Homeless in the US: Supreme Court seeks to make homelessness illegal
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- There have been efforts to criminalise people who live on the streets in the United States.
Supreme Court judges are due to rule on whether a law that essentially makes being homeless a crime, is constitutional.
The ruling could affect the lives of more than half a million people.
Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles,
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The United States should make rent gouging illegal. Just a thought..
the US gov't is the one renting all the affordable housing so you can't find a place to live. Where do you think the ten million border crossers live? They get two years of free housing and every house is taken from the supply that the citizens are desperately needing.
Move to a socialist country
I hate landlords
@@silentmajority8365 and you probably tell others to stay and fix their country. 🙄
@@atlasadonis3752 Shhhhh, you don't want people to start thinking you're a Biden voter. Act like a reasonable adult.
Always money for war, never for a home.
That is the very sad truth. The US is broken.
The USA is a very broken 😞 country 😢
IT'S BECAUSE MANY OF THEIR PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS SINCE IMMIGRANTS TOOK OVER.. PLUS THOSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COME IN.
You don’t understand the difference between production and lazy.
This has nothing to do with war.
Having no affordable housing available should be illegal too.
Yeah. It's just like the health insurance con. Everyone must have health insurance, but employers aren't forced to offer it.
USA, USA, USA, POLITICIAN CORRUPTION, ISRAEL FUNDING, WEALTHY GETTING WEALTHIER ON BACKS OF AMERICAN LIVES
Okay PWT methy fetty go find your rat dog
@@uoohknk6881 What r u saying?
just NASTY@@uoohknk6881
There are many people that are working but still homeless in the US
Actually, statistics show that 60% of the homeless have full time jobs. When the minimum wage was instituted, it was set at what a family of four would need to live at the poverty level. The Republicans have blocked any attempts to increase it and now minimum wage isn’t enough for one person to pay rent or eat. This has been exacerbated by the banks and corporations to taking over the rental market with government money set up for under water home buyers that, instead of using it to bail out home owners, foreclosed on their properties and cornered the rental and real estate markets and drove rental prices up beyond what the average wage earner can afford.
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florida just made it illegal to sleep outside or to be on public property 😑 and cali passed prop one, the supreme court is April 22nd, 2024
@@jayleeper1512 in CA a lot of rental property sits empty + unavailable
@@preshisify I've been out of state since Christmas
what I see of it on-line it only supplies rehab + housing for drug addicts
nothing to do with affordable housing for the sane who can pay rent
but can't find a rental share they're eligible for (as in retired + male)
what are the aspects of prop 1 that aren't in the Voter Guide brochure?
700K Homeless, 16M Vacant Homes.
Thank you Blackrock.. Your time will come.
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Blackrock thinks their time is now.
Personally, I find it hard to believe it is only 700K.
10,000% Bologna! All of these people could get a free home from the government tomorrow, and it would cost the government way less money if they did. I’m so sick of this lying all the time they refuse to do the most basic things required of them like rehab.
Oh God if this is true. Tragic.
They would rather jail and criminalize people than give them housing assistance. What a sorryass society we live in.
Gimme a break! What do you seriously expect from government?
The purpose of government is to sell gratuities to the highest bidder.
Why should politicians care? Because they are such good boys and girls? That's magical thinking.
Government is not the solution. Government is the Problem! Peace will come when people have less to do with governments and more to do with each other
Prisons are good, they are a very profitable business in America and are also paid for largely by taxpayers.
And it cost more to keep peole in prision than give them a shelter
Ukraine and isralien need the money more than the homeless
@@morninboy It cost taxpayer's money, not politician's money so it is ok.
My wife and I were homeless for seven years. Since we got section 8 vouchers a few years ago and our rent became affordable we've been living like humans. Homelessness is caused by unaffordable housing. It's exorbitant rent, gouging landlords, and a court system that lets them quickly evict tenants, keep deposits and bar them from renting anywhere for seven years! It _isn't_ mental illness, drug use or addiction, criminal behavior or any of the typical excuses people like to blame. Those things exist at the same level as the rest of society. Being homeless, though, means living in a fish bowl, hated and feared by people for whom your mere presence is a crime. They call the cops and nag them to "do something" (get rid of you) using anti homeless laws or false accusations to do it.
It's the worst thing about being homeless, a nightmare ... and it could happen to anyone!
Thank you, people need to know the homeless are human beings.They treat them like things in this country it is disgusting.
Section 8 ? That’s embarrassing
@@edmonddantes5104That's a good way to describe it to the other guy section 8 is a godsend.
