People living in tent city preparing for cold winter

People living in tent city preparing for cold winter
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[@keitumetsem1344]

Why not use the thousands of abandoned houses in Detroit

[@gmsbannedfromyoutube9859]

those houses arent as abandoned as you think

[@saidcomear686]

becouse those houses are in fucked neighborhoods were you could get killed and robbed better off sleeping in a tent i live in Detroit and trust me if you got a glance at the abandon house you would have a new mind set

[@BJM98]

+keitumetse Mabuza because nothing is free. If its not profitable or beneficial then they wont do it.

[@nonyobussiness3440]

+maryann scully those houses are often unsafe, have zero value and are in violent areas where a ton crime takes place. it's safer to live in a tent

[@mattdathew2794]

+keitumetse Mabuza i hadn't thought about this

[@brandyjackson6990]

People we must insist on paper ballots and fight for voter ID or this will continue to get worse.

[@ARTWV]

Man, that’s sad to see. This is America. We need to take care of our own first. This is ridiculous

[@ARTWV]

@Patricia Kehaya I think I would make myself south if I were homeless.

[@heidicameron2015]

My thoughts are with the people of tent city sending them love❤️❤️❤️

[@bostongirlsandy]

I was homeless for a year here in Boston and I caught lice at the shelters.

[@louislamore3256]

Oh yes ms. Newscaster I feel your pain. One more thing-take it easy and don’t worry so much

[@kathybowen708]

I keep telling people , anybody that will listen , that the people that help homeless and people that are down and out , are tomorrows leaders . They are great people not yet discovered , but they will be . Your good friend Vinny in good old Fla.

[@donniewhitten8630]

When your down and out and your homeless no one wants you at all.winter is the hardest but you get ready prepared a must.for my self I live alone.and I will die alone.no one really gives a crap.so I dont worry none.we the homeless forever out cast by all of you.

[@soundbite290]

I lived in the u.s.a in the 80's and 90's. I would always come back to England and tell people about the poverty in Appalachia, unlike anything I had ever seen in England. I don't know if living in a shack, a few bits of would stuck together is considered homeless or not. But certainly it is a land of extremes, where lack of motivation to work is socially unacceptable, and that's a good thing. The bad thing is that there isn't much humanity with some people towards society's most vulnerable.

[@fauxmanchu8094]

sound bite 👍👍👍

[@Saiarts_yt]

I feel sorry for homeless people living in the urban area without no shelter, heat, food, or water is there anyway of us people or community out there that can help them live longer and have a good life?

[@swolfe9668]

Homeless people choose to be homeless, they are lazy, refuse to follow society's rules

[@beng4647]

They need land. No one will give them land. This is an age old issue.

[@fauxmanchu8094]

Very, very sad. 😥😢 nobody should be living this way. Where is the help?

[@seoulkidd1]

If the dollar devalues we all going to live in tents

[@bernadettekennedy2981]

Realistate agents are to blame. Speculating should be outlawed and realtors should have to have degrees to professionalize the industry. There should not be bias toward investors in selling homes. Realtors should not be able to set rents or home values.

[@mariehaugland9996]

Sending hugs ❤️

[@toniesedrick691]

Homemade cookies. Hmm how about homemade tiny houses?

[@letstalkfriends4824]

I pray for all of them 🙏

[@alimohammond6323]

Mike duggan the Mayor of Detroit gave 10,000 free house to Syria refugee! and still left the black and white with nothing!

[@susanduncan5070]

Please if there is any homeless looking at this please don't g o with the Fama camp they we put the homeless in a bad place

[@absndus]

Why would you say that? What do the FEMA do to the homeless?

[@genacarroll9791]

So many people are 1 pay check away from being on the street I hope the city doesnt break up this self made family God bless all of you.

[@kobylarz177]

What a sweet reporter

[@crystallotzer5400]

I live in upper Michigan. Winters are brutal. This is sad. And, unfortunately, I'll be doing the same soon, due to the wonderful state of Michigan and they're very wealthy court system.

