Jails and prisons are already the big Psychiatric Hospitals of the past. The way we treat the least among us speaks volumes about us as a people and a country.
@roberthoeg19647 ай бұрын
The major problem in America with homelessness is very simple and the reality of it is that American people have no empathy not saying some of us don't but the majority of this country has zero amount especially landlords because a lot of them have no heart or sole.
@apollothirteen92367 ай бұрын
The way the wealthy are treated tells the morality of a nation.
@theywouldnthavetocensormei92317 ай бұрын
You don't end up in prison because you treat people well.
@GreyOne137 ай бұрын
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 so existing while poor and destitute is an act of aggression?
@dominicfucinari19427 ай бұрын
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Corporate prisons *wanted* to supplant mental health treatment centers and social services because that would be more people they could milk for free labor. It doesn't help that they preyed upon a public panic over a possibly crime-torn society where everyone's burying and mourning a child who fell prey to a serial killer, because now the apoliticals in the US think everyone who landed in prison is a complete monster on par with a cannibal.
@SLAUGHTERAMA7 ай бұрын
A lot of homeless shelters have really severe curfews and check in times. So if you find a graveyard shift job and can't be there at midnight to claim your bed, you lose it. Bedbugs, disease, theft, assaults all run rampant in shelters to the point where a lot of homeless people just feel safer out on the streets. Additionally, a lot of shelters require a valid ID for check in. You can't get an ID if you don't have a fixed address, and IDs cost money to issue. There are SO many problems with homeless shelters that nobody wants to talk about.
@LilChuunosuke7 ай бұрын
Yup I've been homeless before and one of the first and biggest pieces of advice you're consistently given is to never sleep in a shelter. That it's better and safer to sleep in a police holding cell than it is to sleep in a shelter. That's how dangerous, unhygienic, and inconvenient shelters are. They're only really for children, sick people, and theives.
@Pistolita2217 ай бұрын
@@LilChuunosukea shocking number of people go to jail intentionally to escape the winter. Common capitalist w. Homelessness forces people to commit crimes.
@willowtdog64497 ай бұрын
Many also only allow a person to stay a certain number of nights in a row. Not to mention all the other super-restrictive rules.
@Davidsmith-lw8gb7 ай бұрын
Yep and a bunch of them cram their religion down your thought.
@barbaraibiel7 ай бұрын
Oh, the id issue again.
@jimbo16377 ай бұрын
The funniest part is thst in most states, a year of prison time costs more than a year of rent, food, and job training combined. If you're willing to spend the amount it costs to send homeless people to jail, why not spend that money in a way that might actually result in them getting back on their feet and contributing economically?
@VoiceOfTheEmperor7 ай бұрын
There's no Lobbyists for such a cause.
@user-cr4pz5yg7y7 ай бұрын
Cruelty is the point
@sarahj69957 ай бұрын
Profit is the point.
@borginburkes18197 ай бұрын
The country needs people to be imprisoned cuz the profit margins are too high.
@DharmaPunk1117 ай бұрын
Free labor for private prisons is why they are doing this. This is just slavery. They want to turn the unhoused people into slaves for their private prisons.
@cliffordmeberg14437 ай бұрын
It’s cheaper to do the right thing. It’s cheaper to be kind. It’s cheaper to be a better human being. And so on.
@ross47 ай бұрын
It’s depressing how when we’re talking about “homelessness policy” in this country, we aren’t talking about providing housing or social support, we’re talking about criminalizing sleeping outside and taking away lifesaving shelter like tents and blankets.
@maclectic7 ай бұрын
Providing housing or social support doesn’t do anything when the people will not stay in the housing or attend the social support programs
@smokedbeefandcheese41447 ай бұрын
@@maclectic what you’re talking about though is care provided in bad faith that is currently what’s going on. You guys make Hell and expect people to live in it. If you think homeless shelters are so good you should go to sleep on those life leeching lice ridden mattress that’s the problem you guys make a fake shelter that isn’t real that doesn’t let you get employment because of the restrictive curfew and then you criminalize people for working Out at night and not being in a shelter.
@eragon786 ай бұрын
@@maclectic Most people will. Those who dont its up to them. Plus, if you actually PROVIDE shelters to people, then you have a legitimate argument for making sleeping on the streets illegal since people always have a place to go if they need it. But instead, you're just straight up making homelessness illegal which is utter fucking nonsense.
@dinorancher55607 ай бұрын
I am so scared for the unhoused during this country-wide winter storm. I do winter camping and it takes very specialized, often expensive, gear to survive the night.
@Crazywaffle51507 ай бұрын
How can stimply not owning or renting property or living under a shelter be classified as crime? How can you be required by law to obtain property when you dont have the funds to do so? These laws could be abused toward people simply exising on public property without even being homless in the first place. Wtf?
@Davidsmith-lw8gb7 ай бұрын
The law is not applied equally. They use it to target the people they want.
@thewhitefalcon85397 ай бұрын
That's the whole point. They want to kill everyone who won't be their slave, but when killing is impossible they'll settle for permanent imprisonment.
@brittanycrawford7317 ай бұрын
It’s like they want to reinstate debtors prisons even if u never had enough money to live anywhere to owe anyone money or acquire debt. Sick
@smokedbeefandcheese41447 ай бұрын
Yeah it is a legal system not a justice system.
@Gates97 ай бұрын
A lot of this was addressed in the Mental Health Systems Act which was repealed by Reagan. People are going to look back on the homeless crisis the same way we look at the way people were treated during the depression, the way people were treated during the civil rights era.
@korpse6rinder7 ай бұрын
Instead of housing them let's make the tax payer pay 25k to 75k a year per person to keep them in private prisons... This has nothing to do with kick backs, don't even look into it.
@SactoShane7 ай бұрын
What about all that free manual labor though
@DanA-nl5uo7 ай бұрын
If they criminalize homelessness then does eviction become a crime for rental companies?
