Great vid. This guy didn’t play the victim he works for his money. He appeared to just not be very good at coping with the structure you need to create to live a more usual life. God bless him, he has my respect.
As a genuinely homeless person on several occasions, I have insight into this process and half of what he is saying in accurate, the other half complete twaddle
People who are really depressed often are not able to get through the demands of relating to others & turning up for appointments & filling in forms etc to go through the processes necessary to move on. Also often people who are traumatised after bereavement or having been abused, either by a partner, or parent often cannot cope with being packed into a hostel with others.
@@shaunbradley5253 he made excuses himself. His excuse was he was lazy when living in a house. That he couldn't be bothered to get up on time and go to work on time. Every homeless person as an excuse but if your mental unstable, an alcoholic or drug user the excuse is often understandable.
@@davidvarley1812 you really never listened to my point I work to make a living, anybody using an excuse is lying we don't live in a third world country, the help is there, stop excusing bullshit 👍🙏
@@shaunbradley5253 your missing my point. As a homeless working man I know the reality of the housing crisis in the UK. Selling the Big Issue is not a career choice, nobody chose that option, circumstances force people into it. Why sleep on a thin camping mat in a sleeping bag on a pavement exposed or in a tent where there is potentially human urine, vomit or dead animals and living rodents attacking you, when you can have a flat, a bed and security. When would anyone decide it was better to be outside in the rain, snow and freezing weather with people urinating on them, kicking them or potentially killing them by set fire to their sleeping bag or tent, than in a house or flat? He speaks of others making excuses but he does it himself. The 1824 vagrancy act makes sleeping outside a criminal offence and the 2014 anti social act can be used against rough sleepers. In court the excuse of, Well I'm a lazy individual who can't get out of bed on time for work when I'm living inside, so I'm volunteering to sleep outside and be anti social, is not going to prevent conviction. People should only sleep rough if it's absolutely necessary and if no alternative options are available or the alternative options endanger ones life. In reality he is like me, low on income, as limited savings, if any and can't get housing references, so he's only option is rough sleeping. His argument is an excuse and there when you point out that he's saying other street people make excuses I'm saying so does he but which is worse, the excuses of a drug addict/ alcoholic vagrant or a sobber Big issue seller. The Big Issue wasn't created so people could volunteer to backpack about the UK but to help those whom were homeless or at risk of homelessness help themself back onto their feet.
@@shaunbradley5253 your wrong there is little help out there except for families, menstrual women, the physical or mentally vulnerable or the elderly. If your male under 65 and not in immediate danger there is no help out there. These videos show the visible rough sleepers but I'm a hiden rough sleeper. I'm in part time work and I sleep in a rural location, own a second hand bike to commute to work and wear a suit during the day. I make no excuse for my lifestyle because I never chose it. A pandemic hit, my employer slashed my hours and as an essential worker I worked throughout the pandemic. By the end of the pandemic my savings were used up and then the Ukraine war caused my utility bills to incress, then my rent increased and I lost my flat. As a working homeless man I'm entitled to virtually no assistance. If I stay in sheltered accommodation or a hostel then my fellow residents are likely to steal my phone, wallet or assault me. So I sleep in woodland near a village church. I'll save a little each week and hopefully get a full time job next year and be housed by next winter, if I survive this one. The homeless make excuse because if they didn't, they'd never cope with homelessness. His excuse gives him self respect and physical as well as mental strength, but he uses a excuse like other homeless people.
Most homeless can get or have had accommodation, but they say the loneliness and isolation Is worse than being with their what they say homeless family. This guy is telling it as it is, Top guy
No he is giving his perspective and he's not completely wrong but he is mistaken in parts. Housing is points based and if you have no physical or mental disabilities and are male, your constantly pushed back down the list. However he is right, if you stay clean of drugs, drink and are in work you might survive homelessness.
you are a good interviewer. I can feel that you listen and understand, and are smart enough to understand to ask intelligent questions. Keep up the good work.
I used to sell the Big Issue when I was homeless for many years. Most of the time I was homeless I slept out in a tent in woodland and used to travel into town and to my Big Issue pitch by bicycle. By the way Emmaus are the best homeless hostels where you live and work in their charity shops.
Angus do homeless people get a hostel room for free or do they have to pay? Genuine question. Also I'm sure way back your bentilee? Or I've purchased big issue off you. Either way be safe.
@@destiny8732 No the homeless have to claim housing benefit for a hostel room and pay at least 20 pounds a week service charge. I havent sold the Big Issue for over 2 years now. I last sold it in Balham. I have sold it all over London though. I sold it in Marylebone for a few years and before that on Grays Inn Road. I have got a part time job now. As a cleaner at an office building in Waterloo. Yes I lived in Bentilee from 1987 until 1995.
Fair play mate as long as your happy then that’s all good. I was homeless for 6 1/2 years bouncing from hostel to hostel and have been housed for 4 1/2 years and am in dept already with Thames water, it can be very stressful and would love to live off the grid if I’m honest, keep smiling 👊
Good on you mate... you have my Respect..... What gets me is this country sends millions of ££££ to other country’s for people who need food and shelter what About our own .... this country is notGreat anymore.......
Th last comment regarding notes falling out of pockets really got me for a minute. I don't know the guys past life Good and bad I'm sure. But he seems like a straight op honest guy wtf
No, not all he's saying re homeless hostels, council housing homes waiting lists is all true .. definitely not here in London. We have already lost 6 enormous council estates that were allowed to get dilapidated and run down. Tenants were told that the estate[s] were in need of "regeneration". The respective councils emptied the estate[s] of tenants, they then sold off these estates to developers who tarted up these estates and sold them on to foreign investors or UK investors which were then invariably left empty .. That is the true face of London and other major cities across the UK .... Hostel tenants have at least an 8-10yr waiting for affordable council homes, houses/flats etc .. Affordable housing is now a thing of the past, charities are stretched beyond their limits to help and many just can't cope any more as is the same for councils. Most London boroughs have 20,000 + people on their waiting lists and no affordable housing is being built in London or anywhere in the UK ... Only housing being built here in London now, and is the same for quite some time, are uber rich purchase/rentals/uber expensive holiday letting blocks of flats .. This man is obviously happy living on the streets and hasn't truly looked into the very real housing crisis the UK is going through today ....
