Homelessness: The Reality and the Solution | Full Documentary | Short Documentaries
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Why are so many Americans homeless and what can we do to help them?
America has a homelessness crisis-and it’s getting worse by the day. Politicians promise to stop it. Cities like San Francisco spend millions trying to end it. Nothing seems to help. PragerU’s new short documentary reveals the root causes of homelessness and offers compassionate, effective solutions that we can all get behind.
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I was homeless for over 5 years... I am not a druggie... And I do have a serious mental illness... And I put it into complete remission 1 years after I got housed... I had a jod interview on Friday and I aced it... But if it wasn't for a nonprofit I would still be on the streets... And If I lose this program I will be homeless for the rest of my life... Which will be very short because I'm now physically disabled... And Me getting a job puts my income at a huge risk... I don't have a solution to the problem... But I do have a game changing tool... Peer support is the future of so many social services...
Had a homeless guy looking after one of my homes due to various factors that prevented my being there myself for 12 months. Bit of a risk but sister recommended I help him help me out with this. Finally got back to this home and lived there again for four months with him as I made repairs to the place before having to leave again. I was so busy that he asked if he could help and he tagged along as I had a thousand things to do. As we did so we talked about some of his mental health pro lems. He suffers from depression mainly. But at the end of a couple days running around, he thanked me and I was somewhat surprised as I should have been thanking him for his help. But then I realised he needed someone to respect his skills and to take him out of himself and be with him as he made an effort to do the things he needed to do. Perhaps many just need mentors or big brothers to walk them through the things the rest of us find so easy.
How does this explain that as more and better free stuff has been given to vagrants the number of vagrants has grown? Wouldn't there be people with these same issues 100 years ago so why not equal vagrant numbers then? Was this person emaciated or likely like the vagrants I encounter daily, physically able and mentally lucid and able to take care of themselves by themselves and even successfully take care of pets by themselves.
@@melainewhite6409 There used to be a lot of "hobos"
@@melainewhite6409 It's not about giving people free stuff. It's about mentoring people, passing on skills, being with people while you build stuff, make stuff, produce stuff. Taking responsibility for yourself. Being valuable and a part of a community.
Thank you for taking the chance and getting to really see him for the human being his is, and always ways. May god Always Bless You.
@@KC-dr3cg I searched for raw data for trend homelessness since the Great Depression. While you may be right I don’t think you have data to support your statement. In fact, I was appalled with many analysis on the subject that were so lacking in real data as opposed as observational assertions. Yes they often cite other studies, they also lack empirical data. And yes again, this is true for much of the public policy in our country.
As a former homeless addict that lived in psychosis thinking people who were following me and wondering the streets aimlessly I'm living proof that for those who want recovery can find recovery but relapse is part of my story but I came out of it by the grace of God
We need safe consumption sites!!! Let people use in safe areas so they dont die !
Having been homeless and an alcoholic the bridge approach seems to be the best I've heard. VA saved my life by offering a 5 day detox followed by a 30 day to 6 month rehab with mental health experts that slowly gave me a purpose in life. Cities should not allow homeless tents anywhere, designate a tent city or shelter areas first then send in the experts ,it will go on for ever.
I help an animal sanctuary in Central America and the animal sanctuary model could be applied to the homeless issue, IMHO. It is so tragic and sad. This video gives me hope.
As someone who is homelss on disabilty let me be blunt. The rent for a 1 bedroom apt in the crime filled bronx is $1600 dollars. I have never done drugs or broke the law. Where am I supposed to go when disabilty only pays $841 dollars. With a degenerative bone disease in my spine. Where am I supposed to go! Any one got an answer.
I assume most of them would just say you’re not trying hard enough.
Seattle is almost as bad as San Francisco. And they have similar policies. There are tent camps all over the place. Nearly every wooded area in the City has tent encampments of homeless people. If you subsidize something, you tend to get more of it. Private charitable programs have much better success.
I work in EMS (Paramedic) and I'm sorry to say, this problem will never be solved. Yes, it is a mental health and addiction issue, but addiction far out weighs the mental health problem. You can't force someone to go to rehab. You can't make someone quit using narcotics.
You're right. This problem will never go away, but at the very least it can be reduced. Hell it might even be possible to reduce it significantly. That is worth aiming for.
@@GilbertCarrizales Absolutely. I'm not saying we should give up, but rehab should be given to those that WANT it. I guessing the burning question is what would work to reduce it significantly?
@@ronnie_5150 Mental health and addiction is a by-product of the underlying issue that PragerU has an active investment in not bringing to light. Those that succumb to the vicious cycle have a separate issue to those that undergo initial homelessness to begin with.
Housing. Increase density to reduce housing prices. Actively shut down Nimby's who seek to protect their wealth by artificially keeping housing prices high and thus causing the problem to begin with. Housing is not an investment game for the wealthy to play anymore. Drive housing prices so far down that minimum wage can cover 30% of rent.
@@agg42 You're a clown. Mental illness and addiction are not a result of housing cost issues and those who are homeless due to financial issues are the extreme minority of the homeless. Your claim that PragerU is somehow hiding something is ridiculous.
May I respectfully disagree with you. There is a solution but no one has the stomach to implement it. in 1960 the us population was 1/2 of what it is now. In 1960 500,000 people were institutionalized. Today the population is doubled but only 50,000 people are institutionalized. If we had the same Paradigm today 1,000,000 people would be institutionalized. From my experience of living in Chicago for 15 years the majority of homeless are schizophrenic and the majority of the drug addicted are also schizophrenic. We should institutionalize these people and release those who respond to treatment.
It didn’t really make any sense, You’re saying that they’re just being given houseless, and yet you’re showing almost exclusively imagery of people sleeping and dying on the streets. It’s called housing first, not housing and then we leave you the hell alone. The reason they start With housing is that you can’t recover from drugs and alcohol if you’re on the streets.
I completely agree with this and that getting people clean and sober and proper mental health treatment is the number one key but I've always had trouble with the clean and sober ideal because I also have always been a firm believer that no government should be able to criminalize drug use and too often the threat of criminal conviction is used as a means to force people into treatment people who might not be ready for that yet we would be better off saving the money for people who are ready to get clean then to spend it on people who are only trying to get clean to avoid a criminal conviction or something similar cuz at the end of the day somebody has to make the choice to get clean if you're not ready for that you're never going to be successful in your sobriety
But it's never been about what actually helps or actually works.
We're homeless, have no 'issues' like that, & boy do we see what the real trouble is.
Problem is - not many want to hear the answers.
Some simple too.
But the system begets more of the same.
Great work. Giving people back their sense that they have value, getting them grafted into a community, and helping them realize that they can do something to be a productive part of their community have been the cornerstone goals of Rehabilitation Psychology for decades. Giving someone a key to their own apartment as the first step doesn’t provide these other needs. It has always blown my mind how much the Social Work field acts as though all the data from the Rehabilitation Psychology doesn’t exist or doesn’t apply to the people they want to help. We can’t just try to provide the basics, we have to repair the psychological basics that have been neglected, abused, or broken to rebuild these people back up so they can embrace and utilize and enjoys the basics again *and feel driven and able to fight for more than the basics for themselves*.
