This video was in a Daily Hive article that was in my Google News feed. In my early 20's I did service work in many of these hotels, that was 20 years ago now. The conditions then were just as bad as they are now only there was no social media to expose it. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for documenting this. Yes this isn't the absolute worst SRO footage I've seen, but that's such a low bar to judge it by. It's insane that this sad place is $950. So almost half of a minimum wage salary gets you this squalor?? Not to mention the absolute chaos of walking to and from that building.
I am amazed everything has not been wrecked and that the toilets and showers were clean. As far as Hastings street is concerned, that alone constitutes a miracle! This particular building must be equipped with some form of junkie repellent? On the other hand, to pay $950 for such a crummy dump is insane. Maybe in a sane world a $150 would be more than fair? What blows me away though is that it would cost one half of a minimum wage salary to rent such a shit hole. In essence, this SROs is nothing more than a high priced slum - disgusting.
I used to live right near that building. So many crazy memorie of the DTES. I got really lucky and found a studio at English bay that I can actually afford. Vancouver is the greatest.
If you actually only had one bed, it would be okay if not for the bed bugs, and rats in hallways. It could have used a good wipe down on the surfaces and floor. All you would need is a bucket, a good cleanser, and water access using the laundry room sink. How can you live in something you don't keep clean? Oh, and it's better than living on the street. At least temporarily.
Thanks for the video… that’s a lot of $$ for that accommodation…. Did you move there as a student or were you just needing something inexpensive…. Just curious … thx 😌
@@PrincessZoey I need that money to move into the effin brandiz or 139 cordova but will pray for your beer. Im at the acme/sally anne shelter next door to brandiz. I used to prefer being homeless to slum sros but am losing too many bikes and laptops so am going to suck it up.
Honestly, I have seen way worse SRO in Vancouver. Way worse, and once you accept housing, you are off the chart, just to get off the street. This housing is actually in the top ten.
I hope you had some good shower shoes. Getting dressed before you get out. Makes perfect sense. That public toilet situation. That concerns me a lot. I hope you had some toilet bowl cleaner. Along some disinfect spray or disposable wipes. Was it clean regularly by staff? Or did the entire floor mutually agree on a 'clean it best way you can' type of deal? Where everybody who had jack all to do during the week. Somebody took whatever cleaning stuff they had extra and scrub it out? If each person did it whenever they had free time and the shower was not occupied. It should be clean enough.
landlady hired people under the table to clean washrooms daily. That is a plus. Flip flops were definitely needed to use the shower!!! this is a private SRO. it was clean enough but then there’s rats in the walls in a hundred year old building and cockroaches under the floor boards it’s hard to maintain a sense of cleanliness.
Looks perfectly fine to me so long as the heat and hot water work ...just keep it clean. Amazing 90 year old light switch; They don't make them quite so durable any more!
In the future if at one of these places, you have to move bed away from wall, and put bed bug traps (search for youtube video) on all 4 legs of bed or else. At 380 main is a newish SRO with a balcony and own bathroom, about $850/m or income based if on welfare. You could just live with ubc students in Kits with your own room for half the price of Brandiz and no rats.
Yeah didn’t have any BBS this time due to our vigilance and experience living in other rooms. Unfortunately this room was too small to move the beds away from the wall. We had a few bed bug traps but didn’t have any signs in them of any eggs etc
UK starting up Universal Basic Income this year as a testing ground over 2 years. 1600 pounds monthly. Though the way everything is moving in cost that 1600 pound income will only buy you a few meals and a tent.
I've been to Vancouver a lot of times, and Hastings, particularly east Hastings is so bad. I can't believe that's peoples lives, and it's all because of drugs and alcohol
It's absolutely a disgrace that anyone would have to pay $950 a month for such abominable accommodation. Such places shouldn't even be allowed. I stayed in an SRO near Clark and Hastings for about 2 or 3 weeks back in 2014 or 15, but it was much better and roomier than what I'm seeing in this video. Not fantastic, but definitely better. It had a full fridge, cable TV and the washroom facilities were certainly reasonable. Can't remember if it had a hot plate. Probably not. I think I made a lot of sandwiches. Lol
Ya can't afford rat traps but can afford beer. The only reason rats come to your home is open food lying around. Perhaps make your bed and clean would help. Don't cry for me big Weiner they kept their promise they put a warm roof over your head with electricity . You forgot to clean and why shoot a video of how you can't even make a bed. Sorry maid service isn't included. Move back home to your mommy till you grow up.
