Homelessness in U.S. reaches a record high, federal report finds
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2023
- A record number of people in the United States are unhoused, according to newly-released federal data. The report found that more than 653,000 were experiencing homelessness, a 12 percent population increase since last year. NBC News’ Dana Griffin reports.
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Billions for foreign aid, Billions in defense spending, none for our necessities, taxation with nothing in return
Money for WAR not the Poor! US "democracy" at work!
Well said friend 👍
There are already billions of dollars going toward our necessities. The majority of the federal budget is entitlements.
@@WhatIsThis-zq4hkand they still haven’t accomplished nothing in fact every time that i hear governor newsome talking about investing billions of dollars in the problem gets worse
Do you want more government housing?
Money for corrupt overseas governments, but they refuse to take care of our own in desperate need. Absolutely heartbreaking 💔😞
That's so true.
@@samanthahill9367what true about this?
@@jahjoekaThe statement that you commented under.
@@jahjoekado people like you live for playing devil's advocate? For absolutely ZERO reason at all?
FAKE NEWS ! Europe send same amount of amount of money to ukraine and have far less homeless people. Why ? Because European laws for owner don't allow them to increase rents or do what they want. Put some regulations on owner and you'll see homellessness will decrease. Americans always cry when they see homeless people in their streets but they do nothing for change their laws. PATHETIC !
There are way more homeless people than that.
Exactly. I live in my car and go to work everyday. I am not alone, many of us aren't counted, because we do our best to blend in and not let people know we are homeless...
@@ilovemytribehang in there ❤️ you're brave and amazing 👍
@@stacyjaye6350 Thank you. I appreciate the kind words...
@@ilovemytribe Yes I have never seen anything like this before in my life except for on tv! I’m in the southeast and if u go out late at night there are FAMILIES sleeping in Walmart parking lot in their cars more than 20 cars per Walmart that I drive by. The band ones buildings have ppl with blanketets lined up sleeping around them! When the sun comes up all of the cars and people are gone! Then at night they are back again! I’ve seen them getting dressed for school and work in the bathrooms! At the gas station! They blend in. You would never know they were homeless. They still work!
@@mdm032LOL 20%. There are basically none in rural America (18% or population) and rarely ever any in small towns or suburbs (50%), which would mean the cities would have to be close to 50% homeless to make your fake 20% number work.
The cost of every single item that qualifies as a basic need has exploded since 2000. People cannot afford RENT, FOOD or a VEHICLE to get to a job. Healthcare costs, car insurance, groceries, gasoline ~ it's really a dystopian society, just few want to admit that.
The collapse of our society started sometime ago. Now the acceleration starts. Within a decade, the numbers will keep doubling until the entire system is overwhelmed. Say hello to the end.
Dystopian like Blade Runner heh... ya
I deliver pizza 35 hours a week and own a new car and a house………..maybe people are living beyond their means and not budgeting their pay.
@@windmillin-in-the-dirt2489largely depends on where you are champ
Yeah that’s not happening in California.
For the last many decades, we’ve been treating houses as investments rather than as homes for people. What did we expect? This had to happen.
There are people who buy second homes for investment purposes
Seriously. I was fortunate to buy a house but it was 500k and built in the 1940s. 1000 Sq ft. And they're removing a chunk of the front yard to install a sidewalk, which we were unaware of
All the retirees are doing it including a lot of people close to me. They're buying up all the properties and renting them out.
thanks to "uncontrolled" capitalism, there is profit needed to be added in first to everything people need for their existence, and the profit comes first. can't afford to pay others their profit, then you dont get to exist...
Socialism will prevail. Capitalism is doomed.
"A growing problem that could take decades to fix." Well, if its a growing problem, then we aren't headed toward fixing it at all. Maybe "decades to start caring about and taking the situation seriously," would be more accurate here.
Tragic end to the once enjoyable world
Its like when they started adding mystery boxes to every mobile game
It wont be decades it will be a decade at most if the government don’t start controlling home prices or homelessness start creeping up to average Americans
The only people who could fix this are the rich. If there was a way they could profit from fixing homelessness they'd do it.
So long as housing is viewed as a commodity for profit in America homelessness will continue to get worse.
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Money for WAR Not the Poor!
Blackrock and other big corps have taken over real estate. Greed, profits. Families can't compete on bids.
Rice is a for-profit commodity that is abundant and cheap. Strict zoning laws are the source of the housing shortage and high prices. Remove profit, and the entire incentive for building housing is removed and the supply shortage is made worse.
Well houses do go up in value and this is what attracts investors
Do not kid yourself, ALL BY DESIGN!!
Typical America spent $1.7 Trillion on multiple failed F-35 jets that could have housed ALL the US homeless 29 times over.
