Los Angeles Is Squandering $1.2 Billion While Homeless Face a ‘Spiral of Death’

[@Ethan7s]

It’s not squandered: somebody’s getting the money, mostly friends and donors of the politicians.

[@ladedalounge]

yep

[@brandon36gqynzangxylkdapni41]

Definition of Squander: waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner. Your are probably right, but it is being wasted foolishly.

[@mikegorski6895]

There is a Homelessness Industrial Complex. People are making money off of the homeless crisis. That includes the advocacy groups, that act as homeless enablers, have organizational structures with many employees and support staff. Even if they are a "non-profit" that does not mean that people are working there for free. And, those tents they are living in didn't just fall out of the sky. Society is literally killing these people with their compassion and need to feel virtue in handing out band-aids to a population that is running with scissors.

[@danb308]

"Consultants"

[@DrCruel]

It's not being "squandered." Squandering implies accident. The money instead is being intentionally stolen.

[@spike-kc8be]

"Researcher finds homelessness corralates to high housing prices". Really? How profound.

[@allcatall3931]

lol, next time, 'researcher correlates inflation with food insecurity'..

[@ww2remembered983]

Bingo kevin! Now you know the root of the problem! Couple that with a lack of mental health care for the non wealthy and drug and alcohol addiction and Bingo again! So here we are....

[@zodeadlifts9295]

@Easternperspective ‘mass migration’ doesn’t inherently lead to scarcity of resources, that only occurs in a country with an established welfare state(which America has). You must also recognize the causality of the issues you seek to speak about as well.

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

@Easternperspective While yes, in L.A and California as a whole it is almost entirely corruption and stupid policies. Not to mention that most land in western America is federally owned and sitting there doing nothing.

[@boristheamerican2938]

On another channel I found out the homelessness is causing the drought and stock prices to plummet! Oh my!

[@BenjaminWeeb]

If the problem gets solved, how are the politicians supposed to funnel money to their friends and family?

[@manymany5076]

Just like rich and ultra religious men do...selling sex slaves across the globe.

[@yulyasevelova769]

Yup !! And they count on the apathy and lack of knowledge from citizens, to keep enriching themselves. People need to become angry, on BEHALF of the homeless residents,many of whom are seniors and disabled people. Not criminals.

[@lordsweep]

@@yulyasevelova769 I disagree with you about who the people that are homeless and the cause of their homelessness. I'm mad at allowing them to choose what they feel like doing and not helping by making them do what should be done as a mature adult and not continuing to be a burden on the system as the money goes into politicians pockets.

[@HVACSoldier]

@@lordsweep 10,000 units at $1 billion = $100,000 per unit. Think about that for a minute. Even in LA, that’s one expensive homeless shelter.

[@blakecampbell6549]

Corruption often drapes itself with being "on the right side of history".

[@tommyanomaly6193]

Yes and it's terrifying. The same way religious puritans are re-labeling themselves as "leftwing activists".

[@andym2241]

And compassion

[@janehrahan5116]

Religious puritans have nearly always been left wing. The re brand is the communists co opting left to be them and nothing else conveniently putting every other totalitarian ideology "on the right"

[@-haclong2366]

Yeah, recently, it is just a way politicians get away with scamming their voters.

[@claudeyaz]

Yeah, legitimate question, where is the money going? Where are the contracts? Are they going to which companies? Have they talked about which land will be purchased? The land that was originally owned by whom? I want to see a complete breakdown, and a complete audit, of this entire situation. We should not trust allow over a billion dollars disappear into thin air, with hardly any results.

[@Ben-rz9cf]

As someone who was once homeless in LA whose friends in LA were all homeless at one point or another i can say one thing; GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

[@tomstickney5500]

glad you made it god bless

[@soarinskies1105]

Yeah Calafornias population is actually starting to decline lol that’s how bad it is.

[@allcatall3931]

They'll approve some new 'luxury construction' near some encampment; That way, the homeless there will be 'close' to housing..

[@Buzzramjet]

WHY? You make a FULL CAPITAL STATEMENT of Get out while you can. What is going to happen if they don't?

[@littlewillowlinda]

But where to go?

[@keremcagintv]

Money isn’t being squandered, it is just elected officials who are career politicians who just pretend they are doing something but behind the doors, they are just beholden to their donors and special interest groups.

[@jacobedward2401]

The big contruction companies (and a lot of smaller ones) are addicted to making money off of government waste

[@keremcagintv]

@@jacobedward2401 Exactly. Politicians serve only the donors rather than their consistuents. This is why we need to ban money out of politics!

[@lauralarrabee7870]

And those same crooked politicians hire their own relatives in jobs they are not qualified for at outrageous salaries on taxpayer dime.

[@jacobedward2401]

@@lauralarrabee7870 like Jared Kushner

[@lauralarrabee7870]

@@jacobedward2401 I was thinking of Meena Harris who had to be told to stop using her aunts likeness by the White House and then was about to post copyrighted photos to Instagram until she had to be told not to. For being educated she’s not very bright. Jared proved himself in the real estate world but has no government experience either to be a senior advisor. This practice is common in local politics: giving your own flesh and blood a position behind a desk at 60k-80k a year and usually discovered after leaving office that the employee was never around in the first place.

[@anthonyfrank5191]

I'm sure more than 80 percent of that money is pocketed anyway.

[@kabanchan5768]

na bro 99% of it

[@kovy689]

Yup. That’s the reason they became mayors in the first place.

[@ontogeny6474]

Every time I see Garcetti, I feel an overwhelming compulsion to take a shower.

[@Betty-qd8st]

@@kovy689 and their connected or related to another “ power/ privileged “ person

[@stephenpmurphy591]

That $1.2 billion will be consumed by nonprofits & specialty outreach programs. Each nonprofit & specialty outreach program requires office space, a CEO or president, a staff of social workers, addiction specialist, tech support staff, office supplies, vehicles, medical supplies, IV drug needles for clean needle programs. After all that expense less than $200 million will reach actual homeless individuals.

[@m24213]

this incompetent mayor is rewarded by giving him the US ambassadorship to India, that sucks.

[@TheGreenlove87]

That’s Biden’s America for you. Buckle up.

[@TheGreenlove87]

@That Dude 😂😂😂

[@borkguy]

When will you learn they hide their malevolence behind “incompetence”…

[@unnecessaryapostrophe4047]

@That Dude Really though... It looks bad for all levels of government when one of our two largest urban centers is in this condition. Maybe they want him out so that they can install someone they think will be less embarrassing to the entire DNC.