That is absolutely and categorically FALSE! The primary cause of homelessness is addiction and mental health issues (and most of the mental health issues stem from the addiction). I do agree that there needs to be more affordable housing solutions so that disabled and the working poor can have a roof over their heads. Almost every community in the country has existing federal/state/and local programs that will help people get back on their feet. Changes in zoning and building restrictions are what is needed to increase the supply of affordable housing. Section 8 vouchers only increase competition for the limited housing options that are available. We need more supply, not more vouchers. And what people who are struggling to afford housing need to understand, is that when you're priced out of your local housing market you MOVE to a city with affordable rents! You don't continue to live in highly congested urban areas where there is fierce competition for housing. I would love to live on the beach in Waikiki but my budget just doesn't allow that. So I live in a low cost area with lots of jobs and reasonable rents.
@@jasonjames4254idk if you realize this but moving is pretty expensive. No matter where you go. Getting up and moving isn't an option for everyone. Especially if you work in a congested urban area. There is not enough housing. That is the problem. Point blank, end of story.
Instead passing these useless laws, why dont pass laws to help these people.
"why dont pass laws to help " Such as?
They don't want to be helped. There are shelters all over the place.
@@JamesSmith-ij8nj Such as: Instead of sending USD160b to Ukraine, build shitload of homes.
@@ckokloong you mean create ghettos and shanty towns
California has spent record 300 million in LA to help them, it doesnt work because they are druggies and dont want help other than to get more drugs
Keeping a prisoner costs $87,000 a year, which is a huge amount of money that could easily house two or three or more. Priorities are wack, it's by design.
You are saying, the government should release criminals to society so homeless people can have home?
@@aspiresamori9696 Yes, yes I am. Especially if their crimes are fabricated or for minor drug charges or are small financial crimes.
How can we see a country where external wars receive massive money and not their homeless people as a desirable society??
Wel...I'd say because it brings you peace domestically but your gun/gang problem sort of..well...you get it.
Wars need to be seen from a global perspective. International help amongst the free world countries is critical to keep Communist tyranny at bay. You do realize that Ukraine and Israel are also being helped by DOZENS of other countries, right?
Domestic spending is a separate issue entirely. We need to make better decisions to help people in need and not punish them.
@@silvertone1 We don't have a gun problem. We have a crime problem.
Was not that long ago in Australia , if police pulled you over and you did not have $5 on your person ,you would be charged with vagrancy.
Some councils are now fining people for being homeless, the powers that be.😠
@joewoodchuck Nope the only countries helping Ukraine and Israel are the US/UK. Endless wars abroad nowadays are for the benefit of military contractors and weapons manufacturers to line up their pockets. The whole communist tyranny threat is just a total copout.
It's the politicians who should go to jail if people don't have homes
But then politicians would have to live in normal homes instead of mansions
Amen!
That is potentially behind this legislation. Just like the feds can step in and throw out an entire police department they might be able to do the same to municipalities administrations under this law. After all everybody's homeless problem can leak out into other states ie california, ny, florida and texas..its a national issue.
This country is ridiculous.
People love these MAGA’s!!! I don’t understand it.
@@bradleypollack5658magas ??
Yeah, agreed.
@@bradleypollack5658and youre a sympathizer for child molesters.....
You ALL basically enable religion and thus bascially all deserve the consequences. We don't even allow symbols like crosses or stars of david or burqas on any public employee. You have prayer in your white house!!
Maybe it should be illegal to charge 5,000 for rent for a 2 bedroom?
Why? I prefer to make it illegal for the feds to rent up 10 million homes, mostly affordable, for the border crossers.
My dad lives near the beach in CA, they just built a new apartment complex and a 1 bedroom starts at 6k a month 😂
@@pauld.b7129 It must be fairly far from the beach at 6k for one bedroom. The average individual income in Cali is 33k. There is a reason Cali has the highest poverty rate in the country per census.
Communists and Adam Smith agree that wealthy landlords are the scum of the earth
"Why does the US government prefer allowing homelessness instead of using taxpayer money to address the issue? Why does the US government allocate taxpayer funds to Israel?
Unfortunately there's more money to be made by managing a problem than solving it
Exactly
How is this “managing” anything?
Unless a solution is provided, making homelessness a crime should be unconstitutional.
Amen!
It already is unconstitutional because homelessness is a status, and status crimes are unconstitutional.
the solution is to put them on federal land
@@dino6471 agreed.. but they are addicts in majority
@@ColinoDeani provide sanitation and food and tents
The billionaires and politicians dont want to pay to fix this, but they're the loudest ones complaining about the problems this creates
wtf does a private billionaire have to do with homeless?
@@Jasper118 they're the owners of the companies that build the housing. Not all of it is public
@@TheKyubiisaan why would they be paying to fix this problem though?
