East Hastings CRACK Alleys - Vancouver Homeless Life on Downtown Eastside
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Dirty Dark Dangerous Deadly Dared Devastated... Downtown Eastside Alleys.
The alley between Columbia & Carrall Streets south of East Hastings St. is a stretch of well-worn laneway locals call “Crack Alley.” The laneway is behind Overdose Prevention Society’s supervised injection site and the Downtown Eastside Street (DTES) Market.
Crack Alley is one of the busier alleys in the neighbourhood, filled with garbage, the stench of urine, rampant drug use and overdoses.
A walk through the Downtown Eastside around the four blocks bordering the intersection of East Hastings and Columbia Streets form the core of the Downtown Eastside, the epicentre of hell.
In fact, the locals here greet outsiders with a cheerful, “Welcome to hell”(physically/mentally), do you agree? Because the images along the alley look very dirty and scary.
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues including disproportionately high levels of drug use, homelessness, poverty, crime, mental illness and sex work. It is also known for its strong community resilience, history of social activism, and artistic contributions.
Recorded on Sept 6 2022
Life in Canada - Living in Vancouver - Life on East Hastings Street
I’ve slept on these streets
Imagine walking down there at night looking for a place to sleep
Where you won’t get wet, where you won’t get kicked out before morning
The scary part is realizing you’re alone
Like you have no one to call, no ones coming to help you
You’ll get beat up and robbed, people will just walk by you like you’re invisible
I used to have this nightmare that I was walking along a road way out in the middle of no where
And my feet hurt, I had no money or any way to get out of there, and there was no cars, no people, nothing
It was a feeling of desperation and fear
It’s when you’re at that weakest point that the predators will start targeting you
When I injected dope I’d pray that I wouldn’t wake up from it
I’m in treatment now in the lower mainland
Hope I never end up out there again but rent and food is so crazy expensive now, I don’t know how I’ll ever survive
Or why im even going through any of this just to be homeles again
Thank you for sharing your story Jay. I saw a few times cop cars pulled in and then pulled out going away from the alleys. Anyways hoping more and more guys will follow your footsteps and stay away from these. Luck good man.
The private reserve only the best get to sleep here, you steal that guys spot they have bots and unlocked garbage cans, we actually lock ours mostly.
It's worth it man. It's way better being sober it just takes a long time to realize it.
Hang in there Davie Jay, first things first bro - get yourself clean and sober. Get multiple days, weeks and months clean one day at a time and you’ll start to feel better, a bit optimistic hopefully and then look at the situation with a clearer head. You know first hand how scary it is down there living that life, it sucks. But if you don’t pick up and stay clean, do things a little differently you may never have to sleep on those streets again man. It’s True, that you and many of us will always struggle to pay the ridiculous housing costs in the Lower Mainland but that’s no reason to give up dawg. Hang in there bud, it gets better slowly but surely
Your statement that you wished you wouldn't wake up is sad as is the state of despair you were in. I wish you all the best. You painted an accurate picture of the people who prey on those in despair. I don't know what the answer is but I don't think it's saving people from overdosing. It should be intervention earlier than that.
Let's all keep Davey Jay in our prayers. I wish more people were like Davey Jay. It sounds like he's really trying. It takes a long time to undo that kind of damage.
I’ve walked through that part of town hundreds of time and the most dangerous thing that’s happened was someone asking for a cigarette.
They could ask for dope instead of cigarettes
The pimps and pushers and Pickton-types are pretty dangerous, just not to me or you.
@@ExploreVancouverCanadahow is that dangerous? Just say “nah man”
Looks horrible, like the South Bronx in NYC
lol, it looks nice too
Nice walk tour around Vancouver Canada dark side. Interesting to watch till the end. Tnx 4sharing 🍁👍
Thanks dude
Super interesting tour! Great experience! Thank you for sharing! Greetings! 💌
Glad you enjoyed it with nerves cracking
when I watch this video again I remember the RCMP document stating Canada will crash hard in the coming 5 years. If people think homelessness is bad now..... Well just want a few more years. Soon half the country will no longer be able to buy a home and those who own homes will hardly manage it! Single rooms will become the same as a one bedroom apartment. Cost of living will be pure enslavement of the human experience. One thing people should realize is this. In the dark ages people worked less and lived better!! Let that sink in.
It's really not fair you didn't even get out of your car to get the full feeling of the freaking smell 😬🙄 Nobody talks about the giant toilet were forced to smell that smells like a toilet that hasn't been cleaned in a couple of years
The odours spread everywhere
@@ExploreVancouverCanada I know it doesn't stay in the neighborhood
99 % of the people you here just want sympathy AND a twenty dollar bill. There IS help. No one really wants it.