And we’re going to give people a renewed sense of community by forcing people into congregate settings at gun point? Give me a break
@@jeffarnold3800 I never said that. There isn’t one solution for homelessness because there isn’t one type of people who become homeless. Services and specific communities that you help people reconnect with will have to have some individualization (such as those primarily with lifelong mental illness vs veterans of war vs victims of trafficking). This also means there’s going to be different avenues for getting referred into homelessness prevention/restabilization programs such as referrals from domestic violence shelters, drug rehab facilities, jail diversion programs, state hospital reintegration programs, etc.
@@selahr. you’re right - the principle of housing first simply means that we carry those individualized needs out alongside housing, because without housing as a basic foundation it’s very difficult to address those individual needs. Some people just honestly need 6 months of rental assistance and some job placement support and they’ll get out of homelessness fine. Some need serious substance abuse treatment. But they all need housing.
@@jeffarnold3800 I don’t mean to imply that people shouldn’t be given housing. But the housing first model that seeks to give them individual housing units like single apartments is very inefficient, very slow to expand, and based on average cost per unit seems rife with fraudulent spending (ie a lot of money seems to be going to other people’s pockets or being siphoned off by other city projects compared to the costs independent businesses are able to build similar housing units). For some homeless people this is the right response because they are still functional and working, or qualify for Social Security benefits that would themselves be enough to solve the problem, but these people can often be assisted in getting other benefit programs to get them out of trouble like enrolling them in local housing voucher programs or county HUD projects. Even some of the people with mild to moderate mental illness as their primary barrier fall into this group where they have no been able to navigate these other programs. When I worked as a community-based rehabilitation counselor and case manager with a special program here that focused on indigent, homeless, jail diversion, and “revolving door” hospital patients, many of them just needed transitional housing in shelters or group homes for 6-12 months with a stable mailing address and access to a voicemail account to get through the enrollment process for these other programs. Resource shelters like the Bridge made a very big impact when they opened up here, and it seemed like they faced a long uphill battle to get approved and built because the politics and permits and neighborhood pressures were against them.
Years later the city adopted the housing first stance. They put up huge grants to entice people to build or convert single dwelling apartments into homeless housing. These grants were so inflated that apartments and senior independent living facilities mass evicted their existing tenets (most who were on Section 8 vouchers and/or on low level Social Security fixed incomes and already one small crisis away from full homelessness) which left many actually homeless because there weren’t any additional low income units available to fill the need. We lost our housing in one of these profit-driven mass evictions and our rent doubled to find a replacement. We were one of lucky ones who could afford the cost of moving and new deposits and who could find an open slot somewhere else.
The local programs also make decisions that aren’t economically sound that make matters worse. For example the housing voucher programs no longer allow roommates or family members who also qualify for the same program to live together and share a lease. If they allowed this there would be more units available and the cost per person that the government spends would be much less. Many of the voucher based and “tax credit”/low income restricted apartments were given huge grants by HUD to perform facelifts for the properties before the pandemic happened. These usually involved updated kitchen appliances, new flooring, and a new coat of paint inside and outside, and adding a few more ADA compliant units. This happened to us in 2019. For most residents these updates were not desired, and even actively opposed, and were extremely disruptive. We were told we would be given a weeks notice of when we would have to move from our existing unit to an updated unit, and three days to move or we would be evicted. We had to pay the cost to move our belongings and new increased security deposits. Many residents didn’t have the extra income or help from family and friends to accomplish the move. Those of who stayed were then given new leases that raised our rent 40% higher because the new “market value” of the units were based off the total amount spent on the rehab rather than value added/amenities added to the residential units. Housing vouchers therefore also increased significantly so the free HUD money to improve things cost the Section 8 and HUD housing programs to pay more for the same apartments, this reducing the number of families they could service with their budget.
We need a variety of solutions and we need creative solutions so we can serve a larger number of people faster. Building apartments in these already built-out packed cities can not fit the need. It also keeps these people packed into the same city and county programs that can’t afford to service them to the level they need instead of giving people skills and jobs that would allow them to relocate to places where the cost of sustaining independent living may not be so bloated. We need cooperation between counties to help expand the opportunities and space and possible solutions. I know here we don’t have enough shelter and emergency beds, and we don’t have many group homes/shared dwelling community options… and the ones we do have are packed into one county in job-poor parts of town because the suburbs don’t want to allow solutions to be built in their backyards even though they are facing a shortage of entry level employees.
I was in a shelter where productivity is a part of the agreement. I guess they are not all like that- I'm not going to travel around to find out. I say, a part of the community, not a part of the problem.
This is 100% right. I actually work at a homeless shelter as a part of a major housing program that has the housing first philosophy and housing first DOES NOT WORK. We've housed people who turned their apartments into sex trafficking locations, drug dealing locations. It's insane how flawed that system of thought is. Someone can just show up to a shelter, say they're homeless and have no family, and boom they automatically get housed with no responsibility. Some completely destroy the apartments. Some aren't even homeless, they just leave home and say they are so they can get a free place. It's an absolute mess. Some say it's the most loving/compassionate model, BUT IT'S NOT. The way to show love and compassion to someone is to give them what they need, now necessarily what they want.
Weird, housing first works in every other country. Maybe the USA is doing something wrong. Like, if it is possible for people who own a house to get a free place from housing first, you might have a regulatory issue.
Endrank...4 loko - Maybe lay off the 4 LOKO !
You're not making much sense.
I'm homeless (& not represented by what ppl say about the issue)
So... we both know that's not how things work.
Just cuz someone does 'intake' for housing at a shelter has nothing to do with how/why/when they'd qualify for housing.
Get your info straight.
And quit hyping the 1% bad type of people we all struggle to deal with/be around.
Housing 1st is deeply flawed in the US, not helped by the corruption & lies that destroy any chances of improving anything via programs.
Be supportive of those who can fix things ourselves if just some simple barriers were removed.
Like let me get a PO BOX!
It's crazy all the policy stuff directly in the way of normal progress.
@@Blaze6108 Weirder still how so many people from your nirvana countries risk life and limb to come to your failure USA. So, fund relocation of vagrants from the USA to these supposed nirvana countries that will treat them right?
@@genossinwaabooz4373 A vagrant with UA-cam access and free time to post comments.
This video is portraying "housing first" as "housing only" and that's ridiculous. The problem is NOT that housing first doesn't work - it's that we aren't actually funding the true meaning - housing first is SUPPOSED to come with all the mental health and addictions support services needed. This is such an unfair represention of the problem.
My husband and I have been homeless twice. Neither of us smoke, drink, do drugs of any kind (other than non addictive prescriptions) or have debilitating mental illness. We have also housed the homeless while helping run a homeless shelter. Yes most homeless people have a mental health or addiction problem.....no, that is NOT the only kind of homelessness problem in the USA.
