Tour 'The Island,’ A Longtime River Homeless Encampment In Sacramento, With Its Unofficial Mayor

[@journiewhaley8591]

Catherine Roberts is my Mother and I can promise you she has home to come to when she is ready. She wants to live her own life in her terms and that is her choice. Years of drug use and trauma has permanently screwed her up. I have tried to find her for a couple years now. And until I saw this video I didn’t even know if she was alive. My cousin went to the camp 1 month ago to talk with her. Left a note with my number I still haven’t heard from her. Things are rough out there and I love my mom but her choices have brought her where she is today. But she knows this doesn’t have to be the end result. When she is ready I will be here.

[@marylouowen8649]

Sit out here why don't you go home to your kids they love you you just rather be out here and just start up a lot of trouble and do drugs

[@marylouowen8649]

Kathy why don't you go home to your children they want to have a life for you they want you to have a life but you rather sit out here stir the pot do drugs act like your poor pitiful me and it ain't poor pitiful you you're always in someone's business stare in the pot always I don't even know you and you steer my pot you steal all my friends you got s*** going with people you don't have nothing to do with them and you'll say something about them to someone else and keep it going that's what you're down there for that's why you stay down there to stir the f****** pot and do drugs that's why you don't want to go home to your kids keep it real quit acting like poor beautiful me because it ain't poor beautiful you you little b****

[@oaks3541]

Lower the rent who can afford 3time the rent on a fixed income? I work and still have a hard time

[@janellcrews6108]

I'm with you I got a nice 5th wheel, because I gave up looking for affordable housing. The wait list are years long and the ghetto places that are getting shot up every other day is still over 2,000 dollars a month. At least now if I feel unsafe we move. Sure running a generator and propane is expensive but it's crazy here.

[@JenniferCox-z1c]

Me too but now my boyfriend works and we are good now they need to help these ppl

[@Tibs_Official]

I don't get how a lot of people in the comments don't understand this can happen to ANYONE ! I guess they've never lived check to to check with what seems like no chance of ever getting ahead.. I truly believe some people will always struggle. Sometimes because of no education or a hundred other reasons. Prayers !!!

[@gunner8226]

Alot of today's generation are ignorant and blind and have yet to grasp life experiences that's only part of the problem. I just laugh how people can talk shit and make light of others unfortunate situations. Sad world we're living in these days

[@windelarigago1100]

I'm proud of those people

[@wee2004]

I strongly agree with you some people just need to shut their big mouth and stop judging others

[@kbanghart]

@@gunner8226 previous generations are no better

[@ksullivan728]

I think lack of education is a big part of it.

[@markmoreno7295]

I have no doubt that “rules” which regulate housing and zoning are partly to blame for a lack of less expensive living options. Developers also see less profit in making tiny affordable homes. Once more affordable choices exist people will move into them. Will this solve homelessness? Probably not completely, but you have got to start somewhere. At the other end is education. At a time when children are forced to return home to live with their parents despite having a college degree, how much hope is there for an under-educated person living on the street? You can’t pull yourself up from the bootstraps when you don’t know what a bootstrap is.

[@ceecee4552]

This can happen to ANYBODY .Who is going to hire someone who has mental,sickness, old age, PTS of war? The list goes on..This is the Real AMERICA .😔

[@weldingsolutionskck2798]

I can't imagine living like that for 20 years. No bills, no rent, no job. Maybe I'm living wrong. A lake front tent for that long? It's a dream.

[@j5892000]

Oh yeah.. they are living the life. .. just be smarter with your money and you wont be so miserable

[@johnbarber7952]

Where do they shit?

[@chrisfaub4071]

some of us have been homeless and i promise you it is something you dont want to experience. i worked a full time job and managed to survive until a wonderful woman that managed an apartment complex said to me everyone deserves a chance. i am so thankful for her compassion and understanding, i was able to get back on track and will always be in debt to that incredible woman.

[@j5892000]

@Christine LaBeach sarcasm

[@videorocketzmillar007milla5]

YeH right. No quality of life, no running water, pooping on the ground no heat . I don't think so. Its a nightmare and look 20 years older than u are. Eating with rats.

[@Do_i_amuse_you]

These people are almost living like the natives but I wish these people wouldn't litter and make a mess. Then maybe they would be left alone.

