Homelessness SKYROCKETS To Record High | The Kyle Kulinski Show

[@DarkMustard1337]

The media doesnt outrage about this at all but when a CEO died they came to coddle his dead ballsack

[@HeatherEvans-p1i]

😂👆🏼👍❤️❤️

[@adrianlopez9371]

Screw morally corrupt media.

[@Stellaluna11]

Lmao ! They sure did! 😂

[@billybob6785]

Dont worry Trump is going to make America great again by giving the rich another tax cut.

[@atrainradio929]

BINGO.

[@noahlamoureaux6462]

What's crazy in the United States is that you can have a full-time job, be homeless, and the U.S. government will not consider you to be living in poverty because you make too much, yet you can't afford to rent, let alone buy a house.

[@williambaker-d7h]

Im a formerly homeless person who is now a homeowner. If someone like that can eventually become a homeowner, who cant?

[@marsbarzart]

Well thats how this country was founded, a whole bunch of lazy people that have never had to do the jobs that they are forcing other people to, and the only way to make sure they get profit is to make sure that there are unhoused,unfed, and overworked and also bred a certain way so that they are always at a disadvantage and that they have to work for the 1% outside of that the great depression also has moments like this or companies had unpaid housing which was you work where you sleep and it sucks but because you where not born to the 1% or 10% but apart of the 80% so you’re basically 1/3 of a person if you’re not rich

[@marsbarzart]

They*^^ im half sleep writing this aft a

[@Rasdaan]

@@williambaker-d7h oh, well I guess there isn't a homelessness problem then.

[@13nwaffles]

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

[@bbo7002]

🎯🎯🎯

[@waltergrace565]

Or how much it's grifter pundit class like Kyle grift off of them.

[@Smulleman]

And what do you do for the most vulnerable in your society? Or is it only the responsibility of the institutions?

[@kevinsmith9013]

@@waltergrace565 homeless people aren't giving him money. Ya know, cuz they don't have any... are you slow?

[@waltergrace565]

@@Smulleman Everyone here does as much as Kyle.

[@AgentAika001]

Our Healthcare system is "pray you don't get sick" Our housing system is "Hopefully you have parents that can give you a sweetheart deal on their home"

[@lorascelsi8102]

Or your parents are homeless too

[@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk]

You basically have to inherit a house

[@dragonofparadise]

Or pack your bags and move to a better country that is what many of us are doing leaving this cursed country before it really implodes on itself big time.

[@Age_of_Apocalypse]

​@@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk In a video viewed recently - I think it was Kyle - it was mentioned that you need to earn close to 110k per year to buy a house, not a rich house, but a nice house; that's insane!

[@juanwilliams3423]

I had a based on income a slum lord a long with friends ruined that

[@ItsAsparageese]

As someone who's been living mainly in vehicles for over a decade, it's giving me a lot of feelings right now seeing a rare corner of the internet where my community isn't being shat on and stereotyped. I'm really grateful I found this channel and that the audience attracted here is so conscientious and informed.

[@Jesterisim]

💗💗

[@elvenbread191]

You are not alone. Far from it.

[@jordrider1917]

r/vandwellers

[@Wraiven22]

❤❤❤ you deserve better! I lived in my car for about a month in the cold winter of 2022 and it was absolutely miserable.

[@arleneaugustahair8393]

Build your page and people will watch your journey. I have seen a lot of homeless people end up getting a place because of their social media content.

[@RonaldRondeau-vj5oh]

Homelessness is also caused by greedy landlords and greedy corporate building owners. What happened to rent control?

[@isaac.anthony]

Millions of Americans CANT get a job, and our politicians pretend unemployment is way lower than it actually is, so they can lie to workers about how "good" we have it!

[@_m0t3L_b3dbug5_]

Rent control? Californians (or at least San Diegans) keep voting against it, to my eternal embarassment.....

[@isaac.anthony]

@@_m0t3L_b3dbug5_ Property owners vote and they vote for their own interests. Until most of us own nothing, and stop voting against our own interests, renters will be eternally screwed.

[@homelessjesse9453]

The wealthy neolibs keep on voting against it, and gaslight people into thinking rent control is somehow bad.

[@tnp1047]

Form renter's unions. That's how you'll get it. Stacey Abram's podcast tells you how to do this.

[@xAmirKDx]

This is just the result of lessening the taxes on the rich from the 80s.

[@Navy35]

We’ve had 3 democratic presidents since Reagan, but who’s counting?

[@kimilsungthefirst6840]

​@@Navy35Democrats have been bought and paid for by the rich since Clinton.

[@R_A_3000]

​@@Navy35 We also had 3 Republicans presidents after Reagan. So what's your point?

[@DynamicUnreal]

That’s not the reason. The reason is because Americans treat their homes as investments instead of commodities. NIMBYs use the government to block housing development near them because they don’t want their properties to depreciate. 70% of all wealth in America is owned by Democrats, but of course, Republicans will always be blamed for your faults.

[@ShineOnBenevolentSun]

​@@Navy35 stop looking left and right; look up and down. Left and Right are both corporate-owned. The Left used "Superdelegates" to deny us our populist hero while the Right thinks they can control their Golem.

[@Timberking-cd9rp]

To all those who think it won't happen to them: don't assume that a system run like a casino will allow you to live in peace forever. If not you, then your children.

[@xibalbalon8668]

Remember that we are all closet to being homeless than we are to being Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos

[@Cthulhu013]

They will do to us what they are doing to Gaza the moment we become an inconvenience to their plans.

[@DynamicUnreal]

@@xibalbalon8668Why does that matter? What’s the point in sowing economic class division? Envy is a religious sin and highly immoral from an agnostic perspective.

[@Navy35]

@@Cthulhu013the great replacement

[@sierrawest6568]

​@Cthulhu013 brother it's already happening by the hundreds of thousands every year to us and the millions abroad. It doesn't always look like Gaza and let's not take away anything about the devastation happening in Gaza rn, but the oligarchs have an "all of the above" approach to the dispatching of other human beings

[@josecampos7157]

770,000 is the amount in shelters. There are easily 5 million homeless and 10 of millions more are living close in standards.

