Alaska's Homeless Camps: Felons, Junkies And Fugitives

[@sherylrich2461]

People keep saying government "allowed" this. The government CREATED this.

[@FourOneZeroSevenThreeFive]

Indeed ! Immigrants are being flown to Alaska, many froze to death last winter.

[@sawboneiomc8809]

We grew up poor…but we refused to live in filth. You don’t HAVE to live in filth

[@kirkwrichardson]

me two, God bless

[@madmikemackas]

True

[@Kaspertube513]

Were you a junkie ?

[@bigscores7237]

Filth is a natural consequence of drugs.

[@joelonzello4189]

Your are Correct. Living in Filth is a Choice.

[@relaxresell3121]

I knew a grown man, teacher for 15 years, who had 3 roommates and lived in a bedroom the size of a broom closet. This is in AZ. I remember thinking, good God. Now, we all need 3 roommates.

[@tomsch5801]

there is something uniquely ironic about homeless camps outside of Home Depot

[@lindas5964]

Lol no kidding

[@AlisaDashaRedPowerBrigada]

Is best to be more hidden to keep safe from the drug culture

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

😂😂

[@drop830]

Alaska would be the last place id go if i were homeless.

[@yaaramiryaagr4411]

San Diego

[@davianoinglesias5030]

What if you were a fugitive

[@drop830]

@@davianoinglesias5030 what if gerbles were the size of horses, and you could ride them?

[@drop830]

@@yaaramiryaagr4411 yeah I mean, if I were to be homeless, I'd want to be in a place where I could just whip my paints down, and take a dump where ever I wanted to

[@drewdurant3835]

It’s easy to say that. How do I suggest a broke homeless person travels from Alaska to a warmer place? You have to have a passport to go through Canada. You going to buy some tickets?

[@Katrina-mx2sf]

In my 56 years, ive never seen such homelessness, lack of housing, there's such a struggle for basic life. How in hell di ppl live outside during the winter? Its like life is devolving.

[@joelonzello4189]

I am seeing Homeless ( some look new ) living in nice cars in parking lots, side roads ( Golf Community ) Local Hardcore living under every bush , along railroad tracks or the beach in North County, San Diego. Same on the bus & at bus Terminal. Shouldn't be like this. Dems Did It All !!

[@peeppeeping1389]

USA is in a depression but you know they won't tell us this time, but we will notice seeing all the tent cities everywhere.

[@CarterRobert-xt4kf]

You think ur better than all of them in stead of looking down on them maybe u wouldn't say shit until u walked in their shoe. Regardless of what you think you are no better than the average person in the most campsites

[@QueenofArgyle2525]

@@joelonzello4189with foreign help:/

[@EricPetersen2922]

It’s a wrap

[@jasmineneal2916]

This country has the worst drug problem I think it's ever had😢

[@ChristIsKing8888]

Chinese manufactured chemicals are pouring through the southern border at the highest rate ever

[@davianoinglesias5030]

The solution would be government funded rehabilitation but ofcourse Republicans and libertarians wouldn't pass such a 'communist' bill

[@davianoinglesias5030]

​@@corinneinsleyirelandso in Trump's time there were no drugs?

[@eslnoob191]

@@davianoinglesias5030 The first thing the Taliban did after we left Afghanistan and they took over was to send their soldiers to round up all the drug addicts and force them into rehab camps. Hardcore rehab too, cold turkey. And you know what? It really worked. The thing is that they treated the homeless addicts like brothers. In the US, we don't treat each other like brothers and sisters. It's a shame...

[@chicogozosodecabellosedoso]

Why so, my dear and beloved daughter??

[@bjkjoseph]

Instead of putting them in an insane asylum, we are all living in an insane asylum

[@patjones5723]

Bingo 💯 💯 💯

[@djtall3090]

Well said! I never thought of it that way, but you are correct

[@StephanieStone4737]

👏 🎯

[@MarinaLaroche]

Which is part of the Plan.

[@dojocho1894]

With the advent of mental health drugs the US govt realized it can save a ton of money by shutting down insane asylums as they wee called and just give them drugs...thats when homelessness started in the US.

[@MrShibAlaska]

Many Alaska Natives grow up in isolated villages and move to the "big city" of Anchorage when they get older. They have no skills to survive in western society and there are plenty of places to camp during the summer. During the winters, many get addicted to stimulants because they take them to stay awake and not freeze to death. I've seen homeless people walk in circles all night to stay alive, you can tell they did because there is a circle melted in the ice..