[@joelonzello4189]

I have cleaned out individual encampments. Amazing the amount of trash/waste. Real health hazard. I have also seen homes in the same shape 😝

[@bocabec6744]

They are filthy because they are either drunk or high on meth. I've seen beautiful girls in their late teens. Until they smile and their rotted teeth from meth show. God gave them a perfect little figure and a beautiful face, then they mess it up with bad choices. Usually they wind up in a dumpster by age 28.

[@garybrunecz7785]

Yea, and I wish the over 8 billion people who take a dump and leak everyday that ends up in the ground or in the rivers and oceans would quit eating. Not to mention all the chemicals dumped into the earth and atmosphere by past militaries and the chemical and petroleum industries. Lets not forget about the over 2000 nuclear tests that were released into the environment. What about the billions of gallons of laundry detergent, dishwashing liquids and other soaps and cosmetics. What about the trillions of tons of weapons and poisons dumped into the oceans by the military complex. I could go on and on, but I would be a fool to think you are this dying country would care anyway. Think of all the chemicals leaking and stored underground. You all pretend to care about a planet you have already destroyed and will do so if it comes down to us losing our grip on power over the dumbed down sheep. I guess if they can't have their way and get what they want they will take everyone with them. Sounds like the strategy the Taliban used when they beat Russia and the US. Divided we fall and the super rich and our enemies are loving it.

[@apllu17]

Man said he was now 55 yrs old, been homeless since 23, and doesn't know how to live in a place with walls. So, he is one example who won't accempt hotel or housing services.

[@deborahelliott3826]

when experiences rewire the brain and given a choice the brain doesn't function in someone else's lifestyle. I do relate though. I prefer to camp and be outdoors. I'm fortunate that it's safe secure and comfortable here but I simply don't like being inside

[@nursegmez5055]

Kids, this is what happens when you use excuses your whole life. Notice how they never mention anything about a job. I know alot of people who have cancer and still make a living.

[@vicnic718]

Im glad nurses have empathy

[@nursegmez5055]

@@vicnic718 only when deserved

[@wee2004]

Well I wouldn’t be so fast to judge because you’re not even in their shoes you can lose everything and be homeless to one day so guess what stop judging

[@wee2004]

Wow you’re a jerk how would you like to be in their shoes you don’t know what happened to them stop judging jerk

[@ZENDEL-xs2lj]

So, we Goin to act like that lady didn't have on the Steve Wilkos show on, on a 50 inch screen in a tent!!??

[@brininahoward5445]

@Christine LaBeach I wonder how is she able to have electricity? Where is it coming from?

[@lesjones5684]

Give them a bar of soap 🧼 😂😂😂

[@TINKYSTEELE]

I wish they would leave them people alone! PLEASE

[@edhcb9359]

If they didn’t create such huge piles of trash everywhere then they would leave them alone.

[@chevynova7103]

If they wanna be left alone get a job nd go buy your own land

[@patticrompton4425]

Maybe bring in some Porta potty and dumpster. Tell them they can stay on the condition they clean the whole park , people can still recreate , it looks like a big park.

[@Nunyabzinss]

How is the TV working?

[@ompaloompa4970]

Some people get so beat down from the bad circumstances of their lives become depressed and turn to drugs or alcohol, which in turn leads to more bad choices, and homelessness becomes a trap they can't get out of.🙏😞 Let's try not to judge others until we've walked a mile in their shoes.

[@daves6195]

The didn't turn too drugs and alcohol they started out on drugs and alcohol

[@abuseevidenceresighted9071]

@@daves6195 drug addiction is a result of childhood trauma.which is why it's a known symptom of ADHD, Personality disorders,CPTSD,PTSD,and depression.

[@daves6195]

@@abuseevidenceresighted9071 in some cases I agree. However I have known plenty of people that grew up in great households with no evidence of trauma, and yet still wound abusing substances and throwing life down the drink. I understand it is case to case, however I can't think of anyone who has a bad life that didn't start using drugs. All my sober friends are doing just fine. I also have friends that are high functioning addicts. IMHO self esteem and confidence determine if one chooses to be "successful" and function in today's society. Many factors determine weather or not people have those positive characteristics.

[@treyvordowrie1723]

I'll be sure to keep that in mind the next time they defecate on my stairwell...

[@guyfrom8659]

People that cast judgement haven't ever had to carry a jug of water miles down the road . You don't value water until your forced to carry every drop ! Most the people blasting the homeless wouldn't make it a month out here on these streets and that's FACTS !