Sorry bro you know nothing about none of what you said is what I was speaking about p.s England is bigger than London where like you said is we're all the uber rich live?????
Top bloke. He doesn’t have the sense if entitlement that is the blight of modern western society. And all the haters on here are just trying to put every scenario into neat little boxes, but life isn’t like that.
I watched another video about a young lad 22yrs old. Out of his depth, lost and weeping. I thought he was trying it on, he'll be OK. Last I heard he'd committed suicide.
This is my friend. I became homeless in Bournemouth and met him. Just ask him about the guy who had a friend Robin that came an landed on me an visited me alot after losing someone
Bottom line, in life you have to work for what you want if you want it, if you don't try you'll be homeless forever. in my opinion if the worst case scenario is a 5 year wait, its worth the wait. In that time you can find jobs as hostels count as an address which is usually what you need to get a job. If you really work for what you want and persevere you can and will achieve that goal.
@@TheGingerburger bullshit, if your a victim you will get robbed stand up for yourself, evan if you can't, people will think you can and leave you alone, I take it you was the victim, and that's the problem today we're encouraged to be a victim, @FEhashtag😜🙏🙏
I can correct interviewer I used to see a woman outside supermarket begging and saw her climb into a mercades with a male driver after her begging shift. Also another woman begging who had a mouthful of gold teeth !
Hostels are worse than being on the street and getting a flat isnt easy like he makes out. Wish it waa. Took me 9 yrs on the waiting list and bidding. Only got this place cus i went rehab and a year in dryhouse. Looks like goin prison for a few year and I'll have to do it all over again. Might not bother. Angry as fk.
He says theres mental health help out there? I was waitin in A and E for 14 hrs for the crisis team so i fked off. This blokes one o them, "it didn't happen ta me so it doesn't happen".
i dont like the interviewer, h would keep twisting or trying to use what the man said against him always cutting in middle of sentences. Because he has access to the internet or news made me feel like he "knew better" than the man who's living THAT life you know? man was being serious and trying to explain how to get a flat and how to be "off the street" the way i understand is. you get set to a hostel/ BnB for a year...within that year/18months you are expected to find a job and then pay for your next accomodation, and go on from there. the more settled you get the less support you get etc. Saying most ppl turned it down because if they went indoor they'de have to stop "being homeless" and that the homeless ppl got confortable in their misery and always finding excuses to justify their situation etc. that is how i understood the man, correct me if im wrong**
he clearly has no idea about mental health, Just ask yourself would you give all your personal details for a bed if you had chronic Paranoia? and would you stop your addictions for a hot meal? and if you haven't had mental health problems or addiction how could you possibly know what there on the streets for, sometimes people end up on the streets just because they have a bit to much pride and not willing to work for nothing.
i say different i was homeless for 18mnths and a good few that want a home and cant get one may be different up north but not bham i was in hostels after nearly 2 years could only stay short terrm,and had to move on thats part of the homeless not haveing a full time homes,16yr to 18 yr cant get benifets alot come straight from kids care homes,yes there are folks that dont want a home or stable place to live as well but its not as this guy makes out,allso when you get a flat house ect then you have the problem of finding the cash to furnish it, and try paying gas electric water council tax and cloths food all on £57 a wk good luck on that 1 then there is mental health issues and abused folks they need care and help for meds ect cant see a social services person for over 4 to 8 mnths and a counciller is even longer a full team to check on someone a case worker is ajoke as well ,so get a flat cant handle the bills and lonelyness and no help so go back to the streets
Excellent vid and a great discussion. He was telling the truth, too. As a community volunteer, I worked as a small part of a team that helped the homeless find accomodation, and was directly involved in the rehousing of 21 individuals who had been living rough. Within a year, 17 of them were back on the streets and happy to be there; one of the remaining four, in a comfortable, well appointed bungalow on the estate and in full receipt of all available disability benefits, can still be found daily, wrapped in an old sleeping bag outside the shops begging for change. The help that was there (even in a Labour council area like ours where everything is begrudged and in short supply as far as local people are concerned) was either ignored or abused to the point where it becomes unavailable to those in genuine need.
There are many reasons for homelessness. The main one IMO is our narcissistic society which causes apathy and leads people to say fcuk this fcuk that fcuk you and onto drink or drugs to 'escape'. Just David just sayin' ❤️
hes right about people not wanting accomadation cos they will miss the money they beg for but the british public who give money to the homeless are helping some of them to buy spice,so give food,drink,clothes but not money.
Money in the pocket makes one feel normal it's the small things just going into a supermarket and been able to buy stuff is a good feeling u deluded toss pot
It doesn t matter what a homeless is doing with your money donated to him.Do not judge the other one,why he's drinking or smoking...maybe he had a harsh life and doesn't give a fuck about life.Maybe that cigar is the only friend which is helping him to cope with stress.For example..many years i've been a classical balet dancer ,a responsible citizen.After few health problems which left me pennyless,my gf left me ,my rich family abandoned me and everywhere i go to search something to work,they ve made fun and mocking me saying" go to your ballet Opera,you fucking faggot !" despite i'm not gay.So..today i'm homeless,i dont give a fuck about life,friendship,family or job cause all i've seen in all these years,is the fact that none of these so called"values" are REALLY helping you when you re down,in fact all of them are trying to kill you.Father..do not forgive them,cause they know now what they're doing..
I know a girl who just wants a Sandwich. She hangs around near a food Van hoping someone will buy her one. They rarely dig her out but people walking past often do. I know her. She's an orphan who had zero help after leaving the care system. She's had no guidance and very little education. The lady who runs the nearby corner shop let's get sweep up in exchange for money or food sometimes
I'm on and off street homeless I stay in a tent in the woods been homeless is degrading. To many pretenders faking homelessness to take money it's disgusting
Why is it degrading, because you've been told it is, it is freedom, what about the Indians in the amazon, do you think they feel degraded, mate if you are working for your money why does it matter if you have a house or not? I'll give you a clue you must be a.........?
