'City of a Thousand': Ep. 2 Advocates blame housing crisis, rent hikes for homeless encampment boom
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2022
- Under-resourced. Under-housed. In part two of a "City of a Thousand," we take a look at the resources, or lack thereof, that homeless advocates believe are leading to the encampment boom in Phoenix.
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In the Verde Valley, we are experiencing the working homeless. They have jobs, but they have been pushed out of housing by rising rent and rentals being turned into vacation rentals.
This happens because you got an generation that has gotten there while pulling up the ladder while parasites like Black Rock are literally sucking the blood out of the working poor and lower middle class.
They will be working till figure out they can't afford shit
No literally if ur actually friggin listening people on SSI rn get 841 a month my rent is 1056 for a one bedroom apt. I have to work around the complex 3 days a week to pay off that extra hundred plus, and still don't have money to eat
Everywhere is. Thank Democrats. They did this. They think it’s great
@Jeff Azusa yes
It has to be just miserable outside in that heat! Just keep sending aid to foreign countries, 40 billion MORE just sent to Ukraine. I'm not against helping other countries but this is just crazy what is happening in our own homeland!!
Over 50 billion today
We have an OPEN BORDER,too! All those poor people who were looking forward to the “Promised Land” are quickly educated as they experience living on the street.
This is what happens when America loses all it's manufacturing jobs, replaces a majority of those manufacturing jobs with lesser paying retail/service jobs & communities focus 100% on a never-ending real estate growth model. Take into account the huge corporate rental companies, lack of new affordable/regular housing that was never built over the last few decades & freezing of the federal minimum wage going on almost 20 years now. There is a documentary on UA-cam that goes into great detail the vicious cycle of communities using only real estate growth as their biggest economic growth engine. It basically shows that communities that follow this path for growth has to always build more to sustain it all. Back in the 1940s through the 1970s manufacturing jobs was the backbone of American communities & housing was just seen as a need to house those workers. That is no longer the case & all these people complaining about foreign aid I guess fails to realize a good number of state & federal politicians are against federal involvement in your day to day life. So are you now in favor of federal speeding to help tackle this housing issue? If you are then vote accordingly.
@karateka oss I couldn't agree more with you. Best wishes from upstate NY!!
I like how people actually believe that a President has control over prices like a Socialist would. There was a lot of small oil producers that had to shut down during the Pandemic & oil is traded on the futures market. Get used to gas prices going up & down the rest of the way.
I left Phoenix in 2015 due to facing homelessness. Two different companies laid me off in 2 yrs, both companies closed. The first layoff was that the company decided to close the entire division and the other layoff came when the company decided to close the entire department. Unemployment in AZ is 240.00 max no matter how much you made the year prior. My rent at that time was 725.00 for a 2 bdrm and I had my adult son living with me that has severe medical conditions and we had applied for SSD (2 yrs later he was denied). I donated all of our belongings to the Salvation Army and placed just clothes in my car (chevy sonic) and drove to my birth state of Ohio. My sister and brother-in-law took both my adult son and I in for 2 yrs Then wages in Ohio are terrible. To make a long story short; homelessness is not always due to alcohol or drug addiction (I don't drink or use drugs). So, until you walk in someone else's shoes please keep your comments to yourself.
I’m glad that you had the kindness and compassion of family to help you out. I hope you both are doing well.
Thank you for telling your story!
How are you now?
Bo fukin who
IT WAS EITHER BE VERBALLY PUT DOWN FOR 8 HOURS IN FRONT OF MY 5 YEAR OLD SON BY MY MOTHER OR SLEEP IN THE CAR AND BE HOMELESS TIL WE GOT ANOTHER PLACE. I CHOSE FOR US TO BE HOMELESS. I'D CHOOSE IT AGAIN.🤔👏😊🌹👍😇🌄
A lot of people won't stay in those homeless shelters. There's no door separating the beds. So at night they get attacked by the more aggressive people
It's more then that the rules are dumb, they check you for drinking or drugs they make u shower they make u do everything. Some won't do that 😂
iN aLBUQUERQUE EX CONS are housed alongside women and children. A elder I met left after she was raped. And the women tell me in order to get a cabin seperate they have to sleep w/ the mangement.
Yes, and the mental verbal abuse from others is intolerable too, which is why most people get the fuck out of there after awhile, and would rather just be alone, on the dirt. Dorms are dehumanizing, shelters are human rights violations. And the imposed religion belies a militarized prison. You're like cattle, with electric-(word)-prods from both the commanders and your cohorts.
@@Cornholers that sounds horrible. I can't believe they don't want you drinking or shooting up drugs in their shelter. And the nerve of them for making you wash your filthy body.
Eh 😐 u haven't been homeless haven't u. Some of them smell like fish, have disgusting feet, poop on themselves, mutilate themselves. Yeah 🤣
Homeless shelters. I fear for women and children in these places. God knows how many have been victims of stalkers, predators, molesters and sexual assaults
They work there
yes. but even the men too. of course they do a lot of censensual stuff I've heard. literally I've heard them.
