Seattle Homeless Tour - Homeless in Seattle Part Two
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- This video is a follow-up to our earlier look at the pervasive homelessness problem in Seattle, an issue that plagues far too many cities in a country as wealthy as the USA. Most people think of Seattle as a city that's modern and progressive, with beautiful nature, green spaces, mountains and lakes, the Space Needle. But there is an ugly side that has become a crisis - homelessness. Despite throwing millions of dollars at the problem it only continues to grow worse. Due to non-enforcement of drug laws, Seattle has become a mecca for drug users and dealers. Combine that with untreated mental illness, lack of affordable housing, and politicians who think the solution is more and more leniency to crime, and you have a recipe for disaster. This is a look at the dark side of a beautiful city.
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People in Ballard are losing so many Amazon packages these days. I have to use garage delivery for safety.
Stay safe up there. Thanks for watching.
You want to fix the problem? take non-profit out of homelessness and replace it with accountability! That comes from a person that spent 15 years on the Seattle streets homeless 1975-1990
Thanks for the comment from someone who's been there.
I used to complain about the not so great weather, however now Seattle has gone completely GROSS! It's a town I no longer recognize.
Exactly! All those little annoyances no longer seem like anything at all. Thanks for watching!
It looks terrible! Tent city and rubbish heaps. This is a real problem. These people are lazy, they do not want to work, they are satisfied with this way of life. It's my opinion. We also have homeless people. These are people who sink to the bottom of life for various reasons. These are mainly alcoholics and drug addicts.
All your points are exactly right. Yet those in charge here do nothing to rid the city of this blight. Thanks for watching.
Beautifully captured. A very difficult problem in many respects.
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This is so sad. I had no idea! Thank you for sharing and I hope something will be done to fix this problem. I haven't seen part 1 yet. Watching now. -Vedda
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8 лет назад такого не было, ну разве что палатки бездомных стояли длинным рядом вдоль хай вэя
That's quite depressing, don't really know what to say here. Thanks for sharing this with us, do take care!
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The guy asleep in the park near Pike Place market is probably the same one I saw there two years ago. Great video and very atmospheric music at the start.
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Hope those homeless can have a better life sooner.
Unfortunately most of them, even when offered assistance, don't want it. This is their lifestyle of choice. Thanks for watching and commenting.
i liked
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I've seen this place in a documentary. There were a lot of people on drugs.. I was scared. What was interesting to me was that there were more people out there who didn't want to get help...
Yes, this is correct. 95% of them when offered assistance turn it down. This is their choice to live like this. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Then put them in fucking jail
Very beautiful video thanks for sharing 👍
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They should of kept it Safeway
I used to get frozen yogurt there in '88 :)
Anything would be better than how it is now. Thanks for watching.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Thank you :)
I lived in Ballard from Jan 1976 to March 2008
@@AstronomerRob You wouldn't recognize the place now.
Thnks for sharing
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Ohhh! It is very sad!!! Thank you for sharing! Like 11!😐
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Here watching great content
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always success my friend. your video is cool
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I've just gone recently to visit a friend of mine that lives in West Seattle. Some parts of the city were worth seeing, and some weren't. Once you leave the city, you tend to forget about the homeless a bit and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the state. Even though the problem is everywhere, but it’s worst in Seattle. My friend and I visited Olympic Park, and I felt safer than being in the city.
This is exactly right. That's why most of our videos focus on the good parts of the area, but occasionally we feature the bad stuff too, such as this. The problem is the crime, homelessness and drugs are spreading like a bad disease further and further out from the city. Thanks for watching and leaving your comment.
REI tents.
Only the finest for Seattle's homeless, courtesy of your fine city government. Thanks for watching.
Please train them to become farmers. America is huge.
If they wanted to work they would already be doing that. Thanks for watching.
I can’t thank you enough for presenting this. After viewing part 1, I immediately took Seattle off my narrow list of possible cities to relocate to. Now seeing part 2, there’s no way in hell I’d move there let alone visit.
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@@sunnyskytravel4571 how is Fremont?
