Providing housing is the #1 way to solve homelessness. The #2 way would be to provide long term inpatient care that was legislated out of existence by Reagan.
You know Reagan was in the executive branch not the legislative branch, Right? You know long term inpatient care was ended by the judicial branch because of all the abuses, suffered by the patients, Right.
Wade Stanton if you are correct,which you probably are, you still have to realize that shutting down those facilities and putting all those people on the streets didn’t solve that problem. It only made it so now all of them are being abused.
While you have good intentions, most of the homeless don't want to be housed. They prefer to be on the streets. The streets are their home. Sure, they'll accept some handouts, but because so many have mental health issues, they don't want to be rescued from the streets.
Yes. 'Defund the Asylums' was as crazy a proposal as it has turned out to be. NGOs never filled the huge gaps left by government medical facilities and it shows. There's only a tiny proportion of people that need to be institutionalized but those folks make up a disproportionate share of 911 calls and violent disturbances. Our jails are full of them because for 40 years or so, there's been no meaningful social programs and no other place for them to go. As a result, they continually get dumped back into the streets when the jails are done with them, and get into even more trouble, and on the cycle goes.
@@dawnoceanside7300 Hell, my Vietnam Vet uncle only disbanded his carpentry/flooring business because he got cancer, and even now he's still doing all kinds of manual work, fishing, etc
I spent many a smoke break in DTLA hanging out with homeless men. Roughly 4 out of 5 said they’ve spent multiple decades in jail for minor possession of marijuana and the rest were veterans. Huge numbers of recently released prisoners were caravanned to LA from the south because those states refused to see homeless people.
That was (sort of) the makeup of homeless people in California before the dot com boom. It is no longer. Now there are hundreds, if not thousands, of homeless people with full time jobs in the S.F. East Bay alone, where I grew up. A person making minimum wage there makes barely enough money to pay the rent in a studio, leaving $0 per month to pay bills and buy food, let alone other necessities like medicine and clothing. That's severe poverty.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I don’t doubt it. I’ve been living in MT for sometime now. We have a huge homeless youth issue here. A number of my coworkers resort to living in their vans and do their daily rituals at local gyms.
In my state the psych wards always fill in the winter. In texas the sheriff would take homeless people, that had mental probs, to the next county over if the person survived the encounter.
@@d123mahesh2 greetings internets friend! I've been away for a long, long time, it seems! While I am currently not homeless, I have, I guess, been 'abandoned' to die alone and I am coming to terms with that. Stay beautiful friend!🤎🌞✌
@@maggierezac5820 Maggie!!!! ❤️ I’m sorry and very worried to hear that! How can I help? Are there no services to help? I know you mentioned previously that you have a nurse/help come in one or twice a week. Do they not come in anymore?
@@d123mahesh2 I have a 'niece of choice' {as opposed to blood} who has been helping me with needed shopping, about twice a month, but lately, her life has gotten more complicated and I have come to realize I need a higher level of care, yet don't want to give up my 'freedom', if that makes any sense. I turned 60 on the 2nd and two days later, my first mother in law died! My kids' paternal grandmother! They lost their maternal step grandfather last June, and today, I learn of yet another family death. The thing is, my 'goodly christian' family just doesn't care anymore, and so it is. I've come to terms with it and am ready for when the day comes! Thank you for your kind words, dear friend and all my best wishes to you and yours! Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌞🤎😎
@@maggierezac5820 That’s a lot of bad news to have over a month. Needing higher level of care is part of all of our lives - first when we are born and second when we get sick or older. I understand the reluctance though. It is hard to give up independence and turn yourself over into the care of another especially a stranger. Finding the right help is not at all easy. Never has been. Still, begin the search. Plan ahead. It is always lovely talking to you. Many friends keep asking about you. We all miss seeing you regularly.
17 million vacant homes The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
Most of those abandoned properties are owned by FOREIGN INVESTORS. They keep them empty & wait for a bid to purchase or to rent the lot to the highest bidder to build a building. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM. Now those foreign investors are buying up NEW HOMES TOO & RENTING THOSE OUT FOR RENTS OUT OF PORPORTION. We need legislation on foreign investors.
There are more vacant houses in California alone than (known) unhoused persons in the entire U.S. so yeah even if it's insisted on doing it in a capitalist way and paying for the spaces under eminent domain it is much more than possible. Literally homes available for every one who needs one and yet the problem still exists. Capitalism, what a great system. If you're one of the apex predators that is, kinda sucks for everyone else.
See my little icon? That's my mother in the door way of a tar paper shack in 1962 when I was 12 years old. She and my grandmother and I lived through a Cape Breton winter there. We had a kerosene lamp and burned coal I would scavenge from mine left overs. Two miles to school. Mustard sandwiches. Charity clothes. At that age I didn't know how bad off we were. My old man was a mean drunk and it would only take 3 beer and it was time to run for the hills. That continued into my teens. When I went to school I never knew if I would have a place to return to at the end of the day. At 19 I met my future wife. I won the lottery with her. She basically saved me. We're staying with her sister to help her keep her house. My only ambition in life was I would never raise my hand or my voice to her and my kids would be born and raised in the same house. I made that promise and kept it. We had to sell the house but it was paid for at least. Sorry for the wall of text. My point in all this is nobody is better than anyone else. No one knows what brought these people to be homeless.
Absolutely. I’ve met many a homeless person who were separated from family, due to coming to the big city for a promise of a good paying job. I’ve met people who have fallen ill & lost their homes. Twice I’ve met people who lost their entire families in an instant, in the most horrific ways possible & lost their minds along with their housing. And I’ve met people who never had anyone or anything to lose.
We are all one moment away from disaster. To look into another humans face and judge them because they have less than you is a byproduct of our own fear of loss, or death. I’m a disabled vet, and the only reason I’m not in their place now, is because of the VA. It doesn’t take much to put yourself in that person’s place, and have compassion. I have great respect for you, and your mother for surviving such hardship. And you took the harsh lessons from that to make sure your family is loved, and provided for. That is good! 🤗 Have a good day!
abject T so glad to have you here. Keep writing walls of text as you have something valuable to say. Unfortunately many who have done well financially only look at people & judge by how much they may profit off of them. This is especially true of many in office. Let's see how much of that billion they get to trickle into their pockets. Chime in on the regular, you will find many good people here...& a few trolls (but don't let the bastards get you down).
In correlation to this topic, the military budget goes up every year. Soldiers separate from the army every day! Some of these soldiers will suffer from mental, medical, and social issues that will leave them homeless. It's unfortunate that funding for these homeless veterans doesn't increase as often as the military budget does.
Its not unfortunate ITS FKING DISGRACEFUL. If a government manufactures a lower class and then offers them a good wage and career to fight for wars that they create then the bstards should provide care and security for the life after conflict. WhereTF are we, as a so called civilised society, heading. This is should not be acceptable in a modern society.
The Right to live in shelter was defended by our founding fathers. Back then, they just let you improve commons land. Today there is no commons grounds
There by the grace of the Fate's go . If the last year have taught us anything we are all traveling a very rocky trail and a fall isn't always seen or handled well.
It’s not our problem, the right wing know that you have empathy and they abuse that. Right wing governments don’t give a shite about the homeless or destitute, they cannot profit off them. Homeless people are a result of government failure and will full neglect. What if all that money governments spent on war was used to help the poor, IT BOILS MY PISS.
It's so sad and disturbing to see how apathetic people can be when their fellow humans don't have their basic needs. If people in my country don't have shelter, it's everyone in my country's job to provide shelter for them. All one community.
Even if you take money out of the equation, they're still going to fuck it up, because affluent people are going to protest having destitute people housed anywhere near them, meaning they're just building more projects to reinforce class/racial segregation. So they'll give people a place to live, but never the opportunity to improve their position so that they no longer have to rely on government support.
17 million vacant homes The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
How did we get here? Im not in cali but from what i hear there are tons of empty homes in the county and even all over this country bought up by investors, hedgefunds, foreigners etc the housing market is crazy. Inflated prices. I cant even afford a house that 3 years ago was reasonably. The problem needs to be fixed
17 million vacant homes The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
@@mediocritysmaze3731 thats staggering! Sad. Heartbreaking. Had no idea that many homes empty!! In texas the building of new homes has slowed and they are renting out new homes like crazy. To buy a home you have to jump thru hoops on fire. The process is stupid and overly complicated
I've read some articles discussing this topic and although money is being thrown at the problem the money seems to disappear into a black hole with only a small number of residences being built. 1 billion dollars could solve the problem but only if the money is spent wisely and efficiently.
It's not that it COULD, it WOULD solve the problem. It's been done in other states. The problem is not the program, it's local corruption and inefficiency. We need new leadership here.
The mayor not only promised a billion dollars for housing for the homeless, the city also (at the same time) confiscated tiny homes built for the homeless by private individuals, taking them (and the belongings locked inside) to a landfill....seems to me it's time for some new leadership there...
Link please, I’m really interested in the madness of American political structure which, to my uneducated mind, seems to have been manufactured so as that nobody on either side can ever be held accountable for street level problems.
Leadership also failed to take advantage of the money in stimulus bills to house homeless people in hotels. Part of the issue is that many hotels and motels were against this because it went "against their appearance". However, leadership didn't do much at all with that money or using other hotels/motels.
