness was an entire different universe filled with fear and massive hurdles to have to overcome. How do you get a job without an address? And how you get an address without a job. Plus you need 3 to 4xs the rent to get a small place to live. 15 dollars an hour doesn't cut it not when you base it on the cost of living. Plus how do you get a job without clean clothes and proper hygiene. There's not enough jobs for everyone. I was fortunate to have a car and the social security income to keep my car going but that income was no where near what I needed for a place to live. You want to know why ppl piss and shit in the streets bc there's no bathrooms for ppl to use. Businesses won't allow ppl to use their bathrooms only employees allowed. Not even paying customers can use their bathrooms. So humans have to go outside like animals. I was fortunate to be able to get to 3 public places to go to the bathroom the library..Walmart and the park ..then the shelter at night. Health care was better in Tacoma. Plus the shelter had a computer space so I could search for work. I found a job but couldn't find housing I could afford. It's like this system sets us up to fail. I ended up leaving the west coast. I believe with all my heart that God was watching over me..even with the bad things that happened..I survived and I'm grateful every day for that. I have a job and a little house I rent. But so many ppl need help..without my Social security I would most likely be homeless bc this life is so expensive and costs keep going up. It's horrible and scary that at any moment things you know can be whipped right out from under your feet. We need law makers and leaders set rules in place that we can't fail like that. If they can create safety nets for banks and big businesses not to be able to fail. They can make sure that their consumers who buy their products can't fall to the streets..A living wage..affordable housing..education..rehabilitation..universal health care..Mental health care 90 day programs. Jobs for the disabled..ptsd..adhd sensitive jobs. We could create a better world if everyone in charge of making things possible could see these hurdles and care enough about human lives instead of bottom lines. Plus a Universal Basic income will be critical in the technology that will send us all into Homelessness ..We are being replaced right now with machines..Then what happened..The rich will survive and the rest of us will fight to just get basic needs met but alot of us will die..Is that the plan? I hope not. Thanks for reading my comment..and for the documentary..its been 6 year now since I was homeless ..I don't want to experience that again.
California, Los Angeles is ridiculous with no bathrooms. Every business should have a bathroom for humans who work there and are customers. You cannot serve food or drink in Maryland without a bathroom for customers.
Of all places why go to California? That's stupid!
@@patcollins2311 best weather ever 48 degrees to 85 degrees year round. No mosquitoes, no crocodiles, no alligators, no killer bees, no barracuda. You do understand 18 million people live here.
Yet you were hopeless in Nebraska and headed for the most expensive state thinking you could fix your problems…..well just wow, i don’t know what to say 😢 except that along with everything you said. People need to live within their mean’s and think before leaping. California citizens taxes should not be going to pay for the homeless that come from other states. What the serious hell were you thinking?
@@pinchebruha405 maybe there were no job opportunities in Nebraska and the person headed to California because it is a democratic prosperous state that helps people. A lot of states don’t have general relief and California does.
I remember talking to a PHD student who was working on this subject two years ago. When I mentioned the 500k homeless number in America he laughed and told me that is was several times worse than that, contrarily to what the official numbers were telling. I'm really starting to believe him, more and more.
drugs ,alcohol and mental health are a large part of this problem .
@david djian bruh...
why people love being bums.... it's no wonder them numbers is high
He was right 500k is like one state where did you get your information California alone 500k
Seattle California Nevada 500 + easy
If you see the real situation. The homelessness is a GREAT BUSINESS for the politicians, for eagle business people, for opportunists , for the sharks etc, etc, etc, etc,
I never realized how bad CA was for construction until I visited some family friends living in San Diego a few years ago. The husband, knowing that I worked for a water utility company in Indiana, asked me how much our company would charge for a fire hydrant installation and how long it would take. He had been trying to get one installed on his street for years. I told him between $3-$5K, depending on surrounding utilities and once we received payment, installation would be within 2 weeks. He told me in his area, the cost was between $15-$20K if not more and installation, if it happened, could take months if not longer. I don't care how great the weather is in CA - I'll take Indiana and its crappy weather over this.
Los Angeles is not country living, people born here haved never seen corn fields in their lives. When I first moved out of l.a I was depressed for a couple years but rent and mortgage was way cheaper.
AAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You guys are out of your minds if you think running away from the problem will solve this. It WILL just spread I won’t give a time but give it time and it WILL
My sister became homeless there. We got her back home in Arkansas she doing good now. She have a home and good job
You have to research online and gather bids from multiple companies. A fire hydrant is a VERY complicated endeavor, requiring engineers, a massive and heavy steel object-probably lifted via crane-and shutting down public water supply. Cost goes up based on the city size and population. Can't really just go put one in.
You don’t have a clue what your talking about
I lived in the woods for the past 3 years, in Boston (after getting 2 Masters Degrees and working for years as a Behavioral Therapist for Autistic children). After escaping domestic violence multiple times over the past decade (and in childhood), it was almost impossible for me to support myself with Complex PTSD, panic attacks, and hypersensitivity from Autism. And even when I was working in a good environment, it was still impossible for me to afford my own apartment (even at double minimum wage, and full time)... I recently got a Section 8 mobile voucher, and moved into my beautiful new apartment near the Boston Common 3 weeks ago (which will support me for life). Without it, idk how I would survive long term..
There is an urgent need for people in the behavioral health field. It sounds like you are no longer working? I don’t understand how you can earn two masters degrees with PTSD, Autism and Panic attacks and not be able to work.
I hope you are able to get help for your mental health issues.
Therapy should help and you're much needed in your field.
@@gokaren420 thanks! I appreciate that!
@@terrylynch415 thanks for saying that. I really appreciate the support!
Prayer helps and is powerful for all of these things.
I once got called to an o.d. for a homeless guy. We administered narcan on the way to the e.d. When the guy woke up and found out we took his high away he became extremely agitated and began trying to punch people. So he ended up in cuffs and was back on the street by the next day. We found him a few weeks later dead of another o.d. in some ladies garage that he broke into.
That's the norm. Most of the homeless are not like the ones featured here.
Well thank God that’s over.
@@RuthyLook maybe not to that extreme. But the vast majority are not just people down on their luck. They are addicts whose life becomes easier when they are living the homeless lifestyle. I lived that life and still have many friend who do.
Good riddance
Seems like Fentanyl is the solution to this problem, eh?
I just love how officials are literally saying, "We just turn a blind eye" and they aren't even ashamed about it.
Having been homeless was a real changer for me. These officials who tried for one day got a tiny glimps. Once on the street, its so hard to get off, and the longer there the worse one's mental health. It's a struggle just to sleep. At a certain point, youre like a jackrabbit in headlights and if or once stable again, it takes time to get over the trauma...I still have PTSD.
I was living in a school bus long before folks thought it was a cool thing to do, and am glad it is still there in storage, just in case- But NEVER was I a druggie or a drunkard. I was severely injured while trying to start off as a laborer in construction.
How many homeless would you say have a drug problem Judith ?
And that's why the compassionate thing to do is to outlaw vagrancy, get everyone off the street, and get them cleaned up so you can figure out what to do with them after that.
@@ci6516 95% at least. its either drugs or severe mental instability.
@@jjg1501 that’s extremely tough . And that, imo, is the root cause of homelessness. Everyone goes through tough times, well maybe not everyone , but if you’re struggling with addiction or mental healthy , overcoming those tough times becomes that much harder . I don’t think we’ll ever fix what we got going on until we get people off drugs and actual help . We got 40 billion for war but where can someone be sent who needs 6 months break from reality ? we need to wake up.
I believe adults need TOUGH love . At some point we need to give people an ultimatum, if you’re willing to help yourself , ALL OF US will stand behind you as a society ; but if you’re not willing to take that step , will shit you gotta leave the area . And that sounds harsh , but we can’t just let people live like this. It’s not right .
We have a responsibility to demand and expect more from one another . We truly are in this together , and what we decide is what makes our world . I know we can be better . I know it . Having this MANY people down and out , nah man , this ain’t it . We gotta change
We need to start building more inpatient rehabs with psychiatric services that accept Medi-Cal all over California.
Legalize all plant and fungi drugs. Most rehabs are scams. Psilocybe mushrooms, cannabidiol, curcumin and other plant compounds have potent anti addictive effects as well anti depressant, anxiolytic etc. effecysb
Most of these people who are out of their mind in the street are on dangerous research chemicals like fentanyl.
👍 yes, and install CCTV cameras everywhere so they don't get abused by employees like what happens to autistic children.
They also need halfway houses after rehab to help people adjust back into everyday civilian life.