[@bothpartiesaretraitors4021]

I rent a basement and I’m 57 & used to be a homeowner.

[@richardmadden8742]

May I ask why you are no longer a homeowner? I'm just curious because it's quite rare for homeowners to become tenants. Sorry you lost your home.

[@bothpartiesaretraitors4021]

@@richardmadden8742 I was diagnosed in 2007 with multiple sclerosis but it was manageable. Then I was layed off in 2009 & had extreme difficulty finding another job & couldn’t pay my mortgage ($800/mo) & pay for food, utilities, car insurance, gas, on unemployment. Then with the added stress my MS got worse.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

@@richardmadden8742it’s not rare. Why did you say it’s rare? I work in mortgage and foreclosure and forced sale is not rare

[@TypeOneg]

I'm divorced and have been a roommate for awhile to my adult son who is also alone.

[@Sarkkoth]

Not surprised. Having to leave my apartment because they just increased rent another $200. I don't know how people can afford this stuff.

[@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk]

It's because they have 7 roommates in a Dang apartment.That's only built for two people

[@storkksoundmedia7778]

In the past, I have written requests to my landlords to not increase my rent. They would ALWAYS EVERY YEAR raise my rent, but they would knock and hundred off if I wrote to them. I might just be lucky but it’s worth a try!

[@storkksoundmedia7778]

Landlords are parasites

[@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk]

@@storkksoundmedia7778 That is somewhat lucky.But I think at this point we is a society.Need to have rent control and then have a referendum.So you don't have to write them damn letters anymore

[@waltergrace565]

Sure would be nice to live in a gated community country club home and have multiple properties like Kyle and Krystal.

[@verng8864]

As the top five richest people on the planet have doubled their wealth in the last three years, homelessness is skyrocketing. I wonder what the correlation is?🤷‍♂️ TAX THE RICH

[@nicjamesify]

Considering all the money in this country we should not a have one single homeless person. Most especially children.

[@bunny_smith]

You seem to have forgotten the vital American virtues of I, me, mine, bootstraps baby, I’ve got a gun, it’s all the deep state, and fuck you. Those exalted ideals are in slight contrast with ending homelessness.

[@UnsencoredTube]

Children and Older people, I see too many old people working to the day they die where im from. 😢

[@michaelellringer5600]

Look for homeless in the Muslim countries, you won't find it! The Muslims take care of their own! It's part of their religion!

[@creature4169]

America: the wealthiest third world country in history

[@phoenixrising441]

The boomers extracted every penny from the USA. Now we are a banana republic thanks to the democrats. Rigged 2020 and 2022 elections, political prosecutions, authoritarian forced experimental injections… Thanks OBiden TRUMP WILL FIX IT ❤❤❤

[@FilmFlam]

Shelter should be a human right.

[@shahnazstrishaikh]

It is but it's up to the your government to ensure this. It's supposed to be their obligation.

[@MariadeOro-q7b]

To Film Flam:l could not agree more with your comment!!!!!

[@heavymetalpermaculture]

It was before European colonization...

[@CarlGerhardt1]

You pay for it, then.

[@BuildingATitan]

​@@shahnazstrishaikhwrong. It's our obligation. Yours and mine. As a team, the American people have more power to make change than all the governments in the world. The problem is that people can't be bothered to take time from their lives to better the world we live in.

[@Immortal_Plane]

We seriously need some form of socialized housing, along with healthcare. This has been ridiculous for way too long.

[@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk]

I agree with you but you have to understand besides, politically, we have to find a place where they'd actually be accepted and we'd have to get rid of the Stigma in that area.A lot of people won't want such a housing place near them because of housing property being affected by and the negative stigma of having people they think are low class near their House and or land.

[@Immortal_Plane]

​@@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tkfair point, however we already do have a form of affordable housing that exists. Through proper zoning it should be possible to accommodate most complaints. The stigma would have to change, yes, but those individuals would have to realize that in order to create a more equitable and prosperous society, they can't look down upon lower classes.

[@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk]

@Immortal_Plane Not only that, but the affordable housing actually has to be safe.I've heard many horror stories where they don't even give a d*** about how it's structurally handled.And we need to have people remember that they're closer to being homeless than they are to being rich. And the people that are on tv that tell you that this is being negative is actually the truth

[@Immortal_Plane]

@@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk oh most certainly, new construction is horrible. We need to get higher standards for housing as well.

[@brandonfitzgerald-eo3tk]

@@Immortal_Plane Unfortunately for that to happen , we'd have to have Is more regulation And unfortunately, the republicans hatred for regulation is unending.So I'm not sure how that would happen under their rule at the moment.But at the same time, we also have democrats who like Gavin Newsom.Who aren't really doing much about homeless this either. So I'm not sure how it slices.We have to have a progressive politician in a certain area for this to.

[@rhianahunter1]

You realize they don't count people who couch surf, happened to be sheltered on the night they counted, or live in vehicles or RVs no matter what condition they are in. Edit: Yep! Kyle gets it!

[@larryx314]

I read it would cost 20 billion dollars to completely eliminate homelessness in America and we spend 900 billion dollars give or take year after year on defense spending. This country is a disgusting joke.

[@GroceryBagAngler]

Time for a revolution

[@FilmFlam]

Instead we have a social safety net for billionaires in the form of tax cuts.

[@lchaney]

Safety net would imply they were ever in danger of losing a dollar.

[@andreah6379]

Socialism for the greedy billionaires and greedy uber rich, cruel unregulated megamonopoly capitalism for everyone else.