Not everyone billionaires is a owner of building housing😂😂😂@@TheKyubiisaan
And they will order their puppet SCROTUS to pass this law.
“It’s a crime to be broke in America, the land of the thief, home of the slave.” Michael Franti and Spearhead, Brother Ali
Lmao 😂😂
It would be cheaper for society to treat these people properly, rather than ignoring them, or criminalizing them for existing.
Not only cheaper, it would turn into income in the long run!
The problems in the USA 🇺🇸 make me sick to my stomach
We should treat them with a nice cozy room in prison they have free tv free food free clothes and drug free
@@MrDodgeNDiveThe country don't think about long term anymore. It's all about quarterly profits and property value
Look up what HAS been done. CA is a great example. Years and years of funding and programs have done NOTHING to fix the problem. This is not being ignored, it's being dealt with by relying on government and taxpayer funds and that is failing them.
We need laws to stop the ridiculous rent prices...get back to hundreds a month not thousands ............it's greed .....
Completely destroyed mental health system, completely unaffordable housing, ridiculously expensive food prices…. And that’s in one of the “cheap” states.
The answer is HARD, and no one wants to hear it.
It will take nothing short of full scale political revolution uprising to change things in this country but most wage slaves are still in denial about that and would rather cling to the meager lives they have by working 40 - 60 hour a week dead end jobs that pay scraps.
The difficult answer I was implying is that we need to stop sending our money over seas to fund others counties BS, use said money to fund our mental health systems, quality veteran supports, make medication affordable, make housing affordable, so on and so on… but that takes hard work and kicking people out of office…
Crimes Against Humanity.
Everytime I see a cross or a bible quote, I remember those billboards are funded by the soulless people who abuse these homeless people.
Homelessness is indeed an actual crime against humanity. SRM
I’m in the USA. Many causes of homelessness. Rents can be tripled. Bankruptcy from large medical bills leading to losing your house or apartment. Losing your job and not being able to make your payments. Rent may cost $2,000 per month. To get into an apartment, you would need $6,000 - $2,000 for a security deposit, $2,000 for first month’s rent, $2,000 for last month’s rent. All to be paid before getting into an apartment. Lack of affordable housing is the primary problem. Blaming mental health or drug addiction is incorrect, an 3xcuse for those who don’t want to feel guilty for not caring.
The gov't has taken tens of millions of affordable housing for the border crossers. That's why the homeless population has been expanding over 20% a year since Biden took office.
700,000 homeless, 16,000,000 vacant homes
Do you own any of those vacant homes?
There are laws to curb excessive ownership and distribute wealth more evenly. A home should be a human right.
@@JamesSmith-ij8njno, they are airbnbs or deliberately vacant to drive up housing prices through artificial supply constraints.
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Right. Can i live in your room? I am homeless. Please send me your address. Thanks man,🙏@contemplatinggod2791
I was homeless. I was forced into renting from a slumlord who wont fix things. Now im going to be homeless again! Its just a no win situation!
pay your rent on time and then maybe the landlord can afford to fix things that are important.
@nonebusiness4488 excuse me? I always pay my bills on time. I expect my landlord to fix things that needs fixed since I moved in! Since they won't I will not waist my time or money on a cracker slumlord
How do I know she doesn't pay her rent on time? The laws side with slumlords. You sound like one of those privileged types who had mommy n daddy pay for your education and have no idea what it's like to struggle.
@nonebusiness4488 Sure. Blame the tenant when it could be the landlord being a slumlord. Easier to beat up on the victim, isn't it?
@@denisemayosky1955 thank you
Yes, as a Murican I can confirm this is all true of our country. We don’t have community in this county. We have a shopping mall. Politicians keep homelessness illegal in order to let their rich friends who run the prisons profit from more prisoners. Conservative Christian churches also don’t solve poverty because they need people to be impoverished in order to exploit them into converting. Poverty has not been eliminated in other countries by Christianity. But, Christianity enjoys turning other countries into 51st states by controlling what locals believe. As my master once said, one doesn’t need a standing army in order to colonize another country when they can just get everyone to believe in a particular religion.
Stop fighting wars and spend money on your people
America is so broken. How this country is deciding every conflict in this world and bullying everyone is beyond me.
we are the world police
@@FloridaMan69.THE WORLD
CORRUPT POLICE.
NOT 2B MIXED W REGULAR POLICE .
World bullies
@@adrienneclarke3953 🎯👿
And CORRUPT,
@@FloridaMan69. you start wars and support genocidal governments
YOU CALL THIS A SOCIETY
I don't call it civilized. What we're doing right now is not civilization. Society it may be.
The people at the top going after the people at the bottom.... An age-old story.
