Denver Mayor Mike Johnston declares state of emergency over homelessness

[@monicasanders2355]

This should be addressed everywhere!🙏🙏🙏

[@jayduncomb9652]

Agreed

[@dwightleverett1661]

Host an NBA or NFL Championship in your City the rich will complain, things will change

[@lpgfamily5]

Pretty sure it is addressed everywhere not sure what you’re talking about

[@jeffder7143]

​@@lpgfamily5no it won't. How will it be?

[@atrumphasmatis6719]

@@lpgfamily5kay so let’s think about this… if it were a priority in every city would there be as much homelessness as we have in our country?

[@phillipjohnson1459]

Giving people homes without solving thier drug use or mental health issues doesn't solve anything.

[@harold.one.feather]

Legalize the deadly demonic possession drugs, that ends the drug lords, and severely criminalize those converting food assistance into cash

[@hilpei3675]

Housing is unaffordable for many, including people working full-time jobs!!!! I have a homeless nephew who's job as a truck driver simply doesn't pay enough to afford an apartment or a home. He's in trailer now, but in winter he'll need to find shelter. IT'S AN EPIDEMIC!

[@itachi-hf3kv]

Government should put a stop to GOUGING people on rent!!!

[@mack7329]

They can’t on private ownership

[@rachele9566]

They can only do that on government housing!!!

[@scottlucas9551]

Here's a crazy idea: how about paying working people enough to afford homes?

[@mack7329]

If they did that then they’ll raise the price of everything else.

[@marmaleon]

@@mack7329id pay more for goods if it meant the people around me had suitable housing.

[@i-love-comountains3850]

We need regulations on the housing/rental market. Caps on costs of living. As long as the landed gentry and owners of capital can rapeandpillage with impunity they will. Bring them to heel.

[@yngdee4533]

​@@marmaleonwell here in Los Angeles the price of housing, food, gas, and everything else has went up and nothing seems to be coming down. If its not happening where you are now it will soon.

[@kevinc8955]

@@yngdee4533Inflation in Southern California is going down. It’s actually at a 26 month low.

[@chrisbean4610]

Lower the cost of living, and increase mental awareness

[@JanetMurrayPickkle9]

Rents in Denver are Off the charts. No one can even afford an apartment. $2600 for a 2 bedroon in Broomfield! REALLY!? I am moving my daughter and her family OUT of the state as I left because it is rediculous! You are your own worst enemy Colorado! Shame on you!

[@hazelnut0127]

Hence, you will own nothing and be happy. You will be tracked traced and controlled in the 15 min cities. That is the 2030 goal

[@kevinc8955]

People want to live there…hence the high rent. It’s just supply and demand of living somewhere so beautiful.

[@cmc5394oparva]

@@kevinc8955 Plenty of people moved to the state before the prices started taking a rocket ride in 2016, and it was still affordable for the working class. The fact that it isn't the case anymore is directly the fault of the people in the state house that failed to incentivize the development needed to accommodate the growth. Of course, back when housing was affordable, those same idiots called all those developments "sprawl."

[@rachele9566]

Someone's affording it, otherwise they'd have to lower the price.

[@JanetMurrayPickkle9]

@@rachele9566 They have had a huge jump in homelessness!!! There are tents where they ysed to have the feast of colorado! this is not normal

[@Voicenreason247]

No it's called unaffordable housing

[@mE-zx7pt]

Exactly.

[@Nirobiscloset10]

Truth.

[@Razor-ncstate]

Throwing money will never solved homelessness housing first and foremost regardless of income on streets

[@simplesue8334]

Denver will continue to send the homeless to other parts of the state. It’s the out of sight out of mind policy. That’s what’s been done in the past. The San Luis Vally now has lists and list of homelessness. Trinidad now also has the same homeless issues. I guess the cannabis money isn’t being used to help resolve this problem.

[@cmc5394oparva]

The only thing weed did was act as a magnet for drug addicts.

[@dougjenks6954]

Greed is the reason!

[@powers_media]

this, while they announce the Stadium District project that destroys blocks of low income housing.

[@niavellir7408]

Yeah its stupid

[@powers_media]

@@easypete2936 nah chonky boxes are atrocious. Low income housing is a necessity. Especially for disabled people.

[@talon9924]

I think we massively need more affordable housing, I work full time, this year my rent went up by almost $200 a month, I'm already living pretty lean, there's not much more I can cut out of my budget to keep a roof over my head. And if I were to apply for low income housing it might be years before I actually get help.

[@darthgroot4006]

yup. Same here. My rent went up 200 dollars a month for no reason other than to match market price. That is a lot money.... Living in America right now is super expensive. A large spicy chicken combo at Wendy's costs almost 12-14 dollars depending on where you are... for a single combo meal.

[@thetahedgecapital1008]

No such thing as "Affordable housing"

[@rachele9566]

@@darthgroot4006 Don't buy that spicy chicken combo. Make a tuna or ham sandwich for a couple of bucks. Put the savings in a CD.

[@cmc5394oparva]

@@thetahedgecapital1008 There used to be, before the morons in the state government and the Chamber of Commerce encouraged the entire country and half the planet to move to the state, and the Front Range specifically, without incentivizing the housing development and infrastructure needed to accommodate them all.

[@Tradisrad]

Denver needs cleaned up so badly. Bad politics are ruining the cities in beautiful CO. It’s terrible!!