[@doloreswiback9931]

And bonuses

[@SteveninTune]

Poor things 😢

[@Tragick_Sin]

You guys let it happen. In America you have?power to the people by the people , but you guys stay complacent with your little comforts, cheap booze, drugs fast food and laziness. You guys deserve this

[@CharlieThunder24]

FDR wanted to pass a second bill of rights for Americans and having a right to shelter was one of them. BUT conservatives wouldn't go for it. 70 years and not much has changed for the better.

[@Navy35]

He sheltered the Japanese in interment camps

[@lawsonj39]

@@Navy35 Plenty of people sleeping on grates would be glad to get the chance to live in those internment camps.

[@kenetickups6146]

@@Navy35 Gotcha politics are for the smoothbrained

[@andrewgawlik4961]

​@Navy35 that's not proper housing and you know it

[@andrewgawlik4961]

​@Navy35 it might actually help if we cut the obscene pentagon budget

[@Dystopia3030]

I really appreciate you talking about this in an authentic, compassionate way. It's rare to hear people talk about homeless people with respect and like they aren't all drug addicts. I personally was never a drug addict. I was lucky enough to pull myself out of homelessness during Covid after I was kicked out because my mom thought my work injury wasn't real, but women often experience rape, people will try to drug you, violence is a constant threat in and outside of shelters, and I've heard of tents being set on fire or being run over by yuppies fairly often also with no consequences. Nobody looks at us like we're human beings. I worked 12 hours a day working 2 jobs at one point at UPS and as a dishwasher, sleeping at a youth shelter. One time I was woke up by a guy threatening everyone with a knife because someone stole his phone and I still worked the 12 hours. And everyone thinks the homeless are lazy.

[@valerienady3499]

I hope you stay strong and things get better.

[@Dystopia3030]

@@valerienady3499 I'm fine. I have my own apartment now, I just don't think people understand what people are going through when they're homeless and what they're pulling themselves out of. Lots of people go through it, even people like teachers. Or consider people who were foreclosed on during the 2008 housing crisis. I knew a girl who went through conversion therapy and couldn't go back home. Many younger people are also on the streets because their parents do drugs or are abusive in some way, which is really sad to me because they have no where that's physically safe for them. The same is true for those escaping domestic violence or a lot of people in the foster system. I almost done blame addicts because you have to be hyper vigilant and it's so hard to sleep. But yeah just trying to convey how hard it is and that it can happen to lots of innocent, hardworking people in the blink of an eye.

[@Wraiven22]

It’s also illegal to sleep in your car in most places. I was constantly living in fear of having the cops called on me.

[@Dystopia3030]

@@Wraiven22 yeah I think it just depends on local jurisdiction because of the Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling

[@YouHeardItHereFirst-f4e]

I live in a burned down trailer practically and living out of coolers. Id say I'm homeless. There's barely any resources especially since I'm a couple with no kids. Got a propane heater and a solar powered cellphone charger Edit: almost 100 people on every waiting list for housing where I am

[@Kasadoll]

Keep in mind they also don't include people who are under housed either. By that I mean six people staying in like a two-bedroom apartment. I don't see how they can count people on the street either. So that 700,000 number can easily be over a million very easily.

[@beauhancock4922]

I live with my mom. This does not mean I have a home. I can stay as long as I like but until things get better, I am essentially homeless. I set out into this world with a lifeful of ambition to do a great many things and I ended up back at home with nothing to do. I'm trying to go back to school but SCHOOL IS FAILING... Like we really gotta get this shit together.

[@owl3144]

Unfortunately many places are simply making homelessness illegal rather than helping people. Making camping and vehicle living illegal only makes things worse.

[@Tracyflowers-q2r]

It’s terrible, in the city I live in in Australia because of our housing shortage people are camping in the few what we call lay bys , but the good thing is that the authorities are letting them stay

[@albedougnut]

Because they want to put homeless people into prisons in order to profit off their labor and occupancy rates.

[@CarlGerhardt1]

Deporting the millions and millions of illegals Biden let in will help immensely with the rental market.

[@GroceryBagAngler]

US is a nightmare

[@bodoggervt]

My state of Vermont, with all the second homes on the lakes in the summer, and on the mountains around ski resorts in the winter, has the highest per capita homeless population in the country. My small town of 10,000 has homeless encampments. There's 3 large encampments. The wealthier homeless folks with cars will park in 'picnic areas', in parking lots. We are a failing nation.

[@larryc1616]

It all started with Reagan

[@kiwicol7383]

It’s funny not funny that there is class of homelessness and under diaper Donnie’s administration it’s going to get any better 🤬

[@braddavid902]

@@larryc1616I thought it was Nixon?

[@morganseppy5180]

You're right. He debased the dollar abs Wall Street celebrated. Even though economists and historians know this is always happens in the end. ​@@braddavid902

[@EdithBromfeld]

@@larryc1616 You're lying. It's a socialist state. 100% Democrats and their corporate clients. Someday you will figure out the media and Democrat party serve coastal elites and nobody else.

[@howard1852]

And corporations are making record high profits..... systems broken

[@Mockduck2020]

Corporations have more rights than individuals while individuals have more responsibility

[@afterhourscinema782]

"We can't spend on the homeless!! We need that money for Israel!!" *- D.C*

[@mhearte8038]

*Ukraine

[@Navy35]

And migrants

[@BillyMartin68]

States need to take care of their own homeless people. It’s not a government problem.

[@beng4647]

We have 40+ congressmen with dual citizenships.... Israel and the United States.

[@beng4647]

​@@BillyMartin68States didn't take care of their own slavery problems.

[@Lexwell_Lavers]

Landlords have become slumlords in every neighborhood. I've rented since 1980 when landlords took care of their tenants and properties. Over the last 12 years my landlords are total slumlords that work hard to raise your rent while they cut corners. There are tenant protection laws but the cities don't enforcement them and goodluck finding an attorney. The laws might be there but there's no way for a victim to enforce them.

[@cynthiardh2004]

Walmart trains their employees on how to get financial help from the government while keeping them on the lowest wage. Walmart makes profit growth every year. Everyone who works should be able to afford a roof under their head.