WE NEED TO START TAXING THE RICH THE WAY WE DID BEFORE RONALD REAGAN CUT THEIR TAXES AND ALSO CUT SOCIAL SPENDING. When Jimmy Carter left office the tax rate on the richest Americans was 70%. Under Reagan it was cut to 29%. Reagan also closed the federal network of mental health hospitals and cut the budget to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development by 75% !!!! So what did Reagan do with all the savings that made the quality of life worse for most Angelenos? He gave the Rich a huge tax cut.
Thank you for putting this on CZcams. Outstanding, old fashioned journalism. How refreshing.
Yes gotta love it, it shows how shitty USA is. Gotta love it.
Yess.
Homelessness has so complex with many moving parts, It's going to take a multitude of creative ideas to make it better.
I live in a third world country in Asia but this looks worst and scary. We do not see homeless people so many as these in the streets. I’m glad asians have a strong family support system. The older generation are being taken cared of by their family and not thrown in the streets or sending to home for the aged. The younger ones stays with the family until they’re able to have a stable job or to have a family of their own.
Exactly. And you make this possible because people are responsible and caring enough not to become addicts or assholes who are impossible to live with. You guys have it right.
Does Asia have thousands of illegals coming from other countries every day with no money that end up living in government apts meant for disabled Americans. The rest are on bad drugs coming into this country.
USA here!! Our country sucks!!
You're looking at this all wrong.....Americans have a stong family support system and always have but the US is extremely expensive to live in and that's the problem. We're talking about a capitalistic system here.
Also, I have many many Asian friends and they talk about how dysfunctional and toxic Asian families are. That's why suicide is extremely high.
@@Allhoney33 untrue. american culture is about striving for independence. parents encourage (read: kick out) their children to leave home when they become of legal age. divorce rates are far higher in the US. crime is higher in the US because of lack of respect for others.
this is the exact opposite of asian culture. respect for elders, supporting elderly parents, children living with parents well past their mid 20s and even 30s until they are married, 3 generations of family living under one roof.
Lots of mental health, substance abuse, and lifestyle play a HUGE ROLE IN THIS
not sure if you're from LA, but i think the cost of living also plays a role. Likely not the biggest role, but hearing about how that high school in oakland was building temporary houses for its teachers really showed this. When people with a 4 year degree are forced to sleep in their car, there's more than only mental health and drug addiction. Although, i do agree. Those both play a massive role as well
Instead of buying drugs or alcohol save some money for bus ticket to cheaper state and start there u will never make in it l.a because of cost of living
In biblical times, debts were forgiven every 7 years. This greed in the housing industry is ridiculous. Devote a fancy sman-shy building to the homeless! I dare you!
It has to be a huge sweeping Donald Trump style en-actment of "government." Yes it will hurt all the heartless people who work hard for what they have and dont mind driving by these people - but it is needed.
@@dubsie2209 When people with 4 yr degree are force to sleep in the car. Is a sign of mental health.
Michael Shellenberger wrote two books and gave countless number of interviews on homelessness and fentanyl addiction. He is the only one who proposed all-in-one solutions.
Los Angeles is Babylon land of the Beast 👹👿
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Extermination camps plain and simple
What do expect from people with an 85 IQ? Telling them "you can be anything you want when you grow up" was a shameful lie .
All I know about fentynol is evidently there's no us pharmaceutical companies that make it here. All production must be out - sourced jobs in other countries. Looking for this info directs you to illicit drug stories. News reports show dirt farms with big cauldron pots over an open fire cooking it 🤔 weird 💰
VERY EDUCATIONAL VIDEO. HOPE THAT THESE PEOPLE GET THE HELP THEY NEED. I'VE BEEN HOMELESS BEFORE, SO I UNDERSTAND THIS PROBLEM.
It’s complicated to solve. Even if you provide housing, the homeless people need resources. Medical, dental, mental health, job opportunities, drug rehab, etc.
Yeah, too bad many tax paying citizens don't get that either!
It IS a “global problem.” 😢😢😩👣
@@alvashoemaker8536 Tell that to the Nordic countries.
Right, how about a bus or plane ticket back from where they came,pressure wash the streets, and take back your city angelinos,and while your at it, stop voting these clowns in that have ruined your city
@@b.a.d.2086
Oh, the ones that are almost 100% white?