[@DonMarzzoni]

What is your solution?

[@AC-re9ee]

You mean democrat politics😂

[@newsystem420]

​@@DonMarzzoniWhat is your solution?

[@TheNewblade1]

Capitalism/socialism is economics not politics. Also politics don't change things policies do.

[@CW0123]

@@DonMarzzonipermanent burning man. Give these guys all the meth they want in a federally owned part of Nevada. They can live how they want just no other aid to them besides meth and they can’t leave 🤗

[@evanJH15]

This should be an emergency everywhere!

[@Tankerpaul223]

Good for Denver.

[@misterbulger]

They'll just come back to Englewood

[@DixonDixon65]

They only talk about the Homelessness in.Los Angeles/ California.. Its everywhere!😮😊

[@dendennis9060]

HELP KEEP AMERICA CLEAN

[@mirandamcguire810]

They WANT to sleep on the streets. There is so many shelters and programs but they don't want to work and they don't want to follow the rules. That would mean getting their belongings searched for drugs everytime they enter most shelters and the vast majority are not willing to do that.

[@AlleyeSun]

Many lost their jobs when lock down started, and then some got into drugs cuz its so depressing... your blanket judgement is wrong

[@pollyward98]

People don't want to sleep on the streets. Shelters have only so many beds. Most shelters have lotteries to see who gets a bed.

[@jaehparrk]

it's time to involve military, let military put them all in mental camp. heal them , sometimes force is necessary to save people we love

[@darienford860]

This is a conversation you'll never hear from the rest of mainstream media

[@DixonDixon65]

They only talk about the Homelessness in Los Angeles/ California! It's freaking Everywhere!

[@tomv5988]

True it's ridiculous

[@long-hair-dont-care88.]

Because the roots of the problem won't be solved willingly by the government. They use them to grow an maintain power structure's.

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

It's on mainstream media. This was the #1 video on a top news section on KZbin.

[@darienford860]

@@user-rf2vk8zp2u re-read my comment buddy

[@Wakeup2worship]

This way the city of Denver receives government funding, they profit from homelessness. While the rich outbid each other. Everyone else loses their homes.

[@WouldBeSapient]

New York is a great example of this especially where the heads of the organization to help homelessness were not only family to the people in power but made six figures and built unsafe facilities and failed to maintain them consistently.

[@Wakeup2worship]

@@WouldBeSapient I'm a homeless woman with stage 3 cancer. I lived in an all women's homeless shelter that has completely inhumane living conditions. I left when I saw a man living amongst us. He identifies as FEMALE. But only said that to be in a women's shelter. It's very scary to be homeless, let alone be housed with men.

[@brucefreitas2035]

Stop the drugs, the abuse of free benefits, the laziness etc, etc. Get it

[@firstlast8258]

Drugs are bad and nothing is free mkay 🤓🖕

[@DennisMoore664]

Wonder if any of this applies to the Denver suburbs too or just City of Denver proper? And I have a story for 9 News about how people get forced into homelessness that's unfolding right now to some people I know. The short of it is that through a probably not uncommon series of events, the home owner who has been a resident for some 32 years is being forced out by the mobile home park. The longer version is that her whole family has lived in this park all these decades so they could be close by to one another. Her mom and dad in one home and her grandmother and cousin in another, all who lived there for a year or two before she moved into her own unit in the park. Most of her family has passed away so it's just her now and she's living permanently in her parents home after moving over several years ago to help care for them and so they could stay there during their final years. But now the park is making her reapply to live there because she isn't in her original unit anymore even though it's still the same park - just a different trailer and lot space. And (here it comes) due to her financial situation which is hampered by age, disability, and years out of the workforce while caring for her parents full-time, she no longer meets the standards of the park management in 2023. Consequently, this will cause not only her to join the ranks of the homeless but the two other friends-in-need living with her who she is helping to keep from being homeless - even if it is just an old mobile home.

[@enarush1]

Couldn’t her friend apply to live there if they met the requirements that way she doesn’t end up homeless? I hope the property owner has a change of heart

[@chriswhite5517]

Blah blah blah homeless needs to get a job and get off the drugs and alcohol don't feel bad for them one bit

[@firmfire2385]

This sounds familiar, someone doesn't happened to be named bree right?

[@swirvinbirds1971]

The vast majority doesn't have a similar story though. People like her can get help. Exceptions are not the rule. What we are dealing with is a lot of young people who are completely able to work refusing to do so because they want to be left alone to continue to whatever the hell they want to do. They don't want to live under rules and they don't want to get clean. These people can't even hold down a job to even begin to think of paying rent. As a young adult I held a job down and split the cost of rent with friends. You could lower the cost of rent and it wouldn't matter one but as they don't have an income and don't want to work. I see these people every day. The ones I don't see are the cases like you brought up because they can get help and are not hindered by their drug use or criminal record.

[@deadstones1]

​@@enarush1if she's saving the friend from homelessness, I'd assume they wouldn't meet the financial requirements either.

[@TheBodynsoul1]

I grew up in Denver and watched the "gentrification" displace low income residents. I left last year because i was continually nauseated by these "upscale" buildings popping up everywhere, with minimum rents at 2k and above, and the transplanted, beanie cap wearing toads on hoverounds steering their way around the homeless with Starbucks cups in hand seemingly oblivious to their contribution to this issue was maddening !

