Washington has 3rd highest homeless population in US, federal report shows
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless - a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own.
That increase comes on top of a 12% increase in 2023, which HUD blamed on soaring rents and the end of pandemic assistance. The 2023 increase also was driven by people experiencing homelessness for the first time. The numbers overall represent 23 of every 10,000 people in the U.S., with Black people being overrepresented among the homeless population.
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According to the HUD report, Washington state had the third largest homeless population in the country in 2024, with 31,554 people experiencing homelessness.
The report also states Washington had an increase of 4,295 individuals with chronic patterns of homelessness since last year, which is a 55.8% increase. That increase is the largest, by percentage, of any state in the country.
The HUD report shows Washington had 9,383 more individuals, a 360.5% increase, experiencing chronic homelessness since 2007.
Among the most concerning trends was a nearly 40% rise in family homelessness - one of the areas that was most affected by the arrival of migrants in big cities. Family homelessness more than doubled in 13 communities impacted by migrants including Denver, Chicago and New York City, according to HUD, while it rose less than 8% in the remaining 373 communities. Nearly 150,000 children experienced homelessness on a single night in 2024, reflecting a 33% jump from last year.
Disasters also played a part in the rise in the count, especially last year's catastrophic Maui wildfire, the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. More than 5,200 people were staying in emergency shelters in Hawaii on the night of the count.
Robert Marbut Jr., the former executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness from 2019 to 2021, called the nearly 33% increase in homelessness over the past four years “disgraceful” and said the federal government needs to abandon efforts to prioritize permanent housing.
The numbers also come as increasing numbers of communities are taking a hard line against homelessness.
Communities - especially in Western states - have been enforcing bans on camping as public pressure grows to address what some residents say are dangerous and unsanitary living conditions. That follows a 6-3 ruling earlier this year by the Supreme Court that found that outdoor sleeping bans don’t violate the Eighth Amendment. Homeless advocates argued that punishing people who need a place to sleep would criminalize homelessness.
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One thing she didn't mention was people working Full-time becoming homeless
😂😂😂 Who is that?
You wouldn't have to with a full time job you could rent a hotel and live by yourself.
Some people know how to survive and some people don't that's why I don't believe you because homeless means you can't afford to pay for a room at all. If your purposely staying homeless just because you can't live at an expensive place that's a dumb move actually if you want to aquire wealth apply at an expensive hotel and have a weekend side gig were you can write your own schedule instead of 19 you will be making 45 an hour between both jobs.
Yes because they live in the greatest country on earth
@@unicorn73212 You really think thats what is going on? Your delusional
@@liengamier3290😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣⚰️🪦
If our government says 18% , then it is over 20%
It’s easy double that figure. They aren’t brave enough to go into the dangerous encampments to count.
Getting worst with Trump 😂
They aren't counting the ones in minivans, cargo vans, cars, RVs you name it. Way more than they say
At least 37% TBH
But they'll never tell you the real numbers.
Is that true?
Just paid the rent... Now I have a place to starve for a month.
Now I have a place with no heat, no internet and no food for a month, oh and no gas for my car. But I do have a place to live so that’s the silver lining in all of this 😑
@@EricaChavira-on4ozF.j.b.
....F.j.b.
@@Dave-ir3gj How is Joe Biden responsible for the lack of affordable housing everywhere?? You're not considering WHO owns these our-of-reach apts that are springing up everywhere. These complexes are built by Investors who are looking to make Profits!! They hang onto them only long enough to build equity and then sell or refinance them, ensuring that rents Stay high or increase!
It's all about fast ROIs-returns on investment/s and $$$. Always the dollars.
So how is Biden responsible for their greed?? Bring it on!
@@SRockwellor eat or go outside or breath. You’re out of touch.
Rent is too expensive. You're building apartments but only for lawyers, doctors you name it. It's going to get worse.
No one going to build for poors .. better starting make money than crying
who will pay rent, utilities, clean trash, drug and needles on ground ?
A baristamcould never afford their own place. Young people have to have roomates. The real problem is that 90% of the homeless will not or can not hold down a job. They need to be 100% subsidized, or stay on the street. Its not that hard to make $1000 a month and share a place, they just can't or won't do it.