[@mayur619]

If the pollution in New Delhi goes to pre-covid levels it won't be such a cushy job for him,atleast from a health standpoint.

[@nick_pappagiorgio]

We're paying over 10% sales tax now, "for the homeless" but there are more homeless than ever.

[@cy8999]

because CA and especially LA are known for beautiful weather and generous it’s to give away the freebies to transients. Of course, it attracts the opportunists across the country and they will be spending the last penny to buy a bus ticket to LA, knowing that they will be well taken care of. I am tired of the mayors who are pissing away our hard earned money to these bums.

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

Better raise it to 15% now since there are more mouths to feed. Welcome to communism.

[@christineoberg7302]

It’s to bad they can’t deport all the people that come from other states. Knowing they can live in CA.for free. It is so much more affordable to live to live in other parts of the country

[@Misitheus]

It means it's working....? That's what they tell me....

[@milkyyanks765]

@Jakonate communism is 100%

[@OverLordthe1st]

When judges have to step in and move policy because elected leaders are that incompetent and corrupt, it's truly is a tragedy. I hate to give it to fox news but if this was a republican city and a republican mayor, wouldn't this be getting much more attention.

[@lrodriguez6691]

What is Maxine Waters doing to fix this? Good luck with Marxists fixing real problems

[@poodlescone9700]

Name one Republican run city with this level of problem. There are none.

[@natesmith7217]

@@poodlescone9700 true

[@anthonyfrank5191]

I blame the voters for electing these clowns in the first place.

[@dahveed284]

These cities with one party rule NEVER solve problems. If they did the money would stop flowing to the people being paid to solve these problems.

[@Reathety]

There's literally a cities wort of homeless in LA. They don't want to end homelessness in LA because they've learned how to make a business of homelessness.

[@AlexB-nw7jt]

Exactly. Same shit in Seattle.

[@AlexB-nw7jt]

@@sabareeshmuralidharan635 just think about it. How much money is poured into this, and to what effect? It's obvious, but the details are the people, like that corrupt mayor or people selling the homes meant for the homeless people.

[@joeyricefried9621]

Yup

[@elrored]

Did I hear that right? The guy who isn’t able or willing to fix the homelessness problem and who doesn’t like impermanent housing is being sent to INDIA as an ambassador? Okey then…

[@SusiBlumentopf]

Because there the officials would find out they are all illegal migrants!

[@glimmeringsea5105]

Going to India as a rich person is not bad at all. India is a poor country for the poor, but a very wealthy country for the rich. Like in every country, the rich and elite always benefit no matter where they are.

[@doughboy8821]

I stayed in LA for about two months. There was a decent sized pile of shit outside the apartment I was staying in. It remained there for awhile and instead of it being cleaned up, the pile was spray painted pink 👍🏽

[@thisguy2114]

Just imagine, there is most likely a city worker spray painting shit. Oh, and he probably makes over 100k plus benefits!

[@fancyaristocrat7450]

Lmao 🤣

[@Didleeios88]

This is hilarious. Was the painting some avant garde art or were they marking it for clean up? Either way this is the funniest thing I heard all day.

[@doughboy8821]

@@Didleeios88 nah dude, just a big pile of shit w some pink spray paint over it

[@Yotrymp]

@@thisguy2114 And with that 100k he probably barely gets by because LA and similar cities are giant nuthouses.

[@dominicmanester8125]

Homeless: "The police took my things!" ;n; Celebrities: "Imagine no possessions"

[@clarelau7484]

And a pent house in New York.

[@rcmendoza5635]

LOL Too right!

[@TheWutangclan1995]

Homeless: robs celebrities Celebrities: hey wtf are you doing?! Homeless: imagine, no possessions

[@keh-dalia809]

'Imagine' by John Lennon is a demonic song!!!

[@bryanx5829]

It belongs to the communist state now, we have these homeless shelters that you can stay at, I meant to say gulags.

[@zachpulido5972]

Remember when a guy built makeshift homes for the homeless, and the democrat leader shut him down cause it made him look bad.

[@inquistoroffcat8439]

It's all political theater and appeasing their rich donors for (insert political party here)

[@Itried20takennames]

No, I don’t…who was it? Plus, there are a so many well meant but naive “build tiny homes/shelters for the homeless” that ultimately fail, because the problem isn’t the actual shelter (there are plenty of decent and cheap options), but where where can you put it. Many build these with no good option to place them, then feel “sabotaged” instead of recognizing their own lack of planning when a spot for them doesn’t magically appear.

[@jaimeemorrison6385]

@@Itried20takennames Elvis Summers

[@Silkiroth]

We call that a narcissist with power

[@ishmael802]

They shut them down because they were in residential neighborhoods

[@synthetichumangaming4634]

Everybody jokes about LA being a city waited to die because it's on a massive fault line. Looks like it might destroy itself before an earthquake even gets a chance to.

[@whathell6t]

@SyntheticHuman Gaming Not really. Los Angeles will survive through its neighborhood of Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, Highland Park, and Eagle Rock. According to CalTech, those neighborhoods/districts will survive the fault-line abrupt-sure since they tilted eastward and only lose some elevation.

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

Here's to hoping it all sinks into the ocean.

[@d33pblu3]

Remember when LA banned tiny homes just to build them anyway a couple years later?

[@Neckhawker]

... for 26 times the price xD.

[@waltbroedner4754]

The reward for the corrupt mayor is being offered an ambassador ship to India: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it" - Bastiat

[@typeorulz]

@@billmurray4430 Truth!! Especially those who love to shout down to those who have less to just pull themselves up.

[@yulyasevelova769]

@@typeorulz I suggest that people view Cop Watch as a video blog also, as well as Tony Vera, and German in Venice. All have excellent videos documenting this stuff.

[@typeorulz]

@@yulyasevelova769 Thank you for the intel! I have watched GIV for a while and just love him. I'll check out the others now that you recommend them. 😊

[@yulyasevelova769]

@@typeorulz Thanks !😀

[@driver8M3]

"We are here to end homelessness." Lol....there's not a chance in hell Garcetti could end homelessness. The homeless would actually be better off if Garcetti's goal was to INCREASE homelessness.

[@bigdog1106]

Consider how many politicians make their career as advocates for the poor. Then they are paid a Six Figure income for 11 hours a week.

[@dijah8009]

Genocide.. who knows how they're planning to end homelessness...

[@mrmark8603]

There are TWO CHURCHES PER ONE HOMELESS PERSON. So how is there a homeless problem?