Sus
Most homeless men are pedos and felons anyway hun
A few yrs ago one of the employees at CASS was demanding that homeless females perform oral sex on her or be kicked out of the shelter. Her name was Brittany, she was a security guard there...
Outrageous prices of rent hikes
I have talked with several people renting apartments, each of them is paying more for rent than I am paying to own my home. A few are paying over $1,300.00 per month, this is $300.00 more than my mortgage payment!!
Fentanyl 💊, popular blues.
@@GM8101PHX Its $600 more then my mortgage and $300 more then my rental house!
It's a free market Pam. Don't like it? Move somewhere else.
I used to work at the Human Services Campus as a tier 2 security supervisor in 2020. I offered more than one news reporter in interview opportunity in regards to corruption behind the scenes. The city of Phoenix doesn’t care what happens to the homeless down there. If they did, there’s more than one solution to drastically reduce homeless. Very sad.
The city of Phoenix has gotten some money from the government for the homeless and cities across America has been given money for the homeless but using the money for the purposes is another thing. There’s big business in the homelessness where the money goes is anybody’s guess
Build like trailer parks/mobile home parks. Oh yeah, investors started buying those up and now they're not affordable either. Seniors and vets should NEVER be unhoused. No person living in their car should ever have the car towed! This is terrible and needs to be fixed at the ROOT of the problem. Affordable housing for those on fixed income. My father in law had to move to Wyoming to find a bedroom to rent on SSI income and still pays more than 50% of his SSI on rent. Renting a bedroom not even a studio or anything. Its gross.
Why can't he live with you?
@@Rebecca-hc5ju what shxtty reply, it’s true. Investors have ruined real estate in this country.
@@carlosmiranda5871 it wasn't my intention. I understand that wouldn't solve the underlying issue, I was just curious. 🤷♀️ One of my biggest regrets is not having my father-in-law move in with me instead of being placed in a VA assisted living. It was after my divorce and I don't know if his son's would have allowed it, however, he was miserable at the home, and deserved much better. He died a few years ago. Some father-in-laws are amazing and a blessing to have around.
Or tiny homes like our former city did.
EXACTLY! Anyone who served this country should get immediate assistance! Wtf is wrong with my country we need to literally FIRE EVERY DAMN POLITICIAN ASAP!
I’ve had homeless Phoenicians say that they refuse to go to CASS because it’s more dangerous than being on the streets.
Alot of sexual assault and intimidation, to say nothing of blatant thievery goes on among the inmates there.
Absolutely true.
The sad thing is that this is happening everywhere. Inflation has gone up and Big Business and the government simply doesn't want to pay the difference. Both are pointing to the other. You will be lucky if you can find a full-time job that pays more than min wage.
And then Our Government approves 40 billion dollars for Ucraine while here in America we keep been in a Homeless Crisis and the Terrible Inflation
Then if the Republicans win , all the people that are struggling will have to pay higher taxes instead of making the rich pay their fare share.
@@abrahamlobaina1929 I agree but you really think the government would give any of that $40bil to homeless? they won’t even have universal health care
@Eternity row X Got to be living under a rock to think it is only limited to just the sunbelt. Probably a boomer so no one should be surprised given how many have gotten theirs while having a mindset that was current back in the 80s or 90s.
@@MrKillswitch88 I'm a boomer and I hear you. When I graduated from college, 1979, there were good jobs with pension, 401k, Healthcare, life insurance, the works. Young people have a right to be angry, nowadays companies are horrible the way they treat workers- that's even if you can get a job with them. You are correct about this guy's sunbelt theory, I live in Buffalo, NY - it is an old rustbelt town with horrific winters. Housing prices have just about doubled. I really wish you the best and I truly hope things turn around for the younger generation. Best wishes from upstate NY!!
*THE GOV WANTS YOU DESTITUTE BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE*
The more comfortable you make them, the longer they will stay and more will come. No one wants to address this fundamental truth. The bill will only grow.
Take care of everyone but our own....
Arizona needs a rent cap now!!!!
America Needs a reduction of rent, then talk about locking rates.
Absolutely!! America does as well. It is sad that all of us struggle so a few thousand billionaires can have maximum profits!!
I stayed at C.A.S.S. part of a night. I was robbed at knife point. I actually left the same night. I moved into my van. Sleep well now. That was 2007. It's now 2022.
Corporatism and greed - a holographic view of government?
Sociopathic boomers have created a predominantly narcissistic society that has no empathy. They form the 30% who enable the malevolent 10% aka corrupt government officials and corporate investors. Most of the boomer generation owns multiple homes and vacation properties.
The 40% younger generations are in a way forced into compliance with the perspectives of this generation or they will face discrimination. That discrimination is what results in mental illness, drug use, and homelessness. Even the cohort of the Boomer generation not willing to conform with the mob mentality is discriminated. If an individual falls into that category then they are labeled a misfit and then treated like the source of all problems.
The problem is that people are projecting their insecurities onto the marginalized people in our society because it is easier to blame them then it is to take accountability. Everyone needs love, purpose, dignity, and a career that enables them to grow and continue to be challenged. Too many employers just want cheap labor and never have any intention of sharing the wealth. They also own multiple properties which they mismanage just to keep more of the wealth.
