California's Homeless Crisis: Uncovering the Truth

[@loganskiwyse7823]

I am lucky. Despite being homeless multiple times and having to deal with undiagnosed "disorders" of the brain (we call this neurodivergent) I managed to get up with minimal help till the final time. Now on disability, in that 900-dollar category since I never could hold down a good job long enough to get higher up. It is bad enough when a society has a base living wage. In 1980 you could work at McDonalds and afford food + housing. Barely but you could do it with a few dollars left over. Add a part time job of even 8 hours a week and you had spending money. Today, the base wages people are getting for the lowest end jobs require 90 hours a week to afford the above. No one can keep that up, regardless of how fit you are. If you are already homeless even if you can work, how do you? No showers, no way to wash clothes, it is a huge ask even with assistance of some sort. Traditional homeless shelters don't work either. But that is an entirely different rant. We can do better, there is no reason to have allowed housing to go from people to companies. We have to either do better or become the villains of our own stories. Will the real Dracula please stand up. That is not the example of a culture we want to be known as.

[@donklee3514]

" In 1980 you could work at McDonalds and afford food + housing." Do a search on "wages vs productivity chart". Up until about 1975 (war on wages officially started) there was a direct relationship between labor productivity gains and wages paid. Labor shared the bounty. By 1980, wages were flat lining while the productivity of the American worker continued to climb. Decades later wages are still flat and the pricing mechanism is churning out homeless people onto the streets. While we were conditioned to believe money printing is the sole cause of inflation and you can build your way out of a homeless problem while creating more everyday.

[@SOCRATELEFOU]

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[@loganskiwyse7823]

since I know, someone is going to claim this is a fake comment again. Check how long I have been posting to KZbin compared to the bot account.

[@loganskiwyse7823]

@@SOCRATELEFOU Checked out your account. You have nothing to justify that response except ignorance.

[@curtgomes]

Californians keep voting for the same losers over and over and expect a different result....

[@susiefairfield7218]

My neighbors next door were just served by the sheriff’s department and had to vacate their premises (fortclosure) immediately! We let them put some things in our yard and helped them pack a moving truck to take it to a storage unit So sad, & they both have jobs & despite our county having many outlets for resources; there are no resources and rentals are not existent and if so, are super high priced so they’ll be parking their two cars in our driveway to sleep because it’s illegal to park & sleep anywhere Seriously seeing more and more ppl sleeping rough here every day and more and more ppl at the food pantries and churches needing help that have exhausted all of the help they can receive Great information I’ve witnessed these same things you two are speaking of and it’s ridiculous policy A damn crying shame Unfookinbelievable !! Where’s the simple sympathy that a sentient being should have Trying to do what I can to help God Bless❤❤

[@Jenifer_G]

From Australia, you are good people getting bad here too. It's all greed causing the problems. Best to you

[@thegroovypatriot]

Sometimes it's not that people aren't empathetic, but that it's a very complex problem to solve.

[@homelessmillionaire1]

People are problematic, most people have one or more problems...they want to smoke, drink, talk recklessly, drug addiction, stealing, lying, porn, pedo, weirdo, they want gamble, they want to bring their dogs, girlfriends, LGBT drama, people are problematic to deal with.

[@Dachozan1]

Sad I went thru something where the landlord wanted to raise the rent wanted me out I got out last year Sep 1 and still haven't gotten a resolve this is horrendous I would've never thought this would be something I could speak on I know mentally it's draining me I feel so lost I pray your neighbors got somewhere to live now bc it's hell when u don't have that

[@Ken-xr8lf]

Been there, years of trying to find a place to live on the full time job and part time job.. lived in my van and worked everyday with paycheck stubs for proof of income. Very difficult to get a chance to get ahead.

[@lopakabanzon3910]

Housing in America has got soo expensive and for most one months pay before taxes is not enough for a apartment

[@mistresskeke]

@@lopakabanzon3910 minimum wage at $20/hr for fast food workers in CA, full time, pays $3466 a month before taxes. U can rent a room in a shared apartment for half of that.