[@1k20a]

Guess what those homeless are the leftist ballet harvesting, easy 80k vote towards whatever they want

[@josephgaviota]

@@mrmark8603 I rather doubt that statistic.

[@bigbadword]

Garcetti has a perfect "everything that comes out of my mouth is a lie" face.

[@mikekenney2561]

No see I think Newsoms is more perfect

[@joeyricefried9621]

Spot on

[@kingstricker43]

And the scary part is: this isn’t including the 1000s of people living out of their cars.

[@ConernicusRex]

It absolutely is.

[@glimmeringsea5105]

Or the families living in houses and apartments like sardines in a can.

[@maknyc1539]

or all those people living in spacious luxury apartments

[@rc3291]

"What are we doing?" Electing the same incompetent politicians from the same party.

[@joeknowme7968]

Because of stupid people keep living in denial.

[@smokeemifyougotem9662]

@Stellvia Hoenheim Now? No. But a good 45% of people are still democrats, if not more. So it's still consensual.

[@CrashPilot1000]

Create a problem, let the problem boil/ferment, present your solution (that is normally more of what created the problem in the first place).

[@deridramatthews76]

You are CORRECT brother. Hegelian Dialect at its FINEST my dear sir!

[@CrashPilot1000]

@@deridramatthews76 Thank you very much for your kind words!

[@kevinkerr9310]

Laughs in 2nd amendment infringement

[@deridramatthews76]

@thoth81 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@ututheavenger]

Alan Watts Problem=Reaction=Solution=$$$

[@nowlwane9623]

“You will own nothing and be happy” - rich mayors Leave the cities and build your own home

[@jacobedward2401]

Do you know who actually said that?

[@nsahandler]

>Leave the Cities Yeah people! Just uproot your entire life, quit your job, and move! What? You barely make ends-meet and can't afford AT ANY TIME to quit? WHAT DO YOU MEAN "No Savings?!" You SPENT IT ON CAR REPAIRS?! Oh? You needed your car to get to work? Damn. It's almost like nuanced generalities don't actually provide usable answers.

[@nowlwane9623]

@@nsahandler People from the past left their family, friends, and jobs with nothing but their clothes on their backs. Then, they traveled across the seas with barely enough food to live. You don't need Savings, homes, or cars to start a new life. You just need to know what you are doing and be independent and get your own food. Build your own home, farm your own food, make your own clothes, and stop depending on the government to wipe your @$$

[@nsahandler]

@@nowlwane9623 Spoken like someone who hasn't had a major bill compound into their savings before. "People traveled with nothing but the clothes on their backs." Yes. Yes they did. They traveled to cities - where public transport allowed them to travel to work - and lived in ghettos - where rent was barely a quarter- week's wage - until they saved up enough to leave. But in the 1800s your average immigrant was paid a livable wage in contrast to their overhead rent - something that modern urban cities don't have. You also don't have a decent public transport option in most cities (the only American City that has a stellar public transit system is Hawaii), requiring each person to own and maintain a car in order to go to that job that doesn't pay a livable wage. And I hope you don't get hurt because medical costs have balooned to insane proportions. Or have to replace your car. And we forgot the best part: the price of land today is inflated abysmally. It's not an "excuse" to address reality as it is. The only way you can even address it as such means that you have no real concept of finances, work, or the economy.

[@nowlwane9623]

@@nsahandler They have legs as transportation. Hell, they have tents. Why would any homeless person care about land rights? You forget that walk across the country without towns every 50 miles and knowledge to build fire more common than ever before. Homeless can build home in Mountains with power tools through asking for money or gardening. The most important detail is that homeless can disappear and have all the time in the world with a free library access. As for mental cost, if you get sick you may die. There is no safety net for you if you are poor and the poor must solve any mental issue on there own or die. People don't understand the work to keep yourself healthy and depend on modern living to live past 50. Cities are the core problem to people paying more than they are earning. Some people just live in their cars to avoid rental issues with great success. If everyone moved out of the cities, citizens would have a greater chance to gain affordable housing.

[@emothegunslinger]

Also, not the pandemic slowed down housing construction, the lockdowns did.

[@ndnrb_]

The lockdowns didn’t apply to construction. But the shortages from the lockdowns did.

[@claudeyaz]

Yeah, legitimate question, where is the money going? Where are the contracts? Are they going to certain companies? Have they talked about which land will be purchased? The land that was originally owned by whom? I want to see a complete breakdown, and a complete audit, of this entire situation. We should not trust allow over a billion dollars disappear into thin air, with hardly any results.

[@ndnrb_]

@@claudeyaz You already know. The corrupt lines their pockets like always. The end of an empire is coming and they know it. To them, it’s just one last hoorah before hell.

[@Jon-jd2vc]

And what caused the lock downs? The pandemic.

[@jameseverett4976]

@@claudeyaz "We should not trust allow over a billion dollars disappear into thin air, with hardly any results." this is just routine for government, and it happens one way or another on a consistent, and ever-increasing basis.

[@jfangm]

City: *has homelessness problem* Judge: "Get your shit together" City: "NOOOOO! OUR PLAN!" Judge: "Your plan failed." City: *appeals* Homeless people: *dying*

[@AdamBechtol]

mmmm

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

Hotel: Trivago

[@louie8804]

Judge Carter: "Garcetti, you've been in office for 8 years, the problem has only worsened and I'm going to be issuing a court order for you to provide immediate housing to these people." Garcetti: "This court order is going to hinder our ability to fix this. You're the problem!" Politics baby!

[@TR5T]

Ah but the promises have gotten better.

[@yulyasevelova769]

Yup !

[@kidpizz]

There is a homeless industrial complex I California that has no reason to solve the problem because they are all enriching themselves. While the tax payers and business are constantly traumatized by drug addicted homeless people.

[@tommyanomaly6193]

Why are we even talking about this?

[@claudeyaz]

Yeah, legitimate question, where is the money going? Where are the contracts? Are they going to certain companies? Have they talked about which land will be purchased? The land that was originally owned by whom? I want to see a complete breakdown, and a complete audit, of this entire situation. We should not trust allow over a billion dollars disappear into thin air, with hardly any results.

[@claudeyaz]

@@tommyanomaly6193 because it is a topic that is rough to talk about, but necessary. It shows that building a bunch of home's and letting people lives there, will not solve this problem. We will just end up with a lot of trash out home's. If we do not tackle the root causes of why people are homeless to begin with.

[@tommyanomaly6193]

@@claudeyaz Should we even care if people are homeless or not? How does that affect me?