And ??? I lived in an SRO about half the size of the room shown at the beginning of this video for 7 years didn't even have a television it is what it is. MAN UP
The result of Vancouver run by conservative NPA city councillors the past 4 years. Majority of those who were making decisions in city hall belonged to the NPA party, which is run by far right conservative executives. They weren’t focus on any type of below market housing or getting affordable housing built, they were only interested in approving zoning for luxury developers in exchange for millions of dollars in amenities for rich neighbourhoods. Last year alone they brought in $420M from zoning deals with luxury developers. And the city spent $5B on social services where the majority went towards paying staff and giving them bonuses and benefits rather than getting housing built. Also the result of organizations like OPS putting all their nasty drug enabling facilities in the same vicinity of the SROs and homeless shelters causing the SROs to be overrun by drug addicts and dealers. This is what happens when “advocates” advocate for enabling drug addicts to take over streets with tents and advocate for them to be given housing without having to get into rehab and off drugs first. Also the result of rich snobs in other neighbourhoods petitioning against supportive housing being built in “their” neighbourhoods, such as the petition to stop supportive housing from being built by the next Arbutus skytrain station and in Kitsilano.
Hm that's interesting considering the past 4 years the council was split between npa and candidates from3 other parties that all lean left. And then there was the mayor who was a previous ndp mp, so I would say catagorizing as a majority conservative council is false.
@@frankieandrews9431 funny how people come up with their own "facts" and that it's always from folks that believe liberals will help anyone but themselves.
So your take is that a conservative council, with the collaboration of very liberal advocates, created this situation intentionally? So what's the answer, SROs in Kit's, and an absolute crackdown on street drugs?
Im very thankful to get out of this place as of November. Made this video during my 3 month stay.
Keep voting NDP, LPC, Green, or CPC for more of this
@@djcybercorgi the liberals aren’t any better. I thing it’s just a flaw us Canadians have in general
@@PrincessZoey PPC is the only party that isn't controlled opposition
@@djcybercorgi LOL.
@@iannewman3641 Because the CPC, LPC, and NDP care, right? LMAO
This video was in a Daily Hive article that was in my Google News feed. In my early 20's I did service work in many of these hotels, that was 20 years ago now. The conditions then were just as bad as they are now only there was no social media to expose it. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for documenting this. Yes this isn't the absolute worst SRO footage I've seen, but that's such a low bar to judge it by. It's insane that this sad place is $950. So almost half of a minimum wage salary gets you this squalor?? Not to mention the absolute chaos of walking to and from that building.
I am amazed everything has not been wrecked and that the toilets and showers were clean. As far as Hastings street is concerned, that alone constitutes a miracle! This particular building must be equipped with some form of junkie repellent? On the other hand, to pay $950 for such a crummy dump is insane. Maybe in a sane world a $150 would be more than fair? What blows me away though is that it would cost one half of a minimum wage salary to rent such a shit hole. In essence, this SROs is nothing more than a high priced slum - disgusting.
950 per month is the junkie repellent
The toilets and the showers are clean, and I'm surprised that there is a laundromat.
Cockroaches 🪳 in the shower and washroom.. laundry risk body lice + bed bug potential
@@PrincessZoey Ugh! But don't the lice get cooked by the appliances?
I used to live right near that building. So many crazy memorie of the DTES. I got really lucky and found a studio at English bay that I can actually afford. Vancouver is the greatest.
Absolutely perplexed by this shower. Also nice tech setup, respect
Thats just a step up above prison living. And to pay $950 a month for that it is just insanity.
Prison is better conditions than this
The 6.4% Malt Liquor in the fridge
If you actually only had one bed, it would be okay if not for the bed bugs, and rats in hallways. It could have used a good wipe down on the surfaces and floor. All you would need is a bucket, a good cleanser, and water access using the laundry room sink. How can you live in something you don't keep clean? Oh, and it's better than living on the street. At least temporarily.