[@sandienochs6132]

Tattoos, fancy nails, cigarettes, pets, drugs or just being lazy. That’s one side. Sickness, outrageous rent increase’s, car trouble, bad luck, that’s the other side. Life isn’t easy, try to make good choices.

[@lorettabrail7806]

WTH?

[@yamisomad3486]

Hope you’re never homeless....

[@rosalindalay4499]

What good have u done? U are just as much a sinner

[@bocabec6744]

And where do they all get i-Phones and internet hookup and service? I often wonder about their schtick. I say just basic laziness and getting everything handed to them. Food, medicine, free booze, cigarettes and stolen electricity. They even get free shit-paper to wipe their smelly asses.

[@adamfatine4426]

@@yamisomad3486 take them to your house then

[@adrienne_despisespronouns]

Doesn't appear to me they make strides to better themselves. Government caused the housing problem

[@TheraP2014]

I'm a tree lover myself and I like that they protect that tree. I hope they find their forever homes. GOD Bless them always!!

[@brininahoward5445]

👀, The tree doesn't need their help! 1. Enter into a drug or mental health or homeless facility for services 2. Apply for housing: Section -8 Voucher, Public Housing 3. Apply for food services & food banks 4. Apply with çareer services to re-enter job market/obtain transferrable skills 5. Get a support system: Obtain a mentor or coach, see a therapist, find a group to be apart of.

[@k.c.8658]

Still not sure why these people can’t actually work for a living

[@sarbantz]

Fentanyl

[@edwardallen2696]

Few things even without the drugs people won’t hire them because of their “homeless demeanor” imagine the smell their brains are also cooked from the drugs so they have probably decreased in education over the years you could go on and on.

[@AbenaMcKenzieSoapiphany]

Full time employees are homeless too. 😕

[@frankihatch]

Drugs

[@garycollier6950]

I do want to sound racist but how can a caucosoid person be homeless in the USA this is a caucosoid dominated country.

[@beekeeper7535]

If they would live clean without turning the AREA INTO A DUMP most people would let them alone. Problem is most homeless are LAZY and have mental ISSUES so they turn the area into a DUMP then people in that area get fed up and law enforcement sends them on there way. Here in Maryland a homeless couple lived by the Potomac river for I believe 7 years they would pick trash up and kept that part of the river very clean everyone in this area would give them trash bags for the trash they cleaned up others would haul trash to the dump. People gave them food eventually someone offered them an apartment they kindly said no thanks. I'm not sure what happened. I've seen Maryland DNR drop food and trash bags off to this homeless couple. I live in a very rural area in western Maryland. I guess it has to do with the number of people as well like I said this homeless couple really worked on keeping that stretch of river bank as clean as they could law enforcement and the citizens around here really appreciated this couple.

[@garybrunecz7785]

I agree anyone who is healthy enough to walk and bend over and attain alcohol or drugs to drown their sorrows and emotional turmoil. They better learn how to clean up after themselves or be put in a facility where they will be made to keep their area clean of garbage. This is one reason we are reluctant to help some of these downtrodden souls. Why help someone get a place to live that they will not respect and destroy in time.

[@jerrymack8473]

That looks like a paradise

[@rebeccacloud4023]

Back in 2012 when my husband and I biked from Chico to San Francisco, we took a break in Sacramento, and camped on "the island". There were definitely some sketchy people living there, but there were also some incredibly good people who had just fallen on dark times and were stuck. And by stuck I don't nessecarily mean there wasnt help out there with housing, but they were just burnt out on life to put in effort in at that time, and the forest by the river was quiet and peaceful. I get it, I've been there before, and hold no judgement. Whatever they are doing with their lives now, I hope they are happy, healthy, and safe ❤

[@jacquelinecasanova-ramos499]

Roommate with the ones that need help. If they did that they'd afford a place

[@pomegranate6221]

Speechless!!

[@johnbarber7952]

You can't pay for an apartment AND meth..... I mean c'mon man. We're HUMANS. 🙄

[@toddwilson626]

Letting these people hang around is not safe...A fellow "camper" started a fire in GV yesterday. It almost cost an entire community their homes and maybe some lives...yeah and the river fire that DID cause people, taxpayers and homeowners, to loose everything...that was started by homeless at the Bear River Campground. Enough is enough...the 99 percent must be allowed to be safe from these trouble makers!