Why on earth would they express interest in solving the problem on one hand, and destroy what progress had been made by caring individuals on the other? That is totally crazy!
@@wolfiesmith7674 You can search for Echo Park or Project Roomkey, the LA times did an article looking back on the clearing of Echo Park. Alternatively if you have over an hour the Worst Year Ever podcast did an interview with residents of Echo Park published April 1st.
Last I read, there were over 100,000 vacant housing units in the area, let alone abandone properties and such that the county could probably get a good deal on with a billion dollars. The fact that this situation has spiraled like this is shameful.
17 million vacant homes The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
Eminent domain in even dilapidated properties would cost FAR too much money. You can get a shack that needs to be torn down for $600k-$800k just for the little tiny piece of land it’s on, and since eminent domain requires paying the owner fair market value, you can expect the city to have to pay that. Even abandoned homes have owners somewhere, and this would be a nice windfall for someone who abandoned their grandma’s old ramshackle house that they inherited and let turn to ruins. Add another $500k to demolish and rebuilt, and you’re at over a million for one person. $1bil would be enough for fewer than 1,000 homes, which leaves thousands still out in the cold.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria All good points but how in some cases is it "fair market value" if no one will buy it, so it isn't abandoned? I know it's call "fair market value" officially, but in some cases it's just plain Greed.
Exactly! I always ask people that are against helping the homeless what do they want them to do? Walk in to the sea and drown themselves? Would that make you happy? I am amazed at the lack of empathy in this country. Shameful.
Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. Good, hard working people living on the streets or shelters or poorly built houses. Meat packing companies needed these people but government and companies never helped people improve their situations. We would all be better off if we were all better off. The money is there, use it wisely and quickly.
@@karenjohannessen8987 : Good morning Karen. ^-^ If so many other countries that have far less wealth can house The People, then the U.S. has *zero* excuse for not actually exceeding that, and doing more than simply housing people. Having somewhere to live is the most basic right any living thing has. Making people homeless, and then making it illegal in most cities to be homeless, is at best a genocidal tactic born of an insane amount of greed. At best.
@@kevinrichards481 : Indeed. And the money has always been there. We the 99% and our 99% ancestors created more than 99% of all the wealth that exists today. That the thieving 1% have managed to steal 50% of the wealth *we* created is *The Crime* of the ages. That they have bought the laws to "legally" steal half of *our wealth* does not even remotely imply it is not a crime.
I would love to be able to build self-sustaining homes for homeless people. Energy efficient houses that are covered in solar panels and produce twice the electricity needed for its function. Offering the homeless jobs building these houses, if they desire. Paying it forward.
I use to work in downtown LA. There are tons of vacant buildings there that could be converted into apartments. Utah has already shown that it’s cheaper to give the homeless what they need - Homes! Unfortunately, this started in the 80’s when they emptied the mental institutions and gave them no where to go. The homeless also need mental health care and many need job training. It’s shameful that a professed Christian Nation fails to follow The Jesus’s example of Love One Another. We’re more likely to point the finger of shame and blame. No one should be living on the streets. We have failed as human beings long enough.
@Jean Campbell, your historical context is spot on correct, however the decision to 'free the inmates' came because prior to that, a person could be warehoused indefinitely in a mental institution for absolutely no cause! A frequent example would be, 'Oh I don't really like my wife anymore and can't afford to divorce her so I'll just say that she's crazy and have her locked up in the State run facility; and that's what happened. If it had been the government doing this, the Fourth Amendment would have kicked in, but because it was civilians {more often than not, 'loving' family members} it went on for decades. Stay safe.
@@maggierezac5820 Someone told me that the same can happen now, only that person who claims you’re crazy becomes your payee. I’m not sure if that’s the case, but that’s what he claims his ex did with their daughter when she was turning 18. & now she’s been confined to a home for 8 years, when there’s nothing wrong with her.
@@sunshine3914 That is a very sad tale indeed and of course, as with all thing health related, it also depends on the laws of each state! So the daughter was a minor at the time and the mother {I'm assuming} became payee for the daughter's SSI benefits by having her declared 'insane'? Is that about right? That is frankly just sick on so many levels. Just like the 80s when the folks were released en masse, they had zero social skills and could not adopt to society, thus came the revolving door of the Mental Health Warehousing. Sadly, in my state, that is again, what it has become. Warehousing. And chemical restraint.
Good luck I live in LA, sad thing is we have abandoned hospitals an abandoned mall !!! And all kinds of places to use but the local government just wants another way to skim off the top.
17 million vacant homes The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
@@josefehling1134 as they say Try following the money There are organizations, administrations ,ngos, nonprofits ,etc etc that have a penchant for disappearing, misappropriating, skimming the money for said problem and not solving the problem. Old old tricks But to put it in the simplest of terms BECAUSE CAPITALISM!
Our rulers don't want us to have nice things. Who would they look down on if we all had enough? Last year Las Vegas housed their homeless under the stars on top of a parking garage with EVERY HOTEL ROOM IN THE CITY EMPTY. That's some world-class spite at work right there
Something I think those at the top are choosing to ignore is how no one is advocating giving people fancy houses, just a little basic apartment with some basic amenities so they’re safe at night and have an address to use to put down for services, a place to wash up, a few piece of basic furniture and some basic cookware, etc. But the powers that be are acting like this is demanding multiple-floor houses with oak floors and a hot tub and expanded cable with all the premium channels on a 60”-plasma TV and prime rib every night with custom furniture and fine china and crystal.
This crisis hits me every day. If not for individuals like my boss/friend I would be on the street. I'm working in my community solving this. Beau, you're right, the answer is actually creating housing.
Wasn't there a musician a few years ago who built a bunch of tiny homes for the homeless for like $1.5k a unit and then the city/state tore them all down or some stupid shit like that?
You really do not want a large facility, because most of that type of housing creates a situation where homeless people get robbed by each other and the staff, or get abused (mostly by the staff). This is why the homeless often refuse to live in these facilities and often prefer living on the streets.
I think he meant apartment buildings with maybe subsidised rent, instead of individual houses, not actually a mega homeless shelter. The use of the word "facility" is kind of confusing though.
17 million vacant homes The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
@@TheYrthenarc An apartment building with the concentration of homeless is a mega homeless shelter. We've tried that. They need to be integrated. Give them rent money and help them find and keep up a rental. What I've seen here (very small sample size) is welfare recipients who get rent subsidies, don't care for the property and get evicted. So they need living skills. Put the money there.
Yes! I volunteered for a week in LA 10+ years ago. It was a problem at that time and the team I was with were renovating a old hospital to help with homeless and treatment. They sent out food trucks all over the city to hand out food & misc items. I'd love to see tiny home communities there and in my city but maybe I'm naive
@@carrieullrich5059 I saw a documentary on something like that and I couldn't remember where it was. It seemed wonderful not perfect but a huge step forward
@@dariondonte8386 Well, aren't you the big ' go-getter'? Good talk, bro. Thanks for the encouraging words. No time like the present to just give the F up and do nothing, eh?
@@carrieullrich5059 Yes, they do. But it’s a wonder they even have any homeless the way they treated them worse than animals when I visited there 10 years ago. Only saw two downtown, & I couldn’t believe the cops & party boys would step in front of them & say “Ignore them! It’s illegal to feed them!”.
They also think poverty and homelessness are moral failings that deserve punishment. It's never that wages are too low and the cost of living is often too high: it has to be character flaws 100%. Ugh.
I just moved back to my hometown of Los Angeles after a 12 year "exile" and I am glad to see the federal government taking action. This course should be taken throughout the country as a whole.
Don't get your hopes up, odds are it won't even make a dent... All the money will go up in smoke with little to nothing to actually show for it... Beau is honestly a bit naive on the subject honestly... He is under the impression there is a fix, as if it's as simple as just housing those without homes... It's not... Our society pushed those people to the bottom, and untill the structure of our society is changed it will continue to so regardless or how far up we manage to bring that bottom... Even if housing was a universal right, that's only the begining
@@William-Morey-Baker : Pray tell, how exactly does not housing the homeless help relieve the problem of homelessness? It may not be your intention at all, but your argument reeks of the conservatives intrinsic fear/greed agenda.
@@William-Morey-Baker The difference here is that the city and county leaders may face consequences if they don't act. I don't think this is a complete solution, but I'm glad to see someone light a fire under local leaders' asses. Time and again we see housed residents fight off anything that would help their unhoused neighbors. Edit: We can't know at this stage whether the city will find a humane or dignified solution to this mess, and they might not, but no one's held their feet to the fire yet.
Oh. Lest my day starts with too much frustration and sadness, please allow me to add: Good Morning Mister! It's good to wake up to that calming voice of yours. Good Morning internet people! Take good care of yourselves. Even when it doesn't feel like it, YOU SUPER MATTER!.
Im in Vancouver WA, across the river from Portland. The homeless problem here is also at epic numbers. There are people living off the freeways, tucked in the treees, just about everywhere. This is a blue state, I am very dissapointed in our elected officials that have done little to address the needs of our community memebers.
Red/Blue/Purple - it matters not the party, we need more leaders with *compassion* and *understanding* and *vision* to look at the roots of these problems.
I live in downtown Portland and I'm surprised on how many of the homeless people have moved here from other States. Our rent here is price gouging and going up. Big corporations landlords get tax breaks for empty buildings.