The funniest 100-million-dollar F-35 mishap was the one that fell off the bow of a huge US carrier into the South China sea.
Asking the public to find another 100-million-dollar F-35 mishap. Hey, you guys, seen our jet? Haha. Only in America.
Think of what we could have done with the Ukraine money.
@@dogegamer3288 Or the Israel money
yeah now look at what has been spent on "fusion energy", its always 20 years away.
"But, but, but giving everyone a couple of flimsy stimulus check caused all of this inflation." 🙄😏
@@richardjohnson8009 Yes, but fusion energy seems to finally be making real progress, after 55 years of research.
the rich and the poor, thats all that will be left of this disaster.
How about not allowing property monopolies? Huge corporations buying up property. No average family can compete against a corporation.
Our government is owned by corporations. They are just puppets getting paid to do what is in the best interest for their profits. They want Dems and Republicans fighting each other to keep the focus off of their corrupt ways. Both parties are corrupt. We need to wake up, stick together and fight the corruption, not each other.
Housing is not scarce because corporations buy them. Corporations buy them because they are scarce. The only way to reduce prices is to increase supply and relax our strict zoning laws that keep supply low. This removes the incentive to speculate on them.
@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk you don’t see corporations buying properties and taking away opportunities of affordable housing as a major contributing factor in all of this? You’re right, but corporations should not be allowed to profit off of housing either. There needs to be a limit to greed.
Taxe the bloody churches and cults
I vote for you!
We are a 6 figure income couple and had very little saved and not much cash lying around the preverbal".
'...don't have $500 for an
emergency" that was us. The big thing was debt all kinds of it, cars mortgage (although our home isn't a high price one), student loans for our kids, and of course credit cards.
One day we just got sick of being broke and went total scorched earth and became frugal overnight. Paid it all off, it took almost 5 years but now we have no debt and this year our savings rate is 50% on basically the same income that had us perpetually broke. So for us it is mainly staying out of debt and watching our spending, at first it was a real effort to save in our HISA and 401Ks but now it's actually fun watching our money grow. No car or vacation or neighborhood is worth being broke or financially unstable.
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It's unfortunate but this issue is not only going to destroy new york but the entire United States
The crisis in NYC is due to uncontrolled immigration. They were actually doing an excellent job housing their homeless before this open border policy and waves of migrants.
Might be for the best if you think about it. Everything is way too expensive. There's eventually going to be a breaking point..
It is about time. All of reality will learn this fate.
Well, good, it's a failed state that just hasn't realized it yet.
If everyone is homeless then nobody will really be homeless.
They should:
1. Stop sending our own money to help other countries. Prioritize our citizens first
2. Secure the border amd deport those who are already here illegally. Prioritize our citizens first.
3. Increase minimum wage. Prioritize our citizens first. How can you provide for your family at 15/hr in New York?
Maybe don't have a family if you are relying on a $15/hr income. You know, just a thought. Get your finances in order and then have babies, like a responsible adult.
So you want more government spending? We spend 4 trillion a year on entitlements and 800 billion for military. We need to stop wasting money in America and start building government homes.
@@jahjoeka Or perhaps the government could stop spending on things that are not helpful to us. Then prices would go down, and people could afford a place for 15/hr like they used to be able to.
@@jahjoeka The government does lmt build homes, well they do but it's taxpayers money. Why should my taxes go to give freeloaders a roof over their head?
That's what you get when you try to become a world police
Working and homeless! The new slogan. It's not always drug addiction that leads to this. We NEED to stop this stereotype. Cost of living, especially rent is far outpacing wages which are not even remotely keeping up.. For people with no roommates or family to move in with and not making more than 75K, it's rough out there.
Most times it amazes me greatly how I moved from an average lifestyle to earning over $63k per month, Utter shock is the word. I have understood a lot in the past few years that there are lots of opportunities in the financial market. The only thing is to know where to invest.
@@Hannahpine I keep wondering how people earn money in financial markets, i tried trading bitcoin on my own made a huge loss and now I'm scared of investing more..
@@Florencecoxx That won't bother you if you trade with a professional like *Mr Gary Mason Brooks* my financial adviser. I found him on a CNBC interview where he was featured and reached out to him afterwards. He has since provide entry and exit points on the securities I focus on. I basically follow his trade pattern and haven’t regretted doing so.
@@Hannahpine You allow people to trade for you? that's interesting, How can I be part of this project I earnestly hope to build a strong financial future I'm interested to take part, I would love to learn, hope it’s safe..?
@@sheilajensen This is the Fourth time I'm seeing someone talking about Mr Gary as there are lot of testimonies about him on Facebook, do you know him ? if yes , did you invest with him?
Low wages and out of control housing costs plus inflation on everything. It is only going to worsen.