[@marcuswardshow]

Addiction & Homelessness | Marcus Ward Show kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXLPda2Np757aJI

[@chenlee3240]

In this small town, Air Bnb's are pushing up the price and taking all the "residential" homes.

[@terywetherlow7970]

Chen Lee: Fact

[@luisagagnon902]

This is Not Easy to be Here, So be Safe & be Careful all of you guys. Let them stay there. AND Make it into a CAMPING GROUND For the HOMELESS.

[@garybrunecz7785]

Wow an American with a heart and a conscience. You are a rare bird. America's economy will be dead with another year of TaliBiden at the helm. So make room for us soon to be homeless once our corporate slave jobs go out of business, especially if diesel goes to 8 bucks a gallon. Our economy will be on its knees and the citizens will be ripe for the slaughter. Says are enemies from within.

[@bamamom0298]

Stay clean, keep the space clean, don’t do drugs…..don’t camp on the edge of a river in the middle of a recreational space meant for families and kids, paid for by their tax dollars. Find a space that’s not something meant to be a rec space for the general public. I always see people trying to live at parks and such. That’s where children are meant to PLAY….not worry about drug needles littering the ground or human feces where they walk. There should be a designated space for campers like this and it must be required to stay clean and maintained. Let them camp but camp where they are permitted to camp. If they camp outside this area….remove them. Period.

[@dianabeurman364]

True

[@j5892000]

How do they power their TV? Generators? Or solar with batteries and an inverter

[@chenlee3240]

Its a thousand dollars a month for a whole in-the-wall dump apartment or room

[@danielmesery2904]

It won't be like this,forever........🙏

[@davidmuresan628]

Homeless on my own property in USA, Washington State. I house homeless people and now Island County wish to close my legal renting and to send me out from my property to live as homeless. #2 says “all residents of the three-bedrooms house on the Property to vacate the premises within 14 days. After 14 days any person remaining in the houses may be removed” In all previous orders, the house was exempt. #3 says: “Mr. Muresan may reside in a personal vehicle on the(his) property. Mr. Muresan shall not enter or reside in any recreational vehicle of any kind, or any building on the property” #5 says: “Island County may shut off power supply to the garage/carport building and any RV. After 14 days may shut of electricity to the house” # 6 says: "Island County may physically secure the garage, RVs and any other structures that have been used for human habitation”

[@garybrunecz7785]

America would rather put its slaves to work building weapons and training bodies to use these weapons because the profit is so addicting and population control is their top agenda as you all will soon find out. We are just a number to the government, unless you have enough money to buy or rent them to get your way. Remember the government and their super rich masters from around the world want to see this country self destruct and by God they are way ahead of schedule. Divided we fall. They could kill a billion of us tomorrow and in ten years our numbers would be replaced by the over breeders of the world. Especially now that we are the world's favorite immigration dumping ground. The government always pick on the weak, poor and downtrodden. Because if they pushed around someone their own size like Russia and or China we would all get a free cremation and the government mafia wouldn't have many peasants left to demonize and push around. That is a sure sign of a failing nation.

[@billsmith2212]

These people have problems , not all created by themselves . I want to comment on where public money goes . You may want to direct your anger there and not as much at people with issues . Law enforcement is the 22nd most dangerous occupation in the USA . In many areas , they are grossly overpaid . Imagine being paid 200 K or more , being off 61 days a year retiring in your late 40's or early 50's with 100K pension and full , gold plated medical benefits ? Roofing #4 and Sanitation #5 are far more dangerous , per the Bureau of Labor Statistics - NOT some lying union official . So let's stop worshipping them as heroes . Scumbag politicians buy their votes with our tax money and these contracts . I can show you custodians who cost the PUBLIC over 100 K a year with the benefits package because their crooked buddies hired them . Wake up - your pockets are being picked . Imagine over 18000 police departments in the USA and each one with a Chief of Police !

[@nodemediocrecy]

Agreed!

[@donaldhampton5854]

Most of this is caused by voting Democrat 68% of it . Facts

[@londonghung3392]

People who say I was homeless once...you didn't give up...these people did. If you contribute nothing, you deserve nothing.

[@twisted_imagine_nation9668]

I'd feel bad if they weren't heroine addicts. These people choose to buy drugs instead of pay bills and they have no desire to be apart of normal society.

[@sarbantz]

Fentanyl, not heroin.