Stop with the excuses.
poor thing
Move to where you can afford. I have a $1M+ net worth. But I don't have the income to rent in a decent area of most major cities. Move further out, add a side hustle, and figure out how you can one day BUY your own house.
Let’s be honest as a nation, Most Americans are a paycheck or two from homelessness.
We've known this for decades. We also try not to think about it because worrying won't do any good.
But you voted for that! I'm a homeless old person - Americans voted in their usual cruel and war loving way again.
@@KS0102 Worrying won't do any good without that worry translating into a plan backed by action. I should have my debts paid down to zero in three months and then I will begin saving for a down payment on an old van I plan on converting for me and my cat to live in. Without the $1,355 rent expense I will have the money to save up for a truck camper. With a plan and strict dedication to that plan nearly anyone can slowly build to the point where they can escape the rent trap and eventually escape the wage slave trap. But civilization is failing and those that don't escape by 2030 may have missed their chance and get sucked into the vortex of humanitarian disaster that will ensue when enough of civilization fails that it all collapses everywhere all at once. Being mobile in a vehicle you own offers the best chance for the poor of surviving what will come soon.
You could have said the same thing back in the 60s
@@nobelwarprize so what changed in the last 70 years? Nothing. The leeches just got better fed. Now only idiots get a job and try to work for a living.
Just think about that. After all the billions spent, there are more homeless than ever before. Where did the money go? Probably into the pockets of various cronies and politically connected NGOs.
Exactly.
Pockets of gov contractar of Liz Chaneny
bidens 10%, Ukraine, illegals.....
The money only removes us, doesn't try to house us!
Well as long as we keep electing Democrats you will never see a change in the madness of their policies.
Billions spent and no results!?! FIRE THEM. You ain't hitting metrics, you should not be in control.
When was the last time the left spent billions and got any results. Housing problem is because Olympia won’t let anyone build over there. It’s on purpose to drive out the undesirables and have only the rich.
My hero, Jay Inslee. What a POS
We need an audit for every penny.
not billions
@@trueblue4069 Prove it!
Billions of dollars spent on housing services... Not housing. Housing SERVICES - offices and jobs for useless government lackeys.
Its like a World War for the betterment towards some extent...
If there isn't a homeless crisis, there would have been no purpose for these "case managers" and "directors of the establishment" making $100,000 but still get driven bonkers at how not a lot of people are donating clothes like they used to.
AND ALMOST EVERY POLITICIAN IN CONGRESS HAS 2-3 HOMES AND ONLY WORKS 160 DAYS A YEAR! AND WE HAVE SO MANY AMERICANS LIVING IN THE STREET....WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE????
@@mdev4544 yeah, or a villa in France or something.. wtf 😨 it's so crazy..
How many houses doe Elon have?
@@hottractor1999Fewer than Oprah, and he's actually contributed to society.
Don't forget
Biden took over five hundred something days a vacation in his four your term
Our representatives obviously need two households, home base and Washington DC base.
Same with state representatives, must travel to state capitol.
Billions of dollars have been spent, and the majority of money goes to agencies and, of course, the CEOs.
Majority of the money goes to a certain group of people in the Middle East that you can never criticize or else you’ll be accused of spreading hatred.
As it should be!
Winnerz gonna win and the loserz get to lose their livez. It's called FREEDOM!
you'd better thank a union memba.
👍
Stop funding these insanely expensive wars.
Or start taxing the ultra rich?
@7373udhskakkaqqiwi The rich pay % of what they earn.
Hold your government accountable for the chaos they cause around the world with billions of your tax money.
@onyiiilo378 Don't defend the ultra rich, it's pathetic and dangerous. They might rule the world one day. They're already doing it. Our ancestors fought for freedom for a reason.
Edit:
Not only that, but they also own a lot of land, and that's a very good reason why housing prices are so high.
Besides, the ultra rich make decisions on their own, while in politics it is you who vote for them.
The ultra rich invest in weapon manufacturing and sometimes in gangs and insurgencies. They also invest in economies that may be hostile to your country, so stop pretending that they're innocent or harmless.
