LA Is Spending Over $1 Billion to House the Homeless. It’s Failing.
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Skid Row is 53 square-block area of downtown Los Angeles where more than 2,500 homeless individuals reside on the streets.
"Skid row is the worst manmade disaster in the United States. There's human waste on the sidewalks. There's all kinds of disease," says Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row, the nation's largest private homeless shelter. He lost his leg to staph infection he contracted while serving the homeless on Skid Row.
But California's homelessness crisis extends far beyond Skid Row and Los Angeles. The state's homeless population has jumped by more than 12 percent in the last five years, and it's part of a national crisis.
More than 1,000 homeless people died on the streets of Los Angeles county last year, according to government figures.
In 2016 Los Angeles voters approved a referendum to spend more than $1.2 billion dollars building new housing for the homeless. It's part of a plan championed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who declined our interview request.
The city set a target of 10,000 new housing units within a decade that were supposed to take between 3 and 6 years to build. But three years in, just one percent of those apartments will be ready for occupancy by the end of 2019.
"It's going to be too late when they get through spending the money," says Jimmy Anderson, who's lived on Skid Row for 40 years and currently sleeps at Union Rescue Mission. "There's going to be triple the homeless who're out here now."
Building anything in California isn't easy.
The state legislative analyst's office found that "increasing competition for limited housing is the primary driver of housing cost growth in coastal California."
The shortage drives up prices, and some living on the margins are priced out and turn to the streets.
And even after voters approved the more than a billion dollars specifically to build housing for the increasing homeless population, a recent report by LA's controller's office attributed the delays and cost overruns largely to regulatory barriers, permitting challenges, and bureaucratic confusion.
Meanwhile, the existing shelters are running out of space.
"Women and kids are going to take over the [Union Rescue Mission] and all the men are going to have to move back out here onto the street," says Anderson.
The city initially ballparked the permanent units at a median cost of $350,000 a piece. Three years later, the estimated cost rose to more than half a million per unit. Some units are approaching $700,000 each.
Andy Bales says he saw it coming.
"I was a critic 10 years ago of this plan even before it came about," he says. "A very expensive way of spending all the resources on a few and leaving the many out in the cold."
Bales says that given the current emergency the city should reconsider its heavy focus on finding a long term solution.
Property owners in Skid Row and elsewhere in the city would like to see the police clear homeless encampments out of their neighborhoods, which could also help to avert the emerging public health crisis.
But past court settlements prevent that, and a September ruling on a case out of Idaho from the U.S. 9th Circuit Appeals court found that doing so constitutes cruel and unusual punishment when cities don't have "adequate shelter" to accommodate everyone living on the streets. Los Angeles City and County have signed onto a lawsuit challenging that ruling.
"We just firmly believe that the police are not an answer to homelessness," says Becky Dennison of the Venice Community Housing Corporation, which opposes the criminalization of sidewalk camping in Los Angeles.
Dennison says that the focus should remain on building more housing, not arresting people for being unable to find shelter. But proponents of the lawsuit say the city needs guidance from the courts on what constitutes "adequate shelter" before investing in solutions that might free them to enforce anti-camping laws.
Under the increasing pressure in recent months, the city has erected a few of its own Sprung structures to address the crisis. Bales says it's still not nearly enough.
"It's ridiculous. I mean, who would want to leave 44,000 people on the streets to die while you stick with your very expensive plan to help a few?"
Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Benjamin Gaskell and John Osterhoudt. Music by Kai Engel.
Only California could allocate $1 billion for housing, and then create regulatory and bureaucratic obstacles to prevent it from being built.
You really think they are using all of 1 billion to help the homeless? Boy dont be an american out state sheep . You only know what you see on CNN and youtube . Sheeeeep
Socialism at its finest. Got to love it!
Canadian here, I'm confident we can compete at this!
@@kap1526 100 percent correct. Love seeing comments from out of staters who have no idea wtf is going on.
@@jaym5938 I don’t know what the rules of the road are in real estate in Scandinavia but I can tell you that I can probably bet they are not even close to the dumbassery of California. (As I own quite few multi family properties and 1 Commercial Property) Also while Scandinavia has small homogeneous populations it overlooks the fact that their economies are more capitalists than the US’s and they don’t have tons of wasteful departments. EPA, Dept of Education, Social Security (aka Ponzi Scheme) and are charged with defending the globe Militarily spending endless billions. So yes if given the same charge they would be Venezuela
Did the mayor say....a roof under their head?
Applause was prevalent, caused by professional clappers.
I caught that too, lol
Yea hes an idiot
Correct. The official plan to clean up the streets of LA is to have the homeless sleep on roofs.
I heard that too. 🤔🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
And after Covid ruins jobs and kills the economy millions more will be on the streets.
0:39 He said "I've lost a leg to staph infection" so casually, I had to go back to make sure I heard it right.
Ydek these streets
Audit the mayor to find his family of "contractors" took most of the money.
Yeahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
BOOM
Yep! For sure...nobody cares though. Just par for the course.
I hear that !
Oh, hell yeah !! Audit all of them, and the homeless agencies and shelters too !
Remember that one time California confiscated those small houses that an artist built a while back?
I wonder how much of the money is going to help the homeless. It's seems the politicians are the only ones benefiting from the money. They spend billions on illegal immigrants for housing, medical , and education. The American way has become f your own. It's time to hold them accountable. You have people in office over 80 years of age. They can't even stay awake during the sessions. They should be replaced. How many regular jobs let you work that long and give you a huge pension? They receive more for a pension than some citizens make in 3-5 years.
Fate Weaver ...I remember, he couldn’t get them out fast enough for the city to trash them. The city politicians are the problem...vote them out.
With $1B they could've built 1 million of those small houses.