[@mack7329]

Yep it’s happening here in my hometown of Pensacola Florida and it’s unbelievable how high rent is here . M/w is just $11 an hour.

[@DaveyCrockett1]

Racist.

[@mirandamcguire810]

Yes how dare people be successful in life! The nerve!

[@robertmuellerbillcallsmeBob]

Yeah, white liberals are a terminal cancer on America.

[@CyberVeggie]

@mack7329 how do you like pensacola? Been looking at moving there for a while.

[@ReginaJune]

I’ve tried several shelter, and I was able to confirm with my “roommates” and tv - shelters CAN be just like jail with a day pass. If I’m ever in that situation again, I’ve figured out how to live relatively nicely in the open with a leave no trace policy. Shelters don’t seem to understand not everyone in financial destitution is a complete and total fukup- so the rules, requirements and services aren’t that helpful to the diversity of socioeconomic conditions.

[@AmandaCadorna]

Everyone has to live by rules. Including those with homes.

[@consciousobjector2507]

They offer free drug paraphernalia, though!

[@CerseiLannister999]

​@@Zachremixexactly. Some one I know told me that the shelters are full if drama mess, and mental issues. That they slept in their car, it was so bad.

[@geometerfpv2804]

So let me get this straight...you're not enough of a "fuck up" to deal with the compromised, completely free conditions at a shelter...but you are enough of a fuck up that you can't get a job and live on the cheap like the rest of us? That's a bit of a knife edge you're walking there, bud...

[@lv7603]

@@CerseiLannister999not like the shelters are known for housing the best society can offer. Complex issue.

[@braddavidson3568]

Thats what happens when you create it.

[@Liam1694u]

This isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. Forget politics. It's an unregulated capitalism problem. Keep paying poverty wages and allowing rent/house pricing to skyrocket and this is what happens.

[@cmc5394oparva]

No, it's not a "capitalism problem," no matter what they told you in your college humanities courses. This is a simple economic problem of supply and demand. Encourage mass migration to the state and its most populous region, refuse to incentivize multi-unit housing and promote the infrastructure funding to accommodate it, and watch the cost of housing rocket to Mars.

[@854Z]

Let’s just wait around and do nothing and then declare a State of emergency to get more funding that we can pocket.

[@talleysartstudio]

If they actually made housing affordable in the first place, this wouldn't have happened. Florida is worse. $2400 for a studio apt is rediculous. They can keep their apts empty.

[@mack7329]

You’re right. I live in Pensacola and I don’t know how anyone affords rent here today…

[@Nirobiscloset10]

Exactly. You have to make 3x the rent in cali.

[@devilghostface8798]

Or better yet if people would work.. and if these cities didn't openly house them and arrested and or kicked them out. You wouldn't have this problem

[@Nirobiscloset10]

@devilghostface8798 You think 🤔 it's that easy to get a job. It cost money to get a decent job. And that job still doesn't cover the rent.

[@talleysartstudio]

@@Nirobiscloset10 Exactly... When we figure minimum wage at 39hours a week, then subtract all the government garbage, there is nothing left. Unless you are in the medical field or in government, the wages do NOT match cost of living. They want employees but then they don't pay. It's a lie that people don't want to work. They just refuse to work for pennies anymore. Then the bosses double if not triple work one person, expecting them to multitask. My friend is in that position and he is ready to quit. He is in the hospitality business. He is not the general manager yet the owner expects him to handle registration, ordering housekeeping supplies, pool clean, make menus for the restaurants, and accounting of all money transactions. He is ready to quit. Employers are pushing the limits on great employees. And to make things worse he gets $1 more than minimum wage. Ain't that some messed up crap?

[@nuschlerclark895]

In Utah the governor and mayors budgeted for housing! No more unhoused! Matter of money…can cost up to one million dollars for one person…hospitalizations, imprisonment, court system! Plus it’s HUMANE! We are all one or two paychecks from losing our homes. WWJD??

[@firstlast8258]

So move to Utah?

[@kittys.2870]

As long as out country continues its "I don't care" attitude about everything we will continue to deteriorate.

[@sandraclick7812]

Many need to be in mental institutions and run humanly, like those for people with Alzheimer's , 24/7 care.

[@firstlast8258]

They don’t care unless it voting time of course

[@firstlast8258]

@@sandraclick7812put yourself in a mental facility first

[@edward-411]

Just 1000? Come on

[@Tradisrad]

So true. Could be ten times that.

[@optional4594]

If you don’t address drug addiction it’ll be for nothing, they’ll be back to the streets in no time. They are sick, that’s why they’re homeless

[@cmc5394oparva]

These people are only interested in enabling and encouraging drug addiction, not solving or even mitigating it.

[@blueavadis22]

Send them to LA, problem solved!

[@SCARFACE69247]

Imagine the wealth of knowledge mental health providers could gain for all of us if they actually tried to help these people. Imagine if all doctors only worked on healthy people and left car wreck victims to rot. That's the mental health system now.

[@jordanalandry1866]

We DO! Guess what genius head? They don't fucking WANT it and medical ethics and legal rights prohibit us from forcing people to obtain continue or maintain tx or medications they have RIGHTS and they CHOOSE what they do don't be naive and altruistic it will get u nowhere

[@renaudvillacis8066]

Drugs . Everyones on drugs . The end .