[@MsRhondaRandy]

😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

[@margaretpeabody243]

Very thought out, researched and introspective!!❤😊

[@c.c.6227]

The government plays the biggest role in this disorder and despair.

[@JJ-bz4bq]

Bowing down to anti white communism has consequences.

[@Keith3A]

Bot strong

[@allan1302]

As someone who lives in Anchorage, you are spot on. Kind of sad and wrong that someone from outside the city/state to come in and highlight what is going on. Most in anchorage just stay away from it and drive past it. Until it ends up in your backyard or neighborhood park, which in many cases it’s a matter of time.

[@LivvyAlexW]

This is a prime example why we need to reopen psych hospitals. It’s that same in Canada. It’s awful and only getting worse. The only way to stop this is to open psych hospitals to get them help.

[@richardmorris7063]

Who wants to work there? You?

[@HVACMAN-c7v]

You can thank Ronald Reagan and republicans for that 😊

[@FlatSix981]

They would just become weaponized. Those who didn’t “think correctly” would end up with an extended stay.

[@betsyj59]

@@HVACMAN-c7v That's right. Nobody seems to remember that anymore.

[@carinarilk89]

​@@HVACMAN-c7vSay thanks to the LEFT. DEMOCRAT😂

[@deniseventi8362]

Nick I believe you when you say you truly felt evil spirits

[@deniseventi8362]

Good and evil...

[@cvp2000]

Never walk into a drug den armed with only a camera. You got big cajones walking into their domain!😂

[@bentonja668]

Pretty sure Nick carries

[@duck539]

My Thoughts Exactly !!!!

[@duck539]

Right !!!

[@ColdStuff-cf7jv]

Maybe Nick Johnson secretly studied 少林功夫 (Shaolin kung-fu) 🤛👊🤜and knows how to use it if he has to defend himself?🤷

[@needmoreramsay]

​@@bentonja668he dies but said he left it in the truck ! 😱

[@birdflipper]

Something to consider- no different than we are when it comes to our own homes, or the way prison inmates consider their cell their "home," these people think of their tents and encampments the same way. Of course it's not at all the same, but when a stranger comes onto "their property" they feel like you're trespassing. If you offer them food and bottles of water, introduce yourself, and ask if they mind being filmed BEFORE the camera comes out, you will no longer be viewed as a threat, instead you're viewed as someone who wants to help, not make money from filming their misery and posting it online. It's all about respect. Yeah, most of them have either substance abuse and/or mental health issues, but they're not all bad people, and America needs you to continue to go into the trenches and share what's really going on. Thank you for doing what you do! Be safe, and maybe carry your pew pew on you the next time you go venturing into the woods.

[@donnieporter7890]

When your purpose in life is getting hi u dont care about life.

[@virtualselfie6899]

Exactly! My eyes well up every time I see a creature take its last breath; life is just too short.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

For many, life is far too long.

[@theamerican7080]

The "homeless" typically don't trash their surroundings _unless_ they have a 'habit' of some sort.

[@heather957]

I agree that it's best to not put yourself in any more dangerous situations like that. That was some scary stuff right there.

[@carinarilk89]

That can happened to everyone! STAND UP AMERICA! HELP EACH OTHER.

[@Ccl2tb]

Not without a weapon

[@eddiehulk7804]

The ones that aggressively approach you, Nick, are the drug suppliers. You are a threat to their business

[@1coketogo554]

As an Alaska resident I refuse to go to Anchorage unless I'm going to the airport. Then I don't drive downtown I take the Muldoon exit. The homeless are only part of the problem. There's gangs and shootings too. You get out of Anchorage and the people are mostly all pretty decent.

[@FourOneZeroSevenThreeFive]

I live in Eagle River, a home nearby was busted into, home invasion by some immigrants from Haiti. Its dangerous everywhere

[@1coketogo554]

@@FourOneZeroSevenThreeFive Maybe all those tropical weather people will go south again this winter. A weather man I was listening to said this winter could be the coldest we have had in 100 years. BTW I didn't know they had shipped the Haitians all the way up here. I don't remember voting for all this. I hope the 'new comers' realize bears and stuff are very efficient at eating bodies so they should stay in Anchorage to be safe. I don't suppose the new people are very skilled at dealing with bears.

[@prophetmargin7497]

That first place was definitely a meth camp and meth heads are totally paranoid about everything!

