They need to find a good lawyer and try a class action against lahsa, and round up 50-60 homeless people and have them all tell the truth. No help and no housing.. and sue tf outa this org..
I used to work at a Catholic "charity" hospital for 15 years as a Registered Nurse (RN) for 15 years before my back gave out and I'm permanently disabled. Our very first CEO lasted 16 months and according to local newspaper his "golden parachute" came to $12,000,000. Want to know what I got for my 15 years of loyal service when I injured my back? I got $100.00 USD and that's it!!!
How do you make almost 500k a year and your organization that is supposed to fix the issue is actually making it worse. Talk about a waste of damn money.
Maybe im not understanding the entire situation, but should we also be looking at WHY is the cost of living so high in LA? Shouldnt we address that as another way to potentially work to reduce homelessness?
This is the problem nationwide, the government needs to build low income/homeless housing themselves. Also they need to put limits on how much a home is worth. Where I live our home is ACTUALLY worth about $140-150k. But Zillow has us at $285k! They jacked it up $50k at once a cpl years ago. Our whole AREA in town the homes all magically went up in value by $50k. But nothing major changed. Our old home from my hometown, was $110k in 2014, it's now up to $286k....it's only 884sq ft 3bed 1 bath. Granted we did a good amount of work on it before we sold it in 2016 for $117k. But the new owners haven't done anything else to it really. It's INSANE how this housing bubble is right now, and we're nosediving right into another recession and this housing bubble is going to burst and a lot of ppl/businesses are going to lose a lot of $ again. We need rent control and sales control as well. So that these big companies like Zillow can't go in and buy a whole housing or apartment development, then jack the rates way up so that no one can friggin afford them!
California is know to utilize the majority of land for expensive homes and equal or low income housing initiatives are always voted down. I'd rather have one in my backyard than a squatter in a tent on my street.
Thirty years ago (or more!) a friend of mine ran a fund raising organization for Cancer Treatment. She told me that about 10-15% of collected money went to actually help people wrestling with Cancer. The rest paid salaries, advertising, and property-office rent. I remember when another national organization that sold used items at thrift shop ended up with a top figure embezzling funds. I also remember that the matter of Welfare in NYC has been on the radar for decades. Instead of block grants that would pay for affordable housing once and for all, phenomenal sums are spent renting hotel rooms. The short-term solutions that never solve the problem are baked in to the fiscal pie.
Lol 😆 3 billion a year 🤣, reality 3 billion will buy home for every homeless person in entire CA and some money will be left for other services,, what a joke
THEY DON'T ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS! I've experienced the LA homeless support and it's about redtape and proving oneself worthy of assistance. It's requiring engagement in various "programs" for weeks or months dealing with so called "barriers" when the focus should be housing first support services second. What I experienced was as a veteran the average homeless individual definitely has it even worse.
Three *_BILLION_* dollars is enough to give 60,000 individual people $50,000 each .. which is enough to eliminate homelessness in L.A. altogether if it was spent responsibly .. under some guidance and with a plan / program. It really isn't that complicated.
I remember a study where people were given a money card. And when people are trusted, they are responsible. People are capable of self-regulation. I find the idea of paying $500,000 a year for overseeing the spending of money by poor people is offensive. The basis of supremacy is the concept that the poor can't be trusted with money.
@@robertnewland8358 I don't disagree .. and I hope my comment doesn't sound like that's what I was proposing. I think the money should go directly to the poor. However, I think the program does need to have _some_ structure and oversight, a lot of which could be automated or just baked-in to the system. SNAP cards can only be used to purchase food, for example. I also think the (idealized and conceptual) program should be comprehensive .. so not so much means-testing, but making sure that participants have access to addiction treatment, mental health care, employment training, etc. Most people _do_ want to work and feel a sense of pride and self-reliance. Of course there are those who don't, or can't. There's a lot of nuanced variables and details, and I feel like I could write a book here right now exploring the whole thing and hashing it all out, but as I said, I really don't think this problem is very complicated to solve. ☮
The ONLY reason we did NIMBY paperwork here is because the whole neighborhood knew the land behind our houses was swamp/marsh. Three feet of water was back there during a thunderstorm. The ditch has to be repaired every 6 months, too. Homes at the end of the ditch flood over and over. My neighbor was in a CANOE in his back yard last hurricane. The guy who owned the land was a rich old white man who just wanted us annexed into a crappy city to get his way. We showed with videos and pictures if they built the apartments behind us, it would be a mess. A church finally bought the land and is now being built on STILTS because they surveyed the land correctly after the seller lied for years.
No one is really trying to help the homeless. The power structure has nothing but hatred and contempt for the poor and homeless. The non profits only assist the homeless in at best, surviving from day to day and never in ways that will move them forward in their lives toward being adequately housed and this is done out of shear spite. The homeless are their bread and butter. If they go away, their incomes eventually go away also. This is so amazingly exploitative. It's like witnessing some dystopian horror movie/comedy in slow motion.
*This is the case with social services agencies all up-and-down the West Coast. I'm in Seattle, and this has been my situation for virtually the entire time I've been working in social services. I've been away for more than a year, and the prospect of going back to working in these toxic environments is dreadful. Administration makes a VERY comfortable living, while case managers and the like do all of the shitwork, and often face being homeless themselves. The money that the organizations get goes entirely to salaries of CEOs and managers.*
I'm so sorry Omari that's why I choose useless jobs unfortunately that don't matter. It's pathetic that Marriott pays $21 an hour yet a shelter staff gets $16 an hour? Pathetic. So annoyed by that. Or even a warehouse worker will make more.
@@mariahconklin4150 *Right. I'm about to start a job after 8 or so months of unemployment. But I don't see any other way out of this other than going to grad school, which I'm also going to do.*
I don't understand why if you are tasked with solving homelessness, you don't just build them free housing, and get mental health and addiction treatment services in there. Like, seriously, where is all that money going??
@Sunny Delight Been republican or democrat has nothing to do with the homeless problem . People need to stop the love for money and use it wisely. Democrat or republican, non-profit, are making cash with the homessless.
They just told you. In the pocket of the overseer and other top people in the organization. The director takes home almost half a million a year. They should be in jail. Instead of riding the gravy train .
I have met a ton of people who work in non-profit for what, I do for work, and was blown away, most of these people were making a minimum of, $100,000., per year. NON-PROFIT equals SCAM! It's a tax game!
Don't ya'll love how greed and corruption has slipt into every corner and inches of America. You can't turn a corner and step on some sort of greed and corruptions.
