Can homelessness be solved?: John Maceri at TEDxUCLA
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2014
- John Maceri talks about an issue that is lingering across the US that unfortunately fails to be addressed on a daily basis. He reminds us that there is indeed something that can be done to help alleviate this issue and get our citizens off the streets.
John Maceri is the Executive Director of OPCC, a nonprofit social service agency based in Santa Monica. OPCC provides a wide variety of housing and services through its ten projects serving low-income and homeless youth, adults and families, battered women and their children, at-risk youth and people living with mental illness.
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RUclips needs to recommend this to people. Very empathetic, fearless, and poignant with an unusual composure.
I'm so glad to see people are caring enough to think about those who are homeless. Many people never thought that they would be homeless... i.e. injured workers, whistleblowers, business graduates who can't get a job... etc. Thank you for all that you do.
You have hit on the truths with your comment. I have seen so many people just like you mentioned: "... injured workers, whistleblowers, business graduates who can't get a job ... etc.."
Come on. We all know these types are the VAST minority of homeless. The majority are mentally ill/drug addicts or people who want to “live free”. The our of luck,single mom trope is way over done.
I just passed this talk off to our Mayor and City Council here in McMinnville, Oregon. Same problem, same lack of holistic solutions but on a smaller scale.
Your comparison of homeless people to stray animals gave me food for thought. We treat animals better than we treat people. I agree that we should house and offer services to the homeless. It's a more humane and less expensive alternative to what is currently done. In Orlando for instance, laws are put into place to harass and move the homeless out. Housing is way overpriced here which contributes to the homeless problem. What can I do as an individual to help?
Good question.... do you have any ideas you would like to share?
It’s hard to put it all in comment here, but look into StrongTowns as well as NotJustBikes.
Basically, we need to stop building car-dependent cities. We need denser, mixed used housing (and much more of it, including “missing middle” and midrises, not just suburbs and a few downtown skyscrapers). Cities should be walkable, bikeable, and have reliable, connected, frequent public transit.
Vote and advocate for these policies to reduce the cost of housing, while also improving quality of life, saving money, and protecting the environment.
Of course, also vote for treatment and social support for those who have drug addiction or mental (or physical) health issues, whether they’re homeless or not.
Great talk! I'm writing a paper for my University right now about possible strategies for solving homelessness at a local level. Based on everything I've gathered it seems to me that the only way to make any meaningful progress is through fundamental change in our system, but I see very few people talking about this. We aren't going to solve homelessness with tax credits and bonding dollars we need real reform.
I would love to read your paper. How did it turn out?
I would also love to read you paper
I agree with the man on the bus. Utah is giving them shelter!
THE COST OF LIVING IS TOO HIGH!
Amen Sister!
Rents are gradually heading toward five grand a month. And even that wont be enough to satisfy the gentrifiers addiction to money.
High cost of living can hit anyone so hard it'd be like someone just swung a bat at your head. I was homeless and didn't even smoke, drink, or get high, i had a 40 hr week job and even if i poured my entire check into my rent, it would still not cover it. That's a whole different story that's not my point...i remember growing up my father was a mere factory worker and we always had our rent and bills paid, and good wholesome food. Every once in a while he'd treat us to a movie or some chinese take out or go to the beach during the summer. I was never aware we were actually poor as all our basic necessities were always taken care of and all our relatives and friends lived under similar conditions. He was always happy and used to tell us that with technological progress and other advances, in the future everyone would live comfortably, better than what he could give us. That did not happen yet i love my father so much, i wish i could go back in time and relive those times...
I was homeless once upon a time, fortunately, I managed to extricate myself .
I've thought about this situation long and hard.
Over many years I've offered my home. I've made hot meals and would do whatever I was able to make that person comfortable.
Honestly I didn't have any successful outcomes . I hear that you may have welcome 1000 people to meet the 1 who is ready.
Good people mustn't get discouraged. It's complicated. They weren't ready for me but maybe they will ready for you.
