American River homeless campers share their stories of unsheltered life in Sacramento
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2019
- On any given night in Sacramento, nearly 5,600 people are experiencing homelessness. Roughly four hundred people have taken shelter along the American River--some by choice--while others are forced to call it home. An ABC10 Originals mini-doc by Michael Anthony Adams.
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I’ve been homeless as a kid. I would never wanna go back to that living ever again. The reason I wake up every morning thankful for a job that keeps a roof over my head and food in my stomach.
Jr
Blessings for a home and food
I’ve never been homeless. But I can agree I’m thankful and focus on gratitude every day I have a job, home and car.
@Shelley Garman dont procreate please
Was your parents, drug addicts or alcoholics? Be honest.
I was homeless in sac for years I left with my dog on a freight train we never looked back 14 years ago..we both alive and been off the streets for 3 years now.
Auggie Barboza it’s hard isn’t it... 14 years out of there and only the last 3 been resembling normal
Auggie Barboza sac town meadiowview
Good on you for keeping your dog it must have been tempting to give it up at times
Stay strong,never give up your way of life, remember Our Father has your back,and that's all that matters.peace
Good for you. How did you manage to get a place?
This is how I feel when I meet someone less fortunate than myself; "we pass this way on Earth but once, if there is any kindness we can show or good deed we can do, let us do it now, for we shall never pass this way again."
Being homeless or without home in its self is not an issue. There is no reason or excuse to be trashy and trash the land around you.
Unless you are mentally ill or strung out on drugs.
Way demonize to poor. This country needs more people like you that will led it to its demise
@@denisshillingford5891 please, explain your position. Explain how I'm demonizing the poor?
Ur trash will be their gold 😂!!
yup true sucks to be around alot of these people that are so dirty and jump ypur fences to come and look for something like a racoon .. and all you have to do is keep looking for jobs .. ive seen alot of these homeless respectful funny and nice and clean but to each is own in this life we cant help everyone ... there should be better help to find good jobs for them to get back on there feet for the ones that arent tweakin..
I have been homeless so I UNDERSTAND we are one pay check AWAY God bless you ALL !!!
F GOD
All were HS educated? Just saying.
how to NOT be a pay check away = save money and invest wisely.
Why did you become homeless ?
I was homeless on these streets of Sacramento. I made it. I survived. July 2012-March 2013!
Took my son 7 years to get off the streets of that town. The bigger the city, the less helps to spread around. I got him out of that stupid state . Drugs weren't the problem. Minimum wage and high rents were the problem.
So now it's a competition? You were blessed with an opportunity to get out of your situation. Others that are homeless aren't so lucky.
@@imayhaveadhd you sound jealous. What's the matter? Are you one of them? Just because you lost the competition doesn't mean you get a participation trophy!
It takes hard work to get off the streets, I know by 1st hand experience but it is possible. It just takes hard work.
@@ChicagoBeaver yeah, I know that feeling. Using as much available resources as possible instead of just wasting it away. Because time is more precious than money.
I love how the ones with pets say they don't want to leave their dogs. Dogs are family. Stay strong people
Let them come stay at your house and bring their pets too.
Bull, they would sell their animals for a shot of fentanyl
@@mannyechaluce3814 Please explain why they still have their pets, then. Because fentanyl is so hard to come by?
I was homeless but I didn't set up camp somewhere and call it home. It takes lots of hard work to get off the streets and for me it started with going to rehab and getting clean.
God bless you!
Is rehab free?
@@teacul I went back in 2000 to rehab, through Central City Concern, a non profit group that's billed 'A Solution for Homelessness." It was free yes, you had to start at a men's shelter then get a counselor who told me exactly what to do and I did it. I got clean and sober housing, rent was based on wages (if you didn't work, you didn't pay), there was AA or NA meeting requirements. I was there 5 yrs and saved up enough to move out into my own apartment.
@@ChicagoBeaver Awesome! Congrats :) Keep on it, people who haven't been there don't know, proud of you!
JR Rosalez
First honest statement I read in here. All recovery / desire to get off streets/ starts with the individual . I can give all the help I want, but if the person is not ready it’s not going to happen.🙈
Living next to so much water..they could wash their hands!!!! I've been homeless..lived in a van for 8 months..got ready for work at a shell gas station...kept clean!!