Yup corporate greed and real estate greed is the root cause of all of this. Yet the government keeps saying our economy is good lol
Low wages can help issue, but high costs is the real problem. Too many group investment buyers and housing inventory is small. Lowering interest rates might make problem worse.
@@sampleoffers1978bunch of 🗑️ drug addicts who make bad decisions and get a free tent is the problem
Money for WAR not the poor!
More US states need to pass law banning foreign nationals from buying any US properties (houses & lands)
But yet we give billions in aid to foreign countries.
America :
Solve homelessness, healthcare access, hygiene, borders, education quality, public spaces PROBLEMS ❌
Give billions of tax dollars to Israel ✅
@@doudi0101and then get invaded because with out a military that’s what would happen
Instead of sending money to Isreal or Ukraine, the US government needs to help their citizens, especially this is part of the taxpayers' money. They need to stop the corporate from hoarding the housing for the corporates' profit.
meanwhile we're putting migrants up in 4 star hotels and giving them free phones, healthcare, clothing, food etc
Why? they are not “homeless” they are addicts. Who choose this. Can tell your a ignorant democrat.
Homeless people is sad and a lot needs to be done, but people are responsible for there own drug habits.
Not all if it is because of substance abuse i but if you are a drug addict and your depressed because you are hooked or can’t get fix these are issues caused buy choices you made, and when you except responsibility for that and only then can real help be given.
Stop funding illegal immigrants too
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
Scam become tycoon , drugdealer become druglord,
It isn't the homelessness that's so sad it's the hopelessness 💔 and despair
No. The Money is for WAR not the poor! # democracy, # Merica.
It’s all 3
Either way it is beautiful. I love this. 😂
Money for ukraine and israel
None of the news people ever mention the origins of the problem, we stopped building low income housing in 1981, one of the major cuts of that first Reagan tax cut, the other biggies were cuts to the state colleges, increasing tuition and the need for all those privatized student loans.
The other major cut was to federal funds for health care distributed by each county, causing all the county hospitals to close and ended the free well baby care program except for WIC.
Precisely, never on CNN or Fox.. both channels are busy dividing America. All the cartoons in Fox, talk and talk out of nothing. The same things everyday, idiots are listening cheering for Trump or Biden. These two are the worst Presidents of America.
But they increase our property tax to build apartments for homeless. It’s called HHH. FOR MIRE THEN 6 years they are collecting that money but haven’t seen any Appartement build. MF GARCCETTI POCKETED ALK THE BILLIONS THAT WE PAYED FROM OUR PROPERTY TAX. HOW MUCH ARE WE SUPPOSED TO PAY TO HELP THEM WHEN THEY DONT HELP THEMSELVES.
The wealth gap since Reagonomics has increased exponentially, and competition in the market has decreased dramatically (every industry is dominated by oligopolies). This is the end result of capitalism without regulation
@@jennifermarie3158 With 8 years of Obama, Clinton and now this mess. Yeah, it is all Reagan's fault.
@@jennifermarie3158 Yes, that was the purpose, disenfranchise the working class/middle class and increase the power of the monopolizers.
Real Estate people prioritizing the rich. And nobody else.
Spend less on your drug addiction is probably wise
@@JRock_B " I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people. "
@@JRock_BNot everyone who’s homeless is an addict…
Ise your brain, not blame others 🎉
We give billions of dollars to fund the wars yet our government doesn't have money to provide shelter for this people
Money for WAR Not The Poor!
Bidenomics in action.
Shelters require you to be clean and sober, well atleast sober. These people don't want to be those things.
@@lexdunmon7345 dude this isn't a Biden problem lol
No, destroying America is as easy as draining all the funds out of Washington D.C. by foreign operatives acting as looters embezzling all the taxes as weapons and ammo for wars all over the world, while your own citizens rot as homeless starving refugees. SLAVA Warmongers !
But you Americans ? You are helpless, because your politicians are all criminals part of the cartel... Tax and Spend until nothing is left. Nothing.
Still wonder how some people think this is the best country in the world
Gawd bless Murica 🤓🖕
@@firstlast8258 god clearly didn’t bless it enough
@@firstlast8258 y’all need to pray more it needs tons of blessings
@@Neyobe speak for yourself 🤡🖕
Talked with somebody who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She said last year, her rent was $600/month.
This year, they increased it to $1500/month.
And that's somebody with a Middle Class paycheck. If a person is at the very bottom of society: They don't even have a chance.
$1,500 a month? I wish that was the case here on the west coast. It’s more like $2,500 for a 1 bedroom
That's worse than tampa. 600 becomes 900 in low income areas and 2000 in regular middle class becomes 3500+. All the money go towards rent at this point.
No landlord can survive on $600 rent without letting the unit fall apart and become infested with roaches.