In OUR case, both times my husband lost his job. The first time he couldn't find another job quickly enough to keep from loosing our apartment. The second time he lost it because of his health, and wasn't able to work anymore. And no, I was unable to look for a job. The first time I was 7½ months pregnant, and the second time (decades later) I was (and still am) physically disabled.
There is ALSO a LARGE problem with kids timing out of the foster care system when they turn 18. Kids that find themselves on the street without a job, or proper life skills, and carrying around all their belongings in a trash bag. These kids are the DARLINGS of the drug and sex trades. There are people who's whole job is to wander the streets looking for kids like these, to recruit them as drug mules and sex workers.
There are a lot more people around that are homeless for other reasons than addiction or mental health than most people realize. They're just not as visible as those with issues like that, so no one realizes they're homeless even if they DO see them. People who have never been homeless or dealt with homelessness THINK they have it all figured out. They think that ANYONE that is homeless is just lazy, addicted, mentally ill, or any combination thereof. And while that is GENERALLY true, it's NOT true often enough that a "one size fits all" approach to the complex problem of homelessness is unworkable.
And if the policies of the current administration are allowed to continue, there will be a LOT more people on the street that are there because they simply can't make rent, or find a job that pays enough to actually LIVE on with the rampant inflation.
Let's go Brandon!
Excellent piece PragerU! One thing I want my city to acknowledge is the illegal drug trade. WHO Is bringing drugs to these addicts and profiting from all this misery? WHERE is the task force and focus on erasing drug dealing in all of our communities?
Homelessness in North America is a choice. I was homeless for 12 years. When I chose to stop destroying my life, it was easy to fix.
People don’t choose to not have homes ever. Some decide that drug addiction is more important than homes, some lose their homes through no fault of their own but no one wants unstable housing or homelessness. That is against human nature and psychology.
@@jeffarnold3800
Still, you have to choose to go to rehab.
Personally, I think we should make it mandatory by the law.
@@jeffarnold3800 When I chose drugs over rent, I made that choice. So did every other addict who made the same choice I made. EDIT: Even if you give an addict a home for free, they will just trade it for drugs.
@@0xredrumx078 You cant help people until they choose to help themselves. I think making it hard to be homeless is the better plan. Rehab is useless if they wont choose to quit, better off putting them in regular jail, its cheaper.
@@LucVNO well right but if you’d had the money you would have chosen both I’m sure. There are many thousands of Americans that fall into homelessness not because of drugs vs rent, but often it’s food vs rent. Often the rent money isn’t there because their car breaks down on the way to work and they miss a couple of paychecks, or some other crisis. This is the sad reality of having a large underclass that is always one missed paycheck away from eviction.
The Finnish model of housing first (which has been very successful) provides all of the necessary services, drug treatment, mental health, job training, health care along with housing. You can't just put a person in a home without providing services to damaged people.
HOSING FIRST is a whole lot of BS .Firstly all the stuff you mentioned like them getting drug counselling job training, mental health is ONLY if they want to.They are not forded to do anything. If they want a place l don't want my taxes paying for it.
I hope you believe me when I say I understand how encompassing addiction can be. I do have to point out however, that you did get that addiction by your own means. You abused your prescription medication, drank too much for a long time, or you made friends with a bad crowd and chose to stay. I have a hard time with the compassion part. Some people enjoy that life. I've watched people that "struggle" with addiction ruin their jobs and their friendships over and over and over, and they do it on purpose. Because they. Don't. Care. Yes. The trick is getting them to care. I hope you've found all the answers.
Can you get them to care by force? This is what the video seems to suggest. Threaten them with prison or shape up. I don’t think that’s a particularly effective motivation, though I might be wrong. The Housing First model seems to have impressive outcomes, because it is a theory that suggests placing supports around people will lead them to want to change, and a caring approach will create a desire to want to give back to the society that cared for them. An approach based on threats and force tends to create feelings of disillusionment and resentment and an “F the system” attitude. Does that system have the potential to enable people? In some cases probably. But I think most humans in their heart want to care about something and be productive in some way. It seems to be our nature. That’s what we need to encourage in society.
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Many people suffer severe injuries that cause them chronic pain, and get caught in a cycle of reliance on prescription pain medication. When those prescriptions run out, they buy the best available substitutes, and when legal drugs become too expensive, they will switch to street drugs.
Addiction is a DISEASE. When someone has obesity and develops heart disease, do you tell them to go jog and eat a carrot, or do you get them proper medical care and work on a lifestyle plan to improve their health and their situation? Unfortunately, most addicts aren't in a position to get the letter without financial assistance. Assistance that many on the right refuse to give.
@@jeffarnold3800 How to make them care? You don't. You can't help someone who won't help themselves.
Not all addicts are the same. It can happen to good people too. Your generalizations are untrue. While it is very common for addicts to become that way through bad decisions, one can become addicted by following all the rules as well. Uncommon, but it certainly happens. Plus, have you never made a poor decision? Have you ever over eaten or called out from work when u arent really sick?
And if an addict is really that heartless and uncaring... guess what.. they will be that way sober too. You cannot teach or force a person to care. If you sober up a horse thief what do you have?....
A sober horse thief.
@@superbarnie exactly, which is why forcing them into prisons or shelters isn’t going to work.
This video completely ignores the homeless who aren't addicts. Shows the worst of California, an easy target. It ignores the massive cost of rent and the effect on people who are disabled. C'mon Dennis, this was not responsible reporting. You can do better.
I have experience with addiction personally and within my family and watched how that eventually turns into homelessness. This video is spot on.
Yes many, dare I say most homeless, do have drug or mental health issues. However, a lot of those issues are caused by despair. That despair is often caused by homelessness due to a lack of affordable housing/high enough pay for lower intelligence jobs. I myself despite having a high IQ, working from the age of 13, and being a specialist in a high-demand field would not have been able to buy my first home had I not been voluntarily homeless for 1.5 years. Likely I could have saved the downpayment over an additional 20yrs BUT that would have meant still owing on my home at 70.
In our society today the biggest problem many face is no path to anything more than mere survival and this tends to increase self-destructive behaviors.
Housing first can be terrific IF it is paired with other supports AND those living there need to be held accountable for at least some type of improvement/responsibility There is no shortage of other homeless that will take their place if they really truly are so far gone that they won't even try to help themselves.
Giving low-barrier homes would help some homeless people invest more energy in taking control of substance misuse, focus on mental health, personal and professional development, job finding, etc.
4:42 you compared the price per unit built to the national median not the SF median. thats apples to oranges.
I have an uncle struggling for years.. this video is spot on. We need more help because no matter if you give them housing or help find them a job. They'll end up back to where they were if the issue doesnt get addressed.. I'm looking forward to the day he quits for good! 😔
Homeless is a problem in New York City, Seattle Washington, Portland Oregon, Salt lake City Utah, Las Vegas Nevada, Phoenix Arizona, San Diego California, Austin Texas, Omaha Nebraska, Keys West Florida, fix the problem First
Add Kissimmee, St. Cloud, and Orlando to that list. The problem continually grows worse.
