California Authorities Destroy Boats And Clear Floating Community
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- NBC News' Jacob Ward reports on the fallout from Marin County, California, where a collection of cities is seeking the end of a makeshift floating community and destroying dozens of boats. Clarification: A previous version of this story emphasized one city in our banner and headline, instead of a collection of cities and the county. The story has also been updated to reflect that the cities are currently acting under agreements with a state conservation commission.
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California Authorities Destroy Boats And Clear Floating Community
Making people homeless who had homes… sad
There was several homes made for homeless people small buildings California decided they didn't like that and they took them away. You see it's illegal to be poor in billionaire land.
It's the California way. Having the highest homeless population in the US is not enough they need to help by making it worse.
Then open your home and invite them to live with you
??
It was a free ride and they didn't have to pay for any utilities! Geez I wonder where all that went
For those who are hating on the boat people, remember with some unlucky circumstances and a few bad choices in life, anyone in America can end up homeless.
Well not anyone..
Really it depends on who you are & how much money you have to fix the bad choices. Its called generational wealth.
Someone like Tucker Carlson is not going to end up homeless & he makes bad choices every time he speaks.
@@killerbunny-rabbit5412 maybe some are unfortunate like many business owners who have to closed their shops due to covid crisis and some become poor due to debt.
I'm not sure the circumstances to be that unlucky. Most factors are common like low unsustainable wages, aging parent support & housing crisis.
These are not individual mistakes, but being unsheltered is given this view... like you have really messed up your own life to get here.
Your rent goes up, your mother moves in & your hours get cut at an already low wage job.
Y’all didn’t have this sympathy for skid row.
Say something stupid again, NBC fake unfed unresponsive click bait account
The report kept saying 'Homeless', those folks are not homeless, the boats are their homes. I live on a boat and its my only home.
Well, they weren’t homeless but they are now.
Agree.
live for free? there is nothing for free.
@i hate you skum Air and water are not free. Under Obama care everyone over 18 automatically owes the government money just for existing and breathing.
I would rather see a homeless person on a boat then on a street.
Yeah so that you won’t step on their crap because they’re just dumping their sewage overboard and polluting our waters
Living on a floating trash heap is not the answer.
Yeah so they can dump their crap in the water
@@PP-li4lm you don't know they're doing that..I'm a vandweller n there are 100 ways to NOT do something like that..educate yourself please cuz chances are they have their potty lined with plastic bags that can be tossed out like dog poop or diapers, or their plumbing works fine even if their motors dont..btw, if you're so concerned about THAT instead of the fact that families just got put out onto the street, maybe try lending a hand..if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem👍😉😒😒
At least they aren't out walking the streets...
That 3, 4 generations have lived on these boats without a problem shows this is about the rising property value and the wealthy community who devalues the working poor.
its heartbreaking,but if the elite only knew what nature has stored for them at the coastal areas of California. they'll learn..
Oh of course it is. they investors buy the houses the bank foreclose on and the banks are ruthless they don't wait for anything Boom the person has to leave then the investors offer to rent them their house . Those that get booted get a bad credit score and cannot rent an apartment. So then what choice do they have.
G : 'The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.'
- Anatole France,"The Red Lily " ,1894
@William Waffles that's not being a bum . They were not slaves to capitalism. Nobody owns a body of water. So what is the issue if they're living on said body of water in their boat. Why should people be slaves to debt . Forced to live on land paying mortgages or rent to make other people richer? Why work 8 to 10 hour days to slave away to pay bills when you can live on the water and enjoy nature. Have you ever thought their quality of Life is Richer because they have more time with each other doing things they want instead of enslaving at a job doing what others want just to get a measly paycheck. A bum is living off the welfare a system getting free housing they wasn't doing that. But now these people were forced to be on welfare and live in tents. And eventually they'll get section 8 vouchers and be stuck in an apartment that will get the owner richer. I would trade my day in for theirs anytime.
@@Choco-Kat and what happens to the sewer system of these boats. Or do they just drain into the bay.? Just being curious.
*"Billionaires don't want commoners in their view."*
-- Honest title.
@C S That's spurious. How many boats sank? None. Fiberglass doesn't even degrade like that. "72 hours"-- they just don't want commoners in their sight.
@C S Well it seems like a donation toward the otherwise homeless. At least they have a home for awhile. But I truly believe the boats remind them of tents.
@C S Spurious: a line of reasoning that's not valid. Like: fiberglass boats randomly degrading and sinking. Maybe you don't understand "fiberglass"? It's plastic and glass. Neither degrade readily.
A second meaning of "spurious" is illegitimate. Which also applies to your assertion of sugar-cube boats dissolving in water. Boats float on purpose.
@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 👍
They just sink
"Floating homeless encampments"
Plot twist: the boats _are their homes_ . Smh
Of course it’s California. Sail to Texas.
I've lived on my boat for months at a time.
Why is this an issue?
It's A Marina.
@@alkdjfhgks1919 It isn't cheap to live on a yacht.