@@user-vx1cg3jy8e I wondered about the tax breaks. I saw a report recently that wealthy investors, both domestic and foreign, are buying up single family homes at an astonishing rate. Some of the homes are turned into rentals while others sit empty. Now I know why. Those investors are also creating a housing shortage and prices for both rent and purchase, are artificially high.
I live in L.A., and not very far from some of the housing they put up for the homeless. They can't keep the units full because most of the homeless have mental problems and just wander away / leave. The need for mental care is larger and higher priority than the need for housing, in my opinion.
Love your videos Beau...I found your videos thru democratic underground site. I like the way you explain things. I am a senior single woman and habe told all my friends about your videos. Now you have a group of senior single ladies in Largo FL who watch your videos daily. Thank you for this. We even all watched your video with friend about surviving in the woods with the go backpack and now we are all preparing our go bags.
The old YMCA building in San Diego used to be 5-10 dollars a night and there was a line of people in need of work and food. People severed in the hotel and worked the restaurant for a meal and a place to sleep. Military was welcomed there as well. That was in the 1990's... At that time it seemed to be a success in my book. I believe this has been a long time coming...
letting the homeless trade kitchen work for food is not good practice. I know what I'm talking about. I've seen hundreds rush inadequate bathroom facilities, at one meal in particular. What a pitiful display of humans in discomfort.
I have watched a few videos where the unhoused are interviewed. Not all but some do not seem to want this assistance. IMHO, many need help with addiction and mental health . It is a very complex issue and more needs to be done than just putting them in houses. But to see so many living on the streets in the richest country in the world is just heartbreaking. I truly hope that something is done. Thank you Beau.
This is the first time (that I remember) I've taken exception to one of your comments. You see, I've lived in these places and have known many of these people. The ones in the interviews you've seen were cherry picked to downplay just how bad the problem really is. In my home cities of Oakland and Berkeley alone there are many hundreds, perhaps thousands of homeless people with full time jobs. Even the tiny studios there were going for $2,000 - $2,500 per month, 5 years ago. It's *not* the fault of the homeless. You know the media is lying to you. So why do you trust them for this particular subject? Like I said, this is the first time, you've always been right on the money with your comments before. I've read probably close to one hundred of them (I spend a lot of time reading comments on this channel each day) and have even grown quite fond of you because of that. I know you're a good and thoughtful person. But this I actually happen to personally know about, and you are off this time. The issue is not complex: house the homeless, and they are no longer homeless. Only landlords and other people who get rich sponging off of the hard work of others, have any reason to tell you the issue is _complex._ The reality is: housing costs in California have been sky-rocketing out of control since the 90's dot com boom. In the mid 80's I lived in S.F. close to downtown in a studio that cost $250 per month for about a year. In the east bay where I spent most of my life, I never paid more than $225 per month, even in the nicest areas. Those same places are going for around $3,500 or more (in S.F.) and $2,500 (in the east bay) per month, last I looked about 5 years ago. It went up after that too, but supposedly has come down a little during the pandemic. Regardless, a person making say $15 an hour (witch is more than the minimum wage there last I checked) makes $2,400 per month. That's not even enough for rent alone. Housing costs should never be more than 25% of one monthly income (so about $600 per month is reasonable, not even a good deal in reality, just the bare minimum). I hope that didn't come off as mean in any way. That was not my intention. I quite like you because you have the strength and wisdom intrinsic to those who are compassionate. To be clear, in my book anyone who is more than 99% on point like you are, is doing phenomenally well. ^-^
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Same around the Houston & Austin area. I’ve never leased for more than $212 up until the mid 90s. Then in 2015 I took a friend apartment hunting & found that studio apartments were going for over $2000, more than two hours away from the big city. IDK about anyone else, but my income hasn’t increased anywhere near as much as housing has.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I will be the first one to admit that I am wrong about many things. Perhaps I am hearing only part of the story from those interviews. Thank you for sharing your views. I appreciate it.
Why don’t we eliminate non aggressive minor offenses prisons and turn them into homeless shelters. That way instead of prison guards we can employ people to really help their community.
A complex that hold 50k homeless people would be a disaster, we tried that with project buildings. Best to build several multi-housing units or even better for the individual, smaller houses that sleep 1-3. Great for LA though.
Yes, people definitely need homes. What we really need is to take a big picture approach towards equitable health and mental health care, decent wages so people can afford food, housing and life's necessities. Let's restore some economic balance.
@@lunepoulet4787 To give up hope is to stop fighting for everything. Stop fighting for the homeless, racial justice, healthcare, feeding the poor internationally, and the list goes on. If you want to abandon all hope and crawl into a hole go ahead. I have chosen for almost 57 years to fight, and I will not stop now.
@@michel3691 reality doesn't care about your feelings . FACT IS THE MONEY WILL BE LOST IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND NOT MAKE ITS WAY TO THE PEOPLE IF IT DID WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM WAKE THE F******UP
@@lunepoulet4787 just as I don't care about your feelings right now. Just because something has always happened a particular way doesn't mean it has to continue. Why don't you wake the f*** up and work on changing things.
I run a food based charity started in Orange CA and I have fed on skid row Many times, this news literally had me up and doin a magick happy booty dance@
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
And this billion wouldn't even include the charity donations that would surely follow. There are some FABULOUSLY wealthy people in LA. Plus things like charity events...this is ridiculously do-able. The question is, will they follow through?
So, they just happened to find 1 billion dollars laying around to decide to build homes for the homeless now? I wonder who lit their butts on fire for them to do this.
We need a National program. Half a million are estimated to be homeless right now, and they're definitely under counting th thousands living in vehicles.
Housing along with proper assistance and counseling. The housing alone will help the residents get off alcohol and drugs. Add in retraining and job assistance so they can make good on their lives.
@@julietfischer5056 Housing is one of the main reason they are turning to alcohol and drugs. Yes giving them pride in what they have helps that is the counseling part. This decision needs to be made by the homeless population so they have a stake in there own housing.
I was homeless in northern ca for a while. Some problems I had were employers fire or don't hire the homeless. People would rather not have to see it so laws are made like no camping or loitering. Property management companies don't want to rent to homeless. The credit score system and lastly a massively inflated housing prices
There are some individuals who for various reasons don’t want to live in a structure. There was a vet who lived in the woods of a church I went to. Housing/shelter was offered multiple times with no strings. He was feed and would come in when too cold. To be clear he had mental problems and he knew it. He was given the support and help he was comfortable with. For most a stable shelter would be a dream, but a blanket fix for all would not be best for all and they deserve support too.
We had a vet who lived in his car--florist allowed him to use their parking lot and considered his their night security guard. Unfortunately, two teenagers murdered him. Don't know solutions but iwhs something could be figured out.
@@MilwaukeeWoman Who said they had to be big. Our city/town has several group homes for 5-8 people--money provided by state, churches & residents when they find jobs. We also have churches that house between 2-10 people in their schools. Help them find jobs, social services, etc. Of course, you have to leave if you are caught not cleaning your mess, doing drugs or getting into fights w/other residents.
Point being it takes many creative solutions but we would have money to figure out some of this if we weren't wasting it on endless wars against a country known as the Graveyard of Empires and if there were the will to do it.
Seems to me it would be far cheaper to provide some type of subsidized housing for people who are on the edge of homelessness than to have to pick up the pieces after they have been homeless for some time.
Family business since 1923 in LA Ca. Skid row since the early 70's. Glad my kin are still alive after what I've seen. Results would be long past due and well appreciated. Get on it Garsweaty.
I have watched documentaries where people were building tiny houses and donating them. Some localities agreed to let the houses be placed on vacant land. After some time, they closed the communities/camps stating that they were too dangerous. I am very interested in learning how localities and residents could work together to fix issues.
Don't have all the time houses in one area. Everyone is NIMBY but we need to not concentrate poverty. Some mentally ill belong in long term psychiatric facilities.
@@karenjohannessen8987 scale up the idea of getting housing for all the homeless people in a particular area. Naturally the methods that work in Los Angeles may not work in Wyoming.
100% in agreement. I proposed this to someone in my city and they started going on about how it would be better to spend on "addiction programs"... I told them the truth that only about 20-25% of people living on the street ended up houseless because of problematic substance use, and they refused to believe this as if they know better than those on the front line compiling the statistics. Too many people are narrow minded and want to blame something that can be seen as poor people's own fault like drug/alcohol use, so they do not feel obliged ether to be compassionate or (more importantly) fight for systemic change that would solve the issue.
There is no doubt He would, but convincing Republicans of that is like banging your head against a concrete wall. I guarantee you we will hear "How will you pay for that?" If it was something benefiting the rich or the military industrial complex, the question would never be asked.
The LA County Board of Supervisors is currently all women and they have all been working to get transitional and affordable housing units. It's not easy in some areas that, like my city, are fully built out. The state's Project Roomkey has allowed counties to buy smaller hotels and motels to make them transitional units. They all will be converted but are actually housing people now.But the problem is immense and thousands of units aren't just going to materialize overnight.
Beau, I so appreciate all that you do to spread information about what's REALLY going on that most of us can't see. What's really going on. Please remember to take care of yourself. It is so wearing to see it all. And know it all is happening. Every second. Of every day. What you are doing is so very important. Please find ways to balance and care for yourself. And again, thank you.