Thank you TYT for exposing this to your audience. I am a Navy veteran who because of medical issues was forced to spend time in homeless shelters in DFW Texas. I had no substance abuse issues, mental health disorders or alcohol issues. Those are what I call the "big three" as it pertains to 90 plus percent of the homeless population. In fact, because I had no problem with any of those issues, I had to obtain a waiver in order to place placed in a homeless veteran shelter. Within the time span of three years I had my spine fused, had a rupture of my intestines which required surgery and had me in the hospital for 2 months and required knee replacement surgery. It was during this time that I discovered how much how much theft and exploitation was taking place with the funds and donations that were earmarked to help solve the homeless problem. I also discovered that said funds were not being used to address any of the "big three" causes of what made people homeless. I discovered that increased funding from one year to the next depends on showing that the problem is not getting better. They will give food, housing and clothing but not at all address the issues that make people homeless in the first place. The biggest problem is that if they actually fixed the problem, it would mean less funding from one year to the next it would show less need for said funding and no one wants there to be less funding.
All most homeless really need, are securable, easily maintained, shelters, where they can sleep, clean up, eat, and safely store NECESSARY BELONGINGS!!! FEMA trailers? Small, lockable shelters with simple furnishings? Apartments are not appropriate in many cases, and not affordable, nor timely, solutions! 64-k, in LA? Lol! That’s less than $4,000.00 per month, after taxes! Shit holes, in bad areas, rent for 2-k!
These people can move to a cheaper town or stay with relatives because they're not stinky junkies. There is a difference between incidental homeless people and junkies and drunks.
I just can't stop thinking about the people who are dead because they kept the money. 3 Billion dollars.... About a million people and those freak storms.
I wonder *IF* the ones running these organizations are secretly laundering money i.e racketeering. It has to be more to it than just poor management, etc...
Ecological restorationist here. This is the same exact scenario in the environmental movement. Organizations are full of scientists making six figures working from computers and then the restorationists on the ground are all interns, minimum wage, and seasonal. For example where I work is structured with three permanent employees in the office, and me as the guy in the field leading two interns who change every 6 months. My co workers are great and want out of the office but the system keeps them there and only pays well for computer work.
The reason the Houston model is successful is because housing is relatively cheap for such a large city. With increase in housing cost there might be challenges in the future. Copying the Houston will be difficult/impossible for most cities because they don't have/build enough housing.
Housing is cheap in Houston because they don't have zoning laws aka housing is far less regulated. How can housing be cheap in places like LA and San Francisco when Leftists block new construction at every turn because they hate capitalist people who build homes? If you are a supporter of TYT thinking, you are part of the problem.
YES, YES, YES. CUT THE FAT OUT. BUILD THE HOUSING, PROVIDE THE SERVICES. Nimby is not as much of the problem as you think. The question is where is all the available land that could be used?
Oh, they're not just "sitting" on it. I guarantee you someone or should I say, MANY, are leading a LAVISH lifestyle all in the name of God! Talk about evil and deception.
Very True & It's Happening Everywhere My Husband Works For A Homeless Non Profit In Seattle WA & Makes $25.02 An Hr After Working For Them For 2yrs. Yet The Head Of The Non Profit Makes A Quarter Million A Year & Got A $37,000 Raise In 2020
The one's at the top need to stop stuffing their pockets with the money, and use it for what it was intended for. They need to get raid of them and put people in there that are actually going to do the job and do the right things.
I live in Houston..we did a horrible job with homelessness. We have a whole tent city downtown and people get arrested daily just for being homeless lol
Imagine if all companies were required to sponsor rent for employees. The housing market would never spike again because all the grifting landlords are business owners
@@screenarts I doubt it. Because employers would have an incentive to negotiate in coordination for lower rent prices, it would make it easier for legislators to justify the cost of lodging security. They don't really care how they get their money as long as they're getting grotesquely rich. They're just afraid of new competition and learning new tricks. When we start to lose our status as first in the world, they might start promoting worker's rights. But I think they really have no problem turning the US into a largely impoverished wastelands that doesn't pay well, surrounded by impoverished peasants, as long as they can feel some sense of isolation, security, and lush regalia. I've thought for 20+ years that there isn't a solution that isn't illicit, and I can understand the predilection to be nonviolent.... I just don't see how it's even feasible to hold a position like that with situations like un-oustable corrupt scotus, the debt ceiling blockade in which Biden has clearly outed himself as a Republican, the insurmountable new gerrymandering laws, and in fact the general consensus that organizations like tyt are only strong on selected social issues, but when you really account for the values of any popular media organization, they're bunglers who fall back to corporate lines on the bread-and-butter anti-establishment issues like the reality of various "conspiracy theories", the necessity of refusing to serve the wealthy, striking, militantism, liability warfare, infrastructural safeguard barriers, call it what you want. The cycle of domesticating donkeys with which they are whittingly or unwhittingly complicit is extremely frustrating. There's nonstop intimatation on the right, and it's completely unrealistic to expect to in any substantial way maintain your politics when you're faced with an adversary who is willing to go above and beyond to have a vigilante supremacy of force that far overstep your hard moral lines. I'm not saying it's okay to punch a Nazi, but I'm also not saying the opinion of tyt that punching a Nazi is stupid infantilizes their audience. I mean, the wealthy are more and happy to turn the US into dictatorial Tunisia or whatever. Just think about it. Why wouldn't they?
@@screenarts anyway, you'd expect to see rent plummet and purchasing costs escalate to some extent. There's still programs that allow first time buyers to get really low prices in suburbs and stuff, and these would likely stay the same
I understand why you are upset but I really wish you had dived deeper. I used to work in this realm and I would like to know WHY the placement was so low. One issue I used to see was that no one would take 3rd party payment at the rate we were allowed to pay. Landlords could get double on the open market. Can the money actually be used to build housing? I swear, a ton of these grants are written in a way as to be as unhelpful as possible. I now have other grants (completely different field) that I struggle to use because I didn't secure them, other people, who thought they were being helpful did, and it's money I can't use because of all of the restrictions. The government does not like to give money that comes with few limits on how it can be spent and yes, the NIMBYs and conservatives push to make the rules and restrictions even worse.
I would start by charging those top ten employees with fraud and theft. They have taken 800 milion dollars and mishandled it to the point that the problem they were set to solve is worse and not better. So charge them and make it stick. Then take their jobs and salaries and divide their responsibilities and salary among those that they have been bossing and see how much better the service becomes.
Get a place across the boarder and commute and live like kings and queens.. more and more Americans are Moving to Mexico and still working in the USA and tax free in mexico
Housing has doubled and tripled in Jackson County Oregon, for a 1 bedroom apartment $1,200 plus for low income wages and the waiting list is year or more, rent is based on two tenants working full time. There are some that charge according to your income those are a 3 year wait. RV Parks are generally full and close to a $1,000 a month
OMG'S!!! I was staying in a LAHSA homeless shelter. I have so much Intel on how they waste all this money and their wasteful actions! LAHSA primarily helps only the homeless that have an income like SSI or SSA.