Docking fees, electricity and sewer hookups, the marina makes sure you maintain the boat.
Fines for pollution are high.
Maybe I'm missing something.
My boat cost a quarter million to purchase, and thousands a month to maintain.
@@patrickkenyon2326 1k a month is the cheapest rent you will find in california. LoL. Also....these boats were not meant to live in full time. You can live in your car as long as you want but dont be surprised when you are towed for leaving it parked somewhere for months. Its the same thing, only these people just dump their fecal waste and other garbage into the water.
No one can ruin a millionaire's view and keep a roof over his head.
Well said🤘
@Mark Rondson
Can’t. The fat cats are too chewy.
What wrong with working hard and that hard works has rewards. Then someone who doesn’t work at all gets the same view ?
@@dirkdiggler9379
There's got to be a better solution to the problem then just trashing the boats. Moving them is an option. Heck, some of them weren't permanent residents, just porting here and there.
Someone else in New York tried to make tiny houses for the homeless but the New York politicians towed and bulldozed the houses without giving the project leader his money back.
Here in Austin, there were supposed to be a few homeless shelter hotels built but the money was used elsewhere.
They just want vulnerable people on the streets just so they can say "Give us money; we can help them!" And then not do that. Only $1 a month you can believe you are helping desolate people while funding our private jets! Vroom vroom, peasant!
@@dirkdiggler9379
Why not? It’s a view. It’s not something tangible. Like a piece of property.
So now they created a homeless camp on land.
Brilliant.
Remember California uses different logic then everyone else.
So what.
@Treavor Martin ??? The Europeans did! Settled right on top of them NATIVES. Americans! Your demise is sweet to the eyes!
@Treavor Martin the homeless camp on land came to be, last december. The anchor outs had a system set up to determine seaworthy boats and sound mental Mariners. Its curtis havel that doesnt care about the rules and has gone rogue and destroyed personal property without due process. Just an fyi Treavor.
@@tims6540 : Not really. Is it so much to ask that people work, regardless of what they do? These people take from society and produce nothing except blight.
As a long time resident of the area, I find this utterly heartbreaking. Historically, Sausalito has been a fishermen’s village, with people living on boats. They are part of the charm of Sausalito! When I was a girl, you lived in Sausalito if you couldn’t afford
San Francisco or you wanted a quieter life. Now, it is not cheaper and it is not quiet. I really don’t buy the argument that these boats are not safe and that’s why they must be destroyed. If that were the case, about a third of all the housing stock in the whole state would have to be torn down. At a time when we have record numbers of homeless people. As a fourth generation Californian, I resent my beloved home being made into an enclave for the wealthy only.
When the council constructs the future marina to charge on each boat to pay parking lot, then these barnacles WILL BE eradicated.
4 generations of boatmen. Sad.
@@arrowb3408
Why is that sad?
People don't have a right to live in boats, now?
A lot of boatmen once worked on fishing boats and ships and love the water.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Economic freedom. If you dont have money, you dont have freedom to live
You know what is not safe is having people live in Tents who have to use propane for heat. You will start seeing lots of fires there. At least on the boat they would not catch the whole town on fire.
Stop the harassment, stop the stupidity. Help these people become seaworthy. These people work locally doing jobs we don't want.
The rich get richer and the poor get told to move on. So sad.
How about, the riches keep working harder and get richer and the poor keep lazier and poorer.
The correct phrase is " The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. (Because they both keep doing the same things! )
THEIR HOMES HAVE BEEN STOLEN. This is heartless and cruel.
You are so right THEY CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH MONEY OUT OF SOMETHING
I was wondering if they were given compensation, fair market value. Even if it only floats, it's worth something!
@@heseesall25 I don't know they refused to move on up to the time of destruction I would think if so that would have been the first thing they would have mentioned
@@debbiejournigan2962 guess if they had actually been compensated they wouldn't be staying in a tent.
What are they doing with their sewage? Literally polluting the bay with their crap
*I LIVED ONA BOAT IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE* for 3 years, no one questioned me, no one crushed my boat, no one checked it was sea worthy, there was a great community of people living on the boats there.
@@tims6540 - I live in Bulgaria now. The poorest country in the EU. We don't have homeless people, not really. 2 in my city. Maybe 1500 in the whole country. If Bulgaria can do it, why cant the USA.?? OH, profits. Right.
La belle France is not America thank goodness what a disgracefull uncaring society would do such a thing Yes it's called the USA
@@keithdunderdale8027 - 3 of the happiest years of my life. sadly I ran out of money and head to go back to the UK and do "work" - UGH...
Stayed on a boat with friends in Clermont-Ferrand. They got deported back to UK and we where put on a train to Paris and Belgium. Stayed in caves in Spain, no problem at all but I hear those caves are now expensive luxury homes. Stayed in Amsterdam, what a crappy place, we got deported. Clermont-Ferrand was fun till druggies came and ruin it all as they always do.
@@keithdunderdale8027 correction its called california.. the waters of the frigid minnesota Mississippi have boat houses.. they keep bubblers going all winter to allow the people to have toiletry water etc.