Illinois here. Yes, homelessness is an issue. Good paying jobs leaving our country due to greed, high taxes and regulations. Our government has turned us into a service industry with temporary jobs everywhere. People need stability not temporary, low paying jobs. And now look at our border problem! It is only going to get worse. And this isn't a COLOR issue, this is a HUMAN issue.
Housing is only one part of the solution, it’s like a chair with one leg, it will fail without all the legs. If you don’t do it right you end up with the problems the Chícago housíng prøjects faced. They were extremely dangerøus víolent places that ended up rundown and places the políce wouldn’t even go. So the solution to that was tear then down and what happened? It spread out the víolence and bad behavior, so it actually made things worse all over. Also, don’t think that money and resources solves víolence, it doesn’t. That needs to be addressed on a cultural level, it’s the culture itself that needs to change.
@@GhostSal I agree 100%. They destroyed the family unit by introducing welfare, then housing, government trapped them in those projects, without a man in their houses the boys searched elsewhere. Government housing was created so the poor can kill each other, remember Margarite Sanger and her quotes.
@@Annie59Oakley Certainly government has been responsible for some serious crímes against humaníty and a long list of racíal injustíces. I don’t think the wèlfare program was meant to do the actual hàrm it did though. I think that was just a popr understanding of what it would cause in the way it was ímplemented. Now, the wàr on drugś was íntentional to destroy the “hippíe” líberals and BłackAmerícans. The housing projects too, it isn’t that housíng is bad, it was just implemented and managed horríbly. You do know that Cabriní Green was full of Italíans before it was Błack right? Also, culturàl values are very ímportant and if víolence is acceptable, overlooked, condoned and advocated for… It’s the culturè itself that needs to change.
So true, it took me 14 months of intense looking to find a decent job.
The government didn't send the jobs away.
The rising cost of housing is a large part if the reason for homelessness.
It may seem like a fairly obvious statement, but you are absolutely right. I did an analysis of several different variables, and the one that tied the closest to homelessness is relative cost of housing. The next highest is general cost of living, followed by population density. After that, the next biggest predictor is the percent of the population that has a Bachelor's Degree or higher. I'm guessing this is for a couple of reasons. First, more people with advanced degrees making more money increases the wealth gap in a community and drives up the cost of housing so that those without advanced degrees can no longer afford to be a part of the community. Second, tax payers often foot a portion of the bill to send people to school and also pay for extra government jobs at Universities, etc. where people with advanced degrees work. So those on the poor side are paying so much in taxes to support these college graduates that they don't have enough money left over to pay for housing. Also, people with advanced degrees often deal with things conceptually instead of with reality, so I suspect these people with Bachelor's Degrees are making the problem worse by coming up with and implementing their "brilliant" solutions to a problem they don't really understand. And they likely feel more comfortable funding that through expensive government programs - once again increasing the tax burden on the poor, and creating the opportunity for people to commit fraud and siphon off some of those funds. Of course, those are just my speculations. But anyway, yes, that is the number one predictor of homelessness from the variables that I have tested.
the homeless are better taken care of then someone working trying to pay a mortgage.
nope, not the problem restless- its your fraudulent, corrupt worthless democrat politicians that dont care about nothing but their bank accounts and remaining millionaires at the public expense...
Drugs and mental health are the top factors by a huge margin. Saying it is due to rising housing costs really shows you don't know much about the homeless situation we have in this state.
@@jayspot8894 Well maybe it's changed in the last few years since I have been studying this issue for a very long time, but according to the research actually done on this issue addiction and mental health typically combine to contribute to between 15 and 30 percent of all homelessness. Obviously, it changes from year to year and from community to community, but it tends to stay in that range. So yes, addiction and mental health certainly contribute to the problem and need to be addressed. However, to say they are the top factors is factually incorrect. I have run several linear regressions using multiple indicators, and by far the greatest predictor of homelessness is the cost of housing. I have always said homelessness really can't be treated as just one issue. Solving the part of homelessness due to addiction and mental health issues is very different than solving homelessness for those who can't afford housing for whatever reason. And that is also a very different problem than those who are homeless because they have done their time and "paid their debt to society" in prision, but no one will rent to them because they are ex-felons. And then there are those who want to be homeless because they are tired of being a part of a materialistic society and of paying a fortune just for the priviledge of having somewhere to sleep at night and somewhere to use the bathroom. But if you really want to get into facts, the cost of housing is definitely the number one predictor of homelessness that I have found.