@@robertafierro5592 Despair is a destructive bedfellow.
That's what I tell people who want to bring their kids here to 'scare them straight' & warn them of the evils of drugs. Don't just drive through & point and gawk at people. Get out of your car to get the full effect of the smell, the conversations, the arguments, ppl fixing infront of you like it's nothing. You need the full affect if you want your teenagers and kids to get the message. Have a conversation with someone - there's always SOMEONE willing to tell you the story of how they got on the DTES.
Would rather walk in this alley than downtown Winnipeg at night.
Без слёз не взглянешь . Но что самое страшное будет ещё хуже !
Looks like hell on Earth, worse than the South bronx, the amount of graffitti is disgusting
Living there vs. just passing by are 2 completely different experiences.
Once you start actually living in that area, on the streets, the predators will come.
If you're just visiting, trespassing etc, it is a pretty safe area - unless you're a young woman than I would advise you not to visit there alone - day or night.
Thanks for telling crack alley is safe. I want to come again.
There's always so much to experience and so much to like in your videos! I am glad that we are friends on UA-cam!
Yes we are
Welcome to beautiful Vancouver British Columbia !!!!! STAY AWAY !!!!
BC = Bring Cash and be prepared for shock if u go to DTES
Don't forget a bodyguard and work boots if you walk
Lol.
I've had nightmares of this alley, I've never actually dared to step foot in it. Maybe as a baby when I lived there.
Experienced? somedays it looks worse than this video, especially with naked eyes
Omgosh you lived there as a baby? You have a story that needs to be told ❤hugs
@@IgivemylifetoChrist I was born in the DTES.
@@SatiDevi444 bless your heart ♥️
Always knew 'HELL' was real and existed here on earth!! ...DTES!!!!😔
It's a kind of
how is this so stabilized? bike or car - what gamble?
Nice work.
risky business, but sometimes I must explore
This makes the area look better than it does in reality. It’s the sunshine I guess. Go along Hastings at six on a rainy morning and you’ll see far more misery.
Hello @Explore Vancouver Canada! I just went there in the Downtown Eastside to vlog and it's really scary. I haven't upload yet my video and will upload soon. Life is really hard for those people living in the street... I follow your vlogs and i'm one of your subscribers. Your video of Crack Alley is like a horror movie.
Thanks for watching
@@ExploreVancouverCanada I keep on following your YT Channel and your vlogs. New fan here. 😍👍
Looks like decay is setting in!!
I dare not walk in this alley.
For safety, do not walk alone everywhere.
Much of that artwork is absolutely incredible!
me too love mural arts but tough to get thru these alleys
I don't get it. The people being saved from overdosing will only do it again and again. It's not a fix it measure. Band aids fall off eventually. Money wasted as much as the money they spend to end up in that situation in the first place. I sound harsh and I guess I am but there is no solution. Maybe if education start in pre school it might sink in by the time people can get their hands on the drugs.
This is a shocking CRACK Alley
Interesting tour to the downtown eastside of the city. Such a contrasting state this place has compared to the main town.
The “main town”? This is the main downtown area. It’s like 4 blocks from Pacific Centre and two blocks away from Waterfront station.
That's right. DTES is just mins walk to a lots of attractions
An interesting place and footages youve captured.
Not quite interesting, but more scary instead
Is this the same back alley that was known as " Blood Alley" back in the 1970s?
Crack Alley
I am a female and have walked up this alley many times looking for my older brother. People basically leave you alone as long as you don't disrespect them. If you go to the Down Town East Side looking for trouble you WILL find it. Be respectful and you will be fine.
Thanks Merrylyn.
That’s heartbreaking 😢
shocking!!!
So sad to see Vancouver like yhis now,I live in southeast asia,life here is better from time to time,in late 90th,I worked on a cruise liner,the cruise was to Alaska and the homeport was Vancouver,at that time I'd neverseen a single homeless tent on the sidewalk so far as I temember,it was clean,how about that beautiful Stanley park where I used to sit now,No a single tent at that time.
I think there's something wrong with the government esp. when I see the incumbent PM Trudeau,he's too busy to be a loyal lapdog to his master and cares not to his people,just hope for the best from faraway place,really sad when I see my pictures in Vancouver then and now 😢
surely sad images, and hoping someone comes from nowhere, will able to solve this problem. you know these current/incumbent leaders are sucks
Agree, this is a manufactured issue! It's called "harm reduction" here!
Most people have no idea how terrible these alleys can smell... animal and human shit scattered about... people pissing on everything... rancid meat and fish in dumpsters... just be prepared if you have a very sensitive nose! I would also not encourage you to walk these alleys with a camera or video camera in clear view... most of these folks do not want to be filmed! Good footage and thanks for sharing this. You filmed it from a vehicle?