I drove for Uber for four years making less than minimum wage in Los Angeles. I used to pick the CEOs of nonprofits up and drop them off after a night on the town, to their very expensive, trendy homes and gated communities. That's when I realized charities are just a way for the wealthy to make money. They never actually fix anything.
I remember meeting a recent Stanford grad who told me about finding a job working for a nonprofit. This was back in 2008. She said her starting salary was 80k. That was almost double my salary at the time and I was a environmental scientist. Clearly these nonprofits are need more investigation.
If you live in California, we need to have a petition going around to have these places audited and overhauled with decent honest people. Start that petition!
Karen Bass was a lawmaker for over 10 years before she became mayor. They spent millions on housing, homeless, temporarily in hotels, but I would say the bulk of money probably just goes in the politicians pockets "non profits scam" . Karen Bass spend 50 million in four months with no accountability no receipts. There's still homeless everywhere. The city is filthy. City council just issued her another 250 million more she has no new plan.
Non profit workers work far harder than makes any sense and there’s tons of red tape. So many times where because of the rules, i had to listen to a client wondering if they’re going to be homeless again.
It like the pyramid scheme organization. The highest pay of course in charge always in vacation while the top 3 are friends and family doing nothing but wait for pay check at home and all the hard workers are at the bottom working for minimum wage are at work working.
The problem is, private equity and the commodification of housing. They artificially inflate prices causing a chain affect, where small landlords think they must raise their rents because the SOB corporate landlords run Zillow and other businesses that dictate prices in order to maximize profits at the expense of renters. This may sound good and what you’re supposed to do in a capitalist system but it’s wrecking families and individuals because it’s taking all of their disposable income. Small businesses need to rise because it’s affecting their businesses as well.
That's really it. "Investment" in housing. Not to be used as housing, but as store of value. There have always been valuable areas in cities, but it's getting worse. Bigger and bigger slices of city become something investors look more like really big bars of gold rather than just ultimately consumable protection against elements they really are.
We let them make it complicated. It's easy to get not for profit and nonprofit confused. I've been noticing that a lot lately. Watching if the "rules" are broken is much easier than watching the workers. That's how corruptions finds its way, by letting the rules bend. If either entity is structured to watch the rules not just the staff, then you can keep track of "all" corruption and stop it immediately. There are real solutions to every problem. We just got to get good at it. Great video by Ana by the way.
Why would an executive make decisions to end homelessness when it means they lose their cushy job? Charity in the US is intended to help the wealthy feel good about "helping" and not about actually changing the dynamics that cause the problem. You know that there are many people who can do the job of those executives for a lot less money and might actually do something for the homeless.
These homeless organizations are dependent on homeless people. If they truly resolved the problem, they wouldn't have a job. So do you really think that they are trying to resolve homelessness? They're making it a permanent entity that will be forever. They're not alone. A ton of jobs are dependent on people with issues: mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, etc. I like that you covered this & I wish you would dive further into it, maybe in the Bullpen & invite those outreach workers to talk about the obstacles they face.
Yep. Poverty pimps, the homeless-industrial-complex. Who wants to lose their almost $500k a year jobs? Not the people in the positions at these "non-profits".
I volunteered regularly for one of those groups (one of the biggest ones). I would hear employees complain about barely being able to afford a studio apartment, and then leave for better paying jobs. They loved the cause, and would have stayed if they were paid fairly.
Thank you for this video. Sadly, this is typical nonprofits. Directors usually select their own puppet boards. There needs to be caps on all nonprofit salaries. I would include ALL employees in public services positions...including overtime. They should NEVER make more than the president of the United States!
The issue is with the highest management of LAHSA, Va Lecia Adams Kellum. When a company fails, a CEO is removed. Instead, why are we still paying her $430k/year.
She just got the job, LA has been dealing with this issue since before the great depression. You're just bullying her because she's a black woman. She is uniquely qualified for this role, she is worth way more than 400k
Had an acquaintance needing a place to go, after many phone calls, I came to the conclusion that all the money goes to bureaucracy. I was told…to place someone homeless, they need a birth certificate, current ID (not even expired DL), and a social security card on them. So tell me…..what homeless person walks around with these documents? So then what good are these agencies….and what are they getting paid for?
I have to wonder where you are. I volunteer at a shelter and none of those are requirements. One of the requirements is to follow the rules. That seems to be their hardest hurdle.
As a Houstonian, thank you Cenk for pointing out something Houston got right. We're fighting a progressive uphill battle in Texas, Houston has fraud in it's government, HPD need a reform, and the pollution is killing us all (multiple chemical plant and warehouse fires plus at least 2 train derailments just this past month). But every now and then we get some good stuff achieved! Don't get me wrong, homelessness is still a MAJOR issue in Harris and Galveston County but we're trying to be better ♥
The title reads “unhoused”…*sigh*. TYT, stop, just stop. I love you guys, but if you start saying phrases like “birthing person” and “unhoused”…Just no, please, please, for the love of our heavenly birthing person…Oh god, now I’m doing it.
Even without mental illness and/or drugs, people experiencing homelessness are often sleep deprived, overly stressed, malnourished, eating junk foods... It's hard to be nice n friendly when you're unable to have basic needs met. Please remember homeless does not equate mental illness and drug addiction... Lots of people lose their homes through job loss❤
@@bruggeman672 you don’t know anything about homeless people. Anyone with a right mind that is a good hardworking smart person can get off the street with all the Social programs we have. If someone is homeless it’s because even their family gave up on them
Thank u! I've been saying this for years. The NGOs are paying themselves 6 figures & getting rich off the homeless industry. & they actually have a goal to make homelessness worse & worse year after year, because it equals more money for them. Solving the homeless crisis means they would put themselves out of a job.
@@undrwatropium3724 none of these NGOs move homeless off the street into permanent housing. No, they pay homeless "advocates" & high price lawyers to fight cities when they try to do sweeps & clear out camps. They pass out free tents & food (tho alot of that ends up in dumpsters), & lobby aggressively to get cities to take a hands off approach to the homeless, getting vagrancy, panhandling & drug use & possession laws changed.
Unfortunately, there is absolutely no incentive for non-profits/homeless advocates to "solve'" the homeless problem. If the problem is solved, the funding disappears.
I worked at domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, homeless shelter and if i wasnt living with family, I'd be homeless. I work at an elementary school now and nothing has changed. When the last couple left of my family members dies, I'll probably be living out of my car. I've saved more lives than books I've read in my personal and professional life and I'm always already potentially homeless while having shared my spaces with my homeless friends.