Out of dollar that gets donated
25 cents gets spent on the homelessness
75 cents goes on massive salaries its a very lucrative business to be in.
we need to help our own people first, i feel like we go on missions to places and are ignorant to the fact that our country needs help as well
I have family in Pasadena, so I’d stay with them during the summer. It’s insane how much LA has degraded. I wouldn’t live in that city if you gave me a house for free. It’s not this beautiful paradise that is portrayed in movies. It’s smelly, overpriced, stressful, crime-riddled, and it’s only getting worse. Misguided compassion and a need to virtue signal has led the city to ruin. Do not move there! You will regret it!
and if you do live there, stay there. People are moving from Cali to other states and ruining them. The rest of the USA is going to end up looking like this.
I think you'll find that it's actually economic greed and 0 safety net for American citizens have led the city to ruin
LA is a shithole so is...Now memphis ,a real shithole....this is democratic voting gets you
@Jay Yoyo The drug addicts who receive free money for doing nothinf
That's not all of LA, it's primarily downtown. Like with every state that has a metropolitan area.
Most people don't realize how easy it is to go homeless and after a long time even hopeless. I was in that place for 5-6 years. My sister gave me an opportunity to start over and that's all it took to make a "normal" life...
Why would your own sister make you live on the streets for six years, before helping you? What are you leaving out of this story?
@@pm2886 Alcohol and drugs...
Right, and you took advantage of an opportunity. Free will
Prolly a drug addiction is my guess
@@larryharding1185 Started in my early teenage years and depression and an overwhelming sense of worthlessness that lead me to two suicide attempts. After becoming a father of two daughters my brain made sense of my hearts power to change for my girls and that’s when I took my sisters offer. She was always standing by waiting on me taking the first step. Wow this was a big confession!
Thanks for your media coverage Great Job
I was born and raised in LA County, and I lived there for 34 years. We have always had homeless people with us, and it has gotten worst than I have ever seen. This is to our shame and disgrace.
Meanwhile, US taxpayers are paying $40,000 PER DAY / for EACH Arab inmate at Gitmo.
For the most part the government is to blame, I live in canada our winters hit minus 44 and with the windchill could hit minus 55 at times, then there's the heat waves! and we have so many people in tents everywhere, our government worldwide needs to pull their heads out of their asses and start fixing what they started! Instead they are killing us all slowly while sitting with their families for dinner, watching movies snuggling up to their children. It makes me sick! Stay strong and safe brothers and sisters! 😘🇨🇦♥️
Get a piece of federal land couple hundred square miles then build a city for the homeless like an Indian reservation, relocate nation's homeless there.
@@charleshoang7687 the government want's that land too! Maybe your right they should give a nice piece of land and help the homeless why not it's only 1 maybe 2 family vacations they would miss out on!
@@shivashanti9357 Build hospital, grocery stores and state parks like a regular city, concentrate all the homeless in one city is more easier and cheaper to monitor, control and taking care of them than let them spread out the whole country.
I'm not ashamed...I was among the homeless there for 2&1/2 months in 2014 and I came back for 22 days in 2019 and did a missionary trip to minister to the homeless. We must 🙏
Praise God. God bless you and your life brother.
Our house received an arson threat, from someone we allowed to move in. They were raised to pretend that fact is fiction and that arsons cause the victims to go off to a better place, that he smilingly says in the sky. His mother has bi polar manic depression as has been clinically diagnosed. Her smiley tall cleptomaniac arson threatening son seems even further into the spectrum of cognitive dissonant willful ignorance.
They downplay sociopathic behavior, and they display the elements of stockholm syndrome, as his mom was heard yelling out loud, though she was alone in a room at the time. Voices in her head she was having a argumentive dialogue with, and I heard her doing that from below while i was in my basement apartment.
My older brother met her after our parents passed away, and she moved in a month later. She was on her best behavior for about a month after moving in, and then, her smiley cleptomaniac arson threatening son moved in.
I really dont expect you will even reply back to this comment, due to the nature of what i have read about stockholm syndrome that will probably prevent you from acknowledging that you are narcissist living with a cognitive dissonant desire to pretend that somebody walked on water, and that nonbelievers of that will walk on a lake of fire for all eternity, after they die trapped inside of arson fires and such.
