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- Tourists will be coming into LA for the Super Bowl, and cleanups have been underway, though the city says it wasn’t because of the major sporting event.
John Cadiz Klemack reports Jan. 28, 2022. Read more here: 4.nbcla.com/MbQktkt
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Anyone who lived in a Superbowl, Olympics, NBA All-Star Weekend, etc all know one thing. The city will clear up enough for the event and tourists in record breaking time.
So they can do it they just don’t
The Superbowl Bum Shuffle.
Nah LA dgaf
this is for every country lol
Why no one cares
The worst part is I use to work at skid row, what they are showing is nothing compared to what it really is.
I used to be a volunteer and what you said is totally true
So sickening, and it has nothing to do with mental illness. And all to do with drugs and alcohol.
I use to talk to alot of the people that lived in the skid row housing because I had to patrol the buildings, I say a good 90% of the individuals I came in contact with were some of the nicest stable minded people I've met that just got dealt a bad hand in life or made a few mistakes along the way it truly bothers me how we have the highest cost of living and pay so many taxes but it does absolutely nothing to our people down there.
How many of them are from out of state?
🏙The streets of Los Angeles are filthy and blemished, like Chuck Henry and Colleen Williams faces. 😷 When I see feces on the street, I get revenge telling people, to watch NBC news. 🤮
"Cleanups"
So just moving homeless people from one location to another, and throwing all their belongings away.
Good job. Good job for making the situation worse.
Can they move in with you?
@@banderson1979 yes
But I think they would prefer for their own space, everyone should have a place to call their own, even if its a small "shack"
@@LochNessy13 vanesa u are a clown
@@karlozlopez8535 says the one who believes people have a right to sleep and die on the street.
You are part of the problem
Ok so whats you big solution since you seem to know so much?
Man it was so sad seeing this face to face for the first time when I went to LA I literally had to walk in the street onto on coming traffic because all the tents and just set ups that was blocking the sidewalks
shameful.
Please don't send them to San Bernardino, Riverside or Orange county we have our own problem. Don't relocate these people just to hide a problem that you failed to solve.
Totally agree! @Rosa Sanchez
Just because of this comment we are sending them all into your house.
Many homeless come from outside the Los Angeles area.
How do you "solve" a schizophrenic crystal meth addict?
I was homeless in fontana. I couldn't get any help because they assumed I could work and didn't have children.
What’s sad is it takes people from other countries to notice that it’s a “heartbreaking” situation, not just a nuisance. What happened America?
Fentanyl
@@randyme2151 capitalism and no social security
We have more drugs and mentally ill people than most places
@@randyme2151 people arguing that don't know what they're talking about.
@@HBC423 that's not what happened there. The tech boom basically displaced a whole bunch of people who couldn't afford to live there once people were clamoring to move there to be a part of it. But not they're leaving and causing similar situations in other parts of the country.
You know it's bad when tourists from African nations are shocked.
You sound yt
More than 80 percent of the homeless people in LA are not native Angelinos, they're from other states. As a native, it really irritates me. 😤
Affordable housing is an issue across America. Homeless people also migrate to California because the climate is more manageable than living on the east coast or in the south.
Crazy drug addicts do not pay rent....Its not an affordable house issue.
New York has skyscrapers for the poor unfortuanate bums
😂 you think they cant afford to get. a place to live? Yeah right get real. What are you captain balloon hands?
Or also because they get some goodies from the govt.
We have “ homeless “ here in Mn, not warm this time of year
Many communities DO NOT want homeless shelters, but many say, "I'm not anti homeless. " Then what are you.
Most won't go to shelters anyway because ot the curfews and the shelters dont let you drink and shoot up.
Amen. Preach! 🙏❤
@@timmyy420 shelters are also an easy place for things to be stolen and for people to be abused
This is an ignorant comment
i visited LA for the first time last year. i did NOT realize homelessness was that extreme.
Lived in LA around 2016 -2017 there were homeless camps and every now and then you’d see some tents along the freeway. Went to visit last month and it’s blown up, tents EVERYWHERE, it’s sad that LA hasn’t really done anything about it.
If there's one thing big events like these NEVER do, it's fix societal issues.
Agreed.
True they are playing on the heart strings. Also they need people to attend so making it seem like if they do it changes stuff, then people will go thinking attending a superbowl will help people.
@@thatdude3977 it’ll help a bunch of people that are already wealthy
I was born here in LA and in the years it has gotten worse. Now that I visit living here in D.C. it saddens me of how bad it's gotten. It's also these rich people buying property and over pricing things for no good reason. I pray for everything to get better someday.
EXACTLY!! when you can't afford a 1600$ STUDIO, where are you supposed to live? people forget it's not easy to get or even keep a job when homeless. the problem is the housing.
