I find it difficult to understand how our country provides assistance in millions sometimes billions of dollars to other countries but is not willing to build affordable housing that's truly affordable for Americans. We pay more moving people around than stabilizing them. There should be no homelessness or hungry people in America. Disgraceful. Our government should be ashamed. My prayers for all!
The money we send to other countries, such as Israel, should come with strings attached. If they're going to take our money we will ship them homeless people. Israel can certainly absorb a million homeless drug addicts and crazies.
I'm a 60 plus year old retired contractor and I've watched people I mean I should say government people give away billions of dollars to other countries I would appreciate it if they would take all that money that us taxpayers are paying and find people that are homeless not because of mental problems but because they fell on hard times and Lease them a house for the rest of their life that way they still can control of it and make them not homeless permanently we can send billions and billions to other countries we can't take care of our own I just never can understand this
Let's hope that the $4 million that CalTrans gave to Oakland to assist in getting these people housed is actually used for this purpose. If not, then these people will be setting up camp in local neighborhoods, thus recreating the problem all over again.
That’s attorney should’ve been helping them find real housing oppose to allowing them to stay in that area knowing that legally it was the property of Caltrain
@@Callitwhatitis my house is not a shelter. You can since your so concerned. Its funny how everyone is concerned when they have to leave private property but not concerned about helping them find sustainable housing while their living in these illegal areas. Seems like people only care when things escalate
@@Dosesofbliss Its people like him that have gentrified affordable neighborhoods and now have the pompous arrogance to make such statements behind the safety of their laptop screens.
Yes, she's not "helping", really. Helping would not be trying to let them stay in that kind of a living space. She is part of the problem, sadly. Misplaced entitlement.
pretty crazy that America is looking like the slums of Haiti. Are our politicians talking about it? of course not. why would they when they're too busy talking about a man who hasn't been president in 2 years, still trying to shift blame for a fallen country instead of looking in the mirror and finding a solution to problems they're creating. Way to go America. Way to hold them accountable.
At some point in life you need to take responsibility for yourself and take action to improve your situation. There are plenty of homeless people who are able-bodied and could find work if they wanted it. The work may not be glamorous or easy but it's more dignified than living on the street. If I was homeless, I'd be willing to sweep the streets, bag groceries, clean toilets, whatever it took to improve my situation. Then, I'd save my money to find a place to live, even if I just rented a room in a boarding house. I would never just sit on my hands and complain, I'd act to fix it.
@@paul9156c exactly. MANY of these people are severely traumatized and rejected by society but hey, adapt to society, quickly and nicely right ...with no family support at all...
That's a lot easier said than done. Most of the people I've met there were/are disabled and a few ex cons who are just trying to turn their life around won't get hired because of their past or simply because their homeless. Even if you have a job or on SSI/SSD, no one is gonna wanna house you because your homeless and most likely you'll need to find housemates because rent is impossible to afford out here
Maybe if they cleaned up after themselves a little, stopped spraying graffiti on every surface, and refrained from lighting shit on fire, the city might have left them alone for a while longer.
I wish that our governments (city, state and federal) would focus on addressing crimes reduction, drugs rehab, mental illness and homelessness at home instead of pushing liberal agendas domestically and being the policeman of the world.
Pssssst....Homelessness in America is entirely due to 40+ years of conservative backed Reaganomics. How many were there prior to 1980? Taking actions to help them would be the liberal thing to do. Maybe you should stick to stuff you know about.
@@BuddhaGBahia 4 twin xl beds in a cheap apartment, and split rent evenly, then just get jobs. There's really no such thing as homelessness unless there's employment discrimination. Employment discrimination is only happening to nonimmigrant black American people, statistically speaking... For everyone else, it's mostly drug addiction and psychosis.
They did this in DC. The rents and housing prices are so HIGH. The encampments have been cleared out. However, people just moved to other areas (under bridges, in tunnels, in woods, etc.
I understand some people’s situation but you have to strive for more in life. It takes a SERIES of mistakes to get to this point and it’s hard to sympathize when there’s HARD working people out there with even 2 or 3 jobs working 60+ hours a week and these people just skate by on public and city funds from out tax dollars. A lot are lazy and choose homelessness
You’re right…..I’ve seen so many people on the street who choose not to take food or water “only money!” ….who yell on the streets and throw things at people…. It’s such a disrespect to the people that may be homeless due to disability or just due to life being too harsh on them. Those are the people that understand their situation and simply want a little push to help them get back on their feet.
You really do have to include mental health when coming to a conclusion about homelessness. Some people do not have the capacity to live meaningful lives because they were either never taught how to or were abused so significantly that they aren't able to develop those coping mechanisms on their own, and there's almost no help for them, lucky ones are able to secure a social worker and are given the ability to get out of that type of living with significant help via the state. But those programs are not funded or managed very well. The vast majority are left to fend for themselves, and they simply cannot. They are not lazy, they don't choose it, it's simply their only option. The U.S is quick to come to the conclusion of mental health, but we can't even formulate the means or even the basic help to treat it. It really needs to be addressed before it becomes out of hand.
@@notablebias If you did some volunteer work assisting the homeless or invited a homeless into your home, I am convinced your prospective would change. These people are vicious.
When it gets to this point the homeless have to know they are a major problem. You can’t cry “im just homeless trying to do better”while living like total scum . This is a lifestyle for some
Until the Bay Area Politicians do something about the rampant drug problem. This will always be a problem, they'll just move to another part of town. I've seen this massive encampment there's at least 300 people living in it. Open drug use is off the charts, I'm concerned about the safety of the worker's who have to clear and clean up the area.
Hi l live in Australia , thankfully this sort of thing with the encampments doesn't happen here. But l have been watching with great interest. With all the crime, and filth these encampments bring how are they allowed to go on. I have seen many residents who have been victims of these people. But to me it seems they are completely above the law. Why have decent citizens got far fewer rights than these junkies and homeless! I REALLY can't understand it!?
@@galegrazutis964 Unfortunately your thoughts are correct drug addicts and criminals are treated like royalty in the Bay Area. They even have a free needle program in San Francisco which has caused the problem to get much worse since it's been implemented.
@@seanc5034 the government needs to stop playing with drug dealers and lock them up for long periods of time. I do agree that drug addicts need treatment. However, many of them don't want to stop using. I'm speaking on what I've seen with my own eyes. Not some study done by someone who's never dealt with the streets.
What if everyone will just claim a piece of public land, build a shack on it, and claim that it's THEIR house? I'm sure this homeless is not the only one who is tired to pay this astronomical rent or mortgage.