It's easy for someone with a lot of money to deal damage. Tracking their money is a very exhausting task which involves a big expense in the first place, so it'd even more difficult to keep them under control.
Not only that, but the more money they hoard, the less money there is for governmental projects. Musk is already an oligarch who's got enough resources to start a civil war if he really wanted to. He's already using his propaganda machine to spread dangerous misinformation.
Ignore what I said if you're a bot.
They only sent 100 billion 😂😂😂😂
@@onyiiilo378 Yes, a very small %. Nobody should be allowed to become ultra rich. Rich is enough.
Not just drugs but mental issues as well.
No dummy, all these people are NOT druggies or mentally unstable. These are POOR Americans
@@garnetrose6162we let it happen because we coddled the illegal immigrants. It costs billions of dollars this year to take care of these people. The homeless should be the first period!!!
@garnetrose6162 You sound like a child... grow up!
@garnetrosnah its pretty much all the mentality unstable and drugs .e6162
Also disabled, elderly and medical debt issues. It's bad out there
Yet we keep sending money overseas to help people in other countries. How can you afford to help other people when your own people are suffering? 🤷♂️
The “big guy” gets a bigger cut funneling money abroad than domestically.
If they would just print the money for these needs and keep it out of the nothing to show for it debt would help.
@@Variety70 No, because by printing more money, the money we already have lowers in value.
Wow that part...😮
Plus, to bankroll Ukraine and other places, we print more money, which is inflationary and makes everyone poorer .
The homeless industrial complex gobbling up billions 🤕
HomelessMess is an industry. The more $$ WA invests, the larger the problem gets.
Just like crapifornia!
See who is getting rich in your local govt. that will be where the money is actually going to.
smh
That is true. In California, Newsom spent $24 billion for homeless and this state is now number 1 in range. LOL
@@TamNguyen-yz1feand there's $20BIL in homelessness funding that California can't account for.
Could it be that housing is just not affordable...
There are a ton of micro apartments in Seattle for under $1k/month, some even include utilities. Where else can you find housing that cheap in 2025?!
@flanagamer in a different state.
No, it's a multi billion dollar industry. The scumbags follow the money.
Drugs and mental health are the number 1 driver.
could it be that people just don't work or know how to manage money and live withing their means?
$16.60 minimum wage touches nothing when costs of housing is beyond Most’s means!
These are NOT minimum wage workers out on the street. The high percentage of these people are addicts and/or people with mental illness who have made the choice to live on the streets, in lieu of getting the help that is available.
Some places still want to pay $13 an hour. And for years the white collar men have been arguing "oh well just get a better job!" Knowing full well these corporations are all in kahoots paying low wages.... it's worse than the real estate people making millions from renting out single family homes saying "its a free capitalist country! I can buy as many houses as i want to!" Yeah, that's the problem. They should not be allowed to. "I'm not breaking any laws!" Because the laws we need have not been made yet.
THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!! If housing is $1000+ a month not including utilities, or personal needs wtf is a person supposed to do?
or they can just get a job and stop doing drugs.
@GrumpyWolfTech People are working two jobs and still not making enough. Some of these jobs want to pay people $13-$17 an hour. It's not enough. Many can't afford drugs even if they wanted to do them.
When you're making billions of dollars to fix a problem, there is no resolution.
That’s what I’ve been saying for years. The homeless problem has become a multi billion dollar industry. These guys know that if there are less homeless, their homeless funding gets cut.
A lot of senior citizens are unable to work and they depend on their social security which is not near enough for the cost of living everything is too expensive! It's unacceptable we need to have more respect for this seniors and their quality of life they don't have much time left
I'm one who's suffering 😢
Im a millenial, I'll give some advice seniors have given me: stop eating avocado toast.
At least they’ll have social security……
@Seattle808 For now. The Republicans are doing their best to make drastic cutbacks on social security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits, SNAP benefits, and to repeal the ACA.
They can sell their house that worth thousands more than they paid for it and move somewhere more affordable. Or rely on their Washington long term care benefits, 😂
In the state with Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos...and $1750 one bedroom apartments...