That’s why most Californians are moving to other states such as Arizona, Texas, Nevada.. and so on. And let me tell you, as a AZ native. WE DONT WANT YALL HERE! Don’t California my ARIZONA 🇺🇸🌵
"It's also these rich people" ok Edgar Garcia hernandez. I say it's you! Lol
These are drug addicts that LA County Jail and California Prisons don't want to house anymore.
I’m from Maryland. D.C. isn’t much better than Los Angeles. There’s a huge income disparity in the D.C. metropolitan area. Gentrification in D.C. is a real problem.
I’m from Houston, Texas who visited LA last year I had always known they had a homeless problem but Jesus Christ I didn’t think it was that bad…as soon leaving the airport into the city homelessness was first the thing I noticed.
U couldve just went to fort worth or Dallas and seen a similar scene
Your definitely wrong... I've lived in uptown downtown Frisco Plano and McKinney... Never once did I see a tent community... U most be a troll
You still live in a shithold Jarred. Huston is a shithole too
@@jaredgalloway3642 you’re not going to see that because those are all suburbs. Go to downtown Dallas or downtown Fort Worth and you’ll see. Really Austin’s homeless problem is getting crazy.
@@greglawrence5322 Houston has a bad homeless problem as well, but shithole? Nah
The city will clean it up on Thursday, and it will be back to "normal" on Monday, when the media and tourists leave.
Sad that the only time homelessness gets brought up is when it affects monopolizes organizations. If those homeless only lived on the outskirts of LA and in the sewers, no one would mention homelessness as an issue at all. Bravo showing your true colors.
Las Vegas has the sewer people. They live underground so the tourists aren't offended.
@@kushkingla7385 good lord what has this world come to? That is ridiculous, but ironically it’s going to be the homeless who survive these contagious viruses ect….
@Roy Dunn I used to live in Long Beach, I’ve seen it with my own eyes. They literally closed down whole streets for them and pretty much told all the affected businesses to move if they don’t like it. Lmao WHAT!?
@Roy Dunn ohhhhh!!!! Makes a lot of sense now. Shystie mf’s!!!
I miss Long Beach! How bad it it down there these days?
I live in SF. A dystopian hellscape
Maybe the homeless should stage a protest outside the superbowl.
🤣🤣🤣Sounds like a good idea..that's if they're really tired of being on the streets..would think that they would get out and form a protest saying that they have had enough of being homeless..alone with others helping them protest because we all are talking about this situation and it's very very sad 😥 😢 😞 Lord have mercy on us all..
Lmfao and what will that accomplish? Get real wouldn't happen police would stop it.
@@TKO-1503 no. Would violate their right to association
HLM
Homeless Lives Matter
Let HLM gogogogo Brandon googogo
I had a friend who was homeless by choice (so he claimed) He slept in his car and kept a storage with his things. He worked by day and paid for a room for 1 hour to shower every night. this was back in the 90's. He also said, he could not survive the way he does in any other country or even city. The climate and the wealth in this town supports my life style. California just has all the elements a person who wants and chooses the freedom to live this way, can!
@@iii___iii south los angeles hourly rates. In that time, in ran you about $5 and yes he chose freedom and so does many of the people living free. This country provides services for those that want to live this way.
@@iii___iii You would be surprised by how many homeless choose that lifestyle. "homeless" people make more money per year panhandling than some people working an 8-5 job. They pocket the money to use on booze and drugs, tax free.
@@iii___iii There are hotels that rent by the hour. The ones the hookers use? Anyways, they absolutely DO voluntarily choose to be homeless because they absolutely do NOT want responsibility or structure in their lives.
Planet fitness he could pay $10/month and shower every day.
I live in SoCal about an hour away from LA, and avoid going to LA as much as possible just for this reason.
LA can afford to host the superbowl, but can't house the homeless.🤔
So SAD really
they tried housing the homeless for free or reduced but most want to stay with their drugs on the streets. if they get government free housing they have to be drug free. tell humans on streets to stop injecting with toxic yuck injections.
@@diane6643 Exactly! People who aren’t from
l.a think the homeless aren’t getting helped. They made many tiny home communities and none of the homeless go there.
If you put a cracked out schizo inside a home they're still going to be a cracked out schizo.
U.S Government, state and local wants to see people in poverty.
Governor Newsom: "Just sweep it under the rug so they don't see how terrible I'm doing at running this state."
This is sick and sad how the state is ok with this,,, to hell with the greedy and rich here
I visited 2 years ago and was saddened by the amount of homelessness in LA. But they’re still grateful. It’s my mission to come back and give back to my team city! Issa Rae can’t do it alone it takes everybody to shed light and bring joy to those who need it most.