[@twisted_imagine_nation9668]

Lol that guy at the end had a swastika on his neck. Good job Sac Bee

[@Cal916Bear]

🤣🤣🤣 I had to go back and look lmao

[@whatthefaq6006]

not defending the tattoo but we have no idea if that man has changed his mind or beliefs or not. He’s homeless now and obviously can’t very well afford to cover it. Let’s not bash people just for clout, give people a chance. These people have lived there for 10-20 years doing no harm to themselves (to a point) or the environment.

[@Madronaxyz]

Are you being sarcastic or did you think the sac b did a good job?

[@davedefrost2174]

The man with hepatitis C should get on Maverick it cures hep C

[@evangeline77x]

I don't see what that has to do with anything? He's an old homeless man dying of cancer outside. And his tattoos appear more than 20 years old, likely the product of an extended prison stint in the 90s. I'm not going to try and justify those symbols or what they represent, but I think it's important to not judge a book by its cover. He's clearly in a vulnerable state and his tattoos shouldn't have any baring on whether or not he is deserving of help, or whether his plight should even be recognized. Showing the reality of his situation, on that is faced by thousands of Americans up and down the west coast and all over our country, shouldn't hinge upon whether his tattoos are politically correct enough to be broadcast on the internet.

[@ggill1530]

They should let them stay here This place could provide space for far more homeless There are also lot of safe areas

[@denisestewart5276]

The one lady said she raised kids where are these kids now.

[@crzycatladie]

I know right ! I would work three jobs if I had to keep my elderly father off the streets it's sad.

[@dianaallen7586]

I just made that same statement to my husband. We have two children. I've gain quite a bit of weight the last couple years, the other day sitting at my daughter's house, my daughter makes a very bold statement. " Mama, I'm gonna need you to take that weight off". I look at her and say "why? You afraid I'm gonna break your sofa😂. Her response " Nope but if I'm gonna take care of your old ass, I'll need you to be skinny so I can pick you up when you fall down 😂. My response, well start lifting weights 🤣. All joking aside, I took care of my Mama when she was no longer able to care for herself. She stayed in my home, under my care right up untill the day she passed. It's called the circle of life and it's the right thing to do.

[@journiewhaley8591]

Catherine Roberts is my Mother and I can promise you she has home to come to when she is ready. She wants to live her own life in her terms and that is her choice. Years of drug use and trauma has permanently screwed her up. I have tried to find her for a couple years now. And until I saw this video I didn’t even know if she was alive. My cousin went to the camp 1 month ago to talk with her. Left a note with my number I still haven’t heard from her. Things are rough out there and I love my mom but her choices have brought her where she is today. But she knows this doesn’t have to be the end result. When she is ready I will be here.

[@journiewhaley8591]

Do not throw shade at any children when you have no clue

[@wallacelobo2000]

Please can someone tell me what's going on with the United States?

[@grizzleypeak]

Sure.. The Democrats make all kind of promises to get votes. Suckers vote for Democrats who give a pittance to the lazy people who don't want to work in exchange for votes. The elite Democrat rich people get richer, the working class people have to work harder and harder to pay for everything while getting poorer and poorer and losing more and more rights and freedoms by the minute. The Democrats are running America into the ground because indoctrinated, entitled lazy ass dumbasses keep voting Democrat.

[@wallacelobo2000]

@@grizzleypeak Hey friend.... and tell me, does this migratory crisis that the USA is experiencing increase poverty? because in chile, portugal and spain, the arrival of illegal immigrants has greatly increased poverty if you see the city of Santiago de Chile, it is full of beggars' tents and they are all foreigners, because basically, a citizen who becomes a beggar has problems with drugs, or with the family or with the police (in most cases) very difficult It's a situation that politics doesn't know how to solve. with an excess of working manpower, wages were reduced by more or less 23% God have mercy on us!

[@0utcast]

Laziness, mental illness, drug addiction. These people weren't laid off and lost their house. They are unhireable and as such leech of the system. In the past peoples like these were institutionalized. Now they are just on the streets

[@thecosmicguru4986]

But we have Billions for everyone else. The homeless need to file a class action suit against the Federal Government

[@mr.mrs.hernandez6676]

God bless you all

[@jerrymack8473]

Why would anyone want to go anywhere else ?

[@joecastanon2479]

These people look like their 100 years old sad.

[@heut4384]

Having as homeless, doesn't mean you need to trash the place. You need to be accountable. A real good person, will NOT trash the neighbors.

