He slept on buses and in a storage locker to avoid homeless shelters
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- John Grant Yusak was evicted from his home in June and slept in his truck in a Walmart parking lot while he searched for other options. After his vehicle was impounded, Yusak said he's spent nights on buses and even in a storage locker to avoid going to an emergency homeless shelter.
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This man should be a hired advocate working for the government to head an investigation on how to tackle homelessness. Give this man a job and an affordable place to live!
Sure, hop to it ma'am. No one is stopping you.
there... in government is no such taks like "how to tackle homelessness".
if some one, who disagree with what i said, just take some time and learn little bit more about homelessness - for me, what i see on youtube "about this", it is simply depressing how government make "all things" worse and worse. And money "from budget" just disappear and every move of government make "all things" even worse and worse. "Amazing"🤐
this is so so heartbreaking....to see a determined man almost running out of options to live in a safe and comfortable place
How about we stop treating housing as a commodity but rather a basic human and personal property right?
So you’re entitled to someone else’s labor? Lemme guess, you want a medical professional’ labor too. And farmers as well.
@@nyk3334that’s not how that works at all, the farmer, doctor and carpenter still get paid.
Go right ahead. Start building, for free, today. No one is stopping you, workers of the world unite!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 *insert idiotic slogan*
@@nyk3334 Isn't that what being a landlord is?
Freehold property ownership means the price of land is dictated by the property markets. You can't get around that unless you want government ownership of all land. It's not inherently bad either, if managed properly.
Our property values have been intentionally inflated by increased immigration and not building enough homes and infrastructure to support it.
JT has destroyed this country and our childrens future. He was voted in by the woke naive city folk. Never forget that.
The dude is a survivor, and resourceful. Still brutal.
A few years back in Calgary, 'tiny homes' were constructed for military veterans. These homes, complete with a kitchen, toilet, and shower, are small but livable. I'm sure that many people would be happy to rent a tiny home of their own and have it all to themselves. Why aren't 'tiny homes' being built more often?
There’s enough land in Canada to build these.
@@robindaniels2987 There is enough land in Canada to build everyone a mansion.
There is a guy in Upstate NY that actually built a bunch of tiny homes on his property. His name is Carmen Guidi, They were basically cabins, They had a kitchen, a bathroom and small living space They were small, but nice and very livable. Perfect for one person. He even put satallite TV, and internet in them. Second Wind Cottages they are called.
God please give this man a place he can call home.
"Canadian Dream" is exactly right . Have been homeless for almost 3 years , am willing to work and want to live but there's nothing for chances out there for us , I'm in AB , I can only imagine how unbelievably harder it is to be homeless in a place like that. I hope you find some semblance of home Grant. It's something that we all wish we could have . :/
How about you do long distance trucking for a living for a year? Your living space is guaranteed and is part of your pay, utilities are paid for except your cellphone, the pay is very decent if you are willing to make the miles and there is always a demand for committed drivers. That would be my choice if I found myself homeless and jobless again in Alberta, which I was for two weeks many moons ago
What is your plan for the next couple weeks when temps drop to -40 ❤
@freddexta3363 Would love to but I had a colored young life , was on the street from 13 going forward I've had jobs and have done training in different things but with my past driving is not exactly in my cards. I have lots of warehouse experience and forklift, fall arrest and so on but I've only been through grade 10 . I would look into upgrading my education if it wasn't so expensive because the only funds I have now or even when I have work is needed to live and try and save for something maybe a home someday , or a chance to create my own chance .
Does that make sense ?
And yes the weather is not looking too great this week :( . It snowed last night .
If anyone reading knows any places hiring in the Calgary area I'm all ears .
I do thank you for your suggestion though and totally agree we have a constant need for more drivers that was a really good suggestion ty.
@@Herrmdogg403 Thanks for your reply. You state that you only have a grade 10 formal education. That is plenty enough to get a drivers license and trucking would also get you a house, or at least shelter, negating the need for you having to pay for your own. Again, your utilities are paid, no property taxes or maintenance expenses like my family and I have, no insurance premium bills, no yard upkeep expenses. You pay income tax, cpp and EI premiums and your groceries, that's it. Do that for a year and walk away with 50 grand after deductions, with your head held high and not owing anyone a dime. Remember, excuses are the sticks that build the house of failure, and a year goes by just as fast whether you are working or not. You have nothing to lose by going this route. Unless there is some legal reasons why you can't possibly get a class 1 license or you have a criminal record that is so bad that no transport company would hire you, I honestly don't see the problem.
Heartbreaking….he seems to be a good man
Welcome to crapitalism.
No, this isn't capitalism; it's socialism. Isn't that what you wanted?