@middleagebrotips34547 ай бұрын
They are criminalizing becoming homeless, not causing someone to become homeless.
@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt7 ай бұрын
Of course not the corporations rule this country
@52flyingbicycles7 ай бұрын
No, getting evicted would be a crime though
@exi85507 ай бұрын
you have it backwards. people would be immediately arrested when evicted and sent to jail
@findingkelly7 ай бұрын
@@exi8550 Unbelievable. People are struggling and instead of providing support, we're jailing them.
@almosthelpless93747 ай бұрын
The real estate industry has a vested interest in making sure poor people don't have housing. We have enough vacant homes in the United States to solve this issue.
@divinekitty18317 ай бұрын
@@SY-qg6qn better a run-down, shitty house, than literally sleeping in a tent on the streets
@bluemcneil58837 ай бұрын
All new development is mostly for upper class. Banks buy up homes to rent them indefinitely. Every bootstrap rise story is some shit dick who bought a second home or room and rented it. Perpetuating the cycle. Fuck this country cement the pipes, cooking oil down the drains fishes plastered in the walls. Destroy unaffordable property.
@KnoTasItSeams7 ай бұрын
There are a ton of large beach houses on the coast near me that are empty half the year. Complete waste of space.
@bradleydawson90437 ай бұрын
Employers also use the threat of homelessness to coerce workers.
@reidwhitton62487 ай бұрын
The government could repair the homes instead of giving Israel 14 billion to murder Palestinians.
@verng88647 ай бұрын
Our corrupt greedy corporations should be forced to pay for the housing of the homeless in our country. They have benefited the greatest, and paid the least in taxes. Now it's their turn to help our country
@blueberry-ri7eb7 ай бұрын
Besos is a billionaire and pays no taxes. Tax the rich and build affordable apartments and services.
@verng88647 ай бұрын
@@blueberry-ri7eb absolutely. The rich are screwing all of us over
@larkrake17 ай бұрын
Churches first
@WanderingExistence7 ай бұрын
Just so people are aware the leading cause of homelessness is the high rate of housing prices. It is not a function of mental health instability nor drug addiction, it is mainly the unaffordability of housing, which needs to be addressed on a systemic level.
@joshquayle16037 ай бұрын
Not disagreeing. But where did you get this information that the leading cause of homelessness is housing affordability?
@WanderingExistence7 ай бұрын
@@joshquayle1603 Denver, CO is doing a privately funded UBI study ($50/mo, vs $1000/mo, vs $6500 upfront and $500/mo for 1yr) and that statistic was cited from the article reporting on the issue... Sorry cant remember the publication.
@theywouldnthavetocensormei92317 ай бұрын
That's just plain untrue, drug addiction is the leading cause of homelessness, by a huge margin. The numbers are complicated, because there's rarely just one cause, it's usually several causes. But to pretend like it's just a product of the economy is dishonest. How do you explain people who aren't homeless? They live in the same economy.
@MoneyMattersMoreThanYourVotes7 ай бұрын
Pretty sure poverty is the leading cause of homelessness
@WanderingExistence7 ай бұрын
@@MoneyMattersMoreThanYourVotes Poverty is a function of wages and costs... If the cost is too high than that causes poverty. Not saying you're wrong, just that there's more to thw story.
@anniefitzgerald44477 ай бұрын
I live in a town in Western Washington's state that essentially did criminalize homelessness by making it illegal to beg on street corners anywhere in the city. When I confronted the mayor over this ordinance and I asked him to tell me what policies they have planned for helping the homeless population, he pushed off the responsibility onto the local churches and/or the Everett Gospel Mission in the next town over which is only accessible via bus or vehicle! He literally pushed it off to the next town!! Considering that I have been homeless before myself, his answer disgusted me and made me sick to my stomach. Republican policies at their finest.
@kikibean20247 ай бұрын
Many homeless work but pay is 💩 and the rents are too high.
@Natty1837 ай бұрын
As a person with Asperger's and CPTSD after just being prey my entire life in different forms or another, I live in a suburban right now and I'm working a job i hope to make my career. I have some true psycopaths in my family and I'm only just getting my feet after going no contact with all of them. I'm in a state where the rent price is really insane and I'm learning to live in next to nothing and trying to save. I was attacked in a truck stop bathroom when i was brushing my teeth and it really triggered my CPTSD and i struggled for a month to talk to people. I'm stalked by police and in some cities I'm stalked by private vehicles. It doesn't happen everywhere but certain cities seem to literally stalk homeless people. I'm not sure why u was stalked in the last place. So far in the new city is just normal panopticon type feeling. It's terrifying to be homeless in America. I'm treated as less than human and my dream was to learn to organize a working class party and do grassroots art and information decimanation to help organize against corporate interests. I don't even want to. This isn't my country, I have not community, all help is terrifying and the opposite of help and will cause just insane problems and I'm not even sure why i would want to try to help a society that just wants me dead. F it. I listen to political opinions all day and we're f'd. We demonize each other, to the point of commiting atrocities. This is a gross country, not my country.
@jarrodkober7 ай бұрын
I was homeless in Colorado Springs and they had one shelter for adults. It was massively over crouded and shitty. If you did the slightest thing wrong you'd be banned for 2 days no matter how cold it was. They even kicked an elderly woman out in the middle of the night because she was acting up. She was mentally ill! But she froze to death that night. It's hard to sleep because everyone gets sick at once and it's non stop caughing all night. It also takes hours to check everyone in every night. So you're waiting in line in the cold to get in, getting snowed on. You also have to bring your own blanket and everything. If that gets taken away you might die from the cold. Pretending like the infrastructure is there is a horrible miscalculation or outright lie. I experienced it first hand. It's a horrific way to live and the people in tents don't want to deal with the shelter bullshit.