The Price is impossible. How could it have come to this!
When even China has socialized healthcare and education, the top 5 in the world...the USA has no business criticizing others when we dont even have universal healthcare.
Let's see how many houses wallstreet / hedgefunds have that they're renting to people at insane price. by 2030, 40% of single family houses will be owned by investors to rent. I dont blame some people giving up.
Housing is not the issue. It's addiction and mental illness.
@@thejuicerr >housing is not the issue
Oh so housing is not the issue with people that don't have...housing....Please be a troll.
Obnoxious take. 40% of single family homes will not be sold to investors. Don't take a linear trend and blow it out.
The issue is a lost decade of single family home construction as a remnant of the Great Recession and almost 4 decades of no meaningful multi-family high density housing being built.
It'll take a decade or two for it to be sorted out without serious government intervention that is going to leave current homeowners underwater--which means the government will do nothing to protect current homeowners.
Been there. Out bidded on every home we tried to get 10 years ago. Ended up not being private parties that was buying up the homes. Corporations. Our agent told us.
@@norcaljim8535 10 years ago was a great time to purchase a house. That house has now appreciated 5x
And record stocks. It's not a homeless problem, it's a housing issue and corporate greed. Homeless people aren't a problem, the society and social service infrastructure that allows them to be is.
Zoning laws limit housing supply, not corporations. Developers create new housing to meet demand. When they are restricted from doing so, then prices rise. How expensive do you think iPhones would be if the government only allowed Apple to make 10,000 per year? They would be outrageously expensive, and it would not be the fault of Apple's greed. That's basically the state of the housing market.
Government should be controlling/providing the housing not corporations
@@brendanodowd4849 Stockholm, Sweden does this. You know what the result is? A crippling housing shortage and a waitlist that is 10 years long. That is not a solution. The best solution is to remove all the ridiculous zoning laws and allow housing to be built to meet demand. That's what Tokyo did and it's basically the only major city in the world with affordable housing ua-cam.com/video/geex7KY3S7c/v-deo.html
No it's a drug problem.
Affordable homes & universal healthcare would go a long way in helping this issue.
Bam ! Right on. The solutions are out there, but not being picked up because they threaten the profit margins of vested interests......
I cried during my visit to L.A. especially when turned onto skid row😢. I'd watched a few invisible people videos and knew what it was like there, but seeing it in person was a very different feeling
When you policies cause the effect and you refuse to change you opinions, it creates cognitive dissonance.
Crying isn't a practical solution.
I hope you made some 4k 30 fps footage and uploaded it to TikTok and UA-cam, you can't let this incredible opportunity pass!
You cried? S.M.H.
@IIISentorIII I don't like tik tok at all I was trying to find the homeless veterans organizations I researched before I got to LA but they were closed. I was to busy focusing on how to help during my short stay
@Meditations2024 crying is a natural emotion.
Even in the poorest parts of Mexico I don't see homeless like I see in the US. Almost everyone has a place to live and basic food/clothing needs met. Even the super poor are not lacking a place to lay their head at night. Of course the traditional family is still very much alive and well there and that's the big difference.
Same thing in China, visited Beijing and not a single tent in sight. They have so many apartments there aren't enough people to fill them. Meanwhile homebuilders in the US are dragging their feet. Still I generally prefer the quality of US construction over China's. Some of these newer apartments I've seen are starting to change that though.
@@SuperGGnoREyou do realize that many of those companies building in China filed for bankruptcy. They are building cheap apartments and taking years to complete them. Many Chinese put their whole savings into buying an apartment to end up in unfinished tofu dredge apartments. I’ll live in a Hutong in Beijing before an apartment building.
@@SuperGGnoREAn apartment building just collapsed in Brooklyn New York.
And Mexico isn't even a first world country unlike the US, not taking care of your own citizens is shameful.
Yea because when Mexico has to many people they can send a lot to the US.
Is NBC finally owning up to the truth?
I doubt it.
But the government has plenty of money and resources to send to other countries to help them
Joe isn’t getting re-elected. A lot of Americans hate Trump but they love money more.
Inflation will be the key issue.
The US could fix this tomorrow. We just choose not to.
These people could fix their lives tomorrow. But they chose not too.
Speak for yourself 🤓🖕
@@abingham3747
America :
Solve homelessness, healthcare access, hygiene, borders, education quality, public spaces PROBLEMS ❌
Give billions of tax dollars to Israel ✅
"Homelessness in U.S. reaches a record high, federal report finds", but let's send billions of dollars to other countries first, before one dime goes to the homelessness issue(s) in the USA...
As a tourist in Los Angeles, you must pay a city tax, tourist tax, sales tax, resort tax, and I think one other tax... stop the ''resort tax'' bs and start a homelessness tax, since there isn't enough money to fund world crisis' and help other fellow countrymen and women...