[@MoteItBe3x3]

There’s been way to many close calls for me I live paycheck to paycheck and actively trying to fix it but it’s hard! Even one of my ‘rich’ friends is at the bottom now it happens to everyone. It looks like they are in a wooded area so I don’t think they are bothering anyone. Let them be the video says it’s been 10+ years so that’s the local laws fault for letting it happen so long.

[@ninakincade602]

Not Homeless. Living off grid.

[@Landshark2020]

8 year waiting list for Section 8? That’s terrible’

[@terywetherlow7970]

Keith: Fact

[@brininahoward5445]

It's two parts of government housing assistance: public housing (houses and building the government actually own and can put you in) and public assistance (section-8 vouchers that are given to you and you go and find a house or apartment that takes the voucher). It appeared he applied for the wrong program and should have know that. Or maybe he thought public housing was only for a certain type of people and it didn't look like him. Even the homeless can be evil and hateful.

[@ayayron7776]

*Where does that ladies power come from for her TV and fans?!*

[@ompaloompa4970]

Some people get so beat down from the bad circumstances of their lives become depressed and turn to drugs or alcohol, which in turn leads to more bad choices, and homelessness becomes a trap they can't get out of.🙏😞

[@rogerosborn2143]

Where is Nancy speaker of house at

[@stalworth1]

I can’t live like that. And sad thing is that can happen to anyone. Most start their addiction after they become displaced.

[@casienwhey]

There is a solution to this, just not the will to do it. Find some cheaper public land either in the city or nearby and build low cost free housing for the homeless, make it safe, clean, drug free, and provide food and medical services. Yes, that will cost some money, but so do the roads, public pensions, and municipal services. Now the homeless have a place to go. If they refuse to live there, they can pay for their own housing, leave, or go to jail, but public camping would be banned and the streets and sidewalks would no longer be shantytowns. Problem solved.

[@dianabeurman364]

Great idea! There is plenty of open land here in Wyoming! We are spending trillions to go to the moon with a new eight person crew! This is or should be top priority!

[@videorocketzmillar007milla5]

Section 8 probably contacted him but with no address the voucher letter came back. He needs to contact them keep in touch not sit on your hands expect them to run to him. Dont stay there accept tge help thats offered but these ppl don't want it or leave.

[@mscris503]

Some of them folks been living down there in that area for twenty years ?

[@0utcast]

Yeah they've been jobless for 20yrs. Mentally ill, lazy, Druggies... aka unhireable.

[@donnaperyginathome]

Wait, Bobby's buried there in a hole in the ground? They literally just dug a hole and shoved Bobby in!

[@tomcatt998]

Y not ?

[@adrianaospina8079]

God bless them

[@sarbantz]

Street homeless live very simple and modest life. It's really a minimalist type of life. They don't need much, so they don't ask for much. They find a camping spot, and it becomes their new home with new stories and memories. They prefer being left alone as they are. The only thing they really want and think about all day long is fentanyl. 99% of street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and there is no solution for it. Large majority of them will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence in this decade. Very sad.

[@marcuswardshow]

Addiction & Homelessness | Marcus Ward Show kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXLPda2Np757aJI

[@sarbantz]

@peepee9161 boosting is stealing from stores below $950 in Cali, so it is misdemeanor, and police does not even show up.

[@edhcb9359]

They don’t live simple and modest lives though. If they did, then people would leave them alone. But instead they spend their days collecting everything that isn’t bolted down and drag it back to camp. Do you have any idea how many fires these people have set in the parkway? Hundreds of fire burning many thousands of acres. Mostly on purpose!

[@chrisfaub4071]

99% i would say thats funny but lies are not funny. wanna know why i know its a lie? 2 reasons, you provide no statistical proof and i have personally been involved with the homeless community so i have seen up close and personal your claim is not true.

[@robertsousa9550]

Where do all their broken down bicycles come from? It’s unreal how many some of them have. I keep looking for the one ripped-off from my garage. For too many it has become an acceptable lifestyle. If they are allowed to do it they will. Their own little low-life Woodstock. Enough is enough. I don’t care if they don’t want to stay in a free room in a hotel. Too bad. They are ruining the parkway and neighborhoods with trash, needles, fires, unleashed dogs, drug dealing etc. Something needs to be done. Pay them to clean-up their own trash - that would be a start.