Point everyone must make the effort.
Godspeed
Can you contact me? I would love to talk with you. Your story sounds so similar to mine...
1 (808) 366-1107 my IG: myinspiringart
Sending so much love, and incredible that you were able to then find a place.
Thank you for sharing and all you are doing!! Great to see/hear about!
He kept saying we can do better and spend less to solve the problem, but never provided any tangible solutions. I understand that the approach needs to be "holistic", yet I have no idea what the takeaway of this speech is.
have you ever been homeless? if you have never been homeless no matter what you see it never really becomes real to you.
Yuppers
I'm writing a book, and I agree. Anyone playing 'street', with a family or safety net, will never fully understand the fear, doubt, and hopelessness of the true homeless pyche. -coyote
I was homeless for 5 years.
@@valleygirltotallyforsure I was for a long while as well. It is hard to go from the routines of homelessness to homed.
@@signocologythebook1124 sorry to get back you so late. This is my other channel. You ate so right about the feel. I know someone who said "I was homeless, I slept on a friend's couch for a few weeks in between apartments " I looked her on the eye and said "That's not homeless or homelessness that is just in between apartments"
We should acknowledge that solving homelessness may not stop panhandling - we’ll still encounter people on the streets and elsewhere who ask for money. I bring this up bc for a lot of people the two are the same thing.
The problem with policy that keeps people dependent on the system, knowing and creating programs that give a hand up not a hand out!
Toronto Canada has many homeless people too. It is heartbreaking. Poverty is a real thing. I tell myself, I would never take anything for granted. I want to help stop homelessness.
Agree
The integrated systems that he mentioned several times is the answer. That includes housing, health services, food, training, jobs, etc, most of which are provided by non-profit organizations in coordination with government..
I agree, it's just too bad that he espoused a grand idea without saying anything.
TheKlickitat Yeah, I agree. I work and volunteer in most of those systems to try and solve homelessness in my community. True the systems are in silos, within the system are mosre silos.
@@reneekimball1314 but with the aid of technology and Blockchain we can track the impact of ALL these Silo's and work as one
End to end solution tailored to individual circumstances is needed. Free healthcare would help keep a decent % from falling into the debt/addiction trap i would imagine. But mainly a non-selfish society - thats the hardest thing to fix.
I think the deep issue is. The human right to a home. The idea of letting everyone have a free home is outrageous to most.
We are the only creatures on the planet that pays for food and housing. We don't need money. There are over 50 million empty places to live in America. Why leave them empty if we only have 5 million homeless??? Tons of vets, handicap, seniors and children are homeless.
@@ArtofBliss true
Housing should be a human right...
MagicalThinking Barbie because it is.
That's not a deep issue. That's a circumstance. A deep issue here would be trauma, addiction, disability. You can give them all free houses, without real help a lot of them would destroy the homes given. The neighborhoods would be trashed.
Please find one person that was actually helped by this organization that isn’t a paid actor for the propaganda in these videos.
Whatever you subsidize and tolerate, you get more of.
Very BRILLIANTLY SAID!
Great talk.
If you've never been homeless then you don't know exactly how it sucks or how badly it sucks all you know is how it looks to you and you say aww damn that sucks. But until you've been homeless you've got absolutely no right to talk about how bad it is to be homeless. I was homeless for 10 years and although I've had my apartment for the last 13 it's taking me about 8 years to get used to not being homeless. Homelessness is more than just without a home it's a state of mind also. Once you become homeless it's virtually impossible to become on homeless. It's not impossible it's virtually impossible
Agreed. And the longer your outdoors, the harder it is to reintegrate into the larger scocity! Most don't understand that. It's been almost 25 years since I was 1st on the street.(been out 4 times)
The nightmares finally stopped. But the experience still effects me to an extent, even all these years later. I was out for 9 months that 1st time. Winter to the following summer. Winter in the Rockies isn't easy when your on the street!