They interview the ones who are elderly, as if everyone on the streets is innocent and elderly, while the 80 percent drug addicted, listless and criminal residents are out of sight. The alcoholic, drug using, felony on record types ruin it for the truly needy - still other areas of the country are far more affordable than this area, the needy need to relocate somewhere cheaper - thats what I did when I was homeless, I went somewhere cheaper to live.
mixed feelings, ... sad in so many ways, sad I pay 33+% tax and sales tax, and fees and they say $4.X M was set to help these people, $4M is 1 house in SF
I live just west of Orlando and they had one of these bum parks in some Woods near my neighborhood and theft was an issue the entire time that it was there and either the City of Davenport or Polk County finally cleared it out in January and guess what the amount of property crimes in my neighborhood went down to almost nothing
The error in our homeless programs is that we operate a meritocracy. Before someone will be granted a foot up on the social ladder, the must stop drinking and drugging, etc. This is backwards. Give them apartments, clean them up, get them some sort of employment and expose them to AA and similar programs. Let them keep their vices until they are ready go give them up. Give them a thousand reasons to live a better life once the pressures of being homeless is off them.
4.7 million would house all those people easily. But we all know the people handling that money need 40 thousand dollar desks, optioned out chevy surburban fleet vehicles and breaks every fifteen minutes. On top of a 150k salary for them and all of their friends.
America is an amazing place....if your willing to STAY CLEAN, get up in the morning, go to work ? You can literally do anything you want!! It takes time, dedication and genuine WANT to get there but its possible for anyone and everyone! Just dont do drugs 🤷 if you must drink? Do so RESPONSIBILITY 🤷
Girl you are going to have a clean place to sleep because you are too sweet to sleep in a box. Your dad will want you safe and dry. ♡ you are tougher than you think.
4 twin xl beds in a cheap apartment, and split rent evenly, then just get jobs. There's really no such thing as homelessness unless there's employment discrimination. Employment discrimination is only happening to nonimmigrant black American people, statistically speaking... For everyone else, it's mostly drug addiction and psychosis.
Well, in Finland, they gave shelter to all homeless people even if they were addicted and messy and then they followed up by giving medical, mental, and social services. Hence Finland became the country with no homeless people on the streets and many bounced back into the society. America keeps forgetting that being sober isn’t easy. It’s addiction. It can’t be undone without help. Provide housing and roof first. Smh, America expects people to sober up before giving shelter. This approach has clearly failed all across American cities clearly.
If only it was that easy to stop being addicted to drugs. Have some empathy dude: that’s like me telling you, if you work hard you can own a mansion in the Oakland hills and drive a Ferrari. And pay off all ur parents debts. Life doesn’t always work that way.
Brigette Nicoletti needs to invite them to live with her if she's so concerned. Please talk to and interview all the people and businesses negatively impacted by vagrant encampments. Those are the real victims, not the free-loading vagrants choosing to live this way and destroy our cities.
@GSR 01 Uh oh, another Berkeley upper class progressive liberal leftists lying hypocrite. She doesn't understand people are done with leftists nonsense & policies that harm hardworking middle class people. She deserves the same fate as late 18th century French aristocrats.
There are`nt enough of them and shelters aren`t permanent housing. Such a classist perspective is typical of both liberal as well conservative scum....ya "political" assholes certainly share that commonality
It's not that simple though. How about you go through the notions of homelessness and then come back and make that statement. It's unfortunate that we even have homelessness to begin with. Humans make simple shit complicated.
One of the main issues is no of the people being interviewed want to go to the provided shelter because it would require them to follow rules like getting up in the morning, washing your behind and then leave to look for a job. They want to be free of the things us hard working people have to do to make ends meet and pay for a roof over our head. If the shelters are bad then that's what the attorney can help get right.
That's a lot of money's being allocated to the homeless problem. However my concern is, it really going to the homeless community because it says it is but somewhere along the line it gets rerouted or allocated to something else non-related.
no, straight to the pockets of your local politicians...they could care less....you really think politicians care? lol....seriously? they don't. Pelosi is one of them.....hasn't done jack squat and its over 80 years old.....they live off of the people. with their 200 k a year jobs...
No almost nothing goes to the homeless, it's a huge massive lie. They help select people once in a great while as an example and the rest goes to corrupt fees and disbursers. Could build a giant homeless shelter for all of them for the millions being received but no they won't do that just pocketing it all
If the problem ever gets solved, the funding stops. Therefore, the problem won't ever get solved, but will create a new industry of middleman organisations sponging up the money. Seems to be how the whole world works.
Anyone commenting negatively needs to step off and re-examine your life. Your privileges. What do you have to be thankful for? Most of you commenting take it for granted that you have a place to live and sleep at night. The people in these camps do not have that benefit. Instead of villanizing these people we should be encouraging our government to do more to help solve this issue. This is ridiculous. We are all lesser for allowing this issue to persist. We should all feel terrible.
You're correct Dave! However, there's way more inhumane humans here more than people who have empathy and compassion for others. I'm sorry to say but these people were raised by animals.
I had to take a vslium after reading your comment. Maybe if they didn't cause so much crime and produce so much filth and were so entitled people might be more sympathetic to their cause. And fit the VAST MAJORITY of us no one simply gave us an apartment and free money in our bank account every month. We have to be a law abiding citizen who hasn't had a life of crime or drug or alcohol abuse. People need to be grateful for what they are offered at the expense of the taxpayers and take some sort of responsibility for their lives. Sure their is a tiny majority who are there through no fault of their own. And they need to be helped first and foremost. All the leftist morons have done is make the homeless problem multiply to an atrocious level . Because the left has made them above the law!!!
Man these people have no respect in these comments do they even know that the jobs that they could possibly get couldn't even afford A studio in Oakland 10 years ago you barely ever seen A homeless person on Oakland there's A reason that this is happening all over the us the government just do not give the resources that many need and for the few shelters that are around is first come first to get A bed than your out by morning that becomes anoying so people build tents just to have A lil consistent stability
We should be encouraging the homeless to do more to solve this issue. If solution is to sit in encampment all day situation 100% guaranteed to never improve.
omg, no...they are human beings for god sake....let them live....we can't do that to them, or clean up our streets or clean up human shit....just leave them alone. London Breed said so.
This country has always had poor people but until recent years they weren’t allowed to just put up a tent wherever they felt like. It was against the law, and if you broke the law you went to jail.
here's a suggestion ... instead of allowing Biden to have a free for all, sending 200 billion to Ukraine, if we spent 45 billion of that money we could literally end homelessness in the US... for 2 generations if we can come up with a job requirement for tenets like debris cleanup, envelope stuffing, ''where ever, we can find something for them to contribute, instead of building robotic arms and machines to do these jobs
A parent's ONLY duty is to raise a child (with love) with discipline, self-respect & to become independent. Clearly she is articulate-but a failed human. How did she end up there? How did she not get help & no one helped her? Adding silly cartoon & worrying about ancestor worship is simplistic, immature & distracting of the root problem. In her & society in general. There is no shortage of money. Or opportunity. Or places to live. Try again without your false and misplaced virtue-signalling empty-rhetoric sentiment.