How can this even h ave been called a "homeless" encampment when those boats were their homes?? Of course if you throw people and their stuff out of their homes and toss them on the shore, I guess you've made a new homeless encampment for them. So outrageous! Why is it a crime to find a way to live if you're poor??
@Ken Richard don't be a Richard
It's a crime to be poor.
@@aprilroston3608
" It's a crime to be poor." In the eyes of the elite.
IUFO ILLEGAL UNSAFE floating objects.
@@mikejones8866 That's what I meant 😅 I should have elaborated.
Don't we have enough homeless people without adding more? Offer them ways to fix their boats already.
Exactly!
That's a really good point. How much money did the county spend to destroy these peoples' homes?
Why not spend a fraction of that on a public dry dock and let anyone rework a hull there?
Good point. Why not help them register their vessels?
@@CenturianCornelious I'm not supporting the cause but realistically it probably doesn't cost much to destroy the boats, especially compared to expensive and complicated repairs. I'd say maybe a thousand bucks per boat, maximum.
@@micahned Okay, a thousand per boat.
These are not huge boats. How much for a public dry dock?
It doesn't actually matter. This whole thing has nothing to do with safety anyway. It's about elitist snobs flippantly destroying anything and anyone they feel like.
citizen: *finds a way to not be homeless*
government: not on my watch...
Then open your home to let them stay with YOU!
@@PP-li4lm why should he when they literally had a home?
You misspelled American government
@@PP-li4lm
To whom is that comment directed?
@dr.jamesolack8504 , that's a bot.
*California has a severe housing shortage*
California Solution: Destroy more houses
"houses"
I know right? Stupidest State in the US.
Out of state people visit, then move to California, build in the woods, and ball when California fires wipe them out..
@@willybones3890 people hate the grammar police
The problem is these boats aren't doing what boats are built to do....sail the seas. They instead sit anchored in the harbor for years not moving.
I love how they always make up an excuse why things are "unsafe" just to get rid of people
‘they’ll hit each other if they get loose’ and they’re going like 3 mph on flat water with no waves. yea sure dave. so much damage will occur it would be SO deadly! thousands of dollars right?
I'm sure the word dangerous is used copiously.
Same excuse here where I live. In Eastern Canada.
Or, how the "news"( Yeah, RIGHT!) finds the only boat that is derelict, and "reports" on that one being the problem...That "law man" should be ASHAMED of himself! More like SCUM TYRANT!
Those who trade an ounce of freedom for a lb of safety deserve neither my personal safety should never be the governments issue either I own myself or I don't
At least you can survive a wildfire out on the water.
A tent? Not so much.
That’s a good point. But it won’t work. Because it’s a good point.
Edit: I’m surprised the govt didn’t set them up in the woods near Greenville.
As long as you aren't with in three miles of land so that you don't get hit with any flaming debris
Imagine wanting to remove homelessness but also creating it at the same time.
Period.
They had to do that in Seattle - boat fires, drugs, assaults, pollution from feces and garbage dumping, water hazards. This is not a good thing either on land or on boats. It's too little too late, sadly.
This situation seems a bit different, but that boat they showed definitely needed removing; total hazard.
The young couple seemed very nice and I hope everyone finds shelter.
Its the rich getting their own way .period.
That is not what's happening at all.
@@CenturianCornelious prove it to me. We have a mayor whom has been importing homeless. Refused to build housing to accommodate the poor ( I.U. always ends up with it) zero jobs and importing students take jobs and housing. And get all kinds of goodies that THE V.A. ON THE STREET ARE DENIED EVERY SINGLE DAY. yet they claim they are helping. The ONLY ONES GETTING ANYTHING ARE THE STUDENTS WHOM PAY BIG BUCKS TO BE HERE AND THEIR NOT FROM INDIANA!
Remember when land was free and we were the land of the free now even on the water the man wants his rent.
LoL....but true.
When was land free other than the settlement of America centuries ago?
What's the problem isn't that the same thing your ancestors did to the native indians
You mean when the land was stolen from the natives.
@@charlieortiz5399 Natives shoulda fought harder.
People with power are making room for yachts, it's simple...
Boats are a person's abode a home & shouldn't make people homeless. That is extremely unfair.
Did you even listen to the reasoning? Would you want to live next door to a house that's falling apart and a real eye sore in the community?
@@kcook8119 if that's the only thing my neighbor has to live in why not?
@@kcook8119 Seems like the boats were there first... then big money rolled up and brought out their city managers to crush four generations of peaceful people.
It's not like they recently showed up, why now destroy them?
@@kcook8119 well...a GOOD neighbor would help them fix it up not disparage n demean them for having to struggle...
@@cherbear1996 yea I don't think we have "good neighbors" anymore. Seems like the neighbors have just became a bunch of Ken's and Karen's
Who exactly gave these evil people the "authority" to do such things?
The same ones that voted to make California a blue state, Demcrats, You keep voting for salt,you ain't gonna get sugar,js
The same people that gave the authority to the evil Demoncraps to destroy this country. "The voters"
The same people that keep voting for them.