Wow so true
They do wayyy more than wash their hands in the water if you know what I mean.
Yes l would agree...but tbat river is already contaminated by industry and City sewage...l would be 'dirty' (covered in natural microbes) rather than wash my hands in that river. Rainwater ld use for washing my crockery and pots....and drinking water? Mostly you have to buy that now eh? (And lm in lreland!)
@_nomorecheeseplz 1
I've been there I recycled to pay for a gym membership so I can keep clean
Sacramento has changed so much in a short amount of time. People from the bay are moving in, and driving up the cost of living for people already struggling. Homelessness is increasing very visibly, and the only solution seems to be pushing them out of the way. This makes me sad.
The trash and contamination is a huge issue destroying the river
All that trash is from the homeless stealing people's garbage I hate to say this but they eat out of garbage cans that's gross
@@fairfax_fran5109 Never ever think for one minute that it could never be YOU eating out of a garbage can or worse. True story !!
@@shanghunter7697 if I was homeless I would rather be dead then eat out of garbages
mmm Likely that would be industry over the homeless but meh
Most of the pollution in the Sacramento river is actually from industry not from people. You're mad at the wrong people
The big problems that give homeless a bad rap is the mounds of trash and drug paraphernalia.
@Saharra Quasar I spent 2 1/2 years homeless and I preferred the street to shelters. You don't seem to understand that gov/state/city shelters are run like prisons. Look how the officials even in this video deal with homelessness. Giving fines to people for tying a rope to a tree? And shooting your lifelong animal companion?
@Saharra Quasar That's what the Rajneeshies tried to do in Washington state. It worked great until the homeless just wanted to do drugs and drink alcohol all day instead of working.
@@rkgaustin9043 think about it this way if your growing up being homeless which there are kids with parents growing up in the streets they get influenced by bad stuff anyways then for adults most have better nothing too do like they said they have nothing really so of course too pass time you will use drugs and drink yourself away and to cope with stress , depression and many other mental issues. It’s not just what you think.
While anti bullying classes are mandatory in schools, financial responsibility classes are not.
They should. Never understood why they don't teach financial planning and money management
You really think lack of financial literacy is the root cause of homelessness?
@@delplaya5 yes without a doubt.
@@JK-yd5ro It's not. Drugs & alcohol, mental illness, laziness, and in some cases bad luck are. Financial illiteracy can be the cause of debt, treading water, etc., but let's be honest, the % of homeless people who are employed and just have had bad luck and aren't on drugs is very small.
@@delplaya5 bad luck True. Drugs Alcohol No. Lazniess probably.
I was homeless in Phoenix Az for two years and it was because I was a drug addict. What saved me was accepting Jesus Christ at a ministry called Church on the Street. God broke the chains of drug addiction and I have been clean many years now and if it weren't for Jesus I might be dead. So I have a lot to be thankful for.
Amen
Im happy to hear about your story. Praise Jesus. God bless you
yeah jesus did nothing other people did
amen!
Im glad your off drugs its one of hardest things to do but u got u off drugs dont give credit to imaginary ghost me be proud of what u did
33 years as a Ranger retired in 2008 and still no change. Sacramento needs to build housing instead of a stupid basketball arena and those who won't go there need to be arrested. The ARP used to be a beautiful place enjoyed by everyone. Now it's a dangerous dump.
What is the ARP?
Sad times we all live in nowadays.
@Ancient aliens vote trump
At some point (most likely 80s), apartment complexes stopped being built as much. Combine that with the advent of Tech, more foreign investment in real estate, and the fact that older generations live longer than ever before, and, well here we are. I expect that being homeless will not be seen as out of the ordinary by the year 2030.
@@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 God willing, this country as a forcibly- and unnaturally- constituted federal entity, beholden to no one but the obscenely wealthy, will no longer exist by 2030. Whenever that day arrives, it will be the greatest thing for the cause of justice and the lifting of the tyranny of injustice ever to have occurred in the history of humanity.