[@DegreesOfThree]

$31,000 for a shed? You can get a much nicer one at Lowe's for $5,000 or less. Definitely a racket.

[@jakegarrett8109]

Seems like they could offer jobs to I don't know, the jobless? Hmm, if only there was some productive employment for the homeless that could benefit their skills, their livelihood and society all at the same time... Nah, my nephew's construction mafia business needs some high cash easy work, come on Fat Tony, I got some easy money for ya!

[@AdamBechtol]

@@jakegarrett8109 This is such an excellent point. We could just pay the homeless to build their own homes. Two birds one stone.

[@maggiemae7539]

@Shayne Meidle yet on another video people are protesting over the Roma being made to live in them.

[@jokerace8227]

Real Estate has been a racket for a while now.

[@theoneaboveall7708]

@@jakegarrett8109 lol homeless people dont want to work hard.

[@novo611]

Problem is corrupt politicians.

[@poodlescone9700]

That woman criticising arrests for enforcing the law is the reason we have rampant shoplifting, car breaking and assaults in San Francisco. Criminals need to be arrested not coddled.

[@TMMx]

When you apply that to homelessness, you get the most expensive solution imaginable. If you lock up all the homeless, you not only put a roof over their heads, you also give them food, medical care, and have to pay guards to keep an eye on them. Simply giving them all free houses would be much less expensive.

[@cuddlemuffin.9545]

Maybe you should stop voting for democRATS

[@TMMx]

@@cuddlemuffin.9545 I actually only vote for the Green Party.

[@sybo59]

@@TMMx And many of those houses will be immediately turned into crack dens and destroyed.

[@TMMx]

@@sybo59 And continuously rebuilding them would still be less expensive than imprisoning homeless people.

[@seanservo3105]

You can't just supply people with housing indefinitely tho. They need to move on after a period of time so others in need may benefit. There needs to be a timeline of expectations for them, goals they need to reach if they want to stay off the streets. And LA also needs to be free to arm itself. We are keeping dangerous animals alive with some ridiculous notion that the brain damage can be undone if we just turn a blind eye or offer this treatment or that. The non-dangerous ones need to be encouraged to seek family ties and make amends so they can receive the personalized help they each need beyond the govt's limited intervention. They should be encouraged to move to lower costs of living in the country once they are qualified to work, as sane people do when they are forced out of an area by govt policies or job loss. Let private entities help where they feel called to, don't punish or forbid them. And we need to overhaul the school system right along with the policing system, make schools teach job and life skills again if they're publicly funded, just like we don't want police arresting people purely for being on the streets. Compassion but also discipline are the keys.

[@borkguy]

And what % of that will be done? Same as the reduction of homeless, zero

[@candideggplant1575]

You are saying too much shoulds. Look, just because something should be a certain way doesn't mean it will be or is that way. Just because nobody should go hungry, doesn't mean there never will be people who will go hungry or do go hungry. I'm sorry man but should invalidates your argument because it isn't realistic.

[@interplanetaryexpeditionsa1229]

To make it worse Trump was elected and fraud with deeper state agendas is in play. Nobody voted for biden, nobody voted for LA politicians. This is planned.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

We need to bring back asylums for those who are so far gone that they will never be able to take care of themselves and cause problems for society. It would be more humane that leaving them on the streets, and more cost effective than giving them free everything while leaving them to do as they please even if what they please might involve drug abuse and crime.

[@tonyfriendly4409]

@@ANPC-pi9vu Bingo!

[@xoxoxoxoxo7997]

Homeless will double by the end of the eviction moratoriums

[@tyrannicalbigtech5842]

@@ozymandes now

[@nannettefreeman7331]

FACT: The homeless constitute only 1% of LA's overall population, but are 17% of its homicide victims.

[@jokerace8227]

Oh, lately I've seen various LA residents talk about killing them all. Apparently some are already on it.

[@niggacockball7995]

@@jokerace8227 based

[@spacecore_2068]

@@niggacockball7995 Introducing: The CIA Agent

[@Notrocketscience101]

In other news, no matter how much more food I give to the wildlife around my house, it just never seems to be enough. If I ever figure this mystery, I’ll report back.

[@Thousand_yard_King]

Yeah that's great and all, but if we follow your line of reasoning, we should just allow everyone who is hungry to starve and decrease the surplus population! Would that be okay with you, would that be the solution you're after Scrooge?

[@MomoKunDaYo]

@@Thousand_yard_King people dont just starve when they dont have food, if someone is hungry, they'll find a way to eat.

[@Notrocketscience101]

@@Thousand_yard_King are you feeding all the hungry animals in your city or are you a hypocrite? Sometimes compassion is the harder road to walk. In 1985 we started the “feed the world” program in Africa, now that we’ve doubled their populations, the trees have been stripped, millions sneak into other countries that still have resources to exploit. The obvious end of this artificial support seems to be not obvious to all.

[@allcatall3931]

Ppl just need food/shelter, not 'freebies', but not 'punishment' either..

[@neliborba101]

I never saw homeless people when I was growing up. What makes people homeless is not caused POVERTY, but by a political system that explore the people and living in a society where money is god.

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

Same. I grew up in a specific city in Commie-fornia and haven't seen any homeless, but now 15 years later tents everywhere with scumbags and their cardboard signs. 😑😑

[@WickedMo13]

More like pocketing 1.2 billion

[@7Amps]

From overtaxed middle class that actually HOLDS DOWN a job and WORK HARD for their money and livelihood

[@WickedMo13]

@@7Amps everyone keeps voting for the same people decade after decade, I'm surprised its not worse, it will get there though

[@jonathanturek5846]

Im an architect. And i have designs for low income housing that makes total sense. These overpriced homes are not financially sustainable .

[@shawnhill3482]

If you dont Vote Larry Elder in as Governor Cal is Toast!

[@aaronhumphrey2009]

A LA musician felt he needed to do something- and built a dozen tiny shelter homes for the local homeless.. The City immediately ordered them all destroyed...they must remain homeless until a " proper code compliant structure is available "... The City is both blocking private efforts to reduce homeless #s and lining thier pockets with corrupt fees, fines, permits, surcharges from the grant/ tax moneys spent on them..

[@rustymugg9658]

This is happening to every major city on the west coast. Seattle looks like a scab on the once beautiful landscape in the pacific northwest.

[@cloroxlavenderscent4307]

So does Portland

[@shermlasvegasshermadventur6200]

We all need to bother fema and Washington we need a trillion dollars homeless bill build housing the only answer

[@kyshac81]

San Francisco also. San Francisco is pretty much an ATM machine for politicians and their friends who get access to government contracts.