[@traceybush1896]

Your insight is unmistakable. I can't thank you enough for caring. ❤

[@DaleMeese]

The truth is that it is a VERY big business now and will never end because people including politicians, are making a lot of money.

[@SharlenesJourney]

Exactly!! Bingo ! I just said the same thing ! They have the funds to fix the problem however if they solved the problem then most ppl would be without a job . It’s definitely big big big business for them when they receive donations they take most of it for themselves I recommend ppl don’t donate to the organization cause they not giving it to the people who need help they give it to themselves or family . You solve the crisis they’re out of a job ! They want to keep you homeless not solve it

[@johnsmith-do7fv]

End greed.

[@ek6919]

Greed is destroying this country.

[@debraallen63]

You can Only end greed with the acceptance of Jesus. Unfortunately America has No Knowledge of God in the Land!! They kicked God out of the Schools in 1963 which kicked out Truth, now Satan has full control and greed, selfishness and many other sins are taught and grow exponentially --- and here we are today with a completely broken society. America will Fall as she has repented of God &His Love and accepted Satan and all his Evil. It won't get any better because America will not Repent To God. God's Word tells us of the destruction of America in the book of Revelation.

[@Silver77cyn]

Greed=Capitalism

[@Maria-kr8mh]

Revelation 20:7-10😊

[@johnsmith-do7fv]

@@Silver77cyn Aus is being more and more sold out.. sad capitalist culture

[@Shurleyequitywurks]

I am a "homeless" woman, and in my decades of experience, we are disenfranchised internally displaced people. If we continue to focus exclusively on the unhoused aspect of the extreme disenfranchisement we experience, all that gets accomplished is a very expensive bandage for a gaping wiund. We need agency forst before housing, so we can be a part of the solution. Thats the start we need now in my opinion

[@m.htruth8880]

​@@mahlina1220Ppl commonly first become homeless by themselves somewhere from age 7-16 in the U.S. And due to the cash for kids system homeless kids and teens have to hide, even if they are already in a branch of the $4kids like CPS. Which foster care in and of itself is homelessness.

[@Maria-kr8mh]

Use all the HUD money given to each state to renovate empty houses, empty buildings.

[@MrJamesVanEngen]

​@@m.htruth8880, America homeless shelters are scams, even youth shelters, for example. 🏕️

[@cathylindeboo.9598]

​@@mahlina1220 I agree with you, except when you "blamed boomers". If anyone's to blame, I'd say it's the millionaires and billionaires. Just a small tax on them would probably house everyone on the street. But the powers that be make that nearly impossible, the Trump's, etc. And call it "Communist".

[@Robin-f8f]

Just found out a month ago that here in Cochise County (Arizona), there are no longer available funds for HUD to start working on those who need housing. Was told the main reason was the cost of rent has gone up for those already in the program.

[@SharlenesJourney]

Wow 😞

[@thegroovypatriot]

Well of course this is going to happen. The whole country is in extreme debt. Ever extending supportive services for more and more people is impossible. I suggest people do everything they can to make sure they can take care of themselves.

[@carolsteve29]

My best lifelong friend on the street in San Francisco took 1½ years and kept an apartment that had a community bathroom for the next 11 years until her death. She was 50 when her homelessness started. It can be done. I wish I could help. I dont know how.❤🙏

[@beng4647]

She. They won't help a white man.

[@celenalynn1848]

Wow this channel has so many subs now, I remember when it was just over 19k. Great job 👍👏👏👏

[@claire5399]

There is no housing offered for the disabled by the largest non profit organization in the East Bay. Imagine being in your 60s and physicians letters requesting reasonable accommodation for your disability and being told the only thing that is available Is up 8 stairs to the entrance. How is someone in a wheelchair going to manage?

[@DebraGlenn-z2r]

@@claire5399 I know how you feel about being disabled and nowhere to live with accomodations I'm disabled can barely walk in pain all the time I'm homeless can't afford anything. Stay strong

[@DebraGlenn-z2r]

I would like to have a small apartment that's clean and respectful. I'm homeless after divorce years ago. It's been a devastating experience

[@Dachozan1]

❤❤

[@Bellazme]

My local park in California has a steady population of senior citizens who cannot afford housing and live in their car. We are so corrupt that we are making our elderly homeless

[@denisevarner7308]

California sold it's political soul for humanity long ago. Urbanization is intentional social cultural economic and human destruction. It's Biblical.