Marginalized people then struggle with inflation and the rising cost of housing while their minimum wage pay remains static and they fall further into the category of misfit and 'society's scape goat'. As an individual struggles it becomes harder to buy new cloths, hair styles, cosmetics, shoes, food, transportation, and entertainment. This causes people struggling to fall out of social favor based on physical appearance and it makes success harder because people become judgmental.
Only we can love each other. When we do learn to talk to each other and find common ground. Then we can overcome any obstacle including a corrupted system. Because we are that system.
We can send 40 billion to Europe why asked Congress
Use the old malls.
It's horrible my rent went from 900. A month to 1580. I couldn't make it!!! Thank God I caught a break but with the rent skyrocketing??? I can see how this could happen for anyone!!!
@@jamessummers9676 you mean lets go corporation's!!
Didn’t happen until Biden became president
@@jamessummers9676 because trump's tax cuts to corporate America
@@michellewilcock6827 We we’re doing great under Trump and then Biden came and his policies created this mess.
@@jamessummers9676 yeah sure.....buddy.....no one thinks that but nice try 🙄
I had to leave Phoenix at the end of 2020 when I lost my job during covid right before my lease on my apartment was up for renewal and they refused to renew my lease without income. I found it impossible to find any place available that was affordable and not an absolute roach infested dump so I guess after 35 years of desert dwelling, I live in St. Louis now. Was either move to STL or live on the street in PHX. The fact that I've been priced out of my own home town still hurts. I can't afford to live there, and I have a college degree and I work in good paying IT jobs. I supposed it's for the best. Phoenix is completely unsustainable and I dont expect conditions in the city to ever improve and to only deteriorate further as the water and housing crisis worsens. Sad when a single person can't live in that city by themselves even on a decent wage without either living in a slum or taking in several roommates.
I lived in Saint Louis was actually going to stay but my life fell apart out there after some egotistical apartment manager harassed me into moving. Moved into my car in winter, then it broke down. I worked throughout the pandemic while my former neighbors, some of whom were also harassing me, sat around. That building was the only place I felt unsafe out there and I'd been there for years.
Now I'm back in my hometown of Denver, where it's starting to feel like I can't go anywhere without something happening to make me feel unsafe, which was one of the reasons I left in the first place. There's a very toxic element here oh and of course the cost of housing.
@@really5453 sounds about par for the course for life these days...
Absolutely True!! I would have been forced out of my home if I didn't take in 2 roommates again, to deal with my rent being raised almost $1000 since 2020. (Plus my SRP bill was $640 last month and city service water bill was $350 - but I'm not using more electricity or water this year from years in the past.)
So how can I get out of a financial rut at these prices. The cost of living here is ridiculous.
When I moved into this home in 2013 I paid $1345 for rent. Now I pay a little over $2700 for the same house. It's not worth 2700/month. I live in a crime infested neighborhood at 51st Ave & Baseline Rd, in Laveen.
Here on the regular - we have home invasions, car theft, homelessness issues, scammers and beggers, open shootings, kidnapping, missing people, vandalism, littering, porch piracy, constant theft & muggers, open drug use in all the store parking lots and bus stops, robberies, murderers & killers, and there is 4 or more dead people found at the trail heads, in the streets, in the parking lots, etc each month.
It's absolutely crazy here and you don't really know it unless you live here and see it/live it for yourself. Yet, my rent keeps rising. So I can't even move out to get away because I'm caught in a financial trap and barely getting by as it is.
I don't want to leave Phoenix - my family and friends are here...
But if it comes down to keeping a roof over my head and keeping myself physically safe - then I won't see no choice but to leave this state too.
I've watched Phoenix change for the worse over the last 40+ years, but this is absolutely the worst I've ever seen it - so far.
SMH - Very Sad, it was once a great place to live. Now I'm finding less reasons to say that and even lesser reasons to want to stay.
Dude why don't you employ some of the residents?? If they are having difficulties finding jobs you're right there and can help them up
The word "homeless" was never a part of popular English until Reagan became President in 1980. That's when homelessness really started. That's when Reagan started to whittle away Social Programs, some of which had been around since the New Deal. Presidents after him continued this trend. Consider that the US Constitution in no way mandates that the Fed Govt is responsible for the Welfare of The People. Among the many "rights" that Americans enjoy are "the right to starve to death" and "the right to be homeless", both with no "government interference" whatsoever. FDR proposed an Economic Bill of Rights which would have guaranteed Americans such things as a job, a residence, medical care, and education. But FDR died before he could accomplish that and his successors became too involved in a Fictitious Cold War with the USSR to bother with that. This "Cold War apathy" continues today as President Brandon is sending Billions of Dollars to Ukraine as more and more Americans end up on the street. If America was a Real Democracy instead of a Wannabe Democracy controlled by Wall Street, there would be NO Homeless Problem in America Today.
demoncracy
Who was the charge of Congress back in the '80s? It was the Democrats.