[@animesavedmylife3648]

I worked at a care facility, My coworkers made fun of me for having a disability.

[@renaudvillacis8066]

@@animesavedmylife3648 i like to wear my covid mask in case i have to assault somebody

[@rottingcorpse6565]

Couldn't believe how many homeless were wandering around downtown Denver when I was there in 2021. Looked like an episode of the Walking Dead

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

No

[@kheventplanner]

Very sad

[@firstlast8258]

Dead city

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

@@firstlast8258 Definitely not the same.

[@gnarlycat]

The issue isn’t housing, it is drug addiction.

[@kerry_runs]

Ding ding ding!!!

[@rachele9566]

Exactly!!! What's amazing is that the drug addicts seem to find money to feed their addiction.

[@gnarlycat]

@@rachele9566 Right!!! Some cities actually give the drug addicts money monthly. San Francisco pays the fenheads $600/month! In other cities it is around $100 a month.

[@rachele9566]

@@gnarlycat Really???? That's ridiculous!

[@autodidactic]

"access to housing" sounds like flimsy language

[@michaelforney1246]

Lol. They don’t need houses. They need rehab centers. It’s such a high percentage of homeless that are druggies and drunks.

[@anthonyn1157]

Absolutely, most of them want to be there. I know from personal experience of living around three homeless missions in downtown. It looks like a fucking zombie apocalypse.

[@Sandra-oh4qp]

This is brilliant and let’s elect him president because there is a homeless emergency in almost every state

[@coryk.9025]

People need serious help everywhere, universal basic income is desperately needed. People like me with chronic medical problems have basically given up, checked out. Life has become hopeless in America. Wages are too low and cost of living has skyrocketed. Can’t remember a worse time to be living in this country.

[@twostop6895]

wages are too low? more like skills are too low

[@kevinc8955]

Chronic medical problems? So you’re mad the disability check you’re stealing from the American taxpayer doesn’t go as far as it once did. Still clearly have enough money to buy a PS5 though, right?

[@kerry_runs]

Do you honestly think that will work? You need a job that pays a liveable wage not a government handout that would not be enough anyway.

[@firstlast8258]

Biden’s America 🇺🇸

[@firstlast8258]

@@kerry_runs🤓🖕

[@benpetro37]

Didn’t the Mayor’s policy cause this homeless problem?

[@vin5804]

Definitely enormously entirely more than 1300 homelessness. I would estimate minimum 100,000. Only an observation but, I drive for a living, all over Colorado, on a daily basis, so I am a good source of information on this matter.

[@JimmyAruba]

Beyond emergency

[@sourpatch_king]

Pay my mortgage too! I pay taxes. More than the homeless pay. Sheesh.

[@DonMarzzoni]

I bet your a so called Christian 🙄

[@JustMe-yr5lw]

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CANT PAY YOU MORONIC WINDOW LICKER??? WITH WHAT MONEY

[@isaaccaynor3562]

What about the thousands living in their vehicles???

[@shrektacular3878]

They declare a state of emergency, but don’t do anything to help…

[@brianshaw6072]

They voted for this! They shouldn't get any federal help. Let them live as they vote!

[@bdis89]

People that can’t afford a monthly payment on this and that, shouldn’t be subject to repossession or harassment, this country had been funding elsewhere and nothing to do with its people. Blame it on who you wish, but we are all in this together, and these rich corrupt politicians having their extra dirty martinis need to fish out their “hard earned money” at home not over seas

[@firstlast8258]

Speak for yourself 🤓🖕

[@ItsMeRobertV]

Send them back here to California. We love the homeless, especially in San Francisco.

[@svrgnknight]

Deal!!

[@flyxguy956]

Drop a couple here in Portland too!

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

Stupid dipshit.

[@Sacko2008]

Remember that Regan closed the mental hospitals out of spite in the 80’s creating a huge vacuum. When I hear access to mental health services the question of how much is begged. A sizable percentage of those folks are unable to function in society.

[@wp5224]

Homelessness won’t be solved in one press conference but it is refreshing to hear our new mayor give it the urgency it requires. Talking heads who wonder why solutions are not immediate or complete at the outset are so tiresome. Give the new mayor a chance to make some progress.

[@ksmith2852]

You will see. It is all talk and spending money to make the problem worse. Wait until you start getting more illegals.

[@ChristinaHarrison-hw4lr]

It's not just denver. It's all over the usa.

[@tbth1546]

I don't wish homelessness on anyone but come on man. Some ppl choose to be in that position. Others don't, with that being said my family and I were homeless for a few months after coming to the states from P.R. We were fortunate enough that someone gave us a helping hand until benefits through the gvmt came thru. Coming from that situation shaped me into the man I've become today. Went to school, got a certification, have a good paying job, bought a house, so that my wife and kids don't go thru the same things I went thru. By no means im saying it's easy, but as a minority living here in the states I made it happen. With that being said, be safe and blessed.

[@JamesSpeiser]

You ever lived on the streets for years? That could happen to anybody. When it happens to you then you will have a more qualified opinion.

[@mip33]

I don't think anyone chooses to be homeless but there are absolutely homeless people who choose not to use shelters or resources provided because in order to do so you need to agree not to use drugs, etc.

[@CowboyConan]

No one chooses to lose housing. No one.

[@CowboyConan]

@@mip33 and because if you have PTSD, it’s hard to be in close quarters with other people. Very hard.

