Joseph has lived homeless in Toronto for over 10 years.
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2016
- The night I met Joseph it was 21 (°F) outside. He has lived outside in Toronto for over ten years now. Joseph said last year he spent the whole winter outside with temperatures as low as -40. He went on to say "it's not like I am doing it on purpose. I have been waiting for a decent place to stay".
At one time Joseph was in housing, but the housing was so bad he didn't feel safe and he walked away from it. When I asked Joseph how services can help someone like himself he simply responded by getting him a place to live where he feels safe and doesn't have to fear others.
I know some people think that any housing is better than the streets. I also know that most every community has challenges in finding affordable housing and good landlords that will accept housing vouchers. But putting people into situations that are dangerous to a person's health or safety has to stop! WE can do better. We must do better!
Special thanks to Ve’ahavta’s Mobile Jewish Response to the Homeless. www.veahavta.org/programs/mjrh/
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This man gave me the shoes I'm wearing on my feet right now. He's a good man. Homeless people have hearts
Ya know I think the age old saying "treat people the way u would like to be treated"REALLLLLY speaks volumes !u say this man gave u a pair of shoes..I truly beleive all my heart n soul alot of theese homeless people have better hearts then alot of people wth homes I'm not the best wth words n such but here is something to "ponder"if you or me anyone of us that are not on the streets ..imagine the senerio. Are you the type of person (if u had NOTHING..would u give a person something that u had like that saying "that person would give u the coat on his back "I'M SERIOUS...think about it. How many of us that if we were in dire situations would we offer another person something.... For real in today's society unfortunately it's not just "keeping up with the Jones"...it's basically "keeping up"and the day and age and "what time it is" is really SHOWING PEOPLES TRUE INTENTIONS" I wanted to phrase it as "SHOWING. PEOPLES TRUE COLOURS "but unfortunately in today's "cancel culture everything a person says will offend one person or another etc etc blah blah blah )but yu know how it goes (people that r really awoke to "what time it is )(I feel stupid phrasing it like this but it's kinda the only way I know how anyhoo what I'm trying to say is that alot of theese people that are "homeless"in my opinion have a better FN home within they're own heart/mind that alot of materialistic" so called "human beings"have n it really breaks my heart that we live in a kinda "upside down world "so to speak where good is bad and bad is good anyone out there that understands what I'm trying to say? Even if there is t god bless. Everyone the best thing I can think of leaving with my "rambling comment "lol is "TRRAT PEOPLE THE WAY YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED!!!!AND NO MATTER HOW FUCKING SMALL OR HOW IRRELEVANT YOU MAY THINK IT IS BE FN THANKFULL FOR THE SMALLEST TEENIEST LIL THINGS THAT U CAN BE !!nehoo people I just felt called to write this ...(ps anyone who wants to leave ANYTHING EGATIVE. From what I said (I guess it just goes"along with how I'm feeling n matches up to my mindset)...bless yall everyone🤗🤗🤗xxo
Bless you and jason
Bless Jason and you
What a wonderful, intelligent and down-to-earth gentleman. He's an outstanding person, way better person than most people who *aren't* homeless. I hope he's doing well, maybe has a place to live indoors. God bless you, Joseph.
He has one thing right...the system is broken....I’m a social worker for homeless for 22 years in Toronto and York region...if you meet him again tell him to look to LOFT Community Services on Toronto St in Toronto. It has several housing with support programs....some for addiction, mental health, physical health issues, mental health and justice lots of programs and the housing lists are not 10 years...I wish him well....
The last place I would tell him to go is LOFT. What he said about fights and murder, even attempted murder, happens in LOFT housing. It is a nightmare.
What a smart, sweet man, who deserves a warm, safe, sturdy place to live. Canada help him out!
Trudeau's "refugees" come first before native Canadians.
exactly
@@Grantorius Trudeau is changing Canada so badly He needs to go &soon
He seems very humble..
I was homeless in Toronto briefly and tried to sleep at Seaton House shelter and two guys in the bed next to me were smoking something out of a pipe in the dark. It freaked me out so I left in the middle of the night and found a stairwell to sleep in only to be kicked out by a security guard. I spent the rest of the night on a park bench. Thankfully it was summer.
