Formerly homeless man says Denver will be next San Francisco if leaders don't change course
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2023
- Read the full story at: cbsloc.al/43zKsXr ... Denver's population has shrunk over the last two years, but one demographic continues to grow - the homeless.
He is right about accountability is a form of compassion. It's like being a parent sometimes you have to discipline your child and set expectations.
Sometime you’ve gotta be cruel to be kind. “Cruel to be kind in the right measure. Cruel to be kind, it’s the very design. Cruel to be kind means that I love you. Baaaby, sometimes you’ve gotta be cruel to be kind.”…think thats a song that I’ve heard before…
@@Scott-xb7ovor the mental health crisis could be addressed. There’s no place for crazy people to go. Except the streets
Right, intervening to get people literally living on the streets to become stable and productive is EXACTLY the same as raising children.
Are you going to put the homeless in time out? You can't ground them haha. Are you going to spank them? Are you going to give them a stern lecture? Are you going to tell them "I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed" haha? Please describe the compassionate "discipline" approach in more detail. What does that look like, specifically?
@@rlud304 Put them in a camp and set rules. You don't follow the rules, you don't eat. You don't like the camp, you have 2 choices - beat feet out of town or go to jail. Problem solved.
Drug abuse and untreated mental disorders are the root cause of the homeless....it's never been about a "housing crisis" as the politicians love saying!
Accountability is so unpopular now.
They don't want to solve it. This way they can keep laundering more and more money indefinitely.
Bro, it's at an all-time low
What is your point? Please elaborate cause I missed it.
Could you be a little more vague? haha
Then your city will pay the price!
Denver voted in the Hickenloopers, Tay Andersons, CdeBaca's, Hancocks, etc. Denver votes in the equity programs. Denver politics works on flowery, solve-everything, emotionally-driven campaigns: Hickenlooper had his "Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness". That was 17 years ago: Colorado made him a Senator.
"Homeless Drug Addict" has been one of their fastest-growing demographics for years now.
Denver will continue to vote (D).
seem like it's all talk no action
@@creatorsfreedom6734 There is action: lie and misdirect. And then a reaction: accept and approve. One side is the politicians. The other is the voters.
Continuous machine politics that swell as the city just gets bigger and bigger. Which is why places like Littleton or Arvada are no longer outliers well over ten miles away.
@@draperscott7698 If you're asking for a campaign platform, you would have to ask one of them.
My speculation would be that they would do nothing differently: simply for the fact that they will never be in the position to do anything, differently, or otherwise, since they will never get elected in Denver.
@@SpartacusColoOh lol politics bring out the fool in all of us mate it's ok
Glad to hear of this man's recovery, and that his marriage and family are back together, too. He's been on both sides of the homelessness issue - you've gotta believe what he says.
No I don’t
Imagine that? An actual expert!
He points out the TRUTH about homeless being mostly caused by drug/ alcohol addiction.
The mayor of Aurora said the same thing after going "undercover" for a week as a vagrant, and was shamed for it.
Some people (such as the Coalition for the Homeless) can't handle the truth!
@@kevinl3875
Well, the fact is, most homeless people don't want help. They don't want jobs, they don't want treatment.
You can't help those that refuse it.
Nope, not true. They may be the most visible, but definately not the majority.
@@Timbrock1000 And you know this HOW, specifically? Pulling it out of your as$ is not a credible source lol
@@rlud304
I know it from my experience in dealing with them. I'm a security guard, and I see them all the time. They loiter, they panhandle, they wander aimlessly yelling at the sky, they almost always have an obvious substance issue.
I also hear about it from people who have tried to assist them. These vagrants don't want help, treatment, or work.
@@Timbrock1000 So your limited anecdotal experience qualifies you to know what “most” want or don’t want? You’re even more ignor@nt than I initially thought 🤦🏻♀️
I’d like to see how much profit local governments make off of donations disguised as homeless interventions. It’s a talking point for all politicians to say they’re going to put an end to it but none do anything. As usual, follow the money.
