The consequences of rising rent | How some Knoxville locals are ending up homeless
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2023
- Regina and Randy said they were priced out of their Bellevue Apartment. Then, a stroke put them on the streets.
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This is the future of America. More people living in tents and shelters, middle class will be nearly non existent and the rich will be ultra rich.
I really expect the states to start building internment camps before long for the poor, disabled, elderly, and working poor. 😭
God Bless you Both
Maybe corporations and the wealthy could pay a fair share of taxes. I noticed a new bill was passed today lowering taxes on corporate America again. Also poor and middle class families should not be bailing out banks and airlines every time they have financial difficulty. Gentrification of poor and middle class neighborhoods is a big reason for homelessness. Here in Nashville TN. an efficiency apartment or one bedroom start at around $1700 a month. This is in neighborhoods where rents were $500 a few years ago. Then people wonder why there is so much crime.🤔
Sad what is going on in this country. No one should go hungry or have to be homeless.
Street homeless live very simple and modest life. They don't need much, so they don't ask for much. It's minimalist type of life. They simply find a camping spot, and that becomes their new home. They prefer to be left alone as they are, and the only thing they really want is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. 99% of street homeless are fentanyl addicts. Large majority of them will simply die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. Very sad and desperate.
@@sarbantz Anti depression meds cause homicidal ideation. Depression inside out is anger. All mass shooters have 1 thing in common..ssri.
Especially in a first world country like America
@@sarbantz The people in this video did not look like crack or fentanyl users. People that receive $800 a month SSI disability can no longer afford to live in a home or apartment. They would not even qualify. Apartments expect you to prove you have an income of 3 times what the rent is and a good credit score.🤔 Many people do not want to stay in shelters because of theft, violence, bedbugs, and illness.
Living wages, universal healthcare and affordable housing are what's needed. Tennessee will never get those things under Republican leadership. Literally just ask them and they'll proudly tell you why you don't deserve those things.
Biden's policies are the cause of this, do you want Tennessee to be another California or new York? Careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
No one owes you those things, I earn mine, you sponge for yours with that attitude.
My health care cost me more than 3 times it did before obamacare, for less coverage. Take your liberal agenda some where else and quit putting me in the poor house.
@@roddycreswell8613 That's a weird way to say you support homelessness. What an incredibly selfish way to live. Everyone deserves those things. WWJD? Apparently support homelessness.
@@thelaughingstormbornagain1297 the Lord takes care of those who take care of themselves, everyone has been down on their luck, government handouts are not supposed to be a way of life.
It’s crazy cuz I’m 29 but when I experienced this same situation I felt like I was really having or going to have a stroke
This should never happen in the richest and most powerful nation in the world. We need to be better than this.
Street homeless live very simple and modest life. They don't need much, so they don't ask for much. It's minimalist type of life. They simply find a camping spot, and that becomes their new home. They prefer to be left alone as they are, and the only thing they really want is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. 99% of street homeless are fentanyl addicts. Large majority of them will simply die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. Very sad and desperate.
If only Americans did not have the “I’m alright Jack” attitude. And every man for himself. It’s time to lose the Wild West mentality.
WASHINGTON NEEDS TO FIX THIS.
This should never be. Hard working and homeless? Our country needs to stop subsidizing professional welfare recipients and take care of its workers
Maybe corporations and the wealthy could pay a fair share of taxes. I noticed a new bill was passed today lowering taxes on corporate America again. Also poor and middle class families should not be bailing out banks and airlines every time they have financial difficulty. Gentrification of poor and middle class neighborhoods is a big reason for homelessness. Here in Nashville TN. an efficiency apartment or one bedroom start at around $1700 a month. This is in neighborhoods where rents were $500 a few years ago. Then people wonder why there is so much crime.🤔
@@victorianmelody46
Exactly!!!!! ITA!!!!! Truer words have never been spoken!
It’s amazing that you can buy a house in an urban area for under $100.000. You certainly could not do that in Australia,
I think the reporting is poorly written. I'm not sure what their $60k and $94k numbers represent, but I suspect they're trying to say you'd need an annual income of $64k in 2021 and it rose to $94k in 2022. I may be wrong, but they definitely didn't mean you could buy any housing for less than $100k. I found this quote in the report they link to:
"According to research by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the median price of a new home in the Knoxville, TN metro area was $359,502 at the beginning of 2022, meaning the average new home is affordable only to households with an income of $81,161 or more. As a result, approximately 70% of households (250,442) in the Knoxville area cannot afford the median priced new home."
There's a lot Good houses you can buy for under a 100 grand Just not anywhere near the ocean..
@@matthouse99 makes sense.
A dump that needs a lot of work maybe, but nothing a old person could take on.
Street homeless live very simple and modest life. They don't need much, so they don't ask for much. It's minimalist type of life. They simply find a camping spot, and that becomes their new home. They prefer to be left alone as they are, and the only thing they really want is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. 99% of street homeless are fentanyl addicts. Large majority of them will simply die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. Very sad and desperate.
The people in this video did not look like crack or fentanyl users. People that receive $800 a month SSI disability can no longer afford to live in a home or apartment. They would not even qualify. Apartments expect you to prove you have an income of 3 times what the rent is and a good credit score.🤔 Many people do not want to stay in shelters because of theft, violence, bedbugs, and illness.
So how does rising home prices explain how 80-90% of these people are on drugs? Why do you run monthly pieces trying to make excuses for homeless people? How does ignoring the dope help the problem?
Street homeless live very simple and modest life. They don't need much, so they don't ask for much. It's minimalist type of life. They simply find a camping spot, and that becomes their new home. They prefer to be left alone as they are, and the only thing they really want is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers. 99% of street homeless are fentanyl addicts. Large majority of them will simply die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. Very sad and desperate.
@@sarbantz e
The people in this video did not look like crack or fentanyl users. People and elderly that receive $800 a month SSDI or SSI disability can no longer afford to live in a home or apartment. They would not even qualify. Apartments expect you to prove you have an income of 3 times what the rent is and a good credit score.🤔 Many people do not want to stay in shelters because of theft, violence, bedbugs, and illness.
This is called _the just world fallacy_