It’s not rancid meat or fish in the dumpsters. Sometimes it’s bodies of people’s dead pets or actual dead drug addicts.
I agree!!! There're a lots if different things in these boxes.
@@ExploreVancouverCanada yes the documentary about the police following a girl April who was found in a dumpster 😢😢
Street artists and painters added more aesthetics
Do you like the street arts?
As you walk through these alleys , as a believer in Gods word , a scripture comes to my mind, thy word is truth, wide is the road that leds to destruction, and many there be that find it, but narrow is the road that leads to life , the lords says we are to choose who we will serve , it’s a choice we make in our minds , this folks need the lord , He will show them the way , life and truth , but they must believe and then receive , call upon the name of the lord and ye shall be saved , as a home less person , I called upon the name of the lord , I admitted I was a dirty rotten sinner , I asked for forgiveness, I believed and then received and Christ changed me , I’m not homeless any more and work for a living, by the way I’m still a dirty rotten sinner, but saved by his great grace , the lord is in the business of changing life’s , no hope in the dope, it’s a road to destruction, death is at the end of the road , our lord bless u ,,,,,,,,,,
We nicknamed it CRACK ALLEY
No one can help these people except themselves.
No matters what, they need HELP
ممكن للحياة ان تعود من جديد اذا كانت النيات سليمه
Captions are meant to go on bottom of screen , try hard , you may actually figure out why ! LOL !
For shame. Step 1: detox facilities step 2: why are they using? DO NOT BE JUDGMENTAL Step 3: listen compassionately and kindly Step 4. More and more of the same. NEVER ACT SUPERIOR. Step 5 Always remember the saying "there but for the grace of god, go I."
The shame falls on the rest of us for not doing more. After billions of dollars wasted on interdiction that has done nothing, it's time we looked for another approach. It costs more than police wages but has proven to have a better success. Designated detox facilities, then designated treatment centers. Then counseling and follow-up in a similar treatment centre in house. Budget will be high, but the problem is not criminal but medical. One young man was taking fentanyl in Vancouver east side and was brought back with the anti-fentayl shot. He was brought back 2 more times in that day. On the fourth try of that day, he shot up again and died. It doesn't help to bring him back and then remove him to a controlled environment.
Mistake in comment before this. It should read : it does no good to bring these poor people back to the same environment in which they overdosed.
Hoping some Leaders read your comments
strangely empty lot of them passed on
look more deadly with naked eyes
You should show how bad it is at night on the DTES. Just a suggestion.
How many dare to walk at night in the alleys? I wouldn't.
@@ExploreVancouverCanada don’t you’ll end up dead or robbed for ur cam and equipment
Wow did this for 2 years don't know why I am alive today I wish these people well
Nice to know you are fine today. Hoping for all of them following your footsteps
We are all related through our life experiences thanks
There are secrets behind people abandoning that city
It's sad that too many businesses had to close shop because the location has become tent city for the homeless. Sooner or later, that part of the city becomes abandoned because there's no business anymore. This is a wake-up call to local politicians if they want to improve the economy of Vancouver, they should help rehabilitate and home these vulnerable individuals in order to revitalize the city and for businesses to flourish.
a wake-up call to local politicians? These alleys have been like this for a long long time
@@ExploreVancouverCanada they have been in deep slumber so give them maybe 20 more years!?
The govt is the instigator in this explosion of bums! These people get free food, needles, even dope! Because of people giving them money, food and clothing, all their cash goes to more drugs. Harm reduction policies are not working. Need to go back to a twelve step type program. Then if you want it, you can have it. If not, then you can go out and use more. All of these"issues" are created to make our current system fail. Tax payers can't fund these addicts.
Gentrification!?!
I live down here and it's absolutely horrible we're hoping our building Burns down so that we can move cause that's the only way we can afford to move you can check my videos it's just hideous living down here no one has any mental well being down here anymore I don't hear any more we're 2nd class citizens to drug addicts and that should never happen in any decent society
Hoping the politicians have somethings to do soon......elections are coming right?
nice place!
Nice video wonderful God bless you
It's NOT a nice vid. Please watch then comment
The walking dead run the government as well
could be
People in addiction want no ownership.
Control their own destiny
Hollywood could film a post apocalytic movie in the dtes.
They wouldnt even have to spend money on sets.
It's already to go.
ACTION!
Sure do.....save a lots of money
@@ExploreVancouverCanada
I think I'm playing a Cyberpunk game.
nice walk, it feels like a set of a movie hehe
horror movie
Just say no to drugs.
kids at school learn these words as well
If this people origin in that residence or become center for homeless and addicts or drug dealer? How about their relative or family abandon them,
Am curious though am not Canadian from Asia but What I know Canada is wealthy country and one of the leading charitable people of the world to third or victim of natural disaster. How they neglect their own Canadian.