Don't forget "the right to *pursue* happiness ... [but never to get it, and always to be depressed and miserable]".
The only thing good Reagan did was destroy Russia, while fucking the rest of us over. At least Trump was trying to correct that 4-decade abuse.
agreed except President Biden has a war on his hand. he did not choose to help ukraine. we are bound by treaties. in 94 ukraine gave up its nukes and we promised protection... also does the phrse apeasment mean any thing to you.
Dennis S gets SS disability, health care, and low income housing because he is an alcoholic ( drunk). My Constitution doesn’t say we have to support him! Let him get a job !
There's been a shocking rise in unauthorized migration across the US southwest border.
where did your family come from and go back what kind of a name is dohl?
@@andrewfischer8564 Dohi is I hod backwards. I come from hell.
All the homeless people are American though. That's weird.
@@LifeOfTheParty323 well if there wasn't such a surplus of labor our undesirables wouldn't be competing with your best now would they?
How are these people able to live on the streets when it’s so freaking hot?! I lived in Scottsdale and the heat was so unbearable it motivated me to move out of that state forever.
A lotta drugs keep them going.
In my opinion most people in the Phoenix are there because they like the heat.
@@marionmarino1616 What kind of drugs?
@@hunberter Any kind they can get babe.
Lisa glow tried to ban Phoenix Ashes from their area. She seems to be driving a brand new Mercedes every year. Lisa glow uses a lot of money meant for the homeless on her own personal house and vehicles.
This is why there needs to be a national answer, not just where the people flock to-or are sent to! One part needs to be free managed camping with utilities for those with rvs, many of which function as a home but no longer run.
Need to hire more people??
How about put all the able bodied people to work?!?
What is wrong with these people that run these places??
If not working for the helpers how about put them on the side of the road cleaning. They give them food and shelter so why not let them earn the food and shelter?? And all the other services they are getting for free.
Out them to work and maybe even train them to do that work for a private sector employer.
Look at the sober living home law! There is a direct correlation.
OPEN UP ONE IF THOSE EMPTY BUILDINGS!!!!! PROVIDE HELP!!!!!
An answer that I believe could work. For everyone charged with non violent crimes be given a choice of doing time in jail or working on helping the homeless efforts. They have used them to help with abandoned dogs with great success. I believe they would have the greatest empathy for these people and it would be win win .
Your idea has some merit, but the people who are charged with a non-violent crime would have to be screened further. If you are going to work with the homeless, you must be sober, not addicted to drugs, and be mentally fit. If you meet these criteria, then yeah, it might work.
I think it's a good idea to have an alternative to jail for non-violent offenders, but forcing people to work like that is borderline slavery unless they're also getting paid for it.
This is a poor country in the free world, sad . This is why rich must pay taxes, and corporations must not be allowed to buy single homes, let corporations buy apartments.
If everyone stops shopping big chain and learn to diy more and outsource for better cause, that will hit the corporations where they need it. Pay yourself
our small dollars turn to their big dollars
These elderly will die in the AZ summer when the temps reach 115 and cook them in their tents
Who TF is building these stupid high-rises and how landlord still getting away with price gouging like do ppl just not care!!!!????thank God almighty I own my house or I'd been wrecked.
50 million could of gave each of the 1000 homeless 50,000 a person done.
This is happening all over the United States. They are doing the same in Florida!
Yep that’s right they are everywhere trying to buy up all the houses and apartment they just call me again an hour ago wanting to buy my house I payed off in 2019 they are investors but really they are rats and roaches vultures
Better put a rent cap on. The encampments are growing everyday. Look along the canal in Phoenix.
Homelessness is not new. And after the unprecedented 2 years that we are just starting to recover from it should be obvious that more are becoming homeless than ever. Working programs are long overdue.
the WPA & CCC need to come back, but I guess the point is to get rid of us
That hold on rent did no favors for people because people were getting unemployment and didn't spend 1 cent on rent. There are going to be more and more homeless people. The smarter people atleast paid what they could and will be able to pay rent, and a 100 dollars more to catch up, others paid nothing for months and won't be able to make it up.
Your "working programs" will never take the homeless off the street faster than our irresponsible population can put them there. Homelessness is more of an education failure than an economic failure.
I really feel like the housing crisis is the root cause of all of this. Hell, I have a college degree and work in IT and I still got priced out of Phoenix in 2020 and had to move to St. Louis. In 2015 I was paying $750/month for a two bedroom apartment. In 2020, the apartment I left was $1025/month for a 1 bedroom and they wanted to renew that lease even higher at $1200.
@@Thingsyourollup gosh I wish rent was as cheap as $1,200 that's why so many homeless here in not only LA, but san fran, and sacramento.
I cry everyday missing my fanily everyday and missing what our family life was like being together and our family went to our family church everysunday and i miss the home we owned. And I pray daily asking God for his protction and to watch over my kids and to keep me and my fiance her and me and our small fury family member of ours safe from harms ways and can one day get to rent a smalk safe place or RV park that will be willing to allow to rent us an RV space each month but no RV parks dont rent to anyone that owns a class A motorhome at all they only allow in their RV parks only class A motorhomes ONLY to be renting in their RV parks and we ask for you to please pray for us AMEN and thank you for your prayers and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILYS
Amen 🙏
This is elderly abuse, people in 60,70,80's shame to those whom are at fault.