[@tbth1546]

@JamesSpeiser never did I said it can't happen to anybody. However ppl can get out of that situation there's no excuses tbh. I don't need your negative comments or energy. The difference is I chose to not live in the streets for years and to get out of that situation. So there is a way to come out of homelessness and become a better person. Qualified opinion? Come on now smh...

[@smeenuar]

Denver is expensive so I don't live there.. Why do people feel like they deserve to be able to live somewhere? There are plenty of other affordable places to live in Colorado and any of the surrounding states.

[@HyperspaceHoliday]

One way bus ticket to San Francisco. Problem solved

[@firstlast8258]

San franshitco

[@darrencampbell8817]

Those numbers are absolute bullshit. In 2010 there were over 12,000 homeless people in the greater Denver metro area according to the Denver Post and that number has skyrocketed since. Drive by the triangle in Lodo any given day and you'll see over a thousand homeless people in that one area.

[@DonMarzzoni]

Yeah 1200 seemed way too low

[@1summerflower]

Should be a national emergency it’s in every city and nothing gets done !

[@animesavedmylife3648]

That is martial law, and they can then take away any and all of your rights.

[@whileriding]

Bus them to Florida

[@nicksalatino3089]

Last republican mayor of Denver was in 1978...

[@nathandodge665]

Hilarious

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

Republicans make problems worse.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Democrat or Republicans Both Illegal Europeans -COMANCHE NATION

[@DonMarzzoni]

So

[@ohgawd]

And??? Ummm... Times have changed JUST A WEE BIT, GOOB!

[@mattmurdock2868]

Isn't Denver a "sanctuary city?"

[@johntuel2375]

I bet ya if they actually paid people enough to keep up with cost of living like we used to here in America, the homeless problem would die down significantly. That and stop price gouging the cost of a home. Used car prices are insane now too. Expect the auto sales industry to start tanking here soon because they are asking over $50,000 for used vehicles with over 75,000 miles on them. People are just going to go to Wyoming or any other state to get a used car and have a little road trip back home.

[@Tradisrad]

The homeless population do not want help. There are myriad of programs in CO, but these people don’t want to be clean. They would rather be zombies in the streets.

[@BM-dq3bv]

Not to mention car insurance is sky rocketing

[@hazelnut0127]

They mostly are drug addicts or mental. Able bodied homeless just won’t work.

[@cmc5394oparva]

No, this is problem of supply and demand. The state's political leaders encouraged mass migration to the state, and especially the Front Range, without incentivizing the housing development and getting the infrastructure funding needed to accommodate everyone that was moving there. That all started to come home to roost as early as 2016 when prices started their rocket ride. Growth doesn't pay for itself, and unlimited growth is the logic of a cancer cell.

[@johntuel2375]

If your company can not or will not pay it's American workers enough to live in America without government assistance, then your company is anti American in my book.

[@mthompw]

Just wait and watch. This will put the homeless in jail or ship them some other state.

[@brandenbrooks5525]

This is what a state of emergency looks like "help!"😲 There are homeless people everywhere! (Think Michael Scott " i declare bankruptcy")

[@NeedleFinger]

Ironically, there are more citizens becoming homeless, yet we allowed immigrants to flock in and therefore have to use tax $ to support them instead of using it towards our own citizens who, many, once had jobs and pay taxes until COVID happened. And yes we should be kind to help others in need, but it must be prioritized in a feasible manner.

[@jamesdelap4085]

El supplio and Demando raises property values, rents, and taxes for government workers and property owners too.

[@CowboyConan]

Republicans always vote to cut taxes and cut funding. What do we do? 🤷‍♀️

[@kevinc8955]

If the problem were lack of tax dollars, why did Trump cut taxes? It’s not lack of jobs or lack of tax dollars. It’s fentanyl and heroin. Go walk around a homeless tent encampment and see for yourself.

[@kerry_runs]

Yup it’s the immigrants fault. Those homeless people lost their fruit picking, animal factory job, or (insert other menial job) to the immigrant that’s why they are homeless. Smdh why don’t you get your head checked? You need help.

[@XXTw1st3dXx]

Give them places to go so that they dont have to be homeless and make it easier for them to get a job

[@RDJO88]

Doing what any city in California is doing is not going to work in your favor, obviously. Why would you use them as a good example?

[@milannikolic9921]

I am sure nothing will change!

[@dingdongdickweed6288]

Not with that shitty attitude.

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

Not with that attitude it won't.

[@bobettemorgan453]

No one wants to change, so they won't have to. My brother was homeless because of drug & alcohol. He DID NOT follow shelter guidelines set up for EVERYONE. He made a choice to continue his homeless party lifestyle. He had a heart attack and died last August living what he thought was his best life @ 56.

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

@@bobettemorgan453 So you're saying "let them all die"?

[@dingdongdickweed6288]

@@bobettemorgan453 Your brother = everyone? Cool story, bro.

