The Homeless Industrial Complex

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America has a homelessness crisis as record numbers of people are ending up on the streets of a few concentrated city centers. Cities are spending billions of dollars on failing projects to try and solve this problem which has attracted a growing list of companies happy to provide their services… for a price. Helping the homeless has become a lucrative business with multimillion-dollar government contracts awarded every day.
but if there is so much money to be made, do these companies really want a long-term fix?
According to a report by the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, the annual budget for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority rose from sixty-three million dollars [$63,000,000] in 2015 to eight hundred and eight million dollars [$808,000,000] in 2022, a thirteen HUNDRED percent increase in just seven [7] years… And what did the hardworking taxpayers of Los Angeles get for their money?... the number of homeless people went UP by 56%.
Ignoring for a moment that everybody deserves the right to affordable comfortable shelter, there is something not quiet adding up here. A closer look at individual programs like the “Inside Safe” homelessness reduction policy doesn’t make it much better. The idea of this program was to have social workers offer hotel rooms to homeless individuals while they sought out longer-term housing arrangements. Data collected by the city and compiled by local news outlet the center square found that the plan had cost two hundred and fifty MILLION dollars [$250,000,000] over just one year.
The program only served one thousand four hundred and sixty-three individuals which works out to be seventeen thousand dollars [$17,000] per individual, per MONTH. That is over two hundred thousand dollars [$204,000] every year been spent on ONE individual in ONE program in just ONE city in America. So where is all this money going? and at what point would it just be easier to give homeless people checks for three times the national salary? Well, there are three reasons why cities across America and the rest of the world are spending more money than ever on this problem while not making it any better.
So it’s time to learn How Money Works to find out why throwing money at a complicated problem is not fixing it.

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[@llynnmarks3382]

Dahlgren is an anti homeless guy who makes youtube videos with Tyler Oliveira lying about the homeless. That should be mentioned when you mention his arrest.

[@highestqualitypigiron]

There's no way a single apartment building costs that much to construct, that's $36,211,000 for the whole complex. Anyone who works in construction will tell you that's nuts, there's definitely a lot of corruption going on here.

[@lukecwolf]

Yep! And it's not isolated to one place! I was once contracted to the federal government to examine city states projects, it was astounding how much money is getting wasted on infrastructure: digital and physical. I had known it for a while in my state of Massachusetts, but I never knew the degree. I've come to believe that the real money to be made is not in doing the projects but managing them, all to the cost if taxpayers and the federal government...

[@leo_brooks]

I live in a 400 unit building that was $120 million to construct. I don’t think that number is outrageous

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

It costs like over a million dollars just to build a public bathroom these days.

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

@@lukecwolf When it's not your money, you don't care about spending it.

[@highestqualitypigiron]

@@leo_brooks that's less than half the cost per unit tho and that's a commercial apartment complex with more amenities than one being built just for emergency housing.

[@MrHamsto24]

An acquaintance of mine is a very successful real estate agent in SoCal, Coachella Valley area. He started a his own ministry to homeless people. Going out feeding them, finding spare bedrooms and casitas for the ones that wanted to get off the street, helped a lot of people. His hardest loss was when the local city fought him tooth and nail to permit a low cost tiny home community for people to get their lives back in order. If I remember right, it's because the existing 'charities' were legacy partners with the council and leveraged NIMBYism to keep the funds flowing their way.

[@fmg337]

a lot of those proposals for affordable housing (i remember there was one to basically build a community like that close to a town in Cali, dont know where i aint american) or programs to help the homeless (housing, mental assistance, job placements) are also rejected because of the "not in my backyard" type of mentality which is dumb because they're already there or its just gonna make the problem stay/get worse. also, i hope your friend wins that fight cuz people who make the problem harder to solve are just as bad as those who profit off of it.

[@wolfumz]

Yeah, NIMBY can crush anything in California, so it does. We haven't built much of anything in Southern CA in 25 years. We just had a huge development in East County San Diego get shut down. It would have added 3,500 family homes of different sizes. A "community action group" named "Save Santee" was able to crush it, they said it would make traffic worse. Locals got very upset over this, because the traffic is already bad. They found a few local politicians, and the project was pulled. Now, they want to continue, politicians told the developer they literally have to pay to widen the freeway, and relieve any that will be congestion for commuters. It's an intractable problem. It turned out, "Save Santee" was funded and organized by a competitor, who wants to develop a different track of land. This competitor thought these 3500 homes might threaten the rate of return on his investments. So he riled up voters. I wish I was making this up. It's like one of the most serious problems in CA, NIMBYism. Everyone claims they want new housing stock, and claims theyre not the NIMBY ones at all. But when push comes to shove, these same people come up with very creative and elaborate excuses for how this one project is different and doesn't count. San Francisco infamously had a project canceled when the City Council pulled their permit- community members complained the taller building would cast a shadow on the neighboring park, and this was not adequately considered This last example, it turns out, is actually illegal, per a CA state audit. You can't just pull someone's lawfuly issued permit for no reason. But its too late now, the project folded, its too expensive to fight these groups. There are a ton of illegal activities in this area with local governments, they slide because it's ubiquitous.

[@CaedenV]

Yeah... I went back home for the holidays, and Cali has just gone to hell... it was kinda depressing. All my favorite haunts have been dozed over and rebuilt as something different, and there are just homeless people all over! I tried taking a bike path to re-tread my old 10 mile bike ride to work and simply couldn't! Too many tents on the path. If I was in my 20s starting out life in Cali today and biking to save up for a car, I wouldn't be able to get to work! Its just a sad situation all around man. And I have worked with homeless people before. I get why people get sucked into the cycle of it. Saw myself slowly heading into the same cycle, and decided to move out to a more affordable area in the midwest before it happened, and it still took several years to pay off the debt of trying to afford to get by in Cali a few years. But I wish more of my friends from high school made the same decision; Everyone I know who moved away from Cali ended up doing pretty well for themselves the last 20 years... and while not everyone, a lot of those who stayed to try and make a living where they grew up have ended up in some pretty rough situations. It isn't just the starry-eyed midwesterners moving to cali and getting trapped; a lot of them are home-grown and their pride and stubbornness kept them there until it was too late to do anything than finding an exitance in the system.

[@kishisetasama]

This is just sad...😢

[@27jyp]

Exactly what I am thinking: help people and give them home and yet NIMBYISM is very problematic.

[@JimmySaul888]

I literally just spoke to a lady who's worked with the homeless for the last 10 years. She told me it's a business designed to extract the tax dollars and that she wants out of her job once her kid is a little older. She said she took the job wanting to help people but told me she feels like she hasn't been able to help one single person the whole time.

[@wandafrazier5206]

The job can be a lot of reports, meetings, weird definitions of success, showing a nice face to the public, referrals, and fund raising.

[@FogandRain227]

@@wandafrazier5206 Money pit pyramid scheme with no actual productivity towards a goal at the expense of tax paying citizens.

[@Bb-jm6wx]

That’s how society; you can’t really fix problems; any problems really. Because people rather have their ssa kissed then to actually fix a problem. If fixing a problem hurts anyone’s ego, they don’t want it in reality.

[@sor3999]

You want to fix homelessness, you actually need to tackle the source of the problem which is the highly exclusionary real estate market in these states. Get involved in pro--housing groups. As real estate bubbles, the people at the bottom are the ones who falls through the cracks.

[@Bb-jm6wx]

@@sor3999 rent went up soooo much in the past few years! You could’ve gotten something decent in the 900s and now the same quality is $1500 in only a few years, it’s madness! Meanwhile paychecks did not go up!

[@Jerahmeelli415]

As a former housing case manager in San Francisco, this is the tip of the iceberg.

[@genossinwaabooz4373]

I'm sure. As a homeless couple, we've seen and can imagine the rest one could read between the lines. It's clear we're not meant to persevere, on our own terms. Like we just are at the point to get going self-employed again, and boy does alot of nonsense find a way to interfere...in a weird way.... People have no idea.

[@miapdx503]

I'm in my 60s. I've lived below the poverty line all my life, even when holding down two jobs. Poverty is big business. Whenever anyone, especially the government, says they want to help poor people...they're about to help themselves. Every time.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

The most infuriating thing about this topic, is that if we create programs to support people that are unemployed, people start complaining saying that this is "throwing away money". When the cost for having people homeless is much greater.