This is evil.
The more I learn about the us, the more I see a very cruel administration. 😢
Brainwashed into believing they are free!
You are learning what certain people have decided you should learn.
@@Matthew_Loutnerwhat do you mean?
It's not the administration, it's our government. They are corrupt and concerned only for those who bought them. be that with money, vacations, events, or most visible to us are the jobs they get when out of office or to get into office.
those same people are using every bit of technology that paranoid conspiracy theorists have been going on about for over a decade. Plus some. They use it to know what ads to show us. to know that I would favor a politician who is an animal lover- so that's the campaign that I see. we are sheep being herded by those whom we have sold our souls to with every app and smart device we purchase. Then we are led to one way paths that show a very limited narrative, but one that plays on our emotions and is orchestrated to make us feel like part of a bigger group. esp when hating on another.
@@fatimaali6956 You know everything because you "look at the news more often"?
Tell me what the news was last week in Pecos, Texas.
You know what someone decided to make a video and show you.
It is true that somebody should go out of their house and help these people.
But what are YOU doing for the homeless people in your country hypocrite?
You sit in your chair and say, "Somebody else should take care of this."
They have money for war but not for this poor people :(
We have the money for these people.
Who are these "we"?@@Matthew_Loutner
Wars bring profits, homeless ?...
@@ernestolynch1926 Wars do not bring profits.
"Wars do not bring profits" - please, go back to school and stop embarassing yourself.@@Matthew_Loutner
They've completely lost the plot with this one. Goodnight America
Absolutely insane to criminalize people who are victims of a housing crisis.
Because running a jail costs nothing?
This is rediculous!
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Who wants to be homeless. How can you help it if something bad happens and you lose your home. My God how pathetic our courts have become.
The dumbest thing is the article.. the supreme court can't make homelessness illegal.
@@RyanMWilliamsexactly, why even watch the video with an idiotic title like that. It completely misrepresents the situation and who takes responsibility of the situations. The courts have nothing to do with making laws.
Quite a few people want to be homeless because they prefer to spend their gov't benefits on drugs.
Pathetic is an understatement. Downright barbaric and cruel is more accurate, since the homeless are a byproduct of a highly regulated real estate industry designed to produce unfortunates, in enriching the few. Homelessness in 1960 when land regulations were more than 10x less severe/costly wasn't nearly as bad... I wonder why
Many street homeless die alone quietly abandoned by everybody. What's even more sad is their bodies get eaten by other homeless and stray animals and simply disappear.
Billions in wars dam shame on the American government 😢
Biden explained that, war is good for the US economy, housing needs to go to the refugees first because Biden said "America will never be first". You voted for America last, so why complain? Unless you didn't vote for the Dems, then you can complain without being a hypocrite.
Billions for the open border whose 8 million since Bitem's admin hit DC. Will they compete w/ homeless citizens?
"Always easiest to blame the individual instead of critically questioning the capitalist system we live under and its part in all this".
Europe also has a capitalist system but no one there ever thought of criminalizing the unfortunate!
We live in the wealthiest country in the world and capitalism is responsible for a large part of that. We know the facts and there is no need to question capitalism.
Economic inequality in the US is now approaching levels not seen since the Gilded Age. Yes, America is wealthy. But that wealth is increasingly being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. That is a policy decision and it is detrimental to societal stability.
@@MichaelDeHaven Oh stop being ridiculous. The AVERAGE income in the United States is $97,000 a year.
@@MichaelDeHavenwho cares about the income gap. It has absolutely no effect on your average person. Musks bank account does not change my ability to make a living.
Meaning the city or state is breaking the law by not providing for their citizens
I think real estate investors/investing should be outlawed.
The best way would be a progressive tax that just keeps increasing as you own more property. People who live under the roof they own don't pay that kind of tax. In fact I think we should decouple things like school from property tax entirely, the entire way we deal with homes and property needs to be re-examined so that it doesn't deliberately encourage classism and racism.
I'm homeless in auburn WA. 64yrs $960 a mo. On SSI. The cheapest place is $1499 1 bd. In the cities around Seattle, they spent millions on no parking signs and ways to discourage people from being homeless.5yr waiting list for housing.
There are places that you can live on that much in the US, but they are smaller towns and cities. You should check out housing prices at a library and move to a better place. You should check out every gov't benefit as well. You can get a gov't supplied cell phone with internet for nothing. Find all the food banks and charities and your money can go further. You have to search them out, but there are programs that can give you help.
@@annabellelee4535 I guarantee you that person is already taking advantage of everything you listed and they already live in a "small town" where, as they tried to explain, it's even more unwelcoming than in the nearest big city. The problem is the cost of housing is beyond the means of millions of people.