[@pmscalisi]

According to Gen Z, we’re all billionaires 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Deeluxx11]

We need to start prosecuting and jailing greedy landlords who charge so much.

[@cryptsolo]

Blame the fed and politicians they created the housing bubble and devalued our currency causing inflation. Kamala and Trump both are calling for lower rates meaning it will get much much worse .

[@SusanEpp-q7c]

Several years ago the homeless man was in his tent at the side of Longs Drugs in Honolulu. A group of teenagers set his tent on fire while he was sleeping. He was gravely burned. The police got the teenagers but there was never any follow up on the man or the teenagers who did this.

[@Dachozan1]

This is sad! I hope he's ok and I hold they got wats due

[@janejones5362]

I got a lady fired once from a discount store. During cvd. She yelled across the store, "Homeless people steal"!! I wrote to corporate, and it was all on video. It was regarding forcing me to leave my backpack unsecured at the front of the store. I live in a small town of 30,000, and there are a lot of kind people, but a small contingency of ignorant hateful ones. 86 the guilty ones. DO NOT lump people into groups.

[@professorJorge11]

Thanks for the video. Very interesting

[@emerislinmer]

10 years living outdoors in my truck in California. No substance abuse problems, college educated, but I am physically disabled. I have tried for 10 years to get some help with housing such as subsidized housing. When you are homeless, it is almost impossible to keep yourself organized. I've been dropped from lists, I've been told the list is being reshuffled and I have to re apply. I've applied for section 8, but I'm told that I havent or that Im not on the list. It's a nightmare. My life force energy is dissapating, may need more spinal surgery for one thing. I get some SSDI benefits and I still work, part time, I'm very limited as to what I can do for work as I cannot stand on my feet for more than 15 minutes. I've travelled around the world and nowhere that I have been have I seen the poor and the homeless treated as badly as they are in the USA. I'm finally letting all my possessions go, so that I can move overseas to another country where I can afford to live on SSDI, but then I have to give up my medical benefits.

[@Koushi82]

Also for the jobs 90% of the jobs don't pay enough for rent already so I don't get the point in mentioning that Jobs just don't pay rent there's no point

[@SharlenesJourney]

Yeah create more affordable housing enough with the building of high rise unaffordable housing . It may never happen though cause most of these “ organizations “ that say they help the homeless want to keep them homeless because it’s big business for them if they solved the homeless problem many people would be without a job they just don’t want to deal with them . If you get put into a shelter be ready to do all the work yourself it’s rare if you find a shelter that actually cares and help you it’s a dang shame it’s messed up these ppl delay you on purpose

[@bohall270]

The quid pro quo in between our politicians & corporations is ridiculous...............SMHID!

[@robertcook9264]

*quid

[@dingusdingus2152]

Quid pro quo

[@ey67]

They are one.

[@-ULTRA-Games]

Psalm 73:12 “This is what the wicked are like- always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.”

[@tradeprosper5002]

America is just too expensive today. In Malaysia, you can live pretty well on $1000/month. Maybe we should look at sending folks overseas. For a million$ per unit, you could support a person for 83 years.

[@allthingseducation]

Nice thought but the optics are horrible. We cannot and should not force people from an area they call home.

[@tradeprosper5002]

@@allthingseducation I was thinking of it more as a voluntary option. My guess is that many of them would go for it.

[@tradeprosper5002]

@@mahlina1220 But not so much if we only send our poor there. Hawaii and other tourist destinations problems are due to our relatively well-off wanting to go there. If we only give them a grand a year, that's about the median wage in Malaysia.

[@libraspath473]

Great eye-opening video! Wonderful work being done!

[@breft3416]

Moving to a cheaper place doesn't cure a problem, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do to survive one day at a time. Healthcare in this country is a disgrace.

[@astralfluxaf]

Homelessness has become one giant scam. They don’t want to end homelessness it’s become its own economy. They’re making so much money off of not solving this situation. Beyond disgusting.