@@Inf7cted Way better. I moved to London Ontario and now I have a subsidized apartment. Been in the same apartment for 15 years.
@@Inf7cted Thanks!
@@m11322 $139.00 per month for a one-bedroom apartment (I'm on disability). $115.00 per month for someone on welfare. I consider myself fortunate.
@@m11322 talk to as many social workers as you can. Sometimes they can help you get into different organizations that have housing. Some social workers can really help. Make it your job to find low income housing. Use Google and try to get a phone if you don't have one so they can call you back. www.google.com/search?q=disability+housing+toronto&rlz=1CARJNJ_enCA886&oq=Disability+housing+Toronto&aqs=chrome.0.0.9079j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
There's a lot of different organizations I think in Toronto. I would try and stay away from Jane and Finch and Regent Park and places like that. Don't give up.
@@alcam14 hey bro can i ask you a question?
Joseph, you are so strong. I hope you are safe and healthy.
He looks so broken hope he gets a break
Joseph's a lovely genuine man and he's a real survivor against the odds. His description of how living in a home should be, is just right too and at one time we were heading in the right way towards that type of living but our governments have just given up on us and seem to be pulling away from caring for those who need it.
He’s right. Homelessness is a huge problem in Toronto, the waitlists for housing are 10+ years and, they’re shitty unsafe living environments with management who’d rather see you on the streets.
He wished that everyone got along. That is the best wish I’ve heard yet.
winters in Canada is some thing knobody deserves
Wow! He wished Jesus would come back sooner. Lord keep him safe and protected until you return. Dispatch your angels to encamp around him daily.
I honestly understand. I just moved back from living in taiwan for twenty years
If I wasn't staying in my hair with my hand uncle, I wouldn't know where to go.
I don't know how people live in california the cost of living is astronomical
Or public transportation sucks.
I found a service called access. I have PTSD and Cerebral Palsy
It's a bus service that comes directly to your house.
I can use this for long trips.
I would love to just take uber a lift but it's just too expensive
I lived in Taiwan. You could take ubers and lifts for a third of what you In california.
Like if I could go thirty minutes and pay fifteen dollars that be reasonable.
But one trip is like twenty five dollars.
If you've got income coming in sure no problem.
Seems a really intelligent guy.
I think he talks more sense than most of our so called elite, CEOs, experts, and politicians.
Prayers and good wishes for Joseph 🙏
How in the hell can anyone sleep outside thru a Toronto winter? That's nuts.
I remember seeing homeless people sleeping on top of sewer lids and grates to stay warm from the hot air rising out of them... was wild
the fool trudeau doesn't know whats happening in toronto
Winter's aren't that bad here. New York and Chicago get it worse then us
Joseph was the way I was when I was HL but he is older and truly wiser. I was young and VERY ANGRY that I was outdoors. I could not understand what made people be so hateful. I was not asking for much a room, place to sleep, job, and somebody to love. Usually you secure one to get the other. Job don't want you if you are HL if you are HL you usually can't get a Job so you have to lie and say you have a home. Then you find out they don't want you if you don't have a job either so you either have to lie about having a job. When you lie about having a job and about having a place to stay then they will give you a job. Back then they did not have cell service every place. I did not have the means for cellular. I had to get the job show up ready to work and work my ass off when I got work to insure I was the guy they wanted for the next day.
Keep your head up Joe get your hands on some stuff build your own micro camper even if you have to tow it with a bike you will be better off than dealing with them power hungry control freaks that control it all.
That was a nice man peace to him
Wish you well love. Take care you seem like a sweet man...
Great interview. I met Joseph myself one day and made some pictures of him. Great to talk to.
do you know Anthony ?
God bless Joseph.
If I was there I'd help him bless him
I love this guys wishes and I am so with him. I would let him live with me in a second. I hope Jesus Christ comes back very soon.
This man has a broken heart and he breaks our hearts
Imagine how many good, homeless people suffer in silence.
the world can be cooperative instead of being competitive but we r in a race to be in top charts..competition makes a hero but cooperation makes heroes....I hope u understand.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU BROD,BECAUSE GOD HEAR OUR PRAYERS LIFE IS TOP BUT NEVER GIVE UP,AND GOD BLESS SIR.💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I am happy that they find a way to be happy...but the conditions r not good for sure....mark ur doing a great job man ..lucky to have people like u around who have suffered and can understand..