Shut up, the US spends billions on affordable housing and homeless.
Its almost like charging thousands a month for even trash tier apartments is a bad idea.
I miss the day's you could buy a home from the Sears catalog for $699 while working as a clerk.
That was the 1950s...the peak economy in US history...we will never see it again. I recommend going to Asia or UAE...that is where the future is.
how old are you
the 1880s were good times boy howdy
$699 was a lot of money back then
High rent and drug addiction drive a lot of this. Drug addiction can be treated, unaffordable high rent is not treatable. Cost too much to live in these places.
Let's not forget mental health.
So move to a more affordable city?
@@thejuicerr "Moving" is not that simple - a million things you gotta do.
@paulsawczyc5019 You don't and never will own a "million things". You are being melodramatic.
Increasing income inequality over the past 40-50 years and obscene tax cuts for the richest and corporations.
But let’s keep sending billions to Ukraine
Israel too
Zelensky will not agree😅
America :
Solve homelessness, healthcare access, hygiene, borders, education quality, public spaces PROBLEMS ❌
Give billions of tax dollars to Israel ✅
@@doudi0101 pretty much!
Politicians in all these cities with overwhelming homeless could careless. In fact Politicians are the biggest problem.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Unless it's voting time 🤓🖕
@@firstlast8258 Or a Chinese president is coming to town then they all disappear.
this shouldn't even be something municipalities should have to face on their own. a disaster of this magnitude is SYSTEMIC in nature, and thus it should really be the role of the Federal & State Governments to step in and tackle it. Some little city..... there's no way.
I work trying to help the homeless . Instead of focusing on the chronically homeless, we should focus on the recently homeless. The resources that are needed to help one chronically homeless, you could help 10 people. And 9 time out of 10 the chronically homeless will still lose housing.
Sensible advice driven from experience.
They don't want help ! They don't want to be rehabilitated !
Makes perfect sense, so many hard working people are a paycheck or 2 away from being homeless. Those are the people who fall on hard times that want every resource of help to get them back on their feet. While others want everything handed to them for free.
Yes about the time they sent the first 80 billion dollars to Ukraine, I almost lost everything and was very close to living out of my car. Only $5,000 of that 80 billion would have been a significant help getting me back on my feet.
@@MarieAntoinette1938_tmclet them eat cake? Heartless.
Meanwhile the stock market is just a few points below record highs. Apple is valued at over 3 trillion dollars.
Money for WAR Not the Poor!
Not exactly shocking, income inequality is at an all time high as well. Housing is extortionate, entry level pay is pathetic.
Landlords raised the rents way to high they should have been stopped
Rent Control, true, is a piece of the puzzle
Its even Worse in Canada.
This will never be fixed
have faith, there's hope. and there's rent control, and public housing that could be implemented to mitigate it in the future.
register and VOTE (vote.gov) Progressive next election.
We have no business sending another nickle to anyone until this is dealt with.
I feel bad for people in other countries but we need to take care of our own country and people first!
I got a friend the owns ten houses he rents out. He’s not a corporation but he’s definitely greedy.
I am so tired of sick azz media. Corporate media is worth less.
there was a point many decades ago when people with menial jobs could buy a house and the wife stay at home with the kids or at least be in an apartment. instead we have $3 lettuce.
Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and even Obama led us down the neolib and neocon path to ruin. Prioritizing foreign interventionism, very CO$TLY wars bankrupted us. Meanwhile they cut the safety net and squeezed the state on domestic priorities, privatized pretty much everything. No surprise this is what we've gotten. And all we have are so-called "fringe" candidates like RFK & Marianne Williamson bringing this issue to the forefront. But the 2 dominant parties' anointed candidates are mum on the issue because of vested interests.
On average even though real estate is down a tiny bit, it's overall still more than 50% higher than precovid 2019. While hourly wage is up 9% or less (some no change). So put it to perfective if you salary is $ 3000, 9% up is only $ 3270 and if your rent was 1000 it's now 1500 or put it this way if your rent was 2000 now it's 3000.
Right now, 65% of Americans say that they occasionally live paycheck to paycheck. At the same time 56% of Americans could not pull $1000 from savings in an emergency. The numbers have been within these percentages for years before anyone blames one administration or another.
Yeah but everything is worse under the Biden inflation. Look at how much everything costs….
That inflation spike though
Work harder and don’t be a drug addict rule #1
Most likely more than 65% on the paycheck to paycheck. Most Americans are paying more on everything. Shelter, bills, food, fuel, medical, the list keeps going. Taxes keep rising. Insurance wanting more $ every year.