@@juanitacarey4058 4 twin xl beds in a cheap apartment, and split rent evenly, then just get jobs. There's really no such thing as homelessness unless there's employment discrimination. Employment discrimination is only happening to nonimmigrant black American people, statistically speaking... For everyone else, it's mostly drug addiction and psychosis.
wow...looks like the highway of death from the 1st gulf war. Evict everyone and offer them shelter at a homeless shelter or whatever and if they don't choose to go, then they didn't want help in the first place.
I feel sad for these people but I think these people need to help themselves. We are all struggling whether you are rich or poor but they need to held accountable for their actions and not taking an easy way out. If you don’t help yourself, no one can help you. That’s my two cents.
Most of the money connected in some way to the homeless situation that changes hands never makes it to the stated purpose. Most of it vanishes into various pockets along the way. I want in on the homeless money grab. I'm working up a resume that'll make me an expert on homelessness and I'll get hired as a consultant for major bucks. And no problem if I don't really do anything or know anything. I'll just kick back and spread the wealth. A lot of people are doing just that.
months later these same motorhomes are surrounding Reymoundi Park acrooss the street from tha encampment where the were before they were allowing on state property, now therye back where they were 2 years ago and some spread out throughout Oakland.. THIS problem is only getting worse and Local Polticians are charging taxpayes billions in the name of these people and %90+ of the money doesnt help them
You can be homeless, but when you trash property and make it look like a landfill then you invite diease and rodents. If they keep property clean then they probably won't get kicked out or chase of property.
Well, in Finland, they gave shelter to all homeless people even if they were addicted and messy and then they followed up by giving medical, mental, and social services. Hence Finland became the country with no homeless people on the streets and many bounced back into the society. America keeps forgetting that being sober isn’t easy. It’s addiction. It can’t be undone without help. Provide housing and roof first. Smh, America expects people to sober up before giving shelter. This approach has clearly failed all across American cities clearly.
When you boil it all down, there are three types of homeless: 1) Suddenly displaced through unemployment, illness, abuse, or other major life event. 2) Long-term displaced through bad life choices or through structural unemployment. 3) Those who CHOOSE to be societal parasites, abdicate their adult responsibility, chose drugs to start with (the double down with continued addiction), engage in theft, violence, and other feral activities because society puts up with it. They are the ones that CHOOSE to be feral. It's appropriate to help groups 1 & 2. It's appropriate to aggressively address group 3 (compulsory addiction treatment, jail, or institutionalizing). There is a such thing as compassion fatigue. And many have had their limit of dispensing endless compassion that just turns into an addiction all its own. It's time to add consequences to the homeless in group 3 as WELL AS the FAILED LEADERS who do not address/solve this problem.
These people have somehow failed at the most basic tenets of being a functional person. Criminals, thieves, drug casualties, alcoholics, etc. They are done.
The biggest criminals are the ones who steal 99 percent of the profit their workers make them and claim it as their just due. Leaving millions in poverty and contributing to all the crime and mental illness that poverty creates.
I mean when did it become everybody else’s responsibility to take care of each and everyone of those people? I am struggling to take care of myself but they seem to have zigged when I zagged in life and I’m tired of hearing homeless people say where am I supposed to go? I don’t have anything? I have three felonies I can’t get a job…I don’t know how your life got to that point but Where it is currently at is not acceptable for society. The whole of society cannot suffer because people make some bad choices and end up in a shitty place in life. That is not an acceptable place to be living and everybody else is not responsible for your life circumstance except for you!! All benevolence I had a few years ago has disappeared. It disappeared when bullets were going down my street when fires were burning when homeless dogs were attacking us… When it became unsafe to walk very far from your house… That’s what homelessness has brought us. I do not want to be forced to live how they live. And I’m not talking about the 5% of the homeless that have mental issues I’m talking about the 95% that seem to be criminals who like to live outside! when I offered shelter they say no they don’t want to go because they don’t want to be under shelter rules. I’m over it
People don’t realize how many services we have for homeless people that aren’t being used because they don’t want help. We give them rules to help them bounce back into society, yet they continue to trash and vandalize the property given to them.
You cannot let thousands live on the streets like this. They get housing but they don’t appreciate it, & on that I’d like free housing, but I cannot cause I’ve a job.
I agree, but we need to realize that democrats and leftists collectively allow fentanyl to flood in That fuels homelessness, crime, addiction, trashy streets, and expensive ER visits to treat the addicts.... Some land should be designated as Volunteer to Live for Free ---- so you do 3 hours of work/week in exchange for a place to stay, some food and water...... dumpster and bathroom provided The volunteer work would include picking up trash, working in the garden and working in the kitchen...........WE CAN'T JUST GIVE THEM THINGS, THEY MUST EARN IT WITH WORK
Many of them have some illness that prevents them from working. For all the socialism in California, you'd think they would at least take care of the legit disability cases. SSD doesn't make a dent. Of course, they'd have to learn what the social in socialism means. That's what I hate about the lying democrats. They claim to want to help, but they don't. It's better if they just say that they don't give a hoot.
We're humans too, we work, pay taxes and deserve a safe and filth free city to live. They can go live in the forest or desert if they don't want to be part of the system.
I wonder if they get a fine for hoardering all that trash, the kind of fine that homeowners get when they have the backyard front yard messed up, I bet they don't, they go after homeowners first cuz there is money to be made they can even let homeowners homeless if homeowners don't pay
Are you for REAL! Of course they don't go after them. The homeless in America are completely above the law. Use the streets as a toilet, shooti up on the streets in broad daylight, do you drug deals , attack innocent citizens, steal from stores. If your homeless and a druggie anything goes!!!
How many homeless people truly and honestly want to get off the street and stay of the street permanently? How many would like transitional housing? Is wanting to find a job and all with the help of another human being? How many would rather stay living on the street? Some people prefer to stay where they are and not a change to better their life, even with help.
While this obviously needed to get done, what exactly is stopping the homeless here (or any other city dealing with this crisis) from setting up camp elsewhere whether it be 10 miles away or 20? Not sure I am getting what is being done to prevent another encampment.