Today while waiting in the Chick Fil A drive they line (which is right next to a Walmart) I saw 6 homeless people
Whenever people say that the government should have absolutely no role in helping the homeless find housing, you've got to ask yourself one question, what is the fundamental purpose of having a government?
I'm homeless and the different programs here in Albuquerque ,NM have failed, in a big way. One member tried to belittle me. I refuse to be treated that way. And it has been that way for a very long time. Don't see any changes at all.
What we have is a crisis of purpose. People NEED a purpose. We need to feel needed. In the past, family, community, and/or religion were the primary purpose for most individuals. Today, we have a crisis of single parent homes, people don't know their neighbors, and religion is on life support. We need human connections and responsibilities that we own. Instead, we have the internet substituting for real friendships, the government trying to replace fathers, and a government/media/education system constantly telling everyone "it's not your fault, let us take care of you" and attempting to erase responsibility. We have government/media/academia telling most of the country that they are oppressed and there's no use in trying to succeed, and if you're NOT oppressed, then you're the oppressor and you're evil, so you should find an oppressed identity to belong to. As I was typing this, the video reached the last guy saying some of these things, about purpose and I feel he's on the right track.
I was with you with you on the first half but for some of us the education system helped us find our purpose when we didn't have the family environment to help us do that. There are a lot of connections to be made in an academic environment. What I got the most out being in the public school system is that I am a part of a marginalized community and that's what made me want to succeed. Because we can do better. What's the problem with that? I got a full-tuition scholarship to a Baptist university and I now share my life and story with people who grew up a lot different than me. And we respect each other for where we came from. And that's how human connection is made.
Somehomelessness is also lack of job hiring and paychecks that pay the rent, food, clothing, gas and tax bills. So sad.
I can sum it up in one word... ADDICTION. And if anyone has seen the movie Body Brokers on HBO how accurate it depicts that keeping them addicted, keeping the drugs flowing, it's all about one thing... $$$
Thank you Tom Wolf, for overcoming, but returning to bring light to the darkness.
Prager U was covered and/or explained by Illuminaughtii and many others.
18% of homeless have addiction issues.
This vid is garbage.
Homelessness is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and adequate housing. The definition of homelessness differs from country to country, with some countries yet to have any definition in place.
Economic Status is also not among any protections at all from discrimination.
We have no human rights.
The storage lockers is such an amazing idea, why isn’t any other cities doing that?
A lack of Family, God, and Country... Creates... Everything that Hell is there to offer, suffering.
Tell that to Japan.
Japan does uphold Family, Faith, and Country! Look it up 🙏
For the past 50 years, I have served the homeless in the Midwest through a Christian organization. I too am dismayed at the explosion of homelessness in recent decades. I agree with most of what is presented in this video by Prager U, especially the points at the end concerning accountability and rehabilitation. However, I believe there is one serious element missing from the analysis, and that is the prevalent public attitude of NIMBY - not in my backyard. As long as there is a severe shortage of shelters, tent, encampments are a vital necessity. What I have witnessed is government policy, especially at the local level, that militates against any groups that really want to help the homeless. Local zoning laws and other policies can make it virtually impossible to open a shelter or a rehabilitation program. Perhaps the problems in California are a little different than they are in the Midwest, but I believe that the Nimby complex is one of the biggest obstacles to solving the homeless crisis. This video does not address that problem.
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I see both of them.
21:20 self sufficiency 👍 Like good parenting, the best approach to help must be both kind (empathy) and firm (accountability).
This is not a fair portrayal of homelessness and addiction. Housing first is not perfect, but this doesn’t address the systemic issues that make it difficult for treatment and mental health care
"Addiction is a choice, not a disease."
Love that. Tough truth. We are still at the helm of our ship.
addiction is a disease tho. its a choice to start it tho. like i know i have an addictive personality due to my high level of self awareness and that is why i never started drugs in the first place. but i do get addicted to certain foods or netflix or any other "socially acceptable" pleasures.
@Maximus Trolleus then it's a disease of choice.
@@tjedwards4254 not necessarily, by definition an addiction is something you cant choose. If you can choose it then you werent addicted to it in the first place. Thats the paradox.
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@Brown Fried Rice that's not true for even the majority of cases. And when you blame an injury, I am sympathetic, but you're taking away their agency and therefore their human dignity to have a capacity to choose.
Jail if you can keep the drugs out is a better idea than housing first because if you force them to get clean via incarceration at least then they'll be able to make a rational decision about their lives, whether they want to continue down the losing path or straighten out
Let’s address, first, people working full time jobs and having to camp out. Like me folks.
And let me bust your bubble… I am college educated, a veteran, a good worker, thin and super healthy, no addictions whatsoever.
What do you say to that?
No one really talks about the Foster care to homelessness pipeline. It is real and thousands of kids are aged out of Foster care every year to nothing. They do not teach them to truly be on their own in the real world while in Foster care, then they're just let go to figure it out. It is not right and just placing them in "permanent supportive housing" will not help them grow either.
Until the system is updated, this won't end. Laws govern the universe, and according to Bastiat (author of _The Law_ ), until those laws are followed, you'd be wasting time, money, and breath. I wish you well.
New Jersey became number 1 in reducing chronic homelessness 2 years after ending life time alimony.
So blame feminism not capitalism.
just give each homeless person a large room unit made out of concrete which is cheap
that addresses their need for a place to sleep , gives them an address they can use to apply for jobs and gov't services and makes them less of an irritation for the rest of the citizens
then we can offer them other services like drug treatment and mental help
Thomas - The Laws that need changed are:
- Can't get ID/DL without an address.
- Can't get PO BOX without an address.
- Can't pick up mail at PO without formal ID via "general delivery" option.
- Can't sleep outside anywhere at all without paying $$$$$. (Any jurisdiction I'm aware of in my area)
- Can't arrange any alternative to fines for simple things like parking/low speeding tix.
- Can't receive court mail at any address given the above mentioned.
....shall I continue?...
@@genossinwaabooz4373 change all those laws or easier just give each homeless person a room unit with their own address on it
@@genossinwaabooz4373 As drugs mask the symptoms of a root cause of poor health so do laws mask the symptoms of a failed system. You needn't continue. Bastiat has the root causes enumerated in his work I mentioned.
Three important questions: 1. Do they want sobriety 2. Do they want help 3. Are they willing to try If they say yes then put them in an efficiency and treatment. If they fail or refuse to do anything, they are free and adults and they have a right to be free and do as they want.
So weird, I was in LA back around 2019 and was sleeping in my tent and in my car for a while because housing prices are so crazy high over there. We camped in echo park for a while which is shown a lot in this video. At 5:20 I think that might be our tent on the left. It was a great view looking out at the lake and seeing downtown in the background. But I do agree with the take they have in this video and housing first seems crazy to me. And maybe LA leadership should consider if all the restrictions they make and how hard they make it for people to build low income housing, that maybe that causes prices to go up.