[@bigbadword]

Dont forget that they have also been shipping the homeless in bulk to other cities in the U.S.

[@fightingtosurvive6527]

All of them come to California because we have the best year-round weather.

[@FreeAmerican]

We are shipping the homeless to California.

[@stephenpmurphy591]

@@FreeAmerican Yes, they come by themselves for excellent welfare programs and white upper middle class progressive liberal leftist white guilt. Who have tolerated this mass exodus to California from all over the USA & central America. The mild climate is another factor.....California is a failed Democrat leftist experiment.

[@maggiemae7539]

@@stephenpmurphy591 wrong! This happened in the dust bowl days and the gvmt was sending fliers by the 1000s to the affected states to get cheap or free labor to harvest crops and also they were used to form the unions. Agenda, agenda, agenda. Repeat!

[@stephenpmurphy591]

@@maggiemae7539I'm speaking as native of San Francisco. Way back in 1979 the entire population of the San Francisco bay area was 2.9 million people. This included the North bay, the East bay, the South bay and San Francisco. The current population stands at an unsustainable 8.8 million residents jammed into a once beautiful region. Now its mile after mile of poorly constructed suburban subdivision and ugly shopping malls( which most are dying) Greedy self-serving politicians have raped the landscape while ignoring the infrastructure. The electrical power grid is a half assed patchwork of poorly maintained substations. The water systems are archaic and insufficient as they're stretched beyond their original estimated customer capacity. Natural gas lines are also archaic and poorly maintained many are near catastrophic failure. The "new" San Francisco Oakland bay bridge is less structurally sound that the original span it replaced. Sadly every upper middle class progressive liberal leftist have transplanted themselves here while tolerating us natives out of once lovely lifestyle. California is a failed leftist experiment.. The homeless population throughout the San Francisco bay area consists of untreated mentally patients, junkies of every conceivable type and chronic alcoholics. The one commonality they all share? 90% have transplanted from all over this country within the last ten years.

[@macbaryum]

Why would you give permanent housing to people who can't work? How do illegals from Mexico and South America manage to work hard and send money back home?

[@nonmagicmike723]

Yep. These people belong in prison or in mental institutions. They either can't or won't make themselves useful to society, support themselves. So it'll never end, because LA is too much of a bleeding-heart city to round them up and warehouse them somewhere away from city limits, which is what needs to be done to solve this problem in any meaningful way.

[@Zorooooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

... because they are people too? Disgusting perspective.

[@nonmagicmike723]

@@Zorooooooooooooooooooooooooooo His point is that a lot of illegals have little in the way of means, yet still work and live huddled in some crappy apartment then make their way up. Why? Because they have the will. They're excited about their new country. These bums in the streets have no motivation or will to do anything, so they'll remain the useless eyesores that they are. Thankfully, they're mostly eyesores to those big-city liberals who do get what they deserve.

[@blackswan1983]

They should be in hospital and treated. But there are no more beds.

[@Mr.Williams23]

This is what happens when you elect corrupt crooks to fund their donors and friends before people

[@bskee001]

Serious question, what makes someone BECOME a corrupt/crooked politician, leader, etc.? Do the people who commit corruption start out in politics or other similar jobs with a sincere desire to do good but then become corrupt over time or over night? Are they corrupt to begin with? If not, what causes them to become that way? I wonder…

[@just1689]

They farm homeless people. Its an industry - just like prison guards have a union that lobbies for increasing sentencing of innocent people.

[@CSGATI]

Homeless the Liberal dream.

[@tommyanomaly6193]

Liberal or socialist?

[@luffygon846]

@@tommyanomaly6193 for americans liberal is the left

[@jakemon4550]

I use to work for a general contractor and we turn down every Californian job offered, I mean you need a permit to retile your bathroom, its a joke.

[@TheYumChannel]

It is ridiculous

[@farmyardfab]

Why is the question always “ how to we get these people food and shelter?” and not “how do we get these people to become functioning members of the economy?”

[@mrprimenumbers6448]

I was thinking that all through the video. Not once did any of them ever talk helping these people regain their personal self respect and become a productive part of society again. Everything was about putting a band aid on the problem. They have deliberately created a constant cycle of need so they can continue to ask for more and more money and claim they will fix the problem.

[@thoticcusprime9309]

@@mrprimenumbers6448 Society is trash,I wouldnt want to work for or help society. only myself

[@jameseverett4976]

Because it's not the democrat way. The democrat way is to blame society, [or anyone but the person doing the harm] and create new programs and institutions to "remedy" the situation, which end up fostering more of the problem, and making sure it doesn't get solved, but expanded, so that we will then need more government institutions, money, and what not, thrown "at the problem" or into administrators bank accounts.

[@jameseverett4976]

@@thoticcusprime9309 -and that's really how everyone else feels, but about half of them won't admit it. They prefer virtue signaling about how "we" should help one another, while they mean government should solve everyone's problems.

[@allcatall3931]

functioning members of a system that produced them to begin with? Basically, hustle for a boss to pay most of it to a landlord..

[@VitorCoelho56]

I find it is just sad that in 2021 people still think this is a housing issue.

[@milkncookie]

It's a mental issue.

[@Didleeios88]

People in other parts of the country have no idea what homelessness is. Average person has never had an interaction with a homeless person. The problem has not overflowed into their communities like it has in California. When people interact with homeless people they quickly understand that this is an addiction and mental health issue more than a economics issue. If I still lived in California I would be vote for more counseling and rehab than housing.

[@kabanchan5768]

@@Didleeios88 god i wish there were more people like you that had there eyes open to the real problem addiction

[@robertrichard6107]

@@Didleeios88 Need to stop the poppys coming out of Afghanistan. Heroin's been cheaper than meth even for a while. Slavery Capitalism has nowhere to expand to except Greenland?

[@Didleeios88]

@@robertrichard6107 I don't agree. Stopping supply is not a solution. If an addict can't get their drug of choice they will pick another option. Buying drugs is not a rational economic choice. Demand doesn't go down with rising prices.

[@petenrita]

The mayor and city council should be arrested.

[@FreeHempNow]

Create the problem, then create the solution. Welcome FEMA camps.

[@talkntrash]

Keep voting for this. It's amazing. I don't have to go to a "third world country". All I have to do is walk down Hollywood Blvd.

[@ArtieArchives]

This is the definition of inbalanced wealth.

[@shpooplers6324]

Government wastes all the money on nothing? Who woulda thought.