A conversation Needs to begin with these people about dragging crap from all around and bringing it to the camp. There's a guy camped @ san leandro st & 85th ave that has Hundreds of bicycle frames, wheels & parts..its Massive...Stop Hoarding ! its a Big part of the problem. U know the rest of the US is Affordable. move
they can take all of these people to the central valley to pick up strawberries, and oranges, they can do a decent living if they save some money, if a lot of the people crossing the border are going to the fields to work why they can't do it as well,
@@rahmatnaimali9997 who hires homeless ppl? How would they shower? Where would they get money for ID? Joe would they brush teeth? Who will cut the hair to look presentable? Where would they get the clothing for jo be search? And the list goes on and on. What have you don't to help 1 person get all these things do they can re-enter the work force
It's tempting to assume that only people with "hard lives" turn to addiction but that is simply not the case at all. MANY people had severely abusive childhoods or suffered other extreme hardship; and while we are definitely not as successful as people who didn't have those issues, we STILL didn't turn to drugs. Most people DO realize how easy it is to get addicted, that's why we NEVER start, or in the case of alcohol (which is a more gradual creeping addiction) we limit ourselves on how often/much we drink. Addicts lack that internal sense of restraint. That's why the relapse rate is so high. First bad day and most of them fall back into addiction. There is nothing which is gonna make most of these people have the sense of self-restraint and perseverance that normal people have. Yes there's exceptions, some experts claim about 25% of the homeless just had one bad episode in their life, do NOT choose drugs, and with only the bare minimum of outside help they will be back on their feet and in housing and stable job, within 6 months. And work themselves to the bone to make sure that never happens again. But the majority are a totally different story. (and that 25% might be overly optimistic). Because there is such a huge difference between people who choose to experiment with addictive drugs and people who would NEVER go down that road, and also because of the HUGE number of homeless addicts, I'm starting to think the current situation needs re-considering. There is no reasonably-priced treatment plan which could truly help these people -- give them a free apartment and they will just destroy it. So we might as well "take care of them" in a humane manner which is reasonable and convenient for our needs, not theirs. Make public addiction a crime again, first and second time just make the process of charging them a formality basically, so we can tell the difference between a frat boy out on a weekend jaunt and a homeless addict. Third time they get locked up for 7 years in a no-frills work house. NO long legal process either, this isn't the death penalty! It's not what Jesus would have done but we're not Jesus and we don't have His superpowers. We have to deal with the reality and practicalities we have, not idealism and wishful propaganda. There are far too many of them, growing worse every day, and they are SIGNIFICANTLY negatively impacting everyone else's basic right to safety. We really do need to remember that no matter how bad our lives are, we were never stupid or suicidal enough to choose to take addictive drugs.
I lived and worked in Oakland for years and loved it. When I went to work in other cities in the Bay, Walnut Creek, the racism was systemic and oppressive. God is Love.
So in all the years they have been getting money to help the homeless and all those years with all that money have they built areas with tiny homes for people to live in what have they done where did all that money ..
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Why, why, why?? A lot of this is drug addiction, but many of these people are just not able to afford this incredibly expensive area. I'm crying.
If you had a more wealthy mindset then youd know homelessness affects more than just random lives, it affects home prices, crime, trash, ect. Which in turn affects you.
I find it difficult to understand how our country provides assistance in millions sometimes billions of dollars to other countries but is not willing to build affordable housing that's truly affordable for Americans. We pay more moving people around than stabilizing them. There should be no homelessness or hungry people in America. Disgraceful. Our government should be ashamed. My prayers for all!
Many don't wish to go to shelters because they don't want to follow shelter rules.
@@sblijheid because shelter rules are draconian, what's the point of a shelter with rigid rules ? That's really served Oakland well
The money we send to other countries, such as Israel, should come with strings attached. If they're going to take our money we will ship them homeless people. Israel can certainly absorb a million homeless drug addicts and crazies.
Agree!!!
One word answers your question. Money.
I'm a 60 plus year old retired contractor and I've watched people I mean I should say government people give away billions of dollars to other countries I would appreciate it if they would take all that money that us taxpayers are paying and find people that are homeless not because of mental problems but because they fell on hard times and Lease them a house for the rest of their life that way they still can control of it and make them not homeless permanently we can send billions and billions to other countries we can't take care of our own I just never can understand this
yes! I agree
Let's hope that the $4 million that CalTrans gave to Oakland to assist in getting these people housed is actually used for this purpose. If not, then these people will be setting up camp in local neighborhoods, thus recreating the problem all over again.
Unfortunately most are offered a roof over thier head, but refuse due to drug or mental problems...they don't wanna follow free housing rules.
If they give them all housing and fix the problem then how are they going to get the next four million?
THey will the system cannot keep up with the hoarding
@@Rero-vk8wq Many want to live "off the grid".
It's 2022. Homeless people will never be given permanent housing. Shelters aren't permanent.
That’s attorney should’ve been helping them find real housing oppose to allowing them to stay in that area knowing that legally it was the property of Caltrain
You live somewhere, why not invite them to your house.
@@Callitwhatitis my house is not a shelter. You can since your so concerned. Its funny how everyone is concerned when they have to leave private property but not concerned about helping them find sustainable housing while their living in these illegal areas. Seems like people only care when things escalate
@@Dosesofbliss Its people like him that have gentrified affordable neighborhoods and now have the pompous arrogance to make such statements behind the safety of their laptop screens.
Yes, she's not "helping", really. Helping would not be trying to let them stay in that kind of a living space. She is part of the problem, sadly. Misplaced entitlement.
THERE ISNT ANY !
pretty crazy that America is looking like the slums of Haiti. Are our politicians talking about it? of course not. why would they when they're too busy talking about a man who hasn't been president in 2 years, still trying to shift blame for a fallen country instead of looking in the mirror and finding a solution to problems they're creating. Way to go America. Way to hold them accountable.
Exactly, still after Trump..who cares about Trump..fix these problems and disgusting homeless dump encampments. ! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
They talk about it all the time, the solutions that they have come up with and spend billions on is not working.
They spend more on elections than they do their own people.
At some point in life you need to take responsibility for yourself and take action to improve your situation. There are plenty of homeless people who are able-bodied and could find work if they wanted it. The work may not be glamorous or easy but it's more dignified than living on the street. If I was homeless, I'd be willing to sweep the streets, bag groceries, clean toilets, whatever it took to improve my situation. Then, I'd save my money to find a place to live, even if I just rented a room in a boarding house. I would never just sit on my hands and complain, I'd act to fix it.
How can you tell if the "able-bodied" are also able-minded? 🤔
@@paul9156c exactly. MANY of these people are severely traumatized and rejected by society but hey, adapt to society, quickly and nicely right ...with no family support at all...
Alot of people can't get work when they're homeless, they are judged by everyone. So find those crap jobs is alot harder than you think.
@@spyderfreestone736 100% impossible when sitting in encampment all day
That's a lot easier said than done. Most of the people I've met there were/are disabled and a few ex cons who are just trying to turn their life around won't get hired because of their past or simply because their homeless. Even if you have a job or on SSI/SSD, no one is gonna wanna house you because your homeless and most likely you'll need to find housemates because rent is impossible to afford out here
Maybe if they cleaned up after themselves a little, stopped spraying graffiti on every surface, and refrained from lighting shit on fire, the city might have left them alone for a while longer.