EXCELLENT REPORTING
CASS has received over 5 million dollars alone this year. They have not done anything with it.
All houseless folk are not unemployed!!!!The cost of living is too high.
You are not save anywhere as a renter. Years of blaming San Francisco for rent control. Then landlords found loopholes
to get around rent control and pushing seniors into streets for the Ellis act. Rent are so high there is no way
a senior or school teacher, student, single mom, or almost anyone can pay rent. It"s now happening around
the country.
What's sad is that because of supply and demand, and the fact that there are still people who can and will pay those rents, they're only going to keep increasing until either A.) Cities stop developers from building nothing but luxury apartments and finally increase the stock of affordable apartments, or B) Rent finally gets so high that literally no one can pay and everyone is homeless.
The report reflects well on Phoenix and how it has responded. First time I have seen clean washroom facilities like that.
4,000 homeless!! We are blinded by the hypocrisy
Unfortunate for folks in trouble financially, total crap for those over 55.... why oh why?
If all could come up from the southern border.... they could obtain cell phone and cash from the federal gov. This country now rewards illegals, not americans in financial trouble!
Yeah man... it's an outrage. That huge line of people just standing there waiting for a phone.
It’s everywhere our rent went up $300 more in Tennessee now it $1400. Not much left for anything. Senior citizen
Out of control is a understatement
Landlords should feel ashamed of themselves, hiking rent up 50-100% and people on fixed income can't afford it, schitt, most of us hanging on by the skin of our teeth are becoming homeless and blue collar people are the new "living on the edge of poverty"
I'm Working Homeless (45) as of 2022, due to Rent being Doubled/ Inflation 🤪.
What is the rental vacancy rate there? In most cities, it is very low, below 4%. That is why rents are rising. The problem isn't just a lack of affordable housing, it is a lack of housing period. The population keeps growing but new housing units are not growing at the same rate.
We have insane migration to phoenix right now,and we’re running out of water,too
What Neal said. All the Californians, Floridians, and Ohioans are moving here in droves. Root causes to homelessness are complex and interlinked. I don't want to pretend as if I fully understand them, but I do think there are a few fixable factors that would help a lot:
1.) Code building requirements for new homes and apartments have shifted over the decades to be far less concerned with services and safety, and are hidden ways of making home building costs and housing values tremendously expensive. The codes favor large, identical cookie-cutter homes on tiny lots with no neighborhood feel. Even if someone in Phoenix gave you a 7500 sqft land plot for free, you couldn't build a code-approved home of any size for less than ~$275,000, which is batshit crazy. Alternative buildings like tiny homes, pre-fabricated homes, and container homes are very difficult to get past the code enforcers, even in hip Sunnyslope.
2.) Too much brownfield land is zoned for commercial only. There is a SHIT TON of blank land spread throughout the Phoenix Valley. Unfortunately, it's zoned wrongly.
3.) People who own homes increasing by double-digits % year over year, are not interested in having more housing added to their neighborhood, because it would depress their land wealth and increase their taxes. The haves do not want to help the have-nots. I'll be honest here, I do own a home that went up 72% from 2017 to today, in a half-decade. It's effing crazy. My neighborhood is fully built up though, and there really isn't anywhere to add more housing, unless they rezoned and converted homes to multi-family housing. Not gonna happen in this HOA, and I don't see it happening. My increase of home value really doesn't do anything positive for me except increase my paper wealth. It does NOT increase my real wealth in any way because if I wanted to 'cash out', then I'd just be faced with buying yet another over-priced replacement home, unless I were willing to live in the boonies (I am not) or renting from someone else in an over-priced market. Thus, even though I am 'one of the problems', I can't do anything to change it.
4.) Social breakdown, broken families on the edge, drug and alcohol abuse...not sure even where to start. It's complicated. People have it rough. They need love and understanding. Let's all just STOP JUDGING, yeah? I've hired ex-cons with drug problems as handymen to help fix up stuff around my property. They did great work and were always fair; just super flaky. It took a month to do what a professional could have done in 4 days. It takes patience to be kind to these people. I just wish more of us would try. With more cash in their pockets from useful, productive work they can feel good about earning, it can help them in time. I just think we should have more free counseling, less judgementalism, and more open willingness to help others without feeling embarrassed. I think more people would like to help, but fear being robbed. Maybe we need a volunteer group to facilitate better and more direct family-to-family help. Like, they could provide oversight and insurance for the workmanship and help with basic skills training. Handymen and yard care will always be needed.
How does the population keep growing when the birth rate is the lowest it has ever been?
@@MiamiPush2theLimit illegal immigrants being housed by charities..
@@nicklockard Great ideas! And yes, volunteer groups are very helpful for people that feel shaky about going into encampments or feel shaky about approaching people alone.