Call me a cynic, but I suspect a lot of this money is being kicked back to state and local politicians. I’ve heard the situation described as the “homelessness-industrial complex.” No one has any incentive to end homelessness.
The Dallas Morning news did research on the charities here Ii North Texas. How much money they brought in, the CEO's pay ,. The top people make millions of dollars every year, the little people ( volunteers) made nothing!! Oh, the big charities had a goal to reach every year.I was shocked!!
Indeed. I remember the big scandal with the United Way decades ago. At the time I had money being auto deducted from my pay to donate... bastards! I forget the name of the website that rates Charity groups and discloses supposedly their financials. It's how I go about it or food at a local bank. No guarantees perhaps.
The argument is that the top person is supposed to be a "draw" for donations. Making their salary a loss leader. However, I've always found the non-profit model used by institutions a scammer's paradise.
So with 3 billion dollars it would be $3 billion / 60,000 homeless == $50,000 per year. So homeless people could be getting $50,000 per year salaries if there was no corruption.
Having worked in the shelters in Oregon, I can attest that we all have the same issue. The director and higher-ups get what they need but anyone lower are paid at poverty levels. They never have enough staff and those who work closest with the people experiencing homelessness are burnt out and the shelters have a large turn-over. Most of us are on food stamps while working overtime. Some who are staff are actually dealing with homelessness themselves. The system is not only broken, it's breaking us.
How about prosecute these people who have mismanaged this MONEY. These people keep doing the same thing because they know they're going to get away with it. Either we don't prosecute them or even if we do they get slapped on the wrist
It's easy to get not for profit and nonprofit confused. I've been noticing that a lot lately. Watching if the "rules" are broken is much easier than watching the workers. That's how corruptions finds its way, but letting the rules bend. If either entity is structured to watch the rules not just the staff, then you can keep track of "all" corruption and stop it immediately. There are real solutions to every problem. We just got to get good at it. Great video by Ana by the way.
I will never understand the change to the term unhoused. If you are living on the street, do you feel better being called unhoused instead of homeless?
The typical CEO pay structure is improper for these nonprofits. They all need to run like co-ops because the people at the top who never touch a computer and are simply figure heads are not the ones doing the big work that's needed. That system drives good hearted people out of nonprofits and sucks them dry.
Preach!! We outreach workers deserve a raise so we can help these people on the streets. This misuse of money needs to stop the higher ups don’t need any more raises or bonuses!
You outreach workers are hated and not trusted by the homeless. You steal their belongings and put their stuff in your own pockets. No help you lie to the homeless just to put your quota up
Unless you treat housing as a human right you can throw all the money you want at the problem and it won’t be solved. Humans need shelter to live. Our present system looks at housing as a way to grow wealth. It is one of the most obscene failures of capitalism.
This is appalling. Think of all the homes for the homeless which could be built for the amount of money spent, and productive construction jobs created. Look at how New Zealand and Great Britain dealt with housing after the Great Depression and WWII.
It's easy to get not for profit and nonprofit confused. I've been noticing that a lot lately. Watching if the "rules" are broken is much easier than watching the workers. That's how corruptions finds its way, by letting the rules bend. If either entity is structured to watch the rules not just the staff, then you can keep track of "all" corruption and stop it immediately. There are real solutions to every problem. We just got to get good at it. Great video by Ana by the way.
I worked for 8 yrs with a very well established and reputable non profit and didn't even earn $24,000. The things they got away with and the disregard for their employees left such a bitter feeling in my mouth. I have changed my major altogether now. By the way, ALL non profits pay minimum wages to the workers that actually do all work. It is exactly as Anna said. The money stays at the top and never ever trickles down.
Does anyone find it funny with the budget cuts, that not one single congressional person is willing to give up one of their team members, secretary, fact finders,etc. To help the country save some money on our budget???? Think about it, how much money could the country save if they printed their own documents, or picked up their own dry cleaning, etc...
We to get rid of ALL corruption! We need 100% transparency from public servants! It does seem like we have too many "non-profit" businesses and churches that aren't doing right by the people.
They need to find a good lawyer and try a class action against lahsa, and round up 50-60 homeless people and have them all tell the truth. No help and no housing.. and sue tf outa this org..
I used to work at a Catholic "charity" hospital for 15 years as a Registered Nurse (RN) for 15 years before my back gave out and I'm permanently disabled. Our very first CEO lasted 16 months and according to local newspaper his "golden parachute" came to $12,000,000. Want to know what I got for my 15 years of loyal service when I injured my back? I got $100.00 USD and that's it!!!
*...Christ.*
How do you make almost 500k a year and your organization that is supposed to fix the issue is actually making it worse. Talk about a waste of damn money.
Just imagine how fairer things would be if those top executives were not allowed to earn more than double their lowest paid employee.
This needs to be the law everywhere
10 vacant buildings for every 1 homeless person is society's failure
$80k a pop for a shed that can be bought at Home Depot for $1600.
Maybe im not understanding the entire situation, but should we also be looking at WHY is the cost of living so high in LA? Shouldnt we address that as another way to potentially work to reduce homelessness?
This is the problem nationwide, the government needs to build low income/homeless housing themselves. Also they need to put limits on how much a home is worth. Where I live our home is ACTUALLY worth about $140-150k. But Zillow has us at $285k! They jacked it up $50k at once a cpl years ago. Our whole AREA in town the homes all magically went up in value by $50k. But nothing major changed. Our old home from my hometown, was $110k in 2014, it's now up to $286k....it's only 884sq ft 3bed 1 bath. Granted we did a good amount of work on it before we sold it in 2016 for $117k. But the new owners haven't done anything else to it really. It's INSANE how this housing bubble is right now, and we're nosediving right into another recession and this housing bubble is going to burst and a lot of ppl/businesses are going to lose a lot of $ again. We need rent control and sales control as well. So that these big companies like Zillow can't go in and buy a whole housing or apartment development, then jack the rates way up so that no one can friggin afford them!
California is know to utilize the majority of land for expensive homes and equal or low income housing initiatives are always voted down.
I'd rather have one in my backyard than a squatter in a tent on my street.
unhouseness*
Thirty years ago (or more!) a friend of mine ran a fund raising organization for Cancer Treatment. She told me that about 10-15% of collected money went to actually help people wrestling with Cancer. The rest paid salaries, advertising, and property-office rent. I remember when another national organization that sold used items at thrift shop ended up with a top figure embezzling funds. I also remember that the matter of Welfare in NYC has been on the radar for decades. Instead of block grants that would pay for affordable housing once and for all, phenomenal sums are spent renting hotel rooms. The short-term solutions that never solve the problem are baked in to the fiscal pie.
It's the American way.
Sounds like they have no real interest in helping the houseless, they are just making money off of them! 🤬
American non profit is an oxymoron.