[@danielbarrero2815]

Damn, this is so sad. Every human being deserves a place to sleep

[@Rowsy91]

If they are working or unable to work yes I do not feel bad for people that are capable of having full time jobs but don’t. Well yes of course you don’t have money lol

[@northuniverse]

​@@Rowsy91You're blaming individuals for a systemic problem. Literally a Bootstraps argument.

[@Rowsy91]

@@northuniverse it’s not unreasonable to ask people capable of working to work lol

[@Venom_9390]

​@@Rowsy91Hot Take. Your productivity shouldn't determine if you live in poverty or not.

[@Sanicthedankhog]

It's not simple to "work" getting hired is nearly impossible nowadays anywhere ​@@Rowsy91

[@suzannewalek2885]

I moved back into an apartment in 2021 after living in a home for many years. I was shocked that a 920 sq ft 2-bdrm apt was $1325, but that turned out to be the good times. Since then, my rent has gone up with every yearly lease renewal. I received my latest renewal for Jan 2025 and it is $1815. How long can anyone sustain that high of a monthly increase? At some point, it will be unaffordable. The economy is booming for those collecting the rent, but not for the rest of us.

[@sinistershack]

@@suzannewalek2885 Thanks for sharing. If not for my Son I’d be on the street. So sorry your rent keeps on getting raised. I hope your situation improves.

[@HeatherEvans-p1i]

They want the renters to finance their lifestyle they don’t want to fix anything they don’t keep up with plumbing. The building gets older and rent gets higher.. cardboard cupboards calked bathtubs

[@suzannewalek2885]

@@HeatherEvans-p1i So true. Grounds maintenance gets less and less frequent, and my new lease has a new $40/month community fee. Ugh.

[@HeatherEvans-p1i]

@@suzannewalek2885 the place I live in now.. raised our rent 200$ pool closed for almost a full year!! Had issue with moisture under my sink.. maitenence guy tells me not to put any dishes on my counter by my sink 😂 then he proceeded to put a block of wood under my sink to hold the counter up and walked away 😂😂 I asked the property manager to come take a gander 👀 at the lovely job well done.. finally got it a little more attention but still not fixed 😂 in summer we have to complain to get pool cleaned after windy day. Greed is out of control 🌹😂

[@millenialsmom2214]

My husband and I lost the house we raised our kids in when we had the 2008 crash. We're 57 & 64. He's disabled and I couldn't take the corporate grind anymore after 25 years. So, I entered the cannabis business when Oklahoma legalized medical. I move around the state a lot, and every 6 months for the last five years, the rentals just kept going up. So we bought an RV. It's not cheap either, but at least it won't keep going up.

[@my1vice]

They estimate that it would take 20 billion a year to virtually eliminate homelessness, and around 30 billion to give every student a free lunch if they need it. 50 billion.... Americans spend 100 billion a year on lottery tickets. Just some perspective.

[@sstephkate86]

It's all about spite. It's cheaper to house them than not, but spending that money would mean they have to give people something for free that helps them. They would rather they suffer, and it cost more cause something something communism.

[@GreenIsland38]

And they send 100 billion to Ukraine and even more to support 800´+ military bases around the world.

[@johnporter9073]

Israel has received more than 50 billion to kill people.

[@bbo7002]

@@sstephkate86 exactly. The cruelty is the point. It's punishment for """moral failings""" and not falling in line.

[@n4t3barraza2]

@GreenIsland38right? If we chunk out some of the military budget we’d have enough and still be the biggest military in the world. Warhawk love this country

[@janellc900]

RESPECT and please don't drop this subject. You are one of the only ones talking about it and the "unaliving" of innocent people for profit and waterfront resort building. 🙌

[@AndreTJones]

Im currently facing homelessness. I lost my job and I blew through my savings in 2 months. I was not able to make rent. Worst of all I don’t own a car which you need in Houston. I wish I could have saved more money but I was already struggling. I guess it’s time to start over again.

[@Christophert824]

Dude come to elpaso. Get yourself an ebike and you're all set. I moved from new Hampshire because everything is so crazy expensive. And yo, 300+ days of sunshine a year ain't bad! Hoping things get better for you.

[@AndreTJones]

@ I heard that El Paso was cheap. But keep in mind that I’d have to move without money or job prospects. The labor market is sh*t especially when you have had niche career. I’ve had job prospects in Austin but with no way to get there it’s been challenging to say the least. I’ll figure it out sooner or later 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@sinistershack]

So sorry to hear that. I hope your situation improves.

[@AndreTJones]

@@sinistershack Thank you.

[@R_A_3000]

​@@AndreTJones Get a CDL and do over the road Trucking. That's probably your best bet right now because you can basically live in the truck and save whatever money you make.

[@alwayslearning8365]

High housing costs could be pushed down by stopping short term rentals, such as airbnb and vrbo, and by limiting the number of houses real estate investment firms can own. People buying up extra homes as rental properties have strangled the housing markets. It keeps prices high as investors buy up available houses quickly at high prices to rent at high rental rates.

[@RebeccaCassidy-d2j]

I believe Louisiana started to come down on that. They have a big homeless problem there.

[@sallyprzybil2404]

Could be brought down by getting wealthy corporations out of the housing business!

[@morganseppy5180]

I don't begrudge a family with a 2nd home, esp in retirement. But the Blackrocks who own 10s of thousands of units in key locations all over the country should be treated as a monopoly and broken up.

[@thebigpicture2032]

Short term rentals are providing housing as well. Homeless is from lack of funds or ability to look after themselves, not because housing isn’t available. Our community stopped airbnb but homelessness only increased anyways and rents went up. The homeless did not move into the airbnbs, they were just sold to people moving into the area instead of more houses built.

[@KiaMiaProductions]

Thank you for this. Folks don't understand how really messed up America is. 🥺 Greed always mattered more than people.