@@nessunodorme3888 I find smaller cities and towns much more welcoming than big cities. The biggest reason there is a housing crisis is because the federal gov't has leased over 10 million units since Biden took office. Open borders are hardest on the poor citizens of any country.
@@nessunodorme3888Auburn is the greater Seattle area where all the cities run into each other. Rent in King County, where Auburn located, is the highest in the state.
Yeah and finding a job in a small town is extremely hard since most of the citizens living there already have all the jobs you sound dumb lady
The much money you give to israel can support your homeles people
Solution: send more money to Ukraine, Israel and build more offshore military bases.
4 Billion dollars could house every homeless person comfortably for years.
Stop complaining. Thanks to your taxpayers' money, Israel's free health care and social security coverage is much better than America's. You must be proud to serve your masters.
In two years, Ukraine received at most 30% of what was promised, and of what it received somewhere from 40 to 60% was outdated or non-functional rubbish. About 40-80% of the electronic content of Russian missiles (depending on the type of missile) is American-made. Biden assured American taxpayers: “Of the $60 billion promised to Ukraine, $40 billion will go to the American military-industrial complex.” What is happening now will drag on as long as possible. Because it’s profitable, you know... @@sugarpuddin
That is federal money being given to Israel. Homelessness is not federal jurisdiction. The States have to do it.
Finlands housing first program should be tried in more places
It’s cheaper moving there. I’ll buy your plane ticket if you want?
Yep, that's really the only solution, is to provide alternative housing. But that takes $$$, and lots of it. So while everyone agrees on the 'problem', no one wants to 'pay'.
BTW, excepting Finland, things ain't no different in the EU, where it's estimated the homeless population would fill a city the size of Turin!
@@klowen7778We already spend huge amounts of money on things that don't solve the problem. Policing, jails, running people through the courts, public defenders, sanitation, etc.
California adopted housing first in 2016. Homelessness has exploded by 93 percent since then despite cities and the state spending a combined $5-10 billion per year on homelessness. Before 2016, chronic homelessness had been falling for about 10 years. Its hard to know what the results would have been without the policy, but its not a magic bullet.
@@Ap_twsh Buy me a ticket then, I'd rather live there than fuckhole that is America and surrounded by uneducated, ignorant, uncultured hillbillies called Americans.
Greed ultimately destroying society.
This is really dystopian.
Bailing out a "struggling" business is more important than bailing out clearly struggling citizens. American priorities in a nutshell.....
They bail out big businesses that is. They screw over small businesses all the time and don't spend a penny helping them out.
they can literally 'grow money on trees', yet instead of using them for its own people, they are making ruckus in other people's territories
The USA needs more offshore military bases. 1000+ off shore military bases is not enough
@@sugarpuddinyeah exactly because their ultimate goal is to take over the entire world
It is not "ruckus."
We help people all over the world and contribute to peace and stability.
@@Matthew_Loutneryet your country has issues you can resolve but choose to meddle in other people's issue not solving urs
@@farouqsiwoku1934 We do not "meddle" -- we help people.
But you are correct that we do choose to help others and that decision is our decision. And it is not for you to judge.
How about making paying less than a living wage to employees illegal? How about making greed and price gouging of renters illegal? How about making affordable housing for ALL a right?
If you did that you would basically make capitalism illegal 😅
@@melburnianscience7021Yeah, we should!
Don't look to your leaders for this; look to your neighbours and coworkers. Start a work union and a tenant's union.
making being homeless illegal wont make the problem go away
How do they even enforce this??, where do people go? If you have resources for jails wouldn't it be better to provide then housing?
doubling down on the misfortune a person can have, that craziness can only occur in the USA
I was homeless for over a year because someone stole my id and i couldn't cash a check to pay rent. No drugs, no indigence. I met folks whose homes were stolen or repossessed. People who had been institutionalized by their relatives and then tefused ownership of their homes. There were drugs for some but mainly not. This was 1985--6+
The true American value is money. If you think the streets are paved with gold here, they’re not.
They never where. But everyone that came from other countries claimed it was so.
@@phoenixtoash2396 Yes, because they were paid to as part of the defector-industrial complex.
@@sentientnatalie wow anarchist language. I don't believe in the paper everyone worships. I have nothing. They will most likely eliminate me. And that I welcome.
@@phoenixtoash2396They were in the 90s and early 00s
Affordable homes and mental illness is the main issue
No one can afford to pay rent .
Land of the rich not of the free
Is this a sick joke? How about helping these people?
Because they are to busy helping millions of illegal immigrants and housing them for free or on the taxpayers dime.