There ARE real solutions to this problem! But it will only continue, as there's BIG money to be made off of the suffering of others! BOTH the public AND private sectors make LOTS of $$ from this.
I talked with someone back then about this problem. He was from another nation. What he said has stuck with me all this time. I asked "Back home would you see this?". His answer was very telling, though embarrassing to me as a US citizen. He said, "No. Because we have more pride in our people!".
Interesting observation I think. We care more in this country about homeless animals, then our homeless people! In a country as wealthy as ours, there is NO EXCUSE for folks to NOT have somewhere to call home! It's embarrassing and disgraceful that we have just given up on part of our population! And there's PLENTY of blame to go around.
Okay, so what do we do collectively, I want to help, but I am one step away from being in a dead-end. I STILL want to help some way...
Eliminate the massive economic inequality. That would be a good start. Homelessness is simply a symptom.
It’s so easy to change, I know exactly how
If you say “get a job” I will slap you with a very firm leaf of lettuce
I am interested. How?
Their are many kinds of homelessness. I think the biggest contributor to the chronic population is mental illness and the time lag required to qualify for full disability benefits. It can take 9 months to a year to prove to the government you have severe mental illness in the meantime you will probably have swallowed up by the street culture, become traumatized more and addictions will have worsened trying to cope. Many guys I see on the street eventually get full benefits (about 1400.00 a month in Canada) but are now clinically traumatized and spend most of it on the newly worsened addiction. They are likely to be regularly if not frequently targeted by others on the street and come into the shelter with injuries every month or so. Many were generally healthy a few months prior, employed and living indoors but were hit with their first catastrophic symptoms of their illness for the first time just prior to losing their homes. Doctors should be able to write a perscription for housing (40$ a day, probably the least expensive item on their treatment regimen) .
Prescriptions for housing, brilliant.
Agreed
Yup, we need collective, moral outrage and a holistic approach to solve this very solvable problem.
What's the solution if it's very solvable?
Yep!
I think it comes down to giving these people a stable ground to build on. So Homes and healthcare to get them ready than finding them jobs to support themselves.
One of the reasons that so many people are now refusing jobs is because of gentrification, in which money addicted gentrifiers can never get enough. The rents are already two to five grand a month with no end in sight. In order to qualify for an apartment you have to make three times the rent so that the gentrifiers can gradually drain you of more and more as time goes by. What is the point of working if the basic cost of living cannot be met due to the addicted gentrifiers?
If people have the freedom to become homeless, their fellow countrymen should have the freedom to help them get out of homelessness.
What ?????
Do the money addicted gentrifiers have a time frame for when rents will be ten to twenty grand a month? And will that be enough to satisfy their addiction to money?
It could he solved if all agencies worked together rather than a part.
Sadly they wouldn't "make" any money that way nor the "charities".... Homelessness it's a business
They just don't care
Restpite centers are a great bridge to a longer term program. Most are only 2 weeks however. Unless the desire is there in the individual, and a transitional program readily available after restpite, they will be right back on the street. Most 2 year programs that actually work have waiting lists months out. I am homeless, bounced through hoops dozens of times, finally in a program that works, by luck or the grace of God. Unfortunately some don't make it, respite centers need to have longer stay periods, which is money.
Just about every country has a shortage of farm workers if you give homeless people work on farm in exchange for food a safe place to stay and a little money they can save for the future it dramatically reduce homelessness
tim jenkinson Is there a shortage of farmers in my country Australia?
@@Kinghassz you would be better to say than me as you live there but looking online it would seem to be the case.
I mean workers not farm owners
Like so many people you are making the assumption that homelessness simply means a lack of income, but often times it involves the lack of ability to acquire income. We need a solution that addresses the mental health issues that are far more important than just having a job
@@mphifer9044 well you could have support there for them at the same time as a place to work and sleep surely that's better for their mental health than living on the streets and having to worry about safety concerns. It's best to find solutions rather than find problems things won't ever get better if you constantly find reasons to not try to make them better
Make sure everyone has a studio apartment, and deduct this from SS or SSI. Mentally ill should have an aide to live in and watch them. Weekly deposits on EBT cards for food etc.