@@clausellmathis3805 Funky as always. Last time we were there it was ok, didn't see any large scale tent camps like this but they pop up most anywhere so you never know.
Ballard is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in town to buy property, too. And this isn't the only camp.
@@downtime86stars17 Everything in Seattle is ridiculously overpriced anyway, but having to live around this certainly doesn't make it any more attractive. Thanks for the comment.
Oh my heart aches. I belong to the Midnight Run organization and I’ve met a lot of homeless people. They need our help, more than ever. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
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Thank you for your compassion and kindness.
stay strong
stay positive
speak softly and continue to DEFI.
Namaste.
God helps those who help themselves.
@@p52893 Even though that particular saying is not found anywhere in the Bible, the concept is without doubt correct. Thanks for watching.
Fuck that, they steal from people and stab people.
Street homeless live very simple and modest life. It's really a minimalist type of life. They don't need much, so they don't ask for much. They simply find a camping spot, and that becomes their new home with new stories and memories. They prefer being left alone as they are. The only thing they really want and think about is fentanyl. 99% of street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence.
The problem is that "minimalist" lifestyle of choice infringes on the rights of others. Would you want someone setting up camp on your lawn, or in front of your business using their drugs, living in filth and you are powerless to have them removed? Not to mention that this "lifestyle" 99% of the time involves crime to support their drug habit since of course they certainly don't work for the money to buy their drugs. It is really just a state sponsored and supported method of slow suicide. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Seems the homeless and jobless enjoy sitting on their asses like engineers.There is a gentleman on u tube born with no arms, repairs and restores farm tractors with his feet. God bless him. The rest of these people should be ashamed of themselves.
Agree 100%. You can either go through life being a victim or being an achiever. Thanks for watching and commenting.
It's a park no more! I won't go to that library either if I were there. Good thing it's Seattle and there are other public libraries to go to ;-)
The main library downtown is also full of homeless. No one goes in the restrooms there but them. It's a city wide problem. Thanks so much for your visit and support, we appreciate it.
I sold my house and moved out of Seattle in 2020 because I saw where things are going, and it's only gotten worse. And to those who say "it's everywhere" I'd say technically yes, but Seattle and Olympia enable this. I moved to a somewhat distant suburban township in the Seattle area and I see none of this. Kirkland, Bellevue, Bothell, and the other small townships north of Seattle haven't fallen into the trap of enabling homelessness, at least not yet. Seattle is the "Twilight Zone" and you see it as soon as you cross 145th street (northern city limit) heading south into Seattle. This video only scratches the surface. There are tents in all the parks and greenbelts throughout north Seattle too. Property crime is skyrocketing, as is catalytic converter theft, and open air drug dealing out of RV's. Thieves are starting to steal packages from porches in full view of the home owners because they know there will be no consequences, and nobody will try to prevent them. Graffiti covers every vacant building almost immediately.
Sad to say you are 100% correct, it spreads like a bad cancer and it will eventually infect everything and everywhere in the region. The only solution is move to another state where such things are not tolerated and enabled. But of course no one should have to go to such extreme measures just to be able to live a normal life, but that's what it's come to. Thanks very much for watching and leaving your comment.
So, what's your solution? It's one thing to point out that there is homelessness, but where are your suggested solutions? Are you going to build a new Homeless Prison?
I don't believe I suggested any such thing as prison, nor do I pretend to have any ultimate solution. It's a complex problem, but clearly what's being done currently in many large cities such as Seattle is NOT working and only getting worse. I'm just showing what's there. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Oh, I know you didn't suggest this, but I think it's pretty fair to say that everybody knows that America has a homeless problem. So, just pointing out the problem is an exercise in futility when no possible solutions accompany the known.
It probably sinks there also, the government don't care, the business should move out if they want safety, just leave
A lot of downtown Seattle businesses are leaving/have left/closed down - Walgreens, Target, Ross, Bartell's, many of them abandoning the area after decades of being established locations. They simply cannot make money with the rampant theft and unsafe working conditions for their employees and customers. No prosecution of crime from the city. Truly unbelievable situation. Thanks for watching.