Rent is too damn high. And affordable housing is an issue. More needs to be done at every level of leadership.
@@c.l.9344 So the govt should build 10s of thousands of apts? And where?
It's not just druggies or drunks, people are homeless because of housing costs that go up each year.
EXACTLY. A lot of idiotts commenting here because theyve never experienced homeless.
All they did was build a bureaucracy to help the homeless not really help the homeless.
yeah zillions of welfare office workersbehind desks acting mean and self important and harrasing people with threatening letters over each dime they got.
WTH is Washingtons government doing if not fixing housing!!
Rail allows people to live without cars which saves a ton. Next build more apartments near rail stations
They pay people 6-7 figure salaries to "solve" these problems. There is no accountability when the corrupt agencies do absolutely nothing toward solving the problem and pocket the cash.
LoL😂
I just have to smh at it
Lining their pockets..
Not doing anything to fix it. Y’all just keep building more luxury apartments that are WAY too expensive for the average worker. Our minimum wage is one of the highest, but prices around here go up every time minimum wage does. Drugs have nothing to do with our high costs of housing. Use that as your scapegoat if you must, I guess.
Oh, so say if 8 out of 10 were drug users. Then would drugs be a problem? The guy who goes on a rant at the bus stop has a illegal firearm starts firing it off what then?
Nobody owes you a free or cheap house. If you can't afford live here then go someplace else. I'm glad the housing costs are high; keeps out the trash.
@@CatWhiskering It seems to be helping to make more trash.
@@CatWhiskering Has that worked so far?
FACTS! Keepin it 100
Billions of dollars put in someone's pocket
Highest.......per capita ! Washington also has some of the highest rents in the nation . No coincidence.
The better standard is what percentage of earnings is rent or house payment. That's why we're the number one, here in Oregon for per population homeless numbers. Poor people.
It’s not the rents. It’s the free healthcare and other goodies we give homeless, people move here just to be homeless and get there teeth fixed and stuff, the freebies need to stop
@@ericsarnoski6278 right. Homeless have it so good.
👉🙄👈
And.... 👉🙄👈.
Drug addiction or mental illness. If you can't function you can't pay rent no matter how cheap.
100% explosion of high paying tech jobs displaced a lot of people. Need to build a lot more apartments.
It’s almost as if the more money we dump on it, the bigger the problem grows
Clean needles do nothing for anyone but bring in more money to the dealers!
Why get in the way of a crises when these “advocates” stand to make a killing.
Because the problem is debts and rent-seeking. It's just statistics. People need to be guaranteed ownership of a living space which can be upgraded for other options when ready.
@ No, people need to grow the f up and take ownership for their life choices
thats how government scams work
Remember, the people who are in charge of the homeless issue are there to make a lot of money, not to solve the problem. If they solve the problem, their job goes away. They are not going to work to put themselves out of business.
Same with police, and the DEA, and the military - conflicts of interest is the very core of our culture.
not at all how that works but sure make a dumbass conspiracy for nonprofits that provide community health and housing programs. That'll teach them from... trying to house people? Like who's "in charge of the homeless issue"? that's nonsensical.
@@roxyamused Your ignorance is part of the problem. Read Mike Schellenberger.
Yeah and then you gotta consider first, last, deposit, water and electric...😢
Because of gentrification, working homeless are kicked to the street in growing numbers.
With PGE raising rates and everything else we’re all going to be looking homeless.
A foreigner owned company that you can’t invest in. PSE is the devil to rate payers here. All smiles while stabbing you in the wallet.
Gavin is the worst in the country,
@@Mrironkar Wrong state
@@phillipsandcastle8387 When he runs for president in 2028. Take note.
@@gloriagehring8676 My mom is a PG&E customer near Sacramento. Her electricity bills have become astronomical. During Summer sometimes over $1000 a month.
But what alternative does she have at present?
Washington is a magnet for homeless.
Other cities and states deport their homeless to Washington with free bus tickets.
Ain't being blue beautiful
@@JoelKelly-v2j Mild climate as opposed to freezing winters.
"We did it Joe, we did it"
They sure did
Well now you can blame Trump and let him deal with it, which I doubt he will...