Lilith >>> During the interviews, the politicians were saying that the citizens did not want them in their neighborhoods. While in truth, they could have positioned the little dwellings in communities with centralized restrooms, kitchens and gardens. This concept has worked in other cities. But, when you have politicians using the funds elsewhere. Yet, the homeless communities in California seem to be growing. This leads America to uncover why California has excessive housing issues. I recently read there are areas in California with taxation in the 30% and above?
@@yellowroseoftexas2890 They're probably right about lots of citizens not wanting homeless communities in their neighbourhoods. Providing order, safety, sanitation and maintenance in those communities is going to be hell. The quality of life of ordinary people is going to suffer for proximity to these YIMBYtowns.
Also Los Angeles: "These cheap yet effective $1,200 houses aren't an acceptable alternative to living on the streets/tents".
I saw how a musician's decent units were take away by government because the specifications were against "regulations" -
As you said, better than tents but not good enough so lets keep those poor people in tents - STUPIDITY!
Citing "regulations" is another way for city bureaucrats to say, "since we didn't profit from your solution, you're not allowed to do it".
@@Rockyx01 Yep, regulations, and best if need the approval of bureaucrat, are the source of corruption.
But left loves government...
I think it's because if a homeless hurt himself is these $1,200 house made by the governement, he can take the governement in court and have plenty of money at the end. So the governement won't take the risk if the specifications are against "regulations" because the responsability is their... This is sad, they traped themselves to not help people with the laws they voted.
@@sammonereau2645 Wasn't the government. Was a musician.
If Becky Dennison is ok with the homeless camped on downtown LA sidewalks, then she should be OK with them camping in front of her home.
As long as its not near their residence they could care less.
@Orsim The Pariah this is true
TRUE....how about spending a night down there...LMAO.
And they can camp on Pelosi Newsome Feinstein Garcetti and all the mayors yards of LA county cities mayors. Lol
Homeless should put camp in front of her house. Taste her own medicine
8:08 "is there some level of control we want over our streets and sidewalks?" "I would say no." Seriously?
A business has no rights to the sidewalk. I can piss on his front door, defecate there, and sleep in a tent beside the door. All legal. I knows my rights!
@@JonSobieski The sidewalks are public property. Should the public have any right to have some level of control over how sidewalks can be used? I would say yes. Do you think it is okay to park a car in a sidewalk? How about driving a car in the sidewalk? Do you honestly believe we should have absolutely no control over how sidewalks are used?
They need to invade the sidewalks around her house to show her what it's like. Feces, needles, trash, everything!
Anyone who thinks la is spending that money on homelessness is seriously stupid. I think most people see through this sham.
Right. They budgeted over $20k per homeless person, but achieved nothing.
Eric Hinkle , they spend 10x as much as needed that is the problem graft and corruption !
I agree.
Eric Hinkle they should get audited to find out exactly where that money went
Liberals help illegal aliens more than their own citizens.
$20 says all this money is being funneled into friends' and buddies' construction companies.
chbrules you can’t just give a broke person money.
People need to learn to do things by themselves
... this is the big thing everyone has forgotten
You don’t just give someone a fish you teach them to fish ...
@@No1reallydies I don't disagree, but sometimes someone needs some immediate charity to just get on their feet as well.
chbrules that’s very true
@@No1reallydies you still need something to do something. You can't make something out of nothing. People need homes and jobs to contribute to society
@@No1reallydies fundamentally agreed however our government does it every year they give 10 billion dollars to Mexico for what? They also gave 10 billion dollars to Colombia for what more drugs??
They give out billions if not trillions of dollars a year in foreign aid so they can pretend to buy friends I mean that's really all they're trying to do at this point is they're just trying to buy allies!!
Our government gives away all this big big money year after year and many of you say that a few welfare recipients and some homeless people are the scourge of our time??
I got news for you you're not paying for any of it! you think you are but you're not your taxes don't even cover the cost of the IRS much less cover the interest on the money borrowed year after year so if they can borrow all this money for foreign aid yeah why not send some of it to the people I mean it's all fictitious made up money anyway it's all created out of the thin air it's back by nothing if we're going to base our whole lives on money and chasing after it continuously then why not pass a little bit of it out please don't seem to hesitate to pass it out to themselves nor their friends or to other governments what's wrong with the people of our own country??
No I am not a socialist in fact I hate communism and socialism but essentially I guess a lot of your guys's arguments would be that well it's totally evil terrible horrible socialism to pass out money to our own people that brand of socialism is terrible but it's a okay to go ahead and fund other countries cradle-to-grave socialist systems even though we're the ones that's on the hook for the borrowed money!!
there again you're still not really paying for it if your tax is actually covered any of this crap then our country wouldn't be and Dad if you actually pay the bill then you no longer owe the bill because you paid it but that's not what's going on here they're taking your tax money more than likely for just superficial purposes because it's something they've always done they got to keep up appearances, with the fact that politicians on both sides and know that you'll always dick wag about being a taxpayer and that alone gives them a platform to run on so it's another way to work out your stupid ass back to the voting booth is all it really is they take your money but it goes into the abyss of the unknown because it sure as hell ain't paying the bills baby!!
They got a house, now they need electricity, water, sewer, cable, internet, furniture, maintenance costs, taxes, & insurance. What they need is a job skill AND a job.
Don't forget drugs and booze
@@a54109 So drugs and booze are only ok when rich people do it? Lmao.
Ummmm I’m sorry to break it to you,But the problem is LA exorbitant rent prices, $2k for 1 bedroom. $4-5k for a decent family home,They need to do something about that. Not point fingers at the homeless for not affording livin in this Ludacris city
@@CutieZalbu CA already has more rent control restrictions than any other state. its supply and demand. they wouldn't be getting that much if they couldn't. there's "cheaper" neighborhoods. but rent in itself is the issue if people had access to credit they could buy for just as much as they're paying rent in some cases. Its like banks see you can afford to pay rent but you can't be trusted with a mortgage even tho the property is there as collateral
@@giannalopez2080 if you don’t have a house then hopefully drugs and booze is low on your priority list
We are here to end homelessness. Lol how he can lie to ppl’s faces is scary.