I visit LA. 18 years ago nothing but homeless people it was sad.
Hollywood is not crack up to be!
I just moved to LA about 4 months and driving through certain area in downtown is so bad full of homelessness people. Feel bad for them but again the government should do something about it . I seen lots of business closing down because people are scared to shop because homeless would camp out in front and around they’re businesses. Los Angeles should get really clean out.
federal gov yes. because 90% of these people came from other states.
@@Teolulz Nope, they're in your state because you guys give them tons of freebies and let them shoot up in public. They're your problem, absolutely no federal tax dollars should go to your problem. Either change your laws or increase your own taxes even more to pay for it.
@@RonCoop "peer reviewed study" LMAO 😂. this isn't medical science. the correct term is "data" dummy. watch the bum interviews done by German in Venice and other CZcamsrs you'll see nobody is from CA.
you claimed "not true." where is your data to back up this claim, that most people aren't from other states? of course you don't have it yourself and you don't even realize you don't hold yourself to the same standards you do others.😂.
you just repeat right wing propaganda like a parrot without even knowing what you said. how does CA have lax drug laws? and compared to what states? how does lax law s for theft lead to drug addiction or homelessness exactly? which parts of CA have been affected by the "defund the police" rally exactly? nothing but nonsense coming from you. be honest, are you jealous of CA's wealth?
government tries to help them with free housing but they refuse because to stay in free housing they have to be drug free. they choose drugs over shelter. damn drugs...pharma and illegal...GET OFF TOXIC INJECTIONS AND PILLS.
Most came to get that g.r. check and hotel room while waiting on it.
Homelessness has always been a problem in LA, but since the pandemic it went up 10x more.
Before the pandemic most tents was in Skid Row with a few here and there under freeway bridges, etc...Now the tents are all over town until you can't walk down the sidewalk
yup
When I was living in LA, as a cane user, homeless people would guide me thru the sidewalks, tell others to clear the walk for me. It was not an unfriendly experience for me just a smelly one. You will find that not all are hyped on drugs. Or crashing from mental delusions.
homelessness is the symptom of a much bigger problem
that's Democracy and Capitalism for you, cash rules everything,
It was bad before the pandemic. The pandemic is actually helping hide the problem, as 1,000's of homeless people living in hotels. That program is ending and those homeless will be back on the streets.
Makes me disgusted and will never spend a dime there.
Just like dc if it’s not for facilities having security or police on site the event or building is clean and safe but the walk to buildings or sites is not safe.
"Why so much homelessness in LA?"
"Well the median house price in California last year was $750,000 so yeah I wonder why there's so much homelessness? Indeed...."
Or more like, the news is commonly known that California is the most lenient on what they can get away with, has the best weather to be outside year round, those kinds of things. It would be easier to stay where they are coming from and get help if that is what they are looking for. It isn't what they are looking for.
@@victoriapowell6318 What exactly are they looking for then?
California definitely has attractive weather if you find yourself living outside of a home year round. But assuming those people would prefer living in a house rather than outdoors (a safe assumption), the financial blocker of sleeping under a roof is very high in the state of California. Average 1 bed room apartment is over $2,500/ month easily in California. Compare that to many parts of the Midwest where that same roof could be rented for well under $1,000/month.
We simply cannot ignore the elephant in the room that California is one of the most unaffordable places to live in America. And safe to say that if you're homeless, you probably don't have a lot of money. Therefore it is clear that the high cost of living of California is a contributing factor to people "choosing" to live homelessly outdoors rather than in a house.
Sky high rents means increasing homeless. Unless the shelter costs are made more affordable, problem will only get worse.
People refuse to build higher apartments. And those who are willing to build higher are the relatively new land owners who don’t monopolize every apartment in town are put through extreme hurdles for a building permit.
Exactly
@Roy Dunn what do you suggest Los Angeles do to solve this homeless problem? A minimum wage job here will not qualify you to rent an apartment in this city..
Will only get worse unfortunately
@@Automedon2 Losing your home/apt will make you a credit risk regardless of status of being an addict or clean. More are becoming homeless these days due to affordability.
This isn’t just an LA situation, this is all over the US, the richest country in the world , it really makes you think what can we do differently as a society to help those in need
Give them work clothes and boots!
An awful lot is being done 'for them.' They need to do some 'for themselves.'
It's a liberal issue. Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, TX all have VERY few homeless compared to California cities. But go to liberal Austin, TX and there's tons of homeless despite being smaller than the other 3 cities
@@ryanspring7649 Lol, the Texas governor couldn't even keep the power on for the people of Texas last year, and several hundred froze to death. Also, while Ted Cruz flocked to Cancun like a complete idiot. FYI, the costliest disaster and deadliest winter storm recorded in the United States. So yeah, about those "liberals"
There is a major mental health crisis in California that is being completely ignored by politicians. I moved away from the golden state. El Paso Texas has an amazing culture of friendliness and welcoming people.