[@TH-qh6jz]

you mean like your healthcare system? the one that would make universal healthcare 40% cheaper on taxpayers than current system? an empire on its last gasping breaths

[@Excalibur2]

Most of it is throwing away money, if it's ineffective.

[@diggernash1]

The most effective solution is to do nothing. The cost would be near zero and the number of homeless would go down; so.e through attrition and some through initiative. Both are positive outcomes. Feeding stray cats leads to more stray cats.

[@TheSquidPro]

Nah bro just bring in more South Americans.

[@RFDN0]

​@diggernash1, unfortunately, that causes massive issues. Not just social issues but market issues as well, it limits potential pools for employees. Capital has been reducing the number of bodies needed significantly, but growth still requires the bodies.

[@AwesomeHairo]

Homelessness is a symptom of a problem, not the source of the problem itself.

[@hhjhj393]

Well said.

[@LAXLIS]

People still need help when they are homeless. Suffering doesn’t help anyone.

[@ifeoluwaadeoye6557]

@@user-ip4tn8tx2c yeah, that is why there is more empty housing than homeless people; because the US is overpopulated.

[@LexiH36]

​@@user-ip4tn8tx2c Bwahahaha, dude, most of this country is empty, with a majority of its inhabitants living on or near the coast. This is a market problem, not an overpopulation problem. Yes, the cities are overpopulated, but that's just a symptom of the actual problem (which I say is capitalism, but what most others would say is market dysregulation from corruption).

[@thisisntsergio1352]

It's a drug problem, too. Getting tons of drugs shipped in from Mexico and China doesn't help one bit.

[@anonymoose9038]

as someone formerly homeless, I'm glad to see someone pointing out what's actually happening in our country. There is no incentive for these businesses to effectively end homelessness. there is only incentive to keep them there in an effort to continue to receive government money.

[@3nertia]

Welcome to capitalism!

[@jeffpraterJSF]

I have a security company where we sub contract guards at some new apartment complexes that are apart of a program that helps homeless. I have 6 guards and the office at each site has 3 staff workers, times 5 sites in the city. 45 full time workers receiving a paycheck only because the government pours millions of dollars into a program that “rehabilitates” homeless

[@nathanielbellmore]

Exactly. The same thing with the medical industry. The more we fund these institutions that profit off of public despair, the more incentive we give them to make the problems worse.. I wish more people would understand this. My friend just got his masters and started doing licensed social work, but realizes his superiors are telling him to do things that would actually make mental health worse for his clients, with the goal of selling prescription medication... these systems are rigged BAD

[@xlkarma8446]

Amen

[@RealLifeFinance]

Yup. Solving homelessness puts them outta business

[@kortyEdna825]

To my own research In USA, individuals living in cars due to partial homelessness result from a complex interplay of factors. High housing costs relative to income, stagnant wages, and income inequality drive this issue. Job loss, weak social support, medical expenses, evictions, and lack of affordable housing also contribute, while systemic problems and inadequate policies further perpetuate the phenomenon.

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[@sainterne]

Please explain income inequality?

[@ryosai3686]

A car isn't a home. Anyone living in a vehicle is homeless. Anyone who doesn't have their name on a lease or deed is homeless. If you have no legal rights to be in a space then you are homeless. All people deserve housing and a safe space.

[@badmariamedia]

You can add divorce to that list.

[@MissFoxification]

Someone I know has about 30 bedrooms. He has a very large property and is in a small town. He housed pretty much all of the homeless in that town, anyone that was left homeless wanted to be. The salvation army complained to the council and forced him to stop renting rooms out. They spent seriously money shutting him down because he solved the housing problem in that town. Yeah.. they want homeless people to exist.

[@abcdef-ms9mb]

Reminds me of that time a company in Los Angeles was sick of the feces outside their property, so they went to a council with an offer to build them a public toilet for free. Instead of just saying "yes", they made them go through all the licensing, regulation, and other red tape, and the project ended up taking several months and $1 million.

[@canadiansoviet]

Can't believe Salvation Army did that....😢

[@AmberyTear]

That's just despicable.

[@AmberyTear]

That's just despicable.

[@AmberyTear]

That's just despicable.

[@madsellers4933]

Homelessness programs arent designed to end homelessness, they're designed to keep people alive while experiencing homelessness.

[@doujinflip]

Laissez-faire capitalism aims for the same situation on all of us who were born too late and to the wrong social groups to claim a decent share of ownership.

[@phaedrussmith1949]

From what I have seen, the best funded ones are really just so a lot of people who are supposed to be helping homelessness can have good jobs that if they actually succeeded at doing, they would no longer have the good job.

[@totallynotthebio-lizard7631]

Who wants to be alive and homeless?

[@sidwhiting665]

@@totallynotthebio-lizard7631 there are drugs and cheap booze. Yes, there are many who do desire that. Ever been to San Francisco or Seattle?

[@angelrosario626]

Homelessness programs are a money maker. It creates jobs for people. If they solved the homeless problem what are you going to do with the non-profit that served?

[@musiholictara]

I am a homeless single mother. I have reached out to dozens of organizations and have never been assisted by any of them. As I have learned, they only seem to exist to inform assistance-seekers to contact a different organization for help. Those people running the organizations get paid to tell people to seek help from a different organization while ultimatley doing nothing.

[@zentierra7803]

This is sickening. Truly sickening. We are a country mired in unscrupulousness, hypocrisy, and greed.

[@masonm600]

"There are more efficient solutions, but nobody wants to be the politician responsible for ending that many jobs" Ain't that government programs in a nutshell.

[@swaggery]

Except it probably won't do anything. Besides the headlines really how many jobs could there be?

[@shauncameron8390]

And why conservatives are often demonized.

[@montre-moi]

Just hire these people in a single, well managed program. No need for all these inefficient agencies and non profits

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Now you see why they attack Trump and lie endlessly about him... he made things better. You should look at all of the Executive orders Biden signed on DAY ONE! Trump dramatically reduced the cost of Insulin and Epi-Pens -- Biden cancelled it and jacked the price up by hundreds of dollars. Then 2 years later he reduced the cost again to Trump-levels, didn't tell you he cancelled them first... and took all of the credit. People died of Diabetes and Allergies because of Biden.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

@@montre-moi Build homeless camps near farms and let the homeless live in them if they work the farm. That solves some homeless problems and some illegal alien problems.

[@iymenabdella1774]

Its crazy how homeless prevention is far cheaper than homeless treatment. But there are politics blocking any meaningful prevention strategy from taking effect

[@ifeoluwaadeoye6557]

It's simple really, how can you keep workers in line if you don't have them teetering on the verge of homelessness

[@angelrosario626]

There are people making money. Is a money maker. If you clean the homeless problem what are you going to do with all the non-profits that are involved with the Department of Homeless Services? Money is being made. How many people does that translate to for jobs? You clean the problem those jobs disappear, out of work. Same thing with drugs. You clean the problem a lot of people would not have a job. Simple as that!

[@steak5599]

Homesless prevention isn't going to work though. Even though he said if everyone get $300 rent assistance, it would prevent a lot of evication in the first place. WRONG, if you give everyone $300 rent assitance, average rent will simply go up $300 across the board.

[@davidbatista1183]

​@@angelrosario626agree, but that money and those lost-job ppl could be redirected to/trained on other kinds of jobs to stay globally competitive, cuz continuing on this path the US is (has been for a while actually), it will be left behind very fast

[@coreym162]

You can blame Corporatism (not Capitalism) for that. Corporatism doubles it's CEOs as Lobbyists that get government tax breaks and laws made to always keep them on top of the heap.

[@alexcarter8807]

It's good to see *The Homeless-Industrial Complex* becoming a meme. Because that's exactly what it is. Homeless people as cash cows.

[@dr9299]

Don't you worry... the new advanced Robot-Industrial Complex is ramping up!

[@stephenw2992]

They can also harvest their votes to ensure corruption friendly governments stay in place

[@lashaye3627]

I became homeless once due to escaping a abusive living situation. I moved to another city and went to a homeless shelter to find housing and start a new life. In Georgia where I’m from, most shelters are not free and you pay reduced rent cost that could a range from $60-500 or more depending your income. The explanation for this is due to poor funding to such programs. I was fortunately lucky enough to have a job to pay for my stay. I didn’t stay long though and had eventually found my own housing while continuing going to college finish my degree. I didn’t receive any help from the homeless shelter for looking for housing instead I did everything on my own. It was difficult but I was determined to have a better life for myself ❤

[@moosepatil5946]

Yes, luck is a good thing to have. You can be as determined as you want, but luck is how you got out in the end. There are homeless people with degrees, determination, and tenacity, and still they are homeless.