That homeless advocate is so obviously disconnected from the problem, her only 'solution' is to allow it to continue and fight everyone else's attempts.
Unreal.
Typical progtard
When it's not about stopping the problem, but promulgating the money to stop the problem
She literally argues for sidewalk camping - even with a hypothetical 30,000 beds available.
@@adamsee444 Government creates its own demand. first they cause the problem, then they propose how to stop the problem. It keeps the flow of stolen loot flowing that way.
I agree. The guy asked her about the owners of those homes and businesses having rights and she pushes it under the rug, just like all democrats. "We can have that conversation when we get there." We ARE there!
Wasn't there a video here a few years ago where someone was making 1 room houses that were helping the homeless and the city confiscated and destroyed them?
If you find it, let me know.
I remember that video too.
the cops swooped in destroyed or made him move the rest. he went to jail as well.
Yeah, just a little place to keep your things and charge your phone with the little solar panels on the roof.
That's all people need to get started.
The government wants to get more welfare money for its own gain, and not want other companies or charities doing this, unless those corporations help government grow, like the military corporations do.
Spending a lot of time in the street as a skateboarder it’s pretty apparent speaking with people who are homeless that nearly every one of them isn’t just dealing with a fundamental issue of not having financial resources. Each person I’ve talked to has a unique psychological situation that is the root of the problem. Without addressing how to heal those issues to the point where the person will be able to maintain a self sustaining lifestyle you’ll just be treating symptoms instead of the root issue.
Infrastructure is needed, and lots of social workers
@@Anthonybrother Preferably not of the Karen type.
@Anthony Mancini you are 1,000% correct. Those issues are likely worthy of hospitalization if not long term rehabilitation. It's momumental.
drug addiction causes mental illness. that is your root cause
@@samusvi2693 In some cases, but that doesn't explain mental illness found in a wide variety of people with no history of drug addiction and many people with drug addictions began medicating themselves to handle their mental illnesses (though not in a recommended manner of course).
Lets see how the Venice housing lady feels about "sharing our public spaces" if homeless people set up camp in front of her house. She'll be the first to call the cops i bet.
But the cops will never come. But the naked homeless dude will come when he yanks it on her porch.
"I will accept nothing less than a roof under everyone's head."
Moving the homeless to rooftops?
I heard that as well. Hahaha.
US wars produce homeless refugees all over the world! Living on LA streets might not be worse than some refugees camps!! But it is more money spend and action taken to make people homeless abroad, than to safe and rescue the own homeless people! 🙅 Home of the Brave! 😂😂
@@steppib.4598 Being homeless on the streets of LA may not be worse than a war refugee camp? How do you figure?
I mean, there is a lot of real estate up there
facepalm...
When you hear someone say “we can have a dialogue/discussion about that as a society” what they really mean is “I don’t know and don’t want to know”.
Right? It's a cop-out
She brought no solution to the argument 😂
A completely ridiculous way of speaking
Discussion/Dialogue means spend the $1 billion dollars homeless money without fixing the problem!😂
If there weren’t people on the street she wouldn’t have a job. California has a homeless industrial complex now and it employees many people in the public and private sector.
You can't just throw money at the problem and expect it to go away :(
When a problem stays a problem for decades, you know someone is making lots of money off the "problem".
It’s failing because someone is getting rich off them
Thats what cronyism comes down to...tit for tat and not a penny ends up where it was meant to go to
greed ruin lives
Shred Spectrum most of the democrats coming from average working background and are millionaires as today.
Anna M. I believe it
Patriotic Anarchist
Corporate Cronyism is the American way
It's not the lack of housing that's causing homelessness. Just by shoveling them into housing without addressing why they're homeless in the first place will just result in the units getting trashed and destroyed.
This is so true. Some people do benefit from the “housing first” model, but the fact is that most people are homeless because they are drug addicts, refuse to hold a job, or constantly commit petty crimes and go in and out of jail.
It’s a heartbreaking problem . I’ve worked with the homeless and there is no one size fits all solution. Most important, the person has to want to get out of their homelessness situation. The sad fact is that many people find it’s easier to take the free handouts than to work to earn their own living.
We have to walk the very fine line between helping and enabling.
What it's because they are lazy? Lol did you know u.s didn't even have a homeless problem till Reagan?
shelterforce.org/2004/05/01/reagans-legacy-homelessness-in-america/
And
www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/
Yes. It's almost like the usual government solution of throwing money at the problem doesn't work yet again. The reason why homeless doesn't improve is because this is a multi faceted issue that has no magic bullet solution. You would need housing, as well as mental health care, zero tolerance addiction care, criminalizing sidewalk living, and job requirements. These are all losing policy positions that need to be talked about, but uncomfortable to bring up.
@@fm5280 you mean you expect fast results for the problems that was created by lack of government control since the 80s? Mass homelessness, opioid crisis, and suicide rates didn't go up overnight. That is the exact result of neoliberalism and libertarian ideology that was imposed on us. I literally gave you examples of that ideology and yet you refuse to acknowledge it which shows how far neoliberalism ideology has been embedded into your brain.
mehrshadvr4 unfortunately freedom gives people the opportunity to make choices that are terrible for them. I know people who would be homeless if not for family members who are sacrificing everything for the abusive addicted family member who trashes the apartment that isn’t theirs and makes life a nightmare for those around them. Addiction and mental illness doesn’t get fixed just by giving someone free stuff and a roof over their head!
Id hate to be “that guy” but throwing housing at these people aint gonna do much to combat the basic issue here
It’s very true. These people don’t want to live under any rules, they can’t hold down jobs, or maintain relationships with others. Homelessness is a symptom of the bigger issue that these homeless people have.
actually research shows that a lot of people can get back on their feet if theyre given a chance and it costs more to let them live on the street and steal and do drugs and get hospitalized for injuries and sickness than to give them cheap housing. of course half a million per unit is ridiculous.