[@victorygarden556]

💯

[@prophetmargin7497]

@@victorygarden556 ?

[@victorygarden556]

@@prophetmargin7497 100% right, meth heads are paranoid

[@crazychase98]

It's eveything in there. I live close to it thankfully a bridge separates the camp from my appartment complex. Lot of heroin an feynt

[@billschindler1381]

This is what happens when you are too compassionate.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

No, it's what happens when the globalist elites are determined to impoverish the common people and bring in Neo-Feudalism.

[@user-he5yg5ho3u]

You absolutely cannot retire. Love all your stuff Nick. You just coNcentrate on your safety. I’d have yer back anytime!!!!🐾😎

[@1946luke]

Aside from the mentally ill, the alcoholics, and the drug addicted, one of the biggest problems is "affordability", or the lack thereof. There are people that get forced out onto the street, cuz they can no longer afford the high rents.

[@betsyj59]

I think it was a Nick Johnson video that showed a long street on the outskirts of Bozeman MT with campers lined up neatly. He was looking for people to interview but could only find one guy there. The people living in campers on that long street all worked and still could not afford to rent anywhere.

[@ChristIsKing8888]

That's from printing billions of dollars and shipping it over seas

[@sherylrich2461]

@1946luke you are right. And the "affordability" issue contributes to the other problems you mentioned. Yet, we seem to have billions of dollars for migrants. Our government is directly responsible for the growing homelessness in many instances. We now have the 'working poor' in greater and greater numbers.

[@dorismahoney1440]

Ya. Guess folks would ne angry n sad. It may be of their own making. But can there help for ppl?

[@danhelwig]

Everything in Alaska is done bigger, all this garbage has to attract bears and mosquitoes swarm out of the marshes in clouds. Another interesting aspect is that the Native population is now homeless on the land of their ancestors.

[@ChristIsKing8888]

Self accountability

[@lucianaromulus1408]

Literally there are homeless all over the world in their respective native lands.

[@millerdlv541]

Yes Nick, the negative energy was strong in that place.

[@Mbplayerone]

They don't want to be on video because they're probably all wanted by law enforcement somewhere else in the lower 48

[@Mbplayerone]

@rayb.6537 yeah that too

[@Just.D]

I don't want to be on camera and I am not wanted or homelesss.

[@Mbplayerone]

@Just.D yeah but you're probably not gonna pull a knife out on someone just for filming you

[@RetiredMP]

@@Mbplayerone back in The Day. Wanted People and Mafia would move out to Alaska. It’s a great place to disappear into. When I lived in Delta Junction, there was a guy that The ATF was after for years. Any time the Feds would show up….hee just go fishing and disappear

[@elll3s]

Exactly. Washington, Oregon, and California have been giving their homeless one-way tickets to Alaska

[@hsolustri]

You need bear mace, Nick.

[@robertb8629]

No. A device..

[@goodson77784]

@@robertb8629 Like a pager.

[@renardfranse]

@@goodson77784 hahahahaha

[@renardfranse]

@@robertb8629 a 9mm device

[@GAJ1968]

Glock

[@ScottShedd123]

Me and a friend went on an Alaskan cruise, the ship ported in Anchorage. We got off to find a restaurant almost got jumped by some drunk indigenous. They stalked us from the visitor center. Fortunately I had my wits about me and I was able to stear myself and my friend to safety. That was back in 2012. Anchorage has had a bad vibe for awhile.

[@McFwoupson]

Yeah Alaska has been sketch for a long time. It's consistently had the highest or near highest violent crime rate for a long time.

[@ScottShedd123]

@TikoNaumbutu Situational awareness.

[@BoilaFrog]

Years ago, we were on a cruise and we did all bunch of excursions. I was told by several people including the tour guides that there were lots and lots of people in Alaska who were there because they were in the run from the law. So, it’s just a bunch of criminals.

[@innagotavita6117]

This makes me so depressed. On one hand I’m scared not to be homeless. On the other knowing I’m nice and cozy and so many are homeless. I think they need a factory job. There’s just no work for these people. If they were busy doing something, they wouldn’t think about drugs. But this country gave the factory work to the Chinese.

[@jhica5718]

So if they actually have the brains to get their foot in factory jobs, they wouldnt be bored enought to choose drugs? ok ok makes total sense! Most Chinese r accountants, they r elevating from factory jobs. Its might be some other type of Asians in factories, not everybody is Chinese.

[@innagotavita6117]

@@jhica5718 they will be elevated to take over everything soon.