“ Like to live outside, no rules”
There's alot of resources, I'm living proof as an ex con,, 30 yr dope fiend, etc... It's the dope, I can tell u from experience, once u put the dope down, then yr priorities right!-!!!
I'm glad you got cleaned up but YOUR experience is not everyone's experience. In fact, LOTS f people fall through the cracks of the resources. An old poem: "O Lord, don't let me judge another until I have walked a mile in their shoes."
@@Laura-Lee Maybe they can pray their way out then? Is that what you want?
@@Laura-Lee I get it , but ppl don't realize the physical harm thenew inflicting on one's self @ the time... It's a long story, but if u ever wanna hear the rest, my # is 323- 743-6690
Mark Matthews...Congrats!....keep living your good life!
@@Laura-Lee I know from experience that everybody's experiences r unique!! I've got an extremely unique story myself that needs 2 b shared, I'm gonna try 2 find someone 2 help me push some book ideas, know abybody w/ a spare couple mill? J/ K, but not really
The guy in blue overalls was a wise man
A real Socrates
Charles "2 Buck Chuck" Ortberg.
I believe he died a year or so ago.
Seemed like 2 out of 3 they interviewed has mental health issues .... 😔
Boke Bocanegra due to years of drug use.
*Tmiranda*
Yeah true But also some that got the boot at a young age that and wasn't quite all the way there in the head . Some are like 27 28 with the brain of a 12 year old because they're parents weren't really parents an so on an so fourth. Alot of them it's a choice like 90 percent . Some just dirt bag druggies
Drugs... You could tell/see...
Try homeless see what happens to maintain.
It's too cold for that and I've slept in my car in the winter, it is not pleasant. You literally have to keep ur car running to heat up the interior, then you have to get up at 5 when it's cold again.
Turn them in to farmers get them out of the city have them actually camp out on the fields in a humane way. Clean water clean restroom clean bbq etc... plus pay them minimum wage.
Most of these people don't want to work.
People ar lazy.... they dont put efforts to get a job
Awesome idea ,ev.body would be alot happier if they we're more self sufficient, give them some land to farm. Hard work ,but they could feed their selves better.
You’re assuming they want to work. Lol
@@the_original_skytiger make them work
man i drove on this bridge so many times unknowing that people live under
SAME 💀💀
I can't afford a pet. I can barely pay rent and my phone bill. Most homeless have dogs and cell phones. I wouldn't mind if they didn't completely trash everywhere they set up camp.
Have you ever been chased by one of these loose dogs? I have. I'd have shot it myself.
@@Cappy609 good job!
And cigarettes. My husband finally quit and one of the reasons was we just could not afford that bad habit. They're not cheap.
@wilfredo catlin they should take notes and get a job
@raiders fan916 or stop feeling bad for yourself and do something about it
Thts right "one pay check away from homelessness"
And one more night spun out on meth.....
I felt that
God bless these people,my people. Two years ago i was with them, myself and my girlfriend. In sac trying to hold jobs and homeless at the same time. Cali we have to do better than this. Come om cap city 916 help us
No one should be without a roof over their head. I believe we need to do better, too. I hope you are staying well
regardless of how you got there, its incredibly hard to get out of. when you have no home, place to store your things, clean water bed transporation you have nothing to work with in terms of sustaining a job. and if youre addicted to any kind of drug youll never be able to get clean or get yourself out of homelessness. its literally impossible to help yourself at that point. instead of blaming the homeless we could be finding tons of different ways to help the ones who do want it
I concur
I totally agree with you 🥺
It's hard yes .. but you have to have consequences for your actions. Go get arrested and get a program. Can't have any violence on your records no rapes gun violence. You have to be a hopeless drug addict.. ask for help ..
It’s not the american river anymore it’s the E. coli river
I'm from there and can't believe this!
where are they supposed to go man?
@@Steven-ep3oi typhoid will get you
E-coli River, I bet you thought about that one for a long time?
Jack Hank not really they told people not to swim in the river because it was contaminated with E.coli so that’s why I call it the E.coli river
I was homless, I got a job. It worked. FOR EVERYONE OF THEIR EXCUSES THERE IS A SOLUTION.
disabled, mental health issues... its not all people who are lazy. Where is compassion for those less fortunate?