[@InvisiblePeople]

There is a complete lie. For every hundred-dollar increase in median rent, homelessness increases by 9%. Who is making money off homelessness? The people that are pushing to criminalize homelessness are investing in the criminalization industrial complex - for-profit prisons. Rent in Raleigh, North Carolina are up 75%. Austin, Texas up 40%. Orlando Florida rents are up 30%. Yup, there's a lot of money being spent trying to solve homelessness and there's more homelessness every single day. It's going to skyrocket.. there's gonna be more homelessness than you can imagine if we don't fix the affordable housing crisis. Nonprofits are doing better than they ever have, but they cannot keep up with homelessness. The mayor of Sacramento said for every person they get off the street, another three people enter into homelessness.

[@thegroovypatriot]

​@@InvisiblePeopleIt's true that the housing problem is ridiculous. But an ever expanding assistance/housing program is never going to solve this, especially since we have to now borrow the money with interest to do it. If more and more people are becoming homeless, that's more and more money needed, and bigger programs, with no end in sight. Basically ever expanding socialism. There has to be a better way.

[@melindasaddler559]

Homeless industrial complex. Housing First is a part of it. Stop with the "research" and give people back agency over their lives.

[@Manofwar7]

I read and heard that California spent around 20 billion!!!!! The problem got worse! Money is not the issue it's management of resources and enforcing laws. You don't get to leave Minnesota a cold state and go set a tent up in downtown LA. There is documentary about my area (Seattle) were some will admit they like living on the streets. Thats the rare exceptions. If your relatively you and healthy you don't get to decide to take the park and make it your house.

[@melindasaddler559]

​@Manofwar7 You are right. It's called the homeless industrial complex. It's using tax payer dollars to fund these non profits who use the money on God knows what. Then, when they are asked about the fact they are not helping, they will say they need more funds. It's pure greed. Money made off of disadvantaged people. They know what they are doing is wrong. But who is going to stop them. They keep saying that they need to end homelessness. That will never happen because they would be out of a job. Just immoral.

[@the_derpler]

Honestly my biggest fear living here in CA is that it will eventually eat me up and I'll end up on the street. The goal is to just work here, make my $ and move away to a fly over when I'm done and buy a small home w/ the $ I made here in CA. I wish I could stay :(

[@amyregutti263]

Wonderful podcast!

[@colibri1]

Really good interview.

[@glorialovesChrist]

Supportive Housing is the solution with Public Health and Public Universities provide the supportive services. Here in CA most people have room mates or live with their family. There needs to be Rehab Shelters for the chemically addicted. There needs to be Board and Cares for Severe Mentally ill homeless people.

[@charlesutley4539]

We love ya ❤️ Still doing mint things here in grants pass. Have a wonderful day

[@claire5399]

I gotta love how UCSF labeled me and judged me . Try getting medical care for rare genetic diseases when you have been labeled chronically homeless.

[@coolperson1]

People don't have morals anymore

[@loganskiwyse7823]

There has never been a time in human history anywhere in the world where a civilization that had "cities" did not also have homelessness. In the sense of your post, people never had morals to start with.

[@ek6919]

💯

[@averagespaghettilover]

People keep rising children to only care about career and being better that others, who have less, so the vicious cycle continues. Things can only improve when people stop this cultish mentality.

[@debraallen63]

You can't have True morals without God whom created our moral standard and Everything on Earth. America kicked God out of everything long ago and the Biggest downfall was kicking God out of the educational systems and abortion.

[@loganskiwyse7823]

@@debraallen63 Total BS. Chimps have the exact range and type of behaviors humans have. Never seen them in a church. That attitude is the real problem, that your belief makes you superior to others is in no way factual. We are not even that unique as a species and as far as the universe is concerned, we are no more than ants.