They're not making a profit, it's costing lots of money.
@@suen5006 That's the point, most of these "non-profit" NGOs are just money-sinks that disguise their grift as activism. If the problem they're supposedly trying to fix ever did get mitigated sufficiently, they'd lose their money pipeline.
@@suen5006money is at the job if you are able bodied
Colorado get this under control...
Thank you for your service to humanity, Mr. Wolf. We can all learn a valuable lesson from your experience. God bless you 🙏
you can spend all the money you want to help but if they dont want to help themselves then nothing is going to get done.
And you know this HOW?
Jail,military the two choices both are going to clean you up.
@@techs1smh13 “Clean you up?” That makes no sense lol
@@rlud304 as in getting clean . Clean you up
@@techs1smh13 Really? Well, thanks for breaking that down so we can understand 😁You have zero clue, yet continue to drivel on with utter nonsense, “cLeAn… gETtInG clEaN”🤦🏻♀️
Putting people behind bars is your all encompassing go to “solution “ for every problem. Have you been in a coma for the last few decades? It’s been done, professor and clearly it DIDN’T F*CKING WORK.
And forcing military service on mentally ill, traumatized, potentially drug or alcohol addicted people against their will which is btw illegal dipsh^t … just, “chef’s kiss” level m0ron 😆
He's right- "Accountability is compassion."
Maybe we should start a war on drugs. You're a genius!
@@rlud304 and you're ridiculous and rude for no reason.
That’s meaningless.Please describe what “accountability” looks like, specifically
@@michellemuldrew827 I’m mocking you for being ridiculous
“aCcoUntABilitY iS coMpAsSioN” 🤣
@@rlud304 Key word, mocking" I was simply agreeing with the man's statement. I have worked with drug addicts for many years- the first step to healing is accountability. Personal accountability. It offers the person a way out. This is compassionate. Mockery is not a good or positive trait- do better. Peace.
This is drug problem 😓😓
And the cops let the drugs in & $$$$ from it.
So, they spent a little over 52k per homeless person. Who is stealing the money? What a scam.
Thats why NOTHING is ever solved. No way to launder monies then. If the problem gets worse, they get more monies to launder =)
So $50,000 per homeless person was pissed away?
Not pissed, laundered. See now why they will never solve the problem?
Some politician's friend got their cut in consulting fees or a cushy new government job trying to "solve" that problem. The politicians also got elected on emotional decision-making, so money well spent, in their estimate.
@@SpartacusColo Yeah, these assholes will pay someone $99,990 to give away ten bucks.
No, this figure includes programs that help housed families.
How did they spend those millions? Because it doesn’t show one bit someone spent that money 🤷🏽♀️
We have more bums now. You get more of what it is you subsidize.
We spend $52k every year for each homeless person in denver. Absolute insanity.
End the Hobo - Industrial - Complex
@@JeffC-fq1bespeak for yourself 🤓🖕
Yall wanna know something sad. A Veteran with 100% disability still makes less than they spend on homeless in a year. If that does not show priority then I have no idea what does.
Veterans are not more important than anyone else.
@@rlud304 no one said they were. But we are spending more on someone who contributes nothing to our society than we are someone who has contributed to our society. Simple facts are if your not contributing your most likely taking. And at some point the amount of people contributing will be surpassed by those taking.
@@ThePatriot87 Veterans have contributed nothing to our society. Murdering innocent civilians in fake made up wars for the profits of the Wall Street corporate war industry that loots our money is the opposite of contributing.
No thank you go your “service”
@@ThePatriot87 "If YOU'RE not contributing... " (not "your")
Middle school must've been rough for you, poor dear.
Btw, what you wrote makes no sense. The point is to get those unable to contribute due to present circumstances on a path to become productive members of society. It doesn't happen by magic lol.