Hostels in birmingham are terrible places especially if your not an alcoholic or a drug addict or homeless due to being a victim of abuse. More abuse and theft an likely hood of becoming an addict within the facilities. What he's doing is good fairplay to him but some of the things he's saying is damaging to a small amount of homeless people mainly people who are victims of abuse and suffer with paranoia and anxiety whom struggling to ask for help even when not homeless. If you've never suffered from legitimate mental health problems you cannot understand.
yeah this is how it is, I've been homeless and down and out, and most of the homeless, a good 99%, are not genuine, or they just do it for the money, have a house waiting for them at the end of the day or reject the help because they don't want to get clean and kick their drug habits and who can blame them? get high or experience the horror of your shitty life whilst having withdrawal symptoms. blank it all out or face the shitty past that lead you here and all the confusing demons and contradictions that most people are so deep into they can't see them to hash them out and overcome them. anyway rant over, he's right and i know it first hand.
Tasha Harris .... No it's not, you obviously have no idea of the housing crisis, the total lack of affordable housing and the dire shortage/lack of council housing that is not only here in London but also in other major UK cities/towns ... You obviously have no idea full stop ...
@@TrollBenable you can't always function with depression and it is often an environmental factor illness. How you going to recover if you can't get help to better your situation?
Genuine question. Who pays for the hostel? As in videos you see them saying I'm begging and hope I earn enough for a night in a hostel. So which is true. Also if identification is stolen then does this impact the homeless person? To register, to claim benefits etc As when you watch all other videos. The above claims are common all over the world. Another thing I've noticed is no homeless person looks under fed, skin and bone, Malnourished etc. He's spot on. Always been a waiting list for flats, houses etc Enjoyed this interview. I donate to invisible people and now wonder if I should.
There are about 5000 people sleeping rough each night in the UK. That’s actually a small number in the grand scheme of things, but still: one is too many. As I understand it, the hostels are free (I could be wrong) and are usually the first port of call. But spaces are limited. Once you get into the system and are assigned a B&B or room in a council-designated shared property then you have to pay for this (but you get the money given to you in the form of a housing benefit, so it’s effectively free). Living in these venues is seen as highly undesirable. What everyone wants is a flat of their own, but demand far exceeds supply and single white men are at the bottom of the pile for these. Waiting lists can be years-long. Note that “refugees” are put straight to the top of the pile: hence some of the resentment/sense of unfairness. Homelessness is usually associated with mental health issues or substance abuse. Often people forgoe payments for a B&B (from their benefit money), in order to fund their substance abuse. COVID and the housing of tens of thousands of illegal economic migrants arriving in Dover show that the problem can be solved, but for whatever reason, the Government lacks the will.
@@LitNews thanks for the reply. It seems hostels charge so per homeless interviews on UA-cam .. Manchester ones etc Think you're spot on with the migrants coming over on boats being dealt with right away and covid pandemic sorting all homeless quickly. Like you said lack of will I tend to agree but now wonder if it's a combination of government and selective homless people ? Food for thought.
Government funding is good it stops people from eating out Bins and chance to get on your feet and stay off the streets In to housing and back out to work but the housing is hard With council and private landlords the council shames some And help some.
You have to have an address to claim benefits and it takes 9 weeks. I was there briefly after leaving university. By time it was sorted, I had a job. Was very nearly homeless. Will never forgive my grandmother for not lending me money when I knew for a fact she had 3k sat in a drawer in her house. My uncle ended up stealing half of it. Machiavelli said it: ' the Prince who sins against his own house will create a house of sin ' he, unlike me, had no need to steal yet did, unlike me.
the man is for real but he isnt right about the the waiting time when somone does go into a hostal, there are people who have been in hostals over 10 years and also have died in them waiting to be housed weather they have been working in the mean time or been on benefit or disabled or as a oap....he hasnt seen it for him self. ive seen it
This guy is winding people up. There are a sizable minority of people who are homeless who desperately want proper accommodation in an area of their choice. Some don't want to be shipped to another part of the country, perhaps onto a drug ridden estate, other's don't want to be housed with other homeless people who might steal, use drugs and be violent. That doesn't mean they don't want a home. There are so may reasons for homelessness and many do have hopeless substance misuse issues and can't be helped in the conventional sense, but there are those who desperately need a helping hand to get into good quality accommodation and help to find suitable employment.
@@linarez90 you’re not the brightest chap are you? How are you going to tell the person you just watched a video of, that you understand the point he was making and he’s the one misunderstanding it? Silly
@Isaac Harkton. You made a comment and blocked me. Your use of grammar shows your lack of education. You are a Troll, a keyboard warrior, an imbecile without any coherent argument. You need to go to college and grow up, you silly, inexperienced little inadequate.
@@linarez90 what on earth? What are you talking about??? I’ve neither blocked you, made any major grammar mistakes. Evidently you’re a little hurt over some words on the internet to be making up stories and speculating so hard. This is what you like to do, tell people you’ve never met that you know them better than they do? LOL, sort yourself out you nut. And stop crying
Why have you let this man who obvious doesn't know anything about mental health and the real situation about housing talk so much rubbish when you seemed to have better knowledge than him
the problem is that these hostels they get put in your not aloud to do drugs or drink to be aloud to stay there and obviously most homeless people are addicts so they get chucked out maybe they should go around and get these addicts that are on the streets into rehab ino its not that simple and a lot of them don't even want the help
most homeless people are not addicts! What a fucking foolish thing to say. So you saying that the 320K people homeless in the UK are all addicts and has nothing to do with the housing crash of 08 of which the effects are only being felt relatively recently? Such ignorance.
He's very judgemental and condescending to other homeless people. I get the impression he thinks he's a bit better than all of them. I guess that helps him get through the day.
Whatever you ignorant man. I know him very well and he's far from judgemental, he's telling the truth. When he's stood there selling the big issue and making his own money yes he does get pissed off when people with homes sit near him pretending to be homeless and con people out of money
@@stixmanschoice7326 whose to say when someone buys a big issue of you your not gonna use the money for drugs or alcohol 🤣😭😂 either way your living on the streets relying on people's generosity lmao in stead of saying any spare change your just saying big issue lol. Also sounds like you suffer with npd
I agree there are fake beggars etc but just because someone's got clean hands or are sat in the rain with there sleeping bag dosnt mean there not legitimately homeless . This chaps got too much time to think and is obviously not at rock bottom and is on his high horse in my opinion . Its always the ex smokers that hate smoking more than anyone !!!!