Thanks for the video… that’s a lot of $$ for that accommodation…. Did you move there as a student or were you just needing something inexpensive…. Just curious … thx 😌
After a fire in the summertime I couldn’t find a place in time and needed something quick
@@PrincessZoey Hopefully you're in a better situation now :)
This is so heartbreaking. Watching from Pennsylvania. John 3:16 🙏🙏🙏🎚🎚🎚🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing. I know Vancity well and don't blame you for staying there as a temp home. You got through it. Stay safe & good luck. ....Cheers!
Really nice place. You can have a little home office and work for a bank.
It's hard to like Vancouver when knowing places like this exist for this price. I think my future will be elsewhere.
I would have expected at least Pabst Blue Ribbon, or do you pass out the Iron Hornse to be a good neighbor?
Frickin hornse is whatcha need pacific western brewery sponsor me
@@PrincessZoey I need that money to move into the effin brandiz or 139 cordova but will pray for your beer. Im at the acme/sally anne shelter next door to brandiz. I used to prefer being homeless to slum sros but am losing too many bikes and laptops so am going to suck it up.
Honestly, I have seen way worse SRO in Vancouver. Way worse, and once you accept housing, you are off the chart, just to get off the street. This housing is actually in the top ten.
And that's not good haha. If this is top ten, we've got big problems
yoo wtf i used to play on ur csgo and css servers. glad to hear u got out of that place in dtes.
I love the flubba-dub-pump music, which would be more apt when showing a tour of a Maui beach house.
The light switch is 50 plus years old hows the wireing is it even up to code? Scary shit .
I hope you had some good shower shoes. Getting dressed before you get out. Makes perfect sense.
That public toilet situation. That concerns me a lot. I hope you had some toilet bowl cleaner. Along some disinfect spray or disposable wipes.
Was it clean regularly by staff? Or did the entire floor mutually agree on a 'clean it best way you can' type of deal? Where everybody who had jack all to do during the week. Somebody took whatever cleaning stuff they had extra and scrub it out?
If each person did it whenever they had free time and the shower was not occupied. It should be clean enough.
landlady hired people under the table to clean washrooms daily. That is a plus. Flip flops were definitely needed to use the shower!!! this is a private SRO. it was clean enough but then there’s rats in the walls in a hundred year old building and cockroaches under the floor boards it’s hard to maintain a sense of cleanliness.
@@PrincessZoey I am NYC. So I know. 😆😅😂😂😋👍👍
Nice view, clean up though
Looks perfectly fine to me so long as the heat and hot water work ...just keep it clean. Amazing 90 year old light switch; They don't make them quite so durable any more!
Are you for real it revolting. It's ok in my opinion if you have just come out of a stretch in prison or are a meth head
In the future if at one of these places, you have to move bed away from wall, and put bed bug traps (search for youtube video) on all 4 legs of bed or else. At 380 main is a newish SRO with a balcony and own bathroom, about $850/m or income based if on welfare. You could just live with ubc students in Kits with your own room for half the price of Brandiz and no rats.
Yeah didn’t have any BBS this time due to our vigilance and experience living in other rooms. Unfortunately this room was too small to move the beds away from the wall. We had a few bed bug traps but didn’t have any signs in them of any eggs etc
Dam 950 cause its in Vancouver im assuming. Im in the states in Michigan
$950 Canadian = about $690 US.
Can someone explain to me why a review on Google said the following 'DON'T GO TO THE 7th FLOOR ALONE OR WITH ANYONE. AVOID 7TH FLOOR AT ALL COSTS'
Funny thing is there’s only 4 floors at this SRO
@@PrincessZoey lol... Well now the review unfolds. Thanks. Little bit disappointed though.
That shower is straight up prison style
The untidiest room was the bedroom. Too small if two people stayed there.
To be honest... you are just a messy person... you could make this room liveable
Ya Maybe for one person but certainly not two people I'm thinking
I bet they charge an arm & a leg top rest that small space
why do u live here?
Maybe other places are more expensive.