The money spent is called an investment which in the future pays for itself and then some. There is no shortage of data proving just that. You don't spend money where it's not needed, professor.
@@rlud304 Lol Grammar Nazi I like it. And roughly 40% of those that are homeless actually have jobs. 68% of homelessness is due to some sort of an addiction. If you make a choice to choose your tic over your family a job or living a normal life I start to lack pity for you. If you just like to be homeless and not have to live within social construct then you should not be taking any sort of assistance.
Whatever Denver does,
...the metro ends up suffering more.
And by default the entire state.
Don't leave Boulder out of it.
What do you mean " will be". It already is. As long as Gavin Newsom Jr.(Polis) is Governor. The state will continue to fail.
It takes a small simple mind to think a nuanced, multi-layered, multi-variable complex problem is ALL the fault of one individual. You're probably the same "genius" who thinks the president sets gas prices haha
@@rlud304 The market sets the gas prices. When one of the most-powerful men in the World says he's going to destroy that market, the prices get set accordingly. It's not complex at all.
And Polis is pulling his fair weight in ensuring a bleak future for Colorado, so don't give him a pass.
@@SpartacusColo Wow that was so thorough and detailed... clearly you're quite the economic scholar. 😂
It’s “the market” haha
@@rlud304 And you clearly aren't well-versed in English. It is, actually, "one of the most-powerful men". Dimwit.
@@rlud304 You're part of the problem
If they solved the homeless crisis then all the enablers would be out of a job: social workers, community activists, administrators.
Enablers? That's so stup^d haha!
@@rlud304 I take it that you are a well paid part of the homeless industry.
@@TomMcBoston Haha! That is so stupid! Good work, Nancy Drew 😆
It’s just not okay to go through life being this embarrassing 🤦🏻♀️
@@rlud304 my suspicion confirmed.
Are you homeless" is clearly the mating call of Denver.
Yikes haha
@@mattm1725 yeah they really do that here. It's goofy and annoying asf.
52k a year per homeless person. Einstein's definition of insanity is repeating the same experiment over, and over again expecting different results. Good luck with your new mayor.
More like 200 of the 250 million laundered
@@pauldennis6069 Wouldn’t be surprised. When California’s State Comptroller made an audit of the revenue collected from taxpayers for Proposition 2, he found that over 60% of the funds collected went to “ administrative costs “ not the homeless.
@@wtywatoad In some cases it's like 91 - 97%. Why ever fix the problem? Infact lets actually make it worse so we can profit more.............
Einstein also said, "The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has limits
If they had enforced our laws when this started happening we wouldn't be here now like this.
That's the problem, the mayor wants to enforce, but the SFBOS are not going along with it.
@@robertlowe5697 I don't know that "SFBOS" are, but the mayor doesn't want to enforce anything. Two people are needed for that to happen: The mayor and the district attorney. Neither want to enforce the laws, and the voters are okay with that.
their laws are what helped encourage this problem to begin with. legalizing drugs, supplying clean needles, having "safe" shoot up sites, and get a shot of norcan if you inject too much. this is denver. no wonder it attracts what it does. stupidity runs this city/state. and it pushes out the clean, functional and productive citizens who appreciate and care for the (not so) beautiful state.
The more money thrown the worse it gets. What happened to tough love, or not being the enabler?
The Homeless are part of the community should be Forced to Drug Rehab and should be required to get a job no excuses
That is so stoopid Haha!!! Problem solved! You're a genius 🤣
Unfortunately your "brilliant" idea would be typical in a communist regime, not in a free country.
Forcing people to work against their will worked well in the former Soviet Union.
You must really hate the US Constitution, huh
Forced rehab doesn't work. They need a reason to stop! They stop when they want to!
They look at other parts of the US that have successfully dealt with the homeless, like San Antonio. You can get help getting a GED, a safe place to live, help with job opportunities. Giving someone a place to live doesn’t address why they’re homeless in the first place.