@John Johnson Sorry I disagree, your lack of compassion is disheartening and seems to sadly be a current trend today. We are all 1 people on 1 planet.
Jane Wick, I made it off the streets too, but I don't bash the disabled or mentally ill who can't. Trying to bring yourself up by putting others down is despicable! If you ever were homeless and I'm not saying you were, than you should feel ashamed of yourself for your callous inhumane and frankly pathetic judgement on those going through this! Furthermore if I was your parent I'd be ashamed of you for ever making a comment like this thinking you're somehow better than other human beings that are downtrodden and fighting to survive! Also given your disdain for those less fortunate in there ability or circumstance to achieve a way to get off the streets makes me believe if you ever were homeless with no help that you weren't there long enough to appreciate the gravity of that situation in it's entirety or the desperation of those suffering from homelessness. In short you are a cold hearted person with no love or respect for human life other than your own and as a patriot I'm happy I don't know you as I'm ashamed that you live in my country and that you have the freedoms we enjoy and no matter what your birth certificate says I will NEVER call you an American as it's an insult to all the homeless veterans that fought for this great nation.
Remember to smile it’s beautifully contagious
🌹😊🐶🐾
Great reporting
Excellence.
Thank you!!!
During the colonial times this style of living was the norm. Now the world and life has changed so much that we can no longer settle without payment - it is sad ...My hope and prayer 🙏 is that the homeless that do seek help find it, and it stays available to them. Winters are awfully cold, and my heart breaks thinking of these kind people sleeping in the cold . We are all humans in this together 💗 God bless us all 💗🙏 Thank you for this vid - what can we do locally to help ?
CA has become a Feudal State of Being ! Very hard place to work and survive ! Impacted and overpopulated in many areas ! Calcutta !
Early Americans all worked. They did not steal, panhandle, shoplift, prostitute, or take drugs. Lock the bums in jail.
Don’t have money, don’t have resources, but...have cigarettes, have alcohol, have drugs...figure it out for yourself...
People ask me for money yet they always have cigarets I guess who cares if you're homeless you got to have your cigarets!
Don't forget the iPhone that one pair had.
Yeah cigarettes are like 20 cents and a can of beer is about a dollar. I'm sure they can come up with that you dope.
First, last, deposit, good credit, screening fee, etc., cost a great deal more but your point is not lost. Keep in mind not everyone has the skills, resources and intelligence you do.
@@AssemblyBanditChannel what about the Lawn Mower?
It doesn’t help that rent is SO RIDICULOUSLY expensive in Sacramento...flat out greed!
Living in Sacramento dealing in property management. It’s rough, I feel for the elderly woman out there. However, it’s really hit or miss with the homeless . Some of the homeless clean up the dumpster areas at my properties better then the people who actually live there. Others are very aggressive (usually the younger men). I try to be empathetic. I don’t chase then off if they are not harassing people, be aggressive or making work for me.
Dealing with greedy landlords who primarily are responsible for the homeless epidemic in this Country. The Guilty among the rich who extort money and have cheated to get ahead.
I think housing should be affordable but I’m sure by your emotional response you believe I’m a rental property owner. No, I just work for them. Honestly my last employer has donated more money in 1 year then in your whole life. Extortion? The way you used that word I’m not 100% you understand the definition
@@User-54631
I don't care how many excuses the rich try to pull out of their hats claiming that they have bent over backwards to help solve this homeless crisis because every year that this problem has increased amounts to a life time of more lies and deceitful promises.
This homeless problem has gotten so out of control that it's now beyond any heroic efforts by very few Nobel class of people to fix now. . .
And as l stated at the very beginning to whom the shoe fits, so why would you object and deny that there is a homeless crisis here in America and it is in fact the greedy wealthy landlords who are solely responsible by having astronomically raised the rents Xtremely outrageously and cannot deny that in your life time of privilege and of ample comforts.
Who denied there was a crisis? The debate is how to solve it.
