America’s homeless: Street medicine teams in LA search for solutions to a crisis | States of America
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- More than half a million people are homeless in the US, and this year the crisis has reached a tipping point with overcrowded shelters and homeless encampments taking over street corners. We follow one street medicine team in Los Angeles, Healthcare in Action, that believes they can help end homelessness one patient at a time. And an in-depth interview with Marcus Samuelsson, the world-renowned celebrity chef behind 25 restaurants internationally, including the famous Red Rooster in Harlem. He explains how he is using his privilege as a celebrity chef to promote diversity.
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Executive Producer: Yasmeen Qureshi
Senior Producer: Andrea Kramar
Writers: Yasmeen Qureshi and Andrea Kramar
Producer: Lamar Salter
Lead Editor: Mark Apicella
Reporters: Zulekha Nathoo and Ralphie Aversa
Directors of Photography: Sam Rosenthal and Sam Russell
Supervising Editor: Justin Schultz
Motion Graphics Designers: Mike De Angelis and William Pennington
Additional Camera: Andrea Kramar, Yasmeen Qureshi, Allen Dobbins and Tyler Scheffler
Assistant Editor: Joshua Cheatum
Sound Mix: James Panepinto
Executives of Production
Kate Gutman
Russ Torres
Robert Padavick
Special thanks to:
Humankind Team, David Hamlin, Maribel Perez Wadsworth, Nicole Carroll and Amalie Nash
Additional Footage:
Getty Images
Associated Press
Healthcare in Action
Marcus Samuelsson
Pontus Hook
#Homeless #LosAngeles #Healthcare
Hello Everyone, my name is Yasmeen Qureshi and I'm the Executive Producer of States of America for USA Today. Let me know if you have any questions about our story, the reporting process or the people in the video. Looking forward to your questions! Yasmeen
Nice; first story really inspiring
Would love to get on a call with you about me joining the States of America team. I think I could add a lot to the stories!
I'm living homeless in my car not far from la. If you would like to do a documentary on me reach out to me and I'll pm you on one of your social accounts.
@@elevatetogenerate Thanks for your feedback!
@@mrfabulous5579 We'll keep you posted if we do another story on homelessness.
Crazy how half our budget goes to war instead of helping our homeless population
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where did you get that number?
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Excuse me? You don’t see the tax on your paycheck every month of social services??? Each homeless person receives 1200$ in ssi/ssdi through state benefits every month + 200$ Ebt food money and free insurance. That’s well enough help, The state just doesn’t require a clean drugs test every month for them to receive these benefits so they spend every f***ing cent in addiction instead of banding together and renting a place out. 1200$ is well enough money to afford rent even at the current prices of they have 2-3 people trying to rent a place out. They wouldn’t even have to work, The plain truth is the state enables their addiction. Which is the root cause of 70% of homelessness.
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Do you actually have citations in MLA or APA format to back your counterpoint?
So grateful to serve this organization providing culturally humble, whole person care.
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They don’t deserve the money taxed from my paycheck just so they can be druggies who refuse to work.
Hello how are you doing?
Chef Marcus Samuelsson, I heard you are saying about being a black person and to achieve your dream confronting racism is an uphill battle. Now thanks to God you have successfully achieved your dream. I am from Ethiopia as you are, and I believe in it. your commitment to help the homeless is outstanding because it's about humanity to uplift those in poverty. I share the same thought that if I have enough to help myself, i would give a hand to those in need.
Chef Marcus Samuelsson is doing just fine. He is rich. I'm sure he needs a little publicity now and then, too! ;-)
Anything to make $$$...
Here's my idea that could be implemented throughout the country. Churches want to help their fellow man, right? And churches pay no taxes and also receive other benefits. So, cities, counties, or states should require ALL churches to allocate a small number of their parking spaces (3, 4, 5, ??) to either homeless tents and/or cars. And most importantly, this humanitarian concept would not require anything from taxpayers.
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That restaurant owner is inspiring.
Medical team members, I have such a great admiration for you guys you are living a big life.
Building enough units to solve the crisis 20 years ago they said, but instead it ballooned. My prediction again will be the same. Being right all the time scares me!
What makes me so mad is that they pay so much attention to women and women of color when the majority of people who are homeless are straight males.
And veterans suffering from PTSD. To ignore those keeping us safe while rewarding idiots who won't buy condoms is atrocious.
Jan 2023 in this weather...