[@ChristianaBonelliSmith-mo1ox]

Absolutely because all states that are in the 9th District for example start following the same guidelines as another state. One example of this is the 2018 Martin V.S. Boise case that came out of the 9th District Supreme Court that in which Grants Pass Oregon and Portland just tried to have that turned. They re-visided it this year and then you will see Seattle follow suit etc. That case began by a group of individuals when were living in vehicles and the city of Boise would not allow them to sleep over night anywhere in the city. Kept running them out. I am 63 yrs old and I and my Husky dog I've had for 11 yrs since he was born are living in my 2018 Nissan Rogue since the pandemic and the rental moratorium lifted. In Vancouver Washington where they immediately started raising rent on everyone. Now at my age any job I have been offered does not qualify me for housing with soaring rent prices it's crazy.

[@tina-mariecrocker5687]

Sadly many ngo receive $$ to help but spend it on themselves. So sad❤

[@T-lb8et]

Housing is the root cause. Once housed other issues can be worked on. Mental health, drug addition, alcoholism all deserved to be housed without reserve period. Shelters keep people homeless all day.

[@mistresskeke]

I just drove down to LA to pick up my sister, who has been struggling with homelessness for 4 years. She reached out to me for help, & I thought she was finally at her bottom & ready to work hard & make changes. When I found her she was drunk. I got us a hotel room & she refused to shower or even wash her hands that night. She was rude, & wasn't making sense. She steals alcohol every day & laughed about how store employees aren't allowed to stop shoplifters. She got a boost in her ebt food benefits, & got cash aid days before. She said she's a baby, she's spoiled & everyone else should work & pay her way. She said my mom should give her a free house, & her husband was gonna buy her a car. She acted like I was obligated to let her live with me rent free while I work every day. She stayed with my mom for a few weeks, then my mom kicked her out a couple months ago cuz she was constantly drunk & on drugs & said she wasnt gonna stop. I left her in LA. Some people work hard & just need a bit of help to get housing. But other people are literally spitting in the face of family that have opened their doors to them. They steal, act out violently, & have lost touch with reality. U can lead a horse to water, but..

[@meko3089]

In japan they have sleeping pods better then being on the streets.

[@gregsimon7275]

What should happen in housing, be base on income level not by market. The market value is driven by profits not the needs

[@denisevarner7308]

That is housing as a right to human dignity. It's easier to buy a car than it is to rent an apartment. Black Rock, Larry Fink, Vanguard control the wealth exploitation in CA.

[@Silver77cyn]

Maybe we should start taxing billionares, and invest in low-income housing, kinda like how Canada is doing currently.

[@batcactus6046]

There is plenty of housing. Apartments in my neighborhood are going for $4000 a month.

[@claire5399]

I was in Oakland I wish you had followed me. I’m 68

[@robertcook9264]

Thats a tough place to be. And a tough spot to be in.

[@billbillards569]

In order to create more housing you need to have more builders. In order to have more builders you need to end the monopolies that are running every industry in America.

[@Oilers1972]

It’s the same story here 🇨🇦. Homelessness has really increased in our small 100,000 population city and lots of people just want them out of sight. The tents are popping up in green spaces some of the population really have problems with.

[@traceygoodman6203]

Thanks

[@Brutuscomedy]

The biggest impediment to me getting on my feet again has been pot users smoking indoors, at bus stops, and on public transit. It's insane how common and ubiquitous it is in certain places. I wish I didn't get contact highs so easily. I am actually leaving one city for another and planning to avoid most Airbnbs and the bus. It's hella bonkers and honestly, utterly ridiculous. I wish people would keep their drug of choice to themselves. And yes, contact highs are very much a real, actual thing.

[@thegroovypatriot]

Oh come on. You can't get on your feet because people smoke pot around you? Things could be a lot more difficult than that you know.

[@Frederique41]

It’s hard to get a home, hard to keep it and too easy to end up on the street.

[@GrandmaBev64]

We used to have huge "Think Tanks". Someone in 2016, decided we did not need the best smart ideas anymore, because he thought he could do everything by himself. He fired 55,000 civil servants and all accountability agents. Still sound like a good idea to let 1 person run everything by themselves with no accountability?