Please stop projection your bias onto me. If you want to surrender the outcome of your life to others that is a personal choice that everyone has to make and I support that . I personally won’t give people that kind of power over me. Best of luck to you
This is heart breaking
All I’m hearing is excuses and blame-shifting.
The government should just legalize it instead of chasing them, when they are ready to rejoin society they will.
Eric x then give a solution
Tristan Swain Allow anyone who pays income taxes and property taxes to shoot anyone on drugs.
@@roscoe4092 spoken like a true weak person... No children or taxes to speak of. I hope your basket weaving gender studies degree pays off. Have fun at arc degenerate.
I’d like to see you go homeless for a few months, then you go try to get a job
Great job reporting truth 👍🏻
I didn't here any truth.
May God bless u all.
They're turning the river into an open toilet
Yeah it's a shame. Garden highway (north of I5) has turned into a mess, just garbage all down the road. When I have gone I've had homeless dogs chase myself and others
It’s like that all the way down past Sutter’s landing.
Drinking water turned into a toilet. But worse is when it rains all the hypodermics end up there too. Plus trash. I've seen a camper trailer floating down the river. It's CA. Don't drink the water!
You can’t 🐟
Turning ?? Bet they already have
I lived by the pipe bridge there for month back in the 1970's. Back then I could park my truck there. It wasn't a trash strewn mess either.
Wow it was the wilderness when I was little- this is a national shame!
It's not the Homeless fault if there's less wilderness, business construction has encroached on the area too.
Yup I remember when is overcrowded with rafters
maybe population control?
Homeless have to sleep somewhere
Some place I can’t even go fishing anymore like I use too..
Agree. River is contaminated, I dont understand how people still swim in there🤢🤮
Yuk filled with homeless feces
Yep hard to go fishing anymore always someone is living there.
@@fairfax_fran5109 If you ever drank a glass of tap water, you've drank much worse that just feces. Of course tap water IS treated with lovely preventatives and extra added ingredients. Happy New Year :)
Talk about a crybaby. Your right to fish over rides these people's right to live in dignity? You must be a supreme being?
Yall need to do a special on Riverside and San Bernardino CA...
For what. News 10 is Sac
Remember it's hard to justify working 40 hours a week when you cant even afford a studio apartment in the city you live in.
Then change jobs, up sale youreslf, work two jobs.
Why should people have to break their backs just to survive in one of the most wealthiest contries in the world?
Dan Garrison another delusional American believing working more makes more lol WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER
DON Oh, id live to hear your solution.. Let me guess, the govt will take care of you? Yes, work harder and smarter, pull yourself up. If you cant afford to live someplace, move. People these days dont want to adapt, they want mommy and daddy and everyone else to take care of them....
Dan Garrison if you expect the next man to give you a living then you’re dead already . Pointless human
The 9 to 5 is not for everybody and living off the land is how we started.
I personally know hippie Chris he is an amazing person you got to get to know these people I've known that man a long time through his ups and downs he's even live with me on the streets and off the streets keep your head up Chris
It sickens me to see how our state leaders miss use funds that could be utilized to help those in need. With all the empty buildings I am sure they could bring these people in to help renovate a place for them to be by way of donations and give them hope instead of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They focus so much on illegal immigration when all that funding could have been used for the homeless crisis. They need to put US citizens first
problem is the drugs man
Homeless people are digging into the levees along the river. Watch us have a huge rain and the levee gives out. We will blame global warming won’t we?
Most of these people live like this because they want it that way. Additionally, drugs are a huge part of the problem. That could be addressed in a much more aggressive way.
Well thank you Ms expert. We weren't aware there was such a simple explanation that fits millions of individuals out of doors. We appreciate your wise enlightenment😂
Shame on u , would u like to live like that?. America is the land of the oppressed, the land of the poor and the disadvantaged, how can the richest country in the world spend its wealth building Empire while , its own poor live lives of devastation. Face reality and invest in the human capital wasting away in the tent cities all over the USA, the land of freedom and democracy.
The American River is so beautiful. Sacramento has become zombieland....
Yep. Consumed and destroyed by out of control gross capitalism
Heartbreaking to watch was a boaters paradise when i was young! Ski beach was packed every weekend
Now its embarrassing and disturbing!