@danhtran64017 ай бұрын
And regular people are tired of stepping on your shit. We already gave you food money, pay taxes so you can have lighted streets to piss on. You guys need to beg in Hollywood, where the rich are. Stop begging other poor people. Why should they work when you don't have to...
@brittanycrawford7317 ай бұрын
I’m sorry for your experiences. I’ve tried to help find resources for people in similar circumstances to your own for decades now and I’ve run into exactly what you all are describing. Shelter in my area u had to sign up a day in advance for the next night and ppl lined up all night to try to be one of the only 150 ppl to get on that list each day. Then the rules u all described same issues also etc.
@jarrodkober7 ай бұрын
@@brittanycrawford731 thank you, I ended up getting back into long term sobriety and off the streets. Didn't get the help I needed in Colorado but elsewhere. Homelessness is one of the worst and traumatic experiences someone can go through. It is dehumanizing. I wasn't choosing that. I was incredibly sick and mentally ill being an alcoholic bipolar off my meds. Most homeless folks are just sick and need help. People mostly treat you and all the other homeless people like garbage. It's obvious when you see them being shipped across the country and treated these ways. The whole point of a society is safety and taking care of eachother.
@richardspillers62827 ай бұрын
I feel for you. My mother ended up there and I had to go get her. It took me quite a while to get her. That place was a cesspool. It was like being in a 3rd world country. Lots of addicts, lots of criminals, mingling with people just down on their luck. My mom is a double amputee and they were made to stay outside all day. I'm lucky I got her back. I could write a novel about the period of time.
@jarrodkober7 ай бұрын
@@richardspillers6282 I'm glad to hear that! My family is constantly greatful to have me back. On the other side of that equation- it hurts to be there and know your family is struggling and they have a higher standard of care for you etc. I'm personally a manic bipolar addict alcoholic. Went from being successful, had a great job and really nice place for 6 years and it all fell apart in just a couple months. It's hard not to be resentful especially when you're stuck in a shelter with other people that seem crazier than you. But we all got there one way or another being down on our luck, some sicker than others. I just needed some help and got it. But some of them are too sick to get themselves help, or see no way out. Overall we need much more social safety nets and help for all of us that have been or are currently experiencing homelessness. IMO it's largely mental health, disease and the brutal capitalism we live under. I wish people would see those less fortunate or sick more positively. People claim to be christians and despise the very people Jesus called for them to nurture.
@marti78217 ай бұрын
Some of those shelters are full of bedbugs and violent people. My son was robbed and beaten in one in Chicago.
@AlexaZamfira6 ай бұрын
I almost got stabbed in a shelter because of jealous females in Chicago
@Yaaasuko7 ай бұрын
It is absolutely cruel to punish homelessness because we can literally cut a little bit of military spending to end homelessness in the entire country. Homelessness is a crisis in the US and it’s pathetic that we allow anyone to be homeless in the US.
@dchenkin027 ай бұрын
A large amount of military spending isn't even paying soldiers and retired veteran benefits; it is corporate welfare to weapons manufacturing corporations. We absolutely could use the money to provide homeless citizens with infrastructure jobs.
@Fabio-bu9bp7 ай бұрын
Homelessness is a choice in some places. There are a lot of social programs to help homeless in cities like Denver. They cover all basic needs and give out special social workers to help with job applications and housing applications. Homelessness is from mental health and and drug addiction issue. Ending homelessness isn't possible
@That_Freedom_Guy7 ай бұрын
The entire point of capitalism is to establish and exploit difference so the economic engine can turn. Like voltage, no potential difference, no energy. The aspirational poor are the major drivers of the economy. Seeking a greater income is big business.
@bluemcneil58837 ай бұрын
@@Fabio-bu9bpyou can end unaffordable homelessness and slow the trickle train to drugs and mental health deterioration. You don't think seeing housing as an unaffordable dream doesn't lead you to just give up?
@yishnir7 ай бұрын
@@bluemcneil5883He's simply lying. Other countries have successfully 'solved' homelessness simply by providing housing, a stipend, counseling, and job training. And it's cheaper for the taxpayers.
@iwinyoulose94277 ай бұрын
I’m sure this case will not affect for profit prisons at all.
@Dan166737 ай бұрын
Make the rich like kyle and krystal take them in
@ZiggyUchiha7 ай бұрын
@@Dan16673 you mentally handicapped ?
@Joshua-fg8mz7 ай бұрын
@@Dan16673 oh Dan I have a feeling your closer to being sucked up by the system then any of us here.
@custos32497 ай бұрын
Oh, no, it'll definitely affect them. $$$$$$$$$
@absolutfreak50127 ай бұрын
@@Dan16673 Breaking out the big brain today, eh Dan? Clearly when homelessness is on the rise, the problem should be solved by specifically those worried about the homeless personally taking them in. Otherwise they don't REALLY care, right Dan?
@Sunnernite7 ай бұрын
With this right wing court, it wouldn't surprise me if scotus decides that the homeless don't have any rights.
@SpinX5227 ай бұрын
It wouldn’t surprise me if they made it a capital offence.
@KoinoniaTheos7 ай бұрын
FOH!!! Go be a vagrant somewhere else!!!
@mr.frandy76927 ай бұрын
lol, get real@@SpinX522
@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt7 ай бұрын
@@SpinX522so true; there has to be a revolution
@matthewtucker20587 ай бұрын
It's especially crazy since prison is such an expensive way to get them off the streets. Just build some mfing housing
@vforillo7 ай бұрын
Yes, it is cruel, because it adds insult to injury
@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt7 ай бұрын
Yeah and imagine sleeping in the rain; that’s definitely cruel
@mythiccdxx7 ай бұрын
Shouldn't they be holding the federal government accountable for not doing their job providing for the general welfare?
@Nobodyimportant6967 ай бұрын
Of course not. we have to give money to Israel.