Living in those condos cost a lot for nothing, until we can get the cost of property to a live able level, this is what we have, in short it is called , “greed”
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I see karma in play.
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What’s truly sad is to the city govt, these home-free people are huge money makers! The city spends hundreds of millions on them each year. Contractors build tiny homes for a quarter of a million each, no audit. Drug addiction program consultants who don’t even keep records of who they see, or if any stop taking drugs. No audits. The city gets volunteers to count how many they can find in a day, that’s their best estimate - but they have no idea if those are new people, the same or more... The city council does not care and nor do the people who vote for them.
It's truly a debacle and no one takes accountability for any of it, they keep wasting untold millions of dollars that accomplish nothing and the idiot voters keep voting in the same idiot politicians whose policies have created the mess. Inmates running the asylum. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 in 2016 we moved away, it’s a one party govt that sends ballots back when ppl didn’t vote correctly. Sick. Last few years, I just voted for Goodspaceguy. His delivery is terrible and he’s got negative charisma, but his thinking is actually pretty good.
@@kanscopeichel491 I voted for him too!
That's the type of welcoming committee that we expect in New York, and you don't need to see a homeless person to get one of those in NYC, lol. I do have a feeling that his phone wasn't capable of taking pictures, just at a guess. As for feeling safe for children, in one way I guess that it is educational. From what I understand, most people who are homeless (I can't speak for Seattle as I don't know) also suffer from some type of mental illness, at least if they are in concentrated areas then you know the no go areas for children? There are probably some types of the culture that I don't understand out West. Here in New York it is very rare to have a tent city. They might pop up from time to time but they are moved on pretty quickly. There used to be one in Tompkins Square park in Manhattan in the 1980s but I think that was the last of the larger scales ones.
The drug addiction and mental illness go hand in hand, a chicken or the egg type of thing. But what came first doesn't matter so much when the end result gives you this kind of mess. The fact that it's tolerated and even aided by our so called political leaders is nothing short of civic insanity. Yet the idiot voters around here keep voting the same idiots into office to continue the same ineffective policies that created this disaster, so I guess you could say they are getting what they voted for and deserve. We are glad we don't actually live in Seattle surrounded by this. Thanks for watching and always leaving your great comment.
That’s so true…..tents are moved quickly in Manhattan. Only last week not far from Tompkins Square Park, homeless in tents and sleeping on coaches were starting to gather next to Trader Joe’s and Domino’s. Three days tops they were removed.
@Richard Arthur
That’s so true…..tents are moved quickly in Manhattan. Only last week not far from Tompkins Square Park, homeless in tents and sleeping on coaches were starting to gather next to Trader Joe’s and Domino’s. Three days tops they were removed.
As far as the market, greed has ruined the market. It used to be a wonderful place, full of everyone. But, the buck, stops with the property owners. Unless you have a lot of money, you do live there. All the buildings were revamped for the rich, so the view was taken. People who lived in those building were pushed out. The people who run the market ruined it, I quit going there 40 yrs ago. It is nothing but a tourist trap. Don’t go there, 🥀🤦🏻🥀
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This is what happens when they remove the homeless from the highways and off ramps. They move into town. They’ve always been here it’s just out in the open more.
Yes, there have always been some, but not on this scale. The numbers have simply exploded in this region and many other locations where drugs and criminal behavior are tolerated and even encouraged. Thanks for watching.
Let’s go kraken !
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a lot of homeless live here thanks for sharing ❤️🙂
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So when are you going to show homelessness in every city and town in America?? Why just pick on Seattle?? How about other countries cities?? This is a world wide problem not just Seattle's.
Not picking on Seattle, it just happens to be where we live so a familiar and convenient place to film which does have a serious problem. If I lived in L.A. or San Francisco then I would no doubt concentrate - or "pick on" - those places. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
Whataboutism at it's finest.
@@oceania2385 Thanks for watching.
Well, BILL…. Because Seattle’s was mostly preventable.
Your verbiage is incorrect.