@KS0102 you lost TDS!!! Hahahahaha!!! He gonna do better than that demented old man and that cackler did
that percentage will double under TRUMP!
Biden derangement syndrome cracks me up. 🤣🤣🤣
Never forget January the 6th!
I was born in Washington lived there for 37 years and had to move to Alaska because I couldn't afford to live in my home state.
@@Ryan-c6g I grew up near the Bay Area. Guess where i chose NOT to live later as an adult ?
You made the hard choice required to regain control and had the grit to do it. Well done.
This is disturbing
The words to fear the most, “We’re the government and we’re here to help.”
Actually it's more "the corporation cares".
Do the ward of the Devil sign when the government comes to your home! They are all demons
Billions have been spent or billions have been wasted? The money did not go to help the homeless, so who ended up with the money?
@@tlbstickman I’m sure there was at least a little graft in there but i suspect that massive bureaucracies and agencies were created to work in this so $$BB is marbled across all that labor.
Just like the “military-industrial complex” it is easy to simply say “not another dime more.” But if that actually happened the number of people w/o jobs would explode. So taxpayers would foot a new expense that was created by eliminating the “not another dime” expense. The system has huge momentum and cannot make sharp maneuvers. It is like running on a log floating in the river and to keep from falling we run faster and faster. But in the end you still fall. ☹️
Apologizes. I know it is not very encouraging to hear …
The amount of aid we give other countries is crazy when our own people are struggling so bad, I say four years of no foreign aid we need to address this.
Ukraine doesn’t have homeless
Israel has universal healthcare btw
Why is this a surprise?
Do your job KOMO and hold our local and state politicians accountable.
Raise wages. Lower rent. It’s not a mystery.
Not all landlords can afford to subsidize their tenants.
Wages go up, jobs get lost and prices go up.
Take an economics class. Don’t be a simpleton.
Everything is high in Seattle, when I visited there a few years ago, salmon was $25 a pound. They only get sunlight half of the year, I don’t get the attraction to live there…
The mayor is high, too. 😂
because it's beautiful and I personally love the weather. I guess it's not for the delicate.
@@roxyamusedYour delicate homeless population agrees with you
@@alrent2992😂
And for those who think they would never rent to someone who had an eviction on their rental history ...Let us pray that everyone who is educated and hardworking in one's family continues to keep their job and that they're not hit with cancer or some life debilitating crises or circumstance that hinders them from paying their rent. Folks suffer financially when disasters happen. We can also pray to be more compassionate. I'm not talking about a long history of evictions I'm talking about a circumstance that causes sudden homelessness for instance when a landlord goes to renew a lease and they raise the rent $500 and then that person can't keep up and it causes an eviction. There are lots of reasons for evictions and they shouldn't be a life hindrance where someone constantly has a noose around their neck.
At this rate homelessness will double every 5.5 years
Illegal immigrnats should not be counted with homeless citizens and legal residents.
They should be though. You don't get to decide it fortunately.
No, they get all the govt help and free hotels, food, medical care. Never worked a day in their life here. The LAND OF THE FREE has never been more true.
Back in 2007 I could live on my own in a 1 bedroom apartment with my wife on a single income of 13 dollars an hour. Not even joking.
It's become exponentially more difficult to live up there even since the pandemic.
Don’t work. Rent is too high
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless" -Thomas Jefferson
Where did all the money go?????
To the rich
To the agencies
rich people that'll also get a trump tax break. laughing to the bank.
Lizz Channey
Everywhere except to help the needy. 😂
Homeless problem primarily in blue states where so much money has been spent to “help homelessness”. Two questions: 1. Why so much in Democrat lead states? 2. Where has all that money really go to?
There's more going on than you see on the surface.
Some pockets get lined, some ship people over a state or two for a 'program'.
Talk to some of them and you'll learn many are from other states, and were 'helped' to where they are now.
Note who has record profits....
that's because people leave the red states that criminalize and hunt them. You're just hoisting the problem on to others- pretty common for red states. Blue states do bank roll the sickening poverty republicans ignore. But sure blame everyone else, very common for you lot.