[@TheVic900]

Muy buena charla

[@beckyraskin3280]

I am only able to help myself so far with no outside help at all. I have a job here, but no place to live and no help from all the agencies that are "supposed" to help. I know, I've tried. It's as if all of these "helping" agencies are stones that we're trying to get blood out of. Never, in a million years gonna happen

[@Rayjack-m9o]

It's not California's homeless crisis this is the Nations homeless crisis And how could one state be expected to bare this burden of the nation's homeless And the actions and responses of local politicians have only served to make the quality of life more difficult for Californian's.

[@MikieGoodwin-n8y]

Yeah the sad part is once we put them in foster care we essentially dont do anything to prevent them to be homeless. I literally had a caseworker deny to help pay for trade school , hell they wouldn't even help with transportation and i was in a city with poor public transportation. So it msfe interviewing and applying for jobs almost impossible never mind the fact any job you can get with just a is diploma and no connections wont pay the rent. As i was about to age out of the system instead of helping me with housing shelter etc or employment at a rate i could afford housing they just did what was legally required of them which is to temporarily house you, not to help set you up in a position to afford rent. They just dropp you and say hope you jave family and heres a list of services and you never hear from them again.

[@RobertoLopez-nn8ty]

I keep hearing the Narrative: “We need more affordable Housing.” That is Socialist Talk. What we really need in America is Freedom and Sound Money …and Capitalism.

[@MrJamesVanEngen]

Each homeless shelter in the U.S.A. receives approximately a typical household income in tax breaks, subsidies, various donations including funds, and both internal and external volunteer opportunities (free manual labor), as well as commercial credit loans for renovations and such per homeless client annually while homeless shelters are at a national avg. "Help Rate" or "Performance Rate" for providing housing assistance of 9% according to recent U.S. Census Bureau data and other reports about the topic with the present state of technology available in 2024 C.E.. I think apprx. 3,250 of apprx. 3,300 U.S. homeless shelters are scams! Thank you for your valuable time and bodily physical energy investment(s) to continue learning more! 🙂

[@beckyraskin3280]

I appreciate the fact that you're trying to inform people. But would you mind giving us actual help??? You can talk about a problem forever, but at some point SOMETHING NEEDS TO HAPPEN

[@augeniasestokaite4674]

Please , everyone, stop and remember that all these problems start in the brain…have you learned what it means to actually do ‘ 19:06 thinking’? It is not ‘emotionalizing’- this is not connecting to the brain- looking at your past, if you have the time, take a moment and ask yourself- what was the very moment that things/your life started going ‘crazy’… Admit to yourself, how and why that happened. That would be a good moment to start with. Don’t give up- the truth is always there…look at yourself…what direction will you take, now? Don’t Don’t give up… here is your chance to change YOUR direction! I came from nothing… no silver spoon- difficult everything, but just remember, you can make a change, only u.

[@1MoonChild4ever]

It's amazing being on both sides..prior work with homeless then becoming homeless. It magnifies the lies, the ridiculous claims of the "available funds" to relieve homelessness which ends up being fruitless. The continum of care and 211 is nothing short of a waste of tax dollars! I wish I could have people see the failures of the system through my eyes and my experiences.

[@kaceykelly7222]

There is too much vacant or rarely used housing going to waste! Government needs to tax any Single Family Residence at super-hugh rate if it isnt owner-occupied or is not an affordable rental. This would be more economical & earth-friendly than rapant new building.

[@kipincharge2833]

Cut the serfs tax (property tax) for low income Seniors who get robbed by BS inflation numbers😮

[@tylersmith7534]

Many states have a tax rebate program for low income disabled and seniors.

[@sixie6e]

There is no homeless problem, there's a wealthy corporate authority problem.

[@denisevarner7308]

This is inhumane. It has been marketably intentional. "Housing" was allowed to become a marketable trade commodity. Housing is no longer a human right to dignity in CA and the US. Twenty years is a long time for social disease to exacerbate to this extent. JohnnSteibeck could never have imagined this catastrophe during the Great Depression.

[@homelessmillionaire1]

According to the web, I thought homeless people were more happy than the working class. No debt, NO bills, NO boss, total freedom. So why are we trying to house the happy. We should be trying to be homeless if it is so exciting and free.