Reminds me of how the homeless problem we have is bc of mfs like ronald Reagan decreasing funding for mental health services, and acting like giving people a home is bad is so unbelievably funny as with a home they can get a job and become members of society. The whole idea that its an innate human urge to be lazy and leech off others is just stupid, for all of human society we have lived in common we have helped each other and only now that we value profit over others in hopes that it would trickle down and help others have we lost our humanity and gotten where we are. If you want a solution to homelessness legalize all drugs fund drug rehabilitation and mental health services with the money we just took away from border security and the DEA and implement housing first like in Finland who's homelessness is going down, help others not harm them.
This is a very good channel. Even better, are these guys are ACTUALLY doing something!!
Does firing nurse and doctors for refusing the MRNA jab, help with homelessness....
This video is incredibly biased and ignores that you can both invest in social programs and services to help mental health and addiction AND give people a place to live. Research shows that the Housing First model works. It has helped eradicate homelessness in Finland and lower homelessness across the US. To simply pick through the research and state that it's not working based on the ways it has impacted funding is incredibly biased reporting. Not shocked from a conservative news source I guess, but this is not even close to the full picture or research done on homelessness.
For those that have no idea the power of addiction, imagine that sex is the most stimulating and dopamine releasing act a human can naturally experience, and know that heroine delivers 18-19 times more pleasure 💀
Did Tom say that he was a "child support officer"? Thank you Tom for your testimony!
"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????
Housing isn't what they need what they need is Humanitarian assistance. It's wasteful.
Humanitarian assistance would include housing in my view
@@jeffarnold3800 Its housing with assistance instead of just putting people in housing without assistance. You can't expect an addict to have housing and decide to be clean.
@@FieryJuniper making housing conditional on receipt of assistance generally drives people away. We see this in shelter programs all over the country. Basically what this video suggests is that we force them to accept services via threat of prison. Maybe that will make people choose to get clean? Idk, I don’t think threats and force are as effective as offering a stable living environment with access to assistance. Housing First actually has really good outcomes - it only “doesn’t work” insofar as it hasn’t been resourced according to the need.
@@FieryJuniper So then you agree we should provide affordable housing?… and also mental health/rehab centers
It's good to look at the root problems of homelessness. However, it is overwhelming thinking about rehabilitating such a large group of people. The reason that "housing first" is popular among city leaders is that it seems like it is a specific solution to a specific problem. Of course, it isn't. However, it is also untenable to say, society needs to pay a price for the poor decisions and drug addictions of others. The video points out that many who receive focused care on their drug addiction still return to using. This same society is saying that we must legalize all drugs because its some sort of libertarian right. How can we give people the right to screw up their lives, and then pay to rehabilitate them when they have screwed up their lives? Both "housing first"; and endless investment in rehabilitation are not solutions to this problem. Both are just a major "cash suck" that encourages, not discourages homelessness.
So what do you suggest?
Opioid addiction: those people are so pathetic “gives 40 million tax relief to big pharma”
How about arresting the drug dealers & pimps and put them in prison for the longest time??? You haven't tried doing that do you?
Such a great video. Give them the help like rehabs, half way houses, etc. Hold them accountable they must work if possible.But to just give free housing, I know alot of full time hard working people that would love to have free housing because housing is sooo expensive
Personal responsibility and accountability. Quit throwing money at drug addiction and simply put these people in jail for breaking a law.
Great documentary👏🌟🙌🏻
It doesn’t matter why they’re homeless. No matter how much we try to help the problem gets worse. The social services departments and city governments should be taken out of the equation and tough love implemented! Push them out of the cities and offer help to those who ask for it and are willing to work toward better lives. The others who cares, GET OUT!
That seems like a good strategy.
12:42 alchohol and tobbaco should never be given to homeless people. though if somone is homeless because they have mental health issues weed might be better than alot of pharmacuticals as it is a whole lot safer than xanax and lowers agressive behavior .
This video is completely wrong.
Housing first is not simply free housing only. As the name implies it provides housing first then treatment for addiction and mental illness. The program does not just give housing only and then ignores everything else like the video says. The theory is that people who live on the street generally don't do well in drug treatment programs so they try to get them housed before going into a program.
I'm not sure why PregerU would get such a simple fact so utterly wrong. And no, homeless encampments are not housing first doctrine either.
Salt Lake City and Houston are good examples of housing first that has worked very well.
These people of the so called help for the homeless will never want to fix this problem.
The business of homelessness is too lucrative.
Lucrative for who exactly? Certainly not employees of homeless service organizations. Maybe in some cases the leadership
@@jeffarnold3800 Exactly. For them and the policy makers. Where else can they go to be holier than thaw and get paid for it. Meanwhile the people putting these programs in place keep saying they have the solution if you will keep electing them.
"Follow the money" It never fails to see their intent.
@@comic-sniper And their non-profits revolving doors....$$$$$$$
They barely have to report much of what they do either. After the stealing donations....
Mutual Aid is where it's at.
We've started that gradually in our town.
We don't need $$$ like that....so much can be solved by cooperating with neighbors & other less dependency-based means.
Housing & capitalism is a problem....but that'll take time & understanding....
Fix families. That'd help a lot.
As usual,
PragerU has no clue about Stuff but that wont stop it from covering something.
Meanwhile, actual Experts or even just more educated People have covered this:
Like Illuminaughtii and Some More News, who covered Homelessness.
wow its so sad whats happening in USA. Everytime i return to visit that country it seems a little worst. USA best days are way behind. I was in Houston downtown in Pearce and Travis streets, and all i saw was drug addicts, filth, homeless people, trash all over the streets, you named. Sad.
So I've had a theory about the homelessness my idea has been why don't we treat the problem by essentially giving people that the first option is the best and at is a personalized treatment program for them the second would essentially be a communal living environment with 10 x 12 single person rooms to House people essentially prison without the being forced to stay there 24/7 and being locked up this is the housing people option to get them off the street though tis purposely made to be slipping they're comfortable to motivate people to better themselves and get out of there as quickly as option three is you chose not to take off some water option to so being homeless is essentially a criminal offense so you are going to go to jail and at any point you would take option one or option two I guess we could also add a fourth option that option would be a bus ticket the ticket would be anywhere out of the program's
Well argued, good job.
Mental illness and addictions that is what homeless is? Because I'm homeless I don't have a mental illness and I work. It's more funny is when I got a job if find out that I'm homeless the whole attitude changes. Because I'm not like them someone with a bunch of loans credit cards and have to put on a good appearance. People call me poor and homeless but they don't even know me they don't want to have a chance to get to know me they see how I live and you know they can't use me the way they want to use others. By being the way I am you see the world to a whole different spectrum.
Pretty decent ideas if they can actually be implemented on a large scale. 🤔
I would amend your statement to "Pretty decent ideas if they can actually be replicated in many, many communities". I think "large scale" is a part of the problem. We need purpose and community and that only comes from LOCAL support, not State-wide or national programs. Those programs are designed to fail because the support becomes dehumanized, bureaucratic, and one-size-fits all. They don't build the human connections these people need.
housing first works
its much easier to get a job with a address
your also ignoring the fact that 70% of the homeless are temporarily homeless and helping them get back on their feet quicker fixes so many problems
Where are the donate site.?
prager u doesnt actually want to solve poverty why tf u think they are going to give you a donation site link
Keep stray cats from your home by not feeding them.