Clean up after yourselves and don’t cause trouble to normal people and maybe you’ll go unnoticed.
I wish that our governments (city, state and federal) would focus on addressing crimes reduction, drugs rehab, mental illness and homelessness at home instead of pushing liberal agendas domestically and being the policeman of the world.
Pssssst....Homelessness in America is entirely due to 40+ years of conservative backed Reaganomics.
How many were there prior to 1980?
Taking actions to help them would be the liberal thing to do.
Maybe you should stick to stuff you know about.
I can't believe that a good comment is at the top of the comment section. I NEVER see that when it comes to local news youtube comment sections.
@@ralf6156 he is a trumbfuk.
Doesn't realize he lives in the OG Western Liberal Democracy.
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Thats kinda the point of Democracy, vladdy.
@@BuddhaGBahia 4 twin xl beds in a cheap apartment, and split rent evenly, then just get jobs. There's really no such thing as homelessness unless there's employment discrimination. Employment discrimination is only happening to nonimmigrant black American people, statistically speaking... For everyone else, it's mostly drug addiction and psychosis.
Lady, if your living under a freeway your already “displaced “
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They did this in DC. The rents and housing prices are so HIGH. The encampments have been cleared out. However, people just moved to other areas (under bridges, in tunnels, in woods, etc.
I understand some people’s situation but you have to strive for more in life. It takes a SERIES of mistakes to get to this point and it’s hard to sympathize when there’s HARD working people out there with even 2 or 3 jobs working 60+ hours a week and these people just skate by on public and city funds from out tax dollars. A lot are lazy and choose homelessness
You’re right…..I’ve seen so many people on the street who choose not to take food or water “only money!” ….who yell on the streets and throw things at people….
It’s such a disrespect to the people that may be homeless due to disability or just due to life being too harsh on them. Those are the people that understand their situation and simply want a little push to help them get back on their feet.
Capitalism is a failure.
You really do have to include mental health when coming to a conclusion about homelessness. Some people do not have the capacity to live meaningful lives because they were either never taught how to or were abused so significantly that they aren't able to develop those coping mechanisms on their own, and there's almost no help for them, lucky ones are able to secure a social worker and are given the ability to get out of that type of living with significant help via the state. But those programs are not funded or managed very well. The vast majority are left to fend for themselves, and they simply cannot. They are not lazy, they don't choose it, it's simply their only option. The U.S is quick to come to the conclusion of mental health, but we can't even formulate the means or even the basic help to treat it. It really needs to be addressed before it becomes out of hand.
@@notablebias If you did some volunteer work assisting the homeless or invited a homeless into your home, I am convinced your prospective would change. These people are vicious.
@@notablebias mental health is huge....
So is laziness...
Then they mix....
When it gets to this point the homeless have to know they are a major problem. You can’t cry “im just homeless trying to do better”while living like total scum . This is a lifestyle for some
Until the Bay Area Politicians do something about the rampant drug problem. This will always be a problem, they'll just move to another part of town. I've seen this massive encampment there's at least 300 people living in it. Open drug use is off the charts, I'm concerned about the safety of the worker's who have to clear and clean up the area.
Hi l live in Australia , thankfully this sort of thing with the encampments doesn't happen here. But l have been watching with great interest. With all the crime, and filth these encampments bring how are they allowed to go on. I have seen many residents who have been victims of these people. But to me it seems they are completely above the law. Why have decent citizens got far fewer rights than these junkies and homeless! I REALLY can't understand it!?
@@galegrazutis964 Unfortunately your thoughts are correct drug addicts and criminals are treated like royalty in the Bay Area. They even have a free needle program in San Francisco which has caused the problem to get much worse since it's been implemented.
@@caesard.8711 😭😭😭
Yes, let's end the drug war, and it's not just Oakland, the federal government needs to step up and treat it like the health problem it really is
@@seanc5034 the government needs to stop playing with drug dealers and lock them up for long periods of time. I do agree that drug addicts need treatment. However, many of them don't want to stop using. I'm speaking on what I've seen with my own eyes. Not some study done by someone who's never dealt with the streets.
They aren’t robbing you of the property that you squatted on .
What if everyone will just claim a piece of public land, build a shack on it, and claim that it's THEIR house? I'm sure this homeless is not the only one who is tired to pay this astronomical rent or mortgage.
No thanks..bad idea.
Then go to the Dokatas were land is much cheaper ~Stay out of California 😁🧐😵💫🤓
@@colinchampollion4420 they don't give you out free cash to bums and syringes for heroin there.
@@timby2383 good point 🙂😤
@@maxpower9848 was it a bad idea when your colonizing European ancestors did it?
They interview the ones who are elderly, as if everyone on the streets is innocent and elderly, while the 80 percent drug addicted, listless and criminal residents are out of sight. The alcoholic, drug using, felony on record types ruin it for the truly needy - still other areas of the country are far more affordable than this area, the needy need to relocate somewhere cheaper - thats what I did when I was homeless, I went somewhere cheaper to live.
mixed feelings, ... sad in so many ways, sad I pay 33+% tax and sales tax, and fees and they say $4.X M was set to help these people, $4M is 1 house in SF
I live just west of Orlando and they had one of these bum parks in some Woods near my neighborhood and theft was an issue the entire time that it was there and either the City of Davenport or Polk County finally cleared it out in January and guess what the amount of property crimes in my neighborhood went down to almost nothing
Wow 😳, some individuals can't understand what HELP LOOKS LIKE💯💕
BUILD CONCRETE FOR THE HOMELESS, NOT HATE🤜🤛
@@nononsense5182go and live next to them then
The error in our homeless programs is that we operate a meritocracy. Before someone will be granted a foot up on the social ladder, the must stop drinking and drugging, etc. This is backwards. Give them apartments, clean them up, get them some sort of employment and expose them to AA and similar programs. Let them keep their vices until they are ready go give them up. Give them a thousand reasons to live a better life once the pressures of being homeless is off them.
200 fires in 2 years?? And we’re wondering why we’re in a major drought
Cause the homeless people are burning up all the water in the atmosphere!!!
4.7 million would house all those people easily. But we all know the people handling that money need 40 thousand dollar desks, optioned out chevy surburban fleet vehicles and breaks every fifteen minutes. On top of a 150k salary for them and all of their friends.
They say that they need to find a place to go. Go to work and then go back to the home that you pay for?
America is an amazing place....if your willing to STAY CLEAN, get up in the morning, go to work ? You can literally do anything you want!! It takes time, dedication and genuine WANT to get there but its possible for anyone and everyone! Just dont do drugs 🤷 if you must drink? Do so RESPONSIBILITY 🤷
Girl you are going to have a clean place to sleep because you are too sweet to sleep in a box. Your dad will want you safe and dry. ♡ you are tougher than you think.