@@reignman0311 bull..dems would have at least bought these folks a GOOD waterproof tent, or even better, offered money for their "HOMES"..this is def repubs hard at work, robbing ppl of what little they have...
That's funny cuz the Supreme Court has said multiple times that authorities have absolutely no obligation to protect anybody or keep anyone safe their job is to protect property
Rich people don't care. They want their view and affluent life style to be undisturbed.
True. They care only about themselves. They're not rich because they're sharing.
Well, the rich are paying for their view and the exorbitant taxes it takes to maintain these wealthy communities so why not remove those mooching off of their dime? I don’t see a problem with this, its life, it you want to live on a half sunk POS boat - move.
@@bobcortez9471 but many are "rich” because of ill-gotten gains and structural inequities which keep people poor and shrink opportunities for social mobility.
@Treavor Martin Americans did this when they settled oof
light wildfires in the backyards of the rich...c how they like it ..
And we wonder why people are going on rampages. Take away a man's last hope and you have a very dangerous person.
@dakota haro But, violins make pretty music!
True
@Shaolin Heart Anything to keep us divided. A divided population is easy to manipulate.
Don't u know it
@dakota haro 🎯✊🏿🔊⬆️🏆👏🏿
Hope they compensated those folks after stealing their homes.
What about compensation the ecology for polluting the bay with their sewage
@@PP-li4lm Biodegradable sewage in an open ocean is really your concern here???
Maybe thats how they got tents..they were given a $25 walmart voucher..whoopee!!!! Hope they get sued n have to reimburse these folks bigly..
Yeah, you keep hoping that.
@@garinfl306 Got news for you...'Biodegradable' does NOT mean it's safe to dump sewage from hundreds of 'homes' into what's left of an estuary.any more than it's safe to have open sewage canals running through slums.
So how's solving the homeless crisis going in California?
California: Yes.
We are all in the same storm, but in very different boats... so true. ⚓
That part exactly all they weren't about is putting money in the in the in the government and you know taking away from the people that struggling and just keep struggling by this extorting systemic system for all race and backgrounds of all ethnic globally internationally because they all adapting America ideology corruption
That was the quote that stuck with me, too.
I'm sure the rich who can afford a house in Marin county are the same ones that complain about government overreach.
Good comment
they're Democrats.
they're right. these bums with their garbage boats are an eye sore. id do whatever i can to have them disappear
@@knoxvillehill they have a right to the bay as anyone else.. just because their boat may not be as pretty, and may need some work, is absolutely no reason to impound it and take these people’s homes from them.
These people now have nothing to lose. Wouldn’t want to be one of those city or county officials behind all this. It’s only a matter of time in these crazy times.
They never had anything to lose in the first place.
They are bums in the water living in broken boats.. not great entrepreneurs 🙄
@@Nelson4207 okay nelson
@@night7488 okay then. Glad we solved that mystery 🤷♂️🤦♂️
@@Nelson4207 you didn't know ur name?... omg I didn't know you suffered from something like that 😮 I'm really sorry bro!
@@night7488 who asked you my name?
Who discussed my name?
Who was confused.
Bud, you lost? 🤦♂️
Is english your first language?
Be honest 😆
U said ok nelson... by the way you forgot to CAPITALIZE THE N FOR NELSON TOOOOOOOOOO 🤣
Okay is an agreement, in agreement to terms.
Glad you agree with me.
Glad we got this settled that you agree they are bums and you no speaky the english so well 😉
night night.🤤
Ohhhh u hurty my feewings 🤪
If I had the money, I would sue Marin County on behalf of the Boats People. This is shameless.
Go ahead and use your own money to sue for them! Or better yet, open your own home and let them move in with you
"We're all in the same storm, but we are not in the same boat."
Yes that's what the man said.
“If people are willing to make their boats seaworthy they can stay-for a few more years.” Gives away the game.
Yes so basically everybody’s life should be like the front yard of an episode of hoarders. Stop keeping broken junk around and making everybody else deal with it. Seriously are you a hillbilly?
@Nunya Biz The problem in official's statement wasn't first part ostensibly about maintaining seaworthiness, it's the part she let leak at the end; "for a few more years". Not so seaworthy her words there. The correct statement would be "If people are willing to make their boats seaworthy they can stay as long as they are maintained." Learned to read and listen, kiddo.
@@beegee495 They may not. Time will tell.
@@Jude74 Way to miss the point there. If and for as long as vessels are maintained to meet US Coast Guard standards of seaworthiness they are not junk.
@@Jude74 My front yard is lovely garden. Do you even have a front yard, Jed?
It's unfortunate that people don't care about taking somebody's home away regardless of what they're living in just so the wealthy have their view or spot that they can pay for and poor people can
They are only worried about the rich homeowners ,they would rather look at at homeless camp
Oh, you're storing yourself and your family and your stuff there? Then it's not a home. It's a storage shed. These officials are too much to take. What a bunch of BS.
the so called officials need to be voted out, the officials do not own the water ways . our creator owns the water ways . how ever it is up to the people to take care of it .The water ways are not for profit by any government, Stand your water ways people .