Rent rent rent. Stop corporations from buying all the property and raising prices bc they know Cali people will take it.
Nope, stop drinking that kool-aid even California people struggle with these prices.
@@duancoviero9759 I would if it wasn’t true. The Arizona market has been killed by two primary things. Corporations, and people fleeing expensive democrat states with high taxes to come to az for housing that’s half the price with lower taxes.
It makes sense. If you can buy a nice home in Arizona for 300k and a crappy to modest house in cali is over 500k of course you could move. And it’s more and more enticing the more expensive your home is in Cali bc it gives you more and more profit while still getting the same if not nicer home in az.
@@alaskayoung3413 that is true about California homeowners. I know 2 that did exactly that (they bought in Vegas) but not all those people are not part of the owner class.
@@alaskayoung3413 When you guys run out of water in 10 years, they'll leave again.
@@LifeOfTheParty323 well we’re only 175 ft away from being at the low level which doesn’t allow for anymore water to be sent to Cali and AZ so…. Little less than 10 years.
When you don't have a enough money to pay rent thay need to make it affordable
Good people give tons of money that never makes it to the homeless. The advocates are in the business of collecting revenue meant for the homeless keeping it under 1 roof spending on themselves, right here in front of us. Same thing happens in my community in Florida. and the State of Arizona gave another 28 million to the Sprung structure, and they only have 100 beds, and none of them are in use?
Then there’s the problem at the border. Where will they live?
They pay rent. They're able-bodied and they'll work
They haven't made it through Mexico and if they do, they get put on a bus back. We can't afford any extras.
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I had actually talked to the lady w the ware house.
Would have loved to help just to dangerous if alone at any time.
I know the facts. There are so many stories out there on the streets. Could be anyone. Could be me or you.
However there are so many mentally ill, self medicating.
Drinking, drugs can cause a trigger, or episode in which someone can get hurt.
It is insane that so many people are having to be in a war zone always worrying, always on guard.
We as a community need to stand up.
Look a lot of these people have worked hard. They have no families, friends. They have no resources.
Why are we leaving these members of the human race lay out in the streets of a huge city like stray dogs.
But most would house a stray dog before coming up w solutions for housing their fellow man or woman.
There needs to be more of this thinking and doing.
It's not going away.
How about some goals. And start moving forward. No one wins this way Phoenix no one.
I so appreciate this channels reporting on things that matter.
Would love to see more big real estate, big business helping the homeless in Phoenix. Giving back to the communities that support them by housing the less fortunate.
Come on we can afford to house these people and better our community all around.
Safety, cleanliness, appearance could go on w the list of reasons to do it.
Inspiring, uplifting, educating, holding up to some goals for those on the streets could literally save and change lives.
We need to rethink the way we treat each other. Be kind to each other people.
Best wishes to all.
Make today amazing and never stop moving.
I have my own story that will shock the world hearing my story and why im a homeless RV I never chosed to be living in our RV parked on the streets and im not going in no shelter no way no how
God bless you , you care, the comment just before your's is from someone who doesn't care.
It is skid row. Affordable housing doesn't exist until you contract it out, or you build it.
I lived in Mesa until my rent went up almost $400.
I'm on social security and money was really tight before the hike.
I moved into my car Oct 2020 and left Arizona. For cooler states.
Now with the gas hikes I barely get by.
May as well wait til winter and go freeze to death. Maybe Phoenix and bake to death.
Government isn't going to do anything about housing. They want us to die. Between the clot shot and prices of everything. They are moving right along. Just not as fast as they thought.
It's not a new problem...every city has this issue. Philadelphia USA
Hiring more staff for these facilities isn’t going to help. Every time you hire someone their is less money to actually house someone. The money well isn’t endless. You are better off paying market rate rent with private apartment then spending all this money on facilities that are just temporary. Did you see that center, that cost maybe $10mm+. That could house 100+ people for 5 years. Some people will never accept help but if you had more subsidized housing with fewer hurdles you would help more people faster. Yes private landlord will take these individuals if the city is guaranteeing the rent. What they are doing clearly isn’t working
They have to guarantee rent, have insurance in case of damage, and a tight control on trouble makers that get kicked out immediately/ arrested, and go in a data base.
We need the Purge!
This country has become so expensive and this is the result
It's starting to look like the JAIL??
Just until the all water is gone from the rivers and wells of Arizona. Maybe they will have to ask the nomadic people from the Sahara to come and teach Americans how to survive homelessness in a desert.
Just look at Arizona history, the Indian tribe that had a thriving community in the area and then they just all of a sudden left (I used to know her name but I don't remember anymore it's been a while)
CASS is the problem. We need to stop giving them money every year. Phoenix Ashes can end homelessness in Phoenix with less than half of what CASS has received in just this year. Let’s not give Lisa Glow a new Mercedes and let’s actually think of the homeless
question what is Phoenix Ashes?