@@friedenhiker1032people want democratic socialism. And ye, this is crapitalism.
@@friedenhiker1032Maybe you should look up words before you post cause you don't seem to understand them
@@friedenhiker1032 Socialism is the largest corporations owning 99% of the wealth? ODD.
@@Lili-xq9snNo this is Trudeau's Canada
While millions are spent on other countries people here have to survive on a bus wtf?!
There are dozens of real solutions for this: ‘leaders’ don’t want them.
This leader
Affordable ones that involve people taking responsibility for their own choices and living?
I had to leave a DV relationship and lived in a shelter for 6 months with my child. It was the worst resource I've ever used, they never tried to help me settle into a place even with money in my bank account. This was 5 years ago in NB.
I wish you the best of luck. You sir are a survivor. This should not be happening in Canada 🇨🇦 period.
We have people in Canada homeless, living like this, and working full time jobs, while companies and CEO's rake in millions. Are we destined to need a revolution every couple hundred years to reset the balance?
Wow, this man is very resourceful. He should work in the housing sector. He could help so many ppl. He is very intelligent and well-spoken, and he is very respectful.
I might end up like this. Minimum wage is too high, so business don't hire.
Heart breaking.
Please start a gofundme for him, I would love to donate if i know the money will go to him! A respectful man like him deserves much better.
He said he has money to pay rent, he is saying that he just can't find a place to rent.
@@kristenashton7505 What is missing? Affordable rent? Ottawa is pretty expensive. Or lack of good credit or a job?
funny how trudeau is paying 9000$ a night trips with our money and sends money to other countries but wont help TRUE canadians that are struggling with homelessness !
No human should be living this horror it's mentally draining. It's very sad government needs to do more to provide proper place.
For the homeless that's actually sane not screaming noise making people. How can one sleep at night in such madness?
Same in the USA.
Power to you buddy. You inspire others. Jesus loves you.
Portable housing benefits 😮. SHELTER LIFE IS ROUGH, especially people that should be in a care facility living in shelters.
The problem with Canada is that if you have a solution, you can't share this because I cannot capitalize on it. Once out, big business will move in to steal the idea.
😢 so sad seeing this happen in Canada can't wrap my head around how this is allowed broken inside watching these clips.
Trudeau has a lot to do with it
i feel just as hopeless as this man there really isn't help out there for this either .
The man says that he can afford rent. That's what blows me away. I moved to Gatineau for cheaper rent. He could do this also. I don't believe that he actually wants to work.
'Not all who wander are lost.' - JRR Tolkien.
As a taxpayer, I would rather the government build more affordable housing instead of the billions it sends to foreign countries.
This is going to be a more and more common story
Because too many people rely on "the system" instead of on themselves, yes sad but true.
I stayed in a shelter in Maple Ridge BC and it was full of DrugUse and violent criminals. You had too sleep with shoes on and One Eye open! Beatings and rapes were common.
Did I miss something or did he never touched on why shelters are undesirable? Or is it because shelters are as unsafe as the downtown core/unsafe because its in the downtown core?
A lot of them are full, and yes, very unsafe.
Shelters are highly dangerous and will actually cause you more problems than what it’s worth
When you wake up all your stuff including your shoes will be stolen.
I remember someone even had their false teeth stolen. Highly unsafe and filthy.
Why doesn’t the government just buy tiny homes to help with this problem or even ice tents
They did that in Haleiwa, Hawaiʻi in the 1990s i think. More like a tiny shed. Maybe 8x8 ?? With a sink & toilet, I think. After a few years, the program ended and the tiny homes disappeared. I thought it was a great idea!
The government isn’t here to help people, It’s here to help themselves
@@DarylRenz this administration for sure!
I just realized that I am able to comment on a cbc page?! Is that new?
They're worried about shanty towns or favelas forming from groups of those tiny type homes. The cities really don't want them. The cities only care about being pretty and neat and such and getting Olympics and other "prestigious" crap.
He is a smart man. Hire him !
SOMEONE MAKE THIS MAN PRIME MINISTER
waaaay back, we should have *socialized housing too* just like healthcare
And off-market housing.
Í remember the storage I had had people sleep there.
Genuine man complain and a drug abuser get benefited
Where the heck are my tax dollars spent?
It's going to foreign countries.
@@yokiryuchan7655 vacation to foreign countries !
Im 53 and will be homless soon .
I will be a refugee in my own country .
I had a job i worked security but i was beaten and stabbed ,brain injury ,neck ,ptsd ,mdd but WorkSafeBC, they ignore and disagree with every one of the neurologist , Psychologist psychiatrist ,and any doctor i see. WorkSafe fights me every step of they way till your soul broken .
That's how ppl become homless sometimes .