Tennessee makes it a felony 😔 to live in a tent
Massachusetts families are sleeping in the ER
Missouri bans sleeping in parks
Oregon bans tents
Nevada considers bans
La declares a state of emergency due to homelessness
We should practice some compassion and empathy. This issue is a lot bigger than you seeing a few bums in your day. It's not their fault. They're trying to get help. Volunteer at your local food bank, shelter. Talk to them. They're human beings with a story.
Love will always overpower evil. The truth will always come out at the end. 🫂
So heartbreaking. Just watched a few minutes and can't not to cry.
Heartbreaking 🕯
@@yesic7196 Totally
Nah. These kinds of people always burn their last bridges in a blaze of glory and then blame everyone else for their situation
The homeless community affects everyone
@@yesic7196 It is
Marcus Samuelson deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
This documentary is a bit tricky. What is happening in the world is much crueler with normal families and some of them are highly educated.
Healthcare warriors are angels 🙏
food is a number one weapon give food to your enemy n you eliminate the hate, it works in all facet of life
All you that are constantly saying, “They need help, shelter, the government and/or state to step up!!!”… Are part of the problem, and not the solution… Running your mouth doesn’t help; action does. So YOU do something… YOU help, shelter, or feed… You ask why God allows this to happen to people; He says, “I don’t; that’s why I created you!!!” But you can’t/ won’t help, cuz your own wants supersede your needs; and you yourself are not willing to sacrifice that; yet you want others too…
Please. The fake christian god supposedly created the earth in 6 days, froze the sun in the sky so the thug Joshua could kill more people/children, fed 5000 people with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread. Yet, we're supposed to not ask him to do more than these medical people are doing on this video? Stop the cap.
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PLEASE ASK THEM IF WANT TO WORK SWEP map the floor working for the city.
A "hand up" is everything. We all need one at some time. Homelessness is not caused by the victims. It's the Society that makes the rich richer and leaves the fringe without homes, help or hope.
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well actually much of the homelessness IS caused by the victims especially when it's criminal behavior, drug or alcohol addiction. Homeless ppl DO have a responsible part in their condition. Now some homeless ppl like veterans are mentally ill and yes they are the victims.
i think there needs to be some way to showcase the stories of all the black people who have come from the bottom and made it. So many young black children are told they can't because of their circumstances and their aren't opportunities for them. Yet i see many stories. Maybe books need to made for different levels to tell these stories. Maybe groups that go into neighborhoods and let them see or invite them to their business's to experience not just hear.
why only blacks?
Its like this by ups in chicago where I used to work it looks exactly like this just replace the skyscrapers
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SSI doesn't pay enough to buy a tent
So was this about the homeless or about a restaurant owner? Classic clickbait.
I have a terminal disease no cure can't be cold or lose my digits I wouldn't make it one night on the streets
Most people who are homeless were told multiple times by friends and family to change their ways or else homeless will be coming and they don't change and then act shocked and blame others for their actions
You blame to homeless persons
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It's easy to say that when you are among the "accepted" groups of society. Now, I am VERY fortunate to have never been on-the-streets homeless, however, when my mom fled her abusive marriage (totally unwilling to leave her daughter behind for obvious reasons), I spent a year sleeping on Grandma's couch in her 1-bedroom apartment and then sleeping in a storage closet under the staircase at a friend's house. Thankfully, our church helped us, paying the deposit so we could get into a 1-bedroom apartment of our own, and we were SO grateful! It could very easily have ended much differently for us. It was not my mother's fault that her once-loving husband listened to evil, angry voices (like that scumbag Rush Limbaugh) and decided that it was okay to take all his frustrations out on his wife. She tried marriage counseling many times, but he always stormed out partway into the appointment and swore he'd never go back to that "quack". She tried being extra nice. (For example, just before she left him, we spent a couple hours making his favorite casserole and setting the table with the best settings and candles and everything to try to cheer him up after he'd had a stressful day at work. He came home and hurled the hot casserole, dish and all, at my mom, which thankfully missed her and just hit the wall, shattering and destroying dinner for all of us. We ate cold breakfast cereal that night.) Nothing helped, and the angry violent tirades continued. What were we supposed to do? What could we have done differently?