Veterans should have never been allowed to become homeless. What good is a VA Certification if you need a Co-signer and good credit background. No different treatment than if you are a civilian.
They keeping asking for more federal funding to help homeless but government officials have other plans for that money even before they receive them. Shame to WA government leaders.
And this state doesn't have Rent Control so it's Impossible to get into a place to live
Listen Up
Yes, due to explosion of tech jobs lots of people who lived here before got displaced. We need more apartments built. ASAP. See Austin TX
It doesn’t have tax control. As a landlord with a high interest mortgage, insurance and increasing values and subsequent tax increases I have to charge high rents. One tenant that can live rent free for 6 months before legal eviction or damage my property takes another house out of the rental pool. Get serious before you comment.
@@thereissomecoolstuff But you don’t need to make money. You just sell off a few unicorns and use that to give free housing.😢
@ Rainbow unicorns homophobe lol.
That has been proven to not work. NY? Rent is not the problem. Most can't afford the fees to apply, have bad credit, convictions, substance abuse, or mental illness. There are plenty of places to rent. Most places won't rent to a problem. In my area, the city has built several nice, affordable Apts. the buildings are now messy, crime, and drug infested nightmares. Treatment and work requirements are needed. Enabling is not working. Participate in your success or get nothing.
Unoccupied malls should be considered for homeless housing.
The structures are there, use them for something to benefit the community.
Stop allowing other states from sending their indigents to Washington until we are able to manage what we have.
The democrats couldn't handle it when it began. They ignored it and pocketed the money. Crooks.
This is absolutely shameful and sad. Corporate America is as much to blame as any drug addiction. Many homeless have jobs but have been outpriced in the rental market. To imply that the homeless are all drug addicts is LAZY reporting!
And Pramila Jayapal has more to do with this nonsense than anyone. Vote her in again Seattle
You can afford the house just not food , electric , heat , WiFi , insurance, taxes, maintenance, upkeep , HOA fees, gasoline, a car, car insurance, 😂
Addressing homelessness in our country is far from a perfect science. Without government funding, the number of people affected would only increase. Many factors contribute to homelessness, and laziness is not one of them. This is a multifaceted issue that goes beyond political blame and requires a significant investment of both time and resources to create lasting effects.
How many illegal immigrants are there? This is main cause of homelessness in every state along with lawlessness. Not investigating very well.
They will not show those numbers😂
The increase of holessness across the country is due to skyrocketing property taxes forcing people out of their homes.
“ never go full retard”!!!😂🤣🤡👍
They want to increase it anyway - look at Trumps teams new decisions on Visas.
"This just in: Democratic politicians provide even more funding to the same organizations to help combat homelessness."
@@MichaelTheophilus906 LMAO! I WISH!!
It literally is worse! If they used all that money to buy houses over the years they could have housed probably 2-4% of the entire population PERMENANTLY!
What no suprise!
Most people are low income or even middle. You can't afford a place on that
really? you know most people?
Legalized drugs has destroyed so many families and individuals in WA. Thinking it's all okay
No one forces an individual to use drugs.
Many personality types are more prone to substance use.
In the billion$, to fix it. Where's the money??? Charges shd be filed.
Money is in Ukraine
Every city and state should do a monthly audit covering tax dollars. It should include a breakdown covering usage and the distribution of funds. This should be recorded publicly and made available to all citizens. Also, any organization, agencies, or groups utilizing the funds should also be included in the monthly audits.
I’ve been living in a shelter in Seattle since September and the problem is no appropriate solution/rehabilitation is available. I’ve yet to meet one person that hasn’t exhibited some sort of mental instability. Jackets and meals are nice & appreciated, but almost all these men need a real doctor, but more importantly: the sense that someone cares. I love the case-workers and social workers, but there just aren’t enough of them; the ones present are overworked and exhausted.
But all the US Govt officials own at least 2-3 big awesome houses at the minimum all paid for by taxpayers and corporate bribes.
Rent prices are WILDLY out of control. No wonder there are so many homeless here. It all started thirty years ago with a mass migration of folks who sold their houses in California and suddenly found themselves able to buy mansions and apartment buildings in Washington. I well remember when my rent tripled in one year because the building kept selling to new owners. Rent had been relatively sensible at first, but quickly became impossible to afford. Nobody was tripling my wages!