They need to cut out all of the BS red tape.If they put this type of money on the line,the crooks will come out in force to milk the money and not deliver on promises. This kind of money could and should solve the problem, if they make people accountable for every single dollar spent!
Give them something to be proud of..... On the other hand, we are talking CA and SO CA, where you run into every kind of restriction they can think of to build or dig a hole. I like Kathleen Davenport's idea. Rehab abandoned properties and let the homeless help fix up their place to live.
I can't believe how much suffering there is in so many places in USA, I mean I expect these situations in third world countries like the one I was born into, but never USA
Expect it to get worse. In the 80s we were being paid $22-26/hr to build homes. In the last two decades that wage has been steadily declining, while housing prices have more than skyrocketed.
Now you will have housing/apartments that some people won't care about and create low rent slums with in a short period of time. Give them work and interest free loans to buy this housing, and it'll give them something to be proud of and work towards eventually owning and you'll have a way different mindset.
That's not how work works, if you smell homeless no one will give you a job. We literally need housing to wash and clean up to get and obtain work that pays enough to support renting a room in someone else's house.
Disability in Los angeles is $990 month a studio in Los angels is $1400 here’s one of the problems people feel hopeless live in their cars and on the streets and blow their check on dope!
This is a great thing! This should be and needs to be a nationwide effort to keep LA county from getting even more homeless traveling there and overwhelming their good intentions.
Reminds me of the story from last year of the College Students (I believe?) who built tiny homes for the Homeless and then the City (LA) came and pulled them down!!! :-(
problem with "building a large facility" is you concentrate the despair. these folks dont need to be lumped together, they need to be included in society, peppered in. housing estates are demonstrable failures. give folks something to call their own
@@susanb4816 traumatised people can recover. Traumatised people deserve nice surroundings. Gardening is good for trauma. Accepting responsibility to maintain nice surroundings can be therapeutic. Homeless people are entirely like you and I, they just don't have a home.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 i was homeless for 10 years. i think you missed my point. putting a bunch of traumatised people together does not, never has helped. we all need society, not pidgeon holing
@@susanb4816 I wasn't imagining a housing scheme only for homeless people. More just a nice housing scheme where anyone can live and with enough accommodation for all. Not marginalising people more. Where I used to live was a horrific housing scheme, broken down, ugly. And full of crime. It was razed to the ground and in its place were built attractive homes and apartments, with gardens and common areas and play areas. It was transformational for the people who lived there. It still looks great, well over ten years later. It can be done, when there is a will to get it done. I'm in Scotland though, I imagine we do a lot of stuff differently. Really my only point was that not all housing schemes suck!
"A large cost effective facility" kind of sounds like another housing project. I'm not actually familiar with them but don't they historically have issues associated with them?
Thank you. I'm a volunteer fundraiser for a homeless center here in Northern California. Fully 1/3 of current clients are over 55 years old. The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is women over 55. Some of them walk every day past the homes they raised their children in. These are women who lost their husbands and can't afford the median $2K per month apartment. These are women who left violent relationships. These are women and men with mental health or substance-abuse issues. The second fastest-growing population is young men from 18-26. They get out of foster homes or bad family situations without educations, skills, or savings. None of these folks can work on any of their problems so long as they're just trying to SURVIVE every day -- scrambling to find enough to eat, a safe place to sleep, and a way to stay clean and presentable. Once they're housed many have the time, energy, and hope to start looking to the future. Shelter first. Everything comes after that.
I live in LA... what house is 10,000 dollars? The cost of housing out here is insane. I build buildings for a living, big ones with anywhere between 2 and 400 apartments and the rent is anywhere from 2,000-5,000 a month. It’s nearly impossible to buy a home here and rent in my neighborhood is $2,500 for a 2bed 2ba. It’s a mess here
Yup! Where would you build tine houses? Or even "project" apartments. In Lancaster? Palmdale maybe. Riverside. There's no affordable land in L.A., anywhere.
@@funnlivinit yeah, everything is built here so you can only build vertically. We’re building a LOT of big multi family buildings in all of Southern California, and when they open it is extremely expensive.
20 billion is the estimate of what it would take to permanently resolve the issue of homelessness in the US. This is 5% of that. There are 50 states. It is completely possible to end homelessness and we choose not to do it. This was for one city.
As former homeless person & now member of NPO helping homeless vets & others I can tell you that 65 to 75% are going to refuse the housing. At least 95% staying on Beaches from Redondo to Santa Monica will refuse to leave also for whatever reason.
It's pretty insane that this ISN'T the solution. You have a mandate to provide housing to all the homeless people. You have a billion dollars to do it. Just...give them housing. Why does this need to be more complicated than that??
@@karenjohannessen8987 True, but to fix the immediate crisis of people being without shelter, should be a no brainer. Don't think anyone is saying that should be where we stop, but it seems like an obvious and immediate need that can be fixed. Sorry that wasn't clear, but that's what I was responding to.
@@Itharl You're right about it being only the *first* step. My concern is that it not be the *only* step, and that the next steps will necessarily vary widely, for different folks.
Providing housing is the #1 way to solve homelessness. The #2 way would be to provide long term inpatient care that was legislated out of existence by Reagan.
You know Reagan was in the executive branch not the legislative branch, Right?
You know long term inpatient care was ended by the judicial branch because of all the abuses, suffered by the patients, Right.
Agree, housing isn’t the only issue here. There is a mental illness issue that makes it difficult for these people to have traditional housing.
Wade Stanton if you are correct,which you probably are, you still have to realize that shutting down those facilities and putting all those people on the streets didn’t solve that problem. It only made it so now all of them are being abused.
While you have good intentions, most of the homeless don't want to be housed. They prefer to be on the streets. The streets are their home.
Sure, they'll accept some handouts, but because so many have mental health issues, they don't want to be rescued from the streets.
Yes. 'Defund the Asylums' was as crazy a proposal as it has turned out to be. NGOs never filled the huge gaps left by government medical facilities and it shows.
There's only a tiny proportion of people that need to be institutionalized but those folks make up a disproportionate share of 911 calls and violent disturbances. Our jails are full of them because for 40 years or so, there's been no meaningful social programs and no other place for them to go.
As a result, they continually get dumped back into the streets when the jails are done with them, and get into even more trouble, and on the cycle goes.
Homes for Heroes is a veteran's village idea. Tiny homes build on a property. Veterans live together and can support each other.
u figure veterans are old and on their way out? it would also lead to issues this idea
@@jesusRamirez-xv7xp Its already being done. And its working. It isn't a retirement home. Its a place to live among people who can understand ya.
@@jesusRamirez-xv7xp from Iraq and Afghanistan? Too old? Omg, get out more often. 40% are Veterans from those wars!!!!
@@dawnoceanside7300 Hell, my Vietnam Vet uncle only disbanded his carpentry/flooring business because he got cancer, and even now he's still doing all kinds of manual work, fishing, etc
I LOVE this! Is that what it's called can you donate to them?
I spent many a smoke break in DTLA hanging out with homeless men. Roughly 4 out of 5 said they’ve spent multiple decades in jail for minor possession of marijuana and the rest were veterans. Huge numbers of recently released prisoners were caravanned to LA from the south because those states refused to see homeless people.
That was (sort of) the makeup of homeless people in California before the dot com boom. It is no longer.
Now there are hundreds, if not thousands, of homeless people with full time jobs in the S.F. East Bay alone, where I grew up. A person making minimum wage there makes barely enough money to pay the rent in a studio, leaving $0 per month to pay bills and buy food, let alone other necessities like medicine and clothing. That's severe poverty.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I don’t doubt it. I’ve been living in MT for sometime now. We have a huge homeless youth issue here. A number of my coworkers resort to living in their vans and do their daily rituals at local gyms.
In my state the psych wards always fill in the winter. In texas the sheriff would take homeless people, that had mental probs, to the next county over if the person survived the encounter.
I hope it works out for those people. No one deserves to be abandoned to die on the street.
Fifth! At the Fifth Column! 🥳💐👍🏾 and...Agreed.
@@d123mahesh2 greetings internets friend! I've been away for a long, long time, it seems! While I am currently not homeless, I have, I guess, been 'abandoned' to die alone and I am coming to terms with that.
Stay beautiful friend!🤎🌞✌
@@maggierezac5820 Maggie!!!! ❤️
I’m sorry and very worried to hear that! How can I help? Are there no services to help? I know you mentioned previously that you have a nurse/help come in one or twice a week. Do they not come in anymore?
@@d123mahesh2 I have a 'niece of choice' {as opposed to blood} who has been helping me with needed shopping, about twice a month, but lately, her life has gotten more complicated and I have come to realize I need a higher level of care, yet don't want to give up my 'freedom', if that makes any sense. I turned 60 on the 2nd and two days later, my first mother in law died! My kids' paternal grandmother! They lost their maternal step grandfather last June, and today, I learn of yet another family death.
The thing is, my 'goodly christian' family just doesn't care anymore, and so it is.
I've come to terms with it and am ready for when the day comes!
Thank you for your kind words, dear friend and all my best wishes to you and yours!
Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌞🤎😎
@@maggierezac5820 That’s a lot of bad news to have over a month. Needing higher level of care is part of all of our lives - first when we are born and second when we get sick or older. I understand the reluctance though. It is hard to give up independence and turn yourself over into the care of another especially a stranger. Finding the right help is not at all easy. Never has been. Still, begin the search. Plan ahead.