4 twin xl beds in a cheap apartment, and split rent evenly, then just get jobs. There's really no such thing as homelessness unless there's employment discrimination. Employment discrimination is only happening to nonimmigrant black American people, statistically speaking... For everyone else, it's mostly drug addiction and psychosis.
I’m going out on a limb here and say! “I bet if your sober and clean, you could find shelter!”
Well, in Finland, they gave shelter to all homeless people even if they were addicted and messy and then they followed up by giving medical, mental, and social services. Hence Finland became the country with no homeless people on the streets and many bounced back into the society. America keeps forgetting that being sober isn’t easy. It’s addiction. It can’t be undone without help. Provide housing and roof first. Smh, America expects people to sober up before giving shelter. This approach has clearly failed all across American cities clearly.
There are to many rules in shelters and I here they are not safe.
If only it was that easy to stop being addicted to drugs. Have some empathy dude: that’s like me telling you, if you work hard you can own a mansion in the Oakland hills and drive a Ferrari. And pay off all ur parents debts. Life doesn’t always work that way.
Wow. Your gaslighting is pathetic. Homelessness isn't caused by alcoholism or addiction.
@@pilierofq you spelled half the words wrong that you used, I think you are the last person who should be giving anyone advice.
Regardless of your circumstances CLEAN UP AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
Brigette Nicoletti needs to invite them to live with her if she's so concerned. Please talk to and interview all the people and businesses negatively impacted by vagrant encampments. Those are the real victims, not the free-loading vagrants choosing to live this way and destroy our cities.
@GSR 01 Uh oh, another Berkeley upper class progressive liberal leftists lying hypocrite.
She doesn't understand people are done with leftists nonsense & policies that harm hardworking middle class people.
She deserves the same fate as late 18th century French aristocrats.
My heart goes out to the Homeless, but the way the drug use and violent crime that goes on in those encampments are a safety threat to the community
A step in the the right direction. There’s a place called Shelters where they provide a place to stay
Hub there's a place called shut up so please close your mouth.
It's good you're so proud of your ignorance.
We don't have shelters for even 10% of the GOP created homeless.
There are`nt enough of them and shelters aren`t permanent housing. Such a classist perspective is typical of both liberal as well conservative scum....ya "political" assholes certainly share that commonality
Theres not enough shelters obviously
It's not that simple though. How about you go through the notions of homelessness and then come back and make that statement. It's unfortunate that we even have homelessness to begin with. Humans make simple shit complicated.
I am so grateful for my apartment!
I am grateful for my Mansion
It's only "yours" as long as you Can pay for it.
@@leegoddard2618 it's all paid for Bro. & all my cars🤫🤓
@@colinchampollion4420 not you. The apartment. D.A. 🤦
@@leegoddard2618 what y our stance on homelessness?
One of the main issues is no of the people being interviewed want to go to the provided shelter because it would require them to follow rules like getting up in the morning, washing your behind and then leave to look for a job. They want to be free of the things us hard working people have to do to make ends meet and pay for a roof over our head. If the shelters are bad then that's what the attorney can help get right.
Agreed
It's too late Oakland ... bring in the bulldozers, let the entire city revert to nature.
Even nature will stay away from Oakland
You obviously haven't a clue how big Oakland is, these encampments are in concentrated areas that are a fraction of the size of Oakland.
That's a lot of money's being allocated to the homeless problem. However my concern is, it really going to the homeless community because it says it is but somewhere along the line it gets rerouted or allocated to something else non-related.
Administrative costs I rxpect
no, straight to the pockets of your local politicians...they could care less....you really think politicians care? lol....seriously? they don't. Pelosi is one of them.....hasn't done jack squat and its over 80 years old.....they live off of the people. with their 200 k a year jobs...
Personal pockets? Personal bank account?
No almost nothing goes to the homeless, it's a huge massive lie. They help select people once in a great while as an example and the rest goes to corrupt fees and disbursers. Could build a giant homeless shelter for all of them for the millions being received but no they won't do that just pocketing it all
If the problem ever gets solved, the funding stops. Therefore, the problem won't ever get solved, but will create a new industry of middleman organisations sponging up the money. Seems to be how the whole world works.
It's like watch a friend go insane and start moving a pile of sand back and forth in their backyard with a small bucket
Anyone commenting negatively needs to step off and re-examine your life. Your privileges. What do you have to be thankful for? Most of you commenting take it for granted that you have a place to live and sleep at night. The people in these camps do not have that benefit. Instead of villanizing these people we should be encouraging our government to do more to help solve this issue. This is ridiculous. We are all lesser for allowing this issue to persist. We should all feel terrible.
You're correct Dave! However, there's way more inhumane humans here more than people who have empathy and compassion for others. I'm sorry to say but these people were raised by animals.
I had to take a vslium after reading your comment. Maybe if they didn't cause so much crime and produce so much filth and were so entitled people might be more sympathetic to their cause. And fit the VAST MAJORITY of us no one simply gave us an apartment and free money in our bank account every month. We have to be a law abiding citizen who hasn't had a life of crime or drug or alcohol abuse. People need to be grateful for what they are offered at the expense of the taxpayers and take some sort of responsibility for their lives. Sure their is a tiny majority who are there through no fault of their own. And they need to be helped first and foremost. All the leftist morons have done is make the homeless problem multiply to an atrocious level . Because the left has made them above the law!!!
Man these people have no respect in these comments do they even know that the jobs that they could possibly get couldn't even afford A studio in Oakland 10 years ago you barely ever seen A homeless person on Oakland there's A reason that this is happening all over the us the government just do not give the resources that many need and for the few shelters that are around is first come first to get A bed than your out by morning that becomes anoying so people build tents just to have A lil consistent stability
We should be encouraging the homeless to do more to solve this issue. If solution is to sit in
encampment all day situation 100% guaranteed to never improve.
Good, I hope they do this in San Francisco.
Oh yes. Because the democracks are doing such a good job ! Especially against crime and punishing criminals.
City is sanctuary. They already sweep streets but they really need to do something
omg, no...they are human beings for god sake....let them live....we can't do that to them, or clean up our streets or clean up human shit....just leave them alone. London Breed said so.
This country has always had poor people but until recent years they weren’t allowed to just put up a tent wherever they felt like. It was against the law, and if you broke the law you went to jail.
Jail would be a lot more comfortable anyways, LOL.
Bruh I'd rather be in jail. Free food, water, toilet, bed, hell of alot better.
here's a suggestion ... instead of allowing Biden to have a free for all,
sending 200 billion to Ukraine,
if we spent 45 billion of that money we could literally end homelessness in the US... for 2 generations if we can come up with a job requirement for tenets like debris cleanup, envelope stuffing, ''where ever, we can find something for them to contribute, instead of building robotic arms and machines to do these jobs
The so-called officials were voted in by taxpayers. These people who voted them in over and over, are 100% the blame
The homeless problem has been solved.