I HATE HOW THEY TRY TO GET you to feel bad for drug addicts that no one will rent to because they have evictions and live like animals!
@@jessegreywolf Move to an affordable city. I'm tired of hearing Californians whine. You've chosen to live on the most expensive real estate on the continent. You don't belong there unless you make 200k per year minimum.
That waters is nasty asf too
People need to stop comming to California and try to live. It's expensive. Most homeless people here are from out of state.
Vue Lee you should try proper spelling, it’s “coming.”
@@natedos6817 Yikes, nothing relevant to say but to correct his grammar. Mind boggling, here take your attention medal. You got first place in the grammar nazi contest, congratulations.
We get all the weirdos from other states
That's not correct. Many many homeless folks in California are from California. I was born and raised in Northern California and was homeless on a couple occasions.
It’s coming**
Rents need to go back down to normal
Back to $650 a month for 1bdr Apt $795 for 2bdr and for 3bdr $ 1200. Now that sounds fair provided that everyone living there is employed financially stable and responsible.
BRING THE RENTS BACK DOWN TO NORMAL And Put An End To The Extortion. . .
I grew up in East Sacramento. Spent much of my childhood on the American River from Sunrise down to Paradise. There were no camps then. Perhaps past Paradise Beach closer to town... 12 years ago, after a personal catastrophe, I was taken to Mary House in Dos Rios. It is a day shelter for women and children. When it closed for the night, I stood outside completely lost and alone. Not even a blanket. In the blink of an eye, there I was, outcast from society. I live like a ghost. I got this...
I like how people that don’t even live in California are in the comments speaking on it like they do 🤣🤣
Lol omm tho am sure theyre city problably worst sacramento is getting there tho the south is crowded with homeless
Right
Juan Sanchez that’s just how they look in South sac. I’m sure you got some cousins that look that way homes.
Not just in California - lots of finger-pointing, lots of blaming, all sorts of videos made, yet no viable solution anywhere.
Typical liberal news
Why NOW, and not 20 years ago?
Comes down to motivation . . . 'where there's a will, there's a way' ! 🇺🇸
Solutions are no good when the person using those solutions can't and won't get and stay sober long enough to take advantage of them.
Compassion! That's the solution!
Are we supposed to feel bad for these people? All I see are people unwilling to take control of their own lives, and pushing the consequences of that decision onto other.
I hope the guys who shot the dog feel proud of their job. Insane
The fuvk was she mowing? The dirt???
If your name is hippie Chris, you probably don’t care about work
No rules is why they live this way.
their are rules in the park and they get harassed daily.
didn't change their living situations, did it?
more rules
more laws
less freedom
that'll fix homelessness
maybe if we make a law that requires people to have a home, they'll just start growing out of the ground.
Law Abiding Citizen Joe has a veil over his eyes. It is far easier to sum people up by what they have, and moreover what they don't have
Not always.
He doesn't have a shower? Isn't there a river right there?
When I was a wildland firefighter I washed myself in a river with a bar of soap many times.
Clean yourself up and get a job. I was also homeless, I used to clean myself up in the bathroom of Taco Bell. If you want to get out you'll do what it takes to get out. This guy sits there and says he can't work because he's dirty with the river right in front of him? He doesn't want to work.
If you don't want to work, whatever, But at least be honest.
I will say this again, I was homeless and I did what it took to get out, and so can they.
They live this way because they choose to.
Is that the case for all the homeless? No it's not, but it is the case for a lot of them.
Your a wise man, god bless you!
troy lenz I thought the same thing when he said that
amen truth........all he needs to do is spend less on cigarettes and get some soap......
Don't do drugs kids.
U watch to much tv not all homeless people are drunks and druggies
Keep it clean.
No one want's to be homeless😕
I agree but we really never know what others are thinking. But I really believe we want the same basic things in or out of life. I feel like if you ask some of these people they are simply making the best out of the situation they are in, like most of us. Really breaks my heart because we are all human and we all need some help in some form or fashion.
Yes, some do. Mainly mentally ill.
Their first class homeless, at least they don't sleep in card board boxes or litterly on the streets..
