It's hard when you say homeless because everyone is grouped under one big umbrella. I had a guy at my work living in his car for a while but got into a apartment after a few months. Alot are working but unfortunately living in their cars. On the other side though what I see first hand at my work dealing with these homeless is yes there is alot of needles and glass pipes you find everywhere and some very mentally unstable people that really could use some help.
Aimee Webber nobody should be depicted as a BUM!! Every human whether mentally ill or homeless deserve respect! But for the grace of God go I or you! Tomorrow could be your turn🤔🤔
Ramír Delgado The feds give California money yet California keeps asking for more $$ ... California is clearly overrated and full of propaganda....In fact, California state got billions from federal tax payers and making all the other states suffer in the process . California needs to deal with their own problems and policies . We gave them enough already for failed Bay Area subway, planes and fires- just this year alone. All recent and unethical handouts at the expense of all of the other states.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles and it’s disgusting to see what this city has turned into. Government has failed its constituents and sold out to big business. Thousands of people left out in the streets. That’s why I left LA cause there was no way that I could afford to pay rent. I worked at a job making 22 dollars an hour and that still wasn’t enough to pay for a decent apartment in LA. I moved to Nebraska and was able to get a two bedroom two bath apartment for 800.
Capecrusader79 People are saying the same thing about San Francisco and it's a disgusting city now. I'm surprised The Tanners/Fullers still live there.😆 If they knew how bad the city has become (now that they have kids), they'd sell the house and move to another state such as Texas or even Florida. Besides, the house is worth much more than they paid for. 😆😆😆
@@incognito96 you are right and the homeless problem in California has been bad for a long time. I remember being shocked at the amount of homelessness in Los Angeles back in the 90s. the homeless problem is bad everywhere now and it's gotten to third world proportions in California. Look at the slums in the cities of Brazil and that's going to become a permanent fixture in California as well.
Right I'm leaving Tacoma Washington to live in Laughlin Nevada for the same price of a house that it cost for a one-bedroom apartment my poor vet friend Sharon is being priced out and she's retiree she can't afford to hear don't know where she's going to go
Every city does have homelessness, but not every city is as bad as LA Like in Ohio and possibly other cities too, There are programs, monies, helps and housing for those who are homeless. So it is a problem in every city, but every city is not as bad as LA. The best thing for all these people to do if and when they can do it, is just to leave LA and don't look back. This city cares nothing about its residents. Because if they did they would not allow landlords to keep doing is residence this way. They would put a cap on landlords with some type of law. That no matter what kind of rental agreement they have. That they cannot raise the rent. And this would include new owners of buildings also. This is being done on purpose. They don't want the medium income people. Even if they have a job. To even be in LA. They're trying to push them out. To me I say if and when you can, pack up all your things in your car and leave LA, Sometimes you have to leave those things behind. And just catch a train, or a bus just to get away from where it's just not working Where You Are. I will tell people don't just stay there because you're used to being there. , don't just stay there because the weather is nice. , and sadly don't just stay there because your family is there. , unless they need someone to help take care of them. The best thing to do is to get out of LA. Keep trying to make a go over there. You're just wasting your time. Abandoned LA leave it all behind. Why keep struggling in the place where there is other places even though you would have to take time to get used to it? Why stay in a place that clearly is not trying to help you and making matters much much worse for you.? Leave LA! Leave LA! Leave LA!
And yet everyone wants to live in L.A. i left there 7 month ago and it by far the best decision i made in my life, i only miss the great weather. Living in Dayton, Ohio
This isn't just happening in LA. I could be wrong but I feel like the states allow landlords and property management firms most all of the rights and leave the working folk to just deal with whatever, just like they do with banks and businesses. So, yea, there's no entitlement to renting in one place forever but there's also a very serious problem of income/wage stagnation and a severely broken affordable housing system, in this country. Any bozo can try and tell the masses to "just buy a home." That's not how this works. SMH
@Fahad Amin Please send all correspondence with checks or money orders because my landlord doesn't care about your illusion, nor does my insurance company.
It's happening in most major metropolis's . . . two major assists on helping the 'downtrodden' here in Washington, D.C. is Catholic Charities and Pathways to Housing. If not for these two major organizations, many more in D.C. would be homeless . . . living on the streets. i know, I was there 5+ years ago . . . not having the income for an affordable rent ! With the assistance of a 'housing voucher' I was able excape the confines of a homeless shelter . . . and live a normal life . . . from a one bedroom apartment !