[@elliotmann8882]

'I'm a LOSER, I'm a LOSER, aand I'm not what I appear to be' ....Beatles

[@bobbymorris525]

Whenever I see a beggar holding a sign in the middle of the road, I think they could actually get paid $10-15 per hour waving a sign. 🤔 how ironic.

[@0utcast]

That's how you know they are bs and are going to take your money and spend it at the liquor store. NEVER give pan handlers anything

[@thormatt2963]

I can understand that they are homeless but why do they leave such a mess like pigs.

[@ChambersofMyHeart]

I've been told that the more organized you are-the easier it is to get robbed and ransacked by other homeless. Having everything messing makes the thieves taking longer digging through things. It easier for them to get caught that way by others.

[@treeguyable]

Tats, ciggies, dogs, beer. Sounds like the people who tried to rent a house from me, but for some reason, didn't have the money half the time. Hmmm...

[@warningsigns4526]

4:53 WHY WOULD ANYONE LET SOMEONE TATOO THEIR HEAD?

[@claytonflinchum3962]

I'm homeless also,we won,t have any peace,until we get to Heaven!!🙏

[@gorillaump5869]

You can thank Republicans all the way back to Ronald Reagan for this mess, do your homework!

[@rogeralan9128]

Hey here's an ideal, let's give the wealthy another two trillion dollar tax break. Our laws and GOVERMENT protect the wealthy from the poor. There are over a hundred million people that live pay check to pay check and this will eventually wear anyone down.

[@LIL_SALVII_Cruz]

I was in sac back in 2008 and to be honest does places are real I met a Mexican guy he had in the bushes carb a home was crazy I was like wtf he made that place so camouflage you couldn't even tell it was there it look like a dome but it was nothing about trees from years and years they have the least has whipping down I remember he went by the name grande he was a well known gang member who was about 60 years old and there was tio another old man who have live there for a long time they explained to me why life took them there and man wish I would record all that but I wasn't allowed because there backgrounds would been a good documentary

[@tenncutt]

One question, why do they make such a mess? How about at least picking up and burning your trash...

[@gracietilert8952]

Hi poor sweet little dog looks so sad… 😞😞😞

[@celador6863]

Contra la especulación inmobiliaria mano dura o muy dura contra las mafias que operan en Europa y en todo el mundo de organización criminal contra la ciudadanía, penas carcelarias o silla eléctrica entre otros, un crimen que no puede quedar impune ante la ley

[@lovegenderless]

That's equality in free will

[@meggrotte4760]

I can honestly say the way my life was as a kid.I should have been on drugs in alcohol However, growing up in the inner city.I stayed away from that stuff because I was a christian I didn't even date because of all the trauma had gone through I got through school. I went to college and go to degree. Deep down I knew I couldn't function living in america With the c p t s d and the learning disabilities plus not being able to drive Chronic pain and fatigue I figured living overseas would be better I lived in taiwan for twenty years I had to come back eight months ago and I took eighteen months to find a job I probably can't leave here. But I can save money and most likely go back to school again. And then move back to asia. I can only say that when we live in darkness.Our path is not straight. I was living in darkness and I trusted that jesus would pull me out of a darkness It took a long time for god to get me to a point where I could live here in california and feel okay. Do I want to stay here for the next 20 years?No. That could probably only be done if I was married and had another income. Most americans can't live on one income. 51000 a year after taxes.Just isn't enough to live ,here If I work a few years and then try to find a similar job in a red state with a low cost of living I could probably swing it. i've never felt comfortable living in america I think if you don't have good health the ability to drit makes it difficult to function here I'll never judge a homeless person.I understand why they turned drugs when they were kids. I just shared my story because I know jesus can help these people Once you accept christ you can get inner healing and deliverance That really helped me I had all kind of addictive tendencies.I just never gave in to them because I asked jesus to help me. Then he eventually removed what was oppressing me I know that. Homeless people are most likely the most broken people you'll ever meet. But I also know jesus can restore them

[@rosalindalay4499]

JC..this is what happens to folks in their 50s n beyond,?? Help them. N their pets too

[@willnelson2495]

Wasn’t the pemedemic

[@Hootyhoo-jq9vq]

There are recreation areas all over the place. There are no homeless camps (legal) anywhere. But homeless people exist,

[@marktwaine9344]

here's the fact Jack...the amount of money the Gov would spend on these people to get off the street wouldn't be recouped in the taxes and consumerism they can generate....so they're a negative cost factor......get the picture....