Everyone must work online, or clean up streets. Start fining people for littering. No one should never be on streets. Stop foreclosures, and let people live in their homes for 30%
of income. Fix up the vacant houses, using the unemployed working with certified builders.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I'd add a bit!!!
Dude, that's a great idea. I became homeless 11 years ago after losing everything. Without going into details, I now live in a $150k+ 4 bed/ 2 bath house about 15 miles south of Atlanta. Best part...mortgage free.
I'm a social entrepreneur, sometimes, I get sleepless thinking what method to implement.
@@TheGuitlicker congratulations on the turnaround, I'm sure many can learn from your journey. Can you share what a "social entrepreneur" entails as I'm based in the UK and interested in finding some solution.
Good thinking!
acajudi100 you have to pay into social security. If you’ve never paid into it, there is nothing to deduct lol
Cost of housing is too high and definitely agree a more unified holistic approach.
What about the lack of regulations .
I know it hard not because of the people sometimes but some laws make it hard for the state to clean up abandoned property even after housing. They want to do a buffing zone but it’s not easy because of some laws. It a lot to think about.
Do the money addicted gentrifiers have a time frame for when rents will be ten to twenty grand a month?
There aren't any homeless people setting up camp in my neighborhood, it's simply not allowed. If it was I'm sure there would be plenty as they tend to go where it is permitted and actually encouraged. All homelessness could be eliminated if most productive people simply stopped selfishly looking after their own family needs and became servants using their resources to provide shelter, food, healthcare, legal counsel etc. for people that can't, won't, don't want to work for themselves. There, all fixed.
Haha yea. Selfish bastards.
America care about make money off poor people general make money in this country. Key in America is money...
It's sadly an industry but as a collective taking action can tackle that
Gene Reynolds wrong. The homeless can’t pay the taxes and fines what use are they? Did you know San Francisco fines small business starting at $500 for building fences around their property to block out the homeless even though the homeless are breaking the law by posting their tents on the sidewalks making it a safety hazard? Why do they fine the small business? Because they can pay. Unlike the homeless who lack the funds.
We can put these people in studio apartments, and hire them to do jobs from home.
I've always stated that studios would be the best solution.
Until they steal all your jewelry for meth lol
@@Clintsessentials Co - Living is another "affordable" option that will deal with the side effect of loneliness
@@The007craig Once you understand the "Why" you can deal with that too my friend
Alpha1 Machinery don’t be naive. They will straight up steal from your grandma if they had a chance. Why? So they can buy more meth. Meth is hella addictive. Shaun Weiss is a good example caught stealing with meth on him.
To Answer the Question" NO Homelessness cannot be solved, we won't be able to save everyone. The situation is so bad now I think you need to approach it as a Triage situation. That's truly depressing...
yeah, it's like saying we can cure the human ailment of "addiction". there will always be people that cast themselves away and never pull themselves back out, no matter how much money and goodwill is thrown at them by other people
i feel like he just said the same thing over and over. too much about the problem and not enough about the solution. yeah i get it, we need a better integrated holistic solution, but what is it?? i wish he went more into detail about the solution instead of talking so much about what were doing wrong.
There are many homeless who prefer to be off streets. There is a segment who are so far gone or believe they can’t be helped, and I don’t know if they would be open to help. I’ve interacted with many homeless and many of them do not want to accept help. However the ones with kids do and there are many who do I’m sure
There will never be an end to homelessness, sad to say, especially within this country. I know and understand this more than I ever wanted to. This man spoke pure gibberish.
Why isn’t this plan put into action? Is there something wrong with the plan so that it doesn’t work? Or are the hospital corporations profiting off of homeless patients and lobbying congress to stop this plan from happening?