[@nayrtnartsipacify]

Sniffed it up thier escorts noses

[@JayMayhem13]

When they are placed into permanent housing, do they then provide value to the city that placed them? Do they just lie around all day and do nothing? There are millions of jobs, so my question is do they place them in jobs? I am all for helping someone that's willing to help themselves, but not just give to someone that wants to live for free. Place them in housing and have them clean up the neighborhoods or do other things for the city.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

This. Exactly. All they are going to do is atract all the nation's homeless to flock there for free gibs. Make these people pick fruit in exchange for care instead of hiring Illigals.

[@jessicacole8404]

Sorry, most of those people have no hygiene. I do not want them picking my food!!!! Picking up trash and and giving them trade training sounds ok

[@Meitti]

Housing First model is cheaper than keeping bums on the streets getting ill and doing crime, thats the reason why they should have a roof on top of their heads. It provides them substantial stability, which further helps them get their lives back in order. Housing First costs you less tax dollars a year, than bums repeatedly being arrested on the streets or taken to ER.

[@cy8999]

@NcryptoMistro You are right. The Poverty Industrial Complex says they want to end the homelessness. In truth, nah. The money is too good, never want to end this party.

[@cy8999]

@@blakejohnson3864 Getting a job does help them. It helps them to grow respect to themselves and towards others. That is what they are lacking of and the current condition of the city is the result of it.

[@GODSpet]

WHY CAN'T YOU GET OLD MILITARY BLDS THAT ARE JUST VACANT AND SITTING ALL OVER CALIFORNIA?

[@shermlasvegasshermadventur6200]

They don’t want to fix it to get more money

[@ru9368]

We’ll have a new face to blame the last one in ten years, and Garcetti will be long gone with lined pockets

[@WaspLife]

Homelessness is largely caused by the life decisions of those who are homeless. You cannot fix the problem by giving them homes. You have to fix them and, quite frankly, they have to want to be fixed.

[@tommyanomaly6193]

It's mostly because of California's nice weather

[@WaspLife]

@@tommyanomaly6193 Sure, that is a factor as to why they migrate there among others. There are several laws in place that allow them to live this way in California without consequence. Many of them actually did choose to take on tent life because it’s just...easier for the lifestyle they want to live. The root causes of homelessness are far deeper than any specific laws. It’s a total corruption of character and will to care for self. What kind of lifestyle were they taught to live by those around them that led to them feeling this way?

[@tommyanomaly6193]

@@IIII...... Yeah it's expensive but it still doesn't explain everything. I've read and heard that homeless from all states specifically go to California because it's easier to be homeless in California than most other places.

[@tommyanomaly6193]

@@IIII...... A lot of cities put their homeless on busses and send them to California. This is well known.

[@crb4059]

The paradox of providing more money for a problem, helps create more of that problem?

[@bigdog1106]

Homelessness is the greatest example of the incompetency of DEMS...

It is.

[@christiandauz3742]

Yet Alabama and Mississippi are below the poverty line Texas screwed up its power grid, causing hundreds to freeze to death When every other state has 40 Million people they would do much worse than CA

[@NickMart1985]

@@christiandauz3742 When you ask for apples do you often accept oranges?

[@christiandauz3742]

@@NickMart1985 If I can sell the oranges to someone else for a shitload of apples Point is that there are many states worse off than California. Most of them are Red states California does need to invest a lot of money into fixing and expanding its infrastructure Texas is lucky that it is still in its growth stage. Eventually it will have similar problems to California

[@erizzo8543]

Yea because I'm sure if California was republican this wouldve never happened 🤦🤦

[@westcoastogee585]

Unless you live here in LA, you really cant imagine how bad its gotten. All of the city is becoming one big skid row.

[@dannyboycalifornia]

More like skid mark

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

L.A. is a sh!thole. If it weren't for the beaches, rich homes and DisneyLand, L.A. is just another Detroit. 🤭🤭

[@zinknot]

A big problem I see is that they are basically encouraged to sleep in the downtown areas. They are fed in these places and allowed to sleep on sidewalks and entrances. Why not make designated camping areas that are a little ways out of downtown?

[@warrenb8228]

The city spent enough money to buy every single homeless person a house(not in LA), a car and enough food for a year.

[@manymany5076]

A trash bin in California cost $20,000. This is what a middle class person makes a year in Texas.

[@bresams2917]

That's what the money was for, but come on.. you know where it went

[@annoyedok321]

$31k for a tiny home when you can buy a travel trailer for $12k

[@coolrig]

It is mind blowing how much these executives are paying themselves in these "non-profit" organizations. I'll never give a dime to these charities because it just goes into the CEO's pockets.

[@TwoDollarGararge]

so this is how city's decline America increasingly reminds me of the decline of the roman empire

[@Thelastdan]

Detroit when from being an economic powerhouse to an abandoned wasteland due to one party democrat rule for decades. The same will happen to other corrupt cities like Chicago and Seattle

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

@TryllaTröllMaistre Fictitious Fables of Europa The pandemic is no act of god, it was an act of Chinese gain of function researchers.

[@davelarsen9847]

Corruption seems rampant. It's amazing to me that they keep getting elected.

[@inquistoroffcat8439]

That's because in this country we have a one-party state it's nationalistic, pro-business and ant-worker. But because we're Americans and have to be the best we have two of them

[@sonoranrain2330]

"Petty quarrels with neighbors,films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult." George Orwell 1984

[@lewis7315]

Today in San Diego, a one bedroom apartment costs $3500 a month... to move in, your first, & last months rent and security deposit adds up to around $10,000...... who can afford that when you have nothing??? Add to that you must have previous landlord references and excellant credit history, especially during this ""no eviction" covid era...

[@chocolatechips1183]

@@johnjones-yt8rt I didn't make 20 grand last year

[@naykidninjas]

Sounds like if you can't afford it, then move to a city/town that is more affordable. I'd like to buy a mansion in Beverly Hills too but I don't have the $$$ so hmm let me just put up a tent up next to one...

[@FG-bn3qq]

@@naykidninjas To move in anywhere you must have at least $10,000 on hand for all the costs associated with that. The majority of renters are usually mutli-generational people who's grandparents were renting then parents and now them.

[@ragethefire758]

Do you ever get that feeling when you are visiting your home state and you just can't wait to leave it in the next few days because of how much of a ground zero it is...... that's how I feel when I have an appointment in Los Angeles even though I live in another state. i wish that I can go back to living in California but it's a f****** hellhole that's beyond saving because of dumb people who think they know whats best for everyone place their faith in nonsense and corrupt politicians

[@Didleeios88]

Makes me want to cry. Just hoping for a turn around when they hit rock bottom. I miss my state.