The money has to be spent on war, not on the people
Vote blue
@@farris5918 republicans voting to lower taxes on the rich so the rate of us are taxed more got them there
You have a claim with zero evidence.
Naw blue didn't get that there. Republicans did. Just saying.
California has a prison population of 117, 000 people. Criminalizing 75, 000 homeless people would require almost 8 billion dollars a year, at $106, 000 per head (California average).
Ridiculous!
It is so that the zionists owning and running the prison systems can make money off of the tax dollars and let our debt grow.
Prisons are good, they are a very profitable business in America and are also paid for largely by taxpayers.
@@ernestolynch1926So it's more profitable to incarcerate the homeless than to provide them with housing? I see
"By the early 2020s, there was a place like this in every major city in the United States."
"Why are these people in here? Are they criminals?"
"No, people with criminal records weren't allowed in the Sanctuary Districts."
"Then what did they do to deserve this?"
"Nothing. They're just people without jobs or places to live."
"So they get put in here?"
"Welcome to the 21st century, Doctor."
- Sisko and Bashir *Past Tense*
USA why don't you use the money from Ukraine to feed, clothe, and shelter your own citizens?!
Everyone is a step away. Be come homeless.
Middle class is going bye bye at least what's left of it.
True, the common saying is that ‘most Americans are only 2 paychecks away from being homeless!’
4 bilion for israil without any question ask! Well pay for your people !
ten times that went to the Ukraine
any comment?
There has been much more sent to Is sent since and a comparable amount sent to Ukr over a longer period of time.People are waking up to the w*r machine the us is!
Even if they cut like 10% of the money and put to help domestic homelessness to build emergency housing; that would help bigtime.
@@silentmajority8365 Ukraine legitimately defending their territory
Israil went past that a long time ago and gone into G-cide mode
Sure, and a hundred billion for the Ukraine. Stop being an anti-Semite and stop ALL foreign aid until the US is repaired.
Shameless and disgusting they should take care of their homeless people how revolting to support a war of genocide and not take care of your own people. Embarassing.
Disgusting how a government can treat their people while they send millions out to a wars. Shame!!
So if the supreme court rules its illegal to be homeless, where do homeless go?
Prison were the elite can funnel more tax payer money into there pockets.
Probably to work camps.
To jail.
Is solves no problem
How can we fix mental health system and bring down cost of living?
I worked for a mental health county contractor in Santa Cruz, Calif. Effective preventative measures would take a massive amount of pressure off of the “mental health system” (which primarily consists of: experimental medication causing unknowable long-term side effects often CAUSING symptoms that mimic various psychiatric diagnoses).
The majority of severe diagnoses are directly caused by trauma, almost always early childhood trauma, as opposed to a congenital neurological abnormality or organic brain disease.
If we can figure out a way to put the fear of God into those twisted individuals who abuse and prey upon defenseless small children, our society would be transformed so profoundly that it is beyond my imagination.
1500/month for a one bedroom is the crime! Go after the greedy housing corporations and force them to make housing accessible !!! Everyone should have a place to sleep that is safe, it is a crime of the state and of this country not of the people who have fallen through the cracks and are merely trying to survive !
In NYC my place is $2,300 😅
@@Help_im_sad my mortgage is 5k a month for a 3 bedroom
@@xxhc2000xx holy Spirit air lines that's horrifying
I was paying $1350 for a studio way back in 2003..you guys are complaining over what has always been. Big cities are insanely expensive, it gets cheaper with even milion fewer population. I pay less than that now 20 years later.
@@silvertone1 eat your soup grandpa. 🍲
You best believe we got money for wars! 😵💫
RIP America!
Craziness and lack of empathy on a grand scale.
The supreme court should be made illegal
Maybe we should stop cutting aid to our citizens and driving our own families into homelessness
What we give to the Ukraine and Israel would both fix our infrastructure and create affordable housing and get the homeless housed. Also, stop the flow of border crossers and remove those already in the country and we will have around 10 million extra homes for the US citizens.
@@annabellelee4535 I totally agree. We have to worry about things like water and food and housing and taking care of our sick and elderly and those who can’t do for themselves that are American citizens and I’ve never really been one to tout border control but it’s a little beyond our capability I think to handle at this point, and I don’t see any problem with us having some control over that. We really need to all of those funds could go to so many things.
@@wendywhite4929 Absolutely but I can see why Biden is so desperate to send billions out of the country. We are facing global dedollarization and when those excess dollars hit the USA, we will experience hyperinflation. Also, Ukraine is 10% for the Big Guy.
Housing should be a human right
FINALLY!!! Someone speaks about the foster care system!!!
Children in this country are suffering UNSPEAKABLE horrors and then tossed out when they are no longer profitable.... Until they end up in for profit prisons!