[@amg9163]

Boredom and poverty are a bad combination that probably increases drug usage. If people don't feel like they have anything to contribute to, or make them feel worthwhile, they often drop out of society.

[@amg9163]

@innagotavita6117 I wholeheartedly agree with th premise of your statement. I have been preaching to my friends and colleagues about the losses the USA has suffered since the 1940s by sending our manufacturing jobs offshore. Not just China, they came later. Earlier on, Japan did a lot of manufacturing for the USA, but then, the USA was still manufacturing much of its own household goods. Taiwan got into the game, Hong Kong built itself up from a fishing village into a world class metropolis. Jobs and factories (all of its heavy equipment was usually disassembled on the US side and then reassembled in whichever country was going to do our manufacturing). The Middle East was getting into manufacturing, South and Central America came more recently. When each country's manufacturing location starts *_booming,_* and their economy gets an uptick, the employees either demand higher pay or are just given higher pay, which means you cost of their goods goes up, affecting the prices that the US consumer pays. It is a cycle (a sickening at that), but (nearly) all th while, the top CEOs never lose a dime of their salary to move jobs overseas, while eliminating *millions of American jobs* over the decades. My best guess is that it would take 30-50 years to get the US manufacturing back to the state that it was in say the year 1970... And that will take a lot of planning, training, etc. that should be starting *now.*

[@billystpaul8907]

It just keeps getting worse and worse from South to North. Started in San Diego and Los Angeles to ruin those cities. Then San Francisco and Oakland then Portland and Seattle. Now, it's Alaska. And, it's hard to feel sorry for someone that gets hooked and drugs and won't seek help. It's a sorry mess for sure.

[@IndianaCrane]

Whyyyyyy would anyone want to be homeless in a place that experiences cold weather longer than most areas?!?!?!

[@HVACMAN-c7v]

The drugs are cheaper

[@carinarilk89]

Think a little bit. No Jobs, no money. But HOTELS for Immigrants? Money for the wars? Where are the Americans? Stand up for your RIGHT. Why the Billionars become richer????

[@bdmenne]

Isn’t Anchorage close to that Juneau raining moderate climate. South and West of the Mountains to suck out the warm moisture.

[@McFwoupson]

The Alaska permanent fund maybe? It's kind of like a UBI system that they have in Alaska. You get payed to live there, although it's not a whole lot of money. On average 1600$ per year.

[@FP194]

@@bdmenne The average temperature is 23 degrees F still cold enough to cause hypothermia

[@MrCouvade]

Hey nick. The largest homeless camp is my home town. Ocala Florida national forest. Estimates put it at 15-20 thousand. It is huge

[@virtualselfie6899]

Didn't know that; a cousin lived in Ocala and never mentioned it; must be deeply hidden from view.

[@kd6281]

​​@@virtualselfie6899They go into the woods here in Florida & they are EVERYWHERE until a developer comes in & levels the land for upscale gated communities, strip malls & car washes. They don't set up on sidewalks so most don't know the camps are there, but they ARE & this is all throughout the state of Florida. Thousands upon thousands of them.

[@MsRhondaRandy]

😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@virtualselfie6899]

@@kd6281 Really sad! Northern California is swamped with homeless; Oakland is the worst, according to Nick. San Francisco is virtually all closed down. Don't those developers building the elite communities realize that those people, too, are just one paycheck away from homelessness?

[@colleenpeck6347]

I'm from Orlando. The state homeless must be sharing that Ocala is the place to camp out. My hairdresser moved there for 2 years, and her hubby commuted to Lake Nona, where I live. They made the mistake of buying a home there. It took them a year to sell it in order to move back to this area. She wanted to have a cheap mortgage she could stay home with her new baby. It wasn't worth it. Stay safe up there!

[@richardb.7054]

Until States start getting real about addressing drug addiction and mental health, this will only get worse. You said it, mandatory dry out, or jail. Instead of funding tent cities, build hospitals.

[@patjones5723]

Amennn 👍

[@crazychase98]

Stop giving them food water money or narcain

[@mrhappy4521]

Tax the fucking rich get investors out of the rental market

[@mlwtennessee322]

@@crazychase98 I'll bet you consider yourself a Christian, don't you?

[@MrGitpicker]

republicans always vote down any sort of health care.

[@11633]

we lived in AK for about 20 years a few decades ago. Whenever we visited Anchorage, I always sensed the evil you speak of.