It is always lovely talking to you. Many friends keep asking about you. We all miss seeing you regularly.
There is ao many abandoned properties in Los Angeles that they could rehab them all for the homeless and still have money left.
Eminent.
Domain.
17 million vacant homes
The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
Too impractical, houses go for $1m each out there
Most of those abandoned properties are owned by FOREIGN INVESTORS. They keep them empty & wait for a bid to purchase or to rent the lot to the highest bidder to build a building. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM. Now those foreign investors are buying up NEW HOMES TOO & RENTING THOSE OUT FOR RENTS OUT OF PORPORTION. We need legislation on foreign investors.
There are more vacant houses in California alone than (known) unhoused persons in the entire U.S. so yeah even if it's insisted on doing it in a capitalist way and paying for the spaces under eminent domain it is much more than possible. Literally homes available for every one who needs one and yet the problem still exists. Capitalism, what a great system. If you're one of the apex predators that is, kinda sucks for everyone else.
See my little icon? That's my mother in the door way of a tar paper shack in 1962 when I was 12 years old.
She and my grandmother and I lived through a Cape Breton winter there. We had a kerosene lamp and burned coal I would scavenge from mine left overs.
Two miles to school. Mustard sandwiches. Charity clothes. At that age I didn't know how bad off we were.
My old man was a mean drunk and it would only take 3 beer and it was time to run for the hills.
That continued into my teens. When I went to school I never knew if I would have a place to return to at the end of the day.
At 19 I met my future wife. I won the lottery with her. She basically saved me. We're staying with her sister to help her keep her house.
My only ambition in life was I would never raise my hand or my voice to her and my kids would be born and raised in the same house.
I made that promise and kept it. We had to sell the house but it was paid for at least.
Sorry for the wall of text.
My point in all this is nobody is better than anyone else. No one knows what brought these people to be homeless.
Absolutely. I’ve met many a homeless person who were separated from family, due to coming to the big city for a promise of a good paying job. I’ve met people who have fallen ill & lost their homes. Twice I’ve met people who lost their entire families in an instant, in the most horrific ways possible & lost their minds along with their housing. And I’ve met people who never had anyone or anything to lose.
We are all one moment away from disaster. To look into another humans face and judge them because they have less than you is a byproduct of our own fear of loss, or death. I’m a disabled vet, and the only reason I’m not in their place now, is because of the VA. It doesn’t take much to put yourself in that person’s place, and have compassion. I have great respect for you, and your mother for surviving such hardship. And you took the harsh lessons from that to make sure your family is loved, and provided for. That is good! 🤗 Have a good day!
abject T so glad to have you here. Keep writing walls of text as you have something valuable to say. Unfortunately many who have done well financially only look at people & judge by how much they may profit off of them. This is especially true of many in office. Let's see how much of that billion they get to trickle into their pockets. Chime in on the regular, you will find many good people here...& a few trolls (but don't let the bastards get you down).
@@sunshine3914
You have a poet's soul.
@@Andrea.1tree Thank you.
In correlation to this topic, the military budget goes up every year. Soldiers separate from the army every day! Some of these soldiers will suffer from mental, medical, and social issues that will leave them homeless. It's unfortunate that funding for these homeless veterans doesn't increase as often as the military budget does.
Great freaking point!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Its not unfortunate ITS FKING DISGRACEFUL.
If a government manufactures a lower class and then offers them a good wage and career to fight for wars that they create then the bstards should provide care and security for the life after conflict.
WhereTF are we, as a so called civilised society, heading.
This is should not be acceptable in a modern society.
@@wolfiesmith7674 as a combat veteran & a simple Civilian, I wholeheartedly agree brother!👌🏾💪🏾
@@nerfherder4284 appreciate it Travis. Politics are filled with more propaganda than any media outlet.
It’s a complex problem BUT - we walk by these people and pretend it’s not our problem, and it is, it really and truly is.
The Right to live in shelter was defended by our founding fathers.
Back then, they just let you improve commons land. Today there is no commons grounds
There by the grace of the Fate's go . If the last year have taught us anything we are all traveling a very rocky trail and a fall isn't always seen or handled well.
It’s not our problem, the right wing know that you have empathy and they abuse that.
Right wing governments don’t give a shite about the homeless or destitute, they cannot profit off them.
Homeless people are a result of government failure and will full neglect.
What if all that money governments spent on war was used to help the poor, IT BOILS MY PISS.
It's so sad and disturbing to see how apathetic people can be when their fellow humans don't have their basic needs. If people in my country don't have shelter, it's everyone in my country's job to provide shelter for them. All one community.
@@emaginationproductions what country is this?
Thank you brotha. I know they're just gonna fuck it up, cause they all have to get rich off it, but thank you brotha for showing hope to the hopeless.
that is usually how these things go, yes.
Even if you take money out of the equation, they're still going to fuck it up, because affluent people are going to protest having destitute people housed anywhere near them, meaning they're just building more projects to reinforce class/racial segregation. So they'll give people a place to live, but never the opportunity to improve their position so that they no longer have to rely on government support.
@@bblvrable so many homeless are mentally disabled and should rely on government support for the rest of their lives. It’s the humane thing to do.
This should be nation wide! We have so many empty dwellings in this country
heck, we have empty towns in some places.
17 million vacant homes
The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
@who cares I wouldn't wish fema treatment on them. They've already had it bad enough
@who cares naw. Just refurbish the nearly abandoned towns across the state's more then enough homes in the USA being held by bankers
I don't understand how we let people live without their basic human needs. There's no reason anybody should be homeless.
How did we get here? Im not in cali but from what i hear there are tons of empty homes in the county and even all over this country bought up by investors, hedgefunds, foreigners etc the housing market is crazy. Inflated prices. I cant even afford a house that 3 years ago was reasonably. The problem needs to be fixed
17 million vacant homes
The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
@@mediocritysmaze3731 thats staggering! Sad. Heartbreaking. Had no idea that many homes empty!! In texas the building of new homes has slowed and they are renting out new homes like crazy. To buy a home you have to jump thru hoops on fire. The process is stupid and overly complicated
@@Theinfamouskiki411 I just googled vacant homes in the U.S. and I saw this. So I copied and pasted it.
@@Theinfamouskiki411 And I’ve see more & more, in the last ten years, who’ll never be able to pay off their vehicles in Texas, little on their homes.
I've read some articles discussing this topic and although money is being thrown at the problem the money seems to disappear into a black hole with only a small number of residences being built. 1 billion dollars could solve the problem but only if the money is spent wisely and efficiently.
Honestly, I think it only has to be done wisely. A billion divided by 100,000 is 10,000 each. That's a lot of money if used wisely.
It's not that it COULD, it WOULD solve the problem. It's been done in other states. The problem is not the program, it's local corruption and inefficiency. We need new leadership here.
If our government spent wisely or efficiently, all of these problems would barely even exist.
The mayor not only promised a billion dollars for housing for the homeless, the city also (at the same time) confiscated tiny homes built for the homeless by private individuals, taking them (and the belongings locked inside) to a landfill....seems to me it's time for some new leadership there...
Absolutely! I remember that incident. Because of that I do not trust local officials in managing this project.
Link please, I’m really interested in the madness of American political structure which, to my uneducated mind, seems to have been manufactured so as that nobody on either side can ever be held accountable for street level problems.
Leadership also failed to take advantage of the money in stimulus bills to house homeless people in hotels. Part of the issue is that many hotels and motels were against this because it went "against their appearance". However, leadership didn't do much at all with that money or using other hotels/motels.
Why on earth would they express interest in solving the problem on one hand, and destroy what progress had been made by caring individuals on the other? That is totally crazy!
@@wolfiesmith7674 You can search for Echo Park or Project Roomkey, the LA times did an article looking back on the clearing of Echo Park. Alternatively if you have over an hour the Worst Year Ever podcast did an interview with residents of Echo Park published April 1st.
So many empty, abandoned buildings all over America. Such a waste of resources.
Last I read, there were over 100,000 vacant housing units in the area, let alone abandone properties and such that the county could probably get a good deal on with a billion dollars. The fact that this situation has spiraled like this is shameful.
17 million vacant homes
The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
Eminent domain in even dilapidated properties would cost FAR too much money. You can get a shack that needs to be torn down for $600k-$800k just for the little tiny piece of land it’s on, and since eminent domain requires paying the owner fair market value, you can expect the city to have to pay that. Even abandoned homes have owners somewhere, and this would be a nice windfall for someone who abandoned their grandma’s old ramshackle house that they inherited and let turn to ruins. Add another $500k to demolish and rebuilt, and you’re at over a million for one person. $1bil would be enough for fewer than 1,000 homes, which leaves thousands still out in the cold.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria All good points but how in some cases is it "fair market value" if no one will buy it, so it isn't abandoned? I know it's call "fair market value" officially, but in some cases it's just plain Greed.
Exactly! I always ask people that are against helping the homeless what do they want them to do? Walk in to the sea and drown themselves? Would that make you happy? I am amazed at the lack of empathy in this country. Shameful.
In my home cities of Oakland and Berkeley there are thousands of homeless people with full time jobs.
That's another shameful fact that needs to be addressed.
Good morning, Aylbdyr!
Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. Good, hard working people living on the streets or shelters or poorly built houses. Meat packing companies needed these people but government and companies never helped people improve their situations. We would all be better off if we were all better off. The money is there, use it wisely and quickly.