[@nerdicusdorkum2923]

I'm starting to feel the same way about Spokane WA. Doesn't help that Seattle, which defiantly gives me those very vibes you are describing, rules the fucking state. I want to move to Idaho or Montana sooner or later. Close enough to family and friends, but far enough away from Seattle's bs and the slow rot of my home state spreading from that cesspit.

[@riverking937]

I know a homeless outreach worker who make's $75 an hour to hand out condoms and needles.

[@clydealways7405]

If you leave a bag of donut holes on the counter, you're gonna get ants.

[@raul0ca]

In LA they tax normies for the real donut holes while the government keeps the donuts

[@arlenburgin2392]

Damn skippy. Why do you think they congregate in LA??

[@allcatall3931]

Such as, instant approval for for-profit real estate developers.. Bet word gets out quickly..

[@doughaug]

400 years of racism? That woman at the 25 minute mark lost all credibility to me. I would think we would talk greed by those in power at any level adds to the problem.

[@agisler87]

Glad someone else noticed that. She is one of the indoctrinated.

[@Jon-jd2vc]

400 years of racism has also contributed to the problem. I don't see why you would ignore it.

[@agisler87]

@@Jon-jd2vc No one is ignoring it, but saying our country is 400 years old is nonsense. Slavery existed was very prominent well before the founding of this country and had little to do with racism.

[@Jon-jd2vc]

@@agisler87 The 13 colonies were founded in 1607 so it isn't too far off. I am also aware that other countries partook in slavery. Still, this does not justify the U.S doing the same. Racism was used to justify slavery by claiming that the certain races were "inferior" so stating that it had little to do with it is extremely dumb.

[@agisler87]

@@Jon-jd2vc It's pretty far off since the country was founded in 1776. This is only coming up because of the complete lies of the 1619 project. I agree with your second point. But I don't think anybody is justifying racism or slavery of the past. Or would even tolerate actual racism as you defined it. But today people are disregarding the progress we made and trying to attribute any setback in life to racisms.

[@privard89]

I think the real problem that it costs someone 30plus thousand dollars to per shack on a parkinglot.

[@larryn1929]

Cities and towns in other states paid for 1 way tickets to CA to unload their homeless.

[@abatude5879]

And then sent them to Seattle as well

[@manymany5076]

Arizona, Oregon and Texas leading the caravan.

[@brendancarlson1678]

For $2,600 a month, I expect my tent to have a grand view.

[@Oldieeeee]

I expect beach view with that price! 😂

[@richricogranada9647]

Many cities around the country are given to their bums one-way tickets direct to California

[@johnblaws8133]

Or seting them up in hotels

[@MarcPagan]

Need to make Miami's mayor dictator of LA for 4 years. The Mayor's/Miami Council's policies have reduced the homeless population to under 1000....and for far less than $1.2 billion.

[@Thousand_yard_King]

I don't care what you did, with California's taxation policies driving the prices of apartments and houses ever higher all the time, I used to be a middle class worker drone and it got so high that I could not afford to live there, I had to move two and a half hours away just to afford to rent a home! And renting is all I'm allowed to do because land taxes are so high that I could never pay them even though I make a substantial income, at the end of the year I'm lucky to have anything left

[@Strideo1]

@@Thousand_yard_King Why stay in California then?

[@7Amps]

@@Thousand_yard_King hitchhike ur way out of that God forsaken state

[@MarcPagan]

@@Thousand_yard_King Yep, Dear Dems, Explain how restrictions on new building, including unscientific Climate Change cultist policies, protecting LA County Spotted Cockroach, and more... make housing more affordable.

[@Barskor1]

Homesteading needs to make a comeback.

[@benjdelphi]

What home is there sted?

[@honkhonk8009]

These people cant do anything. They need to find transportation to do it. Guarantee if you took them, and threw them in some unpopulated forest, the community they make will probably have higher living standards than Cali. Anything probably has higher living standards.

[@aevangel1]

@ Barskor1, Hard to do when the federal government owns nearly 50% of all the land in the western states and 92% of all federal land is in 12 of those states.

[@joeknowme7968]

I remember seeing a video of a private investigator. It’s no longer on KZbin he said that the money dedicated for assistance for the homeless 80% goes in to private pockets the rest goes for buying equipment & renting warehouses owned by politician families and that’s where the equipment stay for years 5-10% goes to give some assistance. It’s bad enough or is crazy expensive to live in LA we give some of our hard earn money so this politicians and their families get wealthy.

[@ragethefire758]

NEWSOME AND GARCETTI ARE YOUR PROBLEM PEOPLE GET RID THEM FROM OFFICE I COULDN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH

[@richardvickers8117]

Is anyone surprised that LA is a dysfunctional mess? Bring on the Big One!

[@erikkovacs3097]

Tool even wrote the song Ænema about it. I don't think Maynard James Keenan is a fan of LA.

[@richardvickers8117]

@@erikkovacs3097 I wonder how many (non-rich) people are?

[@Japaneseanimeguy]

I took not of when they started talking about systemic problems and generations of racism along with wanting to solve the problem overnight. It could just be the documentary's narration, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the people who go on about such things that it would actually solve the homeless issue overnight.

[@richardvickers8117]

@@Japaneseanimeguy too true. But homelessness is not a simple problem to solve and may never be completely solvable. There are the structural homeless, the mentally I'll homeless, the addicted homeless and those who just drop out. And other categories, I'm sure. And building very few, very expensive housing units benefits who? Eric Garcetti's donors would be one guess. If you want to read something of how LA really operates, try articles by Mike Davis. I dont like the man's politics, but he understands what is true and why.

[@888Bando]

The whole system is the problem

[@P_ssLord]

Squandered? No, its going right into the "important" peoples pockets

[@Censorededs]

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, lived in the area for over 20 years - I then moved to Seattle. All I saw were people that needed help, and people who used them to push their political agenda of socialism. Helping the homeless didn't even cross peoples mind - the solution was always to just give the homeless money rather than building temporary to permanent housing programs to help. I now live in Austin TX, the city's approach to homelessness has baffled me! They actually banned public camping and help people find low and no income housing! It's crazy. It's almost like they don't care about the homeless people dying in the streets

[@dembert4666]

Imo if they are able bodied people who can work we shouldn’t all be paying for their apartments. Like get a fucking job

[@TMMx]

Austin also has a program to provide homeless people with homes. The mayor was on Joe Rogan explaining his approach and he did a lot more than just ban camping.