@peterroberts44157 ай бұрын
It's not the federal governments job to do everything. 10th amendment means this is a state and local issue
@absolutfreak50127 ай бұрын
@@Nobodyimportant696 Those civilians aren't going to bomb themselves!
@mythiccdxx7 ай бұрын
@@peterroberts4415 i never said it was their job to do everything, but this was their job.
@coastcoast22277 ай бұрын
@@mythiccdxx government is not the answer. Send them to your house or churches
@burningsnow98707 ай бұрын
So if they criminalize homelessness...is there a grace period? Or is an eviction going to be met with police to take you away then and there?
@thewhitefalcon85397 ай бұрын
They wait until you do one of the things you're obviously forced to do, like sleeping on the street or peeing on the street. Then they pretend it was your voluntary choice and lock you up.
@danhtran64017 ай бұрын
People should just report them...
@thewhitefalcon85397 ай бұрын
@@danhtran6401 What would this achieve?
@thelastmohicaneagleeye65817 ай бұрын
Didn't a study just come out a week or 2 ago that showed over 50% of homeless persons were employed?
@amw78287 ай бұрын
💯😞it’s about funding
@FaceSilence7 ай бұрын
Oof... yeah things don't look too good for working class
@realtalk53297 ай бұрын
I believe that. Last time I looked it up it was 40%
@grmpEqweer7 ай бұрын
An article from Invisible People says 40.1% percent of outdoor homeless have jobs. They also have a high rate of physical and mental disabilities that may hamper a lot of them from getting a full-time job. ...Also noted, shelters can't often accommodate people who work evenings/ nightshift.
@grmpEqweer7 ай бұрын
In Singapore they have what's called "coffin hotels." They kinda suck, but at least you get a bed in a closed, LOCKABLE compartment, with shelves. ...So your stuff doesn't disappear. ...We could also build more Single Room Occupancy buildings. Again, you have your own, secure space.
@Delita0137 ай бұрын
I thought america isn’t suppose to have debtors prisons. How is jailing homeless people not constituted as jailing someone for not having debt or even having debt?
@qjtvaddict7 ай бұрын
It was founded as an open air debtors prison read up on history
@angelm.bouchard37227 ай бұрын
In America people can be sent to jail for not having car insurance, even if they can’t afford it. Americans can go to jail if they can’t afford to pay their child support. I agree with that if they can pay, but won’t. Not when they legitimately can’t. Americans can have their homes sold out from under them by HOAs. Basically, a lot of Americans are just screwed. and HOAs can sell your house.
@aimemaggie7 ай бұрын
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just…give people homes?
@johntousseau93807 ай бұрын
Yes, but landlords and NIMBYs are stopping public housing.
@anthonydelfino61717 ай бұрын
But where's the profit in that?
@52flyingbicycles7 ай бұрын
It is!
@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot7 ай бұрын
Yep
@beansmayne45817 ай бұрын
But what do you do after they destroy them ...
@user-dw4qn3zc3m7 ай бұрын
It's interesting to see that the western system does not think about how to help the homeless but rather how to punish them. It opens my eyes to see how different the systems are in terms of the cultures and ideologies.
@thewhitefalcon85397 ай бұрын
Everything is fascism when you look deep enough. It's all fascism, always has been.
@DonQuixotedeKaw7 ай бұрын
When psychopaths rule the world...
@savegraysoncats7 ай бұрын
They should never be allowed to seize and discard their personal property. This is how unhoused people lose their IDs and personal items and many things that can help them.continue to live
@deakonkuster7 ай бұрын
Many places criminalize helping the homeless, public feeding or tiny homes are constantly destroyed or removed.
@smokedbeefandcheese41447 ай бұрын
Yeah because it threatens the landlords monopoly on controlling shelter. They are literally using mafia tactics to deny people housing so they can criminalize it as well as raise rents. It doesn’t matter that it causes inflation and peoples wages aren’t keeping up. They want like 35 people living in a tiny room and each paying them rent.
@lucidity17 ай бұрын
becoming homeless is a cruel and unusual punishment for losing your job... (or simply making too little money)
@jd-tg1ox7 ай бұрын
Good luck getting fines from a homeless person. LMAO
@hukigid7 ай бұрын
That would make it an opportunity to put them in jail. they're better off in jail than they are out on the streets not getting any help whatsoever
@austinsnyder69017 ай бұрын
@@hukigid Right because nothing helps you get a job and get back on your feet like having a criminal record.
@Fillet_O_Chris7 ай бұрын
For-profit prisons fix that problem for the elites. They’re able to get them off the streets so they don’t have to see them AND they’re still able to use that individual to create profits elsewhere.
@VogtTD7 ай бұрын
Fines? They'll just throw them in prison.
@07Flash11MRC7 ай бұрын
Still ain't funny. Whatever that homeless person could get their hands on, will be taken away from them.
@BlueBeetle19397 ай бұрын
GIVE THEM HOMES
@custos32497 ай бұрын
But how will we make money on that? Ya see, we don't solve problems in the US, we turn them into revenue streams.
@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt7 ай бұрын
@@custos3249 but can always find money for wars huh?
@custos32497 ай бұрын
@@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt "...we don't solve problems in the US, we turn them into revenue streams."
@SactoShane7 ай бұрын
That make me feel inferior though
@JFox3377 ай бұрын
They don’t want homes. They want to do drugs in a tent. Go talk to them and they will tell you this.
@barbiedesoto70547 ай бұрын
I think it should be pointed out that both parties are intertwined with hedge funds that are buying properties all over and with the private prison companies. So I could see it being unanimous overturning the legal protections for homeless people, essentially punishing them for not renting from blackrock or otherwise getting out it prison to be a slave for the state to profit from.
@fsdfgasgfisd7 ай бұрын
So here we are, Debating the legality of homelessness. That's wild.
@nonzz3ro7 ай бұрын
Imagine a world where it's illegal to sleep outside
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
No just America. Other actual first world, actual civilized countries consider shelter to be a human right
@anthonydelfino61717 ай бұрын
So I think the answer is to go to campgrounds and kick people out of their tents and cite state law that you can't sleep in a tent outside.