@@jamesjcazzman3007 Some people don't take care of anything. They simply take advantage of things and let others worry about the problems being created.
@@jamesjcazzman3007 How are we supposed to “vote out” officials if they appoint themselves in the first place?
Why not make more homeless people . Good job California
The rich people complained and got there way
Unbelievable
Well if your homeless save your diarrhea in buckets and when a rich woman walks past you hurl it on her
Vote yes on the Recall, Vote for Kiley
@@DearestDawn politics and politicians are exactly what caused the problem.
i have compassion for these people, but, what does the mayflower having anchored after a transatlantic journey have anything to do with their situations?
Agreed. That analogy sounded romantic enough, but fell flat on logic.
You people should be ashamed of what you're doing to these people! MONEY isn't everything... Humanity is!
The rich are usually a psychopath or sociopath....
This is heartbreaking! How about using the money spent seizing and crushing someone's home to make it seaworthy instead? The rich who live on their boats are not treated like this. Shameful!
Yeah, let's help them fix the problem instead of making it worse. But we do seem to have to appease the rich snobs don't we.
Cute but not realistic… I’m sure the cost to fix the boat far outweigh the price of crushing it…
@@itismeIamher Get them ashore, render them homeless, then get social services and policing etc involved - you'll soon outspend the cost of potentially supporting those people who, I imagine, very largely just want to be left alone.
@Ralph Anderson Ah yes. Because most people enjoy begging, don't they? Who wouldn't want to be homeless and Begging? What a silly comment, and callous, as well. The vast majority of homeless people in any country and culture have a bloody awful time in that situation, and end up trapped there. Take those boat people - you don't know a thing about them, or if they're working, or what their circumstances are. Just "get a job" is the answer. They don't exactly have a permanent address, and no doubt there's a negative cachet for the status of their address and standing as one of Those people. I also doubt if many of them do or can go very far - if I thought authorities could destroy all my worldly possessions and Life without warning, I doubt I'd ever be far from my boat either. Life isn't as simple as just saying "get a job", because poverty is a trap for so many people, with such circumstances to also try and deal with.
@@vercoda9997 blah blah blahbitty blah.
The rich get richer and the poor have to be houseless and just sit back and watch 🤷🏻♀️😔😢🛐🙏🏾
They won’t be allowed to do that for long either because the next group of materialistic sociopaths will be along any minute to make their little poverty tour videos for their CZcams channels documenting how bad the homeless problem is and accusing them all of being lazy drug addicts. Then all their little followers can amplify the homeless problem and blame them for destroying America, and eventually the police will come take their tents too and arrest them.
"Can you sympathize?"
"Yes i can."
Oh, well thank goodness, that clearly makes everything ok :^)
Wow what a great way to combat homelessness. Awesome job Cali! 🤦🏽
“ only the rich will thrive” “ Only the rich decide how we live”.-anonymous
Or if.
Hillary said the basic democrat voter is stupid, NBC fake unfed unresponsive click bait account
@@KMouseff Chairman Bejing Bai Denh Mao, CCP asset and collusion
Don't become an eye sore or a drain on society and your all good.
Until we take our world back from the rich the spoiled the inherited.
Forced homelessness i would sue them for property damge
Yep and Mental anguish, Stress,Trauma, and anything else a Lawyer can think of!!
They probably dont have legal titles to their derelict boats, so fgey really dont own them. They most likely are squatters on derelict boats.
Its a law called squatter rights
@@paulazemeckis7835 how ironic that when america was being colonized, squatting was encouraged.
Sounds like a boat thief to me... charge him with stolen and destruction property...
Very sad to destroy people's homes and now they are homeless. It makes more sense for the community to ask the people what they need to make their boats a safe house instead of destroying it. 😢 Go Fund me for the boaters to enable the people.
California falls all over itself to find new subsidies for existing property owners, but won't do anything to help regular people become property owners.
Why cant they just go be poor somewhere else? Dont they know Klay Thompson sails these here seas? We dont want to scare him off now do we? (this is sarcasm)
This seems illegal but Nuisance is being recalled for many reasons- add this to the list!
Private property ownership used to mean something in this country, not anymore when any government can just take it away.
When I was a student at the University of Louisville I lived in a houseboat moored on the Ohio River. it had its challanges brought on mostly by nature but I learned to live with it and it was one of the best periods of my life.
When I was @Sand Francisco State University, I paid $650. for a one bedroom shack. 100 year old no garage cabin on a rock. I didn't pay a deposit, I painted the exterior in lieu of one. A lot of landlords will let you improve a place for a deposit. Did it all my life. The CITY has challenges and is NOT the place to be homeless and camp. I would go to the mountains for that.
I thought of doing that it looks really cool. especially of you can get one and totally remodel it.
@@bl3627 "totally remodel it" with magic money? gofundyou? pary for it?
IF you were going to do it WHY can't they.