Then don't be, there are many programs available, you have to be persistent with getting the help if you want it - seek & shall find, knock & the door will be open to you.
If it hurts why do it?
terrible terrible things these people go through.
I recently visited denver. denver also has a bad homeless problem. and its freezing 🌨️.
Everyone goes through rough patches, The lower you go into the whole the harder it is to get out. I pray everyone finds there footing. Its rough out there. be thankful. Like the one man said, Most of us are 1 paycheck away from homelessness. help if you can. Put yourself in other peoples shoes.
Get a gold pan your sitting on top of your food and shelter daily.
That's coming from someone that left Boston mass with a van a dog and enough gas to make it to the promise land. California is a beautiful place with worlds of opportunity if you try. Where theres a will theres always a way.
Why are most of them smoking??? IM SOOO TIRED OF CALIFORNIA!!! Can wait to retire and leave the entire west coast!!!
Tom Bujanda Good riddance and we will not be leaving the light on for you!
Because the power will be shut off to prevent fires!
Tom Bujanda then leave?
I think the interviewer was handing them out
@@dougrogan379 lol
You dont need an office job. Landscaping, fire trail cutting, oil changers, garbage clean up at stadiums concert areas. Wash off in the river and your giong to have to get food if your working or not. How are you getting cigarettes i quite when it got too costly and i realized it was interfering with breathing. Farm camps is the answer agriculter camps not voluntary enforced locked in until a daily routine is habituated and their brains are retrained to repetative behavior that is more sustainable. Unfortunately it wont be one involving all their rights it will be a form of forced labor. NO MORE NO RULES MAN there is a place for that its called haiti.
But everyone single person they interviewed had smokes.🤔
i also noticed they all had smokes
if you were in such a situation you’d probably want some smokes too
protestandsurvive first I wouldn’t be in that position and if I was, I wouldn’t be spending what little funds I have on smokes.
i dont think their happy with themself, so home or no home their still going to feel that emptiness...
Mr_Curmudgeon oh please get off your high horse, you’re probably what, a couple pay cheques at best off of being in the same situation?
I like the quote at the end
If most immigrants can find jobs why not American citizens?
Work is a dirty word 2 em
@first last better than living on the streets begging
@Just Alex It's about surviving and staying true to what most immigrants believe and live for.
Nobody that i know (here in Australia),would want to work for peanuts.Would you?
people have a right to dignity whether or not if we want to participate in this capitalist man made forced evolution experiment. You're indoctrinated into believing you have to work for them 8 hours everyday to live.
Next time you're thinking about smoking a doobie , remember you'll be living in a" VAN down BY THE RIVER " Chris Farley "
They're messing up the river and trails, I used to live next to Watt and 50. My neighbor was attacked by homeless jogging down the trail
Yeah I stayed over there too. There's hella crazy smoked out homeless people.
I commend that lady that actually cleaned up after other people We need more people in the world Like that lady in the video Now there is a Person I would Give money to
California Dreaming no more !
Sad day for the mamas and papas
BLUE STATE , That's the problem .
Why are they not working fields are always hiring etc
Because it's "work"
Seriously people?!? Do these homeless look like 20-40 somethings?
Having a job don't get u a roof over your head sacramento is pricing the janitors, and cashiers lower skilled employees out of the housing market so you say get a better education Ok so how do u live in a town were everyone is a desk jockey and there no one to help u at the walmart or fix your flat tire. Because they can't afford to live were they work. Just think about it. Do you see walmart paying emplyees 15$hr to say welcome to walmart and when a studio apt in sac is 1100 month check rentals if you do t believe me what's next for the employees at dollar tree or service industry workers
Look at all those beautiful people.hope they are all still doing ok.
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Thank yu for sharing this story
Truly bless you 👍🤟💞
Breaks my heart...
These are stupid people!!!