[@tonialenza6833]

They had a place like this in Lakewood Nj and they got rid of the homeless

[@lesjones5684]

You can at least get a bath 😅😅😅

[@tresham79]

Pamademic. Un-homeless people. I like his language.

[@Orora600]

😆

[@breadfan1071]

Being poor is the hardest work ever, the poorer you get the harder it gets.

[@patriceleeann6682]

🙏✝️😔♥️♥️

[@Starfish2145]

They gotta live somewhere!

[@ADVF800GS]

I would honestly prefer them right there other than roasting on the streets of Sac, they are just trying to get by, most of them don’t want to live like this but really don’t have a choice.

[@lesjones5684]

Krispy Kream 😂😂

[@curtlindberg712]

All I want to know is where they bury their kaka, cause I'm never swimming in the Sacramento river ever

[@durwoodeverett9202]

This is wrong god help

[@lovegenderless]

Everybody in the world is 100% the same we are all creating our own reality there's no excuses for anybody

[@garybrunecz7785]

Baloney, some are much smarter, stronger, some are way better looking some come from superior genetic stock and born into richer neighborhoods as Hitler preached often. If you are born into money you are way ahead of the other peasants. Smarter, richer people hang together like a bird of a feather and are subject to way better financial opportunities. While others had no father or mother to raise them and were unguided souls with no real purpose. You are a fool if think we are equal. We live in a class society got it. Ruling class, upper class, middle class and slave class. Now you know. Remember the one's lucky enough to be in the ruling class take what they want and order their minions to do whatever they desire and they all get to play by their own rules. You must of not ever had to use your brain or have no common sense.

[@garybrunecz7785]

So did all the Ukrainians create there own reality as their land was invaded and the bombs starting killing them. Did the people who starved to death last year all over the world create their own reality or did the drought and the war mongering generals who want all the land to themselves. So did all the people who accidently die from drinking dirty unsanitary water last year create their reality. Did all the people who lost their farms and homes to corporate billionaires because they couldn't compete with them in business. The big fish eat the little fish and that is how its always been but you are a brainwashed know it all who will believe what you want to believe in their own minds because you are not capable of critical thinking. Now I see why this country is going to hell in a hand basket.

[@garybrunecz7785]

I dare you to travel to Afghanistan and create your own reality, they would hang you or chop of your head if you did not comply with their strict dress code. But you say everyone is in charge of creating their own reality. That is the funniest damn thing I have ever heard from a human sheeple.

[@Creole_Lady]

DON’T EVER USE DRUGS👀

[@josephtate168]

I been to one of the places on River it was dump , creek full trash , It was bad from smell and not being mean they was puplic trash dumster they no reason to pick your garbage up . I got stick with pick at end got 8 bags while 6 men set drunk . It something i missing our you won't help .

[@rhp_6926]

Institutionalize the crazy. Incarcerate the substance abusers. Problem 70% solved. Then you can focus on the manageable problem of saving those you can.

[@stevengoodman7167]

They need to pay rent to stay there then on that property

[@lesjones5684]

They are so dirty 😂 Take a bath in the lake 😂😂

[@nodemediocrecy]

I've seen some three and four million dollar churches around sac town and whats the churches excuse this time, with all that money they could solve the homeless problem O, but that's not the churches calling.

[@tonylee7714]

They just don't wants to pay bills

[@katarina1852]

Wait a minute, that man claiming he has liver cancer but doesn’t go to the doctor and claims they told him “10 years ago” that he would be dead? If he really had liver cancer without treatment he really would be dead. So I’m calling bull crap.

[@Brandi6666]

Yes the panademic is bad🤣

[@Tom-ic7hw]

our new mayor moved the homeys south of town on the taxpayer trail and gave them a big dumpster buy they cant quite get their trash into it I think they like laying on it probably better than the weeds

[@j5892000]

Pamademic

[@markpreston6930]

Why do these miserable campers keep saying 'family'? Families suck.

[@jamesemick1452]

If you can't afford the cost of living here ,leave !!!!!!! Go somewhere cheep but just leave , the riverfront belongs to the people who pay taxes and want to visit along the river, no we can't afford to live waterfront either but you living here is real unfair to us that pay for this, waterfront is expensive but we aren't so inconsiderate to just set up a semi permanent home where other people come to recreate so pack up and go where you can afford to live

[@su3lime]

The dude with the swastika and one tooth, karma is a bitch. Everyone else I feel for.