God bless you.
I was put on a 5 year waiting list for huds section 8 and by the time my call number came around the clerk told me they didnt have my address on file but im glad because its really not the greatest way to live having authorities constantly hovering over every move
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And its full of cockroaches
Mr. interviewer: did ya help that guy out who asked for help
I'm praying that Jesus comes back soon too. God Bless this Man! 🥰🙏
Sane, reasonable, intelligent. No reason for this guy to be homeless.
the world can be cooperative instead of being competitive but we r in a race to be in top charts..competition makes a hero but cooperation makes heroes....I hope u understand..will promote this channel on my fb ...
God bless you 💟
Bless Jason everyone should have a proper home it's a basic human right it's the richest pushing the poor out
Fahrenheit is a silly scale which is why very few countries still use it. 0 Celsius is the freezing temp of water at sea level which is equivalent to about 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Kelvin is used in science and uses the same units as Celsius with 0 Kelvin being the absolut coldest it can get (-273 Celsius).
Yes, I am nitpicking and this is about homelessness, but stuff like this tends to irk me. Of course that's nothing to the problem of homelessness. In whatever scale we use, it is too cold for a human to be without shelter. One of the first things you learn in survival training is to find and secure shelter, water and then food. I am always amazed at the resilience of these folks to survive with little to no shelter for years
It is too expensive to build housing in Toronto. Land isnt cheap. Build housing in places like Sudbury or anything 3 hours north of Toronto and ship the homeless there. Why should they get cheap rent in Toronto when they dont do anything?
It's freezing during the winter , the government and the authorities should have do more to help those homelessness get into shelter or hostel !!! No human beings should have lived on the streets!!! Any update about him now ???
He's like breaking my heart...just want my wife back 😪
I've had his indoor issues. r u still there can u contact him again. he probably needs more water, it helped me.
water ?
I see all these interviews, and I can't help but wonder. Do these people do they ever get off the streets
This fucken channel is awesome bro... im from toronto too
He's a good guy
Anthony is : Living Outside in Winter channel
Did you ever do a follow up on this man?
Keep you faith in the Lord. I hope you found a good home by now and that all goes well for you Sir. You are a kind soul.
Imagine if all the rooms were free in Toronto, then e everyone would have a room.
thanks to trudeau the fool
Affordable housing is an issue
Life a bitch stay strong man!
I honestly hope your giving these guys money for there interviews? Holy. What's sad is your selling your crap, but what about these poor people. Do they get anything from what you make from your products?
Or street outreach or housing outreach through LOFT
may u stop saying WOW all the time?
+nique tameeer you don't like my "wow" :)
DBT STOP TALKING AND START DOING
It's just not right living homeless for 10 years in the Toronto streets especially in the winter. I can't believe Canada can't help him? 🙏
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This guy looks like a mirror of where I’m gonna be this winter, my landlord is lying saying she wants to move into my apartment that I’ve lived in since 2012 so she can double the rent, I don’t do anything wrong and always pay my rent so she has to use the renoviction loophole. I was tortured and abused in every way imaginable for 8 years in foster care and I’ve had a safe apartment I’ve been reasonably okay with minus the fact my landlord is a lunatic and doesn’t do repairs, but if you set that aside it’s not a small place or some kind of hell hole for and for the last 9 years where I’ve been slowly putting myself back together from all the abuse and possibly by December I’ll be having 9 years of progress pulled out from under me and end up like this guy. I don’t have the patience this guy has tho, I’ll give them a month to set a guaranteed date within 3 months I’ll be getting a private decent and reasonable 1 bedroom apartment with all inclusive rent I can afford or unfortunately I’m going to have to go to jail. I am disabled and can’t work so unfortunately I’m fucked if this psycho landlord wins
In the end of this viedo, his smile has a lot of pain..
I hope he 's got out of the street..
I hope so...