Buying the small laundry detergent container? Buy the big one. Periodically fill up a used bottle. Problem solved.
Omg. That’s worse then what u see even in Cuba. Good lord.
If you don't like it, move. You don't have to live there.
And go where exactly? guess how much rent has jumped up since then?
New Brunswick. It's one of the most affordable places to buy a home in Canada. @@michaelhart5070
You will eat ze bugs. You will live in ze pod.
UK starting up Universal Basic Income this year as a testing ground over 2 years. 1600 pounds monthly. Though the way everything is moving in cost that 1600 pound income will only buy you a few meals and a tent.
OMG, that was a rat right at the start of this video
Average communist house in 2023.
thats bad n i used to live at the columbia hotel
i still live in an SRO but a much nicer once called the HIP-O for $860
It's like Hongkong
Sorry my English is not so good...my coment it’s only” Ha ha ha...😂
I've been to Vancouver a lot of times, and Hastings, particularly east Hastings is so bad. I can't believe that's peoples lives, and it's all because of drugs and alcohol
At least you fit booze and weed in your budget. Priorities
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It's absolutely a disgrace that anyone would have to pay $950 a month for such abominable accommodation. Such places shouldn't even be allowed. I stayed in an SRO near Clark and Hastings for about 2 or 3 weeks back in 2014 or 15, but it was much better and roomier than what I'm seeing in this video. Not fantastic, but definitely better. It had a full fridge, cable TV and the washroom facilities were certainly reasonable. Can't remember if it had a hot plate. Probably not. I think I made a lot of sandwiches. Lol
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First of all lawrys on KD is the best also that banana bong is too cool / love the graffiti outside your window❤
the alcoholic fridge lol
Ya can't afford rat traps but can afford beer. The only reason rats come to your home is open food lying around. Perhaps make your bed and clean would help. Don't cry for me big Weiner they kept their promise they put a warm roof over your head with electricity . You forgot to clean and why shoot a video of how you can't even make a bed. Sorry maid service isn't included. Move back home to your mommy till you grow up.
It's like one pack of drinks.. I'd need it if I lived there lol
@@benm3382 its the type of liqour thats mostly whats alcoholic lol
Canadian money confuses me.
With a roomate, too😖😝
And ??? I lived in an SRO about half the size of the room shown at the beginning of this video for 7 years didn't even have a television it is what it is. MAN UP
C'est très simple ... mais ni bien rangé ni bien entretenu ! Et ça c'est une affaire de personne, pas une affaire d'argent.
Ugh the music made me stop watching im sorry.
The UA-cam music library lol luckily there’s a mute button
The result of Vancouver run by conservative NPA city councillors the past 4 years. Majority of those who were making decisions in city hall belonged to the NPA party, which is run by far right conservative executives. They weren’t focus on any type of below market housing or getting affordable housing built, they were only interested in approving zoning for luxury developers in exchange for millions of dollars in amenities for rich neighbourhoods. Last year alone they brought in $420M from zoning deals with luxury developers. And the city spent $5B on social services where the majority went towards paying staff and giving them bonuses and benefits rather than getting housing built. Also the result of organizations like OPS putting all their nasty drug enabling facilities in the same vicinity of the SROs and homeless shelters causing the SROs to be overrun by drug addicts and dealers. This is what happens when “advocates” advocate for enabling drug addicts to take over streets with tents and advocate for them to be given housing without having to get into rehab and off drugs first. Also the result of rich snobs in other neighbourhoods petitioning against supportive housing being built in “their” neighbourhoods, such as the petition to stop supportive housing from being built by the next Arbutus skytrain station and in Kitsilano.
Hm that's interesting considering the past 4 years the council was split between npa and candidates from3 other parties that all lean left. And then there was the mayor who was a previous ndp mp, so I would say catagorizing as a majority conservative council is false.
@@frankieandrews9431 funny how people come up with their own "facts" and that it's always from folks that believe liberals will help anyone but themselves.
So your take is that a conservative council, with the collaboration of very liberal advocates, created this situation intentionally? So what's the answer, SROs in Kit's, and an absolute crackdown on street drugs?
Vancouver has been screwed up for more than four years