[@staywise812]

Did you get the same feeling when you lived in Anchorage or just when you went back to visit? ...I am curious if you think HAARP had an impact on that "feeling" or possibly even the cause of such strange phenomena...

[@ringostartheguineapig5783]

The guy who threatened you with that knife should be arrested! I feel bad for that little cat being in that unstable environment. And why does the city of Anchorage shoot the bears if they wander into a homeless camp??! How is that the bears fault!!???

[@jimkelly4214]

Typical politician response.

[@ringostartheguineapig5783]

@@jimkelly4214 The typical politicians aren't doing anything to help the homeless people. They could have thousands of shelters built but the funnel the money into their pockets instead. Homeless people need more resources, but it's the "typical politicians" these days that aren't actually helping them.

[@dudzinski324]

Wait until the winter weather starts.

[@RetiredMP]

@@dudzinski324 we saw them outta -20

[@colleenpeck6347]

Last spring, the mayor of Anchorage was asking San Diego to take in all their homeless people so that they wouldn't freeze this winter. After the other Alaska leaders found out, they blasted him. They insisted that he develop a plan to fund HIS homeless this coming winter. He just didn't want to pay for them out of his budget. He has no consciousness, apparently.

[@buffAsh195]

Im pretty sure winter takes a few of them every year

[@RetiredMP]

@@buffAsh195 There are plenty of shelters, they have to leave in The AM though.

[@Ray96744]

Thank you so much for your Springfield video brother!!

[@yaaramiryaagr4411]

That Springfield video was dope you heard

[@TammyYounger-tw8gy]

And while I was watching the Springfield video some moron commented and says this is ‘ fake ‘ people are lunatics !’

[@jamesgill3759]

I live in a post industrial city in Northern England. We don’t have any homeless camping out. However, we do have some small groups of deadbeats who loiter around the town centre drinking strong cider or doing spice. We didn’t have this fifteen years ago. I have zero compassion for them. If it was up to me they would be in a forced labour camp.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

The cathedral city of Canterbury, in the supposedly "privileged" South of England, now has homeless camps in the centre. All of this has gathered pace since 2020.

[@Gizathecat2]

Residents of the tent city homeless camps CHOOSE to live that way. Addicts don’t want to live in organized shelters because they don’t want to abide by rules.

[@ffarmchicken]

When I worked with the homeless, this is what they told me. They don’t like the rules at the shelters.

[@mattm597]

When people think of Alaska, they think beautiful mountains, pristine lakes, dog-mushers, and other wholesome, nature-loving, live-off-the-land-type people. They don't realize there is a whole different side to that state.

[@McFwoupson]

Looots of heavy drinking and has some of the highest violent crime in the entire country.

[@illegalsmirf]

when I think of Alaska I think cold, grey, wet, depressing and Sarah Palin

[@RetiredMP]

@@mattm597 it can be all of that. The Demoncrats are in charge and it went to hell. When Sarah Palin was Gov…it was NOT like this

[@crazychase98]

​@@illegalsmirfthat is correct

[@Leroy-t3t]

​@McFwoupson Are you serious. I had no idea the crime scene is that bad. I met some people from there. They spoke of jobs and opportunities everywhere. Please explain where all of this violence is stemming from.

[@Spencer02]

Holy Cow! Nick, that is a very dangerous homeless camp. That's the most dangerous camp you found, but I'm glad you're ok.

[@angel5499]

When zombies weld knives... extremely scary.. And if they are the fast running type.. goodluck

[@romanone]

Be careful, those tweekers & addicts will do ANYTHING to harm innocent people

[@XLoad3d]

Thats crazy. I figured the colder areas usually don't have as much riff raff, but if you think about it the homeless in Alaska is a whole different breed, like a whole other level.

[@roberts.3712]

I think there are millions of people just hanging on a thread from being homeless in America today.

[@indiandaeng]

Thank Biden and Harris. At least they spent millions putting illegal, unvetted aliens up in luxury hotels.

[@mahlz24]

I had no idea Alaska was like this 😮

[@FourOneZeroSevenThreeFive]

Its changed in the past two years. Haitians are being flown hr by the Biden-Harris group. Crime is sky rocketing.

[@ciceromeridius-decimus9641]

Thank you so much for doing this video, Nick! Please be safe and be careful out there. You are incredibly blessed to do what you do!

[@thomas82160]

It's homeless people with an outlaw demeanor, being so far out geographically.