[@michaelsantangelo7997]

There's not one place in this whole country where a person working full time at minimum wage can afford a one bedroom apartment. And we wonder why so many people are homeless. I'm 46 years old. My first apartment cost $450/month.

[@jrock484]

Homelessness is well over what they are saying. I'm guessing 2 to 5 million.

[@AdamtheRed-]

There's probably a million people living in the deserts of Utah and Arizona alone. Rent-free BLM land, my friend!

[@mavisharris692]

Or more

[@stevester9148]

Fun fact: I started renting my apartment in 2012 at a very affordable price and even though there's been a raise every year since, it's still decently affordable. But if for whatever reason I would have to move, any other shitty apartment now would require me to double my salary to afford it. So unless I do so, I'm stuck here forever.

[@ciaranosullivan9352]

Yep, i have lived in the same building for a long long time , reason being ,i can not afford to move anywhere else.

[@tnp1047]

Oh, they will get soon. I've been in mine since, 2008. I was initially paying $899 for a two bedroom, with a $15 to $40 increase each year. In 2022, mine increased by $390. With a $50 increase each renewal since. Once a corporation buys your building you will be punished for staying in place that long. I pay $1675 now. When they start adding rent paying apps and junk fees. You'll know. I had a good run.

[@aliceslab]

Ive been homeless since 2014, i just finally have an rv and about to rent a lot. My first day there im sure ill cry to finally experience a place of my own after a decade of suffering or staying with friends

[@valerienady3499]

Good for you. Glad things are getting better.😊

[@bbo7002]

@@aliceslab let's gooo!!! I'm rly happy for u!! Congrats, fam ☺️🎉

[@sylvainlabbe4899]

❤

[@Ljuxk9nx]

It happens fast..homeless. Most people are only a few steps away from it.

[@LDRINCAL]

This is not unexpected since we still don’t have a living wage, affordable housing, medical care that does break the bank, corporations setting prices at a level that they still make record profits in a time of high inflation- etc. etc. etc. home and car insurance in FL is rising through the roof!!

[@PackRatManiac]

This number leaves out people who are living with others like roommates because they can't afford rent/mortgages on a single income. We got 2 or more families sharing a single family home while billionaires have 15+ bedrooms/ bathroom mansions.

[@RealLifeProduct]

I have been living in my truck for the last three years, and I don't use any drugs what so ever. I can not find a job with a good wage. People do not understand that immigration and sending jobs overseas is all to keep wages down.

[@cheekiebreekie5014]

I live in a rural area and seeing homeless people was kinda uncommon and now i see them everyday i go into town idk how they are going to survive winter here

[@cassiethomas3950]

Someone died from exposure in my town just last week. It's beyond tragic.

[@anthonytwohill9726]

Rural Midwest?

[@cheekiebreekie5014]

@ no south

[@anthonytwohill9726]

@@cheekiebreekie5014 Ah. Does it get all that cold down there?

[@cheekiebreekie5014]

@@anthonytwohill9726​​⁠while it does not snow here it does still get below freezing here throughout the winter

[@GirlNextDoor1103]

After the property management company raised my rent $300/month on my dumpy old 350 sq ft apartment and refused to lower it, I moved out, vowed to NEVER give a landlord a penny of mine again, paid cash for a used Toyota pickup and a nice slide-in camper and call it home sweet home. I am just starting a new job as a first year flight attendant and can park in the airport employee parking lot and stay in hotels when I’m working, compliments of my employer. It’s awesome watching my high yield savings account grow and to feel FREEDOM! Not to mention, staying true to my vow to never give a landlord my money ever again.

[@Shadozcreeping]

i'm homeless. might be starting work, and thanks to a family member giving me a sweetheart deal i might be able to work my way into a trailer park within a couple months. i am a particularly blessed poor person, staying in a state that actually subsidizes the surgery to remove my dead teeth. but not the crowns to halt the rotting of the teeth that are merely holey and not yet dead, those would cost more than two months of trailer park rent per tooth so i gotta wait for those teeth to die and hope i don't die with them so the dentist will extract them we were offered no alternative to this reality. neither presidential candidate promised to fund housing or medical care. we're suffering. we're dying. it's not hypothetical, this country is literally fevering to death

[@jasonfrank1273]

It doesn't help that the supreme court has ruled homelessness is a crime but has stated soliciting for help is a first amendment right?? These are conflicting moral values

[@bbo7002]

They did that on purpose. Tempts homeless folks not to hide by allowing them the right to solicit. When they ask for donations in public, it makes their situation obvious. Then they can be arrested & become more bodies for private prisons to increase their workforce. 😒

[@BaronBacon]

Homelessness is going to be 10x worse in the next two years. Starbucks will be packed with the homeless everyday.

[@AdamtheRed-]

Sorry you make you think and feel while sucking down your $9 coffee. Douche.

[@trenten11]

They call my social security entitlement. I have a brother who stays with me who is homeless. I help a friend who is on Medicaid, who is disabled. And every time she gets a small raise, they cut her food stamps more. But the price of everything keeps going up. Yet they can get a pay raise.😢

[@sallyprzybil2404]

And…they’re talking about cutting Social Security…..I have 4 relatives, including myself, living off my SS check…..two people in their mid 20s…..and my 7 y/o grandson that was abandoned to me that I adopted when he was born

[@HennysWorldYT]

As someone who has volunteered for our local P.I.T. (point in time) Count, I can absolutely say it’s a gross underestimation. Not only for the reasoned mentioned in the article and by Kyle, but also because the actual count is done by volunteers. Many of whom have never spoken to a homeless individual before. Many people are skipped over, or not looked for or found. The volunteers typically just go where there are reports of encampments, but there are lots more camps hidden that never get counted. Some homeless people arent in their encampments during the count so they aren’t represented either. It’s a terrible system and grossly underestimates the actual problem. Contact your local continuum of care to see how to volunteer, every single county in the US has a CoC

[@MrLilfee]

It's honestly over. Everything is only going downhill from here. Society working together for the common good, is essentially gone. Everything will only be a cash- grab, with the marginalized only getting squeezed out further.