[@charlienzcharlie]

They should huddle like the penguins, take turns being on the outer edge.

[@rayva1]

Their tents need an extra layer of insulation and a wood burning stove inside is what it is. They can learn a lot from the Canadians who camp out in tents in -45 degree weather. It’s not luxury, but it’ll sure help them survive the harsh winter.

[@bertcollard6619]

Good video

[@kithkin01]

can i do this? my rent is too high

[@bucktoothbettysboyfriend11]

You can come live with me.

[@toniesedrick691]

No just wait until you have no income.

[@homey2257]

Any updates sir? Sir?

[@susannordstrom5065]

Get a van

[@tomsheils1096]

@@susannordstrom5065 my wife and I did the van thing for a year and a half and it sucks

[@rareanimal8645]

Shelters are dangerous as well

[@ritajimmie3361]

They should look for old pallets and put their tents up on those to get them up off that ground. Pallets are just thrown away.

[@fellowshipofthecrown3341]

The ground is warmer than the outside air. Pitch the tent on the ground pack snow around the bottom. Much warmer

[@therawtruth9548]

Move to Miami .

[@olafmichelson8017]

That looks freezing

[@scotttaylor1841]

that's crazy..this is Michigan those winters can kill living in a tent , it's not LA

[@jacobtennyson9213]

That area is now part of Meijer's Rivertown Market.

[@mrwdpkr5851]

" Intensity at tent city "

[@keithdtibbettskeith5658]

You stole my line!

[@keithdtibbettskeith5658]

This is a poem I wrote 3 years ago..... I have no intent to live in a tent because I am not an intense person so in tents if I'd intensified my intensity I'd be living in tent City where people live intensely and usually have bad intentions

[@paulmonaco1148]

1:02 Is that the Seattle Seahawks Richard Sherman as the Mayor? Is this where he goes after the football season?

[@ChicagoBeaver]

I agree this is sad but just giving them a place to live won't really help. Most of them need rehab to stop doing their dope. Yes I was homeless 20 yrs ago but I also was on meth, heroin and was drunk every day as well. As soon as I got sober I was able to make better decisions. I worked my ass off to get where I'm at today and that's the problem, today's homeless only want to work hard to get intoxicated not to get a job and be self sufficient. If I can make it so can they if they work hard. It's possible through determination.

[@user-lb6kc8yx4e]

For what are they paying taxes

[@jhuang230]

The male anchor is now in CBS LA, where there are even more homeless.

[@timothyhorner3152]

They want a free home they do not want to work for it

[@rubyjoy9752]

Eventually with technology your work will get done by robots how hard is that to understand

[@chrisdurant4627]

Want them to move ,,,,excuse me,.were tooo, unfortanatly, they are down depressed.souls, bless them, heavenly father,,,

[@monnaahmed3865]

Sorry. why ? is. verey. cold please

[@dorisfaust8965]

It can happen to anyone.

[@kbstrong429]

This was 8 yrs ago. Where are these people now? Huh…?

[@lorestrahan2207]

Why don't they bye a camping trailer? It has heat and air. Should be more comfortable!

[@skull330]

Lore Strahan awwww great idea let me just reach into my magic wallet and pull out 10,000 dollars and buy the cheapest model they have.

[@louislamore3256]

Yes flippantly, ‘death is a real possibility’

[@rayva1]

She’s not dressed for that weather. She should be wearing a layer of thermal underneath.

[@alansherby4046]

You get used to it🤔

[@daviddalby9699]

Risiliance

[@7777777roma]

use the abandoned homes in detroit

[@skull330]

Kathleen Fraser a majority of those houses are unlivable, they have been gutted in the inside, no toilets, no sinks, no plumbing, no heat or air conditioning, walls have been torn down, no stoves or ovens to cook with, no furniture or beds to sleep on. It would cost a good 20 to 30 thousand dollars just to get it up to code and make it liveable again....