A block away from my work Homeless people stay. There have been protests by the local College, and a few other city council meetings where people blasted the Mayor for the problem. But it's not her fault that many who have the choice to go to the homeless area in town designated for them refuse to live by the rules and want to remain homeless. All those College students that were protesting for their College grade are gone now. They never left their names in the meeting after the Mayor asked them to try and help with the problem. Those College students are long gone now two years later. They aren't helping but they protested for their College credit.
Best thing about California was seeing it in my rear view mirror.
Good. Everyone should be aware of what's happening, maybe that will bring some welcome change that's hopefully good for everyone, no matter where they sleep. People who live outside, are humans too.
Amen!
The problem here is that the homeless are seen as an eye sore and you don't want to see them. There is a serious homeless problem in this country and there needs to be something done about helping them, not getting rid of them.
what do you propose should be done? tax middle class even more to pay for their housing? why should they get free housing while the rest of us work and pay for our living.
There's enough funds and money that have been allocated to helping the problem... If those millions of dollars don't get used the way they should then what... Just corruption
@@dean._.0.0 That's exactly what they want. You to be taxed more, homeless be given free houses and then for you to deal with the crime they bring.
Yet the Biden Administration wants to let homeless illegals into the US by the thousands.🤭
He said world wide attention.🤣😂 this ain’t the World Cup. 😂
I was born & raised in LA & as for the homelessness I never knew how much & how bad it even was until years ago. There needs to be a change because it's right not because of the Superbowl
ever think about voting for a republican to see some change?
Nah… watch the video again. Clearly the goal is merely to hide it until after the Snoop Dogg concert with the football game.
Yet stupid won’t be fixed. Keep on Voting Democrat. Don’t California my Ohio!
Nothing can absolutely be done to fix this , lets look at reality, this planet is becoming overcrowded by humans ,we are multiplying rapidly.
@Chank Montana Think outside the box, these are the consequences.
These people have been kicked out of society, back to wilderness with no mercy and you still expect from them to act according to society's rules.
How biased.
If the system were not so harsh, there wouldn't be so many people who want to be homeless.
I'm not telling you that wasting whole streets is okay but blaming homeless people for doing homeless things without analysing the cause makes you in fact agreeing with the fact there will be homeless people, that you will blame afterwards and so on.
Giving state checks to people in need (same as in my country) would prevent such a mess. USA are rich, there is no reason making the people starve.
Most homeless choose to live on the street rather than abide by rules. I found this out the hard way by trying to help someone who was homeless. I have a large property with lots of fruit trees, so I thought maybe I could at least help one or two people by letting them set up their tents on my property. I only had one rule, they could not use drugs or alcohol on my property. Less than 24 hours after allowing a homeless man to come here I found out I had made a big mistake. I looked outside and saw the police in my driveway. I went out to see what the problem was and the homeless man was standing in the street naked!. My neighbor across the street witnessed this and called the police. The police told me most of these homeless people are either drug addicts or mentally ill. Many of them even have families who have given up trying to help them :( IMO We need more facilities to treat the mentally ill and drug addicts who WANT the help. If they DON"T want the kind of help they REALLY need, then I can't feel sorry for them if they go to jail for indecent exposure. The public sidewalk is not an acceptable place to camp!
I Totally Concur. The County has to start making some changes. such as, The Homeless individual showing proof of being Registered in a legitimate Homeless program or else they must Vacate The County and or Pay A Fine. Every month The Homeless receive Money & Food stamps from The County, Cut them off until Proof of being Registered in A Legitimate Homeless program can be shown.
What this man wrote is 110% true. Don't let any politician, advocates, experts or news stations tell you otherwise. Also, mental health and treatments don't work unless the patient sticks to the plan. If there's no one to monitor them and make sure they take their medicine, they'll relapse just as fast as any drug addict. Unfortunately, many homeless are guilty of both, drug addict and mentally ill.
THANK YO!
Bandit 13-- THANK YOU!
He thought he was in his living room, come on man, u don't get it?