Exactly that has happened to me and my friend,we are an nurse and he's a vet and a Lady bought it and raised the rent 350$ we don't have food money as it is but she is making it harder on trying to get us out! She's even said she will get more money from her places . she's looking out for her self and she's in her late 60,s hmh you'd think that an older person would have more compassion and not be so Greedy!!
One of the problems is that in some cases it's just as hard to rent as it is to own and that shouldn't be the case. Rent prices are ridiculous. People see manageable mortgage prices and think it's better to buy a home--in many cases it is--but there is a LOT more involved financially to own than rent which I'm learning as I write this. I think if you can get some kind of down payment grants, or have at least 5% and not do FHA, and can find the cheapest move in ready home you can find with no problems (bad roof, termites, bad plumbling, etc) it's better to buy a home than keep renting. Some places are just 1 bedroom or a studio for $2,000 plus, not including utilities and more if you have pets. It's hard getting in the home, but if you buy an affordable home and continue to save and budget you can afford to keep it.
@Red Balloon actually you're dead wrong. It's regulations that actually have caused the housing crisis. Rents are regulated in SF and LA. Hence the problem. Keep government out of our lives. Anyone is able to own if they seek out the right area, and housing programs and avoid bad decisions like college and "student loans". Get your damn head out of the sandbox. I have no time to defend "stupid".
@Red Balloon aw, do we have a Brit here? Using s instead of z? I have an extensive knowledge of economics and can let you know a thing or two about the Austrian school. Perhaps you can read some Hayek or Von Mises?. I didn't miss your point. Owning a house is less than renting, and there are programs to help people own. We're not talking about the balloon mortgages of the early 2000s. I'm talking about fixed rate loans with a set payment. Please move on. You're a lost cause.
@Red Balloon those "publications" are nothing other than well-connected real estate developers that want tax money to build and build, under the guise of "low income housing". Government is corrupt. Leave it alone.
@@michaelmarkham8065 says: "Most homeless are unemployable.." == 1) Some homeless people have a job. Yet, they still have no home and need public assitance Watch the video. 2) How can you be employable if you don't have a phone, address, don't have a way to bathe? So, your comment is false. Not most homeless, all homeless are unemployable. Why employers hire them while they can find hundreds of others who have all of the above?
The Democrats have failed these people so, obviously, you can't depend on the government for help. This is a time for innovation and self-help. All the working homeless people should pool their resources and with help from charities and crowd-funding, buy/build their own apartment buildings. They can manage it like a condo or co-op.
@@Gitn2it says: "The Democrats have failed these people so, obviously,..." == Which policy did that? "Costa Hawkins, California’s rent control law, explained" la.curbed.com/2018/1/12/16883276/rent-control-california-costa-hawkins-explained Signed by Pete Wilson(republican) in 1995. It prohibits cities from rent control on any houses built after 1995.
Incorrigible Panda Yes, it has! I’m in Austin where it is ridiculous. People are leaving these high rents, and bringing them here when they move here thinking they are escaping. Texas has never been an expensive place to live, but that is changing quickly. I’m a native Texan. They are coming in multitudes, and bringing their California dude attitudes with them. They trashed their state, and want to trash ours. Alaska is bigger than Texas with less people, so they need to go there to live.
Real estate is a multi billion dollar a year industry. As long as real estate is allowed to be a big dollar game with forgein investors allowed to buy up land then the crisis continues. Sad thing is no one wants to change it.
I wonder why there are so many people who are able to afford these exorbitant rents/mortgages. You have to make more than 100k a year just to live in a one bedroom unit. The building owners would go out of business or would have to lower prices if the supply was not meeting the demand. Obviously, there must be a lot of wealthy people in these cities.
People can't afford the rent BY Themselves. It is very common for people to rent a BED in a home at average cost of $600-1,000 for each bed. Often there are 2 to 4 beds per room..
@@Gitn2it I am sorry but this narrow minded highschool lesson version supply and demand has done nothing but create destuction. It is disturbing that people find this acceptable. These investors needed to be held criminally accountable for theit crime against humanity.
@@chasingsunsets87 Sadly, a lot of people have the attitude of "It's not me, so I don't care!" And that's why these people are allowed to get away with it.
Most often it's corporations taking over. And like some monster, they don't sleep or have a conscience. And will always seek to maximize profits with whatever means.