[@lashaye3627]

@@moosepatil5946 I am very aware of that , which is unfortunate and heartbreaking. I became homeless again after following poor advice from my college academic advisor who not take a job out of my state and not relocate to that city. She advised me to find something local. I couldn’t find a job in my local area and eventually became homeless again. She sent me to live in a homeless shelter so I was back on square one again. Despite having my bachelor degree, it was not easy to look for a job (sadly common). I eventually found one, it took the longest almost a year to land one in my area. I currently live with roommates where we support each other the best way in this messy world.

[@sam-ww1wk]

This is awesome. Nice work sticking it out, working, and building yourself up.

[@sam-ww1wk]

Nothing lucky about hard work and getting after it. @@moosepatil5946

[@jimmysblacksmithing462]

Glad to hear you did well for yourself! It makes you a stronger person, as well as a better person within yourself, spiritually etc. you have become an asset to the society in the world!👏👍🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@CaraMarie13]

As someone whose first job out of grad school was with an agency that was managing the so called "cluster model program", I can tell you that it was a money cow. Landlords noticed they could make money renting units out to the city at well above market price. The only people benefiting was us the employees. But we all knew the impact we were having was minimal. It was something we often talked about between us. Truly disgusting.

[@Cheesecake99YearsAgo]

Which city was that ?

[@eetutiiro4808]

yeah goverment is great

[@scottabc72]

It looks pretty obvious that it was the landlords that benefited the most which makes your comment kind of strange.

[@alexanderrahl7034]

​@@scottabc72so you're clearly lacking in information then. You didn't ask them to clarify, you assumed you knew more than they did about their own experience. Which is strange

[@BobAlison]

@@alexanderrahl7034 , the comment of Cara is strange. "Landlords made money, but it only benefited the employees". Such good employers, transfer all money to grad school level employees! And employees disgust them(selves?) for that...

[@MrLoungist]

Homes are here. Substance abuse help is 22 blocks away. Mental health is downtown. Job assistance is uptown. None of these services are centralized close to the housing. If you don’t have a home, you don’t have bus fare. The programs that work are of campus design.

[@Descriptor413]

The cities that work are of campus design. American zoning rules which massively spread out necessities from housing, and only allow detached homes on large lots are the biggest contributor to our problems, since it basically forces people to reach a minimum income threshold to survive.

[@nathanielbellmore]

As things become less localized and community based, and become more institutionalized and corporitized, inequality worsens, and more people give up effort as a result. This system is broken and throwing money into these corrupt institutions is only making it worse. Idk the answer but I know it starts with localizing these issues so communities can see overall growth rather than money being siphoned out of those communities and into the hands of a few....

[@illyaswan]

In Vancouver, Canada, most of these services are relatively centralized and, at most, can be reached by foot, but it's also the city with the highest homelessness population in the country. I doubt that's the root of the problem.

[@ES_Solace]

​@@illyaswan in Vancouver Canada's case it might have more to do with the city rapidly becoming one of the most expensive cities in Canada while most jobs simply don't pay enough to even reliably rent in the city. Lotta people getting swept away for the crime of not being rich.

[@nathanielbellmore]

Ive been talking about this for years and nobody around me listens.. Im SO GLAD that this is getting brought to light and more people are becoming aware of tbis. In my state, non profits are in cahoots with the government to profit insanely off of this issue, which creates more inequality that feeds into the homeless problem.

[@philwaller4379]

same thing with Illegal border jumpers.

[@lemonlime5435]

I work at a homeless shelter in colorado. Our organization is cool ig because we are a shelter/food pantry and we offer housing programs and rental or utility assistance programs. But dude. It sure feels like we don’t do anything at all. I hurt so much for our residents. Some of them have been here for 6 months

[@Our.Family.]

Are you with Salvation Army ?

[@rhondavigil795]

There is big money in feeding the hungry and housing the homeless. So little actually reaches the needy.

[@ethanstump]

It almost makes you wonder how the middlemen keep justifying themselves. And then the deeper and darker historical truth, which is that the whole point of our system from the moment of the Constitution was defining what a proper and improper middleman looks like, justifying hierarchy and certain types of abuse, while denigrating other types of abuse. Rather than the median person getting to decide their own fate, it was always a system of picking the most righteous tyrant.

[@samuelcarley7245]

You should look at the donations and investigations in portland. If you want to get off the street you have to call the local news and hope they run your story.

[@4RILDIGITAL]

This is eye-opening stuff-truly a systemic issue we're dealing with. It's disheartening to see so much money circulating but not resolving the problem. We need efficiency, transparency and urgency in addressing homelessness.

[@silentstorm5439]

Nothing more permanent than a temporary government program

[@f1y7rap]

The fix is removing government. Thomas Sowell has written several books dealing with the issue and how to fix it. But noone wants their "non-profit" to become unneeded...

[@haveanotherpinacolada]

Isn't this the same for all kinds of charities. It's a conflict of interests for them to resolve the issue.

[@antonyjh1234]

It's not politics but money making/creating that those at the top and in between benefit from. All money is created from debt and the debt based economy needs debt instruments if you want pay rises.

[@uweschroeder]

How is this eye opening? California spends $42k per homeless person per year and almost none of that ends up with the homeless people or they wouldn't be homeless...

[@iamintentional]

I am recently homeless. I am 63 years old, I worked from the time I was 15, but my social security cannot support me any longer I discovered that all these people and places and organizations I was told could help, do not prioritize people like me and I cannot stay somewhere the other residents are drug addicts, or mentally unstable and off their meds, etcetera. So I live in my car with my cat and the Social Security I get barely covers those expenses. The government needs to catch up with a new class of homeless people and they simply haven't done so

[@davidr5685]

I see this a lot in multiple sectors. I work in healthcare against insurance companies and was a foster care youth who was integral in passing legislation in TX. There's way too much money that's lost in people overseeing others who are overseeing who all blame each other for their own failure. While "non" profit CEOs make bank!

[@Stuie417]

I get annoyed when I hear people complain that Jeff Bezos could end homelessness overnight with 1 big donation. His ex-wife has literally donated around 11 billion to charities. That should have ended a whole plethora of problems. Unfortunately, the whole charity organization is so out of whack that her donations probably put more funding into pay raises for the employees instead of towards the actual cause.

[@arh1234]

Point made, but let's also encourage decent wages for nonprofit workers. If we want good people there, we need reasonable pay.

[@3nertia]

Charities themselves are just another capitalist scam to help rich people placate the idiots while getting even richer lmfao AND YOU FELL FOR IT!

[@3nertia]

On just one billionaire's wealth alone, *everyone on the planet* (when we had just over 7 billion instead of the over 8 billion we have now) could've gotten a $1300 "stimulus check" and there are *over 2000 billionaires* on this freakin' planet ... Each of them hoarding more wealth than any reasonable person could spend in 10 lifetimes ffs

[@cccycling5835]

Yeah but then we wouldn’t have Amazon… Wait maybe that would be a good idea anyway.

[@cryora]

You will always need some sort of middleman to route the money, if the money comes from a centralized source. The problem is in holding the middleman accountable and properly auditing them to make sure they don't end up soaking up the majority of the money themselves.

[@gtn9]

The homeless are going to rise drastically and so will their funding, irrespective of the election outcome this industry is bound to grow rapidly.

[@turtleanton6539]

Yes

[@Pistolita221]

Invest in what you can now, if you don't wanna join them i guess.

[@Babigoldfish]

Then they blame homeless people, blame immigrants and become full on fascist

[@BSJinx]

True. All of the cities noted for this disaster are armor-plated Democratic citadels.

[@Koushi82]

Well ghetto wanted high priced houses now you get all this

[@Kittycathat680]

This is absolutely accurate. It’s super demoralizing for front line workers who choose these (lower than market rate) jobs because we want to help. Instead we’re often forced by policy to prioritize maximizing enrollment/retention in our most expensive billable services over what the client actually needs. In my experience, the HID plays a bigger role in why many of my colleagues leave the industry early every year than vicarious trauma, working conditions etc.

[@herglowup.honestlyspeaking]

If the problem gets fixed, the funds stop coming. Non profits are the absolute WORST!!!!