That’s the first thing that needs to be addressed: affordable housing & living wages.
@@karenjohannessen8987 : Good morning Karen. ^-^
If so many other countries that have far less wealth can house The People, then the U.S. has *zero* excuse for not actually exceeding that, and doing more than simply housing people. Having somewhere to live is the most basic right any living thing has. Making people homeless, and then making it illegal in most cities to be homeless, is at best a genocidal tactic born of an insane amount of greed. At best.
@@kevinrichards481 : Indeed. And the money has always been there. We the 99% and our 99% ancestors created more than 99% of all the wealth that exists today. That the thieving 1% have managed to steal 50% of the wealth *we* created is *The Crime* of the ages. That they have bought the laws to "legally" steal half of *our wealth* does not even remotely imply it is not a crime.
I would love to be able to build self-sustaining homes for homeless people. Energy efficient houses that are covered in solar panels and produce twice the electricity needed for its function. Offering the homeless jobs building these houses, if they desire. Paying it forward.
Me too, perhaps affordable trailer parks? and build trailers
I use to work in downtown LA. There are tons of vacant buildings there that could be converted into apartments. Utah has already shown that it’s cheaper to give the homeless what they need - Homes!
Unfortunately, this started in the 80’s when they emptied the mental institutions and gave them no where to go.
The homeless also need mental health care and many need job training.
It’s shameful that a professed Christian Nation fails to follow The Jesus’s example of Love One Another. We’re more likely to point the finger of shame and blame. No one should be living on the streets. We have failed as human beings long enough.
@Jean Campbell, your historical context is spot on correct, however the decision to 'free the inmates' came because prior to that, a person could be warehoused indefinitely in a mental institution for absolutely no cause!
A frequent example would be, 'Oh I don't really like my wife anymore and can't afford to divorce her so I'll just say that she's crazy and have her locked up in the State run facility; and that's what happened.
If it had been the government doing this, the Fourth Amendment would have kicked in, but because it was civilians {more often than not, 'loving' family members} it went on for decades.
Stay safe.
@@maggierezac5820 Someone told me that the same can happen now, only that person who claims you’re crazy becomes your payee. I’m not sure if that’s the case, but that’s what he claims his ex did with their daughter when she was turning 18. & now she’s been confined to a home for 8 years, when there’s nothing wrong with her.
@@sunshine3914 That is a very sad tale indeed and of course, as with all thing health related, it also depends on the laws of each state! So the daughter was a minor at the time and the mother {I'm assuming} became payee for the daughter's SSI benefits by having her declared 'insane'? Is that about right? That is frankly just sick on so many levels. Just like the 80s when the folks were released en masse, they had zero social skills and could not adopt to society, thus came the revolving door of the Mental Health Warehousing. Sadly, in my state, that is again, what it has become. Warehousing. And chemical restraint.
Good luck I live in LA, sad thing is we have abandoned hospitals an abandoned mall !!! And all kinds of places to use but the local government just wants another way to skim off the top.
17 million vacant homes
The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
@@mediocritysmaze3731 bring the houses back into shape and get ppl inside
Homelessness is profitable for many groups.
@@rin11bairborne Could you give me Context to your Comment i cant follow your line of thought
@@josefehling1134 as they say
Try following the money
There are organizations, administrations ,ngos, nonprofits ,etc etc that have a penchant for disappearing, misappropriating, skimming the money for said problem and not solving the problem.
Old old tricks
But to put it in the simplest of terms
BECAUSE CAPITALISM!
Our rulers don't want us to have nice things. Who would they look down on if we all had enough? Last year Las Vegas housed their homeless under the stars on top of a parking garage with EVERY HOTEL ROOM IN THE CITY EMPTY. That's some world-class spite at work right there
Something I think those at the top are choosing to ignore is how no one is advocating giving people fancy houses, just a little basic apartment with some basic amenities so they’re safe at night and have an address to use to put down for services, a place to wash up, a few piece of basic furniture and some basic cookware, etc. But the powers that be are acting like this is demanding multiple-floor houses with oak floors and a hot tub and expanded cable with all the premium channels on a 60”-plasma TV and prime rib every night with custom furniture and fine china and crystal.
This crisis hits me every day. If not for individuals like my boss/friend I would be on the street. I'm working in my community solving this. Beau, you're right, the answer is actually creating housing.
Wasn't there a musician a few years ago who built a bunch of tiny homes for the homeless for like $1.5k a unit and then the city/state tore them all down or some stupid shit like that?
Also LA. They dumped them in a landfill with citizens belongings inside them.
You really do not want a large facility, because most of that type of housing creates a situation where homeless people get robbed by each other and the staff, or get abused (mostly by the staff). This is why the homeless often refuse to live in these facilities and often prefer living on the streets.
P.S. Tiny houses are a great idea.
I think he meant apartment buildings with maybe subsidised rent, instead of individual houses, not actually a mega homeless shelter. The use of the word "facility" is kind of confusing though.
Shelters fuel the problem! Permanent housing in real neighborhoods is the only SOLUTION!
17 million vacant homes
The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.Dec 24, 2019
@@TheYrthenarc An apartment building with the concentration of homeless is a mega homeless shelter. We've tried that. They need to be integrated. Give them rent money and help them find and keep up a rental. What I've seen here (very small sample size) is welfare recipients who get rent subsidies, don't care for the property and get evicted. So they need living skills. Put the money there.
Yes! I volunteered for a week in LA 10+ years ago. It was a problem at that time and the team I was with were renovating a old hospital to help with homeless and treatment. They sent out food trucks all over the city to hand out food & misc items. I'd love to see tiny home communities there and in my city but maybe I'm naive
Austin does a great program exactly like that.
@@carrieullrich5059 I saw a documentary on something like that and I couldn't remember where it was. It seemed wonderful not perfect but a huge step forward
I'm thinking naive is more accurate.
@@dariondonte8386 Well, aren't you the big ' go-getter'? Good talk, bro. Thanks for the encouraging words. No time like the present to just give the F up and do nothing, eh?
@@carrieullrich5059 Yes, they do. But it’s a wonder they even have any homeless the way they treated them worse than animals when I visited there 10 years ago. Only saw two downtown, & I couldn’t believe the cops & party boys would step in front of them & say “Ignore them! It’s illegal to feed them!”.
Your right, the problem needs to be solved, everywhere and it is solvable!!! Glad that judge put their foot down!!!
The most difficult thing is that those who are doing well don't want those who have fallen on hard times in their areas.
They also think poverty and homelessness are moral failings that deserve punishment. It's never that wages are too low and the cost of living is often too high: it has to be character flaws 100%. Ugh.
@@julietfischer5056 well I think it is a moral failing. But not of the poor and homeless.
I just moved back to my hometown of Los Angeles after a 12 year "exile" and I am glad to see the federal government taking action. This course should be taken throughout the country as a whole.
Don't get your hopes up, odds are it won't even make a dent... All the money will go up in smoke with little to nothing to actually show for it...
Beau is honestly a bit naive on the subject honestly... He is under the impression there is a fix, as if it's as simple as just housing those without homes... It's not... Our society pushed those people to the bottom, and untill the structure of our society is changed it will continue to so regardless or how far up we manage to bring that bottom... Even if housing was a universal right, that's only the begining
@@William-Morey-Baker But it's still a good beginning.
@@William-Morey-Baker : Pray tell, how exactly does not housing the homeless help relieve the problem of homelessness? It may not be your intention at all, but your argument reeks of the conservatives intrinsic fear/greed agenda.
@@William-Morey-Baker The difference here is that the city and county leaders may face consequences if they don't act. I don't think this is a complete solution, but I'm glad to see someone light a fire under local leaders' asses. Time and again we see housed residents fight off anything that would help their unhoused neighbors.
Edit: We can't know at this stage whether the city will find a humane or dignified solution to this mess, and they might not, but no one's held their feet to the fire yet.
I don't think the federal government is doing crap. This is either L.A. county or city.
Oh. Lest my day starts with too much frustration and sadness, please allow me to add: Good Morning Mister! It's good to wake up to that calming voice of yours. Good Morning internet people! Take good care of yourselves. Even when it doesn't feel like it, YOU SUPER MATTER!.
Good morning, Cheri Ann!
Good morning internet peoples. ^-^
Much love to all of you!
👋🏼 Morning all. 🌻
Good morning Cheri Ann. Sometimes the topics are saddening. Thanks for your kind words.
@@karenjohannessen8987 good morning Karen. Good to see you here. Hope your day is going well.
Im in Vancouver WA, across the river from Portland. The homeless problem here is also at epic numbers. There are people living off the freeways, tucked in the treees, just about everywhere.
This is a blue state, I am very dissapointed in our elected officials that have done little to address the needs of our community memebers.
Red/Blue/Purple - it matters not the party, we need more leaders with *compassion* and *understanding* and *vision* to look at the roots of these problems.
I live in downtown Portland and I'm surprised on how many of the homeless people have moved here from other States.
Our rent here is price gouging and going up.
Big corporations landlords get tax breaks for empty buildings.
@@user-vx1cg3jy8e Can you believe other Cities bus their homeless out of town with a one way ticket?
@@user-vx1cg3jy8e I wondered about the tax breaks. I saw a report recently that wealthy investors, both domestic and foreign, are buying up single family homes at an astonishing rate. Some of the homes are turned into rentals while others sit empty. Now I know why.