[@coledewey1386]

Remember when food, shelter and clothing were basic human needs. Most likely they'll club them like seals and drive them out of town

[@noahboat580]

Im genuinely suprised that Denver within all places are in a SoE, and essentially bringing awareness to the increasing homelessness problem in america. Never expect that place to go in the step in the right direction

[@amenhalleluyah1111]

​@@Zachremix don't know what's so hard to get about it. This is the result of a rent your property on a rent to rent basis market during a job decline market that pays paycheck-to-paycheck. What I'm saying is when you have an economy of people who are in the labor part of the job market that doesn't require a career or they don't own it own business it's less likely they own their own home if you own your own business or have degreed career it is more likely you own a home what you're seeing is people who live paycheck-to-paycheck when they're over the job market crashes they lose residency which is hard to bounce back from because once you lose residency you lose a place to get dressed to go to work to find a job lose a place to eat you miss appointments you miss hot meals you missed doctor's appointments you suddenly can't take a bath or shower all the time and can't wash your clothes and if you're not on drugs you will most certainly become depressed and withdrawn and the situation like this and possibly stop looking for a job all together you're just seeing I'm the very bad effect of a job market-driven housing crisis. It has nothing to do with crime or anyting places like Portland Oregon Seattle Denver Colorado places that are not that diverse actually are having the same exact crisis.

[@noahboat580]

@@Zachremix nothing wrong with colorado, in my area we just roast people from denver lmao

[@DeborahAckerman1234]

Finding Affordable Housing is WHY THEY ARE OUT THERE TO BEGIN WITH !! If they can’t afford the rent.. they’ll never have a home. #FACTS

[@kevinc8955]

No, fentanyl is the reason they are out there. Go walk around a homeless camp and see for yourself.

[@scottgrivna]

Remember, one single billionaire could complete that goal in a heartbeat and literally not even notice it in their bank account. Is that their responsibility? Nope. But just imagine if one would do it, the type of domino effect it could create for others to follow suit and give back where it's needed most.

[@svrgnknight]

You’re petty generous with other people’s money. What about all that tax payer money going to Ukraine?

[@dingdongdickweed6288]

Billionaires should be illegal.

[@bradbutcher3984]

They'd waste their hard earned money on drugged out bums.

[@user-rf2vk8zp2u]

​@@svrgnknightYou mean, giving them older stockpiles that equal that amount of money? We aren't giving them money like you repubes claim.

[@einnAnnie]

@@svrgnknight No kidding. Why should we fund the destruction of an entire country and sponsor the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of human beings? If spending that money at home instead isn't a WIN for absolutely everybody, then I don't know what is.

[@rjay7019]

How's the Sanctuary City status working out there? Housing shortages everywhere when millions of people enter the country.

[@svrgnknight]

I think anyone that has pushed those policies should open their doors to the problems they created. My guess is that they’ll just call everybody racist and pat themselves on the back

[@PhoenixDawnX77]

Stupid comment. It's bad presidiencies that caused this. Too much credit goes to exploitative land developers that grow areas faster than job growth.

[@dingdongdickweed6288]

LOL I hate to break it to you, bro, but housing shortages and homelessness existed WAY before "Sanctuary Cities" did. If you want to blame anybody, blame private equity firms that are buying up housing stock and driving rents and home prices up across the country. Nice try, goober.

[@kheventplanner]

Housing has no shortages. People just can't afford them with the outrageous prices these days!

[@rjay7019]

@@kheventplanner both

[@andrewprince2906]

Those people should be in a mental health institution with no access to drug and alcohol.

[@firstlast8258]

You first

[@andrewprince2906]

@@firstlast8258 tired to pay for their food stamps and drugs

[@RC-90605]

I visited Denver a few years ago. I was surprised at all the homelessness

[@savinghistory642]

Bidens dream.

[@ksmith2852]

It's in all Democratic run cities. But people keep falling for it every election and voting for Democrats.

[@sumtingwongnow]

Homeless is getting worse as we let millions of people into the country with no skills

[@foreverprime6255]

The State: "Raise the rent, but not the wage of pay." The State: "Why are people homles? I don't get it?"

[@mack7329]

More like “why are the homeless sleeping in plain sight?”

[@livthedream91]

The state doesn’t raise rents, landlords and agents raise RE prices. If people weren’t so paranoid about “cOmmUliSm”, we’d use our government to regulate properly on behalf of workers/renters/home buyers. They protect capitalists short term interests.

[@foreverprime6255]

@argyledantedonovan7615 They get the label being Progressive because they're not actively hostile towards gays, minorities, Jews, children, and equality like the conservatives. They are capitalist. Capitalists who are not bigots get called progressives, but they are not. They care more about money.

[@foreverprime6255]

@livthedream91 True. Anything that would help people out in the slightest gets called Socialism or communism, and people who don't really understand the two lose their mind.

[@cmc5394oparva]

The State: "Encourage people to move here, but don't incentivize multiunit housing and infrastructure development until it's way too late, and legalize drugs." The State: "How on earth did we get such high housing costs, a homeless problem, and drug addicts? I don't get it."

[@JackHudler]

Look on the bright side. We stopped using bus routes to ship homeless to the West Coast that had a stopped over in Denver. Mostly. Guess you guys don’t like Sanctuary Cities. You voted for it, we filled your quota.

[@sircasm6578]

Calirado

[@OrbitalTrails]

Send them to Ukraine

[@BlackPantherFTW]

There is no homeless in parker where i live because all the police move the homeless north to denver. As a result, its really dangerous to walk around denver now.