[@susiefairfield7218]

This needs more exposure Wish I knew how to hashtag the shit outta this to get it seen @@@@@😅

[@jeevanjoshi1070]

Gosh this is Iron Lady facing a hell lot of odds !!

[@dougsherman1562]

California is hopeless for affordable, efficient, low construction cost housing. Vallejo Ca. is a struggling community with chronically low income. They spent $70 million dollars (new construction) for a homeless housing building that will provide 60 living units. At the same time they've got hundreds of homeless living on the streets. Building housing in California for the homeless population is just not sustainable.

[@breft3416]

It's just not profitable is what I'm hearing. The country is starved for a public works program that employs and educates the jobless and houses the homeless. 70 million for 60 units is not a million dollar house for 60 families, is it? It's robbery.

[@pmscalisi]

Not at those insane prices.

[@lesliepaxton6088]

I’ve given to gofundmes for homeless vets and given money to street people - because “there for the grace of God” go many of us. No more. First my storage unit was broken into (where there were homeless living adjacent to railroad tracks) and now one of the many phentanyl addicts encamped by my apartment building broke a window on my car and stole $700 worth of property. This time the loss was not insured. Although the $2000 loss from the storage unit was insured, it cost me $900 to move my stuff to a new unit in a better neighborhood. I’m tired of asking employees to unlock items from the CVS and watching dirtbags walk out with armfuls of stolen property. My compassion for the homeless is gone and now I see these addicts as the parasites on society that many of them are. You cannot deny that the homeless commit a lion’s share of property crimes. Working taxpayers are fed up.

[@donaldlasek3696]

Homeless people just need a place to exist small groups of people given a camp spot fenced in with restrooms and trash cans and a small amount of work all over town available to gain stability to then better there lives.

[@ronaldzent6321]

This is a HUMAN crisis, NOT political!, there are plenty of crappy pols on BOTH sides of the aisle, Im in Cali, yes, Gavin "Gruesome" Newsom has initiated bad policies, but what have REPUBLICAN pols done, that is that much better?, this is a complex problem that will take people from ALL political or non-political walks of life,

[@pmscalisi]

Politics caused it.

[@targetedtruthfinder]

We pay enough taxes we need basic income

[@bohall270]

Well they waste that money on wage wars in other countries and stockpiling weapons

[@Steve-wp6qk]

How about reducing your taxes and letting you keep that money?

[@targetedtruthfinder]

@@Steve-wp6qk Good idea but how would that benefit the homeless most don't have jobs? That's why I'm on this platform because we care about the homeless

[@susiefairfield7218]

@@Steve-wp6qkbecause the roads and highways would go to potholes

[@targetedtruthfinder]

@@susiefairfield7218?❓

[@davidelliott9661]

Shes right.

[@jessejules2092]

'There's an organized well paid, engineered opposition...' to the homelessness issue.

[@JennaFerrari]

Bring all homeless to Nancy Pelosi’s houses and Newsoms

[@bigsarge2085]

❤

[@myoldvhstapes]

39:29- This guest includes herself in "WE stole people's lands."

[@1st1anarkissed]

I have learned not to engage the "where are youbfrom" question. It far too often is about judging me, not just a topic to discuss and it frankly is not that interesting.

[@victorialeif9266]

In Oregon, they are fining the homeless, then jailing them, for non payment of the fines.

[@SharlenesJourney]

True it’s a crime to be without a house

[@thegroovypatriot]

Well, people were never meant to be camping out on the streets, and breaking many different laws meanwhile.

[@ChristianaBonelliSmith-mo1ox]

Again absolutely on the issue of abuse, theft, etc. I am a target as an elderly woman sleeping nights in rest stops Not the same type of target such as sex crimes etc but .....I've been targeted.

[@Christian-xe6bg]

Play the board game “The Landlord's Game” aka “Monopoly”, created by Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie Phillips over a 100 years ago, and you'll know what's going on.

[@md0821]

🙏❤

[@donaldlasek3696]

Minimum wage requirement is homelessness

[@4Beats4Me]

Are we having fun yet?? Have you seen the videos in cities all over v er th we country & Canada?