I swear, if they would just pass a law that would cap rent, pending on size, condition, and location, that homeless number would drop. It would probably stop a whole lot of rich people, buying up all these properties, only to rent them air b&b or turning houses into apartment buildings and tripling the rent, I also truly believe that if you purchase a house, you HAVE to live in it for a number of years before renting it out. I live in small town Illinois and have a 3 bedroom house with full basement, garage, and yard and we pay $600.00 a month, so it really baffles me when I hear that a small one room apartment for upwards of a thousand a month, they shouldn't be allowed to charge that, but then again, big pharma shouldn't be able to charge $40,000.00 for a life saving pill, when it costs $40.00 to make
Not sure what to do about the junkies tho, obviously not making people get help or arresting them for shooting up, on the sidewalk
“With nowhere else to go” lmfao these people chose that life by committing crime, doing drugs, having no desire to get ahead. They will never change
Is the city embarrassed or what now lol. The city has been tolerating the lifestyle for decades home of skid row ye ain’t know. Don’t believe what you see on TV lol get down in the streets and see for yourself.
exactly....ive never known LA any other way and yet people gasp and clutch their pearls at this.
Unless the politicians and city leaders are transparent and become true and genuine leaders, the homeless issue will continue and get worse.
For many years in LA, SF, Seattle ... billion dollars poured in to solve homeless issues but have been drained into the accounts of corrupted NGO, and officiers from local to state level.
@@nammoadidaphat52 you are absolutely correct, it's a big get rich scheme by the financial donors of the politicians.
Vote Blue, No matter what.
Agree! @Jonathan First
This is the equivalent of finding out your family is coming by for dinner last minute, and you realize you haven't done any upkeep on your home the last couple of days. 🤣
Homelessness on Hollywood and Vine has been a problem for decades. Tourists have seen it for decades. it’s nothing new. LA has never been pretty, just pretty in movies.
LA doesn't have homeless problem, they have a good weather problem. Interview the people in the tents and you will find they are not from LA, they are not even from California. The other state pay for them to get a ride to LA.
Yeah, lets blame it on the weather. That’ll help.
lol for real!! They’re all out of state.!
LA have a capitalism problem
@@Ipomoeas you would be surprised.
@@Ipomoeas Would you rather be homeless in Alabama or California?
The people in charge of the city should get charged for what they have done .
im thinking we should bill the fly over states for sending us their mentally ill.
It's not what they "HAVE" done, it's what they "HAVEN'T" done. Wait another 8-10yrs til the next recession or economic disaster then CA will really start to shine. Won't be nobody left but homeless, criminals/gangs, and illegals.....
This is what the people voted for. Every time housing it to be built the locals stop it in its tracks.
@@NathanCroucher Ya the political red tape in this state is atrocious and they know we need more housing yet refuse to come up with a solution for that as well. So people wonder why housing in CA is thru the roof, if you want a house in CA, you better pay up cuz I'm gonna get rich selling my house to someone who wants it more than I do.....
the real estate investors and slum lords should be charged
I'm glad he's protecting his microphone from the covid-19
"WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN HOLLYWOOD!! CAN YOU SPARE SOME CHANGE?"
Los Angeles officials typically clear out the homeless to "Pretty-Up" the town before a major tourist event, and "Relocate" them to a less conspicuous part of town temporarily. They have been doing this for decades now going back to the 84' Olympics. Our nation's smug politicians smile and wave for the cameras while doing absolutely nothing to help the homeless, who must live in public parks and skid-rows which have been turned into "Homeless Encampments". We have an entire country's worth of people sleeping in the cold hard streets now, so welcome tourist to this so-called "American-Dream" that our out-dated govt from 1776 has made into a reality. WELCOME TO OUR NIGHTMARE!! it's time for a change...
Democrats love helping the poor so much that they keep making more of them.
Exactly!
LA homeless problem is known worldwide. 3rd world countries are in disbelief 🤣. My girlfriend's family in the Philippines knows CA is a homeless haven and they think we're lying to them until we send photos of our local freeway ramps.
This is just a "sweep it under the carpet" approach until football season is over. 🤔
America doesn't have a homeless problem. it has a substance abuse problem.
That's just a major underlying issue that goes along with being homeless. Along with the crime, fires and gangs shuffling within.
@@Teolulz which then translates into homelessness
We visited in September. I told my family that people in CA must really like camping. Me and my husband knew the truth, but maybe my 9yo didn’t understand. One of our über drivers told us about all the vacant office buildings that sit empty due to the pandemic. I asked why they couldn’t be rezoned for residential. $500-1000/mo is reasonable low income housing IMO. That’s the real problem. People who work for a living, and still can’t afford to live anywhere. It’s easy for tourists to see the problem, and think about what all the do have in comparison. But honestly, much of the time I was thinking that if I had to live there, I might’ve been in that same situation. Housing is just too expensive. We own a 4645sqft home that we purchased for $620k. In LA, we’d be lucky to get a 1000sqft for a million dollars.