@SactoShane7 ай бұрын
@@rlud304capitalism needs homelessness to keep the worker scared and in line
@LadyDoomsinger7 ай бұрын
@@SactoShane You mean the dystopian, hellscape version of "capitalism" that is basically just an oligarchy in which the rich and the corporations control the law that they have in America. Capitalism seems to work fine without a homelessness crisis in the EU.
@adifferentlight55307 ай бұрын
bingo. ! We need to be kept in fear with the consequence of our non-compliance torture. @@SactoShane
@thegethconsensus3937 ай бұрын
We need to decommodify housing and enshrine it as a basic human right. We could start with housing first programs like in the Nordic countries but I think the various landlord companies need to be dealt away with.
@anthonydelfino61717 ай бұрын
and all the neighborhood groups who would see this as a threat to their property values. here in California, more than the politicians, those neighborhood groups have been one of the biggest obstacles to building more housing.
@nil9817 ай бұрын
And yet the Nordic countries have been having a colossal housing crisis for years now. Especially with the ongoing refugee crisis.
@graemejclark7 ай бұрын
Grants Pass long-time Resident and Native Oregonian. The homeless population is huge compared to the total population size here. There was a ruling of some sort that allowed them in parks, and now they are in every park. There are places, I believe, for them to stay. Part of the reason they may not be are requirements on staying "clean" and there is a huge drug problem coinciding with homelessness here. Crazy rent increases in this area are in contrast to a lack of wage increases.
@AfroGalactiKa7 ай бұрын
I've been watching this problem for years. Here in Jacksonville, FL there are only a couple homeless shelters so the city set aside a small plot of land for an encampment and it grew quickly. But South Georgia cities started to ship the homeless here so they closed the encampment. Meanwhile the homeless population is growing everyday and now I'm one of them. This is a horrible situation for a lot of people
@vivalaleta7 ай бұрын
Fining or jailing the homeless is stupid af.
@EVIL-C7 ай бұрын
These authorities ordering homeless people into shelters, have never been into a shelter. We've all heard the reports of how terrible many of them are. If I was homeless, I'd take my chances outside.
@amw78287 ай бұрын
Then fund tiny housing communities or condos. Other communities have done so and it’s been successful.
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
@@amw7828This country has so much money! The homeless problem could absolutely be solved. Meanwhile the Pentagon keeps getting raises for being incompetent because good ole’ American corruption always wins
@smokedbeefandcheese41447 ай бұрын
@@amw7828Tiny housing communities are the same as shelters. Keep hearing you guys say this but all of these “communities” all have curfews and all have razor wire around them. You should just give people houses instead of building an open air prison camp with sheds in it.
@michaeld48617 ай бұрын
Jesus, this is terrifying. The homeless numbers now are just under 700,000. And there's been multiple cities just this last year that have literally criminalized being homeless, most notably in texas. I just read another article about a church in Ohio that, just this last week during the giant snow storms and freezing cold, was raided by police and forced to kick out the homeless back onto the street that were temporarily allowed to rest there. The pastor of the church is now facing criminal charges because there's a city ordinance that says that no establishments are allowed to let people sleep there. The same day that multiple people froze to death because they didn't have anywhere to go. In the US we are all just one medical or other emergency away from being homeless and therefore enslaved or murdered by the state.
@user-cz5lj2vx1f7 ай бұрын
WHAT? I thought "the issue" for thee laws was NOT wanting people "living on the STREET". It makes NO SENSE to REQUIRE a CHURCH to kickout homeless people! Wish that church would SUE THE CITY for religious discrimination fo making them kick homeless people out of their SANCTUARYY
@valerielhw7 ай бұрын
I live in Portland, OR and we have a large homeless problem here. The problem with "shelters" is that they are often not run humanely. I have never been homeless myself, but I have befriended people who are. They tell me that most shelters won't let people in until night-time, while forcing them to get up by 5AM to eat, shower and get out. Such schedules aren't accomodating to those with _non_ nine-to-five jobs, those with unconventional sleep patterns or those *with dogs.* People also complain about ramped theft in these places. No wonder so many homeless people prefer tent camping to that! We as a society could solve homelessness by providing individual affordable housing to all in need, providing free and accessible job training programs and drug/mental health treatment programs to all who want and need them. It is terrible that people are living in such conditions in a "developed" country.
@SactoShane7 ай бұрын
But providing housing to them makes feel inferior and not special
@valerielhw7 ай бұрын
@@SactoShane Are you actually making fun of those with no roof over their heads, forced to choose between two evils? I would bet my next month's rent that if you found yourself homeless, you would fall apart very quickly. Try to show a bit of empathy, rather than ridicule, for those less fortunate than you are!
@anthonysofia61697 ай бұрын
Literally throwing people in jail for being poor
@FeralWorker7 ай бұрын
I wish Kyle thought things through more. Even if someone had a legal residence, they almost always wouldn't be sleeping on the street for a trivial reason. E.g. Domestic violence situations. So that should never be a law.
@andreamartini29897 ай бұрын
Completely agreed, it would also run the risk of criminalising overnight protests.
@Arc115YT7 ай бұрын
My brother was homeless for awhile, and a lot of times, these shelters just don't have enough room to accommodate the entire homeless population, so some people inevitably end up sleeping outside.
@rbgninja73437 ай бұрын
The "American Dream" is steadily trending towards the American Dystopian Nightmare"... Some would argue were already there and its getting worse!
@danhtran64017 ай бұрын
Don't quit your day job...
@amw78287 ай бұрын
💯💐I agree with Kyle; fully fund shelters and tiny home communities; the other severe populations can be detained.