@@pohakumana4288 yeah rent for a one bedroom is like 1600 now.
@@pohakumana4288 what are you talking about magic money? I was talking about myself wanting to live on a boat for awhile when I was younger. I always wanted to customize a boat and live up and down the coast for awhile.
When the Mayflower came to the shores of the New World, the settlers didn't live on it for 3 generations.
I'd feel bad for the homeless if they at least try to keep their camps clean, anywhere they start to camp or anchor, becomes a big pile of shiet, being spread by wind and or water
How would you propose they do that when the cities will not pick up their trash without a valid address? They can have trash cans, but the garbage men won't take them. The cities could very easily work with these communities to help them, but they don't want to help them. They just want them to disappear...
@@lucymorgan8859 i think of the cities could "work" with the communities they would. In Portland for instance, I see the city trying, but its looking like swimming against a tsunami trash, they even set up wash stations and porta potties for them, and it all turns into dumps, it looks like as if the homeless have more stuff then most homes...
The rich neighborhood didn't want to see the poor people anymore. So they crushed their home's 💔
yeah!
Not the major’s fault? Seems like people should do some thinking before voting.
It may be true that our generation will suffer the tragedy of rich people violating poor people's rights by the hand of government so sad😢😢😢
So sad is this America we used to dream!!???!😢😢😢
Poor and middle class tax payers pay for the city workers clothes,lunch,fancy boats that get to decide who is poor and needs their boat crushed.
I never lived on a boat , but I lived in a camper. The same happened to many of us when the site was taking away . Thankfully we had a family member that could take us in until we could get back on our feet . All it takes is a lose of a Job or injury to put you in this situation .
Exactly!!!!
Absolutely…..
I've been living in an RV for the past 2 years. I just got a decent job but have to move and move into an apartment in order to start work. Its cost me over 2k just to secure an apt and get my stuff out of storage. But they wont let me park my RV in the parking lot, even tho it fits perfectly into a space and is my only transportation. I'm lucky enough to have a paltry amount in a paltry retirement account that I could withdraw to get started. What about all those who don't have that nest egg, no matter how small? I've been parked at a cousins for the past 4.5 months, who have generously been feeding me and allowing me not to have to pay to park so i don't go completely broke. I'm one of the lucky ones. There are thousands and thousands of individuals living in their vehicles, all across this country, not just in RVs, but in small cars because, even working 2 jobs, they aren't making enough to ever get ahead and be able to afford to move into an apartment. Government officials are so out of touch with reality that they simply make the existing problems worse. It sickens me what this country has become.
america is truly apalling.
Good, you're taking up space illegally and creating waste
Now that's an acceptable homeless camp. The location is what is causing them the problem. But there are 6 more islands right off the coast that boats can harbor. The state should aid and encourage this to fix the housing crisis.
I'm an anchor out. So where are you talking about? Free to anchor?
Living on a boat is NOT FREE.
Rich people in California have been trying to own the water for years.
I had a friend who lived on a boat in San Diego Bay for years. They did the same thing to him, and when he stood up for his rights his boat mysteriously sank.
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Improperly maintained boats tend to do that...
This is the same thing they do to the tents of the homeless so they are constantly starting over.
If i might point out, when the Mayflower anchored, the people got off and the ship left eventually.
There are really disgraceful humans out there… I couldn’t imagine sleeping at night knowing I took someone’s home away.
Rich people are mad poor people get to be there for free. Get rid of the rich people and maybe we can all live together.
Interesting...in an area NOW built up to over a million dollar price tag....which, of course, reflects in the wealth of the county.....a county that is "somehow" unable to assist the people...they NOW deem undesirable ...other than to destroy their homes. A bit telling....and not in a good way.
Seems par for the course in Marin County. You cant do anything there without everyone sticking their nose in deciding weather its ok or not.
Maybe it's time for Californians to finally face what they have denied for a long time: The existence of far right wing Democrats. They know that voting Republican won't work, so they have cleverly worked on greasing the existing party for the last 2 or 3 generations. An invisible empire.
Wealth is just the belief in our monetary system.IF every made rocks currency tomorrow the wealthy would not be wealthy.
Try 5 million.
This is bs she knew dam well what she was doing... im sick of anyone's saying that they own water rights...
People who live on the water in boats
Better get a lawyer asap....
That was a crime what happened
Maybe they should be worrying about whether those blocks of luxury condos are going to collapse.
It's not Florida
Marin county could easily afford to help these people
As a former resident I approve of this message.
They don't want to help. They want them removed regardless of the cost to their lives.
Marin county could leave them alone.
help whom? the lazy, the addicts, jobless and free loaders?
@@abrahamgiliana And you know they're all that how exactly?
They want to build a marina for Yachts.
Facts
Sorry, but building a Marian is not part of the issue at hand. I remember issues and discussions about anchor-outs back in the 70s while I was still in high school. Even at that time it was not a new debate since it had been debated since before my grandparents were even born. Part of the irony here, is some of the Liberty Ships durring WWII were build here by people who ended up living on boats. I knew a man who lived on this boat until it sank from disrepair. It's similar to other issues about RVs that park on public streets for long periods of time. Around here it is like the song that never ends.