@@JRock_B " I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people. " - Mark Baum
In Austin, it’s at a record high too. Our City Council has tried hosting first initiatives for years and it’s failed. The homeless get temporary housing at motels and shelters that Austin turns into homeless centers. Most of the homeless can’t get or keep a job because they have drug and alcohol issues, and behavioral problems.
And many have mental illness.
Austin is essentially Texas’ version of Oakland/San Francisco I hear
@@sbalman And drug abuse!
But yet our money goes to EV which actually does NOTHING to conserve ANYTHING and spending millions on illegal immigrants. Democrats you have changed and American Citizens are SICK of your BS!!!
If I visit Austin, where can I go to get a free motel?
We need hundreds of thousands of additional affordable housing units. Period. It’s just that simple.
Actually we are short by MILLIONS of housing units.
Yes AND No. Why? Because it's also about "Trust-Busting" in a way too. Let's say there are just a handful of huge conglomerates who are building it all. Or, even let's say there's millions of townhomes built....... but they're mostly for rent, hardly any for sale.
So yes to it being a supply side issue. Yet, has to be done SMARTLY, mandating variety of companies, rejecting monopolization of market, and also mandating that smaller cheaper and FOR SALE is a high percentage of new builds.
Many workers can't afford the basic costs even while working. The Government can claim lowering inflation but common prices don't show it.
If your not one paycheck away from this be thankful because those folks aren’t even being counted. It’s homelessness not who’s on the verge of becoming homeless. Smh we’ve got to do something to fix this.
Don’t be a drug addict and make better decisions, but your probably a give them a free house and a check guy
Stop voting Blue. You don't see rampant homeless issues in Red states.
Or how about I print out some money for you... or 20 trillion@@JRock_B
"we’ve got to do something" yea right YOU do something 🤣
@@JRock_B Most drug abusers are housed people. All homeless people are NOT drug addicts or alcoholics. Some BECAME addicts/ alcoholics AFTER they became unhoused also.
What is going on with our society that so many people have ended up homeless? It's like you never know who it may happen to.
US homes have reached a record high!
I mean I'm a single mom i work 5 days in a row every week and still my check is only $575-$650 and I owe $600 to rent on that check then in 2 weeks I owe $600 to daycare, the extra $50 (maximum on a good check) isn't nothing except a pack of diapers,wipes,and $15 of gas each week which I end up running out having ro count change just to get to work. I still have a $300 utility bill, plus we need food,clothes,and laundry soap and dish soap,toilet paper, deodorant, etc. I cant even afford to get car insurance which I got a ticket for and now can't get my plates renewed bc I don't have car insurance so I'm driving on suspended plates w no insurance but can't afford it literally! It's sad! This is no way to live!!
I will Never understand how our Government thinks they can spend Billions of dollars to help other Countries when our very own people are past sufferring in every state of the USA. This is a sad situation for all and we are Praying for better.
It's so weird that US has a large land area, enough resources for housing, can produce cheap food, provide affordable education but it's like no one wants to do anything.
Not true. You are very active in building state of the art military assets and funding foreign wars.
@@kamsunleong6648 Nonsense answer, US is busy in many things but I was very particular about areas that nothing's really been done about even if the country's capable of it. And who are you referring to when you say 'YOU are very active'?
There was a time when I was a youth you could quit your job and start another in an hour or the next day! Till free trade came , then all the large manufacturing industries packed up and moved to China, Mexico, India etc. all to pay poor wages and sell the product they built back to America where homelessness started ! Greed for the almighty dollar from the rich . Buy your Buick , built and shipped from China, buy your towels and Nike shoes from under payed workers in a foreign country that gives you no cost relief. Pure greed !! Buy from your own country , if it isn’t made and produced here boycott it!
People will buy where they can get the best deal, if local manufacturers want to sell their stuff to locals , then they can make it less expensive.
zelensky needs more boats and Luxury homes , You need to pay more Taxes.
Companies no longer care to train new hires. People are struggling. The stock market doesn’t show our economic reality.
Heartbreaking.
It created by the monopoly capitalists liberals bourgeoisies ruling class..where are united nation members in New york to stop this genocide against poor people's,this genocide has been going on for 280 years by this terroristic capitalists libreals american regime..
Surprised?
I’d hate for anybody to not make bad decisions and keep a job, totally heartbreaking
All by design. You wonder why government stop building homes? To make landlords rich.
Landlords are getting richer and richer. It’s hard ti find anything less than 1,000 a month these days. When I was at my very low I rented a couch for 400$ per month and the landlord was very good to me. You have to start from somewhere and I believe the people who are struggling the most are the ones who can’t get a break. My best advise to pray and have hope. God will open doors.
I prayed for a home ….nothing. So I started praying for enlightenment to figure out house to get a home… nothing. Meanwhile, I watched all my friends with wealthy families get homes. Must be nice .
Money For WAR Not the poor. US democracy!