[@Snake-x1t]

If only we had cybernetic implants to go along with our dystopian future. Would've been cooler at least.

[@xibalbalon8668]

Chairman Xi, my country yearns for freedom

[@_m0t3L_b3dbug5_]

@@Snake-x1t Lol, give it 5 or 10 years....

[@popecody2481]

The world at large is in an unprecedented state of disarray and 2025 is going to be even worse. Companies are already doing mass layoffs and budget cuts. Housing costs are insane and people are just being squeezed from top to bottom. The good times may truly be over and things are only going to get harder from here on.

[@hellstromcarbunkle8857]

The only reason good times are over is because good times are ROLLING in the boardroom!!

[@sallyprzybil2404]

Yet the top 1 to 2% are rolling in money!

[@FilmFlam]

Homelessness, climate change, healthcare, affordable housing, seems like a winning platform to me.

[@RD2B]

As someone who lives in Honolulu, I could’ve already told you that homeless has skyrocketed. It’s a crisis.

[@Pho-KingSoupTonechasr]

Same thing is happening here in Canada. The greedy continue to buy homes at inflated prices and double rents. I feel for young folks who didn't have the opportunity to buy when prices were affordable.

[@paigeanderson6490]

I was frighteningly close to homelessness, if it weren't for RAFT intervening (a Massachusetts housing program.) Went to an 'elite' college, have never touched a hard drug, and have a full-time job!

[@Smw006]

How did you get RAFT to help you? I applied after DV and getting a restraining order and was denied. I applied again when I had a stroke and was on FMLA and was denied. Living in my car and living in extended stay motels has been terrible and shocking in a state like MA.

[@paigeanderson6490]

@@Smw006 So sorry to hear that. Try the Somerville Homeless Coalition. The staff were really nice. I knew RAFT had stipulations, like that you had to have a rent contract ready to go to get the funds. Which is frustrating if places keep denying you for something out of your control 🙁

[@CarlGerhardt1]

Do you know that Massachusetts kicked thousands and thousands of Mass. residents out of shelters and motel rooms so they could accommodate the flood of illegals in the last few years?

[@HypatiaMuse]

Close to half the U.S. homeless now have some kind of employment, which really shows how screwed the system is. Many of us working full-time who are housed are just one missed paycheck away from the streets, while tens of thousands of homes sit empty.

[@Evocatorum]

6:30 they didn't decrease the homeless populations, they forced them out. In fact, I believe it was LA that had the Sheriff forcing the homeless to move their camps like 20 or 30ft just so they wouldn't be inside city limits.

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

They don't count people sleeping on couches, or in the woods in tents, or in campers or cars.

[@maxxmittelstadt4798]

My biggest fear is becoming homeless.

[@GraveyardRoses]

As a California resident that loves my state, this is why I began leaning farther left. Skid row would NOT exists if neo liberalism never plagued our country.

[@timlinator]

As a fellow Californian I agree. I'm leaning towards socialism now.

[@GraveyardRoses]

​@@timlinatorbased comrade!

[@peterroberts4415]

It's mainly nimby neoliberals who are using zoning to prevent construction of new housing

[@therealityarchive2380]

Socialism never worked

[@bothpartiesaretraitors4021]

I’m 57 & rent a basement. I used to be a homeowner but Obama finished me off.

[@Celadonfae]

Albert Einstein WAS a genuis, and he lived a relatively normal life. Are we honestly meant to believe that Musk is magnitudes more of a genuis than him? It's not a case of whether or not to have a class war at this point, you're already in it and we're losing badly.

[@erikvan9582]

We are going to break this record high in probably a month

[@Tracyflowers-q2r]

This is so sad , the saddest part is it will only get worse under frump 😢

[@lucristianx]

Homes should not cost 5x the median income. We are short 7 million dwellings. There is no free market solution to close the gap.

[@sallyprzybil2404]

And with tarriffs the price of building materials will go up….also many newly built homes are very poorly built!

[@lucristianx]

@ I will take speed and cheap if it meant lower pricing. I’m convinced now that we need public housing project to cover the 7 million dwelling gap.

[@vroitwyrd]

Until humanity has found a means to house every one of its members, we remain an primitive species. Housing is a cornerstone of civilization. It baffles me that as the world rapidly shrinks, we fail to admit we are in this together. To lift of the lowest among us is raise the whole.

[@willnothateu]

I went to LA a few years ago and the general thought I experienced was "OMG. This is a country which doesn't take care of it's own people". 😢 The amount of homeless and people with clear mental health issues totally ignored by the society in a city associated with possibility of opportunity. Feels like a electric bug trap that shines bright but fries you. Take care and happy new year from Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸

[@jdocean1]

America only cares about money. Great place if you have it but hod help you if you don’t.

[@sandygreenleaf6586]

Extra fun fact: there are more vacant homes than there are homeless people. Homes sitting empty. Deteriorating. Why??? 😢

[@HeatherEvans-p1i]

Greed

[@LordKlektar]

@@HeatherEvans-p1itrue. There is nonprofit incentive to helping the poor.

[@cassiethomas3950]

This!! It's funny how any 3rd grader can tell you how to fix the issue of homelessness: put people in homes!

[@N2MyGroove]

To avoid capital gains tax - a tax shelter for the rich essentially

[@sallyprzybil2404]

Most are in the ‘wrong’ areas……areas that are economically depressed or small towns or cities……there are numerous videos on You Tube about places that are becoming ‘ghost towns’……there are also numerous You Tubers that put out videos about doing free lawn care on abandoned houses….they never seem to lack for places to clean up. They feature mostly empty, abandoned homes!

[@ProlerSkyphet]

Dems: “EVERYTHING IS OK” Trump: “EVERYTHING SUCKS AND IT’S POOR PEOPLES’ FAULT”

[@tianikane3312]

Yep, both sides of the aisle are making poverty a policy choice.