WRONG. You can't fix the challenges of a homeless person until you house them. Portugal and Finland ELIMINATED homelessness, among many other countries and cities around the world with housing first.. There's an abundance of evidence that it works.
No, but it IS a start.
It’s very hard to get any help for these people. I tried to help a friend who is homeless, all the organizations gave me the runaround.,unless the homeless person is older or have small children, then yes, there’s help for those.
You are incorrect. It’s only as hard to get help as the person who needs it, makes it to be. When a person commits to the sacrifice needed to become self sufficient, the help will manifest itself. I know this because I crawled into Step 13 (now known as Denver 13) many years ago with nothing more than a large duffel bag of personal effects.
I now live in a home with a paid off mortgage, have 100% on time payment status on my credit report, and have also worked diligently to regain the the trust and respect of my family.
@@wtywatoad so your experience many years ago suggests that his experience with an entirely different person at a different time is wrong?
What? Why didn't you help them? That's your circle...why did you fail them?
Who told you "a program exists" = that program can fix everything. Nobody ever said that.
Denver votes D. this is what they want.
Recovering and then giving back with a purpose as this man gives hope. His voice is so important to bring the resources together in a way they won’t be wasted.
Denver has become a horrible place to live! I've recently returned after the last 5 years in Scottsdale, AZ! My commute time into downtown from the DTC has doubled, along with rent doubling as well! Even the price of groceries has skyrocketed! It's time to move away again!
So this guy Tom who lived on the streets of S.F. is now living in Denver. Wonder if he will follow through on his word by voting for those who will fix the problem instead of the ones who will enable the crime and homelessness.
You will freeze to death in Denver during the winter. Ain't gonna turn into SF.
Denver isn’t that cold in the winter
@@actionjackson666 It gets below freezing almost every single night. At least once a winter it will get to -10 or colder. What you talking about?
denver is one fentanyl crisis from being SF
Perhaps the goal is exactly what we're seeing
They're not dealing with the homeless what Denver's doing is putting them on a bus and shipping them up to Fort Collins and leaving them here for us to deal with that needs to be broadcast so they know the truth people know the truth We are not a shelter camp for the homeless and that is not our responsibility to deal with the homes It is Denver's responsibility to take care of deal with it quit shipping your homeless off to the other cities up north
Denver is shipping their homeless into Western and Central Nebraska also. We absolutely have no place here. Between the illegals and homeless, there is no services or housing or work.
I watched an episode of "House Hunters" that took place in Denver years ago and I was shocked at the price of the humble house. I'm not sure why people are surprised at the homeless population increasing with home prices increasing.
Exactly. Today's income for alot of people is way less than the cost of living.
Not everyone needs to live in Denver.....
An addict is not going to be able to pay any amount of rent, or other bills for that matter. But you're correct for the non-addicted homeless.
Its all across the country not just Denver, Even in small towns
I lived in Denver and watched it go downhill… glad I’m back east
No mention of the economy … no mention of the rental costs… just JAIL
Drugs , homeless , crime is bad in SF . I don’t fly into SF no more . Can’t too ugly and dangerous to see
I voted for a Republican for the first time in the most recent Denver mayoral race...but a Democrat was still elected. Do drugs on the street.....go to jail. Have drugs on the street....go to jail. That'll fix 98% of the homeless problem. Give non-prison shelter to drug free individuals and force them to use it every night. California politics is ruining my hometown of Denver.
How many jail’s do you think are available…damn 😂😂😂
But aurora cops can drive drunk, but no one gets arrested but the police will arrest the the homless
@@morenorobert53 If the homeless person......individual........is in possession of illegal drugs, then yes, he/she goes to jail. Accountability for one's own actions. What a novel concept.
Give drug users all the drugs they want...for free. Let Darwinism do the rest.
Maybe lower the cost of living and raise the cost of wages..
nothing that enforcement of vagrancy laws couldn't fix, but that would be too simple (and deprive the homeless industrial complex grifters their stream of income)
Right, cause that is completely free and has worked so well haha
That's literally what's pushing people to cities.