Mate I've eaten food off the floor, you want to know my rock bottom try eating half a burger that some one throne on the floor and tell me how that feels x
Personally I don't understand how he doesn't claim benefits yet lives on the street, has no means of income, apart from selling The Big Issue. Selling big issue in itself does not generate a living wage, if you see a Big Issue Seller you'll see that the majority of people just walk on by and do not approach the seller to buy, so he can't be earning enough to eat, buy toiletries, water or something to drink etc the full 7 days a week ? ! ..... I don't know where he's coming from with his claims of not receiving some sort of benefits to be honest ......
Well, he likes travelling around to anywhere there's a Big Issue office. Obviously, he wouldn't be able to travel around if he was on benefits. When you don'T have a home, you don't have rent to pay, you don't have water, gas and electric bills, you don't have council tax ... or anything. So you don't need anywhere near what "normal" people need to live on. Obviously the guy doesn't have expensive tastes. I don't know how much Big Issue sellers make on average, but I would think 20 quid a day is doable. You can easily live on that if you have no other bills to pay and no expensive drug habit. Even ten pounds a day you could live on. He can also go to free food places for the homeless but maybe he doesn't like doing that.
Just because you walk past a gender and you don't see them sell one does not mean that don't sell them, and as for a living wage, all I need is ten, fifteen pounds a day, beggars make ten times that amount you dumb ass
@@stixmanschoice7326 you've got a very aggressive personality it's quite funny. The kinda I'm right, your wrong. I'm big, your small attitude lol reminds me of danny devito in matilda. I'm not being nasty just saying.
Think of it like this; he's likely going to rely for the most part, on street feeds. Example: here in Leeds, there are street feeds running everyday, operated by several different organisations, some operating a couple of days, others everyday, giving a substantial meal, plus seconds and a packed lunch to take away! That's not taking into account the five day a week Breakfast on offer too! So, that's his food accounted for as I imagine it's likely very similar in other cities too. I imagine he's quite adept at foraging too! I myself can certainly put a healthy meal together this way, depending on what's available. Bin raiding is another option and I'm guessing he's got a water filter in that heavy pack he's carrying. So, looks like he's sorted and his cash will be for personal needs; maybe travelling, though I'm guessing he'll do a bit of hitch hiking too.
They say there is no quick fix and you have to go through years of crap to get anywhere if you have a criminal record they won't house you. Bidding systems and all that is a load of shite. People are being systematically forced to live on the streets and beg. This guy is a simpleton. Hostels are shitholes. This guy is clueless. Big issue is a waste of time. Beg borrow and steal if you think you have a purpose, live it.
Great vid. This guy didn’t play the victim he works for his money. He appeared to just not be very good at coping with the structure you need to create to live a more usual life. God bless him, he has my respect.
Amen to that
Completely agree with this man he is a legend
As a genuinely homeless person on several occasions, I have insight into this process and half of what he is saying in accurate, the other half complete twaddle
People who are really depressed often are not able to get through the demands of relating to others & turning up for appointments & filling in forms etc to go through the processes necessary to move on. Also often people who are traumatised after bereavement or having been abused, either by a partner, or parent often cannot cope with being packed into a hostel with others.
Sounds like your making excuses for them, pretty sure the DUDE made that point😂🤣🙏🙏
@@shaunbradley5253 he made excuses himself. His excuse was he was lazy when living in a house. That he couldn't be bothered to get up on time and go to work on time.
Every homeless person as an excuse but if your mental unstable, an alcoholic or drug user the excuse is often understandable.
@@davidvarley1812 you really never listened to my point I work to make a living, anybody using an excuse is lying we don't live in a third world country, the help is there, stop excusing bullshit 👍🙏
@@shaunbradley5253 your missing my point. As a homeless working man I know the reality of the housing crisis in the UK. Selling the Big Issue is not a career choice, nobody chose that option, circumstances force people into it. Why sleep on a thin camping mat in a sleeping bag on a pavement exposed or in a tent where there is potentially human urine, vomit or dead animals and living rodents attacking you, when you can have a flat, a bed and security. When would anyone decide it was better to be outside in the rain, snow and freezing weather with people urinating on them, kicking them or potentially killing them by set fire to their sleeping bag or tent, than in a house or flat?
He speaks of others making excuses but he does it himself.
The 1824 vagrancy act makes sleeping outside a criminal offence and the 2014 anti social act can be used against rough sleepers.
In court the excuse of, Well I'm a lazy individual who can't get out of bed on time for work when I'm living inside, so I'm volunteering to sleep outside and be anti social, is not going to prevent conviction.
People should only sleep rough if it's absolutely necessary and if no alternative options are available or the alternative options endanger ones life. In reality he is like me, low on income, as limited savings, if any and can't get housing references, so he's only option is rough sleeping. His argument is an excuse and there when you point out that he's saying other street people make excuses I'm saying so does he but which is worse, the excuses of a drug addict/ alcoholic vagrant or a sobber Big issue seller.
The Big Issue wasn't created so people could volunteer to backpack about the UK but to help those whom were homeless or at risk of homelessness help themself back onto their feet.
@@shaunbradley5253 your wrong there is little help out there except for families, menstrual women, the physical or mentally vulnerable or the elderly. If your male under 65 and not in immediate danger there is no help out there.
These videos show the visible rough sleepers but I'm a hiden rough sleeper. I'm in part time work and I sleep in a rural location, own a second hand bike to commute to work and wear a suit during the day. I make no excuse for my lifestyle because I never chose it.
A pandemic hit, my employer slashed my hours and as an essential worker I worked throughout the pandemic.
By the end of the pandemic my savings were used up and then the Ukraine war caused my utility bills to incress, then my rent increased and I lost my flat. As a working homeless man I'm entitled to virtually no assistance.
If I stay in sheltered accommodation or a hostel then my fellow residents are likely to steal my phone, wallet or assault me. So I sleep in woodland near a village church. I'll save a little each week and hopefully get a full time job next year and be housed by next winter, if I survive this one.
The homeless make excuse because if they didn't, they'd never cope with homelessness.