If you can work a job and not afford to live...then there is a problem.
plenty of ads for $14/hr gross jobs where I visit family
net pay won't rent most 1room apartments in town,
IF you find one available
Then they better make affordable housing available.
Deport the border crossers and there will be much more housing available for the poor
That is wrong. Many people can't afford a home.
Why not?
What does it cost to keep a homeless person in jail for a year? We could put them in a tiny house for less. The tiny houses provide solid shelter, warmth, electricity, and privacy. Some homeless people may be beyond that. They require mental help. We should give them that help. Making homelessness illegal is a ridiculous idea.
$60,000
@Matthew_Loutner That sounds about right. Tiny houses cost less than ten grand.
@@taze317 They do not put these people in jail for a year. Basically they give them a fine and the judge dismisses the fine.
If they are arrested, they will be fed and be out in the morning.
@@Matthew_Loutner meanwhile their belonging are gone because they left it on the street.
Policing them is probably the most expensive part, since much of the costs are immeasurable to society at large. It's hard to put a price on sanitation, security and other issues which may come from a large homeless population. Some people even argue that keeping them locked up would be cheaper. As i see it, the best way is the hard way aka. get these people cleaned up and off the street, the problem however is that the first step in a majority of cases must be taken by the person on the street. If you try to force someone to do something you won't get far, which means the best way is to offer them alternatives and hope they bite... what's even better is to prevent them from ever ending up on the street in the first place aka. interventions, but that's also very hard when it comes to private landlords etc.
Essentially it would make being poor a crime ...
No changes for 1000+ years? Who owns the land? London & England / Dickens and “ship them to America”. Well we don’t hang them them for sleeping on streets of London or perhaps in the Kings forest like was done around the years 1000 to 1600. But, have things really changed that much? Does the right to live / pursuit of happiness include the right to “ be anywhere” if you have no money or property? Some basic human rights questions are still unresolved? Is all property owned by someone or some entity or government? If one owns no property ( or has no money to rent property) what “ public space” is open to them? Civil society still has some basic unresolved issues to resolve.
Homelessness should be a crime that government and corporations should be held to account
The American nightmare!
Poverty is largely enforced by acts of exclusion;
exclusion is apartheid, segregation, a tool of coercion.
Deprive a population of its natural means of survival and you can extort both labour and loyalty. (If you can extort loyalty, what does that say about our supposedly free elections?)
The problem is not lack of money. The problem is that we need money in the first place. The problem is that the whole world is being held to ransom and that we need to pay in order to access it. Is that not the indefensible crux of capitalism? If feudalism was a violently enforced protection racket, its offspring, capitalism, added private property and licensed plunder to the extortion. As for communism, it is still built on the same foundation and uses state property to leverage compliance and extort wealth:
Ownership is violence: it violates people, it violates the land. No one can own the Earth.
Standing up against the bullies and the psychopaths is the way to go: above all, don't feed them.
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I believe there's only one way out of all the dilemmas, the confusions, and the brokenness caused by thousands of years of imperialism and colonialism:
That is for the majority of us to find the necessary courage and develop such a strong sense of self assuredness and fairness, that we become ungovernable. To be ungovernable, to be incoercible is what it takes to be incorruptible, to be true to oneself and one's community: just imagine all that incorruptible energy working in the community, for the community!
In terms of virtues worth striving for, this has to rank somewhere at the very top.
If enough people are ungovernable and willing to federate and fight to preserve their freedom, then government becomes impossible. It is for us to pull the warlords down - primarily by non-compliance, but by force if necessary.
Thankfully, liberation requires no ideology or ism's: anyone can walk away and become an outlaw to the establishment order.
(Indeed, people who impose their ideology on others are the worst of the lot.)
It’s going to be a tough struggle.
Onwards and upwards!
More access to drug abuse centers, psychiatric care, medical affordable housing, showers, laundry, affordable or free transportation, government programs for job skills. Access to government jobs (cleaning our city park, state parks, highways and roads, neighborhoods, graffiti removal ect.) no one wants to see homeless whether it be Republicans or Democrats.
They got money for war but can't feed an help the poor!
If THEY LOWER RENT THEN THERE WON'T BE ALOT OF HOMELESS PEOPLE!
Don't be naïve. Research the problem.
@@annabellelee4535
No stable housing = homeless
@@All-due-respect-I-disagree Your clown master Biden flooded the country with ten million border crossers in 3 years, that's what has destabilized housing, add to that the fact that the feds raised interest rates and you end up with a crisis. They can't lower rent, taxes, fees, upkeep, etc all has to be paid by the renter otherwise what is the point? When cities stopped allowing landlords to evict nonpayers, you ended up with rent rising into the stratosphere to cover the nonpayers. So, don't vote Democrat and don't vote open borders and you will won't have such a housing crisis. Do not support, you need to DEPORT.
but they gotta keep you on that hamster wheel with property taxes for their precious GDP! Evil has won.