[@cdev6]

Stupidity and malice really aren't mutually exclusive. If anything they're positively correlated.

[@Pistolita221]

true

[@Joural0401]

That's what Hanlon's razor specifically addresses. The full quote relates to stupidity and malice. Don't ascribe to stupidity and malice what is adequately explained by just stupidity. It also isn't intended to deny malice, only to prevent uninformed accusations of malice. If you can prove malice, hanlon would not expect you to deny it because stupidity could do it too.

[@cdev6]

​@@Joural0401 In the original context of a comedic compilation of jokes into a book, I get it the quote was witty. It has since been overused to frustratingly make light of corruption in government.

[@maweitao]

The political divide in America is a massive obstacle to addressing any issue, on both sides of the aisle. Nobody wants to hear legitimate concerns raised by their political opponents. It doesn't matter if you're in a red or blue state; criticize something and people will instantly lash out, question your politics and engage in whataboutism. We can't even get on the same page about acknowledging real problems, forget accepting that there's no one-size-fits all solution and that neither party is capable of solving these challenges on their own.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

And no one u detesta da that solving problems requires compromise, give and give

[@ImaMes888]

Hear, hear

[@railroadforest30]

This is completely true

[@enkiduo]

I disagree, the problem seems particularly acute in places completely dominated by one political party.

[@theFORZA66]

​@enkiduo nah mate all politicians are corrupt

[@sandman0127]

Theres also the issue of price gouging on temporary housing. I experienced it first hand. A week in an extended stay hotel room will set you back between $300-$500 USD most people in them places cannot afford to save money to move out thus creating a repeat customer.

[@outsideupside]

How much do you think a week in a hotel room should cost? $300 seems crazy cheap, and certainly not price gouging.

[@Priva_C]

I'm so afraid this may be my new reality along with my child in the next 2 months unless I find something that could pay my rent. I'm a single father struggling to find work. Rejected and ghosted by thousands of jobs the past 7 months even with a 6 figure skillset, fortune 500 enterprise experience,no criminal record, natural born US citizen, some college... Nothing 😭 I feel like a criminal and feel like I'm losing my passion and being pushed out of my craft. The hardest part of all this is the idea that I will need to spend long periods of time away from my child so she can be sheltered with her mom. The only reason I've survived this long is because of my little retirement fund that's close to empty.

[@whitneyanders5945]

Hope things get better for you.

[@dankmemes8619]

Natural born us citizen? That's your issue. It's not your country anymore. I'm so sorry to tell you.

[@Priva_C]

@@dankmemes8619 You're right. I was laid off and replaced with offshore workers from India and other countries.

[@dankmemes8619]

@Priva_C that's what happens. Good luck trying to get that put out there, you'll get called all sorts of things. I wish you the best of luck in finding something that actually isn't subverted yet.

[@Fawn91193]

What you want to be is a non-citizen non-alien. As a citizen (on maritime admiralty law), you're a slave. Not only do you have no rights, you're considered to be a legal fiction, that is... dead.

[@gmarefan]

Finally, competition against the prison industrial system.

[@_CoachW]

Wow. That hurt. But yes, yes... well done 👏👏👏

[@AngeliteEntyshak]

This comment is funny in the worst way imaginable.

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

Honestly better competition. The homeless can at least take some kind of action.

[@hlathiblack]

But none beats the Champ The Military Industrial Complex

[@threethrushes]

Well-played.

[@rebeccamd7903]

To top it all off, apartment buildings built and dedicated to housing homeless or poor people will get HUD money to built them and HUD doesn’t force them to have any occupancy after they fund it. I have found most of these places will have a 3-5 year wait list and be occupied by less than 25%. HUD cuts checks for every dedicated apartment and doesn’t require occupancy. Then in 10 years, the organization will sell the apartment complex for big money and do it again.

[@LexiH36]

Those buildings will also not be very well maintained either

[@neocortex8198]

a lot of it is per person restrictions, zoning permits, just abolish all of it, i mean if there werent any regulations on housing people could always be able to afford some kind of roof over their head it might not be more than a small part of a room but its better than the streets and would get people back in the workforce aain

[@alessandromorosin3251]

Do you have articles or data on this

[@neocortex8198]

@@alessandromorosin3251 doesnt central planning make problems worse?

[@dcg590]

Maybe your hud tenants should stop trashing the places and having a bunch of kids they can’t afford

[@augustoliver2779]

This is something for the government to work on, and not private companies. This is also very important to note that social programs are important, safety nets that keep people from becoming homeless. We need these programs and we need the government to provide affordable housing like they used to back in a day.

[@ImaMes888]

The problem is that there is as much corruption in government as there is in private companies.

[@Fawn91193]

What you're calling 'government' is a private administrative company. There is no government. It's all business.

[@reneeevans8864]

The government is corrupt to good luck with that

[@paulh.9526]

Unfortunately, in the US if government tried go do anything directly you could here the cries of "Communism" from Paris.

[@bobdrago69657]

Haven’t worked in MH services in the Bay Area for 35 years, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. The legal system has also mandated that essentially the homeless have the right to choose homelessness over housing they don’t want or a “system” they don’t trust. It’s a complex human existential issue that at times seems almost impossible to fully solve.

[@gloriousapplebees]

Ugh I like learning a little more about the inner workings of all things, but learning more about this just makes me even more disgusted. Seems pathetic that we can't help people with all this money and it's very hard to not want to blame the orgs that all the money is going through.

[@irondragonmaiden]

Honestly, sometimes it's not even the orgs. If you're a non-profit, ESPECIALLY if you're a mid to small one, then basically you have an issue regarding turnover and burnout because your salaries are 100% dependent on if you get funding or not. And usually funding is through projects. Most of these orgs need to work on the project AND be on the lookout for the next one in order to make ends-meat. Even then, they get paid very badly and are over-worked, understaffed, and have to deal with the bureaucracy. Essentially, the system itself does NOT conduce to a sustainable and long-term solution, which is what homelessness needs. And the non-profits can't do anything to change that since they can't change the donor/funding system they depend on. It's why a lot of people who work in NGOs, especially mid to small ones, wind up quitting and finding a job that has something resembling proper compensation and work-life balance, further exacerbating the cycle. If anything, the NGO funding system ANYWHERE, in ANY sector, basically makes it so that NGOs are inefficient or that the best and brightest idealists don't want to work in non-profits anymore.

[@sarahhaley7458]

That is so true! I live in an area with a homeless problem because locals were priced out of their homes when Wal-Mart caused a massive migration into what was once one of the lowest costs of living. An NGO had converted a motel into shelters and rented them for $600- which sounds like lots of help, if you are reading anywhere else- but at that pre-Covid time- $600 in Arkansas would score you a private home. How is that not taking advantage of the homeless? There was a huge vacant apartment complex a block from there renting apartments for less than that- and they would have more room and privacy and authority....and not feel like they were being helped when it seems like they were being scammed in their most desperate moment.

[@invisiblesun6595]

Maybe those 87,000 IRS agents can start auditing these agencies and find out how $20B allocated to address homelessness didn't help one damn bit and where exactly that money went to...

[@f1y7rap]

@@invisiblesun6595 Those IRS agents aren't for them, they're for you. They're there to crawl through YOUR returns and squeeze you. Why do you think they decreased write-offs for small businesses, and require reporting of cash transfers above $600 instead of the $10000 it used to be... to prevent you from starting a side-hustle.

[@Atsumari]

I was a case worker for a federal agency, and I was told by my boss when I was trying to coordinate services for our client/student to get her help through the state human services agency. I was told this is someone else's job... I am a social worker, so what exactly is my job if I can't refer services to outside agencies? Easy to push papers.

[@Cafe1981]

I live in a small town that has been experiencing increase in homelessness. A ton of money has been flooded to "help" the problem. No one wants the problem gone. That would mean a bunch of unqualified "social workers" would loose their paychecks. They get paid to organize volunteers. 😂 Government funding goes to section 8, so that a bunch of slum lords get inflated prices for their otherwise unrentable units. It is a system.

[@bestdjaf7499]

Why do you hate Women!? Well, it's happening to all Governmental programs. 80% can be easily automated. But we can't fire all those people. And the majority of those programs are dominated by women. And they have buildings & cleaning staff & tech staff & food courts & ..... So you have millions of people pretty much doing nothing. It would be cheaper just to give them money & close all of these usless offices & services.