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So if someone isn't contributing property taxes, then they're homeless? BS. California authorities should not be doing this, but this isn't surprising either. Marin county has a reputation for being snooty AF.
In my opinion, It’s all about the wealthy people complaining about this.
I used to work on Richardsons Bay doing various kayak guiding and boating things. The people living on those boats were NEVER a problem.I even got a chance to visit the those "illegally moored" boats and was always treated well. I've been helped by those residents a few times even. It is about wealth. It is about inequity.
Yep, hence the reason that the 100's of boats that are docked over public waters aren't facing the same issue. The wealthy get to keep their weekend toys and the poor lose their homes.
It's all about $.
Any pro Bono soldiers of fortune got the urge for a little charity fun?
Here in Victoria B.C. there are floating communities that have become problematic. The one on the Gorge (a long inlet into the heart of the City) was dumping sewage into the water just off swimming beaches - and there was a subset that were prolific thieves. No boat was safe anywhere the length of the Gorge - and they also rowed ashore at night to prey on shore based housing. Some of these 'boats' were festooned with stolen bicycles. The same sort of problem is going on with a floating community off Sidney BC - they row ashore at night to rob home owners, and they steal from anchored boats as well as stealing the boats themselves. They are quite unpopular.
It’s a money thing ,notice how no low income houses are being built to replace the boats
Do they ever? They could careless smh
Never realized there was so many homeless that own boats.... At the very least people they should be in safe running condition just like any other boat that's out on the water
They're not on the water. Permanently parked for years on the shore.
They’re not homeless.. their boats are their homes. Or were.
@William Roman You mean like sailboats? Most don’t have motors but they’re allowed out on the water. Oh, that’s right. Less fortunate people don’t have sailboats so it’s ok.
@@dr.jamesolack8504 So that rusty heap @ 1:08 is a sailboat? Does it have hidden oars? It is a danger to navigation and without a way to control or steer, danger to other boats parked. Are YOU willing to pay for the cleanup, Dr. O?
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I can see where it should have the means to steer it..........if it was a normal boat. But it’s NOT. It’s someone’s house, you knucklehead! It’s anchored. Don’t you get that?
Fun fact: most homeless people in California aren’t even from California!
And?
All their personal belongings, no warning. This is about money.
what money? if they don't have any to begin with?
a national geographic magazine from 1976 is a very valuable personal belongings. lol
They're doing a good job.
Rich people ruin everything
Put Stephanie on the street. She doesn't need to stay any longer
That's stupid how rich people are trying to ruin these people's lives because they're messing up their view
Talk about rich snobs
That gives you a new perspective on people living in expensive sea-front condos...
There are other parts of the bay but they chose the better side which is the problem... They're not rich but they linger.... Should be able to keep their boats millionaire sea worthy
@@Bertrand146 Not really. It just confirms my perspective.
@@MarcWhitaker lol
YEET THE RICH!!!
He makes an analogy with the Mayflower!🤣 Difference being, the Mayflower was seaworthy! Most of these boats are derelict, and are a hazard to the people on, and around them.
Not to mention, I'll give you one guess as to where the untreated sewage that these people generate goes!
Despite what that homeless guy says, people are NOT allowed to live in condemned homes.
So, to fight homelessness is to then create more homelessness? Sound logic. They aren’t causing no one any harm. Sounds like the rich wants beach view.
Correction: broken down boats are a huge safety hazard. People who think the homeless aren’t causing any harm don’t live near them. We are the ones experiencing the rise in crime. Open up your home if your heart bleeds so much for them.
What beach View the reservoirs are shrieking all over California are you kidding me but I get your point
Adding this county to places I will never spend a dime. Heartless.
America's just as bad as Canada...hard to escape from once ur a citizen...once we have a criminal record were not allowed to leave Canada which is weird...
The "Powers That Be" Will Never Let Someone Just Live, They Feel They Must Have A Say So" About Everything..
Yeah I'd be in jail for murder if someone literally stole my home.
it’s like if a person was living out of their car, and they left it for a moment to go do something. come back and they’re crushing it. i’m sure they had papers stating that vehicle was theirs. i can’t imagine taking someone else’s property and destroying it without contacting them first. this is wrong on many levels. they’re leaving them out with no shelter on the principle of ‘they might bump into each other if they get loose’
It's getting really scary. I cam tell u without a doubt Trump and the Republicans made it worse. Ben Carson, head of affordable housing under Trump changed laws that destroyed my section 8 voucher. I'm paralyzed from a car accident so that's why I am in section 8. Before Trump the landlord was not allowed to raise the rent higher than my voucher. Now that law doesn't exist. My rent went from 210 to 378. Almost double and it's been so difficult
Every time Trump bragged about rolling back regulations he was saying he was taking away protections that were in place to protect people like me. He is evil. He even said in one of his rallies that he didn't want to hire poor people and all his zombies cheered on the hate
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That would be like destroying someone's car in the Walmart parking lot that someone lives in.