@@jenc8953 I live in transitional housing. A lot of people move on into a place of their own. A big part of it is the programs providing private shelter (this is essentially an apartment complex with food), wifi, phones, and then you give the individuals case managers who keep them on their toes. They have to search for jobs and get them, and they get help with therapy, resumes, clothes donations, etc. That's all it takes for many of the people here.
Have people not heard of trailer parks
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790 that sounds like an actual reasonable solution.
as soon as politicians use the phrase 'coming together' i know its horseshite
Spend 1 billion but noting to show for lol. Where did the money go? Something doesn't add up smh
Same thing happened in New Orleans
Executives used it for bonuses
Bro it’s California...they’ve been mismanaging money for over 70 years
its literally the same with all those trillions that have been spend on africa. where did that money go? exactly in the pockets of the corrupt charities and governments. same happens in LA.
spend for war
"give people a roof under their head" that's called a sidewalk
Oh good I'm not the only one who heard that.
Now you know why the plan ain't gonna work. He's building the roofs in the wrong place!
If Trump said that it would talked about for days and all taken out of contexts
You're right
Eh, a slip of the tounge.
Theyre homeless for a reason. You'd be lucky if 90% could acclimate back into society when 100% couldn't to begin with.
Get the homeless to be part of the building process and pay them so they can start earning money and moving out of their situation!!
That’s not how that works lol
@@ave14401 Enlighten me Avery. Tell me how it works?
Dude lost his leg yet is still committed to the cause. Respect.
hes an idiot.
Ok, how does your open wound leg just accidentally come in contact with feces on the street? Maybe don’t wear shorts? Bandage???
@@DieselRamcharger WOWWWWWWWW
@@therealbs2000shut up pussy.
@@DrewMaw open wound. got shit on it. DIDNT clean it. didn't seek medical attention until after his leg went septic. that dude was probably banging heroin in his calf.
In California, it is all about helping the unions. Those permanent structures at $600,000 per unit are being built to provide jobs to unions labor. It has got nothing to do with solving the housing crisis, it's just mislabeling. Corruption runs deep.
Yep, unions and Democrats fucking over the people as usual.
Ajinkya Taware that’s all red tape .... absolute bulls hit
And those huge green tents look horribly unsafe. I think I would prefer to sleep in a camping tent over the risk of sleeping in one of those
This is true. I'm in the biggest union besides the city workers of course, and all they preach is vote dem constantly
I don't understand why you see unions as evil? In Finland (and Europe in general) we're very lucky to have strong worker unions that ensure everyone gets paid living wage and that they aren't mistreated at work or fired without proper cause. and having a stable well paying job creates stability that prevents homelessness... we have homeless in Finland, but they're few and it really takes a lot of effort from the person to become homeless. We help as much as we can anyone who is struggling so if you go homeless in Finland, you're really fucked up beyond any reasonable doubt.
This is been happening in La for the last 50 years it's still corrupt in every aspect
"we have chosen poverty to remain free" an old Afghan saying
That woman is living in a fantasy world. Nobody wants to go into a store with an entrance surrounded by disgusting homeless tents with people that have TB.
You know the solution to that? Give...them...a... house.
Cut the regulations and get housing up . What happened to the FEMA trailers they were used for New Orleans?
@@RextheRebel that only encourages more homeless........ The democratic mindset is truly fucked
When houses cost a fortune and jobs can’t afford rent that also promotes homelessness so it doesn’t matter what you do
@@usefulidiot2842 Getting rid of the Democrats and other stupid emotional people is California's only hope. Short of that, enjoy Venezuela 2.0
If they took $1 billion and made tiny homes or tiny micro apartments that cost $20K each they could house 50,000 people.
Yep
Not Gonna happen.
Liberals are too Stupid and Entitled to do that
It's sad we can come up with a fairly easy solution. Yet it'll never happen with these lowlife fucks running things.
Great idea. Why not take it a step further and make the micro apartments 10k each if you designed them in bulk. I mean you need a sink kitchen and could have a toilet off the kitchen next to a walk in shower and maybe 2 bedrooms.
Still need the land moron never. Mind everything else like running water you make a simple comment on a complex situation as if it's that easy
What is amazing, and frustrating at the same time, is that we have technologies like the 3D printer mentioned in video to actually do something about the homeless crisis. The politicians need to get out of the way and let the sane people work.
Not gonna happen though.
When theres a ballot to override zoning and environmental review crap... ill vote yes. Ill sign the petition super fast.
Her: It's wrong to kick people off the sidewalk because they have no place else to go
Him: What if we gave them some place else to go
Her: ....No
Austin Wilkins LA beaches are huge.... there are ways.
She believes they will never find a solution.
@@blue_thumb Her Job depends on the crisis continuing. If their are no "victims" to advocate for, what does a Victims Advocate like her do?
Most of these homeless advocates, like Becky, are straight up garbage people who keep sueing the city to give the homeless all these rights that make it impossible to get them off the streets. They are openly doing drugs, crapping, and trashing the city and cops are pretty much hands off meanwhile I get a $150 jaywalking ticket down in Hollywood.
Say Hello to Becky the LIberal.
If it cost 500,000 to build one unit in a place with a stable climate your laws are insane
Affiliates who own the real estate used to house these homeless people are receiving 3x what their property is worth. In other words they are using our money to over pay their friends large amounts of money to use their properties to “house the homeless”
Large amounts of tax dollars allocated to overpay friends of the state for services and resources. This has been going on for too long.
I think someone needs to send these State/county officials a FOIA Letter. I want to see where the funds are going.