It can't be zoned for higher density units because the local residents don't want it in their neighborhood as it will affect their own property values. The residents simply vote against the measure and it never passes. The system is broken because it is driven by greed.
@@jlee4768 sounds like the exact same thing that has happened in my own town for decades. People spend X amount of money and either 1) don’t want anyone else paying a dime less than they paid and/or 2) don’t want anyone else moving there even though it was totally fine that they did. Of course, we don’t have a homeless problem here (yet). This makes housing expensive and difficult to come by despite there actually being plenty of land to build. No one wants anything built smaller than their own homes, so apartments are out, and townhomes are hated (though cost almost as much as a regular suburban house!). But the behavior comes with its own punishments. We don’t have a state income tax. Instead we have to pay property tax. That means that it doesn’t matter if you paid $600k for your home 5 years ago if comparables have sold recently for over a million. You are going to be taxed that much. Eventually locals won’t be able to afford to keep their own home and where will they go? Parking lot? Theres no affordable housing to fall back on since everyone was so against having it.
I would assume that my solution of rezoning vacant buildings would be better than a hobo village in their front yard. I mean, visiting it was pretty embarrassing to see. At least with them all staying in an affordable skyscraper there would be less tents/trash/urine/feces. They would still need income to afford the $500 rent, so it’s not entirely giving a bunch of “lazy drug addicts” a handout. But I understand. People here were against subsidized housing for the elderly, which was to be built on land that used to be a trailer park. The trainer park existed before any of these people against it had their own house built.
They cleaned up the city so good this weekend. It’s obvious they can do this on the regular but they won’t.
One factor that is often overlooked is the millionaire investors buying up all the affordable rentals and turning them into AirBnB for tourists. Plus all the new apartment buildings being built are generally out of the price range for average working folks. There's just not many options left.
international investors buying, zillow previously buying, and domestic investment companies buying, nothing left for the regular homeowner wannabe. There should yearly high unrealized capital gains taxes on investment properties if not already.
It's investment gentrification. But on the other hand, I know plenty family's in LA whose kids squandered away their families prior hard work and home. Some lost their family mortgage free home because they didn't pay the taxes. Others cause the kids got on the narcotic, jail, or just plain ignorance.
that's what bitter people (who can't afford a house in CA say). 90% of these are people have substance abuse issues. most came from OTHER STATES. you don't live on the streets because you can't afford to buy or rent. you simply move to an affordable state. THERE ARE 50 STATES IN THE US in case you don't know.
@@Teolulz Homelessness is happening in all 50 states!
@@sabrinag.8433 ok? My point is affordability is not an issue. If Louisiana is unaffordable to them then they can only live in Africa.
The so called city and state leaders should be ashamed !
They are democrats. They have no feelings.
Out in Alhambra we had a man in terrible condition tripping out on meth the other day at the park yelling profanity and threats at patrons and making gun gestures and sounds at children playing on the play ground. Called the police. They “talked” to him for maybe 2 minutes and left. The man continued harassing the park goers. Gotta love LA/California!
When the Super Bowl was in Atlanta they tried to clean up the city for it. Our Homeless problem is nowhere near LA’s of course but still its a sad reality that it took the Super Bowl to come here for them to even bother doing that. I feel like LA is doing the same thing
Throwing money at the problem doesn't fix it. A lot of these people can't be helped and should be in a mental institution which they closed down.
The laws would need to be changed to commit people against their will. Then get ready to spend billions of taxpayer dollars defending against the lawsuits.
Republicans ran it from 1983- 1999 /2003-2011 and it was bad then too -- its the economics of CA that have pushed people to the streets and mental facilities closed by Ronald Reagan (R)
@@sterlingmarshel6299 I’ve been living in Cali for 35 years and during Ronald Regan there’s absolute no comparison to the homelessness now. The two increased peaks were during Obama and now Biden.
Lets not forget California wasn’t always a Democratic run state but the minute it did everything slowly started to fall and thats thanks to the failed policies in placed.
Go check out San Francisco, LA, San Bernardino, Oakland, Philly, Chicago and New York, it is horrendous run by Democrats. 🤷🏻♀️
Bazinga!!!
Well I worked next to an encampment for many years, watched many die over a decade or so and yes there may be many who have a hard luck story and need help to get back on their feet. I bought bus tickets for a few to get back home, but what I seen for the most part was drugs, alcohol and prostitution. You can't recover from what ever ails you if you cloud your mind with drugs and booze while turning to crime and prostitution. It's a catch 22 and many will say what's happened to them is a result of their circumstance, I can't argue with that point but here are programs available for those who seek it. Most can't cope with these programs because booze and drugs are strictly prohibited and many can't last without their stimulants to get the help they need.