Garbage as usual///// Ignore the REAL reasons
Yeah it’s ABC. Just lib propaganda.
Richest politicians also...
I currently live in a homeless shelter and majority of the men that live there are active drug users and mental health issues. Interestingly enough there’s a drug ring that goes on behind the shelter. It’s easier to get fetty than weed
THE NUMBERS OF HOMELESS HAVE NOT DROPPED LIKE THEY LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING
If you lost your job, had a business that went under, rent & mortgage goes outrageously up, have to decide between food & medicine, thank a Democrat.
We have the worst politicians in the country and I have been saying for over 20 years unless you do not change your policies homelessness will double every 5 years and its been true. Even though we spend over $100,000.00 per year per homeless person it is only getting worse and the money is basically being wasted!
Meanwhile, at least 5000 people per day crossing the open border also need housing...
Musk should have 100 kids but dont expect homeless to have any.
I don't see what the problem is. This is, after all, the government the voters voted for.
Other people do see the problem. It isn't government per se but fast explosion of high paying tech jobs which displaced a lot of people. We build apartments, but need to build much more.
@@Markanimation-t2v problem is people who want tzar to fix all their problems. Some people still think government is of the people, by the people, and for the people. Others by blaming everybody but them find a reason not to do anything.
Blue heads
I'm sure the increase in homeless asylum seekers entering the US hasn't had any impact on that 18% right? California has 187,000 homeless and New York has 150,000. Washing comes in at #3 with 31,000 homeless. Is it a coincidence that the two states with the most illegals and refugees also have 5 times as many homeless as Washington state? When TRUMP takes office you will see these percentages decrease as the deportations begin.
They will not say that😂
homelessness is skyrocketing because property taxes are forcing people out of their homes.
Deportations will have zero affect on
The continuation of people losing their homes.
You should stick to playing video games
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Odd none look like migrants or asylum seekers, just red hats on fent.
texas and florida are top 5 in the nation in homelessness how conveniently Jan 6 traitors forget!
I'm in the Southeast region of the country, it's bad here too. No one can afford to buy a home, everyone is packed tightly into stack and packs and also migrant populations now. It's not a mystery why birth rates have plummeted. I hold 2 STEM degrees, make decent coin for the area I live in (well above average) and yet feel priced out or the few options I have are in rough areas where I am better off renting in a nicer area. I'm very concerned that if the value of the US dollar continues to plummet where it affords less and less and housing costs continue to stay high, I'm very concerned something akin to French Revolution 2.0 is going to kick off. Fun fact 1776 happened before the French Revolution. There are a lot of highly educated people on the brink of homelessness or homeless, it's not all junkies and unskilled people. As AI replaces jobs and other jobs have been outsourced, people lose hope, There is this cruel disconnect between those who have assets and plan at that level and those with little to no assets who have to work to provide basic necessities. We are human, we learn skills, maybe it pays out for a little while, but even the most advanced skills end up being outsourced or replaced by machines. It's not bad we can innovate, but it is bad if we can't protect and enhance the quality of life of our fellow countrymen when they are contributing to the community in a positive way. It used to be yo could be an assistant store manager with a few basic accounting skills and know how to stock shelves, run a register, and you could make enough to afford a small apartment and pay for (state or community) college or take a nice vacation, get a car-whatever, you had enough for a roof over your head and food on the table. Today, there are people working at gas stations and living in tents behind them 9serious stories in Florida about this) or 3 families crammed into olde smaller ranch homes designed to hold 1 family. Meanwhile if you do go to school, most people do so and incur a debt for it, but when you get out there is no reward aside from a higher paying job, you don't qualify for any hosing relief even though "free market" housing rates are expensive, making it harder to save to buy anything of your own. 😥
Here are the Top 15 cities with the most homeless. Lets see if there is a connection.