That’s part of the problem. The mayor Eric Garcetti is confused on wether to put a roof over the homeless heads or under their heads🤦🏻♂️
This “homelessness” issue has simply become a HUGE money maker. Thus the perpetual attempt to resolve the crisis
Yeah. I don't get why they can't simply build housing, when they literally have a billion fucking dollars to work with. A tiny home can be built for like $1,000 or less. They simply don't WANT to fix homelessness.
Vote yang 2020
All politicians are corrupt and work for the banks of voting mattered they wouldn’t let us do it at all the best slaves think they are free
It's Very 😢 This Poor People Living Out On The Rain & Heat With Out A Meal.Very Cruel!!!
Many of these CA politicians are pocketing that money to buy themselves Jets, vacations, cars and mansions
funny how everyone says oh we gotta help these people , none of them said "they are welcome in my home"
they should atleast have the guts to speak the truth "these people disgust me. i want to avoid seeing them ever again."
their response to this failure would probably be "let's throw in another billion."
when affordable housing can't be built for less than 350k, you should start with that as your problem.
Follow the money! They'll get taxpayers to build housing for the homeless, then gentrify the neighborhood and kick the homeless back out in the street.
$350K? Holly crap!
That's a TON of money.
with all the BS bureaucracy, there was video that talked about how the govt built housing was more expensive than the average market price. Thanks gubmint!
@Donald Smith Markets don't act. People act in them. High prices mean constrained supply. Why is supply constrained?
manboob5000 there are tons of good homes in descent neighborhoods for less than $200k. They’re just not in a prime real estate location like LA, SF, or Austin
I have very mixed feelings about this. When I turned 18, I was kicked out of my foster home (not thier fault: the state said I had to go to free up room for someone else) and was homeless for a short time before finally finding a couple of couches. Found a job. Worked hard. Found a second job. Worked harder. Finally I was able to save up enough to rent my own apartment. Now I work a ton of long hours to be able to afford my one bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, my cousin is living in a 7 bedroom, 5 bathroom house for 250 a month. Because she has 7 kids. And plans on having more so she can get more assistance (her words not mine).
Long story short, something needs to be done but just giving it freely leads to people like my cousin who just take advantage...
I'm sorry to hear about your situation and I agree with you that government intervention incentivizes behaviors. Feed a stray cat, next thing you know you have a dozen cats showing up at your door.
By the way, didn't your state have assisted living for foster kids who aged out? Like a half way house, or job assistance? I'm a foster parent in Florida and they have group homes that are kept for kids 18-22 to help them transition to adulthood. I was just curious.
@@JohnPrepuce They were just starting up then and I did not qualify. I've heard that it is much better now. This was over 15 years ago...
Fortune smiles at some and laughs at others. Time will tell where you and your cousin's fortune ends...or begins.
Good on you for not being on the take. You will sleep better.
Respect!
@@timsilva1944 very true
I don't have mixed feelings at all. We all enjoy the right to live and be free but when that right comes into conflict with another's rights to the same, usually through government mandate, then we have a problem. Your foster home was paid for as a reward to your foster parents by the government who extorted the money from others to pay for it. You were kicked out because the government stops paying for you at 18. Your cousin is benefiting from that same extortion that you absurdly resent. It is just laughable.
Instead of helping the homeless they are enabling them to stay in their situation. Not only that but encouraging other homeless people to move there.
That's not how this works. I mean, I'm against what the City does too, but for completely different reasons.
@@TheSeniorTaco absolutely not. Only a human already living in dignity can think about making their life better and make long-term good decisions. Poverty isn't lacking character, it's lacking moned. Give a random homeless man enough money to survive permanently and, unless they have a mental illness like Depression or ADHD, this person will be neither homeless nor unemployed within a year.
@@alexsch2514 give them enough resources to survive permanently and they won't be unemployed or homeless in a year?
I'd hope not if you give them enough to live off of permanently?
Work ethic fixes most issues. Some habitual poor decision making can't be overcome by work ethic but most can.
So it's not a worship of the rich that compels people to say get a job. It's the understanding that a job/jobs/work gives most people purpose. A sense of self-respect for accomplishing something and paying their own way in life.
People who were not taught work ethic and delayed gratification as children will almost always have poor decision making and money trouble throughout their life.
Throwing money/ resources at them will not fix that.
If more public resources are poured into feeding, housing, and paying for people who do not want to participate in society. It will only encourage more people to leech off society. Leaving less of a limited amount of resources for those few that truly cannot help their situation.
Rewarding bad behavior and poor decision making will never stop it.
Welfare was never ment to be a handout (see TVA, CCC...) It was designed to be worked for.
Nothing worth while is gained without work/ sacrifice.
@@themissourikid969 it is every persons right to survive. No one, not even "lazy" people should have too few resources to survive. People work because that's a human desire. We don't take away any incentive by just having people's basic physical needs met.
@@alexsch2514
People don't have a right to be taken care of. Look at any time in America before FDR for proof.
Nature gives no quarter. Nature doesn't care what you do or don't want to do. Nature only cares if you've done enough to survive. People who are separated from nature / reality start imaging people have all sorts of "rights" that don't exist.
People who think they have a right to be taken care of while doing little to nothing to better themselves, understand neither nature or history.
Historically those few that were actually incapable of caring for themselves were provided for by charity. People choose to freely give charity because we lived in polite society.
Charity, seems so foreign a concept to most people nowadays.
It's sad that people still attribute homeslessness as an issue with housing. These people don't need houses, they need help with rehabilitating drug abuse and access to mental health services.
I’m sure that lady doesn’t have tents in front of her home. If that were the case she would demand they be removed.
Nothings ever going to be good enough for her. For her, living in a shithole is a human right.
All Progressives are NIMBY's. They could care less about the property rights of anybody else.
Rules and taxes for thee, not for me.