[@icherishcrochetandknit309]

29:30 grim statistics for homeless seniors.😢 I am a senior disabled homeless Vetetan in a hotel but not for long. Running out of funds. Running out of time. WINTER IS COMING.

[@raloufen4292]

Winters rough. Move to better climate

[@Koushi82]

And said cancel your rent live in your car Van life at f*** it just leave before you use up all your money when you know you're going to get kicked out when your income is below your rent it's time to leave

[@catherineblair550]

Yep. Be prepared. Maybe even get a van and use it as your main vehicle in good times. As a "hobby" you can fix up that van to live in and have weekend getaways. Buying camping stuff is cheaper at your leisure when you can get them at the thrift store, yards sales, ebay, and craigslist.

[@jimsmithnyny8905]

DON'T FORGET NEXT TIME TO AGAIN VOTE FOR LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE, TO MORE WE DON'T MAKE SENSE THE BETTER. WHO NEEDS LOGICAL TRUMP ?

[@Koushi82]

By the way using up all your money for rent is the worst choice you can make it's far better to be homeless and keep your money then to pay it all in rent use the money for food medicine and I'm cleaning yourself up instead

[@shanehester5317]

when a state does things that cause a company to leave the area u get homelessness.then people vote the same people back in office makes no sense.then they wanna run what they caused away so they dont have to see it.

[@MikieGoodwin-n8y]

I was 20 when i became homeless. Shelters favored the older and sicker and they arent specializing services based on ages or complications they have one approach method just like yall have in your reporting. Were literally homeless cause we cant afford to live here. Just like everyone else whos homeless.

[@tamreburns5669]

Gavin stole the money

[@subdynoman]

The start of the new 3rd world

[@jessenowells2920]

End capitalism.

[@williamvasquezvasquez9878]

End capitalism and begin socialism/ communism..yeah that’ll work🙄

[@andrewmorton395]

Rich people make money out of the homeless

[@preshisify1]

#SilverTsunami #FixedIncome

[@sonicleaves]

Look, no one is going to hold your hand and walk you through your life. Take personal responsibility.

[@ey67]

WOW. That is so helpful and so easy. No problemo. Millions of people can benefit from this kernel of wisdom. Please go on.

[@sonicleaves]

@@ey67 You're welcome.

[@MrJamesVanEngen]

I make my best efforts to intentionally avoid and corrupt P.I.T. count data because it is unlawful to register to vote using a commercial business real estate address such as a homeless shelter or church anywhere in the U.S.A.. As an activist, I'm a P.I.T. count gremlin 🐲 until the majority of American citizens petition well and improve legislation civilly and peaceably with honor for human rights. Same goes for U.S. Census Bureau data. 😉🇺🇸

[@PEPPERJET7]

Thank Liberals 👏

[@andrewmorton395]

To meny crupt governments and billoners

[@melindasaddler559]

Lying about where you are from is not a weird thing to lie about. Because it is taking the funding from native Californian s. Like the thousands of youth that age out of Foster care every year. A lot of them become homeless. Maybe some of that funding could go to establishing transitional housing that will help them grow. Instead of going to harm reduction, low barrier programs that enable people to destroy themselves...

[@Koushi82]

How about actually lowering the prices novia wants to do it because they want to keep prices high because that proposition 13 remove proposition 13 and see how they like it

[@robertcook9264]

That would not be helpful

[@melindasaddler559]

Stop it. it's not anti black racism. Breaking up the family, that was the safety net, was racism. That created a lot of this. Also, the soft bigotry of low expectations. Treating people like infants their whole lives.

[@ronaldzent6321]

I know, it seems easier to point blame at the pols. But, think it really takes alot more than just political agendas to solve this crisis

[@HayesAnderson-c5z]

Man, I really liked her commentary but she says 'yeah' every 1.5 seconds while the guys talking the whole video. Like 900 times

[@vegan3650]

as soon as i hear "creating more housing" i know you have NO CLUE. come look at the EMPTY BUILDING that is unaffordable here. and all the NEW BUILDINGS that are not remotely ever going to be affordable. who is going to BUILD this housing and where are you going to put it? we will all be dead by then. YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THE SOLUTION IS.