This is scary
Wages did not keep up with rental needs or costs, then you added loss jobs while lying about companies needing employees, you can apply all you want you never hear back from anyone cause shortages aren't there or you are looking at companies that dont treat employees right or the low pay is not what people will sacrifice for overworking beyond their ability. This is a very easy fix no one will do and you dont stick people homeless who merely cant make enough for rent with those who have serious drug, alcohol or violent issues its fully shameful. All they need to do is stop disallowing land to have affordable housing communities as rentals have been abusing their power for a very long time and at times like these they should NOT demand potential renters to have to prove three times their income in order to rent if they can produce the monthly rent and have limited income, again, shame on you as years ago all you had to do is pay rent on time. Be nice to see a bigshot investor allow people to buy a few acres of land for cheap dome homes or tiny homes that have payment plans that work for limited SINGLE income as we dont have dual couple incomes to allow us housing costs that are the same as a couple! Years ago a single person paid half the rent of a couple, now they charge the same and its total crap in a bad economy to boot. This country's leadership wont fix this problem cause they dont actually care about the community they serve as they pilfer large sums of money into people in charge of low income housing that refuse housing to anyone trying their best to get off the streets, they house people who are illegal before homeless Americans 100% of the time catering to those who can pay the most then do NOTHING to help Americans who suffer homelessness who paid years of taxes to this country.... AGAIN SHAME ON YOU. I feel if you can't keep up with housing needs in a community you should be FIRED from ever being in a congressional position ever again as you have FAILED to be productive to your community and if you can spend a billion dollars for a game stadium then you can afford to invest a few million into affordable housing each year to give people back their sense of identity; as a personal home is safety to many of us from harm you allow on your streets! There should be special programs for those on limited incomes from health issues or rehabilitation apartment rentals for those not making enough and there is GD...m land for sell everyday to do this so please pull your conceited heads out of your you know what and get er' done folks as its not that difficult to see that your snobbery strict building codes created this mess when Americans need a break from your destructive ways. The affordable housing exists you just won't allow people to use it as other countries can build whatever they want on their OWNED land. My county seems to think they own everybodies land and they are worthless outside of creating more restrictive laws against low income families. Granted we understand waste laws, protection of water, etc. but this country is out of control with what people have to spend in order to live safely and you people wont do right by anyone suffering from your huge, nasty, restrictive psychopathic controls. Evil is running this country right now and it needs to change.
Progress Residential raised my rent from $1781 to $2502 during the summer of 2020.
Then Streetlane Homes bought this property, I'm renting, back last Dec 2021 and they just raised my rent another $300 this summer of 2022.
I'm lucky not to be homeless yet.
I've lived in this home since 2013 and it has been nothing but a financial trap since the first year I moved in, when my rent started out at $1345.
I'm hoping that I can buy a house next summer before I can't afford my rent anymore.
I moved to Arizona in 1981 & I have never seen Phoenix this bad with the economy totally flip flopped & people becoming homeless - moving in with other family, friends or renting rooms if they can... or homeless on the streets. Very Sad.
It's going to boom even more
Really sad that our states and federal government has all the millions of surplus money 🤑 but fail terribly in taking care of us, whether it's this housing need or sending millions to foreign country over taxpayers, veterans, Frontline health workers. Those in charge should be ashamed and held accountable. Our citizens are suffering more now because of the pandemic destruction of our country.
*Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.* _Deny instincts to be cruel._ *Think before you speak and choose to be kind.* Choose to be charitable. *Know that there is a Holy Trinity. So be brave. Have faith. Be humble.* Find the courage to grasp a *real-man's* first obligation; to protect his family and the entire planet from being injured and killed; due to the bottomless greed of Satan's minions. Amen.
I have to agree with you on this ,I have met many homeless people and they all have a story,but No. ONE WILL LISTEN 👂, we all woke up in a bed ,had a shower 🚿, possibly something to eat ,how is that fair to my fellow American mate who pays taxes just like I do and end up like this !? Where the Government failed us once again,! I'm native American , and my tribe don't sell out and buy into those blue eyed devil Casinos ,we gets no checks 💯but we get to keep our culture and language Alive !! And this is the battle we face " Undividedness " I just made it up 😅I think I deserve that much of the freedom of speech shit we had to put up with your pedifile uncle who stole Pocahontas 🤷💔
My girlfriend pays over $2k/month for her 738 sf apartment. Unreal.
Fortunately for her she makes good money working in IT, but you can see
why there are so many homeless. Greedy landlords and property
management companies. Period. Perfect example; before I bought my
condo in 2015, I was paying $675 for a 750sf 1 bdrm in NORTH SCOTTSDALE.
I decided to buy because they were going to bump my rent to $900, and I
thought that was ridiculous. Little did I know I seriously dodged a
bullet. That same apartment is now $1800+. Did their expenses nearly
triple? I don't think so. Greed. Plain and simple.
So they can charge that and get it because there are plenty of people making good money there.
Yeah well I also work in IT and still got priced out of Phoenix.
Very scary stuff for those suffering from poverty.
I was born in the USA I lived in Mexico they got classes for women to teach them when to get pregnant what buildings to go to get most free stuff they tell you what state to go how to fill up the application so you can get more money these are schools in Mexico
“Before we can change what is going on, there has to be a full deep visceral appreciation for the magnitude of the problem.”