I lived with an addict and the one thing he was adamantly against was taking any responsibility or having any kind of structure to his life. Any time it was even hinted at he immediately rebelled. You cannot help someone who refuses to help themselves. You cannot do it for them.
Blame the NIMBY's and the real estate speculators that priced these people out housing and the government that refuses to treat these people with medical problems(drugs and mental).
The UK has it share of homelessness and is a very expensive place to live also, but the scenery of homeless people on the street is not to this extreme.
I have family that live in inglewood just 5 years ago I remember visiting often and you wouldn't see any homeless around. You might have spotted maybe a handful here and there. But they would never leave a mess. As soon as they started building the stadium it seemed like a billion homeless people flocked out there. It was so weird seeing all those homeless and the amount of trash was insane. LA always had a bunch of homeless but inglewood didn't. The homelessness in inglewood is recent. And it all started with that stadium they built.
Courtesy of George Gascon and the LA mayor.
Stadiums over affordable housing
And we talkin millions upon millions💲
Let's you kno we in a new age Rome 🏟️
All about keeping tha people weak & entertained for easier control...
Obviously itz working if people ain't outraged yet
Scary question iz, what'z next?
Got Jesus? ⏳
I’m born and raised in Inglewood. It use to be a fairly affordable area to live in as well, due to it not really being a favorable place to live in. 10 years ago you could barely get a job in the city and there were gang issues. The stadium made prices for places skyrocket, and around the stadium isn’t as dangerous since they are improving they area. It’s changing the demographics of the community slightly. Homeless people feel a bit safer staying there now.
@blessed from what you described, it sounds like LA is transplanting it's homeless people. NYC does the same thing. they have these "programs" that disperse their homeless population to different parts of NJ and PA in an attempt to alleviate. crazy
Born n raised in L.A and currently still a resident this angers me and it’s just sad and embarrassing
I hear the California state and local governments spend around $67k per homeless person per year. Give them each $60k for being and you still save money. Which is ridiculous. People who work hard don’t make that kind of money.
It’s a shithole. Keep voting for the same people 😂
Just shows you where the priorities are at. Here’s all these expensives stadiums and tourist attractions and we’ll put minimum effort to the homeless problem.
Top cities I’d never want to live:
1. Los Angeles
2. Miami
3. New York
I’ll enjoy my Midwest life. Can’t imagine living in the cities above where people seem to be so self centered and self absorbed.
We need to realize that each and every one of us are one paycheck away from losing our jobs and being homeless or living in poverty! I don't know what it is like to be homeless but I do know what it is like to have to make that heart wrenching decision of do I pay rent or do I put food on my table this month
Homelessness is a severe problem but saying everybody is one paycheck away from poverty is really stretching it , there are plenty of regular people living normal happy lives that could survive multiple years of no income.
@@mibox8302 lmao yea that’s a straight lie
Food you can get for free all day long 7 days a week . Pay the rent first !!!! An eviction will screw everything up for the rest of your life .
@@MrJuice44 I'm just pointing out that there have been a flood of people who can afford to buy houses 500K - 2 mil in cash so obviously not everybody is 1 paycheck away from poverty.
I'm not you may be .
AFFORDABLE HOUSING WOULD FIX THE PROBLEM.
You're deluded. They could build 50,000 nice little tiny houses for these people right now and 75% of them would be trashed out with drug, prostitution, and other criminal activity (plus the mentally ill and violent wandering the streets) within 6 months.
@ٴ the problem is that every week less and less areas are actually affordable
He said “world wide” 😂😂😂 for a eggball game
I live in a town of 90 K, if drug afflicted are loitering, they are removed for trespassing!! Second, the US needs to call them what they are, drug addicts, not homeless, that is the symptom of drug addiction. Ppl are really going to be disappointed if not disgusted!!
It sad it takes the superbowl to make them care while the citizen have to deal with it for years and they never care
Exactly
LA does provide numerous of social programs to help those who need it. Unfortunately, the homeless don't want the help and yes many have mental problems. Its sad that this homeless issue is spreading all over LA and other cities as well
It’s the cost of living. My dad is a satellite engineer for Comcast and was living in a car and now boat. I am from la and had to move away. Unless u have generational wealth ur fcked
Send them to a tropical island in the middle of the pacific ocean. There they can do whatever it is they do, forever.
@@um_from_umbridge7285 maybe band together as one people instead of letting the politicians bend you over all while making dope money from homeless encampments
@@thatdude3977 😄
@@um_from_umbridge7285 It's been 2 years. Isn't covid supposed to kill off the homeless? They're not at home where "it's safe".