@@charleslavoie5402 Your biggest mistake is comparing yourself to other people. You will never accumulate wealth with that type of mindset. I’m sure there are a bunch of people who are doing better than me, but I don’t sit and dwell on it, every day the effort you put it in will contribute to your life nobody else’s
No comparison between the rich and poor.
I realized that a long time ago. But thanks for the kinds words of advice.
Wish you the best.
@@REALTOR_MIYeah but many people get stuff handed to them for free and generational wealth. Your argument is only half true
Your politicians and humanitarians would rather prioritize migrants.
Money for WAR Not the poor.
I know for a fact that my house is worth 3X what I paid for it 18 years ago. We couldn’t afford our house we live in if we bought it today!!!
With the high cost of living the homeless may be better off than we who have a job and a home
Zelensky needs more Boats and Luxury Homes, you need to pay more Tax and send that money to Israel where their Citizens get free health care paid for by your money!
Yep, why work yourself to death to have an apartment you can never enjoy with time off? Or never have any privacy because you have to have roommates?
Bingo. Best way to go is live off Tax payer benefits in a small room with all the free time in the world
There are a number of organizations and initiatives working to address the issue of homelessness, but more needs to be done to provide adequate support and resources to those in need.
This includes increasing access to affordable housing, expanding rental assistance programs, and providing mental health and addiction treatment services.
We spend billions on programs when we need to spend billions on building new apartments and homes.
@@jahjoeka You're absolutely right. There's often a stark contrast between the resources allocated to various social programs and the actual needs of communities, specifically in regards to housing affordability and availability.
Those organizations are poorly run and often are filled with incompetent diversity hires. Skid Row Housing Trust for example just went out of business dur to their incompetence and bad building practices. We need transparency with these organizations and we need to get rid of the wokeness within them as well
To solve the problem of homelessness, Americans need to stop interfering in the affairs of other countries and start solving their own problems. Millions of people die every day around the world because of you: in Syria, in the Gaza Strip, in Libya, in the Donbas. You won't even find these countries on the map, the inhabitants of these countries haven't done anything wrong to you, but your missiles are killing them. At the same time, you can't even solve your own problems. You destroy the homeless themselves and other people's homes
keep up with the delusions. We as Americans simply don't care. It hurts to say that, but we refused to care enough to help.
The end of Rome
Huh
This is what happens when you instruct the Fed not to cut rates, and while predatory realtors convince people to buy homes at mortgage rates that outpace inflation leading to inevitable foreclosure.
You can't house illegals while Americans are homeless.
Mayor Adams needs help.
This is a National issue.
Protect our borders. That's it.
Are you intellectually disabled? That isn't the real issue. The real issue is corporate greed and our government using our hard earned money to fund wars instead of giving it back to the people.
They can & do house illegals, while working & disabled Americans along with disabled American Veterans are homeless. It’s not right but is the reality.
Time for Federal Processing Centers to deal with homeless, buggers, etc. This is beyond States.
If you want to survive try to get in Federal Prison not State or County go for the high quality federal government prisons.
We went from living normal to homeless because everything is so expensive
Greed is causing the problem
Finally NBC showed real picture of this problem in CA
This problem will never be fixed it's just going to grow.
have faith, there's hope. and there's rent control, and public housing that could be implemented to mitigate it in the future.
@@TwinFalls88 I doubt it. They need to finance these wars and give money to IsraheeII.
@@PyroShields
America has self-corrected in the past, and it can do so going forward. But takes electoral engagement i.e. VOTING and educating for sure !
@@TwinFalls88 You can vote anyway you like but the problem is not going to get fixed right away. Maybe in years the problem will mitigate but not go away.
@@PyroShields
true. that's life sometimes. just got to do the best you can do to get by and keep happy, as well as what you can do to raise the awareness of issues and actions of people to mobilize for elections
In New York and Washington DC is very high
Don’t even talk about California…. Out of control
Money for WAR Not your Poor.
And how many countries are getting financial aid with there hands out😡☮️
One of the major problems is we wait till people are homeless, living in a tent, or worse, till we decide to help them. Lack of affordable housing and greedflation are the major issues making the homeless problem spiral out of control. We could help every single homeless person, and there would still be a ton more people to take their place because we have not fixed the root issues causing the problem. Our politicians would rather throw tens of billions of dollars at "fixing" the homeless problem instead of making life more affordable for all of us by creating more affordable housing and taking all of these corporations to task for jacking up their prices due to "inflation" but then posting record profits. I saw this happening almost thirty years ago in Santa Monica, a city with overpriced housing and tons of homeless people. Now, this issue has spread throughout Los Angeles. The real issues are not hard to figure out; they just aren't dealt with because then it would mean that our elected politicians would have to bite the hand that feeds them.