Is that correct?
@@truetech4158 God bless you and your family and friends
@@mitchnidey2453 Have you been clinically diagnosed for smiley willful ignorance?
You are morally dissoconnected to have downplayed the fact that arsons never produce after lives.
Research about stockholm syndrome, and then look in the mirror.
@@truetech4158 just cut his hands off can’t steal or light fires with no hands
I love the way that he says Los Angeles is " dying " ,like it's some mysterious thing and no one can understand how or why it's happening , when in reality every bit of it is intentional and avoidable.
Someone explain to me how Section 8 rent costs 30% of a persons income for rent while regular rent costs 50%-70% of what we make. 30% should be the regular rent not the section 8 rent.
40 billion dollars for Ukrainian that money could do a lot for homeless people and mentally ill peoples right here take care of your own first
Totally agree.
Same for every other western country who sent money, yes the war is bad but each country that sent money has massive homelessness, no health care etc.
Looking good to other countries is most important, having issues in your own backyard, it's not going to be cared about by other countries.
Homelessness is part of the capitalism scheme...it says "keep working or this will happen to you". We all know employment is modern slavery, 😒 there has to be a threat to keep you subservient. Seriously who would rent when you could own and just sell your house if you need to move. It all part of the plan.
Money isn't the issue! 24 billion over just the last 5 years and it has only gotten worse.. This is a direct result of failed government.
@@heathermcdonough8401 exactly. Cannot ignore national security issues. We have spent billions on the homeless issue and it's getting worse. So it's time to follow the money and see how it's being spent and mismanaged by the politicians in CA.
Affordable housing should be addressed, but we'd like to see affordable utility bills. It's outrageous what they charge. In my city, they slap a condemned sticker on houses when the utilities are shut off and make you move.
affordable?!? i think it should be free just out of respect for life, they were all once children who were let down.
I understand money but i feel like the whole world and society is cruel putting that into the system which was working fine without "currency"
@@dollaz4647 ok, whydonn't you build a house and give it away?
There's a free place to live it's called Slabtown look it up on your phone it will tell you everything about Slabtown there's also a place called Jesus Hill or Jesus Mountain like 5 or 6 minutes away from Slabtown there was a man that owned it long time ago in the 1940s he turned it into a place for people that don't have no other place to go and can't afford any other place to go they go to Slabtown it's an old army base used to be there's water there's electricity TOO
@Richard Johns woulda coulda shoulda. all hat and no cattle
My big question is how can it effectively be addressed? It's easy to point out problems. It is a lot harder to point to a real, viable solution.
It's pretty obvious to see why utility bills are out of control. Conservatives said if certain environmental regulations were passed it would cause utility bills to skyrocket. And sadly most Democrats basically said, "Good. If that's what it takes to fight Climate Change, so be it." The reason they can say this is that many of them are rich enough that utility bills tripling in price doesn't really affect them, or maybe they don't live in the community that has to actually pay the price of the policies. In fact, the ONLY impact many of these environmental policies are intended to have is that they make the price of energy so high that the poor will be forced to use less of it. That is the only climate change protection that the bills acheive. So, are you willing to oppose so-called climate change bills to make sure the cost of utilities don't get out of control? Also, most forms of alternate energy right now actually are worse for the planet than coal energy, and that will continue to be true unless we can ever figure out energy storage/batteries. Basically, coal energy doesn't work well as a backup. It takes a ton of energy to increase and decrease output. So things like solar panels and windmills make great alternatives as backups to coal power when coal power fails, but only power sources that are 100% consistent and predictable are useful alternatives when it comes to saving the planet. So Niagra Falls isn't a terrible alternative. And nuclear power is actually a really good potential alternative. But heavy reliance on solar panels actually makes the costs of running the grid go up, not down. And any utility company in California has to go through a ton of red tape to stay in business, which is a cost that has to be covered by someone or the utility even as a monopoly will go bankrupt.