@KRYMauL no she would rather wait for a 500k apartment is available because the shipping containers can be made cheaper but they are routinely turned down
My country brasil looks better than this kkkkkkkk
I guess homeless is a big business in California they don’t want the cash cow to go away.
Pedro Lopez How tf is thousands of people shooting up dope on the side walks & shitting on the streets a cash cow?
true
Because it’s sooooo much more profitable and economic than the White Race.
Gavin Hanson TAXES!!!! they’re spending $1 billion of our taxes to “help the homeless” but got nothing to show for it! the where the fuck is the money going? is the real question.
@@gavinhanson9213
Where do you think those billions of dollars are going? To actually help the homeless? Or into some politician's friend's construction company?
“Should we have some level control over our streets and sidewalks?”
Becky: Nah
That's like me saying, "I'm flushing all my money down the toilet. It's failing." I mean, if the objective is to waste as much money as possible while simultaneously exacerbating the problem (which I assume is the purpose, since I can't see any other), then on that level I suppose one could say it "succeeded."
And they wonder why people are bailing out of California in droves......
Until addiction and mental illness is the focus, nothing they do will have any impact.
A percentage of homeless could be helped with affordable market housing. Reduce building codes, zoning laws, tenant rights, etc., then risk/profit signals would supply more housing. Won't save the addicts though
Addiction and mental illness are effects of the homelessness. When they have nothing else to do all day, of course they're going to turn to drugs and alcohol to deal with their traumatic experience. It's like treating the cancer instead of going after cigarettes. There would be significantly less cancer if you attack the problem, not the byproduct.
@Donald Smith yes we do just not through government. also we've had government funding for these things for decades now and the problem is still here.
"addiction and mental illness" is the problem with the politicians, then you have to deal with the homelessness they caused.
And you can't focus on those when people don't have basic needs. The idea behind Housing First is that you get them into a shelter with water and food, meeting fundamental needs of life, *then* you have them in a situation where they can work on addiction and mental illness. Homelessness increases all of those problems, and needs to be dealt with first.
PLEASE GO CAMP OUT IN FRONT OF BECKY
DENNISONS HOUSE...
...SHES COOL👍😉
That's so nice
And in front of Pelosi's house
@@Yoopee-ld1xo Don't forget Maxine Waters.
People should pay homeless people $20 to go camp on the sidewalk in front of these people's houses.
Camp, piss and shot in front of the landlords homes. ...they bought up the housing/apartments and raised rents, forcing many people into homelessness. Be mad at the right people, don’t be fooled.
People like Becky Denison are why there is a homeless crisis in California to begin with
Let me guess, they spend a billion.... but their family members and/or friends get the contract to do the work. 1 billion spent, but only a couple million actually made it to where it goes.
Here's an idea: America is littered with vacant malls, couldn't we utilize those structures to house the homeless?
California would NEVER give permits for any such ideas. CA, the law-suit capital of the world. If you have money and help someone, be prepared for a coming lawsuit.
Limiting the amount of housing keeps prices high, its supply side economics. One of the biggest hurdles to building housing is becoming a housing developer, its a business that runs like organized crime, you probably have only a few developers no matter where you live, the US real estate market is awash with money laundering, and they want to keep it that way. Tech billionaires just tried to do the same in New Zealand, they were trying to build a doomsday paradise and New Zealand had to stop them, they were pricing locals out of the market, basically the same thing they did in the bay area.
yep but innovation is not the language of bureaucracy
@@phoebexxlouise bureaucracy can mean a lot of things, a problem is boomers have taken over bureaucracy and make good money doing nothing. Becky makes six figures just stating the obvious, its expensive to criminalize homelessness, but she doesn't want people off the sidewalks because that's what pays for her oversized luxury suv. solve the problem and she would have to find another job.
Let's hypothetically say counties with abandoned malls would allow such a change in zoning to occur so homeless can come live in their neighborhoods. Once all the abandoned malls in America are full then what? This homeless epidemic is growing. Housing isn't the long term solution.
When you pay 90% in taxes, fines, fees, and over inflated products...its only a matter of time until everyone is homeless...
Yep fucking government.
And who controls the government?
@@MrJMADSON Democrat legacy.
@@Apjooz rich pedophiles apparently. Lol
IN THE DEMONCRAPS RUN CITIES FOR SURE !!!
EVERY DECLINING / DEAD CITIES ARE THE BYPRODUCT OF DEMONRATS/SOCIALIST, INABILITY TO DO ANYTHING OF SUBSTANCE !!
TRUMP-PENCE-2020
DEMONRATS- 0
Imagine relying on someone to fix problems when they don't even know a roof goes above your head not under it.
How are things going with the homeless problem since you've been in office, Garcetti? Looks like it's been climbing and climbing to me.
The money is going anywhere but to help the homeless.
Yes. This is why, at times, I do give money to panhandlers. At least there is no one there to skim 50-70% of it.
Cults stealing all the money this shit is all by design
@harry sax Agreed! Able bodied homeless people have the responsibility to look after themselves like everybody else. WHat infuriates me and others in the comments is when there are programs set up to give these people a hand, the money is sucked out of them before any help is presented.
That woman interviewed on the video would change her tune about camping on sidewalks if the homeless were on the sidewalk right in front of her house.
True!
bowlinglefty That’s damned straight right. If she had human feces in her yard, her trash can area became a dump site , if she was kept awake every night by methamphetamine addicts rummaging around everywhere with flashlights and yelling, by fights and occasional gunshots, her children couldn’t walk to school without finding used syringes and half eaten rotting food, and she couldn’t go out for walks without being hit on for handouts or harassed.
B E C K Y
D E N N I S O N!!!
THESE FKN PEOPLE MUST BE CALLED OUT AND FORCED TO LIVE UNDER THEIR POLICIES!!!
But they aren't, because Skid Row was designated as the only district of the 57 districts in Los Angeles that allows overnight camping.