@smokedbeefandcheese41447 ай бұрын
Those things are bad. People should just be given houses. Shelters only cause more crime and bedbugs. And sickness. And the tiny house thing is just putting up a razor wire fence around a bunch of sheds and telling people they can’t come back to their house if they’re too late. People should be given their own place and not be treated like prisoners. But that is all the shelter has to offer. It’s not really a community it’s more of a prison if there is RazorWire facing inward.
@Aidenn237 ай бұрын
If it's said to be illegal to be homeless, in a time where our economy is the worst its been outside of the 2008 crash, in decades and our housing crisis is getting worse and worse, then it's time. I'm not gonna say what it's time for. But it's time.
@dchenkin027 ай бұрын
Not true, unemployment is at its lowest level since the Great Depression. The Stock Market and corporate profits are a record highs.
@Aidenn237 ай бұрын
@@dchenkin02lol no shit. Too bad that’s not an actual indication of how the people are actually doing with jobs that don’t pay shit and less than half of the population invested in the stock market
@jamesmarchetti32867 ай бұрын
The main thing could be accountability asking why isn't affordable housing allowed or encouraged 😮 😢 ???? 🤔 🤔 🤔 Throughout the USA !!! Especially for military Veterans !!!
@juanwilliams34237 ай бұрын
That obviously doesn't matter to a slum lord
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
Military veterans are no more worthy than anyone else of shelter. Enough of this military worship already 🙄
@juanwilliams34237 ай бұрын
@rlud304 you haven't served yall don't have any respect you go down range
@adiuntesserande68937 ай бұрын
So tell me, why should I inherently respect someone who chose to kill people for a living? Because ultimately, that’s the purpose of a military. And last I checked, the US military has been volunteer-only for almost 50 years.
@seanmcdonald46867 ай бұрын
I wonder how many of Clarence Thomas’ “friends” own companies that build and run private prisons. He seems like the type of person who gets rock hard at the prospect of throwing the poor into cells anyhow..
@borginburkes18197 ай бұрын
The other justices also have crooked Billionen friends. But go on and keep attacking the black man
@robertgarcia21027 ай бұрын
People need to realize that Homelessness can happen to anyone no matter what your situation might be...American is a rich country and there is no reason that the government can't build affordable housing some people will never go to a shelter unless you are rich anyone living pay check to paycheck can be homeless
@tylerhackner97317 ай бұрын
Considering the makeup of the court it wouldn’t surprise me how they rule
@johncharlton1997 ай бұрын
Homelessness should be treated as a public health issue, rather than a legal issue, pure and simple.
@williamhavrilla94697 ай бұрын
As if being homeless isn’t enough. As if the homeless demographic receiving the cold shoulder and instead migrants being housed isn’t enough, now there’s this. Profoundly sad.
@powderandpaint147 ай бұрын
Migrants aren't housed, they're caged.
@danhtran64017 ай бұрын
There are men who sacrifice their lives to fight wars and then there are beggars crying about their poor choices... pathetic...
@alexthefae7 ай бұрын
Considering how much rent is these days this will just make being poor illegal
@DylannDayZero7 ай бұрын
When rent is 10k…. They gunna throw us all in prision lol
@cesiba17 ай бұрын
Supreme court needs to be disbanded.
@custos32497 ай бұрын
Along with congress
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
The whole government is a cesspool of corruption. This US experiment has failed spectacularly
@meowy47207 ай бұрын
@@custos3249You think we should have absolutely no representation in government? what a stupid comment.
@custos32497 ай бұрын
@@meowy4720 That's exactly what I said. Well done. No notes. Magnificent. A winner is you. Minor quibble though - mind pointing to where I said that?
@meowy47207 ай бұрын
@@custos3249 That's what Congress does, dumb*ss. It's provides representation to the populace.
@Kinikkanak7 ай бұрын
Where are they supposed to go? The few shelters there are, the missions, the warming rooms, the food lines.... They are all in the cities. Are we supposed to ship these people to the middle of nowhere and leave them stranded with nothing? It is a heartbreaking situation. There are better solutions than what the cities have been proposing. There's just no money in those solutions. God forbid they do anything to just help people.
@thelastmohicaneagleeye65817 ай бұрын
Billions of Dollars for Ukraine and Israel to keep up the Empire project but not for homeless citizens. What have we become?
@Moriningland7 ай бұрын
We are what we are
@VoiceOfTheEmperor7 ай бұрын
An Empire.
@foramoreperfectamerica84907 ай бұрын
If SCOTUS says cities can arrest homeless people simply for being homeless, that will cause an unfunded mandate problem for cities who choose to jail homeless people, because there are not sufficent services in place to enable homeless people to follow the law. Cities will have to increase homeless services, if they choose to crackdown specifically on the act of being homeless.
@tormentorxl27327 ай бұрын
Yes, this is definitely part of the discussion. Doing NOTHING has zero results so far.
@foramoreperfectamerica84907 ай бұрын
@@tormentorxl2732 The unfunded mandate thing is why cities have never criminalized homelessness itself until now. As long as they don't say simply being homeless is illegal, they don't have an unfunded mandate. If they say being homeless is explicitly illegal, they'd have an unfunded mandate.
@metta87 ай бұрын
"Cities will have to increase homeless services" I think many cities are doing that now.
@Crazywaffle51507 ай бұрын
This!
@theywouldnthavetocensormei92317 ай бұрын
@@foramoreperfectamerica8490 how many homeless people are staying at your house?
@marcinzysko16537 ай бұрын
I once saw an interview with homeless who said that homeless shelters are wicked
@LabGoats7 ай бұрын
The private prison industry is loving this
@MrKansaitim7 ай бұрын
Poverty is a crime once again. There used to be the "poor house" and debtors prisons and we have returned to them good ole dayz!
@tybrady45987 ай бұрын
The Supreme Court needs to legalize sleeping in your vehicle if you’re legally parked.