[@entropy8634]

@@tianikane3312Kamala wanted to give new homeowners 20k and new business owners 50k. It’s not a both sides problem

[@Consleazy]

​That would not have materially impacted people unable to afford homes and would not help anyone struggling to afford rent. You're talking about like, 400k first time home-buyers. ​@entropy8634

[@Rowsy91]

Trump doesn’t blame poor people though

[@deejaaay7600]

Bingo. Both parties suck and it's because they're all bought by massive financial and corporate institutions. The two party system is just an illusion to think people have a choice; they don't. You, me and 98% of the country are the slaves responsible for making the 2% more and more money. Maximum profit from maximum exploitation.

[@loisodea4869]

Kyle, thank you for putting light on this problem.

[@SerenaS-h8c]

Until we get private equity out of the housing market, this will only get worse. Wall Street is making huge amounts of money off of gigantic rent increases and buying up smaller houses.

[@barkingbellow708]

When I first got out, I was homeless after 4 months. I exhausted some friends for a couple weeks until I had saved just enough to buy a car. Lived in that for 3 months, parked across the street from my job, first one in and last one out every day. Saved up to put a deposit down on an appt with a coworker of mine was staying in that complex. First night in my apartment I cried for a few hours, cause it meant so much to me. My buddy knew how much it meant to me to, so he left for a few hours to let me just take everything in. Hardest 7 months of my life, harder than state. Lots of embarrassing times, had no confidence, never want to go back, feel for anyone experiencing it right now.

[@RipCityBassWorks]

Thanks for covering this Kyle. The media doesn't do this major issue justice, it is absolutely insulting that wealth hoarding of billionaires is prioritized over Americans having a place to live.

[@domjay]

As someone who works in the Hollywood industry, a lot of my co-workers lost their apartments and livelihoods during the strike. I use to think ppl were homeless because of drugs and mental illness but no, it can come at you from many different angles.

[@Navy35]

And the celebrities are living high on the hog and not sharing their wealth

[@joshbanks9261]

Man I remember living in LA and struggling to get by and get on my feet on my own as well. Shared an apartment in the Valley where part of space was converted into a small space they basically made a small room to fit an extra roommate cost 200 dollars a month. Later on when looking to move out all we could find was a small attached house apartment for 800 dollars a month. Ended back in my parents house then moved to teach English in China. Now twenty years later have a huge house we share four bedrooms floors for three hundred dollars a month in Hanoi, Vietnam. Over here rent has gone up a bit in the city but its still not nearly as high as in the States. In Asia if you have a degree you can get a job teaching English they also give you free housing or enough to get a place to live. Though now places like Bangkok costs have risen rapidly compared to before but still you can afford to get by if you eat local then out. Out here though you can still afford to have a social life especially if you have money from back home. Its crazy how little I survived on over here for years even with money from back home could never afford to live back in Los Angeles. I'm a bit displaced but its ok spend my time writing, traveling and basically living my life. There are a group of us expats from all over the globe now living the American dream in different areas of South East Asia.

[@domjay]

@ Oh wow you moved to Vietnam? That’s amazing lol

[@joshbanks9261]

Yeah from China to Thailand, Laos, Burma now Vietnam been living all over for now over twenty years. Really it has been a struggle but I've figured my way around and met people who helped along the way. Have an American friend out here who lives in Bangkok learned Thai and now runs a comedy club and has starred in Thai movies as well. I'm a writer as well as a poet but before leaving the States worked as an extra in Hollywood also on an online magazine way back in early 2000. Yeah man its been wild that is for sure. Its crazy though out here its really safe its just petty crime but if you have your wits about you never really a problem. Even worked as an extra for a bit over here recently on a film "Tourists guide to love" that was filmed partly in Hanoi, Vietnam where I lived. Yep I got lucky man was able to stay here during covid when the whole country was locked down. Really, it wasn't that bad until near the end of the pandemic. Here though masks are every where as majority of people wear them when riding motorbikes due to the pollution in the air. Out where I live its not as bad as the city.

[@domjay]

@@joshbanks9261 I see - Well I applaud you for having the gumption to leave the states and live in a foreign country, something that I can't see myself doing LoL -

[@monicahenrion1559]

My husband just came home from the hospital yesterday. He had a heart attack at about 1 o'clock in the morning Saturday. He is 42 and will be 43 in February. Went to our pharmacy to pick up 1 of the 4 medications he will need, and it was $455.00 after insurance. He will be on this medication for at least a year. He does have a good job that he has been at for almost 20 years. I work part time 5 days a week. At this rate our savings will be gone in a matter of months. With the rising prices of groceries and everything else we could be homeless. I don't think that will happen, but you never know. Hoping at his 1st cardiologist appointment we can talk to the Dr. about ways to lower the cost.

[@Purplenpinkk]

You should find out if the company that makes his medication has any type of program to subsidize the cost. My brother has MS, and his meds are so expensive that he had to do that. I’m so sorry, but so glad your husband is doing well. Good wishes for you in the new year. 🫂

[@sallyprzybil2404]

Ask about GoodRx……..and about cheaper substitutes!

[@Purplenpinkk]

@@monicahenrion1559 also, I forgot - Mark Cuban’s website Cost Plus Drugs.

[@monicahenrion1559]

@@Purplenpinkk Thank you! I will look into it, and I hope that 2025 is an amazing year for you as well.

[@monicahenrion1559]

@@sallyprzybil2404 The pharmacist told us there is no generic for Brilinta yet. The Dr. did give us a coupon to use at the pharmacy and it took off I believe was $50. He said that was the maximum it could be discounted. I don't know if GoodRx was the coupon or was used but will definitely ask next time. Thank you for the suggestion.

[@sarahbleckman5199]

When I was a child my family had to live in the basement of my mom's friends. Even at 3 years old I still understood that we didn't have our own house.

[@BarneyBrimlowe]

now imagine if they reported the actual numbers.