Most homeless people are drug addicts and like their lifestyle. The desire to change must come from within and there are many resources for a homeless person to pursue if they truly want to change their lives. Also, the ability for a person to support themselves is a big issue. Most homeless people don't have the education or trade to support themselves on a permanent basis. I have been homeless myself and I do have the education and ability to support myself which made it possible for me to overcome homelessness. I was homeless because I became a crack head many years ago and it lasted for years because I liked smoking crack more so than having a normal life. Part of the very reason why I am no longer homeless is because God sent a woman into my life and has supported me with her godly encouragement for years and she actually lives in a different country. 5 years later after having met her she is now coming to the USA soon and we will get married. Point being is she took a genuine interest in me as a person and did not give up. It took me several years to actually take a liking to her and see who she is as a person and I like what I see. She will be here soon and we will be married. God and His purpose for a human being must not be left out as part of the road to recovery and change. Change comes from within.
Exaxtly! If there will there ways
Want to know more about OPCC and how it set up? What the cost would be for setting this up Across America in every State?
.One true thing is that one never thinks about these issues, until they are closest to it, or are actually THERE. Needless to say, if they are that close or if they are there, chances are they have already lost their esteem and ability to work out their issues alone, and have given up.
What's he gonna do?
Put them in prison work camps with very modest means for room, board, and medicine.
Homelessness can be solved. But it won't.
Source player?
Why do I feel like I just watched a second rate shark tank pitch? It had the key elements. Things to the tune of "its a billion dollar industry" "we need to develop the technology and use social engineering" "I only have a limited test set, but I know it works" Obviously those aren't quotes, but I still feel the guy might be full of hot air.
no we cant. the economy going up in the big citys. when we split the amount of money into poor citys. we wont gets the ecoboom we have now, very simply.its either ignoring those homeless people or destroy the economy. its sad but just the true.
Yes
IN ABOUT FIVE YEARS ASTRONAUTS WILL BE SENT TO MARS, AND THIS WILL COST A FORTUNE. THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE ABOUT THIS WHEN SO MANY ARE HOMELESS. GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER BEFORE VENTURING ELSEWHERE.
The house is burning down
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John Maceri's nonprofit The People Concern publicly supports removing a crucial legal case that protects unhoused peoples' constitutional rights. Thanks John, today the supreme court is debating whether or not it's okay to criminalize people for sleeping outside when there is literally no where else to go.
Freedom of religion case managers and attourneys.allow churches to pick them up at the shelter if chosen to go worship not the other way around
the volume on this video doesn't work very well. i have my sound all the way up and i cannot hear him. 2019
people become homeless becaus we choose to distribute money and resources in an unequal way. that's it. it's a choice!
Every problem goes to politics can not be fixed
Homelessness can be solved by voting for Yang for president 2020. Andrew wants to tax internet corps like Amazon and Netflix and give every U.S Citizen $1000 a month. Granted, $1000 isn't much, but it can give people a buffer. After that, those people who are still homeless just want to live that way.
Reasonable rents would be quite helpful.
riding in a friends ferrari one day him say how much money he makes. Also complaining about the tent city. I said their live like that cause you live like this." He was furious
You would be surprised at just how many of the homeless
I have just one problem with this he’s somewhat described her we were going to pay for all of this which obviously means our tax dollars but we’re also talking about continued care I would love to see some hard numbers on this.
If you pay taxes. You won’t like those numbers.
OK bla bla bla house people it's not impossible it's Greed that keeps it from happening.
That opening story is very telling of this guys mentality. The guy from western Europe says "I'm horrified. Absolutely horrified. The richest country on earth yet you let your citizens live like abandoned animals on the streets. In my country this would never be tolerated; we would overthrow the government".
He would think that because in his country the government runs them, the government is their "parent", their "daddy". So if people are on the street it is because their "parents" failed them. Their government failed them.
That is why America is different. We have freedom and personal choice. The government is not in charge the government is not suppose to be your "daddy". Personal responsibility. If people are on the streets it is because they have failed themselves or they choose to be.