@craigbrowning94487 ай бұрын
One problem with homeless shelters is often they're dumping grounds for all kinds of people with problems. I remember hearing a story of a woman losing her apartment because she paid the rent to an impostor landlord As a result she ended up in a church-run homeless shelter were the her purse was stolen while she was sleeping. In addition they got her car keys and stealing her. car. The homeless shelter led to a snowballing of her problems due to the lack of security at the facility.
@52flyingbicycles7 ай бұрын
Which is why they should just get a frickin home to live in instead of the BS charity shelter system
@craigbrowning94487 ай бұрын
@@52flyingbicycles Which is why everybody should be a billionaire.
@borginburkes18197 ай бұрын
@@craigbrowning9448I think that person was saying that they should be GIVEN homes.
@smokedbeefandcheese41447 ай бұрын
@@craigbrowning9448Having a home and everyone be a billionaire is not the same thing. And the fact that you think that these are equivalent means that your brain is broken
@craigbrowning94487 ай бұрын
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144 It helps to Suck Up to the Billionaires, maybe they won't foreclose on your house or find a Tennant willing to pay more. Being a "Normal" person who can Suck Ass on the upper echelons really helps!
@jlpsuroeste7 ай бұрын
Most people don’t realize how close they are to being homeless themselves.
@toneyeye7 ай бұрын
A supreme court that includes Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito will certainly rule that the local governments can clear out the homeless from public property. It is what they stand for - the medieval take on jurisprudence. I would be very glad to be wrong on my bet.
@danabutow7 ай бұрын
Thank you for covering this so well
@bladudemovies7 ай бұрын
Humans have had to right to live in the public for as long as we’ve had people.
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
Not in the US
@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt7 ай бұрын
@@rlud304because it’s too individualistic
@terririchter22797 ай бұрын
piss and shit and dirty needles,,,,living on the street without facilities endangers us all,,,,
@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt7 ай бұрын
@@terririchter2279 then solve the problem don’t just complain
@M.A.C.017 ай бұрын
Oregonian here, I can confirm our homeless problem is a big deal
@Ben_indistiguished7 ай бұрын
My aunt lives in Oregon and she refused to house me or my bother in our young 20's when we lost our jobs and couldn't pay rent. It is a deliberate decision that these families are making their own members homeless
@DharmaPunk1117 ай бұрын
@@Ben_indistiguishedit's true. The united states culture has a nasty habit of kicking family members out at 18 or if they cant simply "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." Most other cultures take care of their families and support each other in multigenerational homes. The US is f***ed up and it's on purpose. This is a result of corporate brainwashing.
@realtalk53297 ай бұрын
By homeless problem do u mean the problem of homeless ppl suffering or the "problem" of having to look at poor ppl?
@user-om5jq6lg5m7 ай бұрын
There is another way to address homelessness that cities dont want to contend with: housing and infrastructure spending.
@theboldandthebeautiful37297 ай бұрын
While they're at, they should pass a law that they can raise rent to unaffordable costs, raise the interest rate on our mortgages any time they want and, if you miss a payment, add huge fees to the next payment, that will ensure more people out on the streets and in jail or prison. My God, the shit going on is insane!
@bluemcneil58837 ай бұрын
There's a cool book quote "Destroy unaffordable housing. Destroy high cost elite construction sites. Violence against the wealthy." It's from That good book
@mikaelvalter-lithander12477 ай бұрын
Sweden considers the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment. As a consequence of this, it is a valid reason for an American risking the death penalty to get asylum in Sweden.
@itsjeninMass7 ай бұрын
I agree with Kyle. This supreme court doesn't care about humanity.
@52flyingbicycles7 ай бұрын
Knowing this court, they might rule that homeless people aren’t people
@PyrrhicPax7 ай бұрын
Im a former conservative from a blood red state. I can tell you that the conservative argument is that criminalizing homelessness is only more expensive to society IF you provide social services, therefore the solution is to not decriminalize homelessness, but to cancel social services. Anti-Socialist Capitalists believe that capitalism acts as a tool of natural selection, and therefore, anyone who cannot succeed in capitalism only fails because of some personal weakness or flaw, and therefore does not DESERVE to live or be mourned. I have had this view expressed, in no exaggeration of the word, UNANIMOUSLY, among conservative capitalists. I call it "Neo-Darwinism"
@VoiceOfTheEmperor7 ай бұрын
"I have yet to meet someone that can outsmart bullet." - The Heavy, TF2.
@mathiasbartl9037 ай бұрын
That's just social darwinism.
@PyrrhicPax7 ай бұрын
@@mathiasbartl903 respectfully, I think it's something new . Social Darwinism typically refers to survivability based on adherence to ethnic and cultural social conventions and prejudices. This...particular strain of social darwinism, let's say.... focuses explicitly on one's financial success, to the exclusion of *all other factors*, as it is believed by Neo-Darwinists that there IS no other explanation for lack of success within a commerce based society.
@diversefloater87687 ай бұрын
Land of the free right?
@Fillet_O_Chris7 ай бұрын
Free to do what the elites have decided for you.
@mossydog23857 ай бұрын
The last time we saw this level of homelessness in this country was during the depression of the 1930's where there was 25% unemployment. There is 4% unemployment now, so what that means is that the 21% of people who are employed full time do not make enough money to rent...not an apartment, but just a room. Welcome to neoliberal capitalism. This is what deregulation, union busting and the decimation of our social safety nets has brought us. The 1% are more wealthy than any plutocrat class in the history of the world....for all of recorded history, yet a significant number of Americans can't even afford a room. Shame on us all.
@eatright9097 ай бұрын
They should just say they want to criminalize being poor
@Danielle-zq7kb7 ай бұрын
0:20 Seems like jailing homeless people is more expensive than creating homes for them. A little efficiency apartment for singles, tiny home communities with shared communal kitchen & bathrooms, 1 and 2 bdr apartments for families - I would much rather our government spend $14B on this than bombs making more homeless (and dead) people in Gaza.