1) Remove government handouts and you remove homeless “lifestyle” incentive.
2) Don’t let stray cats into the country.
3) stop sympathy for people with no interest ever in helping themselves.
4) theres not enough public money to help them. Hard choices need to be made.
A home a person is more able to get a job
So rent in California is $2500 a month, even working a full time minimum wage job $15 an hour you'd only make $2,400 a month. So you have no choice but to be homeless. I thought working hard in life was all you needed to survive. How the fck does that make sense. A job does not fix all your problems. And paying This absurd amount is just for a roof over your head, you still have to pay for food, clothing, health insurance, phone bill, education...etc and the fact you call all homeless people mentally ill and having a problem is disheartening. When all they need is a place to stay. Why is it that all of your money has to go towards paying for a place to stay otherwise youll be homeless. The system needs to change.
Stop the drugs and alcohol! You will see way less mental illness hence homelessness!
Skipped a few things. Mental issues and father less. Equals these issues generally. A lot of things total to these problems.... But homelessness is not the problem. There is way more going on other than being homeless.
A rather significant problem in getting people to be self-sufficient is that one of the major political parties assumes and promotes dependence on the government instead. That is a major reason that the problem grows and this solution is so hard to get enacted.
Sometimes, homelessness can be the result of family abandonment. I'm a good example.
Send them to Slab City or to Beverly Hills.
Thanks but I'd rather die.
5 years homeless in MN incl winters - has been less bad than relocating the Meth Hell you'd suggest for some reason as if all of us who don't have issues don't deserve to live.
You should try 1 winter outside in a van, without the needed gear, eyc
You'd maybe see just how bad suffering gets that's STILL preferable to Slab City!
Thank you
Very interesting , thanks for the video PragerU. Nice to see that some can be saved, I had my doubts.
How is a ban on street camping not criminalizing the existence of homelessness if shelters are at full capacity?
Shelters = Dangerous Social Settings ( Revolving Door Prisons ) of wasted tax dollars.
This video completely ignores the housing shortage problem in California. The latest homeless count indicates about 30% of the homeless in California have a drug or alcohol problem. Many start using drugs or alcohol after becoming homeless, so saying it's the root of homelessness becomes an issue. The example of Austin reinforces the idea that there's a housing shortage as Austin is probably the most expensive and restrictive place in Texas. Also, the community that is just outside Austin City limits was not permitted to be built inside Austin because of its restrictive zoning laws. I've seen another video about this community and learned they actually permit drug use inside the units. Yes, there's an element of drug and alcohol addiction, but it's only part of the problem. There are many people, including seniors and families living in dilapidated RVs, living in cars, etc, who do not use drugs or alcohol nor have any mental health issues, many who are employed but cannot afford a place to live. The drug and alcohol problem may be more of a symptom of the housing shortage in California, not the root cause.
I've been homeless...really homeless, because I made some very poor life decisions, screwed up, and found myself penniless. 100% my own fault. Ending up in a shelter was eye-opening, to say the least. What they say here about the problems of addiction and mental illness is spot on. What got me out of the shelter was getting a job and getting my sh*t together. But I saw so many people in there who needed real, serious help with the aforementioned problems of addiction and mental illness, and that help was pretty much non-existent in the shelter paradigm. For them, getting a job (which they couldn't keep) or getting an apartment (ditto) wouldn't have done them any good. They needed more. The shelter where I was (CISS in Des Moines, Iowa) would let people come in drunk, stoned, you name it. At the beginning of the month, people would get their disability checks and the shelter would clear out for days as they went out and rented motel rooms and got drunk/stoned/high until the money ran out, then they would come right back to the shelter. They've tried putting people into housing here and it doesn't work, because they don't get the deeper help they desperately need. Just last week, I saw a woman who was at the shelter when I was there - six years ago - and she's still homeless.
It’s a revolving door. I do believe we need stronger action when handing money out. Permanent housing and drug treatment programs should be mandatory. Where I live they did a pilot program for food stamps. You had to be in treatment or have part time work to recover them. It radically changed the MAT program I was in. In a month the people who where there to use MAT as a stop gap were gone. People started attending IOP and getting work. Then they stopped it. It immediately went back to how it was.
Ya know we have way more potent drugs and toxic than we used to. I belive in safe consumption and if you dont you need to have a close friends die safe consumption is saving fken lives
@@crazlen - After you save their life, then what happens?
Congratulations for getting your life in order and thank you for sharing this experience. Best of luck with everything and keep spreading conscience🌿
Sometimes all people need is a place to stay
This was so heartbreaking to watch. However so essential to educate one's self about it. As a native San Franciscan, this is one of the few reasons I moved out of San Francisco in 2021 because the homeless and crime rate has become uncontrallable. Truly breaks my heart.
I saw it coming in the 90s and moved to the Central Valley only to watch it deteriorate. In the end, its the addicts choice. They wont get clean unless they work for it.
Why are there so many homeless in San Francisco? What changed? Drug addiction can’t be the only answer.
Why is it heartbreaking? The voters are getting exactly what they voted for. That isn't heartbreaking, it's pathetic.
Rand corp did a study showing 50 trillion has been syphoned from middle America over the last few decades
Must people are only a month or two away from the street
What kind of system causes this?
@@courageunitycompassi "Drug addiction can’t be the only answer." NIMBY and zoning regulations that prohibit dense development and thus the cost of shelter is astronomical. Anyone that is middle class and lower are at risk of homelessness. Additionally PragerU whom have an active part in spreading misinformation. Such as this video where they attempt to spin the homeless crisis as a problem of character/mental illness/drug abuse.
Giving homeless people homes is like giving illiterate people books... It's a nice gesture... But there still remains an unsolved problem that really needs to be addressed.
Totally agree with you! Homelessness Poverty same thing, it’s a systematic problem from generations to generations and the main root of all that is SIN! So I guess to blame for all of this is Adam and Eve our first parents
this just shows were on thin ice.. imagine introducing the planned social credit system.. the country is going to die, can't do anything for themselves.. as short as 50 years ago in most of the world these people wouldn't have survived two decades left to their own devices... " I'll die if you don't give me....." sound like a brat at the toy store
Lol that's a terrible comparison. For one, giving illiterate people books is how you teach them to read. How do you think you solve illiteracy?
@@noname-bu1ux you TEACH THEM TO READ!! Reading is a skill. Owning a home requires skill and discipline. You don't give kids books and walk away saying, "good luck!" lol thanks for proving my point.
@@kaufmanat1 yeah, but you gotta sit them in front of a book first. What are you gonna teach them to read with, a magazine? You can't help a homeless person if they have no home. There's nothing they need more. You think homeless people just lack skills and that's why they're homeless? Socialists don't want to just leave people alone after housing them. Barebones social programs are for liberals, not socialists. I know you probably don't think of the conservative crowd as liberals, but that's what conservatives are. That can get a bit confusing. It's always funny when conservative people call me a lib, but their hero is Ronald Reagan, the father of modern neoliberalism.