Once again the Stupid Bowl proves what it really is: GREED. The networks and teams hype up the game (which is NO different than any other game) - and then ultimately poor people pay the price for this event -- they just get poorer and poorer. Instead of doing something about greedy slumlords in Los Angeles, they build these stadiums that not only make the homeless problem worse, but it shows that the city of Los Angeles only cares about making MONEY, not actually helping anyone.
You got folks with very high education in that community man.....this is a humanitarian issue.
Once the Super Bowl is over, they’ll be back!
@Jessie Rubio so this has been an issue for how long? That list needs more names
Until they are cleared out for the next event.
I can't even begin to dive Into everything wrong in this news piece
The worst part is nothing dramatic is happening to help this crisis, only quick fixes that don't work. It's just going to get worse. It's an ongoing crisis around the richest countries in the world but LA seems to be so bad.
Needing compassion and help is not a problem
With the 2028 Summer Olympics coming up we'll definitely see a repeat of 1984.
Also A lot worse I would bet.
I’ve been there & understand their struggle 🙏
its more than been jobless and broke. sometimes its drinks / drugs, sometimes its mental ... and times its all three!
Houston has 3500 homeless ppl that’s bad but LA has 78,000 that’s just nuts.
"The 101 overpass look less cluttered with encampments that we've seen before". A typo is one thing, but verbally stating it prerecorded and uncorrected in a broadcast is just sloppy journalism.
Note to our visitors: Yes, we really do use those red cups at parties, and Yes, we really do have that many homeless. And it's not just Los Angeles and it's not just California. It's all over the US. Homeless just everywhere.
But it’s worse in YOUR CITY.
But it’s worse in your Shithole City.
It's not everywhere!!!
This has little to do with housing. This is mostly a drug addiction and mental illness issue. And if they are offered housing and refuse it, there is nothing anyone can do. Currently they can stay where ever they want. Most choose to stay on the streets.
Are u from la? Do u know the cost of living in la? It’s outrageous. I had to move away. My dad is a satellite tech and had to live in his car then boat. None of us do drugs. We can’t afford to live where we’re from anymore
@@um_from_umbridge7285 Born and have lived here for 55 years. See and experience this daily. The majority of this is addiction and untreated mental illness. Sure, some people have lost their homes, but not most of the people, they are meth/heroin and fentanyl addicts. LA is insanely expensive now-most people who cant afford to live here dont end up doing drugs, setting fires, attacking people or living in dilapidated campers hoarding mounds of garbage. That is what's ruined LA county and most liberal cities.
I live in the UK and even i've known for years how bad homelessness in America is including L.A but why is there no mention of Skid Row in this report?.
Poor people 😢
Due to the pandemic in 2020, my sister in law's entire family would be living in the streets right now if we weren't doing so well. Don't be so quick to judge and dehumanize these people. There are at least three people in this country that could solve this problem without even putting so much as a dent in their hoarded wealth. The homeless problem is on purpose, courtesy of the ruling class.
Well said
Everything took a thing for the worse after Prop 47 passed (November 2014). Think back to how homelessness was before then, not to mention crime. It was nowhere on this level. Prop 47 had good intentions behind it, but it has been a miserable failure and needs to be repealed.
It's LA , I don't see anything out of the ordinary.
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LA and SF couldn't pay our family to visit their town. We like happy thoughts in many other great cities to visit in the US
Tj looks clean compared to this side of L.A.
What people from other countries don’t understand that a lot of homeless want to be on the streets! I know…I’ve done triage work trying to place them in housing and most of them turned down the help.
Tell me you live in a democratic city without telling me you live in a democratic city is more like it.
Cmac is the only celebrity that goes and feeds the homeless in L.A
This is all over California, they voted No on the recall. Land of the fruits and nuts.
there was no viable or intelligent alternative that ran - otherwise Newsome would have been recalled
You walk outside and see all the homeless junkies. Nice job LA.
@LetzBfriendZ I grew up in OC. It's just pathetic what's become of CA.
This mentality is part of the problem.
@@velshock CA has failed its citizens, it's a national embarrassment.
This is like when you get an unexpected visitor and you put all your trash and stuff in a closet until the visitor leaves , the problem is not leaving by just hiding it !!
I lived 20 mins away from downtown LA last time i visit was 5 years ago
The spot light IS on the homeless and the crime throughout the entire city. I mean, c’mon now. Isn’t this what LA is all about, Homelessness, crime and filth? This is the biggest attraction of Los Angeles, folks. And it’s all yours to see for free too!
Football is more important that humanity
so we should stop living because of homelessness?
it's just unbelievable on Hollywood Blvd. All of the side streets leading down
to Sunset. An encampment in front of "Toyota of Hollywood, i.e. near Gower."
Sunset-Gower studios? -Now ENGULFED.
How sad...you don't see this in Chicago