California has a completely different problem now.
The “un-housed”…..🤔
Man.. I hope someone helped her move that mural of her pops 💔
A parent's ONLY duty is to raise a child (with love) with discipline, self-respect & to become independent. Clearly
she is articulate-but a failed human. How did she end up there? How did she not get help & no one helped her?
Adding silly cartoon & worrying about ancestor worship is simplistic, immature & distracting of the root problem.
In her & society in general. There is no shortage of money. Or opportunity. Or places to live. Try again without your
false and misplaced virtue-signalling empty-rhetoric sentiment.
Outreach street teams probably helped
@@juanitacarey4058 can we confirm?
@@juanitacarey4058 4 twin xl beds in a cheap apartment, and split rent evenly, then just get jobs. There's really no such thing as homelessness unless there's employment discrimination. Employment discrimination is only happening to nonimmigrant black American people, statistically speaking... For everyone else, it's mostly drug addiction and psychosis.
@@aburden8580 and as usual, you are criticizing other folks, and not offering anything but hate.
wow...looks like the highway of death from the 1st gulf war. Evict everyone and offer them shelter at a homeless shelter or whatever and if they don't choose to go, then they didn't want help in the first place.
I feel sad for these people but I think these people need to help themselves. We are all struggling whether you are rich or poor but they need to held accountable for their actions and not taking an easy way out. If you don’t help yourself, no one can help you. That’s my two cents.
Most of the money connected in some way to the homeless situation that changes hands never makes it to the stated purpose. Most of it vanishes into various pockets along the way. I want in on the homeless money grab. I'm working up a resume that'll make me an expert on homelessness and I'll get hired as a consultant for major bucks. And no problem if I don't really do anything or know anything. I'll just kick back and spread the wealth. A lot of people are doing just that.
The homeless should be drafted into military service, regardless of application or consent.
I've had to report 2 of the many fires there from when I passed by to work
months later these same motorhomes are surrounding Reymoundi Park acrooss the street from tha encampment where the were before they were allowing on state property, now therye back where they were 2 years ago and some spread out throughout Oakland.. THIS problem is only getting worse and Local Polticians are charging taxpayes billions in the name of these people and %90+ of the money doesnt help them
They would let it ride if they didn’t threaten to cut funding.
Evictions is what you get when you don't pay rent what is the ptoblrm
Shelters are extremely dangerous for the “ good” homeless people
Move everyone outside Mayor Libby’s house. They will find a housing resolution real quick.
Yep.
Reminds me of an old movie called "Soylent Green".
They sent in the scoops!
If these people a small home a townhouse give him something to care about and they will become better citizens in our community
You can be homeless, but when you trash property and make it look like a landfill then you invite diease and rodents.
If they keep property clean then they probably won't get kicked out or chase of property.
Well, in Finland, they gave shelter to all homeless people even if they were addicted and messy and then they followed up by giving medical, mental, and social services. Hence Finland became the country with no homeless people on the streets and many bounced back into the society. America keeps forgetting that being sober isn’t easy. It’s addiction. It can’t be undone without help. Provide housing and roof first. Smh, America expects people to sober up before giving shelter. This approach has clearly failed all across American cities clearly.
When you boil it all down, there are three types of homeless:
1) Suddenly displaced through unemployment, illness, abuse, or other major life event.
2) Long-term displaced through bad life choices or through structural unemployment.
3) Those who CHOOSE to be societal parasites, abdicate their adult responsibility, chose drugs to start with (the double down with continued addiction), engage in theft, violence, and other feral activities because society puts up with it. They are the ones that CHOOSE to be feral.
It's appropriate to help groups 1 & 2. It's appropriate to aggressively address group 3 (compulsory addiction treatment, jail, or institutionalizing).
There is a such thing as compassion fatigue. And many have had their limit of dispensing endless compassion that just turns into an addiction all its own. It's time to add consequences to the homeless in group 3 as WELL AS the FAILED LEADERS who do not address/solve this problem.
High rents and cheap drugs.
What could go wrong?
These people have somehow failed at the most basic tenets of being a functional person. Criminals, thieves, drug casualties, alcoholics, etc. They are done.
Yes, they cannot function in modern society. That doesn’t answer the question about what to do with them. They will just pop up someplace else
Nope they a simply the result of Reaganomics and the scum who supported that nightmare.
How many were there prior to 1980?
They are Reagan's legacy.
@Alex Gomez
Brilliant....blame the victims.
You know nothing about the subject.
The biggest criminals are the ones who steal 99 percent of the profit their workers make them and claim it as their just due. Leaving millions in poverty and contributing to all the crime and mental illness that poverty creates.
@Alex Gomez Learn to think for yourself cultboy!
I mean when did it become everybody else’s responsibility to take care of each and everyone of those people? I am struggling to take care of myself but they seem to have zigged when I zagged in life and I’m tired of hearing homeless people say where am I supposed to go? I don’t have anything? I have three felonies I can’t get a job…I don’t know how your life got to that point but Where it is currently at is not acceptable for society. The whole of society cannot suffer because people make some bad choices and end up in a shitty place in life. That is not an acceptable place to be living and everybody else is not responsible for your life circumstance except for you!! All benevolence I had a few years ago has disappeared. It disappeared when bullets were going down my street when fires were burning when homeless dogs were attacking us… When it became unsafe to walk very far from your house… That’s what homelessness has brought us. I do not want to be forced to live how they live. And I’m not talking about the 5% of the homeless that have mental issues I’m talking about the 95% that seem to be criminals who like to live outside! when I offered shelter they say no they don’t want to go because they don’t want to be under shelter rules. I’m over it
After seeing all this, I don't want to ever see the police giving tenants of their own building getting a ticket for sitting on their own stoops.
The Wood St encampment should gave been cleared out well before this.
Getting out of that dump would be the best thing for any of them.
People don’t realize how many services we have for homeless people that aren’t being used because they don’t want help. We give them rules to help them bounce back into society, yet they continue to trash and vandalize the property given to them.
Sadly, the condition of this country is not fixable at this point.
You cannot let thousands live on the streets like this. They get housing but they don’t appreciate it, & on that I’d like free housing, but I cannot cause I’ve a job.
When was the notice given? 90 days ago? This was no surprise.
Imagine getting that job. 😳
I agree, but we need to realize that democrats and leftists collectively allow fentanyl to flood in
That fuels homelessness, crime, addiction, trashy streets, and expensive ER visits to treat the addicts....