His excuse gives him self respect and physical as well as mental strength, but he uses a excuse like other homeless people.
He is Spot on. It's all excuses maybe 5% of homelessness is genuine. Been on the streets my self and it was exactly like how he discribed it.
This chap knows his onions.
He's chosen to be homeless he's an idiot
@@rudimentaryganglia it's sometimes safer being homeless than taking houses in a area you aren't originally from.
Most homeless can get or have had accommodation, but they say the loneliness and isolation
Is worse than being with their what they say homeless family.
This guy is telling it as it is,
Top guy
No he is giving his perspective and he's not completely wrong but he is mistaken in parts. Housing is points based and if you have no physical or mental disabilities and are male, your constantly pushed back down the list. However he is right, if you stay clean of drugs, drink and are in work you might survive homelessness.
This is really refreshing . Good work and fair play to this guy... honest
you are a good interviewer. I can feel that you listen and understand, and are smart enough to understand to ask intelligent questions. Keep up the good work.
I'm homlelss and have been since fed 2020 and this man has it fucking spot on!
Cheers bro 😜
There are More Empty houses, than Homeless people.
Yes but these empty houses are not available. Either because they are not for rent at all or are too expensive.
There's probably more empty buildings than homeles in London alone.
High streets have empty "shops" with electricity and water. These could be converted but for one reason - no profit!
This guy is sharp.
The interviewer is not understanding this guy at all
I used to sell the Big Issue when I was homeless for many years. Most of the time I was homeless I slept out in a tent in woodland and used to travel into town and to my Big Issue pitch by bicycle. By the way Emmaus are the best homeless hostels where you live and work in their charity shops.
Angus do homeless people get a hostel room for free or do they have to pay? Genuine question.
Also I'm sure way back your bentilee? Or I've purchased big issue off you. Either way be safe.
@@destiny8732 No the homeless have to claim housing benefit for a hostel room and pay at least 20 pounds a week service charge. I havent sold the Big Issue for over 2 years now. I last sold it in Balham. I have sold it all over London though. I sold it in Marylebone for a few years and before that on Grays Inn Road. I have got a part time job now. As a cleaner at an office building in Waterloo. Yes I lived in Bentilee from 1987 until 1995.
@@angusmeigh5141 thanks for the reply and clarification on the hostel.
Congrats on the job and I hope things continue to be good for you. Be safe.
@@destiny8732 Add me as a friend on Facebook!
This is my ex partner and he's being very genuine. We are still friends and have a child together. Well done shaun
I bet you took him to the cleaners with CSA and are sitting in a nice warm cosy council house claiming a nice life on benefits. 🤑😁
A lovely set up with mutual respect. Bless ya both. ❤️👍
@@buddha1736 seriously? 🙄😡
@@buddha1736 CSA? For what!??? Twat
@@buddha1736 nobody gets council houses anymore due to privatisation and mass third world immigration
Fair play mate as long as your happy then that’s all good. I was homeless for 6 1/2 years bouncing from hostel to hostel and have been housed for 4 1/2 years and am in dept already with Thames water, it can be very stressful and would love to live off the grid if I’m honest, keep smiling 👊
He's talking out of his ass, he has a smart ass answer to every question the guy puts to him.
This guy knows how it rocks.
What an absolutely great guy.
Good on you mate... you have my Respect..... What gets me is this country sends millions of ££££ to other country’s for people who need food and shelter what About our own .... this country is notGreat anymore.......
Charming polite man. I realise i could have been homeless if fate had turned wrong for me. Its not just them its us too.
This guy has fire.
I hope he never looses it or he will become one of the people that he's trying to dismiss.
Th last comment regarding notes falling out of pockets really got me for a minute.
I don't know the guys past life Good and bad I'm sure.
But he seems like a straight op honest guy wtf
He's my ex partner and very genuine
No, not all he's saying re homeless hostels, council housing homes waiting lists is all true .. definitely not here in London. We have already lost 6 enormous council estates that were allowed to get dilapidated and run down. Tenants were told that the estate[s] were in need of "regeneration". The respective councils emptied the estate[s] of tenants, they then sold off these estates to developers who tarted up these estates and sold them on to foreign investors or UK investors which were then invariably left empty .. That is the true face of London and other major cities across the UK .... Hostel tenants have at least an 8-10yr waiting for affordable council homes, houses/flats etc .. Affordable housing is now a thing of the past, charities are stretched beyond their limits to help and many just can't cope any more as is the same for councils. Most London boroughs have 20,000 + people on their waiting lists and no affordable housing is being built in London or anywhere in the UK ... Only housing being built here in London now, and is the same for quite some time, are uber rich purchase/rentals/uber expensive holiday letting blocks of flats .. This man is obviously happy living on the streets and hasn't truly looked into the very real housing crisis the UK is going through today ....
Sorry bro you know nothing about none of what you said is what I was speaking about p.s England is bigger than London where like you said is we're all the uber rich live?????
I personally know this man and he is a great man like he will help you if you need it and give you a the information you can with what you need
Top bloke. He doesn’t have the sense if entitlement that is the blight of modern western society.
And all the haters on here are just trying to put every scenario into neat little boxes, but life isn’t like that.
He’s wrong. It’s not all excuses. Some have a genuine mental health problem like bad bipolar or borderline personality disorder and really struggle.
He's hit the nail on the head, the beggars give genuine homeless a bad name.
I watched another video about a young lad 22yrs old. Out of his depth, lost and weeping. I thought he was trying it on, he'll be OK. Last I heard he'd committed suicide.
Even though you disagreed at least you let him have his say
I was homeless for six years , ive been off the streets for 4 ish years now. I was never homeless by choice and i didnt beg either.
@jackbrown4130 All I will say is that you see the best in people and the worst in people. On a spiritual level I was alive.
What the guy is saying, is that they feel comfortable with begging. Not all of them, but many do. So he is right. Excuses.
If i ever become homeless I wanna stay near this guy!