THE US SUPREME COURT SHOULD DEMAND ALL STATE AND FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS TO SUPPLY AMERICANS THAT ARE HOMELESS AND NOT JUST FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS IN SANTUARY CITIES WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING ! 😮😮😢😢😡😡
Now the government doesn’t have money for Americans !
Call me cynical, but seems to me they want to fill up the prisons with more 'free labour'. Prisons are supposed to facilitate rehabilitation not profit for corporations looking to squeeze the margins even more.
Feeding the American prison industrial complex.
So now people are being arrested and jailed for being homeless.
Psalm 82 says:
How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked?
Defend the poor and fatherless. Do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy. Rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
So get out there and get busy.
@@Matthew_Loutnerbest comment. Thank you.
That’s why Dubai is the best
@@Coco-h3s Dubai is under sharia law. It is a criminal offense to not pay your bills and you get jail time for it.
That is why when someone in Dubai cannot afford to pay their bills, they buy a one-way plane ticket to another country and abandon their car at the airport.
The airport in Dubai is full of abandoned cars.
@@Coco-h3scountryside still better
Surely this is an attempt to treat the symptom not the cause
It is not even treating the symptom.
It is like if somebody had Measles but instead of treating it with anti-viral medicine, you inject someone with poison
What a joke , what are people to do ?
Defend themselves as best as they can. By means of attrition against government if necessary. The government has been looking more, & more like a domestic threat to the American citizens.
Squat. A word that is for some reason not even in the American vernacular.
Wow…wth? How about coming up with a better solution smh 🤦♀️
please take homeless into your home
And they're giving migrants luxury hotels in NYC. This is a disgrace!
Capitalism has turned everything into competition and money. There are things that should be guaranteed and priceless. Not everyone wants to be rich, some merely want to exist. ❤
But existing is an extremely resource intensive process who is responsible for providing a functioning capable individual with these resources?
@@Jasper118the collective should be responsible.
@@Jasper118 if everyone is living underneath the same system truly. The system should truly work for everyone. If we turn everything into a dollar, what worth can be applied to the individual? Capitalism may have some answers but it is not all the answer. A progressive country would be willing to talk. America has become authoritarian in ways that dont have to be physically malicious.
@@ratulxy aka my hard earned money
@@DonAldsDoOdyBerRiEs the worth of the person is what they offer to society, in any society. How you want to quantify that depends on the system. Whether it’s a social credit score, wealth/capital, piety, etc it doesn’t really matter. Every system has a means to quantify an individuals worth. Capitalism is the most objective way to do that and really the most fair because everyone has an opportunity to increase their worth (ideally). No system will ever work for everyone so that sentiment is not even worth exploring as the objective. However arguably no society has benefited at large more than capitalism.
The only crime i see is making life difficult on people who don't even have a house.
Building jails for the homeless is a really expensive idea.
Check out the Amazon prefabricated tiny homes. Since cities have plenty of gov't owned lots, they could create tiny communities.
And also cruel.
I'm sure the private prison corporations are lobbying for this.
Please man. If it was so expensive it wouldn’t be a business. Guess who runs and takes care of the jails. Inmates. And they work for Pennie’s on the dollar. It’s insanely profitable. Prisoners produce the food you eat from a lot of farms.
650,000 homeless in the US and the U.S. taxpayer is forced to provide Israel nearly $10.7 million in aid every day.
That's not going to work either. The government itself contributes to homelessness (HUD).
People have to go somewhere. I have been homeless for 9 months. My finances, by the government, set my income to such a state that they're contributing to an extension of my homelessness. I must use my cash to buy food while trying to save for first month and security deposit at the same time for my next place.
These are both government programs that don't really help. I don't care what their intentions are, this is what happens in the real world.
Now you say they want to punish me? They already are! 🧐😵💫😡
Stop buying the lies!
What, instead of finding them housing & jobs, we'll be keeping them in prisons, doing nothing, with no options, at an enormous cost to taxpayers...Wdn't it be smarter to invest in low cost housing, job training, job placement, mental health facilities? I feel the stench of privatized prison corps. all over this...
Drug addicts and the mentally ill have a hard time keeping a job. It is time to be realistic.
@@annabellelee4535 then they need housing and some way to contribute no necessarily a job.
@@nonebusiness4488 they need to be locked until they break their addiction enough to be able to think and be willing to accept medical treatment.