[@WSWC_]

I love how it's the "hard-working taxpayers of the state " that we're asking In this hypothetical, and not the homeless @ 1:02

[@shadow102890]

I used to work for an LA City Council Member as their area representative. Let me tell you LASHA was such a pain to work with. I would constantly visit homeless encampments and join when sanitation cleaned encampments and a lot of people were genuine about wanting to work but being homeless was an obstacle to finding work. They would even say LASHA put them on a housing recommendation list and they've been waiting for weeks.

[@sam-ww1wk]

Shame on LA for not just giving them jobs. Here's a trash bag, fill it up, bring it back, and $. There is some fruit, fill the basket, and $. Etc, Etc. Migrants are streaming across the border because there are so many jobs. Give them to the "homeless". Where I grew up, if you were sleeping on park bench, a cop would come and kick you out. No chance to be homeless. California is a joke.

[@Windarti30]

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[@tomaszcz_k]

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[@Windarti30]

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[@tomaszcz_k]

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[@dandyspacedandy]

yeah it sure must be easy and totally not morally bankrupt if you gotta fake people praising you to get peoples attention and run some scam

[@to4217]

LOL look at this fake interaction thread pushing some guy named Heppolette. Yall are funny. Delete this trash thread.

[@eIicit]

The vast majority of what you are talking about applies to quite literally any and every industry where there is government contracting/spending. You could remove the homeless part and insert nearly any issue in its place and it would still be fully applicable. Good analysis and presentation.

[@Aatell764]

As a guy who has been homeless many times, programs that help homeless people do very little to help people. I remember eating better homeless then I did while working aswell as being dressed better than when I was working. Not only do the programs in place line the pockets of politicians and whatnot but they enable you to live for free and without any responsibilities. At the time I was still suffering from alcoholism and I would work day labor. Id drink my butt off and do whatever I pleased and ate real good and 9 days out of ten had a roof over my head. It was sickening seeing others get an entire new outfit everyday and throw the one from the day before away.

[@timelessfinancialservices4364]

The overly complex structure of who does what is by design. I have a quote "Inefficiencies creates jobs"

[@neocortex8198]

they also limit private sector jobs

[@ThZuao]

Yup. You can't pump your own gas in Brazil. Someone has to do it for you. It's literally the law.

[@ThZuao]

Yup. You can't pump your own gas in Brazil. Someone has to do it for you. It's literally the law.

[@dr9299]

it's the same in New Jersey.

[@timelessfinancialservices4364]

@@ThZuao That is crazy!!

[@TheSpicyLeg]

A friend of mine is in the same industry as I am (electrical contractor, though I do commercial and industrial jobs more than residential) and he was talking about how he was trying to land work in the city he lives near. Here’s the thing: people in cities are all about helping the homeless, just not there. It’s pure NIMBYism. People in Los Angeles would rather pay for homeless people to be on a revolving basis of on and off the street before they’d ever want more housing built. I’ve ran into the same thing with wind power. Oh sure, you all just love them, just not anywhere near you. You’d rather them be all over there, but the people over there want it near you. While you wouldn’t lift a finger for most things, you’ll fight like hell to stop any wind turbines built within sight of your home. I suspect the same with homeless, you’re all about them having a home, just anywhere else than near you. I remember one time an activist group was pushing for more wind power, and a company did the surveys for the wind, easy access to the grid, etc. When it came time to purchase the land, the council held a public meeting and there, in the front row, sat the activists. They all ripped the council for trying to put the turbines there. I was astounded, but learned real fast what people really mean: I want X, but I want someone else to bear the cost of X.

[@mysticaltyger2009]

Definitely. There's a LOT of hypocrisy going on.

[@christopherolson4130]

This, also the 'bloat' mentioned ignores how many projects get placed, sited, designed, and partially permitted before NIMBY's come in kill the project and then say 'Why did you spend money on this for nothing?'. Can contracting things out be a problem, sure, but every other industry does that too... The much bigger issue is the millions put in to simply build one project because several others went through design only to be canceled, also 300-400 thousand for a unit is not bad for new construction in LA people do not understand these costs but are insistent that they do.

[@alaskansummertime]

Lol

[@TheSpicyLeg]

@@christopherolson4130 Yes. I spent the better part of 3 years planning a bid on a natural gas power generation plant, just waiting for the bids to be opened. This costs money. I pay people who do nothing but walk-through buildings, estimate the labor, materials, etc, and they must be paid. It’s part of the industry. Millions, millions of taxpayer and private money were spent on a project that made it all the way to final permitting before activists managed to get one of the main corporate partners to back out by succeeding in an injunction. The rest couldn’t get funding, and the general contractor said fuck it and terminated the contract. The project is essentially dead. This would have led to 600 permanent jobs in a county with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, very rural and poor. And people from the other side of the country kicked them in the teeth. Like I said, people claim to want this or that, until it is time for this and that to happen. What the want is a solution to a problem that costs them absolutely nothing. No downsides whatsoever. I saw projects get killed because of enviro-nuts, because it would lead to “too much traffic”, and on one occasion, because the project would lead to too many strangers being in the community. They’ll kill a project and turn around to demand to know what people are doing about the economic prospects, etc, of their area. They are just NIMBYists.

[@laulaja-7186]

I for one would love to live in a forest of wind generators. Especially if I got a nickel off my rent for each one. It’s the effing HOA types who push the idea that generators are unattractive. How can those svelte machines possibly be uglier than the standard brick box house??

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

I started working for a homeless shelter in a semi-big city here in the US a few years ago so I can share the stuff I've seen and learned. We also have a "housing first" approach, and it absolutely doesn't work. The idea behind it is the main reason why people have personal problems is cause they don't have a place to live and if we just pay for them to have their own place they can start fixing their drama. This does indeed work with some people, but with most they're homeless because of their behaviors (which many times isn't their fault cause it's linked to mental health). And there are many, many people who can work but just don't want to. And there's many people who like to be "homeless" because of the community. So yeah, just automatically paying for everyone to have housing won't fix homelessness, and it drives up housing costs. So most landlords/property managers don't want to work with us cause they don't want people with criminal backgrounds and/or low income in their places. So those who do know we're desperate and have tons of money and so will charge insane prices for rents, prices the people living there will never be able to afford on their own, so after their time with us is over, the only way they can afford to stay there is if they get section 8 and the landlord will take it. If not, they're homeless again and the tax payers spent so much money on rent and our salaries to temporarily house someone. And some turn their places into drug dens or destroy their places, stripping all the wiring to sell to scrap yards. Or they bring in family and significant others who can't get a place in their own name cause they've abused the system or destroyed too many places themselves. And everyone working at this place doesn't make a ton of money, but is paid well with good benefits. I'd say for every 1 person we actually help who needs it, there's about 20 more who are just scamming the system. It's like getting paid $20 to throw away $100, this system just doesn't work.

[@amourflower9893]

You hit the nail on the head with this video. Plus these homeless program don't have realistic rules that help individual's in a homeless situation. However, homeless individuals who complain about shelters being dangerous they don't service the person they are paid to help. Most of the money goes to the top tier of management and its all about numbers. These agencies have homeless folks sign their name to a piece of paper so that the agency can report that these are the number of people they serviced in either 6 month or 12 months. This allows for the government to renew the grants for either one year or two years. A point in time count once or twice a year is bullshit because it doesn't give a true number of homelessness in this country.

[@danielhale1]

I suspect a large part of people talking past each other in the comments is nobody's distinguishing between temporary homelessness -- someone lost their job and just needs to pull through until they get back on their feet -- vs chronic homelessness due to serious addiction, mental illness, etc. I wonder if treating these two groups separately would allow social workers to get a lot more success from each dollar spent. But yea, with the convoluted web of incompetent organizations and corrupt charities, I don't see that ever working. That'd be like doing the dishes while the house is on fire -- they have more fundamental problems to address first.

[@shawnhegan6035]

well said!

[@courtneymeehan504]

You've nailed it!

[@Pistolita221]

It definitely would, they need different services.

[@AwesomeHairo]

@@courtneymeehan504 You nailed it*. No need for the present perfect. The person has already "nailed" it, and is done with it.

[@mikalbanks3753]

Exactly. I also think it would really help temporary homeless people a lot. It’s a spit in the face when a temporary homeless person that has skills and works hard is denied help or looked down upon or categorized as lazy drug addicted bum.