NGO = grift
Lol 😆 3 billion a year 🤣, reality 3 billion will buy home for every homeless person in entire CA and some money will be left for other services,, what a joke
THEY DON'T ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS! I've experienced the LA homeless support and it's about redtape and proving oneself worthy of assistance. It's requiring engagement in various "programs" for weeks or months dealing with so called "barriers" when the focus should be housing first support services second.
What I experienced was as a veteran the average homeless individual definitely has it even worse.
That’s angering. Pisses me off.
Three *_BILLION_* dollars is enough to give 60,000 individual people $50,000 each .. which is enough to eliminate homelessness in L.A. altogether if it was spent responsibly .. under some guidance and with a plan / program. It really isn't that complicated.
I remember a study where people were given a money card. And when people are trusted, they are responsible. People are capable of self-regulation. I find the idea of paying $500,000 a year for overseeing the spending of money by poor people is offensive. The basis of supremacy is the concept that the poor can't be trusted with money.
@@robertnewland8358 I don't disagree .. and I hope my comment doesn't sound like that's what I was proposing. I think the money should go directly to the poor. However, I think the program does need to have _some_ structure and oversight, a lot of which could be automated or just baked-in to the system. SNAP cards can only be used to purchase food, for example.
I also think the (idealized and conceptual) program should be comprehensive .. so not so much means-testing, but making sure that participants have access to addiction treatment, mental health care, employment training, etc. Most people _do_ want to work and feel a sense of pride and self-reliance. Of course there are those who don't, or can't.
There's a lot of nuanced variables and details, and I feel like I could write a book here right now exploring the whole thing and hashing it all out, but as I said, I really don't think this problem is very complicated to solve.
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Trickle-down fraud
Federal Reserve said the bottom 50% have 3% of the country's wealth while the top 1% has 30%. This story is that illustrated.
The ONLY reason we did NIMBY paperwork here is because the whole neighborhood knew the land behind our houses was swamp/marsh. Three feet of water was back there during a thunderstorm. The ditch has to be repaired every 6 months, too. Homes at the end of the ditch flood over and over. My neighbor was in a CANOE in his back yard last hurricane. The guy who owned the land was a rich old white man who just wanted us annexed into a crappy city to get his way. We showed with videos and pictures if they built the apartments behind us, it would be a mess. A church finally bought the land and is now being built on STILTS because they surveyed the land correctly after the seller lied for years.
Turns out, you can make money off the poor . . .
Lol yeah politicians do it everyday
The Poor, Weak and Unfortunate.
No one is really trying to help the homeless. The power structure has nothing but hatred and contempt for the poor and homeless. The non profits only assist the homeless in at best, surviving from day to day and never in ways that will move them forward in their lives toward being adequately housed and this is done out of shear spite. The homeless are their bread and butter. If they go away, their incomes eventually go away also. This is so amazingly exploitative. It's like witnessing some dystopian horror movie/comedy in slow motion.
This is so important that this is being reported.
There is enough in the world for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed. ~ Gandhi
People who misuse money for the homeless and the poor should be convicted to live homeless for 4 years minimum.
*This is the case with social services agencies all up-and-down the West Coast. I'm in Seattle, and this has been my situation for virtually the entire time I've been working in social services. I've been away for more than a year, and the prospect of going back to working in these toxic environments is dreadful. Administration makes a VERY comfortable living, while case managers and the like do all of the shitwork, and often face being homeless themselves. The money that the organizations get goes entirely to salaries of CEOs and managers.*
I'm so sorry Omari that's why I choose useless jobs unfortunately that don't matter. It's pathetic that Marriott pays $21 an hour yet a shelter staff gets $16 an hour? Pathetic. So annoyed by that. Or even a warehouse worker will make more.
@@mariahconklin4150 *Right. I'm about to start a job after 8 or so months of unemployment. But I don't see any other way out of this other than going to grad school, which I'm also going to do.*
I don't understand why if you are tasked with solving homelessness, you don't just build them free housing, and get mental health and addiction treatment services in there. Like, seriously, where is all that money going??
I agree that money needs to be used wisely, for housing and mental health, and creating jobs for the homeless, I strongly believe they will succeed.❤
@franciscozamora2267 stop voting democrat
@Sunny Delight Been republican or democrat has nothing to do with the homeless problem . People need to stop the love for money and use it wisely. Democrat or republican, non-profit, are making cash with the homessless.
They just told you. In the pocket of the overseer and other top people in the organization. The director takes home almost half a million a year. They should be in jail. Instead of riding the gravy train .
@@franciscozamora2267 how will they succeed? It's getting worse.
How do we expect them to help the homeless if they can’t even help themselves?!
I have met a ton of people who work in non-profit for what, I do for work, and was blown away, most of these people were making a minimum of, $100,000., per year. NON-PROFIT equals SCAM! It's a tax game!
Defund Fraud Organizations
CORRUPTION, MISMANAGEMENT, SELFISHNESS!🤬🤬🤬
Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur are the best I've seen hitting on real social problems and lately they are getting better. Thanks guys!
They were advocates of defund the police. That totally backfired
If they solved the homeless problem, they wouldn't have a job.
*Mm-hm. The prison-industrial complex works the same way.*
@@SinewRendingThe 1994 Crime Bill comes to mind.
And No $$$$$$$$
Don't ya'll love how greed and corruption has slipt into every corner and inches of America. You can't turn a corner and step on some sort of greed and corruptions.
Thank you TYT for exposing this to your audience. I am a Navy veteran who because of medical issues was forced to spend time in homeless shelters in DFW Texas. I had no substance abuse issues, mental health disorders or alcohol issues. Those are what I call the "big three" as it pertains to 90 plus percent of the homeless population. In fact, because I had no problem with any of those issues, I had to obtain a waiver in order to place placed in a homeless veteran shelter. Within the time span of three years I had my spine fused, had a rupture of my intestines which required surgery and had me in the hospital for 2 months and required knee replacement surgery.
It was during this time that I discovered how much how much theft and exploitation was taking place with the funds and donations that were earmarked to help solve the homeless problem. I also discovered that said funds were not being used to address any of the "big three" causes of what made people homeless. I discovered that increased funding from one year to the next depends on showing that the problem is not getting better. They will give food, housing and clothing but not at all address the issues that make people homeless in the first place. The biggest problem is that if they actually fixed the problem, it would mean less funding from one year to the next it would show less need for said funding and no one wants there to be less funding.
Sounds like an Episode of 'Shameless'
All most homeless really need, are securable, easily maintained, shelters, where they can sleep, clean up, eat, and safely store NECESSARY BELONGINGS!!! FEMA trailers? Small, lockable shelters with simple furnishings? Apartments are not appropriate in many cases, and not affordable, nor timely, solutions!