It's a drug problem first, then homeless. Legal drugs have made it a war zone. I'm at 15th ad 51st and it's a circus.
Drugs+mental illness = homeless. Thanks for watching.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 No lady I'm homeless I don't do drugs I work part time OK. The squalor is all the drugs
Many homeless there ya😲
Btw nice weather☀️
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Thank you for showing this realistic view of the city. I feel sad after watching it, I remember taking the train to Seattle from Salem with my young children some years ago and feeling perfectly safe roaming the streets and downtown with them. Wouldn’t do that on foot now, for sure. I wish someone could create an effective and humane solution to the drug and homeless epidemic. I sure don’t know the answer.
As someone who has lived here for over 50 years it is a very sad thing to see it deteriorate so badly in the last few years. Of course it doesn't look this bad everywhere but it's prevalent enough to make us not want to go in a lot of areas. Thanks for the comment and visit to our channel.
Than were all glad that people such as yourself stays the fuck away from such a great place as the Emerald City.
You are part of the problem or are part of the solution:
--there is no one standing on neutral ground nowadays, no individual or community is an island onto themselves alone.
do all the drug addicts, "homeless" get to vote for all the people who are paid to "help", and aid for more $ to give to them to "improve" their lives. them???
I doubt that many homeless/addicts bother to vote. They just flock here because they know they will be aided and abetted by the city, free from prosecution and to live their "lifestyle" of choice. Thanks for watching and commenting.
The land of the free!
Unless you are a business owner or homeowner and they decide to camp on your doorstep and the authorities will do nothing to remove the squatters. Thanks for the visit and comment.
Isn’t it ironic that the highest taxed cities also have the highest homelessness rates.That’s why I will always vote Republican 👍
And the cities with the tightest gun control have the highest crime and murder rates. Thanks for watching.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 ,yep..they all vote for democrats too😂
@@jimmysotack5490 How can so many people not see the obvious? I feel like Butch Cassidy: "I got 20/20 vision and the rest of the world's wearing bifocals."
дякую ..переглянула..життєве відео..дружимо..я з тобою
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After all the BS "protests" and the autonomous zone shit..
This is exactly what you get.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...
Yep. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 hey thanks man..
That's super nice!
Glad I don't pay taxes there.I'd be screaming bloody murder right about now...
You can scream as loud as you want, they'll just keep throwing your tax money down the toilet. Thanks for watching and commenting!
You don't even record hidden way? Why guy chased you to take picture you for like report police or this is how he get back at you? Big deal.
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This is horrible gruesome. i wanna visit Washington state but wanna skip seattle.. maple valley n black diamond's peaceful right??
It might be a mistake to skip Seattle completely. There are still cool places to go there, but getting harder to not encounter such things as shown here. Yeah, B.D. and M.V. are pretty far removed from this nonsense. Thanks for the visit and comment as always.
@9pm Till1Come thanks for the info
@9pm Till1Come Good suggestions, it's beautiful over there, only have to worry about fires every summer. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
This is AMERICA! 😔
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It is horrible place!
And not getting any better! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Why so many homeless people?
Lots of reasons. Drug use being de facto legalized, mental illness, crime tolerated and not prosecuted, property rights of taxpayers not enforced, and sky high home and rental prices. Thanks for watching and commenting.
👍💥🌏🏆📚🥇💓🕊️🙏
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WILD WILD WEST, PAER 2 . . Lol
In many ways it really is. You don't want to walk through there unarmed. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment, we appreciate it.
I don't like the tone of the written commentary in this video.
It's as though it's blaming the homeless people. Feeling sorry for the people in the condo's nearby? Shouldn't you feel sorry for the people in the tents? Or do you believe it's their fault that they are homeless?
Yes, it's a complex problem but the answer is simple: taxes, taxes, taxes. You need to pay more tax so that more social housing can be built.
In a a tiny, overcrowded country like the Netherlands you don't see any homeless. There are some, but very few. Ditto in the Scandinavian countries. But they pay TAX!