[@Snake369]

Well this has been both informative and infuriating. I had previously watched another documentary type video discussing homelessness industry in new york that largely pointed the fingers at rather extensive corruption and exploitation by "nonprofits" that essentially just subcontracted their work to the CEO's for-profit housing/catering businesses. You've managed to present this in probably the most positive, best case scenario and it still concludes that pouring money into homelessness will essentially never solve homelessness, it will only increase public spending and government bloat. How sad and frustrating.

[@tonywalters7298]

We hire too many "administrators" and all the money goes to paying them.

[@SevenRiderAirForce]

Sadly, nothing in this video is new. But there is such an intense culture of ignorance in these places that anyone speaking about facts is marginalized. Source: Used to live in such a place. Moved.

[@Snake369]

@tonywalters7298 same problem with Canadian Healthcare

[@tonywalters7298]

@@Snake369 us healthcare for that matter too

[@thanosianthemadtitanic]

You know you reached peak capitilism when even poverty is commercialized

[@Onedayatatime0915]

That's what Communism looks like . Tyranicsl Government that answers to noone

[@mochamarie9741]

We have a ton of abandoned properties across America! Many mansions and towns just abandoned. We are wasting resources already available. We sent all our jobs overseas too and keep fighting endless wars.

[@DerekJFiedler]

As a housing case manager for a "housing first" nonprofit, I would regularly write checks (tax payer money) at $5,000 per month to hotels to house homeless people in their rooms. Often, we would write another check to cover the repairs to the hotel after the clients thrashed it.

[@SigFigNewton]

Yeah the waste is when the landlords write the housing solutions

[@user-nx5hq3gw4s]

Elaborate......what % not often.

[@bobdrago69657]

Yup.

[@Brandon-os3qr]

I ran one of these kinds of housing programs entirely. Not sure where this person is from, but adding actual #s: - average $$ per room per month was a bit over $1.5k (and I'm in a large city, plus was working with cruddy government policies) - cutting checks for damaged property definitely happened, but I'd say about 5-10 times over a scope of thousands of clients in that program. FAR more likely was evicting people for illegal activity more so than damage. Though we did have cleaning contracts for ones that were left in bad shape in that regard

[@vintagesteel]

I was the maintenance guy at a hotel in Cali about a year ago and some fuckin CRAZY homeless guy stayed for a night (which was obviously paid for by someone) and we had to kick him out because he was walking through the halls smoking a fat cigar and drinking and walking his dog and mumbling to himself and everyone else and he trashed a bunch of flowers we had in the lobby. I had to fix his room when he left and he TRASHED it so badly

[@JazzJackrabbit]

Ronald McDonald Houses provide housing to families whose children are in hospital. This is very different from giving accommodation to the homeless.

[@SupaSupaKewl]

i immediately noticed that too. its probably indicative of the quality of research in this video.

[@TheOfficialZombieWhisperer]

It's happening in small communities too I know for a fact I am one of them, corporate greed is buying up rental properties, giving eviction notices claiming construction is needed then they slap on some paint and some cheap flooring and double the rent, that happened to me and now my newer wage, I don't qualify for a rental until, I make $18 an hour and am approximately $1,200 short when trying to get a place. I'm getting close to snapping, Rogue River Oregon

[@CatherinMalett]

The fact that there is already an excessive amount of demand awaiting its absorption, despite how everyone is frightened and calling the crash, is another reason why it is less likely to occur that way. 2008 saw no one, at least not the broad public, making this forecast, as I'll explain below. The ownership rate was noted to have peaked in 2004 in the other comment. Having previously peaked in the second quarter of 2020, we are currently at the median level. Between 2008 and 2012, it dropped by 3%, and by the second quarter of 2020, it had dropped from 68 to 65.

[@parrish8386]

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[@LucasBenjamin-hv7sk]

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[@lowcostfresh2266]

@@LucasBenjamin-hv7sk Could you kindly elaborate on the advisor's background and qualifications?

[@LucasBenjamin-hv7sk]

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[@fadhshf]

Thanks a lot for this recommendation. I just looked her website up, and I have sent her an email. I hope she gets back to me soon.

[@freelancelife6704]

I'm currently in the BRC homeless shelter in NYC. YES, It is ABSOLUTELY more dangerous in the NYC shelters then it is on the street or in jail, according to the ex-cons in here.

[@KindlingEffect]

What is the danger about/of?

[@joan-mariacbrooks]

@@KindlingEffect The only decent shelter was the El Camino Shelter in Queens before a previous mayor began implementing people having to pay to stay in the shelter. If freelancelife6704 is anywhere near the 8th Avenue area, yes, there's a lot of ex-cons there and you can definitely believe him. Fighting, drugs, etc. is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg and you can use your imagination for the rest of the very real danger.

[@gavinshickle1814]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes that welfare programs are really jobs programs for the people who administer the programs.

[@amazinggrapes3045]

I was homeless for a while... The lack of organization was so real But it's a complete lie that you can choose which organization will help you, and a complete lie that you can get multiple overlapping services at once

[@lhotkowski]

I used to work in a housing first program in Pittsburgh PA. All of the employees are under paid and under appreciated for the work they do. The majority of individuals enrolled through the County are not the model participant desired for the style of program. I eventually became burnt out and quit because all I saw was hundreds of people moving through the system, taking thousands of dollars from the program, trashing their apartments, abusing drugs, and then being evicted or ending up on section 8 maybe, over and over and over again. I was also told I needed to house registered sex offenders with our tax dollars, to which, I put in my two weeks notice.

[@laulaja-7186]

What makes registered sex offenders that special? Not every registered sex offender is a real sex offender. Take a closer look. A lot of them deserve not to be stereotyped and could rebuild their lives just as well as any other ex criminal, given half a chance.

[@stevenvallarsa1765]

Yet another case of LOOK WHO PROFITS FROM THE PROBLEM, not who suffers from it!

[@Xyleryx]

Do the Military Industrial Complex next and how rich people and politicians start wars and keep them going for financial gain

[@noneofyourbusiness4133]

Ukraine says that’s wrong ( we aren’t sending them sweet FA at this point)

[@MarSarFishin-ws7qk]

Used to work security for the VAF, which worked with homeless military veterans. After my experiences there, and then looking into them and other charitable organizations, the disturbing shit I witnessed first hand, the incompetence, the negligence, the completely preventable death and injuries, the corner cutting, and how little of the funds donated to such organizations actually goes to the ones in need. I woke up to a lot of corrupt malignant shit, and even thought about starting my own non-profit to actually help these people rather than USING them and the suffering/plight as a personal piggy bank for very corrupt people. Some sick puppies out there. MANY of these people needed much more than the VAF and the VA hospital had to offer, but when you got a cash cow, and you don't really give a shit about the people under your care, that gets swept under the proverbial rug. This was in 2016, and what I saw, heard and experienced with this organization still gets to me, and my own emotional trauma as a result, has negatively impacted my opinion of these types of organizations, VA Hospitals across the country(looked into that shit too), and how the VA police get away with treating our veterans at their most vulnerable. I even spoke with local law enforcement/homicide detectives after we had an accidental overdose death, I whistle blew(also incriminating myself for my own inaction, due to no one at the organization or police dept taking my concerns seriously, I just sat on my hands instead of trying to contact an outside agency. I was ready to face my own charges, because I saw this coming a mile away and only spoke with those who had a vested interest). The final findings of the investigation was "no wrong doing" on the part of the VA, VAF or Security Officers. I immediately left, and a few months later the VAF was kicked out of the building they rented at this VA for a multitude of reasons, namely they were under more public scrutiny than they prefer, after already making big news at this facility with another death prior to this one, and they wanted to turn those spaces into offices, which was well known by my guys, and that's exactly what they did. I still see her face.. I still think about what I didn't do, and what I could have done. She had a family. She had children. Her name was Linda. She was my friend.

[@oNeGiAnTLiE]

Part of this comp,ex ofc being the health/ins companies. A large part of what drives and profits most from this complex.

[@iwouldkillforyou]

I work with homeless and it's definitely a shift of money, tax payers money. All to give the perception of things being done, but it's mostly making those in leadership position and nonprofits richer.

[@mikeohawk95]

So do I as I live with them and working to allow us to make money ourselves and gain indepandance form tax money akak, our bit to reduce tax, and self sustain our money and stuff, like personal farms, personal courier services,handyman,etc

[@sam-ww1wk]

So, you mean liberalism is a scam?