15. Washington DC - Run by Democrats since 1961
14. Boston - Run by Democrats since 1930
13. Chicago - Run by Democrats since 1931
12. Portland - Run by Democrats since 1980
11. Las Vegas - Run by Democrats since 1975
10. San Francisco - Run by Democrats since 1964
9. Sacramento - Run by Democrats since At Least 1975
8. Phoenix - Run by Democrats since 2019
7. Oakland - Run by Democrats since 1977
6. San Jose - Run by Democrats since 1964
5. Denver - Run by Democrats since 1963
4. San Diego - Run by Democrats since 2020
3. Seattle - Run by Democrats since 1969
2. Los Angeles - Run by Democrats since 2001
1. New York - Run by Democrats since 2014
We dont have a homeless problem, we have a Democrat problem in this country.
Texas and Florida are seeing the highest increase in homelessness…
As skyrocketing property taxes continue to force people out of their homes.
By the way… California will always have the highest homeless population.
It’s called instinctual self preservation, being in a location they will not freeze to death.
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Rescrublicans are no better either need younger faces in government with new ideas and policies that will turn the country around for all walks of life
It's amusing when people try to pin something on a single group while ignoring the methodologies used.
When you ship your homeless to the next state over - it's easy to pretend it's someone elses problem.
Why haven't Republican candidates won the elections in those cities???
Wonder how many were imported from other countries
99%
People in Washington treat homeless like garbage
All over the world. Homeless are the only group that it seems perfectly acceptable to do whatever against.
Yet they keep coming.
Because that’s what they are
Big money to be made "helping" the homeless.
Understandable with Inslee as Governor.
If yer honest and in a low income job, your screwed as it's legal for employers to steal from you and there's no help in certain situations period.
It's fucked
Blue state
Blue red doesn’t matter they’re all the same none of them care about you they only care about filling their own pockets at the cost of the people.
Stop with the excuses, don't blame drugs, don't blame alcohol,don't blame mental health. Fix homelessness. See easy when you concentrate on the problem
If you build homeless housing, they will come and stay.
blame biden and kamala
I grew up part of my time in the South and Portland Oregon now Seattle. One factor is crime is normal here and accepted. No one I know here, thinks it will go down. I never saw zombies with such frequency as Seattle and Portland. It is accepted even expected. Seattle authorities are not supported in doing anything, it’s just the way it is here. They like to get drunk drivers but drugged citizens on the streets with no income, that are desperate to get the next high likely not legally, the courts seem not to care in a real sense. Maybe catch but definite release then hand wringing at why that doesn’t get better.
Advocates cashing in off the homeless what
Where did they spend that money? Not on homelessness. I live here I know what I see. And the cost of housing is trying to catch up with CA without the CA wages. $2000 for a studio of any worth. And the landlords can just keep raising and raising. No law against it and no improvement to these properties. A bill was brought to the State congress to cap these rents but it didn’t pass. The democratic Mayor and other leaders in this state have defunded the police, and decriminalized everything, so these homeless can be very dangerous. They don’t get arrested, they don’t go to jail. The police in my community are wonderful and there are resources but these homeless don’t follow thru. Especially the addicted homeless, they would rather be homeless and high than follow any rules to get help. If arrested they are handled with kid gloves then set free. There needs to be some really tough love here. It is out of control and dangerous! This used to be a beautiful place to live. There were no “bad” areas. Not anymore. So if we are third who’s first and second? More democratic cities that do nothing? These liberals here, do a lot of virtual signaling then do nothing!
Meanwhile billions go to foreign countries and foreign nationals
Let's open the board to 10 million people. Americans don't need a home. Let our tax dollars pay for housing for those 10 million.
We can't possibly even shake a stick at the issue of homelessness until we open up more rehab and mental health centers!
@@torablack It may not start with drugs but in Seattle the homeless interviewed always say “100% here are addicts.”
Even if that is “mostly true” then individuals falling into that cycle who STAY HERE are almost certain to fall into inescapable homelessness.
No easy decisions to be made by people drifting toward homelessness.
@@baomao7243 it's the same in Eastern Washington
The rates of housing insecurity are much higher.
The grift that keeps on grifting! I'm sure all the bureaucrats are applauding how much funding they can money launder next year
The American Dream is l👀king as strong as ever.