This is my friend. I became homeless in Bournemouth and met him. Just ask him about the guy who had a friend Robin that came an landed on me an visited me alot after losing someone
Your welcome any time x
@@stixmanschoice7326 omg 😲 its you. Yow are you my friend
How*
@@kieranmruk8475 I'm every ones friend bro😎🙏
Bottom line, in life you have to work for what you want if you want it, if you don't try you'll be homeless forever. in my opinion if the worst case scenario is a 5 year wait, its worth the wait. In that time you can find jobs as hostels count as an address which is usually what you need to get a job. If you really work for what you want and persevere you can and will achieve that goal.
You ever been in a hostel? you're possessions will get stolen from your room while you're at work, that's why alot of people won't stay in them
@@TheGingerburger bullshit, if your a victim you will get robbed stand up for yourself, evan if you can't, people will think you can and leave you alone, I take it you was the victim, and that's the problem today we're encouraged to be a victim, @FEhashtag😜🙏🙏
This needs more views and action taken
Mass immagration is the problem
Racist
@@-M0LE not really. UK is very good at giving homes to people from other countries rather than help those homeless and get them a place to stay.
I can correct interviewer I used to see a woman outside supermarket begging and saw her climb into a mercades with a male driver after her begging shift. Also another woman begging who had a mouthful of gold teeth !
For sure ,they were gypsies.Lot of them are coming from Romania.
Hostels are worse than being on the street and getting a flat isnt easy like he makes out. Wish it waa. Took me 9 yrs on the waiting list and bidding. Only got this place cus i went rehab and a year in dryhouse. Looks like goin prison for a few year and I'll have to do it all over again. Might not bother. Angry as fk.
This guy is a top bloke, I really wish him well.
He says theres mental health help out there? I was waitin in A and E for 14 hrs for the crisis team so i fked off. This blokes one o them, "it didn't happen ta me so it doesn't happen".
i dont like the interviewer, h would keep twisting or trying to use what the man said against him always cutting in middle of sentences. Because he has access to the internet or news made me feel like he "knew better" than the man who's living THAT life you know? man was being serious and trying to explain how to get a flat and how to be "off the street"
the way i understand is. you get set to a hostel/ BnB for a year...within that year/18months you are expected to find a job and then pay for your next accomodation, and go on from there.
the more settled you get the less support you get etc. Saying most ppl turned it down because if they went indoor they'de have to stop "being homeless" and that the homeless ppl got confortable in their misery and always finding excuses to justify their situation etc. that is how i understood the man, correct me if im wrong**
It's affording the accommodation, and gas ,council tax water electric ,food ,life's getting too dear
Yeah I know this guy and he's genuine
he clearly has no idea about mental health, Just ask yourself would you give all your personal details for a bed if you had chronic Paranoia? and would you stop your addictions for a hot meal? and if you haven't had mental health problems or addiction how could you possibly know what there on the streets for, sometimes people end up on the streets just because they have a bit to much pride and not willing to work for nothing.
Jim Adam
He even mentioned childhood abuse and the care system...known risk factors for adult homelessness.
Wtf, I know all about mental health issues my ex girlfriend had bad issues, you dick
absolute star , genuine bloke . He's totally right
i say different i was homeless for 18mnths and a good few that want a home and cant get one may be different up north but not bham i was in hostels after nearly 2 years could only stay short terrm,and had to move on thats part of the homeless not haveing a full time homes,16yr to 18 yr cant get benifets alot come straight from kids care homes,yes there are folks that dont want a home or stable place to live as well but its not as this guy makes out,allso when you get a flat house ect then you have the problem of finding the cash to furnish it, and try paying gas electric water council tax and cloths food all on £57 a wk good luck on that 1 then there is mental health issues and abused folks they need care and help for meds ect cant see a social services person for over 4 to 8 mnths and a counciller is even longer a full team to check on someone a case worker is ajoke as well ,so get a flat cant handle the bills and lonelyness and no help so go back to the streets
Excellent vid and a great discussion. He was telling the truth, too. As a community volunteer, I worked as a small part of a team that helped the homeless find accomodation, and was directly involved in the rehousing of 21 individuals who had been living rough. Within a year, 17 of them were back on the streets and happy to be there; one of the remaining four, in a comfortable, well appointed bungalow on the estate and in full receipt of all available disability benefits, can still be found daily, wrapped in an old sleeping bag outside the shops begging for change. The help that was there (even in a Labour council area like ours where everything is begrudged and in short supply as far as local people are concerned) was either ignored or abused to the point where it becomes unavailable to those in genuine need.
this guy talks sense. more videos of him please
I also want to say, there is a housing problem in the uk.
There are many reasons for homelessness.
The main one IMO is our narcissistic society which causes apathy and leads people to say fcuk this fcuk that fcuk you and onto drink or drugs to 'escape'.
Just David just sayin' ❤️
100.000.000 thumbs up for you.
hes right about people not wanting accomadation cos they will miss the money they beg for but the british public who give money to the homeless are helping some of them to buy spice,so give food,drink,clothes but not money.
We dont usually see things as they really are, ......we see things as "we are".........we are our experience.......
I'll help someone who is hungry, by giving food - but when I refuse to give money - more often than not, it leads to verbal abuse.
Money in the pocket makes one feel normal it's the small things just going into a supermarket and been able to buy stuff is a good feeling u deluded toss pot
@@jamiebaker7795 Behave you clown
Just do what I do and say (which is true) I don’t carry cash I’ll buy food or clothes
It doesn t matter what a homeless is doing with your money donated to him.Do not judge the other one,why he's drinking or smoking...maybe he had a harsh life and doesn't give a fuck about life.Maybe that cigar is the only friend which is helping him to cope with stress.For example..many years i've been a classical balet dancer ,a responsible citizen.After few health problems which left me pennyless,my gf left me ,my rich family abandoned me and everywhere i go to search something to work,they ve made fun and mocking me saying" go to your ballet Opera,you fucking faggot !" despite i'm not gay.So..today i'm homeless,i dont give a fuck about life,friendship,family or job cause all i've seen in all these years,is the fact that none of these so called"values" are REALLY helping you when you re down,in fact all of them are trying to kill you.Father..do not forgive them,cause they know now what they're doing..