Not trying to be hostile either, just opening up dialogue.
As a conservative who is an addict, whose father died of heroin in 1993, and is a single father dealing with raising an 8 year old by myself in Texas, I just want to say this guy who lost his job to Heroin is telling the nasty truth.
Addiction is causing homelessness, that’s far more solvable than mental illeness.
Don’t just make public housing that’s full of drug use
As a fellow southerner who’s father nearly died from an overdose multiple times within the past few years, some points to add.
Addiction *IS a mental illness,* and it’s not a sole cause of the homelessness epidemic. If anything, it serves more of a statistically correlated link, not a causal one.
A Housing first approach to homelessness seems to show some promising results in trials so far. What we need to do on the front of addiction is implement more harm-reduction policies immediately as well as connect addicts to research-based treatments, resources, and most importantly, support nets.
Based on your video uploads you're like 6 years old. Why are you even commenting lmao. Literal children commenting on Prageru videos lmao.
@@MsScarletwings scarlet, have you ever actually lived in these facilities? I have lived in 5!!!!! In differing states.
I have so much anecdotal evidence it’s sickening.
Why does someone with issues and who hasnt done the work like rehab and therapy deserve a home? Shelters suffice as long as they couple it with rehab and job finding assistance. Then they can stabilize and get their own place as a milestone goal. Giving a mentally unstable drug addicted individual a home worth 600k of taxpayer dollars with no support will fail 99.99999%
@@MsScarletwings as someone studying to be a social worker who is also in recovery from addiction (began as an opioid painkiller user & was shooting fentanyl every single day by the time I finally got clean), California is a perfect example of how the housing first approach to homelessness isn’t working…and it isn’t even a compassionate way to deal with the issue either. People need inpatient detox, mental health, and substance abuse treatment BEFORE being placed in housing. The fact of the matter is that a vast majority of the homeless ARE suffering from mental illness, addiction, or a combination of both. Throwing them into a house to get rid of the “eyesore” without addressing these issues is not giving them the tools they need to reach their full potential and find recovery…it’s nothing but a band aid for the issue. I am all for harm reduction though, because unlike most staunch conservatives I believe we can do the most good by meeting people where they’re at. It has proven to be a great way to do just that while simultaneously lowering bloodborne infection transmission rates and creating a massive reduction in overdose deaths. Harm Reduction foundations almost always have treatment centers that they can refer people to as well. I believe that big pharma should be forced to pay for these harm reduction programs rather than the government, due to them being the true root cause of all of this (but that’s a topic for another conversation.)
The gift of sobriety can only be given to oneself. You can’t compel people to get sober any more than you can compel a politician to give up power. Teach our youth and community the value of their lives.
And for the love of God quit mitigating the consequences of people's actions so MAYBE one day their pain will get great enough to change.
Only Christ can bring sobriety. He is the ONLY one that can teach the youth his values of life. Secular ideology has no values, and you borrow from the Christian worldview to sound virtuous. Repent and trust only in Christ.
Luke 12:6-7 ESV
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
@@WilliamEllison Christ doesn't exist only in your head. So stop being a pretensious little religious nut. You have no clue what you are talking about. Amen
@@Yourmom-tc4rn it only gets worse, not better, not because of the people, because of the system and greed
@@WilliamEllison wrong
Housing cost do play a role. Not all homeless are on drugs or suffer from mental illness. Some are working poor that have jobs but can’t afford housing. So after rehab and treatment, what jobs wait for these people on the other end? How many people relapse? How many people end up back on the streets? Obviously this issue is much more complex. Drugs and mental illness are one part of the story.
Yep. 18% statistic drug issues is = to my prior guess/estimate of 20% what we've seen first hand among other homeless ppl.
It's a corrrupt system. That's the worst problem.
well said
Finally, someone who gets it. I'm a conservative, but I'm not simplistic in my analysis. These guys just want someone to blame who can't contradict them. Rent has increased by over 100% in every city in America, in the past 3 years, how can they not mention that at all?
@@digitalartist371 conservative minded people never wanna state the obvious they just wanna throw off on people who don't have it as good as they do.
@@shanehester5317 I used to consider myself progressive and grew up on the left. Its was neo liberals like Obama, Gavin Newsome and Jerry Brown's policies that got us here. You'll probably say they're not true progressives. And I'll say this film does not reflect true conservative/traditional values. At this point, I do believe the conflict is way deeper than left vs right. It's globalist vs localist. It's progressive vs traditional. It's transhumanist vs humanity. It's censorship vs open dialogue. The left I grew up with is not the left of today, what I realize now is that this is always where it was headed. America is a special thing that is standing in the way of their fascist totalitarian take over, and what we are seeing is a planned demolition. I had someone sit with me day after day and break the mind control years ago and I'm forever grateful. Platforms like this one are pushing psyops to confuse us so that we don't get to the root of the problem, and fight each other. Don't fall for it. Meanwhile their taking everything we built, destroying our families, isolating us and then killing us one by one.
The best way to help the homeless is choose a state, perhaps california, put them all there & let them roam free, oh wait that's what going on now except for shipping them all there.
You sound like a Nazi so we should send them to a concentration camp. What a nice guy you are
@Luciano Nascimento yes it is sad but I have to ask how do people fall down so far without recognizing that they are in trouble and need to seek help. Where are their grown kids and or siblings? Where is the common sense of the homeless that start taking drugs? Why would ANYONE choose drugs over homelessness? Why did they lose their jobs? Why would they WASTE their money on drugs or alcohol? Eating, safety and hygiene are far more important to drugs and alcohol.
@@elseach6005 My friend wasn't able to have children..has no siblings. Lost her ability to see very well...Her social security & pension doesn't stretch far enough in this economy. She has always worked until age 73. She isnt homeless.but I'm just saying.
@@KC-dr3cg thanks for sharing. I’m not picking on homeless people but I have to guess that the majority of them, maybe all prepandemic were gradually sliding down hill into trouble. There had to be a warning or some sign of drowning.
Maybe now that’s no longer true because of the pandemic but I believe that for the most part, that we should be able to help prevent many of them if they can admit that they need help and seek it before hitting ROCK bottom.
Obviously we can’t be everywhere but I still don’t understand why they would want to waste even a DIME on drugs and or alcohol instead of saving it to buy some bread, or bottle of water, etc. I’m perplexed.
I was always making minimum wage and was so cheap, so frugal, so tight that I could barely get by for many years.
Once you "solve" a problem, you cease to receive more funding for said problem. That's what this is all about.
@carefulcarpenter Wow how did you miss that…
@@carefulcarpenter So your written English isn’t the clearest, but it seems like you’re saying that when you thought you were buying a house in 2018, you were actually just buying the land under the garage and “three other parcels,” which the house was not on?