Later in my life, I was nearly homeless again when my fragile health collapsed. I'd been in and out of the hospitals for a few years, but no one could help me. (I still live with the handicaps created by my health challenges two decades later.) I wasn't on illegal drugs (I've never even tried any). I wasn't playing around with sex (I'm a 42-year-old virgin now, largely because of those health issues - I'm not healthy enough to do the "horizontal tango'). I don't have tattoos or body piercings, and I've never seen the need to utter a cuss word. I was even on the Honor Roll. Still, there was no help for me. I've had to learn to live, one pain-filled day at a time, with my medical condition. I won't let the doctors addict me to painkillers (though they've tried to offer me that a few times). To be honest, I have no hope of being healed in this life. What did I do wrong to deserve to be born with a "ticking time bomb" health condition that would go off in my late teens? If I hadn't had help from family and our government, I would have ended up on the streets, too. After all, many people looked down their noses at me as "lazy" and "a moocher". They didn't understand that there was nothing I could do to stop the seizures, and taking anti-convulsants would have caused serious complications that likely would have lead to my death. We went to doctors and hospitals in 7 US states, including the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. I've had every physical and psychological test imaginable.
So, how should my mom and I have "changed [our] ways" to avoid our near misses with homelessness? What did we do wrong? Don't judge unrighteous judgement and paint every homeless person as being the same. There are many paths to homelessness in our wicked society, even for people trying to do everything right. As I wrote in one of my novels: "The price of wealth is the suffering of the countless poor the accumulation of that wealth created."
Build affordable housing. And rehab facilities. Its not rocket science.
Remember God loves you♥️!.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Please repent, change your life around and live for Him🙏..
He is coming back soon🥳😊........
Your fictional god does nothing. Without human interaction and constant involvement, nothing happens. And we see the results in this video and thousands like it. Keeping it real, your god created this mess. (Not that he's real.)
Getting adopted is not all rainbows & sunshine , he grew-up without the love of a blood biological mother 😔
Unfortunately your fact-checked about Damar Hamlin is wrong...
Education and family values
Well, not exactly. The US Government is deliberately sending people to the streets. Why?
CREATE A PROBLEM: Multiply the homeless.
CREATE A SOLUTION: Government then provides housing North-Korea style: "I can seize it and take it away from you at any time".
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They have to bring up the "woke" angle to every issue.....
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Build poor farms like back in the day, round up the homeless, force them into rehab, stop cutting them checks, and mandate work at the facility. I'm sick of seeing bums
LA you have not seen Seattle homelessness 😢😢😢
Exactly, and not only that; the US Government is deliberately sending people to the streets. Why?
CREATE A PROBLEM: Multiply the homeless.
CREATE A SOLUTION: Government then provides housing North-Korea style: "I can seize it and take it away from you at any time"
They got money for the Mexican people maybe they should go to Texas
Hello, how are you doing?
If people care about the homeless so much they can open their home to them and that includes the mayor and governor
would you open your home to homeless people?
Nope not even for the Mexican people
@@royharper2003 you first if you care so much
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We're from the government and here to help. Here is your jabby jab for "monkey pox". What a joke.
On the street drugs are just commonplace. You can not live on the street and avoid them.
Exactly, and not only that; the US Government is deliberately sending people to the streets. Why?
CREATE A PROBLEM: Multiply the homeless.
CREATE A SOLUTION: Government then provides housing North-Korea style: "I can seize it and take it away from you at any time"...
Wrong. I knew plenty of homeless people who never did drugs. But folks who smoke and are homeless will do drugs.
Homelessness Solved: total # of males over 18 in USA= 101 million, total house's in USA 142 million. Total homeless population only 700,000 . Wtf 😒
that sounds like some liberal math
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the govt will through you away. PLEASE, and the US govt wants to lecture the world!!! About what??? Segregation, social inequalities, racist tax system, zero healthcare?? What?? Oh, I forgot, they can lecture of genocide, segregation, and slavery. Wish you all well, and hopefully you will be things migrating elsewhere.
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Throw drug addicted criminals in prison.. problem solved
They're not bad people. They're sick people trying to get well.
@LK I bet that you're right leaning and believe in the imaginary Jesus. And if you aren't, nearly 99% of them think the way that you do. You're quite easy to identify. Your only solutions are killing and locking people up.
Not prison. A year-long treatment like Teen Challenge. The drug addicts' brain has changed and needs TIME to heal. They don't have a chance as long as they're living on the street (they think it's all good...I've been there). Gov't care? Not. Bandaid friggin' "solution."
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