REV BILL CREWS STORIES - A Night With Sydney's Homeless

Every winter I spend many cold nights on the streets of Sydney with the homeless; listening to their stories to better understand their changing needs. Bless them all.
For more stories go to the latest episode of Stories From The Edge at billcrewstv.org/

[@Liz-sq9pf]

Thank you for helping the homeless.

[@davechristian7543]

When was this filmed plz Bill? Thank you for being good to others my friend. #Peace.

[@thedolphin5428]

Ha, as a social worker, I went to that Homeless Conference in Penrith in 2010 (just one of many). From The Minister, The Police Chief, numerous PhD academics on homelessness; they all talked and talked and, a year later, all statistics were worse. The most heartfelt boffin there was the LOCAL Police Commander who posed the (uncomfortable and unanswered) question -- "But what can I do? These people are starving. There are families living and cooking in the bus shelters. I'm told to just move them on. All the homeless hostels are overfull. What can I do?" On the way home, another older Council Youth Worker woke me up to the cold hard facts of why. He postulates that the middle and upper classes *want and need* a poverty-stricken underclass as an illustration of "If you don’t go on to year 12; if you do drugs; if you don't get a job, pay a rental lease, aspire for a house, get a credit card; if you don't conform to societal norms in all the usual ways; *you too will END UP ON THE STREETS* . It's all an intentional ploy by the elites to MAINTAIN a visible underclass of "social failures". Of course, the compassionate folks help to battle this syndrome, but so long as they do that -- saving lives with their free meals and blankets --, the situation can remain stable as designed. Sad but true.

[@charlottedowling2241]

His parents should be ashamed of themselves not giving him a hand, I bet if he won the lotto they would be first with there hands out.it is so sad the greed of the people not helping there family out .

[@timothyfifield8369]

You know whats funny when you tell a friend you are actually homeless and poor , they cut you off, even the friends you thought were forward thinking . Nup doesnt fit

[@thedolphin5428]

At 7:45, not being unkind ... "Treatment for mental health issues", as many encourage, is only a tiny salve for the permanent brain damage caused by years of drug and alcohol usage which has concommitantly lowered a previously low IQ. Even if that guy got straight, got a home, he'd be unlikely to be able to keep his life on track. He and many others like him need CARE for the rest of their lives. Prior to 1983, institutions did this. But Govts closed them down. Now they're on the streets. Duh!