Until then this won’t be resolved and it’ll get worse. We have the means to resolve this, it’s not up there on our list of priorities. ☹️
LOL Really Kam? Lets call Kamala so she can determine the root causes. The real problem are the countless 501C enablers.
No the homeless don't apparently have the resource that's really needed. Personal Responsibility
What "means" do you refer to? It's not so easy fixing other peoples problems.
P *3 of 4* Those with income pay rent which is 10% of their net income to the homeless-village for their 2 person _Shelter 64;_ and 20% of their net income as rent for the 4 person _Shelter 100._ Their rent money goes to pay for: *childcare for working parents,* one free meal per day, and addiction services; in the community-room.
They used that hotel back in 2020 for senior homeless and “at risk”. It’s a good start but how many other buildings can the city actually renovate and DONATE to end homelessness?
P *2 of 4* Cities are spending millions of dollars to open and run homeless bed shelters; that the homeless reject due to the many restrictions and lack of security. _Pallet Shelter's_ two person _Shelter 64_ cost only $7,000 and provides a dignified, secure sleeping base of operation. So for only $201,000 [$120 tents] a city can establish and run a *Homeless Shelter Village* with 1000 shelters that can accommodate 4,000 beds!
Typical "leaders" of America. Tell them there's a problem and they've got an answer as to why they can't solve it.
I thank my lucky stars as I watch this. There but for the grace of God, go I.
Seniors and disabled people with fixed income have no shelter options 😒
No drug use???
When did homeless people become "unsheltered people",
I guess that's the new woke buzzword
It's easier to rename something than to actually fix something
I can't believe the excuses anymore.
It's the mentality of the US citizen that has to change. Not generalising but most US citizens i have met have a 'Me,Myself and i' attitude. Most probably think 'Get a job' 'Sort out your issues' , It's not that easy. I'm from Europe , Here we put money into welfare funds through our taxes and were all happy to do that simply because for one we care and two we don't have this problem. We pay taxes and get lots in return, I think the states pay taxes and get very little put back into the community to help people. It comes down to how you treat people initually and get away from 'Screw them'... Just a observation...
sharia seems like a nice gift from european govts.
Finally an enlightened opinion.
@@fwefhwe4232 sharia comin for your kids
Yeah. The government takes our money for their own ends.
Why not give the homeless people some land and help them properly ... give them land and a cabin ... that costs very little and you would solve the street situation...
This is why you're not the President lol
If rent can't be afforded.....move
I live in tempe and my rent going up by $300 and I can't afford that im a single father my child only 15 im not sure what to do when my new lease expires in July. Most places rent to high even in ghetto part of towns.. crazy
Doug,Idk if its feasible $wise to move,but the midwest is way cheaper we pay $500 rent 3 bedroom 2 bathroom, electric and water @$150,propane in the winter is contracted for $150/month.
@@lisaperry5999 Until the foreign investors buy up the Mid West.
It's endearing to read how easy it is to end up living on the street because of inflation and government control...you all understand x
"If you hear gunshots, you don't get up and look," ...lol
Oh please, the people in those shelters are not going out during the day for job interviews, etc. They’re finding their dealer, or getting drunk. All taxpayers are doing is enabling bad behavior.
I wonder if the increase in rents is partly due to globalization and economic specialization. As people move to an area that has specialized in an economic niche, they drive up rents, as well as the cost of living, increasing the number of homeless residents. The problem with the trend is that the larger such cities become, the more they become dependent upon outside trade to maintain wealth and standard of living. In other words, complex, fragile globalized supply chains.
They don't build affordable housing in Phoenix. Before I left in 2020, every time I would drive by a construction site, the sign would always read: "COMING SOON!!! LUXURY APARTMENT LIVING!!! STARTING AT $2K/MONTH!!!"
Not possible to help, anything done is just enabling. They need to help themselves.St. Paul Minnesota.
I live in a federally funded senior building that functions on economic tiers. If you are economically on the lowest tier you will pay the smallest portion of what the non funded base rate would be., ( the feds pay the rest). It was billed as a support for seniors in need. The only problem is that the feds determine the base rent by the average income of the area, not the average income of seniors. Rent continues to ever increase, thus increasing our portion, while our incomes do not. Some are able to work a little but many are unable. We are now having conversations about whether we will end up living in our cars.
Are you allow to have a roommate? Double up, put bookcases as room divider and share the rent.
@S CT this is not simple but definitely worth exploring
So, what ever hapoened to the whole mini-housing programs??? Just a little space for a person 2 be out of the weather, safe, able to do simple cooking of food
& get clean. Why don't we have more of those??
Yep, kicking them out in the morning, and not letting them back in until late afternoon, is a receipt for disaster.
Where do they go all day? Get in the way?
I’m hearing all these millions being spent yet the problem is getting worse… Insanity- doing the same thing expecting different results. We gotta change up the game plan, it’s gonna take more than money we need all hands on deck to help these people OUR humanity can’t be dead or killed so easily