It scares me that how so many of us are one step away from this!😞
I'm one minutes in and I notice that a lot of these people that have very little money are wasting it on cigarettes.... The women say "I'm completely without resources", to which I would respond no one owes you anything, stop feeling entitled and work for what you want instead of laying around and doing nothing with your life. I work 2 jobs, 7 days a week, I make good money, and I shop at the dollar store, my goal to spend on food everyday is $3, because of how cheaply I live, I'm able to save and invest 60-70% of my income, I started saving late but if I stay on track I can semi retire in 5 years, meaning I can vacation 6 months out of the years, work 6 months out of the year and live off passive income from my investments but nothing is going to be given to me, I have to sacrifice upfront by living cheaply and living well below my means for at least 6 years.
That’s what’s so hard to grasp. Spending money on tobacco. But I suppose for most of these poor folks it’s just part of a chain of unfortunate decisions.
Capitalism needs people like you, keep slavin away, maybe if u live long enough, u might be able to relax for a couple of years before u die. Long live the system, of exploitation, that benefits none but the rich.
@@alexanderlawson1649 I'll be semi retired by 45 (working only 6 months out of the year), fully retired by 50, and that's only because I didn't start investing and changing my habits until 37, lol the average life expectancy for men is 75 I believe.... I have good genetics, my grandparents lived well into their 80s and 90s.
@@jamesb2630 what kind of investments are you doing if i may ask? Just curious
They all have cigarettes.
And $ 4 dog food
And dogs
Saw some expensive tattoos and dope too.
What if they dont have cigs, dogs, tattoos or dope, does that make them "not homeless"?
@@alexanderlawson1649 I concur
Raising the cost of living so only rich people can afford homes is what's causing this. But the cops want to kick the poor while they're down. It's sick!
So sad but for the grace of god
homeless got better phones then people with homes
I agree .
Zero income yet no one is hungry or without smokes at 10 bucks a pack. Something missing
You can make all that easily panhandling. Its so bad in FL we had to make it illegal because we started having flocks of people coming down from Ohio in groups. Lots of young women and men that were not homeless they were coming down panhandleing as a job. They would get picked up at the end of the day in a mercedes. They were making $150-$200 per day.
These poor homeless people are not criminals, drug addicts, alcoholics. Something happened to them that drove them to that state of mind that A lot of them are in, but of course the privileged who never in their lives ever been acquainted with loneliness in such a rough and unforgiving world where most are just out for themselves.
That last Statement that Wonderful Man said .........It All 😇☝️
I think his aspirations of an office an job are a little high.
They live their whole lives in a state of delusion. It's what got them there in the first place. People who have exhausted every resource, and whose friends and family want nothing to do with them end up here.
Valkonnen generalize much? They are economic refugees.
@@pavanatanaya Not Generally, I don't .
I feel sorry for them and wouldn't ever want to be in their shoes. Why do they have to trash everything up?? Leave the trail CLEANER than you found it!! I guess none of them were ever boy scouts.
I grew up with the American River as my playground. What a mess it’s become. Left California in ‘69. There are things I miss like the Sierra Nevada mountains and the many wonderful rivers but certainly not the state government.
This is sad an unreal for people to have to live like this.All the new buildings they build here for shopping I think they should build a place for people to live.I thank God for what I have and that I am not homeless.Bless these people
When its pouring rain in the cold winter. A nice tent or car helps
i wonder how there is so many native americans are homeless but asians in america are living a luxury life......
The difference? Hard work.
@Kenny Javar ...so u are telling that most Americans are lazy af so we Asians are hard workers...
Basically yes! Most Americans aren't lazy...but they should do a study on why there's no homeless Asians. Probably boil down to the desire to work. HELLO!!!
It has to do more with poverty than race. Native Americans were run off their lands and turned into a poverty class dependent on government handouts--deliberate creation of generational poverty.
Good question.
Well done
The happiest man in the world is the man that’s happiest with the LEAST
Just imagine the forgotten homeless lost to the floods along the river's, and bayou system...
Like flushing a toilet
@@asherdie you beat me to it. God, I hate the homeless.
Well if he's been living there for 20 years it can't be that bad.
Northern California. Pretty much the best outside spot in the continental US
Yes it can.
Yeah it can. You'd be surprised what you can live through.
An yes i help the homeless in my area all the time , i give out food , give rides if needed . Im not the only person who dose this . Stay strong Americans
That’s good that the lady tries to keep her part clean. If they all could do that, it will be better.