$250 Million spent on 4,794 homeless people amounts to $ 52,148 per person. Where is the accountability for wasting taxpayers' money? How was $52,148 spent per person?
how do these guys survive your winters? lock them out
I had heard that the Denver gangs are taking the homeless and dropping them off in Front Range communities, to pan handle for the gangs. Colorado is now known as Calirado (California + Colorado.)
Organized crime will do things like that, to be sure. At the very least, gangs might shake down panhandlers operating on their own turf: "Local Fees".
@@SpartacusCologood. Hopefully the gangs punk those homeless criminals
Ha get in line pal. I live in Seattle. We’re the next San Francisco and have been working very hard for that for some time.
I watched the documentary "Seattle Is Dying" a few years ago & it made me so sad. I lived in Seattle in the 90s & it was a lovely city. Now I live in Denver &, like Seattle, it is circling the drain.
Naw Bro Seattle is never gonna be the next San Fran. Seattle has never risen the the heights that San Fran and Denver have achieved. Seattle has potential to turn itself around far more than either Denver or San Fran. The issue is people tent to keep thinking that the liberal ideology is the best way when in reality being really tough on crime is going to lead to far fewer issues.
@@ThePatriot87 well I hope you’re right but as someone who lives here, this is a liberal haven that doesn’t look like it’s gonna change anytime soon.
I live in Seattle and it's nothing like you claim. You're just a wimp, likely why you guys lost Iraq. Most homeless come from either ignorant & apolitical or conservative families...and Republicans own every Vet.
That's $52,148/unsheltered person.
Ya mean laundered monies
What good exzample of recovery so proud of you 2:01
It’s a DRUG CRISIS not a HOMELESS CRISES!
It's both
Sounds like Denver could use some cheering up by getting some bus and plane loads of happy "immigrants just looking for a better life" from Texas and Florida. If they can afford $52k per homeless, then they can afford more cultural diversity.
That's already happening. Illegals have been assigned to living in parking garages in Denver.
To stay clean, the person has to want it for themselves, you can't force someone to want to stay clean, the minute they leave jail they will be right back on whatever substance fuels their addiction. Drug use usually happens for more than one reason, a person needs treatment on several levels. Continued mental health treatment, sober living meetings, job training and housing are what it will take to address homelessness. There is enough money to address these needs but currently, it is not being spent wisely.
That's all the shit that is being used to fix it currently. Doesn't work. Add personal accountability/responsibility, mandatory jail time for drug use in public, and mandatory treatment for those using on our streets and things will start working in the publics favor. Tough love is what is needed, not enabling homeless.
@@cuttinstones3024 What is your area of expertise that qualifies your shamelessly confident opinion? It is a special kind of stoopid to think the solution to everything is to put humans behind bars. Do you think that's free? How much does it cost to incarcerate a an individual?
Most people who have a drug addiction have PTSD so your cure is lock people up for having been traumatized?
But jail allows them to escape from a toxic environment and sober up, warm bed and a reliable meal. That's more of a chance than most addicts on the street have, especially in the winter. I've seen dead bodies on sidewalks going about my workday every winter here. Not to mention they are breaking the law, openly.
Tax the Sacklers at 90 percent.
Why?
@@Timbrock1000 Because they are the ones responsible for the opioid epidemic, and thus much of the homelessness. Tax the crap out of them and put the money toward solving the crisis.
@@concernedbiker9414
Taxing the wealthy, throwing (more) good money after bad has never solved anything.
We keep spending more money on the homeless, and instead of solving the problem, it's only made it WORSE.
Sure, I understand what you're saying about the Sacklers, but that's another issue. (Taxing companies does not result in hurting the companies. They pass all expenses on to consumers, so higher taxes only end up hurting said consumers.
Also, people are responsible for the choices, good or bad they make in life.