Hard to live on $245.00 a month i get from them .
I live in the ottawa area and i usually have a room for rent for 650 a month all inclusive furnished in the carling brittania area.
It is a sad state of affairs. Even other species, the wolf, the lion, etc, see fit to care for each and every member of the group of their species .But us , the so called higher species can’t even do that for their fellow species. We pay taxes, and the homeless need to be taken care of, given a decent place to live and eat decent food. There needs to be more public outcry to the government federally, provincially, and municipality to demand better care.
Well he says he even has money for rent and just can't find a place so people do need to stop stigmatizing everyone that is homeless when you don't know their situation. People used to living independently do not want to go to shelters it's like being in jail and being poor is your crime even you don't have substance abuse problems or mental health issues like many of them do you all get crowded together some staff are less sympathetic than others you have no privacy you have curfews some places have bed bugs or thieves etc. Many would go sleep on a friend's couch instead too if they had the option.
I’ve had friends crash on my couch because they live near a shelter and people were breaking in almost every night, no way to get a good night’s rest in those conditions.
Love, Love, Love
Been through this situation not to long ago and it’s a Horrible situation!
I worked with the homeless for a time. We had long term beds available, but had a problem keeping them filled. People would stay for a night or a week and leave. The reason for leaving that we heard the most? "There are too many rules."
Most avoid shelters because they’re highly dangerous, overcrowded, and understaffed.
And yes most shelters are authoritarian in nature meaning any minor infraction can put you back on the streets to keep from overcrowding. Not to mention incompetent staff members who abuse their authority.
@@SteelCitySH I can only go by what we were told by the people. And as far as authoritarian? When you're dealing with 100+ people who have basically been living with no rules, you need rules for things to work. Or, the shelter becomes dangerous.
How many people did you ban for getting upset their shoes or other belongings were stolen under your eyes?
@@TheCatherineCC Personally? None. I banned people for possession of drugs/alcohol on premises, being under the influence on premises, multiple curfew violations, (unless work related). My personal "favorite"? The guy who defecated on his sleeping roommate so that he could have his own room. We prosecuted provable thefts when we could. Usually the police would just escort the thief off premises and let them go. I only worked there for about 18 months before returning to my previous job.
Maybe he could be a bus driver since he knows all the routes. Otherwise he may need to leave Ottawa for a cheaper place to rent.
Canadian's pride and joy
When it comes to these shelters, is it better to police the shelters to get people off the streets than it is to let the shelters stay undesireable and have people on the streets that would take even more police resources to surveil and react to problems spread out all over the place? It might save money, aggravation and lives.
Do not forget the police want to be busy. With out homeless in the street of down town?
No police!
Means no job for police.
Shelters can't be fixed, certainly not by police. Even jails can't stop many of the same problems
Immigration, interest rates, foreign investment. But hey, keep voting liberal.
Lol, that is every gov for the last 40 years.
@@fabienneisore7831 yes. 90% of governments are left wing. It’s a left wing world unfortunately.
His eyes show it.. jeez
He says he can afford rent. Why am I suppose to feel sorry for this man? Go rent a room in Barrhaven, live in the suburbs and have everything that you said that you wanted. There are three shelters downtown and by far the Ottawa Mission is the best. I have slept at all three. This man sounds like he feels he is too good for a shelter. It is not paradise and there is a threat of violence. It is a SHELTER and not the Hilton. Those that are struggling should be happy these places exist. They save lives.
I worked in a shelter in Prince George. Despite the fact that there was a protocol in place to protect people if it was colder than -5C, the front desk staff would leave people out in lethal cold while laughing in their faces. But of course they only did this on the night shift when their superiors were not around.
We need him to replace Crystia Freeland
If Ontario would just allow people to buy affordable tiny homes, this would take care of a lot of the homeless situations. Many people would have a safe warm place to live that is in their means. I see this happening all over except here and it makes me sick, to be honest.
Trudeau's Canada
Learn something before you post
PP is going to make this all much worse.
@@titusmccarthy I doubt that. He did a video on what a problem it is. He will definitely help people get off drugs and discontinue the sale of drugs
@@ekingston1694Which solutions has he brought forth? What has he done for the people in his jurisdiction?
@@titusmccarthyNope. Safer streets for the lawful homeless and less immigrants.
Can we sleep in a storage Room very sad to hear this Gentleman story
Don’t worry it’s Justin’s fault somehow
I wish you the best of luck.
It's Free Real Estate
When I was homeless my GOD Jesus christ also my dad got me though them times
Your father IS god. Not some mythical, imaginary figure.
You can't stay in a hospital lobby anymore. You have to sign in with a health compliant.