Those investors are also creating a housing shortage and prices for both rent and purchase, are artificially high.
I live in L.A., and not very far from some of the housing they put up for the homeless. They can't keep the units full because most of the homeless have mental problems and just wander away / leave. The need for mental care is larger and higher priority than the need for housing, in my opinion.
Love your videos Beau...I found your videos thru democratic underground site. I like the way you explain things. I am a senior single woman and habe told all my friends about your videos. Now you have a group of senior single ladies in Largo FL who watch your videos daily. Thank you for this. We even all watched your video with friend about surviving in the woods with the go backpack and now we are all preparing our go bags.
The old YMCA building in San Diego used to be 5-10 dollars a night and there was a line of people in need of work and food. People severed in the hotel and worked the restaurant for a meal and a place to sleep. Military was welcomed there as well. That was in the 1990's... At that time it seemed to be a success in my book. I believe this has been a long time coming...
letting the homeless trade kitchen work for food is not good practice. I know what I'm talking about. I've seen hundreds rush inadequate bathroom facilities, at one meal in particular. What a pitiful display of humans in discomfort.
Oregon has a tiny house program. Everyone has to help built them if they want to live there. They are so freaking happy!
I have watched a few videos where the unhoused are interviewed. Not all but some do not seem to want this assistance. IMHO, many need help with addiction and mental health . It is a very complex issue and more needs to be done than just putting them in houses. But to see so many living on the streets in the richest country in the world is just heartbreaking. I truly hope that something is done. Thank you Beau.
This is the first time (that I remember) I've taken exception to one of your comments. You see, I've lived in these places and have known many of these people. The ones in the interviews you've seen were cherry picked to downplay just how bad the problem really is. In my home cities of Oakland and Berkeley alone there are many hundreds, perhaps thousands of homeless people with full time jobs. Even the tiny studios there were going for $2,000 - $2,500 per month, 5 years ago. It's *not* the fault of the homeless.
You know the media is lying to you. So why do you trust them for this particular subject? Like I said, this is the first time, you've always been right on the money with your comments before. I've read probably close to one hundred of them (I spend a lot of time reading comments on this channel each day) and have even grown quite fond of you because of that. I know you're a good and thoughtful person. But this I actually happen to personally know about, and you are off this time.
The issue is not complex: house the homeless, and they are no longer homeless.
Only landlords and other people who get rich sponging off of the hard work of others, have any reason to tell you the issue is _complex._ The reality is: housing costs in California have been sky-rocketing out of control since the 90's dot com boom.
In the mid 80's I lived in S.F. close to downtown in a studio that cost $250 per month for about a year. In the east bay where I spent most of my life, I never paid more than $225 per month, even in the nicest areas. Those same places are going for around $3,500 or more (in S.F.) and $2,500 (in the east bay) per month, last I looked about 5 years ago. It went up after that too, but supposedly has come down a little during the pandemic.
Regardless, a person making say $15 an hour (witch is more than the minimum wage there last I checked) makes $2,400 per month. That's not even enough for rent alone. Housing costs should never be more than 25% of one monthly income (so about $600 per month is reasonable, not even a good deal in reality, just the bare minimum).
I hope that didn't come off as mean in any way. That was not my intention. I quite like you because you have the strength and wisdom intrinsic to those who are compassionate. To be clear, in my book anyone who is more than 99% on point like you are, is doing phenomenally well. ^-^
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Same around the Houston & Austin area. I’ve never leased for more than $212 up until the mid 90s. Then in 2015 I took a friend apartment hunting & found that studio apartments were going for over $2000, more than two hours away from the big city.
IDK about anyone else, but my income hasn’t increased anywhere near as much as housing has.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I will be the first one to admit that I am wrong about many things. Perhaps I am hearing only part of the story from those interviews. Thank you for sharing your views. I appreciate it.
Until politicians want to solve the problem instead of just “appearing” to be doing something, problems like this will never go away.
Why don’t we eliminate non aggressive minor offenses prisons and turn them into homeless shelters. That way instead of prison guards we can employ people to really help their community.
A complex that hold 50k homeless people would be a disaster, we tried that with project buildings. Best to build several multi-housing units or even better for the individual, smaller houses that sleep 1-3. Great for LA though.
Yes, people definitely need homes.
What we really need is to take a big picture approach towards equitable health and mental health care, decent wages so people can afford food, housing and life's necessities.
Let's restore some economic balance.
Solving a problem for someone who doesn’t have a problem. Only makes you feel better
Good morning, Beau. What an amazing court order! Let's hope more goes to the housing and not administrative costs. 💚☘🌎
Here here!!!
Abandon all hope!
You KNOW in the very marrow of your bones that that is not how it works.
@@lunepoulet4787 To give up hope is to stop fighting for everything. Stop fighting for the homeless, racial justice, healthcare, feeding the poor internationally, and the list goes on. If you want to abandon all hope and crawl into a hole go ahead. I have chosen for almost 57 years to fight, and I will not stop now.
@@michel3691 reality doesn't care about your feelings .
FACT IS THE MONEY WILL BE LOST IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND NOT MAKE ITS WAY TO THE PEOPLE IF IT DID WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM WAKE THE F******UP
@@lunepoulet4787 just as I don't care about your feelings right now. Just because something has always happened a particular way doesn't mean it has to continue. Why don't you wake the f*** up and work on changing things.
I run a food based charity started in Orange CA and I have fed on skid row Many times, this news literally had me up and doin a magick happy booty dance@
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
And this billion wouldn't even include the charity donations that would surely follow. There are some FABULOUSLY wealthy people in LA. Plus things like charity events...this is ridiculously do-able. The question is, will they follow through?
100% We have no excuses.
So, they just happened to find 1 billion dollars laying around to decide to build homes for the homeless now? I wonder who lit their butts on fire for them to do this.
We need a National program. Half a million are estimated to be homeless right now, and they're definitely under counting th thousands living in vehicles.
They could do more than just housing! They need to do something about it. It is a start!
Its the main issue.
Housing along with proper assistance and counseling. The housing alone will help the residents get off alcohol and drugs. Add in retraining and job assistance so they can make good on their lives.
@@julietfischer5056 Housing is one of the main reason they are turning to alcohol and drugs. Yes giving them pride in what they have helps that is the counseling part. This decision needs to be made by the homeless population so they have a stake in there own housing.
Businesses and "organizations" involved will chew up a billion in grift before the ink is dry on the order
I was homeless in northern ca for a while. Some problems I had were employers fire or don't hire the homeless. People would rather not have to see it so laws are made like no camping or loitering. Property management companies don't want to rent to homeless. The credit score system and lastly a massively inflated housing prices
Yea. Its an huge systemic issue.
We've been pushing for the Tiny Home Villages, petitioning, writing politicians, Praying it makes it thru everywhere...Peace
There are some individuals who for various reasons don’t want to live in a structure. There was a vet who lived in the woods of a church I went to. Housing/shelter was offered multiple times with no strings. He was feed and would come in when too cold. To be clear he had mental problems and he knew it. He was given the support and help he was comfortable with.
For most a stable shelter would be a dream, but a blanket fix for all would not be best for all and they deserve support too.
We had a vet who lived in his car--florist allowed him to use their parking lot and considered his their night security guard. Unfortunately, two teenagers murdered him. Don't know solutions but iwhs something could be figured out.
@@mozzarella121 Big shelters are more likely to get you killed/ beat/robbed than trying to find a decent place to park your car.
@@MilwaukeeWoman Who said they had to be big. Our city/town has several group homes for 5-8 people--money provided by state, churches & residents when they find jobs. We also have churches that house between 2-10 people in their schools. Help them find jobs, social services, etc. Of course, you have to leave if you are caught not cleaning your mess, doing drugs or getting into fights w/other residents.
Point being it takes many creative solutions but we would have money to figure out some of this if we weren't wasting it on endless wars against a country known as the Graveyard of Empires and if there were the will to do it.
Seems to me it would be far cheaper to provide some type of subsidized housing for people who are on the edge of homelessness than to have to pick up the pieces after they have been homeless for some time.
Providing homes for homeless without providing education & training for livelihood would be just plane cruel.
Family business since 1923 in LA Ca. Skid row since the early 70's. Glad my kin are still alive after what I've seen. Results would be long past due and well appreciated. Get on it Garsweaty.
That's a nice plank you got there, Beau. One might even describe it as beautiful
I have watched documentaries where people were building tiny houses and donating them. Some localities agreed to let the houses be placed on vacant land. After some time, they closed the communities/camps stating that they were too dangerous. I am very interested in learning how localities and residents could work together to fix issues.
Don't have all the time houses in one area. Everyone is NIMBY but we need to not concentrate poverty. Some mentally ill belong in long term psychiatric facilities.
The little bluebird of cheerfulness was on MSNBC this morning with a long piece about the water shortage looming for Orange County CA.
Parasite landlords are the problem in LA ... the rent is criminal.
Rent is rent, everywhere. Its capitalism and deep systemic advantages to the wealthy (like people who own rental properties) that causes this.
@@thomaswade3072 Yep. This whole satanic system needs to burn.
start by seizing the 18,000+ full-time airBNBs in LA county
Scale it up to the entire country? It's just a thought.
First, there MUST be something to scale up.