[@goodfortunetoyou]

This is what bad management looks like. It is fundamentally an issue of public policy design. If there aren't enough houses, or houses are too expensive, then build more, cheaper houses. Obviously, if there are fewer houses than people, they either need multiple people per house, or people go homeless. Plus, there should be last-resort housing, which isn't owned by private individuals, so that everybody has a safety net where they can go for a place to stay while they figure things out.

[@Pistolita221]

3 hot and a cot, yeah we do need housing of last resort. We generally should have services of last resort. Did you know there are homeless people who intentionally go to jail/prison for the winter to avoid the cold? It'd be SO much cheaper to offer them a locking door with heat. Cause that's what slum lords make you pay for, so why not offer it for free?

[@tachobrenner]

Maybe you could even build cheap housing competing with the crappy offers around. Market failure is the name of the game.

[@calidreams5379]

Bad management or corruption? Either way tax payers must demand accountability.

[@CaedenV]

Except... it isn't bad management. It is good management with mis-aligned ideals. Politicians want/need social issues to campaign on, so a good campaign manager is going to find the flashiest way to promote the issues for election. A nonprofit is still a company, and still needs to fight competitors while growing their company, and you can do a whole lot more good if there are a whole lot more problems, so they are extremely effective at their trade and doing their jobs. The issue isn't 'bad management', the issue is overly competent management pointed towards the wrong goals. Changing the profit motive would put an end to this pretty quickly... but I somehow imagine the public would be allergic to assistance programs transitioning away from government funding to be funded by a cut of people's paychecks when they land a job. It would make for a lot fewer homeless people, but the allegations of modern slavery would probably prevent it from lasting very long.

[@Pistolita221]

@@tachobrenner You have some issues with understanding markets if you think housing should be fully commoditized. The English monarch was overthrown when they ended free land in england, and those pilgrams settled New England with their values of free land. It is american, and christian to not (fully) commoditize shelter. We also had land grants/free land/a revision of the homestead act on the books, in practice until 1976, roughly when the middle class started to weaken. How weird. Something something inelastic demand.

[@bluebutterfly5062]

I've worked in many branches of social service for almost a decade now, and let me tell you, it is a self-fufilling prophecy. Most of these companies are funded based off of census. When we start "solving the problem" we get punished with less funding. It's also a high-demanding job dealing with these individuals on a daily basis (people with substance abuse and untreated mental health problems can be incredibly draining), and doesn't pay very well, so low job performance is basically expected. Employees are constantly explaining to our bosses how inefficient and stressful it is to do this all day and not actually get anywhere. But once you "solve the problem" you can't profit off of it anymore

[@JasonOwen-xe4gz]

We need to research the topic more, and find out what they have done in other countries to tackle this problem before we all go bankrupt!

[@MultiEquations]

I work in social services for the city of New York. We have a massive homeless population. The biggest issue is the lack of affordable housing. So little affordable housing is built every year in the city. The majority built are priced for those earning 6 figures or have enough cash to purchase them as investments or second homes. Developers don’t want to build affordable units and the government doesn’t want build any themselves. They rely too heavily on the private sector. They treat social issues like they’re going to be solved by the private sector when there is a low success rate. What ends up happening is that the upper middle class monopolize the housing that previously was sought out by the middle class. Essentially, every class occupies the housing typically occupied by the one “below them”. Before you know it, there’s so little housing available for the poorest. Additionally, not enough unit or being built to keep up with the demand and population changes. And no the solution isn’t as simple as having them move out of the city to “cheaper places” because they, too contribute heavily to the city. They’re the restaurant cooks, retail employees and home health aides. A city cannot run without them. I cannot begin to turn you how many homeless families I work with in which either one of the adults or both are working and after monthly expenses, cannot afford rent. Or it takes one medical emergency for them to fall down a rabbit hole of financial issues. For them, it’s one slip on the wet bathroom floor and a femur fracture followed by a doctor’s order to stay at home then being fired because they have no more PTO left. Before anyone starts, the migrant crisis is very independent of the housing issues I’m discussing. The vast majority of them (we’re talking 99%) of them don’t qualify for city-issued vouchers and the lack of affordable housing predates them.

[@mysticaltyger2009]

Zoning laws needs to change and the power needs to be taken away from the NIMBYs who have had far too much power for too long.

[@wulfsorenson8859]

Large numbers of these people are the descendants of migrants who entered the US over the last 20 years increasing the population by tens of millions or more. If you think this doesn’t have a knock on effect on housing supply and demand than you’re completely nuts. There is the reason housing was so cheap and plentiful for boomers back in the 70s and 80s. Americas borders were not wide open back then 😅

[@Nippleless_Cage]

Bump

[@SigFigNewton]

So start off by listening to the Republicans who say rent control programs exacerbate the problem by reducing new supply, then follow it up with listening to the Democrats who advocate for government subsidies for additional units constructed if constructed at low cost. If the policy doesn’t increase supply, it’s bad policy. Ditch the down payment assistance programs to homebuyers and enact a vacancy tax. Supply. Supply

[@neocortex8198]

housing regulations should just be nationally banned, theres a lot of rules against new construction as well as restrictions on per person limits, which i understand the intent was safety but this is the primary reason why housing is so expensive because there isnt an easy way to just pay much less for cheaper housing. To be fair 40% of homeless folks work but i dont think the rest have any excuse.

[@PicardoFamily11]

$400,000 a year!? That's ridiculous for a CEO for a company that doesn't actually produce anything.

[@nunyabiznes7446]

Why that's almost the cost of housing two whole homeless people!

[@manhoosnick]

They do produce something: misery

[@allanbador7316]

I’m so surprised this isn’t on mainstream media.

[@Epic_Memer_Man]

Props to you for real journalism

[@nyarlathotep1328]

So many shelters have required classes and curfews that really just block an adult from the time they need to find a job, save up money, and stop being homeless. Actually looking into your local shelter's programs will show that they are not at all interested in helping people not be homeless, and subtly create ways to actually KEEP people homeless. This will only change 2 ways; higher wages or lower rents- every other idea about ending homelessness is completely ridiculous and thought up by someone who has no idea about the reality of homelessness-most people, left and right, do not know what they think they know about homelessness, and until you get the balls to check into a shelter yourself, you'll never know

[@AwesomeHairo]

Lowering rent will always be better.

[@shauncameron8390]

@@AwesomeHairo Until the building falls into disrepair because it cannot legally generate enough money to cover basic maintenance costs.

[@hhjhj393]

If things are good for humans they breed more. Basically if we create more capacity humans will fill that capacity thus needing more capacity. It's the problem we face isn't it? It's the ultimate problem. Nature solved this issue via predators. If one organism got out of hand something preyed on them. Humans IMO are forming new predators in the form of scams. We don't go around killing each other (usually), instead we scam eachother.

[@mysticaltyger2009]

I agree with you. The best way to lower rents is to BUILD MORE HOUSING. California has underbuilt housing for 40 years. Simply raising wages without building more housing means more money is chasing the same number of housing units.

[@hamsterama]

@@AwesomeHairo Depending on the state where you live, lowering property taxes would help as well! One of the few things California at least gets right is having a cap on how fast property taxes can rise. I'm in Ohio, and there is no cap. A school levy can pass, and increase your property taxes by hundreds of dollars a year. Landlords have to increase rents accordingly, they have no choice. Rents have increased a lot in my city over the past decade, and it's not the landlords' fault. High property taxes are a major cause. The voters are to blame for voting against their own self-interests and approving levies. And the lawmakers don't have the cojones to pass a law to limit property tax increases.

[@Georgggg]

They're doing everything except the only right thing to do - build more houses, apartment buildings whatever makes more units to match supply with demand.

[@tyturner7110]

And to stop pushing landlord-ship as a supplement for a retirement plan… no use building them if everyone wanting “passive income” snatches them up for short term rentals.

[@wulfsorenson8859]

Also close the border and begin mass deportation. US needs less people not more.

[@Georgggg]

@@tyturner7110 there's one solution to both problems(because its right) - land value tax.

[@invisiblesun6595]

First thing they'd have to do is abolish zoning laws. And we know the residents' pannies will bunch up over that based on failed attempts to build even micro homes.

[@rewindoflow]

Yes, it's disappointing how many explainers don't even touch upon this - "not enough people with homes -> build more housing" seems like a very obvious first step, and there's a lot of evidence to suggest it makes a big impact. Even if you don't agree with it, it seems like a strange thing not to bring up.