[@traviswright8060]

My brother had a stroke 2 years ago. He was let go from his job, medical insurance dropped, and he had to move in with our mother. He is 44 y.o. has been denied Medicare, disability benefits, even though he is not functioning fully. He now works less than 20 hours a week at Lowe’s and has basic health insurance. A policy that will deny coverage above the minimum. My mother is going through her retirement to support him. Without her he would be homeless. This is not an unusual story

[@esotericcorporation7058]

Poverty exists not because we can't help poor folks, it exists because we van never satisfy the rich.

[@amyschmidt1113]

THANK YOU KYLE. Thanks for shedding light on this. I have had somebody extra on my couch since 2020. Different persons at different times. It's definitely a strain on our already poor family. I burn up extra money on gas, water bill, food bill, also time and energy.

[@robertjohnson9187]

Here in Minneapolis/Saint Paul homeless encampments are dealt with by clearing everybody out and then people are surprised when a new one suddenly pops up.

[@sallyprzybil2404]

Hennipen county is supposed to to have one of the best programs in the country for combating homelessness….there was a recent video featuring their program!

[@hildegardesgoat6776]

This year I tried to find a house to buy. I am 9 years away from retirement. Whatever I buy has to be paid off in 9 years. I was looking for an 800 square feet one level bungalow. Everything I found was $150,000 up to $180,000 in my desired area. In this same area in Ohio, 5 years ago, my daughter and her boyfriend, I helped them find a house. Same parameters, 800 square feet, one level bungalow. All the houses we looked at 5 years ago were going for $65,000 up to $85.000. Same town, same working class neighborhoods. Five years ago, my daughter and her boyfriend bought a one level 800 square feet bungalow, completely remodeled with a large fenceed in yard and two car garage for $65,000. I found that same house on the market recently listed for $155,000. The two of them split up and he sold the house. That is $90,000 increase in five years, more than double what they paid originally. Needless to say, I had to give up on my house search. There is no way I would be able to pay off a $155,000 mortgage in 9 years before retirement. And once I'm retired, I would not be able to keep up the mortgage payment, insurance, and property taxes. Instead I bought a Dodge Promaster van for $20,000 and I'm building it into a motor home and I will live in it starting February 1, 2025. My grown children have been insisting I buy a home. I had to tell them I just can't afford it. Many senior citizens are now moving into vans and campers and motorhomes and even cars and they're just living on the road. A lot of them are living out west on bureau of land management land for free and traveling with the seasons. There is a massive movement right now of people young and old moving into vehicles. There is an entire KZbin channel dedicated to teaching people how to live out of their vehicles. It is called Cheap RV Living and the guy who launched this platform about 15 years ago was in a movie about this phenomenon. Nomadland.

[@Purplenpinkk]

My husband and I don’t have any children, and are thinking this is the way to go into retirement. We would also like to see more of American before we die.

[@amgguy4319]

Blackstone owns around 85,500 single-family rental homes in the United States.

[@Pheoniex]

That's sick.

[@AnonymousWon-uu5yn]

No life equals no suffering. Antinatalism.

[@gabkarlic565]

I blame corrupt corporations. Most homeless people are corporate refugees.

[@Sunnernite]

Just wait. It will get worse. The great depression will look like a cloudy day compared to what is coming in the next 4 years.

[@Skateandcreate9]

Lol next 4 years? Bet 😂 you people are loonies and I’m not even politically affiliated at all. It’s gonna be the same song and dance as always. People barely making do, people really struggling, people dying, nothing changing. The country will stay afloat. Watch.

[@johnwdowell]

I live in my car. Have for years. Hitting bottom in America is a trap nearly impossible to climb out of. So many obstacles. I've had a lot of help to even to get up to the poverty level I'm at now. Trying to get important mail without an address is hell. Post office does not have an option except General Delivery. Homeless people's human rights are violated daily. Homelessness is increasingly being criminalized in this country.

[@johnbrown4949]

America, where corporations make record profits and we hit record homelessness simultaneously in the “greatest nation to ever exist”.

[@TimMartin-hf3mb]

It's even worse when you realize one's you hit rock bottom the system doesn't allow you to climb back up, it's damn near impossible. It's hard to rent anymore because despite housing authority nothing is enforced. If you're making anything under 75,000 your not getting a place. Sure rent might be 800 a month in order to get in your income must be 3 to 6 times the amount and who makes that working at McDonald's or Walmart. Our system has failed us all.

[@lesliethurston2151]

There are countless acres of abandoned shopping malls/ outlet centers in this country, all of which are fully equipped with plumbing, heating, and the like. There they stand, completely vacated and depreciating by the day.

[@tylerhackner9731]

No wonder things felt as bad as they did, because in many ways, they were

[@tytyturner8337]

Of course! their extreme wealth and privilege comes from exploiting the working class.

[@lordlemond1350]

I live in Cali and it was a state of emergency a decade ago. Bay Area is decorated in homelessness and mentally unstable folks. This can be fixed over time with robust state and federal agendas but everyone is just acting like there’s not entire city blocks full of encampments 🤯🤯🤯

[@ShawnSteven-d8h]

I am homeless for over a decade, i live in a van, seems nothing in place actually helps folks in need. We are fed, and that is it.

[@SheilaSanderson-i8c]

Truly appreciate the actual factual account you have on the horrific systemic homelessness. It makes America look awful & inhumane.

[@desertportal353]

Thank you for this.

[@01swainco]

Its way way higher than what is reported. Probably by ss much as 50 percent as people are living in cars, old campers, old beat up Winnebagos, off into areas where they are not visible. Gonna get way way worse real fast.

[@serenasapphire8883]

I always wondered how they got such a small number for head count on homeless! People who stay in shelters! Most homeless people do not stay in shelters! I’ve talked to a lot of homeless people and they’ve told me they cannot stay in shelters because they cannot bring their animals Or because they feel it’s not safe, then there’s all the tons of countless people who live in their vehicles. The real number of homeless has got to be in the millions honestly