And we're talking about *people* here - there is no "one size fits all"!
@@karenjohannessen8987 scale up the idea of getting housing for all the homeless people in a particular area. Naturally the methods that work in Los Angeles may not work in Wyoming.
100% in agreement. I proposed this to someone in my city and they started going on about how it would be better to spend on "addiction programs"... I told them the truth that only about 20-25% of people living on the street ended up houseless because of problematic substance use, and they refused to believe this as if they know better than those on the front line compiling the statistics. Too many people are narrow minded and want to blame something that can be seen as poor people's own fault like drug/alcohol use, so they do not feel obliged ether to be compassionate or (more importantly) fight for systemic change that would solve the issue.
I think it's great that the County will have to show compassion and understanding for the less fortunate among us. I believe Christ would approve.
There is no doubt He would, but convincing Republicans of that is like banging your head against a concrete wall. I guarantee you we will hear "How will you pay for that?" If it was something benefiting the rich or the military industrial complex, the question would never be asked.
The LA County Board of Supervisors is currently all women and they have all been working to get transitional and affordable housing units. It's not easy in some areas that, like my city, are fully built out. The state's Project Roomkey has allowed counties to buy smaller hotels and motels to make them transitional units. They all will be converted but are actually housing people now.But the problem is immense and thousands of units aren't just going to materialize overnight.
Beau, I so appreciate all that you do to spread information about what's REALLY going on that most of us can't see. What's really going on. Please remember to take care of yourself. It is so wearing to see it all. And know it all is happening. Every second. Of every day. What you are doing is so very important. Please find ways to balance and care for yourself. And again, thank you.
We know that there are more empty house's then homeless people not only in the US but it's the same in all of the western countries.
This is a prime example of why nothing gets done , or why it takes years in, "Committee meetings," before solutions are implemented.
They need to cut out all of the BS red tape.If they put this type of money on the line,the crooks will come out in force to milk the money and not deliver on promises. This kind of money could and should solve the problem, if they make people accountable for every single dollar spent!
Give them something to be proud of..... On the other hand, we are talking CA and SO CA, where you run into every kind of restriction they can think of to build or dig a hole. I like Kathleen Davenport's idea. Rehab abandoned properties and let the homeless help fix up their place to live.
I can't believe how much suffering there is in so many places in USA, I mean I expect these situations in third world countries like the one I was born into, but never USA
Expect it to get worse.
In the 80s we were being paid $22-26/hr to build homes. In the last two decades that wage has been steadily declining, while housing prices have more than skyrocketed.
I'm sure the problem they will actually solve is 'not enough tax money in rich contractors pockets'.
Now you will have housing/apartments that some people won't care about and create low rent slums with in a short period of time. Give them work and interest free loans to buy this housing, and it'll give them something to be proud of and work towards eventually owning and you'll have a way different mindset.
What are you going to do with the mentally ill people who can’t or won’t take care of their housing situation?
That's not how work works, if you smell homeless no one will give you a job.
We literally need housing to wash and clean up to get and obtain work that pays enough to support renting a room in someone else's house.
Disability in Los angeles is $990 month a studio in Los angels is $1400 here’s one of the problems people feel hopeless live in their cars and on the streets and blow their check on dope!
We hope for the best and prepare for the worst, love and light from new mexico
Hope you're having a great day! ^-^
@@aylbdrmadison1051 you too! Thank you very much!
Neen my motto for many years now. I loved the southwest when I visited there, beautiful country.
*Conspiracy theory*
As long as it's housing and not just relocating.
Sending love your way Beau!
Fourth! 💐👍🏾
I think it's going to cost more than $1B. But since when has the government ever wanted to solve any issues of the people?
I grew up in LA and the homeless has been an issue forever they just move them from one place to another to build up downtown LA! It’s a shame
This is a great thing! This should be and needs to be a nationwide effort to keep LA county from getting even more homeless traveling there and overwhelming their good intentions.
Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day, my friend. Too bad so many governments are treating her so badly. Mars is not going to be habitable any time soon.
Providing housing is one of the CHEAPEST and MOST effective way to help an entire country.
No way am I this early! AUSTRALIA IN THE HOUSE!🤣🤣🤣
Yes way!!! Second!!!! 💐👍🏾
Reminds me of the story from last year of the College Students (I believe?) who built tiny homes for the Homeless and then the City (LA) came and pulled them down!!! :-(
problem with "building a large facility" is you concentrate the despair. these folks dont need to be lumped together, they need to be included in society, peppered in. housing estates are demonstrable failures. give folks something to call their own
housing estates can be lovely. depends on the kind of environment one wants to build!
@@jonnylumberjack6223 if it is a housing estate filled with traumatised people, how lovely can it be?
@@susanb4816 traumatised people can recover. Traumatised people deserve nice surroundings. Gardening is good for trauma. Accepting responsibility to maintain nice surroundings can be therapeutic. Homeless people are entirely like you and I, they just don't have a home.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 i was homeless for 10 years. i think you missed my point. putting a bunch of traumatised people together does not, never has helped. we all need society, not pidgeon holing
@@susanb4816 I wasn't imagining a housing scheme only for homeless people. More just a nice housing scheme where anyone can live and with enough accommodation for all. Not marginalising people more. Where I used to live was a horrific housing scheme, broken down, ugly. And full of crime. It was razed to the ground and in its place were built attractive homes and apartments, with gardens and common areas and play areas. It was transformational for the people who lived there. It still looks great, well over ten years later. It can be done, when there is a will to get it done. I'm in Scotland though, I imagine we do a lot of stuff differently. Really my only point was that not all housing schemes suck!
We can't solve this problem without healthcare.
"A large cost effective facility" kind of sounds like another housing project. I'm not actually familiar with them but don't they historically have issues associated with them?
Yes, they're terrible. People prefer to live on the street rather than get mugged in a shared complex.
Thank you. I'm a volunteer fundraiser for a homeless center here in Northern California. Fully 1/3 of current clients are over 55 years old. The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is women over 55. Some of them walk every day past the homes they raised their children in. These are women who lost their husbands and can't afford the median $2K per month apartment. These are women who left violent relationships. These are women and men with mental health or substance-abuse issues. The second fastest-growing population is young men from 18-26. They get out of foster homes or bad family situations without educations, skills, or savings. None of these folks can work on any of their problems so long as they're just trying to SURVIVE every day -- scrambling to find enough to eat, a safe place to sleep, and a way to stay clean and presentable. Once they're housed many have the time, energy, and hope to start looking to the future. Shelter first. Everything comes after that.
Great vid as always Beau, and I love the subtle shoutout to Ben Shapiro's wood
Your damn right they could solve the problem!!!
I imagine it's definitely easier to find a Motley Crue shirt than one for Skid Row 😉
I was thinking he needs my Skid Row shirt lol
Skid Row was a much better band imo too.
@@stuckinflorida9685 hello neighbor. How is your day going ?
Sadly, the tiny homes that have already been provided outside of the bureaucracy have been criminalized and destroyed.
I live in LA... what house is 10,000 dollars? The cost of housing out here is insane. I build buildings for a living, big ones with anywhere between 2 and 400 apartments and the rent is anywhere from 2,000-5,000 a month. It’s nearly impossible to buy a home here and rent in my neighborhood is $2,500 for a 2bed 2ba. It’s a mess here
Yup! Where would you build tine houses? Or even "project" apartments. In Lancaster? Palmdale maybe. Riverside. There's no affordable land in L.A., anywhere.
Shawn, sounds like the minimum wage needs to be $30/hr. for a single person to meet expenses out there. Hmmmm wonder where the ptofit is going ?
@@funnlivinit yeah, everything is built here so you can only build vertically. We’re building a LOT of big multi family buildings in all of Southern California, and when they open it is extremely expensive.
20 billion is the estimate of what it would take to permanently resolve the issue of homelessness in the US. This is 5% of that. There are 50 states. It is completely possible to end homelessness and we choose not to do it. This was for one city.
Hi there Beau
First!!!!! 🏆💐👍🏾
But if we solve the problem, what will we have as a stick to keep people punching down?!
And I always see the homeless that fall through the cracks, Good news I suppose , but until everyone benefits it can be a losing battle.
As former homeless person & now member of NPO helping homeless vets & others I can tell you that 65 to 75% are going to refuse the housing. At least 95% staying on Beaches from Redondo to Santa Monica will refuse to leave also for whatever reason.
It's pretty insane that this ISN'T the solution. You have a mandate to provide housing to all the homeless people. You have a billion dollars to do it. Just...give them housing. Why does this need to be more complicated than that??
Homelessness is rooted in Many different problems. Therefore the solutions Have To Be very different.
@@karenjohannessen8987 True, but to fix the immediate crisis of people being without shelter, should be a no brainer. Don't think anyone is saying that should be where we stop, but it seems like an obvious and immediate need that can be fixed. Sorry that wasn't clear, but that's what I was responding to.
@@Itharl You're right about it being only the *first* step. My concern is that it not be the *only* step, and that the next steps will necessarily vary widely, for different folks.
Hope they also preserve skid row. Lots of history and quite a lesson to learn - not to erase and forget
dont forget the land cost as well as any utility tie ins and the new road/parking areas
Buying up and renovating abandoned hotels could be an option.
Thank you for your videos!
"Teach a man to fish..." so what is the catalyst to this problem in the first place?