64-k, in LA? Lol! That’s less than $4,000.00 per month, after taxes! Shit holes, in bad areas, rent for 2-k!
*It's not for you to say what people need.*
These people can move to a cheaper town or stay with relatives because they're not stinky junkies. There is a difference between incidental homeless people and junkies and drunks.
I just can't stop thinking about the people who are dead because they kept the money.
3 Billion dollars....
About a million people and those freak storms.
I wonder *IF* the ones running these organizations are secretly laundering money i.e racketeering.
It has to be more to it than just poor management, etc...
Ecological restorationist here. This is the same exact scenario in the environmental movement. Organizations are full of scientists making six figures working from computers and then the restorationists on the ground are all interns, minimum wage, and seasonal. For example where I work is structured with three permanent employees in the office, and me as the guy in the field leading two interns who change every 6 months. My co workers are great and want out of the office but the system keeps them there and only pays well for computer work.
There not helping the homeless there making a great paycheck for a few
Exactly. The higher ups at the non profit organizations are just typical greedy Americans that are just like greedy CEOs
The reason the Houston model is successful is because housing is relatively cheap for such a large city. With increase in housing cost there might be challenges in the future. Copying the Houston will be difficult/impossible for most cities because they don't have/build enough housing.
Housing is cheap in Houston because they don't have zoning laws aka housing is far less regulated. How can housing be cheap in places like LA and San Francisco when Leftists block new construction at every turn because they hate capitalist people who build homes? If you are a supporter of TYT thinking, you are part of the problem.
@@candorsspot2775 It's a NIMBY problem not a leftist problem.
@@jefffrilot9667 And it is the leftists who overwhelmingly push to block new construction and want to overregulate everything. It is what it is.
YES, YES, YES. CUT THE FAT OUT. BUILD THE HOUSING, PROVIDE THE SERVICES. Nimby is not as much of the problem as you think. The question is where is all the available land that could be used?
Mormons sitting on 7 billion dollars from their congregation
Oh, they're not just "sitting" on it. I guarantee you someone or should I say, MANY, are leading a LAVISH lifestyle all in the name of God! Talk about evil and deception.
There is no such thing as a non-profit business or organization
Actual budget îs $609.7 million not 2 billon.
Very True & It's Happening Everywhere My Husband Works For A Homeless Non Profit In Seattle WA & Makes $25.02 An Hr After Working For Them For 2yrs. Yet The Head Of The Non Profit Makes A Quarter Million A Year & Got A $37,000 Raise In 2020
The one's at the top need to stop stuffing their pockets with the money, and use it for what it was intended for. They need to get raid of them and put people in there that are actually going to do the job and do the right things.
Same as the high cost of healthcare-- administrative costs, too many people with hands in the pie.
Mismanaged resources and corruption increases poverty among the common taxpayer...
I live in Houston..we did a horrible job with homelessness. We have a whole tent city downtown and people get arrested daily just for being homeless lol
Good ol'e bureaucracy all the money only going to the upper echelon and eff the rest
Imagine if all companies were required to sponsor rent for employees. The housing market would never spike again because all the grifting landlords are business owners
No, only the employed will be housed, more homeless
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I doubt it. Because employers would have an incentive to negotiate in coordination for lower rent prices, it would make it easier for legislators to justify the cost of lodging security. They don't really care how they get their money as long as they're getting grotesquely rich. They're just afraid of new competition and learning new tricks. When we start to lose our status as first in the world, they might start promoting worker's rights. But I think they really have no problem turning the US into a largely impoverished wastelands that doesn't pay well, surrounded by impoverished peasants, as long as they can feel some sense of isolation, security, and lush regalia.
I've thought for 20+ years that there isn't a solution that isn't illicit, and I can understand the predilection to be nonviolent.... I just don't see how it's even feasible to hold a position like that with situations like un-oustable corrupt scotus, the debt ceiling blockade in which Biden has clearly outed himself as a Republican, the insurmountable new gerrymandering laws, and in fact the general consensus that organizations like tyt are only strong on selected social issues, but when you really account for the values of any popular media organization, they're bunglers who fall back to corporate lines on the bread-and-butter anti-establishment issues like the reality of various "conspiracy theories", the necessity of refusing to serve the wealthy, striking, militantism, liability warfare, infrastructural safeguard barriers, call it what you want. The cycle of domesticating donkeys with which they are whittingly or unwhittingly complicit is extremely frustrating. There's nonstop intimatation on the right, and it's completely unrealistic to expect to in any substantial way maintain your politics when you're faced with an adversary who is willing to go above and beyond to have a vigilante supremacy of force that far overstep your hard moral lines. I'm not saying it's okay to punch a Nazi, but I'm also not saying the opinion of tyt that punching a Nazi is stupid infantilizes their audience.
I mean, the wealthy are more and happy to turn the US into dictatorial Tunisia or whatever. Just think about it. Why wouldn't they?
@@screenarts anyway, you'd expect to see rent plummet and purchasing costs escalate to some extent. There's still programs that allow first time buyers to get really low prices in suburbs and stuff, and these would likely stay the same
Ok someone is having fun spending 2 billion dollars while people continue to die on the streets
I understand why you are upset but I really wish you had dived deeper. I used to work in this realm and I would like to know WHY the placement was so low. One issue I used to see was that no one would take 3rd party payment at the rate we were allowed to pay. Landlords could get double on the open market. Can the money actually be used to build housing? I swear, a ton of these grants are written in a way as to be as unhelpful as possible. I now have other grants (completely different field) that I struggle to use because I didn't secure them, other people, who thought they were being helpful did, and it's money I can't use because of all of the restrictions. The government does not like to give money that comes with few limits on how it can be spent and yes, the NIMBYs and conservatives push to make the rules and restrictions even worse.
I would start by charging those top ten employees with fraud and theft. They have taken 800 milion dollars and mishandled it to the point that the problem they were set to solve is worse and not better. So charge them and make it stick. Then take their jobs and salaries and divide their responsibilities and salary among those that they have been bossing and see how much better the service becomes.
Reparations would salve the problem in California.
Get a place across the boarder and commute and live like kings and queens.. more and more Americans are
Moving to Mexico and still working in the USA and tax free in mexico
What the heck they trying to mirgate to California for welfare for life while I heard Mexico getting richer than America.
This company was just mega exposed and looking really bad right now.
Housing has doubled and tripled in Jackson County Oregon, for a 1 bedroom apartment $1,200 plus for low income wages and the waiting list is year or more, rent is based on two tenants working full time. There are some that charge according to your income those are a 3 year wait. RV Parks are generally full and close to a $1,000 a month
OMG'S!!! I was staying in a LAHSA homeless shelter. I have so much Intel on how they waste all this money and their wasteful actions!