Forgotten everyone!!!!! Video after video of homeless people this crisis has been going on since I can remember. The poor will die because the "Majority" do not care, do not see them, they get home shut their solid door and lock it. Remove their shoes and walk into their warm quiet home, with a bathroom and a soft place to sit or lie down. While so many...just cry until they cant cry no more and they pray until they just cant pray no more they drink until they just cant drink no more.....they die because no one cares anymore....Jesus is our only HOPE, because here another rules and you see what he has to offer.
Homeless people are always so humble. the only way to end homelessness is to combine people with money and heart, to pool their resources and provide housing, like the little houses some are trying to build. The problem is that most of the people with money have no heart.
Wow
His laugh at the end sounded like somebody else's voice, creepy...
Anybody see this man lately?
♥️
One of my wishes... I am with him on Jesus coming for the sinners!
DONE
love ya brother. i believe you will one day live in a mansion.
🙏🏽
Breaks my heart. We afford bailing out banks and fake wars but this happens.Where is humanity?
Homeless suffer without a place to stay. But if you cross Canada's border illegally you get to live in a free motel all expenses on the tax payer... Treaudue is breaking Canada by putting everyone here last
Same in the states
Bro this man looks like Hollywood actor
Jesus yes
there is no way to end homelessness or poverty ..etc. they have been around since day one. we live in a broken sinful world waiting to be fixed once and for all. no humans can fix it. this man is right, only the second coming of Christ can make things right again.
The government should find a way to end the homelessness and not leaving them on the streets....
If you think the government cares about you your Terribly sadly mistaken.
Not just the government, nobody does at the end of the day.
Homeless people look and sound like every so call "normal person" I have ever met !
Why don’t homeless people go south? Genuine question
Speaking for myself who happens to be homeless in Florida, the south ain't great if you are a single male that needs medicaid. It's true that the weather is better in winter, but summers are brutal for homeless people where I am. The south ain't the answer.
nobody is gonna give u nothing ,dont sit around waiting for someone to give u something ,go out & earn what u want ,if u r determined enough ,u will make it happen
Fuck up you dope.
easy to say when you have a job and a house.
go live on the street for 1 month.
and come back to me.
It's not that easy..wow..you should run for office..asshole
@@aknifeaforkabottleandacork3856 I lived on the streets ,homeless for many years ,in Toronto, & I worked my way out of it & got a job & a house ,if I can do it ,anyone can, shut up ,u don't even know what your talking about, u can get yourself off the streets ,if your not lazy
If we cared about someone like him we would advocate and pressure the government to give him what he needs. Waiting for Jesus to return is not good enough.
My friend let me explain one thing, government never helps, they only make things get worst.
hook me up with Joesph, in the Kawartha Lakes area if interest
do you know Anthony ?
...may you use all these snippets of homelessness & get a team of wise ones to talk with de facto gov't & get some of those cement domes insulated for cold weather homeless due to overpriced housing... they are so many other affordable shelters ...until less than 20 homeless in a city , the cities can't welcome other from other countries that breeds...
does it make sense?...
don't know why but kinda recalls me Frank Gallagher shameless US
bruh he seems so sad
"I wish Jesus would come back sooner"...Sounds like a statement made by a "Duped" believer who was preached to by the Born Again "Name it and Claim it" preachers....I understand!
You are the one duped.
You need Jesus!
Jesus did come back. Humanity poisoned him.
I really wish you'd stop doing the wish thing. It's just cheesy and quite frankly it's got these people wishing for things that most likely will never happen.
I get your point, but asking them for their wishes is less about what they want to have and more about what they aspire too. It gives insight into their personality and thereby making them visible in a way. But yes, like I said, I get your point
Don't tell him how to do what he's spectacular at
Oh my gosh, another homeless clip
The Wealthy Rich and Those that have so much in there life more than enough, They want you to SUFFER. BILLIONAIRE Have so much they can really help others with homelessness
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Maybe just maybe he is dangerous.
Steven Corwin you obviously havent met this man. I have
"wish jesus came back a little sooner"
you ... you mean .. the rapture??? chill fam
If only it was real!
People are tired of suffering and feeling hopeless. Everyone will face final judgement once he returns. Make sure you accept him as your Lord and personal savior.
@@zee7130 or we can just increase taxation on the wealthy and provide public services to the working class to ease suffering and hopelessness.
end the interview ...he likes it outside. I am not getting you anything, I am not your daddy get a job and take care of yourself.