[@Censorededs]

@@TMMx I specifically mentioned the help people get in finding housing

[@biggoards2772]

The city makes way too many excuses and lies.

[@yesplease9021]

FFS the 52 tiny homes costing 3 million is insane. A fucking shes and window unit AC should not cost 30k

[@brianf2273]

If Garcetti and Newsom declared a state of emergency, at most 2k per shed and just override all the zoning/regulations/permits/certfications/reviews and just get it done. Just shows how deep the corruption is. That guy was right, city council is too heavily influenced by developers. It is just rotten to the core.

[@blackswan1983]

They have programs onsite, its not just housing. They need to pay for staff.

[@tballstaedt7807]

Throwing money at homelessness is almost as rediculous and futile as trying to stop politicians from squandering tax payer dollars.

[@danarrington2224]

So it costs $550K per unit in L.A. That's completely insane. I live on 3 acres of land in a brick house with a swimming pool. They are trying to tell us that to build 1 unit for the homeless costs more than double what I paid for my house. No corruption to see here!!

[@_Morph1ne_]

These volunteers are a lot braver than me. I wouldn’t get within 10 miles of this place without body armor.

[@psshatyTV]

If they bring down the proprety taxes and the huge complications and fees that are required to build a new building this problem will solve it self. This is just insane how they have created a problem with taxes and burocracy and than they are trying to resolve it with more taxes.

[@MA-go7ee]

Homelessness is not a housing problem. Drugs and mental illness mostly.

[@Strideo1]

Also let's not forget that LA's city council is only interested in addressing the issue with "new housing" and has ignored funding more pragmatic approaches to the problem.

[@psshatyTV]

@@MA-go7ee i know that thos are big factors, but there is also the thig when someone's homeless so he can't maintain a presentable look so he cant get a job sot he's homeless. But yeah may you're mostly rigth. But reducing property taxes and construction burocracy won't do any harm either.

[@Weirdomanification]

Seems like part of a solution.

[@jabreck1934]

Property taxes in Texas are over twice as much. Bad example

[@dianamincher6479]

There's more than enough money for transitional emergency housing and permanent supportive housing!

[@johnblaws8133]

True. Buy people are very greedy. You got people living in garages etc.. Jesus come quick 😇

[@nerdsofgotham]

If you subsidize homelessness you get more of it. It is not very hard to understand.

[@glassdogangle]

You are right. If they start giving out free apartments to homeless people, I am going to retire immediately, sell my house, buy a bar of gold that I can carry easily, get my free apartment, and live off the gold for the rest of my life. Pretty sure hundreds of thousands would do the same and have already thought about this.

[@allcatall3931]

same as, with luxury construction, so called (a frenzy, rlly)..

[@user-xs1fm3bo8t]

Just so you know, the mayor gets a 1,000,000 a year pension.

[@eddiekulp1241]

I doubt that

[@melonie_peppers]

Watching this from the 3rd world, I feel disgusted. 70 000 people on the streets in one city!?

[@vickiladu6755]

I’ve retired in Mexico and there are no tents there. There are some homeless scattered around but barely a spec compared to the USA!!!! Glad I moved out of there in mid 2019 and haven’t been back since!

[@dahveed284]

The problem with the homeless population isn’t that they don’t have housing, it’s significant mental illnesses and substance addiction. Housing is only the result of many of these people’s untreated mental health illnesses and/or addiction to drugs (alcohol, meth, opiates, etc). Building a bunch of free housing for the street people doesn’t really help them. Focus on treating the underlying issues and the jobs and housing will solve itself.

[@enzosperandio9481]

Or in short, Leftist/Democrats ideology and policy gone to the end.

[@Thousand_yard_King]

I am sorry but unless you've been down there and talked to these people, you don't know what you're talking about. I served at the la mission giving out food to the homeless for an entire year, and only one in 10 had drug related issues, three in 10 had alcohol related issues, and about 4 and 10 had mental health issues, the rest simply were working poor and did not make enough to pay the exorbitant prices for housing after taxes and the higher the government drives the costs of homes through taxation the more homeless we're going to have, more than 50% of the people who came in to the mission were mothers with children, these mothers were often receiving large sums of money from baby daddies but still could not make enough to rent a house that would hold their two, three, four, five, sometimes six children. These were not people with mental problems other than the fact that they were homeless and felt ashamed. Go serve them food for a while then break it down to anything you want

[@f__kyoudegenerates]

Lots of people are homeless because they don't like the system we live in either. You can't own land, you can't own a business, you can't do anything without the people getting a say in your life.

[@dahveed284]

@@Thousand_yard_King I have served this community. I have seen many many interviews with these people. You can simply look at the trash around these encampments to see the impact of drugs and alcohol: needles, pipes, and bottles are everywhere. There are certainly some that do work and live on the streets, but they are a minority. In my experience.

[@dahveed284]

@@f__kyoudegenerates I understand that. And far be it from me to judge them. If you don’t want to live with restrictions on your life and get high everyday, ok. But don’t expect me to put up with you living in my neighborhood, using the restroom in my yard, and stealing my stuff for you to pay for your drugs. Also don’t expect me to provide you shelter because you have chosen a different path. If you want freedom, then go be free, but not on my property or on public lands. I pay for those parks, I should be able to use them without fear of finding needles and trash. Or fearing that a crazed person will attack me or my family.

[@brada1803]

Case management = administrative wages/Benefits

[@justice929]

HOMELESSNESS EXPLODED IN THE 60'S WHEN RONALD REAGAN EMPTIED THE CRAZY HOUSES AND THEY MULTIPLED EXPONENITIONLY MANY MENTALLY ILL.

[@joangordoneieio]

The Democrats Poverty Industry is alive and thriving.

[@souchoysaeteurn5211]

If I have to pay taxes on my property, roads, public places, etc then I should have a right to be able to get rid of those homeless people by any means necessary. I worked at a drug rehab center for a year and I can tell you all that out of the shit ton of drug addicts (especially the homeless) only a handful of them wanted to better themselves. It’s a damn shame

[@margpeterson9721]

Heres something I read: The book 'Strategies to combat Homelessness' states it is the fault of governments worldwide, mankind cannot solve this problem. Only God's government or Kingdom will. Isa. 65:21,22 says, "They will build houses and live in them......"

[@RexKramerDangerSeeker]

Look at the spending for "homeless", people are getting 6-figure salaries for doing nothing about it. But, hey at least those people can say to their friends, "I help the homeless", as they collect their checks.