LAHSA primarily helps only the homeless that have an income like SSI or SSA.
Typical America spent $1.7 Trillion on multiple failed F-35 jets that could have housed ALL the US homeless 29 times over.
That's why Republicans are gung ho for a fat military budget. It starves the rest of the economy.
I drove for Uber for four years making less than minimum wage in Los Angeles. I used to pick the CEOs of nonprofits up and drop them off after a night on the town, to their very expensive, trendy homes and gated communities. That's when I realized charities are just a way for the wealthy to make money. They never actually fix anything.
I remember meeting a recent Stanford grad who told me about finding a job working for a nonprofit. This was back in 2008. She said her starting salary was 80k. That was almost double my salary at the time and I was a environmental scientist. Clearly these nonprofits are need more investigation.
Wow. People are getting filthy rich by accepting money to help the homeless. And then not fixing the homeless problem.
Guess they have permanent employment
*Yes. It's a decades-old scam.*
If you live in California, we need to have a petition going around to have these places audited and overhauled with decent honest people. Start that petition!
Karen Bass was a lawmaker for over 10 years before she became mayor. They spent millions on housing, homeless, temporarily in hotels, but I would say the bulk of money probably just goes in the politicians pockets "non profits scam" . Karen Bass spend 50 million in four months with no accountability no receipts.
There's still homeless everywhere. The city is filthy. City council just issued her another 250 million more she has no new plan.
Contact ROC Restaurant Opportunities Center as they have ton of people and outreach to lot of people that they empowered to vote...
$3 Billion is enough to give each of those 60,000 homeless people $50K per year.
Just hand it out to them, these "non-profits" are a grift.
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Finland has a much better solution, but America worships Corporations so much they won't adopt it or at least use it as a reference.
So very true!!
Non profit workers work far harder than makes any sense and there’s tons of red tape. So many times where because of the rules, i had to listen to a client wondering if they’re going to be homeless again.
*That's been my experience, too.*
It like the pyramid scheme organization. The highest pay of course in charge always in vacation while the top 3 are friends and family doing nothing but wait for pay check at home and all the hard workers are at the bottom working for minimum wage are at work working.
As a former homeless person, This makes me SICK!
The problem is, private equity and the commodification of housing. They artificially inflate prices causing a chain affect, where small landlords think they must raise their rents because the SOB corporate landlords run Zillow and other businesses that dictate prices in order to maximize profits at the expense of renters. This may sound good and what you’re supposed to do in a capitalist system but it’s wrecking families and individuals because it’s taking all of their disposable income. Small businesses need to rise because it’s affecting their businesses as well.
That's really it. "Investment" in housing.
Not to be used as housing, but as store of value. There have always been valuable areas in cities, but it's getting worse. Bigger and bigger slices of city become something investors look more like really big bars of gold rather than just ultimately consumable protection against elements they really are.
We let them make it complicated. It's easy to get not for profit and nonprofit confused. I've been noticing that a lot lately. Watching if the "rules" are broken is much easier than watching the workers. That's how corruptions finds its way, by letting the rules bend. If either entity is structured to watch the rules not just the staff, then you can keep track of "all" corruption and stop it immediately. There are real solutions to every problem. We just got to get good at it. Great video by Ana by the way.
Non-profit means corrupt these days. Who isn't corrupt now anyway?
Why would an executive make decisions to end homelessness when it means they lose their cushy job?
Charity in the US is intended to help the wealthy feel good about "helping" and not about actually changing the dynamics that cause the problem. You know that there are many people who can do the job of those executives for a lot less money and might actually do something for the homeless.
These homeless organizations are dependent on homeless people. If they truly resolved the problem, they wouldn't have a job. So do you really think that they are trying to resolve homelessness? They're making it a permanent entity that will be forever. They're not alone. A ton of jobs are dependent on people with issues: mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, etc. I like that you covered this & I wish you would dive further into it, maybe in the Bullpen & invite those outreach workers to talk about the obstacles they face.
BINGO !!! You hit it right on the head. AMEN !!!!
Yep. Poverty pimps, the homeless-industrial-complex. Who wants to lose their almost $500k a year jobs? Not the people in the positions at these "non-profits".
No Issue = No $$
I volunteered regularly for one of those groups (one of the biggest ones). I would hear employees complain about barely being able to afford a studio apartment, and then leave for better paying jobs. They loved the cause, and would have stayed if they were paid fairly.
Thank you for this video. Sadly, this is typical nonprofits. Directors usually select their own puppet boards. There needs to be caps on all nonprofit salaries. I would include ALL employees in public services positions...including overtime. They should NEVER make more than the president of the United States!
Does that include payments from China?
And the state and federal funding that’s pumped into the non profits…it’s a very vicious cycle, and State and federal auditors ruthless.
The issue is with the highest management of LAHSA, Va Lecia Adams Kellum.
When a company fails, a CEO is removed.
Instead, why are we still paying her $430k/year.
She just got the job, LA has been dealing with this issue since before the great depression. You're just bullying her because she's a black woman. She is uniquely qualified for this role, she is worth way more than 400k
@@visibletoa11userz ?? what does the CEO's race or gender have to do with this ??
Crook & Corruption
They even trashed trucks load of homeless food daily more than what a restaurant would trash leftover food.
Had an acquaintance needing a place to go, after many phone calls, I came to the conclusion that all the money goes to bureaucracy. I was told…to place someone homeless, they need a birth certificate, current ID (not even expired DL), and a social security card on them. So tell me…..what homeless person walks around with these documents? So then what good are these agencies….and what are they getting paid for?
Thank Gavin Newsom for that
I have to wonder where you are.
I volunteer at a shelter and none of those are requirements. One of the requirements is to follow the rules. That seems to be their hardest hurdle.
As a Houstonian, thank you Cenk for pointing out something Houston got right. We're fighting a progressive uphill battle in Texas, Houston has fraud in it's government, HPD need a reform, and the pollution is killing us all (multiple chemical plant and warehouse fires plus at least 2 train derailments just this past month). But every now and then we get some good stuff achieved! Don't get me wrong, homelessness is still a MAJOR issue in Harris and Galveston County but we're trying to be better ♥
@@Hypersyllabicsesquiterpene Cenk is a turd.
The title reads “unhoused”…*sigh*. TYT, stop, just stop. I love you guys, but if you start saying phrases like “birthing person” and “unhoused”…Just no, please, please, for the love of our heavenly birthing person…Oh god, now I’m doing it.