[@Pooler18]

If you want to explore homeless encampments come visit the mecca of tents in Canada. We need to be exposed to hold some of our elected officials accountable. Peterborough, Hamilton, Halifax, London, Toronto, Sudbury, Kelowna, Vancouver take your pick. All horrendous examples of civil degeneracy and failed government social policies. It’s absolutely pathetic what Canada has become.

[@Katrina-mx2sf]

For sure! I live in East Vancouver and things are atrocious. People laying all over the sidewalks, openly using drugs/ garbage everywhere/ legal drug dens. Just degeneracy every day. It's sick.

[@mrkyeg]

Yeah, in Edmonton the homeless population is disproportionately the indigenous population, and there are gangs that prey on them and others who suffer from drug abuse and mental issues (in a lot of cases, both).

[@colleenpeck6347]

​@@mrkyeg Isn't there oil drilling in Edmonton?

[@eurodiaz3712]

London used to be nice. Are Sarnia & Windsor the same I wonder

[@Bruvva_Wu]

​@@colleenpeck6347mostly North of Edmonton. Grande Prairie, Fox Vegas, or the oilsands by Fort MacMurray

[@tjadventures9163]

I was there in March when it was about 37 degrees and I didn’t really see anything while I was there. I drove all around. I saw some people downtown that appeared homeless and teens. I live in Vegas so nothing really surprises me. I wouldn’t go into homeless camps. Those people have absolutely nothing to lose so they will off you and take anything you have. Guaranteed

[@kevingamble8861]

Don't be surprised if the homeless population increases In the near future. Landlords and residential hotels will kick out current residents in favor of government supported illegal immigrants since they will be getting paid more for illegals than American citizens.

[@mitch8831]

Nick - I think you should do a video on Alaska homeless in January to see how they live 😊

[@kenjohnson5498]

You're absolutely correct on the hard love treatment, they need to be healed instead of coddled and given money to continue the drugs

[@chris3325]

When the government spends 100k a year to keep a person homeless I would say that they want it that way.

[@alexcarter8807]

I've got a friend who's Alaska born and raised. He loves it here in California and hates it when he has to go back to Alaska.

[@galegrazutis964]

Why its as bad tbere if not worse

[@rexpresto]

Damn, Nick…Even in Oakland, no one pulled a goddamn knife on you…

[@bywaterbeatsproduction]

Alaska the last frontier, as wild wild west as it gets

[@valeriebrown7946]

I agree. They were polite in Oakland and kept it real. Nick, you even enjoyed the people you'd met in Oakland.

[@darksu6947]

​@JesusKingMessiahOur homeboy Jesus doesn't mind if we use his father's name in vain.

[@aprilhottinger]

@@darksu6947blasphemy

[@indiandaeng]

Had a knife because felons can't buy a gun

[@larrybuckner8619]

I need to invest in Coleman stock!

[@NickJohnson]

⛺️

[@larrybuckner8619]

@@NickJohnson yuuuup!

[@mrmellow77]

Knife guy looks like someone straight out of a horror film.

[@BuddyRevell455]

Homelessness is NOT a West Coast infection. It's ppl getting poorer every month. The numbers are swelling every month.

[@carinarilk89]

The LEFT give all your money to the Ucraine 😂

[@illegalsmirf]

who cares? the stock market is going up

[@RetiredMP]

@@BuddyRevell455 a lot of our (AK) homeless were from Cali or Seattle.

[@BuddyRevell455]

@@RetiredMP You say 'were'. Did something change? And can I ask, respectfully, how exposed to the homeless you are? Casual, or your work puts you in contact?

[@RetiredMP]

@@BuddyRevell455 I’ve had friends that were “homeless”. They were all in and out of jail (where they’d dry out and get mental health treatment).

[@ernestconnell8087]

That homeless camp needs a HOA to oversee their community.

[@patjones5723]

😂😂😂

[@mrhappy4521]

Or to make more homeless

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

If you have overnight visitors, they cannot leave their shopping cart in your driveway overnight.