[@syrop26]

No wonder people do not want to go to shelters. In shelters they may encounter drug addicts, alcoholics and meat eaters. Shelter staff won't evict somebody because they are an alcoholic or a thief, but apparently it is okay to run a gender-segregated shelter, so in a shelter you will likely be forced to live with somebody who steals from you, but separated from your wife.

[@m42037]

And full of bed bugs and Lice

[@gymbagg8716]

Bails of hay or styrafoam....or cardboard

[@josmith1618]

shelters are no good

[@lindamerchant2401]

What's sad is when given housing all warm bed food then stop their housing and back to being homeless again I've seen

[@brucehescht1210]

Get a bando it's the hood

[@JL-mb7om]

Go south

[@theresacoringgray6885]

Sad 😑

[@rtoguidver3651]

They have had a year to prepare, a bus ticket to south Florida from New York is $30.. That's a lot for someone w/ nothing, but if they go a little each month, that's $20 a month in 5 months they would be in Florida where they can fish for food and not freeze to death.. I'd gladly give them a $100 if I was sure they didn't but drugs...

[@Seymour-Butts_666]

Homegirl is all hugged up on that black dude.

[@OneLove-vn2yo]

Conner Gil Stfu

[@jeanyork6163]

What happen to shelter? need improve shelter listen to homeless why they don't like go there and then make change for what they like place

[@maryreyes2036]

Sad

[@ralphstadler429]

You can't smoke crack and get drunk at the homeless shelter

[@m42037]

Ralph not all are on dangerous narcotics and drunks. And let's not forget the children like in other big Tent City's. And. shelters by the way are full of Bed bugs!

[@ralphstadler429]

I used to volunteer at the homeless shelter so I know all about the folks that live there

[@rubyjoy9752]

Youre sterotyping i never done drugs in my life or drank and couldn't afford insurance and rent and bills becoming homeless you are generalized in your comments its that kinda of thinking would arrest and imprison anyone even innocent ppl.

[@jimr3417]

Move to mexico its empty

[@debbiedarrah6518]

WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA?

[@MariaRodriguez-im8mh]

Señor Ovideo el vídeo puede ser diseñado por otros comprados lo distorsionan para engañar

[@ralphstadler429]

Most of these people are there because of their own doing it's their own fault their drug addicts and alcoholics and they have chosen this way of life it's sad but true

[@lynnentler5725]

all's I see Americans white and black don't see any illegal aliens there do you

[@skull330]

lynn Entler that's because there all in southern California, Arizona, Texas and southern Florida, their not dumb enough to live in places where it snows... Go to Los Angeles and that is all you will see, wall to wall illegals.....

[@stevemitchell238]

the shelters are worse they can sleep there but come day time the have leave and the thing id there are thousands of empty abanded buildings seting empty I have hurd hunderd of ideas that would work there are out of work carpenters living out there

[@basshunter8206]

I Don't feel sorry. They are offered over and over to get help to get off the streets but they refuse. WHY// Because they aren't to use drug in the places that help them. If they all over dose or freeze to death the city would have a lot less problems. When kids start picking up needles and catching AIDs or another disease. People will change their minds about having them live in your neighborhood parks and streets.

[@andreamulford4596]

All on drugs. ALL

[@veganc5028]

Please don't wear fur on your coats to keep warm. Fur comes from a tortured, murdered animal who didn't want to die. Use faux fur please. Be kind to our fellow earthlings

[@zw3388]

PIANZI

[@jimr3417]

Joe bidens america

[@wildchameleon7622]

But hey, at least we ripped down the racist highways and destroyed the value of the dollar. That's progress right?

[@clayholliman3724]

Ok blacks do not get ( head lice )))))))

[@joebloggs7522]

Does nobody have welders!? Make stoves for in tents, buy stove Jack's cut stitch n tape em into tents, then to stay warm and to cook all you need is a saw and a lighter, wudd save the authorities a lot if they gave people the means to stay warm it wudd stop tragedies were ppl freeze to death cause they've no means to survive,