@@richardhall6762 This sounds enormously impractical as a means to helping these people. I supported this referendum because it proposed a holistic well considered approach to make a meaningful improvement in as many lives as possible within the budget that the residents of Los Angeles were willing to allocate to helping those of us in need.
If you aren't able to understand why I say us, it is because I am a Southern Californian and a human being. This is akin to Bernie Sanders 2020 slogan, "not me, us" because he will work single-mindedly to lift the tide for all of us humans in America.
I am concerned that the prevalance of Thought Terminating Cliches in service of Olgiarchy has deprived many of you of your humanity, which is the most important identity of any we might have.
Homelessness is big business. Those in charge of solving the issue dont want it solved cuz that's their paycheck
kinda crazy to hear the guy that said he lost his right leg from a staff infection from the streets of LA also say he basically isn't going to do anything about it.
Some people are quite happy being victims.
Lol everyone claps when they spend more money. And they'll waste it, pocket it, then theyll come up with a new idea and spend even more money, criminals
“nobody should be arrested for basic behavior” ? what the hell does that mean?
You shouldn't be arrested for shitting on the street
Jack Diamond but you should be arrested if you build encampments
JayX thats f*cking crazy, they should definitely be arrested for that
Jack Diamond I was homeless for over two years kid, Not once did I build a tent on the sidewalk... you don’t get to just live wherever you want to.
Yeah you can’t arrest me for peeing and pooping and jacking off against the store windows! It’s basic human behavior
“I will accept nothing less than a home for every person who needs a roof under their head” I’m pretty sure people don’t need roofs under their head lol
They should outlaw homelessness and put them to work on the chain gangs.
All money is going to development companies building high end housing
totally agree. That one kid....there must be some laws to prevent that. If not come on california, get with the 21st century. No more mr. Nice guy.
@truth and common sense warrior What?
Haha sure that’s why they are at the top for the income gap and have the best schools right? if you know politics they aren’t making the ones making the policies and allowances for companies to exploit their employees or the communities. Knowledge is power 💥
it's that one kid oh my god!! These people just keep lying to to everyone
As always, gov’t isn’t the solution. It’s the problem.
Vote Republican that would help notice only Democrats run cities have this problem
@@lobowolf9406 thats a very low IQ comment
@@HunkMine fact Portland Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle Albuquerque Austin New York City Chicago and more all democrat run cities.
@@HunkMine says the Democrat. smh
Treating the symptoms to score political points in each election is all they want to do. They don't dare actually solve the problem or the following election there will be no sob stories and filth to blame on their political opponent. That's why I love that Trump told them to clean these places up or he would send in the Federal government.
When I couldn't afford LA, I moved.
The city added a bunch of regulations and requirements for building new complexes. Meeting all of them is extremely expensive and in order for the contractor to make a profit, they have to charge more for rent. That’s their problem right there. I lived in a pod sharing community while in LA and many more are popping up as time goes on. I basically lived a house with 40 other people for $600 a month.
Ah the government fixing the problem it created
The goal is spending. The homeless are just tools.
To the ruling class democrat and rino elitist we're all tools!
Letty Guerra Well our president has done nothing to fix our school or health system, as a results the rise of the walking death= homeless people...
@@Thefunkeemonkee local democrats created this problem and are too stupid to fix it. They want 1 Billion for housing because that means contractors will bribe the shit out of them to get a contract.
Pip Santos the goal is get rich off the homeless funds scheme. The homeless keep a lot of people employed and advocating.
@@lettyguerra371 What we are is a big cash register to people that refuse to stop filling their own pockets with cash..
Because THEY ARE NOT REALLY USING ALL THAT MONEY FOR ITS intended purpose.
True.
Someone literally burnt down a building meant to house low income people in Los Angeles. It was so devastating
they ruined detroit and now they are trying to ruin los angeles
California real estate in a nutshell:
House
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms:1
Roof: leaking
Floors: cracking
Walls: falling apart
Plumbing: leaking
Electical issues: yes
Mold: yes
Terminties: yes
Yard: 0.2 acres
Price: $3,400,000 as is.
You forgot crack house next door
@@winning3329 very true
500,000 now
For Reference. House prices right now. Rialto is 1 hour away from LA. Apple valley is 1.5 hours away from LA.
LA - 3 beds 2 bath 2k sqft = 600k -700k
Rialto - 3 bed 2 bath 1.4k sqft = 200k - 320k
Apple Valley - 3 bed 2 bath 1.5k sqft = 120k - 200k.
Not sure why the prices are high out there? Maybe its because of work or because TV popularizes the place?
Welcome to most big cities these days.
Move some homeless right in front of that ladies yard and see how fast she changes her mind
Soooooo where exactly did the $1 billie go? Lol I love in south Pasadena and it’s a nice area but now we are dealing with homelessness bc they are being pushed out of dtla. Good job 👍
So, If I give up on hard work, quit my job, sell my stuff and move to the streets, they will give me a house?
An Apartment in an house with other former homeless people. So not quit.
This is so embarrassing for the governor of California.
Democrats can't be embarrassed cause it's NEVER THERE FAULT
@@northwestgardener5076 We are pissed actually. And since when is running better than fighting for something that matters? There are two motions in this state to recall Newsom. Californians are starting to get a clue and realize he was voted in my illegal votes and illegal immigrants.
@@shivatecs good luck, keep your power dry
It's not embarrassing to him. It's profitable.
Should they bring Arnold back?
how many people homeless or not will move to LA if they are giving half million apartments away
It sounded like the apartments cost a half million because of bureaucratic nonsense, not because they were just that luxurious.
Joshua R They did this to themselves with all the building, zoning, rent control, and environmental regulations.
@@kutie216 Well, just based on this video and nothing else, it sounds like special interest groups did this to the city's homeless population.
when you incentivize something, it magically multiplies.