@cortneya237 ай бұрын
Always feel like I'm back in 5th grade when being read to.
@anthonydelfino61717 ай бұрын
Okay so we spend decades not building enough housing in this country, and rents are so high that some employed people I know personally are living in tents or in their cars, but rather than address the root of the problem, we're just going to arrest them for being homeless? And then what? We didn't fix the problem, they get out of jail and are still unable to afford housing, just also now you've given them a criminal record that makes it even harder to get a good paying job to be able to afford housing.
@JH-lf4ql7 ай бұрын
America is finished
@superbro95767 ай бұрын
about time...
@Nobodyimportant6967 ай бұрын
We're definitely Rome sooner than most thought.
@jacobsmith71147 ай бұрын
@Nobodyimportant696 first off, don’t insult Rome, it lasted for over a 1,000 years lol. Second, everyone who says the US is sooo finished and terrible probably never did anything to improve their country. I don’t want the US to be an empire, but I also don’t want it to suck either. JFK was right
@EricChurchwell-bl3ce7 ай бұрын
Mental health is the main underlying problem with homelessness. But they will never call a spade a spade
@EingefrorenesEisen7 ай бұрын
God, this country is so FUCKED.
@stunspot7 ай бұрын
I've been homeless. The thing is... whatever you do, the guy still exists. The way you deal with this is to fix society and how we get people housing.
@TheBitterSarcasmOfMs.Anthropy7 ай бұрын
I've always said "Homelessness was capitalism's human garbage that it refuses to acknowledge and clean up." I know that's a powerful quote/ rhetoric I will never get credit for, but it is the truth - just know if you see that quote, Ms Anthropy coined it.
@cafreria_en_pote7 ай бұрын
No one wants it. Don’t worry. Not a very powerful statement if it makes no sense and dehumanizes people further. But I’m not going to fix it for you so you don’t steal from me 😂
@coastcoast22277 ай бұрын
Not really, for example, there is cheap housing outside los Angeles County ( Bakersfield), but everyone wants to live where it's expensive.
@keithbushsuarez74457 ай бұрын
10/10 on this video, excellent topic and excellent discussion of it, covered it very thoroughly and with excellent points. 💯💯💯
@GamerKru19967 ай бұрын
We need to abolish the Supreme Court.
@cfltheman7 ай бұрын
At least limit their power and make them elected with set term limits.
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
Good luck with that. All three branches are a cesspool of corruption
@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt7 ай бұрын
True we need the people’s court and people house and direct democracy
@MagicalMedic7 ай бұрын
I live in Berkeley a few blocks from People's Park. I recommend anyone interested in the topic of homeless encampments (wherever you fall on the subject) look into it. After decades of advocacy and protests on behalf of the homeless community in the area, UC Berkeley cleared the Park and erected a makeshift barrier of shipping containers to keep people out while a new housing complex for students is built. Allegedly there will also be accommodations for the unhoused, but we've seen such proposals fall through in the past, and I would not be surprised to see that happen here.
@lilithlives7 ай бұрын
"The goal of oppressors is to limit your imagination about what is possible without them, so you might never imagine more for yourself and the world you live in". - Ashley C. Ford.
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
Good quote explaining why Americans are continuing to vote for one or the other useless party that does not represent them or care about them. Americans are cowards who lack imagination. I am ( unfortunately) American
@tormentorxl27327 ай бұрын
I’m all about empathy. I do believe these people need help. They simply aren’t going to do it themselves. I do believe that the government does need to step in.
@dorian72157 ай бұрын
That accounts for 20-30 percent. Most homeless people just can’t afford to live and aren’t drug addicted which is a misnomer.
@mamatrain1007 ай бұрын
There an accusatory tone in your post. So to clarify..... you aren't blaming the homeless for being in their situation are you?
@mamatrain1007 ай бұрын
There an accusatory tone in your post. So to clarify..... you aren't blaming the homeless for being in their situation are you?
@rlud3047 ай бұрын
“These people?” What people is that?
@tormentorxl27327 ай бұрын
@@dorian7215 I believe that you are way off on your numbers. I work with the homeless. It’s literally 1 out of ten that’s sober.
@Sidecutter7 ай бұрын
Being forced to go into a shelter is cruel. Many of them impose religious requirements. Forcing people to go to them is imposing a specific religion by the government.
@Fourtune17 ай бұрын
Either help them or move them somewhere. No use in making it worse for the people who have to live near them.
@mr.giggles49957 ай бұрын
Those people used to be your neighbors, until our fucked up system and fucked economy took them down. Why don't you help your neighbor instead of shipping them off so you don't have to look at them??
@Fourtune17 ай бұрын
@@mr.giggles4995those werent/aren’t my neighbors. I should have emphasized on the ones with drug issues and mental health issues. The people leaving needles at playgrounds and attacking random people are harming society. If they aren’t being helped they need to be kept in an area away from others. You go live by them or have them in your house then. It is not my problem if other people can’t afford their rent. People like you blaming regular people and not the actual bad actor responsible for this are what’s the issue.
@ligmapolzky11437 ай бұрын
@@mr.giggles4995how many homeless people live with you? Is it 0 because people ignore the fact over 80 percent have drug problems but you are aware of that?
@Fourtune17 ай бұрын
@@ligmapolzky1143nope. He has the typical luxury belief politics.
@garrettwhite39227 ай бұрын
@@Fourtune1 I hope everyone around you has the same attitude if you ever experience hardship.
@coastcity70297 ай бұрын
What to do about people living in tents? Make them criminals? Yeah, that'll solve the problem. Let's give them a place to live in the prisons, which tax-payers then pay for and prison-owners get rich from.
@karlad40827 ай бұрын
What should be criminalized are the cities that keep people on the streets without providing them a real way out of homelessness.
@jamesmarchetti32867 ай бұрын
Great perspective and explanation of this problem !!!