I know a girl who just wants a Sandwich. She hangs around near a food Van hoping someone will buy her one. They rarely dig her out but people walking past often do. I know her. She's an orphan who had zero help after leaving the care system. She's had no guidance and very little education. The lady who runs the nearby corner shop let's get sweep up in exchange for money or food sometimes
I'm on and off street homeless I stay in a tent in the woods been homeless is degrading. To many pretenders faking homelessness to take money it's disgusting
Why is it degrading, because you've been told it is, it is freedom, what about the Indians in the amazon, do you think they feel degraded, mate if you are working for your money why does it matter if you have a house or not? I'll give you a clue you must be a.........?
He is right you no.....
Hostels in birmingham are terrible places especially if your not an alcoholic or a drug addict or homeless due to being a victim of abuse. More abuse and theft an likely hood of becoming an addict within the facilities. What he's doing is good fairplay to him but some of the things he's saying is damaging to a small amount of homeless people mainly people who are victims of abuse and suffer with paranoia and anxiety whom struggling to ask for help even when not homeless. If you've never suffered from legitimate mental health problems you cannot understand.
yeah this is how it is, I've been homeless and down and out, and most of the homeless, a good 99%, are not genuine, or they just do it for the money, have a house waiting for them at the end of the day or reject the help because they don't want to get clean and kick their drug habits and who can blame them? get high or experience the horror of your shitty life whilst having withdrawal symptoms. blank it all out or face the shitty past that lead you here and all the confusing demons and contradictions that most people are so deep into they can't see them to hash them out and overcome them. anyway rant over, he's right and i know it first hand.
What this man is saying is completely true!!!!
Tasha Harris .... No it's not, you obviously have no idea of the housing crisis, the total lack of affordable housing and the dire shortage/lack of council housing that is not only here in London but also in other major UK cities/towns ... You obviously have no idea full stop ...
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depression isnt an "excuse"
@Rex makepeace i know
@pootuis poot Clearly you have never had depression until you have had it and knows what it's like then you can have a say as i suffer with it
@@kellyp2863 im saying depression is a real problem im not saying its an excuse
Yes it is there is help, who actually wants to be depressed!!! No one
@@TrollBenable you can't always function with depression and it is often an environmental factor illness. How you going to recover if you can't get help to better your situation?
This is not my experience at all. Nothing is on offer except sandwiches for those who can cope with all the people
He's been homeless many yrs. How long was you homeless for?
Wtf, you know nothing get a real look go to the streets and see how long before people start throwing money and help at you
He speaks the truth I feel.
Genuine question.
Who pays for the hostel? As in videos you see them saying I'm begging and hope I earn enough for a night in a hostel. So which is true.
Also if identification is stolen then does this impact the homeless person? To register, to claim benefits etc
As when you watch all other videos. The above claims are common all over the world.
Another thing I've noticed is no homeless person looks under fed, skin and bone, Malnourished etc.
He's spot on. Always been a waiting list for flats, houses etc
Enjoyed this interview. I donate to invisible people and now wonder if I should.
There are about 5000 people sleeping rough each night in the UK. That’s actually a small number in the grand scheme of things, but still: one is too many. As I understand it, the hostels are free (I could be wrong) and are usually the first port of call. But spaces are limited. Once you get into the system and are assigned a B&B or room in a council-designated shared property then you have to pay for this (but you get the money given to you in the form of a housing benefit, so it’s effectively free). Living in these venues is seen as highly undesirable. What everyone wants is a flat of their own, but demand far exceeds supply and single white men are at the bottom of the pile for these. Waiting lists can be years-long. Note that “refugees” are put straight to the top of the pile: hence some of the resentment/sense of unfairness. Homelessness is usually associated with mental health issues or substance abuse. Often people forgoe payments for a B&B (from their benefit money), in order to fund their substance abuse. COVID and the housing of tens of thousands of illegal economic migrants arriving in Dover show that the problem can be solved, but for whatever reason, the Government lacks the will.
@@LitNews thanks for the reply.
It seems hostels charge so per homeless interviews on UA-cam .. Manchester ones etc
Think you're spot on with the migrants coming over on boats being dealt with right away and covid pandemic sorting all homeless quickly. Like you said lack of will I tend to agree but now wonder if it's a combination of government and selective homless people ?
Food for thought.
Dest Iny OK that makes sense. I think there also exist limited numbers of free beds in facilities run by charities (often religious).
Don't donate to invisible people the money he gains from his merchandise and donations just goes to his travel expenses, socks and pocket.
Don't donate to invisible people the money he gains from his merchandise and donations just goes to his travel expenses, socks and pocket.
He just contradicted himself around 20 time!!lol
partly yes
Your a moron should of gone to school
I had the same exact thoughts. This guy is talking out his ass...
Government funding is good it stops people from eating out
Bins and chance to get on your feet and stay off the streets
In to housing and back out to work but the housing is hard
With council and private landlords the council shames some
And help some.
But the help is there bro
You have to have an address to claim benefits and it takes 9 weeks. I was there briefly after leaving university. By time it was sorted, I had a job. Was very nearly homeless. Will never forgive my grandmother for not lending me money when I knew for a fact she had 3k sat in a drawer in her house. My uncle ended up stealing half of it. Machiavelli said it: ' the Prince who sins against his own house will create a house of sin ' he, unlike me, had no need to steal yet did, unlike me.
You're work is really good question spot on
the man is for real but he isnt right about the the waiting time when somone does go into a hostal, there are people who have been in hostals over 10 years and also have died in them waiting to be housed weather they have been working in the mean time or been on benefit or disabled or as a oap....he hasnt seen it for him self. ive seen it
You dick do you think I've never been in a hostel 5 years plus is on the resident, not the system
This guy is winding people up. There are a sizable minority of people who are homeless who desperately want proper accommodation in an area of their choice. Some don't want to be shipped to another part of the country, perhaps onto a drug ridden estate, other's don't want to be housed with other homeless people who might steal, use drugs and be violent. That doesn't mean they don't want a home. There are so may reasons for homelessness and many do have hopeless substance misuse issues and can't be helped in the conventional sense, but there are those who desperately need a helping hand to get into good quality accommodation and help to find suitable employment.
NOT what we was speaking about the point was if you want accomadation it's there if your picky that's on you
@@stixmanschoice7326 I think I understand the point he was making. Have you thought about Literacy lessons?