...Trudeau's Canadian Dream
so sad
Canada under Trudeau.
😢😢😢
Do anything and everything to survive.
Hey CBC why not give him some the millions you all gave yourselves? Shamless
This man doesn't deserve this! He deserves a good life for he is a good man 👍 Best of luck buddy 👍
Why are you homeless?
More like the Canadian nightmare....why was John's truck impounded? If you can afford rent and all those Timmies, you can afford to keep your vehicle legally road worthy.
Is this man being invited to the relevant public-servants so as to share his well-communicated wisdom on these issues in order for them to engage in cultural-repair?!?
Professor-Marty.
8 years of liberal ndp
Our young need a lead. Jow do we survive. And pennyless.
This is gonna be me in 1 year :-)
If all homeless were like him we wouldn’t have issues with delinquents
Cities are dumps really that’s all these are eventually people will see that and ditch em
LOL. But small towns are even bigger dumps.
@@shauncameron8390 I’m not talking appearances although the city doesn’t impress me it does look like a dump I’m talking species behavioural science
No offence, Yeah I get people are suffering, I get there is homeless problems, but when the bus seat get so dirty that the riders that need to use them to get to school or work and it's smells like sweat and urine, I don't want to sit on that. I hope hes getting help he needs.
noone cares
This is called a failed state, why 140 leader's attended BRI Forum in Beijing cooperation in Agricultural-Poverty alleviation-STEM Healthcare-Infrastructure Domestic manufacturing....CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat, Einar Tangan-Martin Jacques-Lijinjing-Tian Wei Reporterfy-Cyrus Janssen. Tommy Douglas got Canadians Universal Healthcare, Canadian politician that gets Canada on BRI map will have a statues ×10 made of them... 😂..
What a shame on CANADA!!!
What a shame for people….
@@leeoliver424 right
What is to do with CANADA?
YES I WAS LIKE YOU BLAMING CANADA FOR YEARS, BUT I ASKED CANADA TO FORGIVE ME AND STARTED TO SAY,
" SHAME TO ALL OF US SHAMING CANADA!"
WHAT DO U THINK?
FROM ERITREA.
Wait, what happened to white privilege?
There is none
He's got the energy to do all that, but not hunt for an apartment.
He said he has the money he just can't find one. Probably because he doesn't have a job and people turn him down for that or his credit. Please use your thinkkng
We need to seize the luxury condos. Civil asset forfeiture. Let’s gooooo
Still stuck on the old class warfare, right? Maybe read some history to see how well that worked in other places on this planet and is still being practised in cool countries like North Korea and Venezuela
Canadian Dream is valid…for those that want it bad enough…..
I live in Ottawa too Why don't he get a job they are always hiring at tim hortans he seems very determined cool to see him take the same busses oc transpo I take everyday plus he's right rent is so.expensive in this city ottawa
They say they are always hiring at tim hortons, but the sign is just there so they can bring in TFWs who they can force to work double shifts and not pay overtime.
Tims money wouldn't cover rental costs anyways.
@@TheCatherineCC Seems to work for the TFWs, doesn't it? At least we don't seem to see them wandering the streets aimless and hopeless.
@@freddexta3363 there have been several cases in the news where the tfws were living 8 to a room in the basement of the fast food place. Food inspection happens and they discover 8 mattresses etc
I thinqué migrunts the New Canadian be get moore EXCELLENTÉ Offer
More housing is not the solution. "More housing" is going just stay in words, there will not be enough housing even if the housing do increase a little over time. But it takes a long time to get "more housing", it might take forever. By contrast, people are in emergency housing need now and right away, people are dying,suffering and aging day by day without a place to call home. So "More housing" is not resolving the urgency of the need. The solution is Cheap Tiny Shelter/Cabin/Homes/Boxes/outhouse with the freedom of being able to create heat for winter, it can be burning wood, propane, gas. People who is in need of a home will accept a basic box/shelter/container. Tiny cheap shelters/homes are easy and fast to build with nowadays technology. It's cheap to build and it's easy to make make it fast and quick for everyone to be able to have one in time. It's more realistic and more likely to happen, and quicker to resolve the emergency of homelessness that is happening right now.
Cheap Tiny Shelters/Cabins/Homes/Boxes/outhouses with the permit to make heat is the solution to the emergency of homeless. It only take a short time to make them in quantity. In no time, all people in need have a place to call home and stay safe.
Canada is cold. Allow people to have small cheap shelters to ease the emergency in need of home and safety, please
I remember going to byward market needles on floor in washroom just disgusting then walk out and pay 30 bucks for bacon and eggs
Should have went to Quebec and back too long ride
Story is bullshit...OTTAWA HAS ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S BEST HOMELESSNESS HELP....