@@coleg5578 just give each homeless person a large room unit made out of concrete which is cheap
that addresses their need for a place to sleep , gives them an address they can use to apply for jobs and gov't services and makes them less of an irritation for the rest of the citizens
then we can offer them other services like drug treatment and mental help
@@carefulcarpenter a cement bunker is more than they have now
@@carefulcarpenter don't move to New York
I’m homeless in transitional housing, I was in a tent for three years, in a bad dv situation, but outreach found me and helped me. I now drive for a company after not having a job for 6 years. They are beneficial they help illuminate unsightly camps, I think treatment should be mandatory for housing or some kind of accountability but affordable housing with people with mental disabilities sometimes finding a job for them is hard. Teaching skills, training programs, apprenticeship programs, those things help. Definitely treating the drug problem, and addiction issues instead letting homeless people essentially play Russian roulette so you can keep your hands clean while promoting population control. Homeless should not mean hopeless.
For any hater who has never walked a day in in the shoes of someone who has been homeless, your opinion has no merit. It does not come from and educated or lived experience. Quit whining like we are the problem when your sit behind your screen instead of being part of the solution. 🎤 drop
I agree with you, well said! Good luck, and God bless you❤
Restore traditional (Christian) values and the traditional family and extended family structure. Everyone benefits from a family support system and accountability. Plus, this lowers taxes for government programs.
Right. No one ever has abusive families, the Church doesn't pocket 98% of charitable donations as overhead and counties with higher taxes and higher social spending sure don't have less homelessness and addiction issues.
@@atraxisdarkstar More often then two parent families that are abusive it is broken families and single moms who have no place for someone who is struggling which leads into a bad spiral which leads to addiction and homelessness
@@johnsmith-gx2ys I don't care about "most often" when my zealot christian adoptive parents who abused me nearly to death threw me on the street for refusing to keep attending their cult church, at age 16.
"Most" parents aren't so abusive even after all that to neccesitate the child now adult having to go No Contact with the whole family just to live in peace and heal from the PTSD.
10 years.
I'll never speak a word to them again.
It sucks. But others don't step up to help either.
The ideal fantasy from christian values is NOT TRUE in practice.
Jesus was homeless and "poor" & gave his take on how to live, how to be treating others....
Sadly, people don't even want to follow him, but talk a very strange bunch of things instead.
Homelessness is not our fault.
Ask us how we need help, we have good answers.
@@atraxisdarkstar So true!!!!
@@johnsmith-gx2ys
It's about abuse everyone can be abusive if they choose.
It is about development, children develop through imitation. Girls should imitate women and boys to imitate men, that's the best way to develop. That's why having a father and mother is essential.
Imitation is a huge part of human development physically, physiologically, etc.
What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that not all homeless people are drunks, drug addicts, or just choosing to be homeless.
I know a family in Colorado that can't get into a place because landlords are demanding residents have an income three times that of what they're demanding for the price of rent.
Even With a paying job that's difficult to keep up with.
Then you pack up and move to a more affordable area.
@@emmaleebuzzard1023 *gets priced out of everywhere*
*Just move bro*
not a solution
Thank you - this whole video seems to be a giant distraction from what you just said. They seem to be rationalizing what to me is a market failure in housing by placing the blame onto drug addicts, when the reality is actually the heavy majority of people that fall into homelessness are not addicts or people with severe mental issues. They are simply the most visible. Most people fall into homelessness because they get evicted due to a missed paycheck. This can be an injury or illness, a car breaking down, a child emergency, any number of things. They are avoiding the following question: why is housing so expensive that half of low income people are paying 50% of their income for rent alone?
@@jeffarnold3800 welcome to mass immigration, and a global market
@@jeffarnold3800 also F ben shapiro
I don’t even like to travel through Seattle. It’s so depressing. Seattle leadership points fingers at EVERYTHING except the drug addiction. Now companies are moving out. Sad.
New Jersey became number 1 in reducing chronic homelessness 2 years after ending life time alimony
@@osmosisjones4912 I’m all for it. Same for sunsetting non violent drug crime rap sheets. If you could give people a way out, along with drug treatment, they might see a reason to take a shower and go do something with their life.
Democrats… what do you expect?
How is Seattle in decline when it is one of the most highly desired cities in the country? People are moving in there much faster than the national average. People moving out often do so because they can't afford a house (due to high demand driving up prices).
@@scuter8700 “Highly desired” city by meth addicts looking to get their free crack pipes, yes we agree with you there.
At this point we cannot keep blaming mental illness and drugs. Yes, its very common, but correlation does NOT equal causation. People who already struggle are being pushed into homelessness because of inflation. When everything is insanely expensive and you are all alone (no 2-person income), you eventually lose all hope of having a good life. Healthcare, shelter, food... all costs so much. These suffering people turn to drugs before they hit the streets because it is not a single event that makes someone homeless. They suffer long before the homelessness begins.
I have been homeless, and i was NOT on drugs. I was homeless because an abused, disabled woman with 3 children has NO chance of sheltering and providing for her kids without help.
Providing mental health and addiction treatment is a given, but will not solve everything or prevent homelessness. It is going to take a multifaceted approach including making being alive affordable!
The creators and finders of this video don’t want you to think about that. The whole production was a big distraction from exactly what you said about cost of living, and an attempt to place the blame for all homelessness onto you.
Exactly right.
We've been homeless 5 years now & weren't at fault nor have any of the issues others want to point to.
We see ALL the other fellow homeless & what their stories are like. Heartbreaking.
Disability, medical events, illness, disaster, wage theft, crime victims, criminal landlords etc...so many reasons not getting the attn.
Of course not.
Corrupt systems.
Correlation is not causation and I wish ppl would remember that.
@@jeffarnold3800 It's so easy too.
What are we gonna say to all the hype after all their efforts to get even homeless folks blaming themselves for things they had no choices about?
Mutual Aid!
Let's help each other.
Leave the corrupt system out of it.
@@genossinwaabooz4373 amen. I wish things were better for you
I feel the problem is not so much homelessness as it is lack of affordable housing and lack of support for victims of mental health issues…
Wow!!! that was powerful....well worth watching!!!
So infuriating that democrats just don't get any of this common sense.
Lock them into the working houses and force them to do the labor for food. We have this thing in Russia and it works well, there is almost no homelessness in Moscow.
Young people can't afford to buy a 400k house, especially when they already have 60-200k in student loans. You expect them to pay the loans, buy a house and somehow start a family at the same time? So immediately out of college they need to take on about a million dollars worth of debts and obligations? Yeah, perfectly reasonable.
What does this have to do with the video at all?
@@yomejjuan it has everything to do with the video, the main reason there are so many homeless people is the high rent.
1. You don't have to have 60-200k in debt to get a degree. WGU offers self paced programs for less than $8000 in a 12 mo year.
2. Most cities in America it doesn't cost $400k to buy a house.
@@hannahsharma5108 we arent talking about budget college for teen mothers and recovering addicts. Sure you can probably get some job with one of those degrees but people coming out of real universities with real professions often start at 80-120k per year. And sure, plenty of places you can buy a house cheap, problem is it is usually a place without many prospects or well paying jobs and hence why property is cheap.