[@johng5710]

From now on you need to bring a heavily armed Mappy with you into the homeless camps for protection

[@Saffron.Aerowyn_07]

Mappy is Nick's REAL COWBOY AT HEART sidekick...when they're in Wild West, they can be 'Don't F with Us Gang'. 🤠💥🇺🇸

[@theresekirkpatrick3337]

Meth makes you paranoid when you’re awake for days or longer

[@annhowcroft9493]

I own a condo, and I think I may to move. The state required us to put in this very expensive fire alarm system that goes into every bedroom. It wiped out our reserves, so we have no money to fix stuff. Now the state says we have to pay to have our walkways tested which is $6000, not covering any repairs. Our trash bill is going through the roof because they are adding a gas tax, we had to get new cans, so we got deliver fees plus gas tax. I got no help when my roommate stopped paying rent during covid, I am just now evicting him because I have to pay the legal fees, and I have money missing that I had hidden in my drawers. I worked my life and now I am retied on a fixed income, what am I supposed to do?

[@clearsailing7993]

Join a senior citizen group. They may have ideas that will help you.

[@QueenofArgyle2525]

That kind of stuff is how they plan to take our homes

[@jamessmith1652]

My prediction is America's first favela shantytown within the next 5 years.

[@betsyj59]

"You will own nothing and be happy."

[@carinarilk89]

​@@betsyj59Are you happy? I think NO. NO JOBS, NO MONEY. But the President forget his country and citiziens. But HOTELS for IMMIGRANTS. MONEY FOR THE UCRAINE. STAND UP AMERICA

[@kdegraa]

Shanty towns are actually a huge step up from what is going on in this video.

[@colleenpeck6347]

I thought that Phoenix, Arizona, was hopeless. They cook in 110-degree summers. Anchorage has the opposite suffering.

[@krabgrass]

@@colleenpeck6347 Nah Phoenix is way worse, trust me. Alaska has more to do than this boring, overpriced hellhole.

[@cynthiar.bass-godwin3107]

Nick!!! Yes, it was definitely evil spirits running you out of that camp. Please stay safe and listen to your inner-self when it says "stay away from that"! Godspeed!

[@galegrazutis964]

But California is full of these vermin as well???

[@Britcarjunkie]

Hell, Nick, I was worried you were going to get jumped when you were in Hawaii! You have to remember that when you're in a homeless camp, you're in their world - not yours, and their rules apply.

[@doriskrieger9263]

Plus you need to be careful because now a days the people that are defending themselves are the ones that go to jail. It happens all the time.

[@GatorBrewer]

Legendary! Keep up the good work!

[@garyhaber333]

Thanks Nick for your vids. Your vids are totally eye opening! Stay safe. Don't get stuck by one of these junkies.

[@kimberlyshanks1914]

I would spend all my time building a cabin of some kind, and cleaning cleaning cleaning!

[@joeyfarris2543]

IT'S HELL ON EARTH AND PURE EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👿🔥👹👺💀

[@laurahiggins7647]

I feel bad for the young cat. Starving looking for food & clean water. Reminds me of that poor pig in that nasty wooden cage when you were in Hawaii Nick. Wtf? Animal cruelty!

[@SheldonPicklyk]

Poor kitty.

[@cindyfall8063]

😢😢

[@drivertsunami5966]

That's what I was thinking.

[@darksu6947]

Poor humans

[@carrietithof3389]

I just laughed hard for about 30 mins when Nick said, "It wasn't a demon, it was a guardian Angel. "

[@fakeologist1]

Thank you for your service doing these videos. Perhaps a body cam would be more discreet in these situations.

[@soupwifey]

In Dallas, Texas. There's over 10K homeless people who've been counted. There's an apartment complex that is $5K per month rent that overlooks the homeless camp across the street.

[@Katrina-mx2sf]

That's so very dystopian, like 3rd world country.

[@Yahyahyahyahyahhalftone]

They're there because people give them money.

[@soupwifey]

@@Yahyahyahyahyahhalftone The high rent apartment complex was built next to a homeless shelter.

[@Yahyahyahyahyahhalftone]

​@soupwifey that's not unusual

[@johnrogers9481]

soupwifey. Thx for the info. Just back in 1976 on Long Island N.Y. it was considered a huge high price to pay $1,000. a month rent for a whole HOUSE! The avg cost was about $600. I moved to California, North Hollywood in 1979 and got a furnished, utilities included, with an air conditioner Studio apartment for $110.- a month!! ( I soon became the bldg manager and got a 1 bd room apt and small salary as my pay ). The average budget formula for LIVING was you can pay 1/4 of your income for housing. Ahhh, so NOW a $5K a month, every month, apartment renter MUST make how much a month??? FIFTEEN-TWENTY THOUSAND a month!!!! Insanity.!! (but I guess that formula is obsolete ) NOW, Only the wealthy can afford to LIVE! And OH,,, how much it now costs to die!!!