For me I notice the buildings is good for commercial if compare to third world countries NO LIKE THAT more living in shelter consider slam/squatter community. Did owner abandon their home buildings?
Every country has it own complex problem but most of them are hidden. And this is only a very tiny part of the city
Interesante reportaje
Thanks for watching
Diverse societies do not work.
Instead of stopping coming in the country this is the results
this is CRACK ALLEY dude
it's good,there are people like you,who let the world know what's happening to canada,I'm saddened by what I saw,didn't expect these things,I just thought,US,particularly,is the only one does is experiencing it,I pity these people,most especially,in winter,when it's really cold,a number of them,probably dies,what does the president do to address this situation,he can't just ignore it and act as if everything is ok,he must take actions,which he should do to ease the pain the people are going through,that's the problem with these presidents when they are already on that position,they forget the people,steal the people's money,then,hide,just like Estrada and the ex presidents of the Philippines,all corrupt,leaving the Filipinos hungry and still very poor ,after all these years
I think you have come to the right conclusion and it supports my sentiment. It is not right to turn your back on the" less desirable "population. Ergo volunteering to help drug addicted people who, as another person has pointed out " deserve it" is futile. Instead address this problem as a reflection of societal ills that need to be righted, not just the band aid approach. Yes the volunteers are to be applauded for their humanity but it would be better to address each addict, homeless, and mentally ill person on a much more productive and humane level.
Thanks for your words. Very sad to see many and more SICK people on the streets
Birth control only hope
Rich Canada?
thanks
safe injection sites have just made the mess worse, rehab is the answer not giving out free drugs
Saving government money....instead of going to hospitals for treatments
A Liberal paradise.
Locally we got the new mayor and ABC team. Liberals never walk thru these alleys
Video HD 1080p.
any better words to nail down
My only concern with this video is the dogs!! Where is the SPCA!!! This place is not fit for a dog!
I wore work boots and helmet while filming right after off work....very TOUGH alleys
Way more graffiti than I remember
I walked into the entrance yesterday then turned back. It looked worse then before
@@ExploreVancouverCanada yes 13 years ago no fear different today it was alot safer before obviously
@@ExploreVancouverCanada we share similar experiences I returned after 10 years dope free and did crack got ripped off pepper sprayed laughed at for being sprayed never will I do it again streets ate me up before and spit me out returned spit me out and laughed at me I will never go back
A cruel reality so mean nobody cares about you or anyone
@@ExploreVancouverCanada you turned around do not look back
It is possible for life to return again if the intentions are sound and seriousThe streets look better by Talal the Iraqi Arab Muslim Al-Qurayshi Al-Hijazi Al-Hashemi
How come the majority of people making up the number of homeless people in BC are from Alberta? Can Albertans who can't afford it stop moving to Vancouver and burdening the low income people and also stop setting up their tents on the sidewalks in front of disadvantaged working poor and low income people in the DTES? If you're from Alberta and can't afford Vancouver, stay where you are or move somewhere you CAN afford to live.
As far as I know, there's a mixed number (shelter-not shelter) of people here and some takes advantages of freebies, more like free room and board for low-enders. They are from the other provinces as well, but the closer one usually come more. I like to see in weeks to come when election campaigns kick in and what their promises are like.
Watch this space. Once the possession of hard drugs is legalized in Vancouver next year, there will be a flood of drug users arriving from all over Canada.
Just to summarize: You're asking homeless transients (some of whom may be reviewing this video and the comments) you're asking the homeless transients from Alberta to please do some financial accounting before moving to Vancity crack alleys.
Ok, then.
Wow, ,that's a pretty bold statement of ignorance aimed at Albertans; Where exactly did u get your information?? The DTES was a fallen city of drug addicts, crime, poverty, prostitution & mental illness long before I was ever born & has nothing to do with Albertans moving there or in your words basically contributing or making the problem worse by basically free loading on the already homeless in the DTES. Seriously ??? where did u go to school ?? Reading your rant about Albertans is based solely on stupidity & lack of educational understanding of the problem. U can blame whoever u want but the fact of the matter is that this is a global, economic crisis the affects every part of the globe & is felt every where. I guess u don't get out much or u have nothing better to do with your time because u r obviously biased by your own opinions that have no basis of truth. or facts. If u want to change the situation or make a difference in your community, do something about it.......stop posting blame elsewhere & throwing accusations at people that don't deserve it !!!! ......Seriously it's people like u that make the problem worse, not better.
Bravo !!! Canada &
America 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Do something about it you show video after video but see no one trying to make a difference to help