Denver is trying to tackle their homelessness right now, too. Maybe we just need a couple Greyhound busses to LA.
The lady against kicking people off the side walk must not live in the house by those sidewalks
meanwhile, some guy went on kickstarter, got a few thousand dollars, and made tiny houses for the homeless complete with a small solar charger but the city had to take them away. There is a serious problem in america. A man can try to help his fellow man and the government will swoop in and undo it.
“Everyone who needs a roof under their head.”
NOBODY needs a roof under their head.
Wiggy I thought I was the only one who had caught that. Lol
If you have a roof under your head... GET OFF MY ROOF!
Who knows maybe they live in the Upside Down
Speak for yourself Wiggy! I come from a long line of roof people! My family has been living on top of roofs for hundreds of years!
Wiggy
Sums up EVERYTHING about the incompetent people running (better yet, ruining) Cali.
This is exactly like 'Resident Evil'... Soon they will eat every human being
Tom My people fear to understand most of these movies telling a story they telling us what they’re deliberately doing it’s call predictive programming right in ur face but the dumb down masses can’t see it cause they’re blind.
For a billion, you could buy 1000 acres of land, let them setup their tents on it, builds some outdoor public restroom/showers. There's probably lots of open land since half the forests are burnt down in California.
Good thing all businesses are moving to other states now we can use the empty warehouses to house the homeless!
Politicians don’t care about this because they know they will never be voted out
Nothing is ever going to happen. It's always just talk talk talk. The homeless housing won't happen because there is no money in it, for the city, the state, or private investors. There is no such thing as "beurocratic confusion", no one wants to do it because there is no money in it. This situation is a lose lose. Sad to watch.
How much of that money actually went to the homeless? Here in San Francisco, we are trying to get audits of these so-called non-profits and surprise, surprise the non-profits and the politicians who support them won't let us.
There was a guy who built a bunch of Woden houses on wheels for some of the homeless. But then the local government demanded them to be removed. Like WTF
Garcetti: "a home for every person who needs a roof under their head". Get them off the streets and onto the rooftops!
Kinda highlights how disconnected officials are when they can't even read their bullet points.
Hey, Rooftop Koreans do it.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom Which is why there are no vagrants on rooftops. BLAM!
I'm homeless, and I think if they are giving away free homes for life, then I'll see you in LA. You don't fix a cause by treating a symptom.
Internet acces is a human RIGHT!
There are many causes and one of them is offering free housing. Just like when you say you will see me in LA. Rewarding homelessness by punishing those who do work and pay for their homes isn't the solution. It just makes me resent going to work everyday. I will just go homeless and get the free stuff, too!
@@brokenjava11 so is a smart phone, lol
They don’t want to left out in the cold? It was -4 degrees (Celsius) in Ottawa (Canada) this morning... and it isn’t even Halloween, yet! What are they afraid of .... a Suntan?!?! Sarcasm aside, this is a serious and concerning problem. I wish them the best of luck! Thanks for the video.
Canadian winter homeless is a whole different beast. I think our homeless population is going to have an even tougher time this year. Covid restrictions is going to affect the volunteering man power.
Im 100% positive that housing the homeless all together will only end up turning into a slum. Better to spend the budget in an hospital facility to house them all and rehabilitate them in the process and this will also bring in more jobs in the process.
"I can't afford to live in California."
Then move!
You have half of a continent to choose from!
Get out while you still have the funds to do so, before it's too late!
@@positivepsycho2932 "Affordability" does not matter when someone has been crushed by the system. There are factors both internal and external to the homeless that matter.
Grinning Guise That is true, but there are some people who still have a fighting chance. For some people, the issue isn't not finding employment, they are employed. The issue is the rent is to damn high!
Having only $5 in you pocket in LA makes you poorer than having $5 in Oklahoma. You can be dead broke anywhere, but money goes further in other places.
@@michaellyden2580 it's a complex problem, but the longer we leave people on the street the more expensive they are to reintegrate. If we let them die there then the moral costs are immense as well
JuSt MoVe iF U CaNt AFF....Stfu how the fuck are you going afford to move to a state with no jobs if you cant afford a car, gas or rent deposit?? FYI there is currently no states in the US where the you afford to live only earning minimum wage.
LA:"Let's give the homeless free housing."
Bums in other places: "Hey, let's go to LA and get free housing!"
Count of Monte Crisco What can go wrong when you encourage and enable this type of behavior?
there in lies why states do something called "race to the bottom" I learned in sociology class. You can't have a state that has really good homeless services because all the neighboring homeless people will flock there.
@Joanne Woodward isn't that giving them a safe place to sleep every night?
@Joanne Woodward I'm not convinced.
Might not some of the homeless prefer your jails to the streets back home? If a non-negligible number of them do, then that will get expensive fast.
@Joanne Woodward There are a lot of claims there that I don't know how to evaluate, and one that I think is just wrong.
I feel like a complete shitlib for saying this, but #NotAll.
A disproportionately high number of homeless people will indeed be drug users, and a lot of drug users will avoid going to jail for no other reason than to avoid withdrawal.
What about the ones who aren't or who won't?
We're not even talking about the majority of the homeless here. Under your proposed scheme, every one of them who prefers your jails to their home streets can make you incarcerate them repeatedly and indefinitely. The annual cost of keeping someone in jail is somewhere between $30k and $60k. This is probably even more expensive, because a) California and b) you're doing catch and release every single day.
If that's even 3 or 5 or 10% of the homeless, then at that point, you're spending so much that you'd probably save money by coming up with something better and more humane to do with them.
Homelessness is big money for these corrupt politicians and their friends!
Build a "nicer" jail meant for community living, make them 1 unit studio apartments and feed them the same .50cent meals you give inmates. Rent, tax, insurance, maintenance, and utility free. Can have job training, schooling, medical, cafeterias, etc all under one roof. In hong kong they've got literal cages as bedrooms for rent.