THIS!
I live in L.A. who is giving them the tents?
This is ridiculous the federal government won't do anything, to help this people but yet they want their taxes paid,by the citizens, if the math is done right 12% as in homeless people times a monthly salary of minimum $2000 a month that's equals, a small town to support it self of that same amount of 600,000 citizens. So the federal government is loosing big time on it's taxes. I hope one day all this homeless people move to ghosttowns and create their own independent community.
Gee, I wonder why. Everything is going up except people's pay. I'm making the same amount per hour as I did back in 1995 as a Security Officer in Baton Rouge. They wanna pay people $10-$12 per hour to carry a gun and be responsible for what you do with that gun when you can make $14 per hour to fry chicken at Chik-Fil-A. Does this make any sense to ANYONE? I don't even have health insurance because I can't afford anything coming out of my check but taxes. Grocery stores and landlords and insurance companies keep getting raises, when are the people gonna get a significant raise instead of like a yearly raise of only twenty-five cents per hour. I sometimes have to buy groceries with a credit card which will eventually catch up to me because I make less than $15 per hour. You have to choose between living in a ghetto to have a decent reliable vehicle or drive a hooptie than needs constant maintenance to live in a decent area because you can't afford both at the same time. When is someone going to do something about this. You wonder why people are mass shoplifting? Probably to sell the items for extra income just to survive. I don't do this and I certainly don't condone it but I'm starting to see why. It's a way to lash out against the man because no one seems to be raising pay to meet the cost of living. HELLO!
Is that Louisiana state why is a low income state is the citizens wants this from their politicians the people have the power is enough no More corrupt governor
America, the forgotten 😞
Biden and Blinken has the Money Go ask Them!
Unless it's voting time 🤓🖕
Billions for Ukraine but nothing for the homeless.
and bypass congress to boot. Democracy # Merica!
We need people in governement to stand up and do the right thing..Letting the homeless terrorize taxpayers is a huge mistake. When is somebody gonna do the right thing for the people of this country??😔😢
Most countries have a system called “our citizens first” except here. We the people have to do whatever it takes to change that.
The saddest part is once you're homeless, getting back on track becomes much harder especially if you have no job. Without an address, it's harder to get a job and get a bank account.
Plus, there needs to be an avenue for these people to utilize their RIGHT TO VOTE (even without an address).
Possibly over population
Insufficient growth of the economy.
Open borders
Drug and chemical addiction
Toxic governance by corrupt career politicians.
These are the main reasons why this dire situation exists.
Sometimes I wonder, because if I see other countries in the world have the same problem not only in America,
It’s global. Something is going on that no one is talking about. I believe the capitalism systems are falling. It’s why they need immigrants to reboot the system. Fools that will work and not stop the greed.
Yeah. Look to your northern neighbor, There’s a homeless problem there.
@@natedog2304 yes I remember when I was 12 years old, now I'm 74 and they exist it then , they were a couple so we took them home because me and my sister felt sorry for them my mom except them but then later they appreciated and went on their life's, I thought I shared my story. The way the world is going to many disasters, over population growth our earth is capable of holding us up ,sooner or later we are all going to be come homeless, I think.! God's word is coming to pass and I also think in thoughts that are we ever going to run out of fuel, many years of pumping oil out of the earth. Have a good Christmas and a good 2024😊
Corporate greed at an all time high. Go figure.
Government greed and corruption.
Work over time to live in a tent and eat beans and rice
IT'S BAD ENOUGH AS IT IS BUT WHEN YOUNG CHILDREN SLEEP ON THE STREETS, IT CAN'T GET ANY WORSE!!!
The US Government Bombing Children in GAZA. So why your Children Can't sleep on the streets too?
It can and it will.
Build back better. I wonder how many ballots will get dropped off at these tent cities?
The way that things are going, people are going to be forced to live in communal settings more as in sharing a rented house out or living with landlords to attempt to cut the biggest expenses in half. Family too, they will be crammed in and forced to live with others to survive with how things are going. My parents did that when I was a child growing up in the 90s but that was then, this happening right now means the imminent depression is upon us as far as the big shakedown we're expecting. It seems that the only way out of this mess is to live overseas and work remotely since there's no way by the time you get to retirement age as a millennial that what you are making today will cover just how expensive it'll be during your 60s to 90's.
History is laughing at us. What a joke.
And what do you expect when people want to sell? Their house is more than what they even worth in the city of Oxnard it's ranked 7th as being the brokest and the most boringest, but they want to sell their houses overpriced when they're almost 100 years old
HE DID TELL THEM TO COME TO NY. 😂
Merry Christmas
It’s good that they have declared an emergency. All kinds of federal dollars are accessible! Won’t be long now!
Economic inequality has symptoms.