[@tomv5988]

I think that happens all the time. The police round up people and make sure they get on a bus or train. I don't know if it's legal. They usually tell the people that help is more accessible elsewhere

[@PamSesheta]

Ok so what are you suggesting then? That everywhere just ship em off? Where will everybody ship them to, eh? Historically the answer from the right is to build camps, where the undesirables are concentrated… tell me, if greyhound therapy wasnt a thing what would the police of Parker do? Cast them into the wilderness? Shoot them dead? Ive heard people propose such things, it is easy for me to assume the same of you. So tell me, where do they go if they cannot be shipped out of sight like your trash? In dehumanizing people to trash, can you see how it makes it easier for some to use burn pits for people? We either help them or continue to hurt them. We heal or we eat ourselves. Economies are made of human beings, we can’t keep blaming the ever increasing horde of starving masses working multiple jobs and hitting one snag and joining tent city. We value money and personal conveniences more than people’s lives, this is the natural consequence.

[@johntuel2375]

Oh they're still here in Parker. It's more up by Cherry Creek area, but they can walk down into Parker easily. A dude overdosed on fentanyl at the murphy express by the slim chickens a couple weeks ago. Not sure if he was homeless, but that lifestyle is here now.

[@PamSesheta]

@@johntuel2375 people dont choose to live in this, this is the context of our society. We will victim blame ourselves to extinction

[@bosweeney7195]

Who's houses are you going to give the homeless ? Who's money are you going to use ? That's not going to make you a popular Mayor that people will vote for ! I say ' Do away with the Mayor and spend the Mayors pay on the homeless . Now that could be a solution !!!

[@beast1728]

Doing something is far better than doing nothing at all. Much luck to Denver. Set the stage for the rest of the country to follow. Let's do this!!! ;-)

[@kheventplanner]

❤❤

[@robertslaughter7044]

Denver setting the stage for the rest of the Country is a nightmare?

[@ksmith2852]

This does not happen in Republican led cities.

[@Foundry_made]

All that extra money from a decade of legal cannabis. I guess we see where it's NOT going.

[@epretzel72]

I live in downtown San Diego, the emergency declaration did nothing, homeless is still a huge issue and seems to only be getting worse. Still love my city but this isn’t going to do anything. Hate to say it, but Force is needed

[@JustMe-yr5lw]

Force is needed? What do you mean by that

[@shootshellz]

@@JustMe-yr5lw The Air Force?

[@dingdongdickweed6288]

I sense a great disturbance in the force.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Have you considered to try voting for a different political party?

[@DingDangg]

Blame the high cost of living along with ludicrous rent and mortgage costs

[@paulroyle-grimes]

Could be that nobody can make enough money to buy a house in Denver

[@Bella-yv9ro]

They should come do this in Philadelphia there is so many homeless people but only thing is 90% of them r on drugs and they don’t want help they should also raise minimum wage for us hard workers struggling to pay bills every place should pay the same 15 n up just saying since prices for everything r ridiculously high

[@livthedream91]

Agree with need for workers to be paid living wages. But I think most homeless fell between the cracks, slipped into hopelessness followed by addiction. If they know there’s a way forward, many will take it. Some will not but they shouldn’t be left in the streets.

[@firstlast8258]

@@livthedream91so open your home to them

[@justinhubbs5716]

Raising minimum wage makes everything more expensive.

[@Bella-yv9ro]

@@firstlast8258listen the government did this to Philly I’m not taking nobody in my house that’s why they have rehabs and shelters but they don’t want the help

[@OO-nb2kt]

Send them to Texas and Florida.. apparently they can do a better job

[@Tradisrad]

TX and FL aren’t as welcoming and enabling so they don’t have the problem to begin with…

[@captianobvious9234]

Just got back from there - they got some serious mental issues with the homeless there. Almost every homeless person I saw was completely lost. Filthy, mumbling, incoherent, and run ragged. I felt really bad for them. Wishing all the best.

[@renaudvillacis8066]

Its drugs dude

[@jht3fougifh393]

​@@renaudvillacis8066 Drugs and mental illness, yeah. For long term homelessness, that is.

[@thetahedgecapital1008]

Or just high........

[@renaudvillacis8066]

@@jht3fougifh393 where are you from ? How old are you ?

[@captianobvious9234]

I know they were high. I'm from Boston we have methadone Mile. I can tell you that Denver homeless were def more disturbed. For whatever reason. I'm not passing judgement it's just an observation.

[@jamesstancil2279]

Mandatory 40 hour work week and mandatory weekly drug tests should be required if you're using tax dollars NO FREE RIDE FOR THESE PEOPLE!!!!! and for the part of you that always whine about the rich you should be focused on what you have and what you would like to have rather than thinking that people with money should pay for lazy people and drug addicts

[@firstlast8258]

Drugs are bad mkay 🤓🖕

[@williamvaughan9036]

Woke politicians equals woke results. They need to fix this themselves.creating a situation you don’t like, does not make an emergency for the rest of the people.

[@dingdongdickweed6288]

Will you fucking nitwits give this "woke" horseshit a rest? It's 2023 and the only ones still talking about "wokeness" are conservative crybabies who have nothing else to fucking talk about.

[@jaywatt4674]

Now your walking in the Enlighten Path Of Jesus's Footprints, GoOD On !!!

[@daryllect6659]

"Your" illiterate.

