The People Los Angeles Pushes Away | The Forgotten Ones | PBS Short Film Festival 2024
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A poignant story of one man’s 40 year battle with homelessness on the streets of Hollywood.
The Forgotten Ones | PBS Short Film Festival 2024
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This should be much longer😢
This beautiful person explained what it is to be homeless and the many reasons by it. Why can't politicians or anyone understand this? It's not rocket science.
40 years battling homelessness means he has his own demons he is losing to.
Oh ,, that made me cry. Most of those people on the streets had something, and it's gone. Soooo sad.
If all we are to each other is our money and taxes, then why did we make modern society? When we didn't have money, we didn't lose each other. The world should be ashamed.
Before Prop 13, taxes in California on houses were going up so much that people were being priced out of their houses. It sounds like that's what got this guy.
No, he committed a crime. Didn’t you bother watching the video?
This is the result of a heartless and unrelenting society that prides itself on self reliance....All the while praising the affluent and billionaires and those in power who do not care nor care that we all exist, except for profits and exploitation.This is the America of today unfortuntely.... Peace
The people the country pushes away...
Got under water with property taxes; my bad but fortunately a dear neighbor friend who can afford to is going to buy my house for a fair sum and let us rent it and is going to fix it up; she wants another property and we can’t afford to keep a house so its a win win for us. American people helping American people is how we get along; if you can ❤be the miracle for someone in their time of need
Maje stre yiu have a lawyer abd everything in writing 😊
There are other examples of this very thing. There is archival local news footage of a big fire that happened. I think in the Adams district in around 1984. in that report residence affected by the fire were interviewed these residents were homeowners. These residents were all black American homeowners.
Same area this is another example reminds me of, same area: the former mutual building on the corner of Western and Adams. One of the first black American owned financial companies in Los Angeles if not the US. Now it’s turned into a government dependence, single mom building.
One last one, it appears that many formally owned black American homes in South Los Angeles are being bought up by non Black Americans and now liberal Anglo interlopers.
All da Best Folks..
No accountability. If your own family doesn’t want to deal with you then I sure don’t want to deal with you. I’m sure he was a deadbeat dad who likely didn’t provide for his son so now the shoe is on the other foot.
I move 3 tons and what do I get ?
Older and more in debts
Oh lord can you take me back
Because I lost my soul to
The Company Store .🎉
Property taxes in California if we don’t change that people are not going to be able to pay their property taxes even though the house it’s paid off.
You should pay on your purchase price 1% not more. We are paying on a fictional price that the county keeps raising and raising.
We need politicians that change that. Urgent
They also allowed undocumented immigrants to work and live multiple in one apartment or home but would kick black families out for working and living multiple in an apartment or house.
Not only LA but check Santa Barbara’s history.
Most of the chronically homeless have drug addictions and mental illnesses.😢 Taxes are out of control as is the costs of living. Rents are way out of proportion to incomes. Lately the elderly have been pushed into the streets too. This is happening across our cities in
America. Also add millions of immigrants who need the same services these people can’t afford ?😢
He must've been devastatingly handsome as a young man.
💯👍👍🙏
Don't do drugs, don't drink don't even smoke cigarettes, you'll be ok.
Correct.
My family has been made fun of for being teatotalers. No one drinks alcohol. I'm not joking.
The outcome of it: no cancer over at least 4 generations.
Don't smoke. Don't drink. Don't do drugs.
Not true. Folks become homeless over medical debt in this country. Folks work 2+ jobs and can't keep up with increasing rents and the price gouging of our basic needs, all in the name of profit for huge corporations and their CEOs. We claim to be the richest country in the world, yet we're the only (out of G7 countries) one that doesn't take care of our people.
Dont get into any kind of addictions👍🏼
i hope he gets back on his feet soon. Make sure you keep up with your taxes and apply for your Medicare, Mr. Willie.
He is he is in an apartment
In other words, don’t do drugs, and definitely pay your taxes.
He uses the excuse that everyone was in involved in drugs in 80s. Fiction.
Black people--MY people, who I love with every fiber of my being--don't wanna hear this, but I'ma say it:
If you have adult children and you end up homeless in your golden years,
You were derelict in your duties as a parent.
He could've lived with his son in Arkansas IF he had been an active father and built a relationship with his child.
3:03-3:15
Not forgotten, we just don't care....
What do you expect with someone who does drugs?
Los Angeles is not a city for the poor..if youre poor or low income just pack up and move to a cheaper smaller state or town.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Where are his kids?
why would someone need to go so far to succeed? Anyone can move but you have to be willing to work hard and not do alcohol and drugs!!
Why would people go away to college? Jesus wouldn't have said what youre saying. Go get some help.
You would have to know America's history with regard to the treatment of people of African descent during Jim Crow and pre and post Civil Rights Movement or be black in America to know the answer. Of course, you are spot on about substance abuse.
shoulda stayed in memphis... but it's sad how in america, ppl fall through the cracks ...
bad decisions 🤷
On our government's part
No matter what decisions you made your basic needs should not be a risk
Agreed. But today’s society celebrates bad decisions and justifies artificial victimhood.
@theonewhomjesusloves7360 what is your problem? Are you a trumper?
SBL.
the taxes are what ruined him, we all pay taxes and we dont lose everything.
It sounds like it was property taxes which prior to prop 13, were rising really quickly in California as property values were quickly rising.
Then you don't live in reality
@@alexcarter8807 not mine and ive been a home owner for 25 yrs in Cali
@@lovesallanimals9948 i live in a high tax state but i dont do drugs and alcohol.. 🤷
@@alexcarter8807Watch the video. 2:20
$24,000,000,000.00 in funding for the homeless just vanished into thin air.
The homeless-industrial complex thanks you very much.
They also allowed undocumented immigrants to work and live multiple in one apartment or home but would kick black families out for working and living multiple in an apartment or house.
Not only LA but check Santa Barbara’s history.
Okay so we have the same oppressor.. now what ?
@@_love_cats-889 What’s your point?
Los Angeles is not a city for the poor..if youre poor or low income just pack up and move to a cheaper smaller state or town.