[@jmatt98]

These “nonprofits” make huge sums of money. There was a report a nurse was making $10k a week during a recent audit. All the staff were making similar amounts.

[@crazy]

lIt's disheartening to see so much money being poured into homelessness programs, yet the problem seems to persist. Transparency and efficiency are desperately needed in this industry. We need to ensure that the funds are actually reaching those in need and making a difference. #AddressingHomelessness

[@donm2067]

Hanlons razor can't be applied here. Statistically they can't guess wrong this many times. Instead you need to apply McKechnie's razor, which says "Government money will be spent recklessly to profit a select few."

[@pdpc1013]

This is exactly how corruption works. Very accurate documental.

[@alexmuir3974]

Thank you for making this video

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@jlambson82]

A LOT of the folks experiencing chronic homelessness are those who in decades past would have been placed in institutions or so permanent hospitals until rehabbed and able to return to society....which can take years, or sometimes never. Some folks are going to need constant round the clock care to not outright die. But, all the federal facilities were closed, and every state does it's own thing.

[@patlynch6517]

Love, love love your videos! I’m in Seattle, so you’re kinda preaching to the choir here- With all the non-profits competing for public dollars, and no obvious metric for measuring success, no wonder zillions of dollars go down a rathole!😊

[@HD-mp6yy]

Governments shouldn't give money to charities.

[@cyrusmorales4880]

I am in Seattle too and I agree 💯

[@The_Average_YouTube_Enjoyer]

@@HD-mp6yythen how would politicians would launder money? They need those charities to clean the money they stole. You be too naive to think such corrupt don’t exist.

[@jfabulous]

​@HD-mp6yy right, but then the government would have to hire employees to provide these same services and voters would complain about the bloated departmental budgets even more than they already do - although having worked on several nightmarish government grants, I wish they would just launch programs in-house rather than making nonprofits jump through 20 hoops for a 1-year grant that won't accomplish anything

[@djhaka7380]

This was the case recorded and researched in Japan as well. We call it Hinkon-bijinesu [貧困ビジネス] which literally translates to “poverty business”; predating on low income and homeless people. It’s extremely upsetting to see that US has something extremely similar ran by greedy degenerates who justify their predation as “social entrepreneurship by helping the less fortunate of society”.

[@alyssaoconnor]

Problems like homelessness, unemployment, healthcare can all be fixed but the way most government systems work - places road blocks deliberately. It’s an industry thats created a lot of white collar and government jobs and also allowed large companies and religious groups to profit.

[@nbproductions194]

It's surprising how many programs could be replaced with just give people the money directly rather than setting up complicated systems that at prone to bureaucracy issues and politics.

[@TacoTuesday4]

That would be just as wasteful. Asking people to manage money that have never had it won’t go well.

[@mikey3932]

@@TacoTuesday4 that's a depressing statement, your implying they deserve to be poor.

[@midnightflare9879]

@@TacoTuesday4 Bullshit! That's what the "personal responsibility" conservatives say. But the data disproves them. Every time a government just straight up gave homeless people money, or heck, just build a bunch of houses and handed them over, the results were much better than these wishy-washy, fake charity programs.

[@DiakosDelvin]

@@TacoTuesday4 that'd be like electing someone with no political experience to the highest office right?

[@taffinjones8641]

​@@TacoTuesday4Actually, they've done test runs on this exact thing and it worked. I specifically remember an old mayor of Stockton trying this out in small batches(I forget the amounts he gave them monthly) and it almost immediately resulted in recipients finding themselves housing/jobs. I will say, though, this was pre pandemic

[@montre-moi]

I work in social services, public sector. And I thought we were inefficient... But dude, this is on another level of fucked up!

[@milesshelley1464]

I've worked for 2 different housing non-profits in 3 separate CA counties that neighbor each other. Communication between agencies depends on their willingness to build connections on their own, and it can be done well (unless you're the VA, lol). Good collaboration works wonders and no collab sees few results. Our main problem is limited housing stock and the high prices it brings. I'm surprised I didn't hear you mention NIMBYs since they directly influence politicians and block good solutions so often. Worse than them are NOPEs (not on planet earth).

[@bunnyfernwood]

This is what happens when we have a system designed to value profit over human dignity. I hate the world.

[@grapeape7284]

The problem is that the wage someone has to earn to not be homeless is so high

[@LouKiss]

Thank you for saying OUT LOUD and providing receipts for what residents of LA already know

[@godsamongmen8003]

So if they already know it, how many make it an election issue when voting for city councillors?

[@drugsdelaney2907]

@@godsamongmen8003they won’t let someone with the actual solution onto the ballot.

[@MichaelGilmoreTV]

I’m homeless in Los Angeles living in my Mercedes with my 5 degrees. Recently, State Auditors found that Billions in homeless funding is “unaccounted for.” As a homeless advocate and entrepreneurial residential and commercial designer, I tried to get funding to build hundreds of homes, accepting Section 8 from the “working homeless “ like me: $0. Los Angeles has NO DESIRE to end homeless and if you are a Black developer or business owner or non-profit, you are not getting shi…t. So, because I was rejected by Venture Capitalist to build homes all over the U.S., sadly, I had to live in my car to save money for my business and non-profit💰🏠🏢🙏🏿💯.

[@camiloguzman1801]

This Video is the most complete i have seened on Homelessness issues, and why current solutions are failing.

[@spacemonk26]

A rent subsidy definitely wouldn't work unless they also implemented rent caps or controlled rent , it would just cause rent prices to inflate by roughly the amount of the subsidy

[@rennmaxbeta]

Exactly

[@mysticaltyger2009]

That's why the only REAL solution is to BUILD MORE HOUSING AND REFORM ZONING LAWS TO MAKE IT EASIER TO BUILD MORE HOUSING.

[@greenlantern7959]

Nothing drives up prices quite like a 3rd party guaranteeing payment. Plus, rent caps ultimately drive supply down and costs up.

[@davidstrelec2000]

Nationalize the rental property market. That's the solution.

[@dr9299]

@@mysticaltyger2009 energy input into the economy is the ultimate limitation to expansion.

[@thecookiemeister5374]

I feel like “hanlans razor” is pretty easily taken advantage of, because it’s super easy to feign incompetence if it makes you a ton of money.

[@dubstepXpower]

Yeah that SBF tried that excuse

[@Canadish]

Yeah, I hear this trotted out over and over and I'm starting to just smell a rat.

[@DangerB0ne]

Hanlons Razor has become like the slippery slope fallacy to me. Incompetence is malice.

[@dominictarrsailing]

Yes! And notice how comfortable politicians seem to be to appear incompetent! Now imagine your doctor or even mechanic or plumber acting like that

[@discordlexia2429]

Few people would try that. Being evil is profitable because investors think "Ah, this person won't waste money on ethical practices". But even though billionaires are the dumbest people on the planet, they have to pretend to be smart, because nobody invests in a known dullard.

[@user-po3lj2ug4w]

I wasn't aware of any of that, but always good to learn about how money moves

[@mztokyo7630]

Thanks for the great content and perspective. It takes a lot of courage to say the truth and be the bad guy, i.e. fire people that are doing their best despite the situation they are placed in.

[@michaelsmith4904]

why is it the video always halfway over before you say it's time to learn...?

[@PsyrenXY]

Yeah he used to do the intro before explaining the first item on the list and all the background needed to explain that item. I actually preferred it that way!

[@Dragoblade811]

He has become what he hated himself

[@holdup8222]

Because the first part of the video was educating you on the situations and people at play, then he talks about how they profit

[@urbanfacts3406]

Not a problem to me.

[@jtgd]

Because ad revenue is how money works

[@markmickman]

It's honestly a symptom of a poor society. There's no sense of community in most of America anymore. I constantly hear about homeless people finding it amongst themselves. This system is created to use and abuse people past their breaking point, or they're one of the few successful people who are abusing the system themselves. People don't want to partake in it anymore simply because they mentally can't. To interject, I myself have been out of work for a year now and can't see myself going back in to a system that is so disrespectful and abusive

[@wchristian2000]

Delusional

[@TheBlackWaltz]

I worked in a homeless shelter for 12 years. I saw it go from a well run for profit owned company, forced to sell to a non-profit. Once the non-profit came in, the actual costs doubled, and the actual care that the clients got was worse.