Overpaid government employees sold their souls.
Just what California needs - more homeless people.
Inducing homelessness in order to get more federal funding to waste on orgies and hookers
My experience is that a lot are out of state like our lovely Texas man that doesnt like the media physc games.
Why is it so shocking?
One needs to maintain their home 🏡 or the same thing happens. 🤷♂️
BECAUSE IT'S NOT A HOUSE. ANY BOAT IN THOSE MARINAS CAN SINK. HAVING A MOTOR MEANS NOTHING. AND AS IF THEY CARE ABOUT THEM. IT'S ABOUT THE RICH PEOPLE'S VIEW. THE CITY COUNCIL ARE ROYAL AHOLES.
@@BigBirdy100 Oh I agree. It's like HOA. Home owners association. Picky snobs. Pretty soon it will only be the haves & haves not.🤷♂️
This is not legal. People are allowed to anchor out whereever and whenever
This is disgusting. What a prime example of power over, abuse of power, lies and city bullying. Rich folks win again. There are risks to everyone’s homes, even mine. Instead of moving these folks to land, why doesn’t the city help make them seaworthy?
I wonder 😔🤔, hi how are you doing Beth ?
@@joeclement5912 getting ready to go back to work. How are you?
@@bethmorano1452 I'm good thanks for asking 😊. So where are you chatting from if I may ask ?
This is soooooooo unbelievably cruel. People... insensitive, rich and selfish people who have never had to struggle or appreciate the struggle, are cruel. And I pray that ALL individuals involved with making these families homeless, will reap what they sow.
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@@pohakumana4288 liberal
If you can't see a boat floating then you probably shouldn't be out on one
They will reap according to God Judgment in his time according to his word in Psalms chapter 37 📖
@C S STFU
What? You dont pay rent? Crush that house!
If you're going to destroy a man's house you better buy him a new one.
I thought that the legal authority of a municipality ended at the high-tide mark. So, now the often-ratty boats are being destroyed, with the now homeless people living in tent-communities ? Not much of an improvement.
The answer is they don't, not to that extent anyway. It's a US Coast Guard matter, not a municipal one.
waterways are always owned by someone, there’s nothing like “International Waters” near land, that’s only for when you are far off into the oceans.
@@scooter39045 100% wrong. It's not in private, city, county, or state ownership, as you describe it. Those water are in US Coast Guard jurisdiction. International maritime laws, which the USA is a party to by international treaties, apply. Maritime laws are international because waterways are or can plied by vessels from all over the world. I've had the privilege of spending much of 50+ years on the water, on and around boats. I know, from your own words, that you don't actually know what you're talking about.
Thats what thought too. Here in Wisconsin you can travel up a creek through private property. As long as your in the water not a thing they can do.
@@arrrgonot7801 For people to understand where property rights of land or on land end in California--where the matter reported is, including general public access to coastal waters, they should refer to the California Coastal Commission.
It’s all about money.. they saw money they weren’t taping into and they don’t like that. Those ppl could nearly live for free.. The US can’t have that
That's what it amounts to. Even that city counsel woman said some slick line about .. if they make their boats sea-worthy, they can stay for a few more years. That sounds like an agenda.
File a lawsuit and buy a yacht from the settlement
THEY JUST DON'T LIKE THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT PAYING TO LIVE THERE , MAKES ME SICK !!!! SHAME ON THOSE WHO ARE DOING THIS !!!
So I wonder if a billionaire parked his boat there and stayed few months if they'd take his boat and crush it? Oh wait, he could afford a lawyer...
It would never happen.
Haha “sea worthy” perhaps ?
The billionaire's boat would not be a floating garbage heap. It would have proper black water plumbing and proper garbage storage. And it would be covered by insurance so if it ever did do damage to someone else's boat it would be taken care of.
Yeah but does he have fire insurance.
The whole scheme is to destroys people's property so the CEOs and trust fund rich can freely anchor there yachts undisturbed by anyone and run there boats fast with no one around from Tiburon to Sausalito.
Priced out buying land, moves to water.. Actually we want that too for looking at..
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@C S So crush them while still inhabited for the same amount of money it would cost anyways, in a State complaining of housing troubles. That seems logical... if you DON'T really think about it.. (FACEPALM)
Don't worry with the heat and the glaciers melting that high price land will be ocean floor.
@@pohakumana4288 give up its not funny
@@bl3627 no just more marina, you don't know the area.
Sorry but I agree to a point. If you're boat is unsafe, it's dangerous to you and others. We do condemn homes too. BUT don't use this law to destroy a perfectly good boat. Should be more than one inspection and inspector
When someone built free shacks for people didn't the state tear those down too.
This seems unusually cruel.
Definitely cruel but not unusual. Rich ppl don't want others to have anything
*I think taking away someone's 'home' however poor and shabby, could easily be extremely hazardous to someone's health*
Heartbreaking 💔
She said she understands, how does she understand when she gets to go to her own house.