Actually, the biggest problems with affordable housing tend to be the same ones. In Arizona it takes an average of 3 months to get a building permit. That same permit will likely take years in California to get becaue of a ton of extra red tape. A building permit in Arizona that costs $95 will likely cost thousands of dollars in California for similar reasons. So of course building doesn't keep up with demand. Of course, it doesn't help that companies like Black Rock and Vanguard and the Chinese Government have been allowed to buy up tons of property and gain monopoloy or oligarchy type power in the California housing market. Monopolies and Oligarchies always cause major problems and high prices for the customer. Government spending doesn't help. Programs like HUD drive the price of housing up because government funds are competing with private funds for home. Basically, these programs only change who is homeless. Without HUD, the poorest are homeless. With HUD, the poor that aren't poor enough to be eligible for government programs are now the ones priced out of the housing market. Of course, I have also seen innovative solutions that private individuals in California have used to address the problem, and California has blocked and shut down those solutions. So this tells me it is more than just market pressures. I have heard the theory that some people are getting rich off of homelessness initiatives, and they know if the homeless problem gets worse they get more money. If the homeless problem gets solved they get no money. So they are incentived to make sure the problem doesn't get solved. Based on the charitable inititives I have seen shut down by the California government, I'm convinced government corruption and people getting rich off the homeless problem is definitely part of the picture.
That's a long response, but yes, you are right. The utility problem also needs to be solved. However, the utility problem was solidly predicted, so we know exactly what is causing it. That problem could liekly be solved in a few months or maybe even in a few days if some of these impractical climate change regulations and programs were reversed. However, if we double down on those initiatives these problems are only going to get worse.
This is NOT just limited in L.A., it's ALL of CA!!! You should see all of the Bay Area!! It's heartbreaking 💔
Not all of CA. Look at a CA county-by-county presidential election map. It's only in the blue counties and not the red ones.
look on New York...New Jersey....Ander every bridge lives homeless....
@@arkadimich7329 💯💯💯 NYC is a cesspool
skyhawk_4526 Very true! The American people did this to themselves for electing the wrong leaders who don’t truly care for them! California is a blue state and look how corrupt and bad it’s become
it's most of the cities in the US, if not ALL. People don't set out to become homeless, aren't all drug addicts. Life throws a curveball, landlords impose astronomical rent increases, employers refuse to raise pay, a bad medical situation and piss-poor health insurance all lead to homelessness
HOMELESSNESS IS “OUR” PROBLEM AND WE ALL NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson
It's happening but people can't see it and don't want to hear it
@@missf4681 Believe Me This Is Just The Calm Before The Storm When That Deflation Hits Even The Richest Man In America Is Gonna Be Left Flat On Their Ass Broke Homeless Donald Trump Is Really In For A Huge Shitstorm Because The Destruction of All Private Wealth Is All Directed At Him We Know Who The Richest Man In America Is And Believe Me What You Are Baring Witness To Is A Demockracy On It's Knees They Are Using Everything They Have Control Over To Bankrupt That Man So He Can't Run For Office Again And They Don't Care About The Economy If They Can Destroy All Wealth In This Nation To Stop Him They Will And That's Exactly What Their Doing No We've Never Had A Homeless Problem Like This Before Because It's Never Affected The Working Class Before Whose Next Investors Auctioneers Donald Trump Come On People It Doesn't Take A Genuis To Know What The DNC Is Doing Now
BS. I live in Florida, where I see on average one homeless person a day and they've been followed back by people on our community Facebook to nice homes. This is a progressive policy problem.
Wow, our forefathers were trying to protect us...what happened?
@@carollangley2984 the corporations and greed of the ones in charge happened. we live in what is called a democracy yet .02 percent pay for who gets to run for president. Then we get to vote but no matter what, we end up with garbadge. rich getting richer. until we change the way people get to run for president we will stay stagnant or continue to decline
Homelessness is all over in America. As a citizen and veteran we need to hold our elected officials accountable.
Not this bad man not this bad
How can you hold the elected officials accountable for people shooting meth, cocaine and drinking?
I agree. We think it is just a local problem, but the corruption starts at the top. You vote in Biden? This is what you get. You vote in liberal Democrats? This is what you get. The best definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over, and expecting different results. You voted for this.
I can’t believe this is happening in a country who has helped millions of people across the world
The politicians need to help our own people first.
@@cindyhinds1002 absoultley
Bible Says (I Heard) There Will Always Be Poor.
@@cindyhinds1002 They only help their own pockets. People blindly continue to vote them in.
Dropping bombs is not helping...
There’s 80,000 Americans homeless in California, something is very wrong with America! When does our tax dollars start helping our own people!