Some land should be designated as Volunteer to Live for Free ---- so you do 3 hours of work/week in exchange for a place to stay, some food and water...... dumpster and bathroom provided
The volunteer work would include picking up trash, working in the garden and working in the kitchen...........WE CAN'T JUST GIVE THEM THINGS, THEY MUST EARN IT WITH WORK
Get off the dam dope, cuzZ
Imagine someone willing to hire them, not very likely.
Many of them have some illness that prevents them from working. For all the socialism in California, you'd think they would at least take care of the legit disability cases. SSD doesn't make a dent. Of course, they'd have to learn what the social in socialism means.
That's what I hate about the lying democrats. They claim to want to help, but they don't. It's better if they just say that they don't give a hoot.
So so sad.these are still humans
We're humans too, we work, pay taxes and deserve a safe and filth free city to live. They can go live in the forest or desert if they don't want to be part of the system.
@@timby2383 so sad you can think like that. Have a heart.
I wonder if they get a fine for hoardering all that trash, the kind of fine that homeowners get when they have the backyard front yard messed up, I bet they don't, they go after homeowners first cuz there is money to be made they can even let homeowners homeless if homeowners don't pay
Are you for REAL! Of course they don't go after them. The homeless in America are completely above the law. Use the streets as a toilet, shooti up on the streets in broad daylight, do you drug deals , attack innocent citizens, steal from stores. If your homeless and a druggie anything goes!!!
It is not the city's responsibility to house anyone. You are responsible for your own housing.
I'd like a follow-up in two weeks where those people went. Won't Happen Media onto the next story.
“They robbing us “ says squatter living tax free on others property
Of the 4 million, how much goes to paying 6 figure paychecks to paper pushers and intoxicated minimum wage employees?
Treating a symptom ...
Now that is awesome
What a disappointment. They let it get to big. How many phases to clean it up?
Mayor Libby made a fortune from the “Homeless” Fund.....
Cecil Williams also made a fortune from the "homeless" fund. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
How many homeless people truly and honestly want to get off the street and stay of the street permanently?
How many would like transitional housing? Is wanting to find a job and all with the help of another human being?
How many would rather stay living on the street?
Some people prefer to stay where they are and not a change to better their life, even with help.
While this obviously needed to get done, what exactly is stopping the homeless here (or any other city dealing with this crisis) from setting up camp elsewhere whether it be 10 miles away or 20? Not sure I am getting what is being done to prevent another encampment.
Show the fireman/bus clip one more time, please-I've not seen it enough
Which clip?
Amazing job! The rest of the US needs to follow suit!!!! Just filth!!!!
A conversation Needs to begin with these people about dragging crap from all around and bringing it to the camp. There's a guy camped @ san leandro st & 85th ave that has Hundreds of bicycle frames, wheels & parts..its Massive...Stop Hoarding ! its a Big part of the problem. U know the rest of the US is Affordable. move
they can take all of these people to the central valley to pick up strawberries, and oranges, they can do a decent living if they save some money, if a lot of the people crossing the border are going to the fields to work why they can't do it as well,
They don’t want to work! Smh
@@rahmatnaimali9997 that's a lie
would U work I handouts were given to U?
@@blackqueen5201 then why won’t they?!
@@rahmatnaimali9997 who hires homeless ppl? How would they shower? Where would they get money for ID? Joe would they brush teeth? Who will cut the hair to look presentable? Where would they get the clothing for jo be search? And the list goes on and on. What have you don't to help 1 person get all these things do they can re-enter the work force
So where are they gonna go
Any update? Did this solve homelessness?
A city actually did "something" the mayor is to be congratulated.
I mean damn been in phase 1 for over a decade. Lol.
People thinks it’s easy, it’s not. If there are rich, there will be the poor.
Of course it’s not easy.. If solution is to sit in encampment all day then 100% impossible.
Send them all to Martha Vineyard like Desantis
It's tempting to assume that only people with "hard lives" turn to addiction but that is simply not the case at all. MANY people had severely abusive childhoods or suffered other extreme hardship; and while we are definitely not as successful as people who didn't have those issues, we STILL didn't turn to drugs. Most people DO realize how easy it is to get addicted, that's why we NEVER start, or in the case of alcohol (which is a more gradual creeping addiction) we limit ourselves on how often/much we drink. Addicts lack that internal sense of restraint.
That's why the relapse rate is so high. First bad day and most of them fall back into addiction. There is nothing which is gonna make most of these people have the sense of self-restraint and perseverance that normal people have. Yes there's exceptions, some experts claim about 25% of the homeless just had one bad episode in their life, do NOT choose drugs, and with only the bare minimum of outside help they will be back on their feet and in housing and stable job, within 6 months. And work themselves to the bone to make sure that never happens again. But the majority are a totally different story. (and that 25% might be overly optimistic).
Because there is such a huge difference between people who choose to experiment with addictive drugs and people who would NEVER go down that road, and also because of the HUGE number of homeless addicts, I'm starting to think the current situation needs re-considering. There is no reasonably-priced treatment plan which could truly help these people -- give them a free apartment and they will just destroy it. So we might as well "take care of them" in a humane manner which is reasonable and convenient for our needs, not theirs.
Make public addiction a crime again, first and second time just make the process of charging them a formality basically, so we can tell the difference between a frat boy out on a weekend jaunt and a homeless addict. Third time they get locked up for 7 years in a no-frills work house. NO long legal process either, this isn't the death penalty!
It's not what Jesus would have done but we're not Jesus and we don't have His superpowers. We have to deal with the reality and practicalities we have, not idealism and wishful propaganda. There are far too many of them, growing worse every day, and they are SIGNIFICANTLY negatively impacting everyone else's basic right to safety. We really do need to remember that no matter how bad our lives are, we were never stupid or suicidal enough to choose to take addictive drugs.
Sad 😢 God bless anyone homeless
This was a year ago wonder How it looks today
I lived and worked in Oakland for years and loved it. When I went to work in other cities in the Bay, Walnut Creek, the racism was systemic and oppressive.
God is Love.
"God"?
Schmod.
Move to San Francisco, they have open arms.
Lolllll
this comment sections is poison
So in all the years they have been getting money to help the homeless and all those years with all that money have they built areas with tiny homes for people to live in what have they done where did all that money ..
Why not provide shelter then remove them. They got $4.7m how much is going towards rehouse?
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Why, why, why?? A lot of this is drug addiction, but many of these people are just not able to afford this incredibly expensive area. I'm crying.
You have to be willing to change your way and take instruction from some one else..that is not a HOME!!
it's not clean..safe..or liveable..!
Screw the unhoused, how about the people that work, pay taxes, and are productive members of society?
Imagine a concept such as that? I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately Liberal policies take care of criminality over anything else.
You're a very heartless individual. May God have mercy on your soul!
If you had a more wealthy mindset then youd know homelessness affects more than just random lives, it affects home prices, crime, trash, ect. Which in turn affects you.
Over Taxed U mean
They didn't clear, just relocated