[@carrollbridges9341]

When a State makes everything legal and starts acting like California like Colorado did yrs ago the situations like California will start to happen and this is a perfect example. Colorado is a sanctuary State for illegal immigrants and have allowed tens of thousands of people to come to Colorado and they have changed everything about the State and I've watched it happen because it started in the early 90s and in the last 15 to 20 yrs there are more people from California than from Colorado living in that State and I remember when Colorado was worth living in but today hell no

[@numeroVLAD]

I bet homeless are overwhelmingly not immigrants. Its some sort of drug addicts and mentally ill poor people.

[@deborahlynhetherly934]

When it's snows they won't like it.

[@truthbetold06]

Well EXCUSE THE HELL outta Colorado for trying to make a difference in this country by offering sanctuary to those in need. You should be ashamed of yo selfish ass for that comment, it reeks of entitlement. I can’t stand people like YOU, you’re part of the problem and probably blind af to it. Have a heart because karma loves to make a comeback and she don’t be playing. What ever happen to treat others as you would wanna be treated? You and all the other selfish people on this planet are the reason the human race probably won’t be around in the next 500 years. This mindset you have is usually attributed to old folks who can’t grasp the times we living in, you want the old ways back……well them days is over and the young people are slowly putting you old heads out to pasture, the less of YOU calling the shots means a brighter future for ALL OF US. Do us a favor and go sit the F down somewhere.

[@raidchaser443]

​@@deborahlynhetherly934FACTS.Below zero temps aren't COLD ENOUGH to drive homelessness OUT. Send the homeless people to the Mayor's house & city council homes and WATCH HOW FAST they get to work as public officials in stopping this...

[@carrollbridges9341]

@@deborahlynhetherly934 when it snows they either stay out in it or fill up the shelters. I moved from Colorado because I saw what was going on and knew the result of the states actions and now I have no respect for that State because it's a total disappointment now

[@harryhocus7367]

So you legalize drug use, and now you have a big homelessness problem...? Hmm......

[@braddavidson3568]

Mile High Port O Let

[@CryptoNewsTV]

Prevent people from getting homeless? Lol raise the minimum wage and give them a job to earn money. Then no homelessness. But it’s competitive and these are not “top employees”

[@rachele9566]

Most of them are addicts. They would just use the money to buy more drugs and still be homeless. Also, you can't work when you're high. So get real.

[@tandemtransport7702]

Most of these new homeless people are major weed smokers and would rather smoke weed than pay their bills. This is going to be a problem everywhere . Weed isn't cheap and most that smoke it don't care.

[@Tradisrad]

They’re on much stronger stuff than just weed.

[@WouldBeSapient]

While drug addiction and mental illness can be an aspect of homelessness, which also in turn needs to be addressed, affordable housing I would say is the main contributor to this issue. Get those free loading landlords ousted and make them get real jobs instead of being parasites in society leeching off of the working man's income.

[@Nirobiscloset10]

Huh??????

[@cmc5394oparva]

@@WouldBeSapient The landlords aren't the problem. Your dumbass legislature passing a draconian liability law for multiunit housing several years ago, which ballooned single-family home developments all the way out to the exurbs, while working with the Chamber of Commerce to encourage the entire country and half the planet to move to the state, is what caused the problem. Supply and demand isn't a "capitalist conspiracy," it's an iron law of economics that ideologues and utopians ignore at their peril.

[@mwfmtnman]

Don't forget, all the people kicked out of hotels near the stadium for the Taylor Swift concert.

[@sp4604]

its skyrocketed under Biden

[@CAK10111]

It should be a declared emergency over chronic drug abuse. Those tent dwellers are mostly addicts who could have been housed in days if they’d wanted to be.

[@kheventplanner]

Wow how out of touch with reality can you be? Have you seen the prices of housing lately?? It's not as cut and dry as you're trying to make things seem. And not all homeless or even most are drug abusers

[@PamSesheta]

You know nothing of the society in which you rest upon the writhing suffering of millions. Our nation is cursed with much evil. And so much evil comes from this pathetic ignorance. You probably would think that trans people just oughta deal with being forced to be housed in dangerous situations because most shelters are religious in nature and have well-established patterns of causing additional pain for lgbtq homeless. Oh and guess what happened to kids that come out to trans to their Christian parents? There are also the chronically ill who might have a service animal not permitted in a shelter, others have animals for protection and if you don’t understand this, then fine, ok dude, its clear youve never been a woman walking alone at night, that’s ok because society normalizes men arresting their own emotional and intellectual development, just make sure to note that women might like the protection of a dog, and homeless people all the more so. The rules for shelters, plus scarcity, makes it all an unending nightmare to those in it and then there are people like YOU. The tent cities are not there because of drugs. There were drugs in the sixties. The tents are there because there is no future, there is nothing, and I fear the rhetoric on the right is on the precipice of normalizing industrial murder, and not for the first time.

[@firstlast8258]

Drugs are bad mkay 🤪

[@PamSesheta]

@@firstlast8258 10/10 psychiatrists disagree, also insulin is technically dispensed as a drug, but whatever, maybe you only mean damaging drugs, hopefully. I fear maybe you’re just opposed to modern medicine like one of those cruel fascists from Gilead of Handmaiden’s Tale infamy? My parents were like this. No SSRIs, no antiseizure meds, only a few medications were ok for arbitrary reasons. Beatings for the seizures, exorcisms for the migraines, solitary isolation for self harm, threatened homelessness for the gay, but therapy and medications were of the devil blah blah blah, you know, fairly typical Christian upbringing.