I remember watching a video of someone talking about the difference between Americans and Europeans. He said something like.
In Europe when something goes wrong the people look to the government for help but in America the people tell the government to get out of our lives, leave us alone.
So what do you think, is it a good idea that the American ask the government to solve their problems or to leave them alone?
they want 2b for kids bringing in drugs! The can give foreigners jobs etc. Your ideas are better, and I and others have said the same! Greed and Not Caring,
Greed and Not Caring are symptoms.... what do you think could be good solutions?
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I have the answer to the "homeless epidemic"! Call it what it really is, a "drug epidemic" and get these people rehab, clean time. Why would you want to mask the real problem? Why would you want to make it easier for them to be addicts? Clean needles, safe places to shoot up, any drug under 3 grams is legal, etc. etc. They want this, but why?
He don't care to the point when he referred to homeless like them. Probably he not consider "them" as a human. With today technology to build housing is not so expensive, and cheapest option is 7-12 story buildings, but in my opinion governement don't want to solve this puzzle. To build housing, mean create a getto, with high percentage of crime and drugs, they don't want concentration of marginal in one place, so they prefer to do nothing.
Get some land..grow food.. have..a moral approach... laundry..food.. clean-cut.. community
What...the ****...are you...trying...to say.........?
I seriously think that the homeless issue will never be solved, unless a drug comes out for it. It is a mental illness of people refusing to work and manage their money better unlike the rest of the world can. I live in a small town of 8,340 people next to clemson university, and we have a homeless problem. Our area is filled with too much jobs that are forcing new businesses to close because they can't find help. Housing here is very affordable especially for white collars.
Ok we create this holistic system; then the meth addict needs a fix and walks away, the mentally ill guy stops taking his meds and walks away...now what? Are there rules in the facility? What do we do with rule breakers?
So u found a way to make money of the Holmes?
Death squads???
No! "Homelessness" can NOT be solved, with out a Profit motive!!!
What about taking a few steps back and looking at "value exchange" rather than profit.... for this you would do that etc
This utter fluff gibberish.
Yes ABSOLUTELY!
We are the only animal species that believe you don't have a right to live on the land you were born onto!!!
Animals work like capitalism
Richest state too 😢
the problem today is our democratic leaders want more illegal immigration which contributes to the homeless problem, you have to stop the influx of potential homeless before you can create a solution.
Oh, "why don't we create a fully integrated system?" Yeah, that's called (Constitutional Democracy) GOVERNMENT. BTW "Privatised Government" is ARISTOCRACY. The problem is NOT poverty, it's ARISTOCRACY. Constitutional Democracy National Governments spelled the end of Aristocracy and the end of poverty (after Aristocracy had put us through 2 world wars and the great depression). There is nothing complex about homelessness because there is nothing complex about Aristocracy, and there is nothing complex providing ourselves Constitutional Government. All this guy and everyone else is saying, over and over again, is: identifying the failure of privatised government and then trying reintroduce some sort of quasi government in parallel to reinvent the wheel.
Just my two cents cz I'm so sick of listening to people telling us how to solve homelessness (and all other social problems. Blah Blah Blah). WE DO NOT HAVE A HOMELESS PROBLEM, WE DO NOT HAVE A FAMILY VIOLENCE PROBLEM, WE DO NOT HAVE A RACISM PROBLEM ... WE HAVE A PRIVATISED GOVERNMENT PROBLEM, WE HAVE REINSTATED ARISTOCRACY. The End! (sic)
some just guy democracy can crush freedom like aristocracy. The mob or the elite can WANT your freedom gone
Well you don`t have not enough people for the military , and you have bunch of people who is homeless . So if you make the homeless people join the military then you solve both problem at the same time .
What happens when they're done with their service? They're back on the streets because they didn't have the education needed for urban living.
A lot of these folks HAVE already served! When they got out, they had nowhere else to go.
Have you ever been to a homeless camp. Yea they aren’t cut out for that or much else.
liar...but very trendy