[@vb4567]

Some of these homeless prefer to live in tents independently and do not accept alternative city housing even in the depth of winter. To each his own.

[@SharonDayLifeArchivist]

Thank you so much for archiving what's happening in America over this adminstration. God bless!

[@NewHaven203]

Nick, now that you have visited all 50 states we need a video on your review of all of them from worst to best, it would be awesome!

[@NickJohnson]

I've done that but I need to do it again

[@NewHaven203]

Hell yes! 👏👏👏

[@rumplestilskin5776]

You're a brave man to venture in there all alone.

[@dannyc8780]

Respect to you for keeping calm in these situations. wow

[@michaelanthony1797]

I moved from Anchorage in 2022 after 43 1/2 years, liberal policies will get you this.

[@mlwtennessee322]

Can you name those policies that you're referring to?

[@phill5917]

@@mlwtennessee322 I think he means when citys are run by democrats.

[@9852323]

@@mlwtennessee322Found the liberal. 😂

[@agentneptune]

Alaska - The Last Frontier. It's over.

[@TaterTots380]

So glad you're done going into homeless camp. Scary and very dangerous.

[@Jimmyrig54]

Thank you, Nick. I think you have shown us enough.

[@buyerofsorts]

I'm surprised to hear Nick swearing like he did.

[@marcmeinzer8859]

Never forget the Manson Family were homeless which is why it’s inadvisable to go snooping around homeless camps. There’s really only two totally effective homelessness hacks: you can disappear into the bush somewhere and build yourself a medieval hut like in days of yore, in a place nobody cares about, or you can buy an old sailboat if you have the skills to keep it moving and afloat. Congregating with the other misfits is not an option. But hut dwellers in the woods may run afoul of Mr. Sasquatch while sailors can be shipwrecked and end up as shark bait.

[@stacky512a]

When you say $100,000 per homeless person, that actually means $15,000 actually got to the streets. The rest of the money goes to the government employees administering the pile of money. If the public ever really understood what it costs the government to spend a dollar, they'd really rethink the need of much of the government in the first place.

[@NickJohnson]

👆👆👆

[@RobinMartz-x9f]

My husband was a commercial crab fisherman and flew up from Montana. He fished for 27 years up there. He told me lots of stories about Anchorage and told me it was a scary place. He’d layover there and on the way up to Unalaska. He said it was a very violent place.

[@MrDOLPHINFLOGGER]

Meth and cost of housing. Can't party and pay rent Too. Priorities

[@msmith2568]

Don't admit you have gun on you or in your car or home ever. I would even blur the rental license plate just to be sure you remain safe. Good job and thanks for your work,

[@thewoodchipperenthusiast]

Anchorage has been a crap hole since Anchorage was Anchorage I had family station 70s and 80s and it was just as bad then

[@myobmyob2215]

True.

[@rogandbingofbingalahtravel3680]

It's worse than third world, my friend. I live in the Philippines. Homelessness here means friendly people doing what they can to survive. The multinational corporations have crested an inexpensive middle class over here while abandoning their own fellow citizens in the USA. The US government has fed baby makers and the babies took up drugs for toys. Sorry to say, it's time to stop demand by demanding lawfullness. Prosecute!

[@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE]

Thanks for the video Nick, fully watched 🐨🐊🦘🐜

[@NickJohnson]

Yay 🍿

[@jonathanhernandez4304]

Wow, very sad that happened. You're awesome and you're very respectful to the poor. It's tot bad our government has failed in protecting us.

[@catalinafirefly4685]

The way most people treat their kids in Alaska would break your heart.

[@MsRhondaRandy]

😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@rodeleon2875]

should have called the law. that POS is on public property and anyone can go on it.

[@chancepaladin]

the inmates are running the asylum.

[@catgrissom1656]

That knife guy looked like a skeketon

[@Eclecticompany]

I've been battling a heroin addiction for 10 years or so, but I wouldn't want to fraternize with meth or spice users.

[@lspbeautea4791]

Definitely not. Good luck for the future. I hope you can find sobriety & peace.

[@Eclecticompany]

@@lspbeautea4791 Thanks for the good wishes.

[@Eclecticompany]

@@lspbeautea4791 I'm not crazy, YT kept hiding my replies!

[@johnrogers9481]

Spiritofdarkandlonelywater. Oh no, a meth user seems would be a whole different animal.! Yes, good success for making a good future! (an idea popped in to say you might consider changing the name that people call you?)