Well you're entitled to your opinion but I for one believe in smaller government and less taxation. If you love paying taxes so much I'm sure the IRS will he happy to take any donations you wish to give them. Or feel free to emigrate to one of those wonderful socialist countries you seem to admire so much, I'm sure they'd be happy to take your money also.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 I can't understand your mentality. The Scandinavian countries, and the Netherlands, are not socialist, they are democratic welfare states. I've lived in the Netherlands for 12 years. I now live in Australia (I am Australian), and sadly we are going in the direction of the US.
It's been consistently demonstrated that high tax countries with high equally are better for everyone, including the rich.
I don't understand why Americans and Australians don't want to pay tax. It's short sighted and ignorant. At least in Australia we still have universal health care.
@@snowbear1877 And some of the most draconian covid lockdowns in the entire world. That's not freedom, mate. The one Scandinavian country I admire more in the last 18 months is Sweden. They never locked down, enforced mandates, closed businesses. Yes, they suffered initially but now have complete freedom from masks AND covid with the best - lowest - case numbers in Europe while other countries continue to enforce demonstrably useless restrictions. It's the same basic question of freedom versus control as your taxation issue. I don't believe the government knows how to run my life or spend my money better than I do.
Put the homeless on a barge and send them out to see to live…or whatever.
Well, that would probably be an improvement over the current approach at least. Thanks for watching.
* Ode to the Forgotten *
I see the Pearls,
That are boys and girls.
Left alone,
By care Unknown.
Dads Gone,
Moms who can not Cope.
In the way and unaffordable.
Passers -by see the Sky
But not the Cries.
Watchers see the Shame,
But not the Pain.
The Judgers scream.
Get a Job
The Broken Reply,
Put one there, not Overseas
Or leave us Be. Talk is cheap
as are thee.
Do-Gooders shout affordable is the cause,
Too Late, that's how we were raised.
Think up a wage,
That will make it as they say.
Life moves on.
For those cheated from Birth
Others decide Who comes First
In the End,
We fill our veins,
to kill the pain.
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Must be great paying $3,000 a month plus $300 parking for a 2-bedroom in one of the apartment buildings shown while driving through Ballard.
Dear Seattle residents. Get out of there. Move to the east side. You can find a nice apartment in Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish.
I think a lot of people are doing exactly that, if not even farther away. Thanks for the visit.
When Socialism took place in Czechoslovakia until 1989, there was not a single homeless person in the whole country. Work was compulsory and those who did not work went to prison. It was 100% employment. Housing for people was built and a newlywed non-repayable loan for life was provided. When we experienced a coup in 1989, I was fired in 1990. I was out of work. That is the face of capitalism.
But because I have never given up the fight for my comfortable life, today I have property, my own housing. No debt. I was still working. He always tried to correct the failure. The video is a sad sight of homeless people who gave up their lives or were lazy to work and resign to life. That's why they live on the street.
For other people, they are a waste of society. Nobody cares.
There are also many homeless people in the Czech Republic, but there is no tent anywhere. It is forbidden. Guarded by the police. They live in abandoned houses. They have wooden houses on the outskirts of the city near the forest, which they built. Inside the cities, this is not seen as in your video.
It is a sad situation and no good solutions in sight. I try not to judge them but most are in this state by their own choice, mostly because of drugs. Then they turn to crime to support their drug habit and it's an endless cycle. I don't have all the answers, just trying to document what we see. The worst part is it is not only tolerated but supported by the politicians in charge here. It is not like this everywhere but like a bad untreated infection it grows and spreads to other areas. Thank you so much for your constant support, we appreciate it.
Vote liberal, get liberal outcomes
And yet they just keep voting for more of the same insanity. Thanks for watching.
President Joe bide must think about those people in all America.
May God bless America 🙂
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The way you were filming that guy who didn't want to be filmed shows me that you are a hypocrite who just wants views. Don't ever take away someone dignity when it's not yours to take.
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They're stealing that Money
Agreed. The "homeless problem" is a massive scam designed to funnel millions into politicians and their cronies pockets. They don't want it "solved", they want it to increase so they can justify wasting more millions of tax dollars throwing it at the "problem". Thanks for watching and commenting.