@@linarez90 you’re not the brightest chap are you? How are you going to tell the person you just watched a video of, that you understand the point he was making and he’s the one misunderstanding it? Silly
@Isaac Harkton. You made a comment and blocked me. Your use of grammar shows your lack of education. You are a Troll, a keyboard warrior, an imbecile without any coherent argument. You need to go to college and grow up, you silly, inexperienced little inadequate.
@@linarez90 what on earth? What are you talking about??? I’ve neither blocked you, made any major grammar mistakes. Evidently you’re a little hurt over some words on the internet to be making up stories and speculating so hard.
This is what you like to do, tell people you’ve never met that you know them better than they do? LOL, sort yourself out you nut. And stop crying
Why have you let this man who obvious doesn't know anything about mental health and the real situation about housing talk so much rubbish when you seemed to have better knowledge than him
I agree
How does he not know anything about mental health? He's my ex partner and looked after me for yrs with my mental health.
@@sharonglover7863 yeah and decided to be homeless because it was that bad lol
I suffer with mental health and yes it was that bad. It was hard for anyone to look after me.
You must be a right knob head to think that someones mental health struggles are funny.
Professional begging, is not rare.
the problem is that these hostels they get put in your not aloud to do drugs or drink to be aloud to stay there and obviously most homeless people are addicts so they get chucked out maybe they should go around and get these addicts that are on the streets into rehab ino its not that simple and a lot of them don't even want the help
most homeless people are not addicts! What a fucking foolish thing to say. So you saying that the 320K people homeless in the UK are all addicts and has nothing to do with the housing crash of 08 of which the effects are only being felt relatively recently? Such ignorance.
That's the point
Wow I'm the guy and guess what YOU DONT HAVE A CLUE
He's very judgemental and condescending to other homeless people. I get the impression he thinks he's a bit better than all of them. I guess that helps him get through the day.
Whatever you ignorant man. I know him very well and he's far from judgemental, he's telling the truth. When he's stood there selling the big issue and making his own money yes he does get pissed off when people with homes sit near him pretending to be homeless and con people out of money
I know one thing you know nothing
Why's he homeless?
Water bills probably he's alright other than the church.. Mind you I'd go if it helped 😂
I thought he seemed very knowledgeable
Stuff this bloke.
Do not camplen about your bills foks think of them cold hungry fed up I gave a boy on the streets two pounds to get a drink a hot one
What?
Well done you 🙄
And I bet that's exactly what he never got
@@stixmanschoice7326 whose to say when someone buys a big issue of you your not gonna use the money for drugs or alcohol 🤣😭😂 either way your living on the streets relying on people's generosity lmao in stead of saying any spare change your just saying big issue lol. Also sounds like you suffer with npd
I agree there are fake beggars etc but just because someone's got clean hands or are sat in the rain with there sleeping bag dosnt mean there not legitimately homeless . This chaps got too much time to think and is obviously not at rock bottom and is on his high horse in my opinion . Its always the ex smokers that hate smoking more than anyone !!!!
Mate I've eaten food off the floor, you want to know my rock bottom try eating half a burger that some one throne on the floor and tell me how that feels x
Hallo" England"...i ll think wan't to going UK until next years . To study's..it is the most problem in UK now?.
Don’t come here
It costs a lot to study in the U.K. now. It might be less costly in another country.
I hope you ignored these two racist, best education possible in GREAT BRITAIN 😜😎
Go find him an see what he's like.. Quite easy..
Personally I don't understand how he doesn't claim benefits yet lives on the street, has no means of income, apart from selling The Big Issue. Selling big issue in itself does not generate a living wage, if you see a Big Issue Seller you'll see that the majority of people just walk on by and do not approach the seller to buy, so he can't be earning enough to eat, buy toiletries, water or something to drink etc the full 7 days a week ? ! ..... I don't know where he's coming from with his claims of not receiving some sort of benefits to be honest ......
Well, he likes travelling around to anywhere there's a Big Issue office. Obviously, he wouldn't be able to travel around if he was on benefits. When you don'T have a home, you don't have rent to pay, you don't have water, gas and electric bills, you don't have council tax ... or anything. So you don't need anywhere near what "normal" people need to live on. Obviously the guy doesn't have expensive tastes. I don't know how much Big Issue sellers make on average, but I would think 20 quid a day is doable. You can easily live on that if you have no other bills to pay and no expensive drug habit. Even ten pounds a day you could live on. He can also go to free food places for the homeless but maybe he doesn't like doing that.
He makes what he needs to eat each day.
Just because you walk past a gender and you don't see them sell one does not mean that don't sell them, and as for a living wage, all I need is ten, fifteen pounds a day, beggars make ten times that amount you dumb ass
@@stixmanschoice7326 you've got a very aggressive personality it's quite funny. The kinda I'm right, your wrong. I'm big, your small attitude lol reminds me of danny devito in matilda. I'm not being nasty just saying.
Think of it like this; he's likely going to rely for the most part, on street feeds. Example: here in Leeds, there are street feeds running everyday, operated by several different organisations, some operating a couple of days, others everyday, giving a substantial meal, plus seconds and a packed lunch to take away! That's not taking into account the five day a week Breakfast on offer too! So, that's his food accounted for as I imagine it's likely very similar in other cities too. I imagine he's quite adept at foraging too! I myself can certainly put a healthy meal together this way, depending on what's available. Bin raiding is another option and I'm guessing he's got a water filter in that heavy pack he's carrying. So, looks like he's sorted and his cash will be for personal needs; maybe travelling, though I'm guessing he'll do a bit of hitch hiking too.
Sad very sad ☹️ feel like 😭,,
he has a bit of attitude..he is working.?.biG issue worker..doenst LIKE others..
A bit self opinionated in my opinion.
Damb straight because I've learnt it first hand, when you have lived it the comment x
They say there is no quick fix and you have to go through years of crap to get anywhere if you have a criminal record they won't house you. Bidding systems and all that is a load of shite. People are being systematically forced to live on the streets and beg. This guy is a simpleton. Hostels are shitholes. This guy is clueless. Big issue is a waste of time. Beg borrow and steal if you think you have a purpose, live it.
People with criminal records deserve to be at the bottom of the list and stay there permanently.!!!
Trying to be clever
????
critical housing crisis..is real..
Nope