@@Timbrock1000 You need to research the Sacklers. Many people were prescribed Oxcy from their doctors. And then it was over prescribed because of over aggressive marketing by the Sacklers. The whole time they knew the risks of addiction. They just didn't give a sh##. There are many things I would do to fix the homeless situation. I'm curious what your solutions are?
@@Timbrock1000They literally created millions drug addicts. They did it in the 60's too. This is what happens when Republicans strangle govt blindly and then tell cops to fix the problems.
It includes case workers axtually doing their jobs in short order instead of withholding services just to see if ppl can handle waiting. Or not show preferential treatment to only family. Denver Post had a big story on that a few years ago.
Throwing money only makes it worse instead we should build a treatment facility in the middle of nowhere give the cops authority to arrest them help the ones that can be helped
You mean laundering money
So more welfare for Republicans? That's what we do now...the USA has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. That's Republican Welfare...and they are responsible for much of the homeless, from Iraq vets to kids kicked out of the house for not being a religious conservatives.
If you put these people in homes they will destroy their own living quarters.
Weird since according to an abundance of data the complete opposite happens.And it continues to get better from there. You are objectively wrong and shockingly ignor@nt.
I can't help but wonder what possessed you to think the world needed your m0ronic opinion today?
Republicans called them Losers when they were down....what did you expect? Why can't Business make housing more affordable? This is a free country...we don't have a real housing policy. Indeed, between some cops getting their mortgages covered and military housing, the reality is Conservatives are the most "Publicly Housed" group in history.
May I receive a six figure “social and equity unhoused compassionate counselor jobs” which never end on purpose?
A major difference is that Denver has a homeless "reset" every winter while San Francisco does not.
Help the one's that want to change their ways, that are going to be accountable for their actions. Other wise you may as well take the money and set it on fire.
Saw a burned out gas station not far from the Fillmore with about 2 dozen people living in it.
Not only drugs but outrages rental and housing prices.
When dems run cities
They have lower rates of crime than republican run cities. Facts.
You can't throw money at homelessness
Not all are on drugs , people are sleeping in their cars because they can't afford rent
But, those people are not sleeping in tents, pooping on the street, and stealing things.
@@SpartacusColoAnd...? You're not really saying anything. This is a market economy, so this is a market outcome.
@@java4653 The people living in their cars presumably have jobs and are at least trying to make it. The person living under the highway overpass is, most-likely, the drug addict who is pooping on the street, stealing things, etc.
One thing I know about Do-Gooders: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." I have been homeless at a halfway house (this was a legal technicality of being "homeless" -- I always had a roof over my head, usually my OWN APARTMENT most of my life). When I was there, I was on the city bus every morning at 5 a.m. to go to work. I did not return until 7 p.m. at night. I missed the women's breakfast because I left too early in the morning, in order to get to work on time from downtown to South Tulsa ... and I missed the women's upper because my return bus drove past our office building at 4:45 p.m. so there was no way I would leave my work before 5 p.m. The next evening bus did not swing by until after 6 p.m. So I returned downtown by about 7 p.m. My daily food intake consisted of the baloney sandwich brown-bag lunch they fixed for us. The entire time I was in the halfway house, literally I was gone 7 days a week. My energy came from GOD (and a good cup of coffee). Saturday I went to church. Sunday, I went over to a girlfriend's apartment to talk about stuff. In other words, while the other girls were sitting around smoking cigarettes, acting like they were "to the manor born," (all paid for by state taxpayers) I was NEVER THERE (except to sleep at night). Also, I would help deliver newspapers from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. every Sunday morning, with another gal who resided there. I never slowed down, even after I got my OWN APARTMENT, this time at Foxfire in South Tulsa. THAT is how you make it. Prices are high now -- but so are WAGES. No roommates for me, they could never be trusted. I learned that with the ex-husband now, as well.
Always donate to Salvation Army❤
Bizarre. They're recovery rates are lower than the average. They do worse than people getting clean on their own.