Even without mental illness and/or drugs, people experiencing homelessness are often sleep deprived, overly stressed, malnourished, eating junk foods... It's hard to be nice n friendly when you're unable to have basic needs met. Please remember homeless does not equate mental illness and drug addiction... Lots of people lose their homes through job loss❤
Gotta make em think it's druggies or else they'd have to raise wages or lower prices.
I can’t tell you never lived near homeless people
@@bradadult2075 meaning what exactly?
@Cj great post
@@bruggeman672 you don’t know anything about homeless people. Anyone with a right mind that is a good hardworking smart person can get off the street with all the Social programs we have. If someone is homeless it’s because even their family gave up on them
NIMBY. They don't want the low income housing near them, but a huge tent city of homeless is better?
The workers trying to help the homeless end up homeless themselves. Cmon America, do better!
Thank u! I've been saying this for years. The NGOs are paying themselves 6 figures & getting rich off the homeless industry. & they actually have a goal to make homelessness worse & worse year after year, because it equals more money for them. Solving the homeless crisis means they would put themselves out of a job.
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@@undrwatropium3724 none of these NGOs move homeless off the street into permanent housing. No, they pay homeless "advocates" & high price lawyers to fight cities when they try to do sweeps & clear out camps. They pass out free tents & food (tho alot of that ends up in dumpsters), & lobby aggressively to get cities to take a hands off approach to the homeless, getting vagrancy, panhandling & drug use & possession laws changed.
Unfortunately, there is absolutely no incentive for non-profits/homeless advocates to "solve'" the homeless problem. If the problem is solved, the funding disappears.
You've given up at the start line?
I worked at domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, homeless shelter and if i wasnt living with family, I'd be homeless. I work at an elementary school now and nothing has changed. When the last couple left of my family members dies, I'll probably be living out of my car. I've saved more lives than books I've read in my personal and professional life and I'm always already potentially homeless while having shared my spaces with my homeless friends.
Call me a cynic, but I suspect a lot of this money is being kicked back to state and local politicians. I’ve heard the situation described as the “homelessness-industrial complex.” No one has any incentive to end homelessness.
I would call you someone with a conscience. No doubt, battling corruption is a fight worth fighting and knowing that you're ACTUALLY saving lives!
The reliance on nonprofits to do the job that the government should be doing has turned me off the charity industry in America.
The Dallas Morning news did research on the charities here Ii North Texas. How much money they brought in, the CEO's pay ,. The top people make millions of dollars every year, the little people ( volunteers) made nothing!! Oh, the big charities had a goal to reach every year.I was shocked!!
Indeed. I remember the big scandal with the United Way decades ago. At the time I had money being auto deducted from my pay to donate... bastards!
I forget the name of the website that rates Charity groups and discloses supposedly their financials. It's how I go about it or food at a local bank.
No guarantees perhaps.
The argument is that the top person is supposed to be a "draw" for donations. Making their salary a loss leader. However, I've always found the non-profit model used by institutions a scammer's paradise.
So with 3 billion dollars it would be $3 billion / 60,000 homeless == $50,000 per year. So homeless people could be getting $50,000 per year salaries if there was no corruption.
They will never do it. But you are so right.
Most of the CEOs if these charities get paid obscene salaries to do next to nothing.
*They aren't charities.*
They always in vacations while having mirgants people doing there dirty job like a pyramid scheme.
Having worked in the shelters in Oregon, I can attest that we all have the same issue. The director and higher-ups get what they need but anyone lower are paid at poverty levels.
They never have enough staff and those who work closest with the people experiencing homelessness are burnt out and the shelters have a large turn-over. Most of us are on food stamps while working overtime.
Some who are staff are actually dealing with homelessness themselves.
The system is not only broken, it's breaking us.
The homeless problem will continue as long as housing remains a commodity.
How about prosecute these people who have mismanaged this MONEY. These people keep doing the same thing because they know they're going to get away with it. Either we don't prosecute them or even if we do they get slapped on the wrist
Cause the're eftists
It's easy to get not for profit and nonprofit confused. I've been noticing that a lot lately. Watching if the "rules" are broken is much easier than watching the workers. That's how corruptions finds its way, but letting the rules bend. If either entity is structured to watch the rules not just the staff, then you can keep track of "all" corruption and stop it immediately. There are real solutions to every problem. We just got to get good at it. Great video by Ana by the way.
This is an excellent expose, awesome job
I will never understand the change to the term unhoused. If you are living on the street, do you feel better being called unhoused instead of homeless?
I have SO MUCH RESPECT and appreciation for you two -- vital show. Keep at it! Our country needs you!
The typical CEO pay structure is improper for these nonprofits. They all need to run like co-ops because the people at the top who never touch a computer and are simply figure heads are not the ones doing the big work that's needed. That system drives good hearted people out of nonprofits and sucks them dry.
I can't even explain to you how much I agree and understand your comment.
Preach!! We outreach workers deserve a raise so we can help these people on the streets. This misuse of money needs to stop the higher ups don’t need any more raises or bonuses!
You outreach workers are hated and not trusted by the homeless. You steal their belongings and put their stuff in your own pockets. No help you lie to the homeless just to put your quota up
Unless you treat housing as a human right you can throw all the money you want at the problem and it won’t be solved.
Humans need shelter to live. Our present system looks at housing as a way to grow wealth. It is one of the most obscene failures of capitalism.
This is appalling. Think of all the homes for the homeless which could be built for the amount of money spent, and productive construction jobs created. Look at how New Zealand and Great Britain dealt with housing after the Great Depression and WWII.
Free home? No more mortgage/rent?
Can you imagine how many people would suddenly become "homeless?"
Why don't lefties ever think things through.
maybe build more mix income appartements and change zoning rules. to make the supply side lower rents prices.
It's easy to get not for profit and nonprofit confused. I've been noticing that a lot lately. Watching if the "rules" are broken is much easier than watching the workers. That's how corruptions finds its way, by letting the rules bend. If either entity is structured to watch the rules not just the staff, then you can keep track of "all" corruption and stop it immediately. There are real solutions to every problem. We just got to get good at it. Great video by Ana by the way.
I worked for 8 yrs with a very well established and reputable non profit and didn't even earn $24,000. The things they got away with and the disregard for their employees left such a bitter feeling in my mouth. I have changed my major altogether now. By the way, ALL non profits pay minimum wages to the workers that actually do all work. It is exactly as Anna said. The money stays at the top and never ever trickles down.
*Witness!*
Does anyone find it funny with the budget cuts, that not one single congressional person is willing to give up one of their team members, secretary, fact finders,etc. To help the country save some money on our budget????
Think about it, how much money could the country save if they printed their own documents, or picked up their own dry cleaning, etc...
We to get rid of ALL corruption! We need 100% transparency from public servants! It does seem like we have too many "non-profit" businesses and churches that aren't doing right by the people.