It might get close, but it get way colder in Denver than SF
Where did they spent that 250 millions on salaries?
All laundered.
Colorado is basically East California (Calirado) at this point. Denver is a mini LA.
This men needs to be the New Colorado Governor
How do you become formerly homeless ? ASKING FOR A FRIEND 😂😂
There's big bucks in homelessness. Someone is making bank.
You can't arrest your way out of this. It's been tried. And what he says is not true. The majority of homeless people are not addicts. It's true that they may be the most visible part of the populations but so many studies have shown that homelessness goes much deeper that those with addiction problems.
So glad I moved out of Colorado, what a dump.
What state isnt a fkin dump these days?
@pauldennis6069 There are a lot of states actually since I've left Colorado that are nice. Perfect? No. Better than Colorado? Yes by quite a bit. The states I've been in since don't have ridiculously strict car emissions laws, they don't have terrible air pollution, far less expensive cost of loving, I don't see coked out homeless people wandering around, etc.
We are well on our way to San Francisco. The only thing that makes it less attractive to homeless is it snows here in the winter.
Colorado is a blue sanctuary state what do you expect?
Where is the affordable housing? We have all these so called luxury apartments no one can afford. People with jobs are so quick to say it’s all drugs. Money is a drug. Furthermore we have no living wage. Having a job does not mean you have a place to live in America. These are realities.
250 million for what? How about a itemized audit.
Slum city or full prisons. These are the options.
We already have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. We don't have much "public" housing (it's mostly... Republicans in the military!) Local politicians don't "run" a city. They don't sell the drugs (that's more likely cops!). They don't run commerce or banking....so how is this not a free market outcome?
How is this not the fault of
He’s right. 2 issues. Mental Issues and Drug/Alcohol Addiction.
Hilarious …. Drug addicts can only get treatment for drug addiction in jail… uhhhhh we see nothing wrong with this 👀
I was Homeless! and I wasn't on Drugs!.
Crazy that Americans are homeless, but ILLEGAL GET HOTEL ROOMS, FLIGHTS, FOOD, MONEY AND MEDICAL paid for by YOUR tax money!
Colorado as a whole has a huge problem. yes addicts are struggling. but some of us are fucking sober. and disabled 😒
6 months? Amature!
Build affordable housing!!
Our government gives billions of taxed dollars to foreign countries.
Cities spend millions of taxed dollars on civic buildings, museums, parks, roads, bridges, libraries, animal adoption centers, etc.
Our government and cities should build sleeping night shelters (Chinese style pods are good) with showers and toilet availability. Our soldiers should oversee these drug free facilities, if they can safeguard foreigners in their countries, they can help homeless Americans.
All churches in America should feed the hungry.
All Americans deserve a safe place to sleep, shower, and toilet use!
We all pay taxes.
Homeless people don't pay taxes...
@@h.a.l.3980 Many Americans pay income tax, state sales tax, gas tax, utilities taxed, tax on phone, property tax, etc. Homeless Americans lost everything, they are no longer taxpayers.... So let's get them night shelter, a start back to normally.
Dogs can shit anywhere. Why don't we have pubic restrooms? Businesses don't want homeless around.
Our country has soldiers around the world in bases to protect America. Lets have night shelters to protect Americans.
With all of the things you propose govt do for the homeless , would you put the requirement that they pass drug / alcohol / nicotine tests as a precondition of continuing services?
Alcoholic and drug users may never stop using.
Mental illness is some times incurable.
Marijuana is becoming legalizes in many states.
Drug users normally stay away from law enforcement and military because they don't want help or told what to do.
The night shelters will be available for a night only and check out in the morning...not a drug testing event.
I have no recommendations for what homeless will do during day. They need a place to go. We have dog parks...maybe we should have homeless parks???🤣🤣 Wherever they go to they need toilets availability. 🤣🤣🤣
LOL... Soldiers? They lost the wars dude.
They arent doing enough. The facts don't lie bud, just look at the encampments
By not all homeless people are drug addicts and drink alcohol I've been homeless for 5 years living in my car with my dog and I do not do drugs and I stay clean I was working but once they find out that I'm leaving homeless they got rid of me I was working for 2 years and I was doing really good almost close to getting my efficiency. And once you get arrested for being homeless. Record that you're going to have it's not going to disappear it's going to make it harder for you to get a job and to rent somewhere again if you're going to arrest somebody for being homeless does a big mistake and I'm pretty sure lawyers already hanging around in case it happens
Homeless should be outside the city in poor area where they can’t attack anyone.
Well, we do need to bring back poor farms. Those were a thing in the past for people to stay off the streets, and grow their own food on county owned property.
@@user-dw1ls3rp1lThat's a great idea!
@@user-dw1ls3rp1l Did it work?
@@rk41gator Yes. Then ww2 came around and everyone had something to do overnight. Once the war ended, they were out of fashion because the country had become so prosperous.
@@user-dw1ls3rp1l Interesting idea to bring back. I would think for many it would be a good experience to work with your hands and see results that you could be proud of. Once in a stable environment, I believe such a program would be vastly helpful for a lot of people. It is certainly more humane than ignoring those rotting in the street. As Phil Collins sings in 'Another Day in Paradise', we would not have to pretend not to see them and just walk by but actually feel good by having something positive to offer.
I think it's too late unless they rounded up the people and put them on buses. As we have seen some of the Venezuela people are not the best (NY SHOOTER and mom covering, how he got the gun we may never know)...Some are already criminals upon entering and have no good intentions of working hard to get ahead. Most people with money will leave and the houses in Denver will be devalued.
This is the legacy of Governor Polis.
this is laughable CA is warm CO is HELLA cold, com'on-man
Is there a way we can give them a 'no man's land' where it's not illegal to camp? Give them some porta potties and free tents and clean up the city...
I'd hate to see this turn into a police state and have full jails.
The USA already has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world...which is welfare for Conservatives, as most of the employees & town's are Republican. They even get to "kidnap" the prisoners and claim them as citizens for representation, so they get even more $$$ from the Govt. Reality: White Conservatives are the most subsidized group I'm human history. Most of the war spending ends up in their districts. As was predicted: more bombs=more homeless.
With 250 million….. the city could have built apartment homes … who is this man Tom Wolf , what position does he hold in the city of Denver?
"The City could"....how? "Govt build houses" is not in the Constitution, this is a Market Economy....this is a market outcome. Private enterprise is always pouring billions into housing...why is that not a "waste"?
Definitely...
It’s simple make housing affordable for everyone and it’s not always drugs… they got money for drugs and not housing..really
Cool. They're eating Orowheat Oatnut Bread. That shit is $3.50-$4.50 a loaf. You can feed more people with the bread that is $1.50. WTF
Democrats.
A bandaid doesn't fix a aorta bleed.
This is what an irresponsible real-estate market does to the working class. people already living check to check as most of our country is minimum wage workers can't do anything when thier rent doubles inflation needs to end for this to be fixed
4,794 homeless.....???? Hahaha yeahhh rightttt 😂🙄😑
If you build it, they will come.
Maybe they will finally begin letting us have slums in this country. It would really be great if people could put together their own little shacks in specially designated zones separated from the main cities. Historically this has always been how the very poor could live and there is simply no provision for them here in America other than these tent cities. But the slum should be separated from the part of the city where people live normally.
Why does this guy think all these overdoses are happening?? The policy of prohibition is what leads a population that used to be addicted to mostly pharmaceutical drugs like oxycodone to now being addicted to powerful fentanyl and other synthetic drugs and dying at epidemic levels. He's right that Decriminalization helps nobody but his solution is wrong. We need full legalization to remove the market for synthetic drugs. There will still be plenty of addicts but they won't be dying in record numbers, homeless or commiting other types of crime