And what the attorney did not say (or cannot say) is that while being evicted is difficult enough to one's future rental possibilities, the new landlord "enjoys" also, creating damages to your dwelling that you've left that you probably did not cause, to attain MORE MONEY for his company and ability to also ruin your credit too! Find the new place to live, BEFORE the landlord and the county clerks can get "around" to producing the paperwork that shows you damaged their property. They love to do this so they can attain funds to so-termed "renovate" your old apt for a new higher price paying tenant! Been there done that; One company actually WANTED to claim they had VACANCIES (that they , themselves caused, ) so they could even BORROW MORE FUNDS FROM THE GOVERNMENT! ( Them that got (figure ways to ) GET MORE, while those merely working to pay their rents, get booted out!) IT'S CALLED GREED!
Let me add a bit of a “human” element to some of those new landlords. The landlords don’t meet or know or want to know their tenants . The tenants (or rather the unit they occupy) are simply an apartment/unit in a color-coded cell in an Excel spreadsheet. It’s Part One, Line 26 Schedule E income. If you want to know how they sleep at night, it’s plausible deniability. That’s it.
The housing situation in the City and County is critical. Join or form a tennant's union. Find information at LATU which is Los Angeles Tenants Union. Look it up and organize.
Tejas felix you know what else is coming? The end. The end of this system of things of this world. It’s coming fast. Seek God while he may still be found.
I remember buying our tract house in the Valley for $13.5K. I looked online and the same tract houses how cost $750K. I should have gotten into real estate.
@Aimee Webber You keep making this distinction but a vehicle can be lost overnight. Then your car dweller becomes a street dweller with no prerequisites.
This is the most disgusting thing going on in our current society where your legal income cannot cover your basic living necessities. When i was growing up, no matter what your income was, minimum wage or whatnot, if you worked an honest 40 hr week tax paying job you could always afford to have a roof over your head and your bills paid. What kind of hellified nonsense is this? My father was a menial laborer in a factory and we lived in a nice clean apt, never went without decent food, and even had a little left over at the end of the month to treat us to a movie or some Chinese takeout. Unbelievably, he even put a few dollars away in the bank. If the wealthy have acquired riches beyond their wildest dreams since that time, how is it possible that the lowest earners today are living worse than anyone could imagine back then? This is wrong, wrong, wrong and anyone that thinks that's the way things are you're living on another planet and don't belong in the human race.
If you want affordable housing the government needs to relax the cost of building. To build anything in San Francisco the permits cost more than the actual building. The government of California doesn't want anything to change. The government cut off the supply so the price goes up. If you make permits so expensive, you can't make money building small apartments, you have to build luxury complexes because only the rich can afford to shoulder the permit costs. If you dont want someone to come in and tell you this isn't your house then buy, don't rent.
Hello, people need to get engaged in public policy when life is good. Too many people sit back and don't get engaged in their communities. Get engaged people.
I live in an "affordable" apartment I cannot afford on social security and a small pension. Lately the landlord has raised the rent in the last 2 years 7.25% and 5.3% respectively. Social security raises were only 2.9% and 1.6% respectively. The rent went up enough over time that I had to sell all the jewelry I inherited from my mom to afford one more year in an " affordable" apartment. I pay well over 50% of my income for this "affordable" apartment and my next home will be my '92 Honda hatchback. I promised my County Supervisor that I would park in her parking lot so she could watch a 78 year old woman with several chronic diseases deteriorate. She did not care. She allowed the landlord to raise rents substantially higher than social security cost of living raises in an apartment that is " affordable" on County Owned land in her district. She is up for reelection in Los Angeles County. She is Janice Hahn. Ask her how she can do this to hundreds of low income people living in "affordable" housing in her district who will, over time, have to vacate because of these rent raises that are higher than the senior community can afford. We have been blessed to have these apartments that we fought for and won on pain of a law suit because the County and landlords were ignoring a law on the books that said new housing in the coastal zone must include affordable housing. Ask Janice Hahn why she did not fight to stabilize the "affordable" apartments, to say nothing about the overpriced full pay apartments. These are supposed to be "affordable" for low income tenants and they were 14 years ago, but our incomes are fixed and the rent outstrips our income over time if we qualify for an apartment. Ask Janice Hahn how she can allow this in her own district? You must qualify and requalify each year. She is aware of this because we have informed her. She is taking the side of the landlords who pay for her reelection campaign. Ask her how she can accept expensive fundraising money from the landlords' association while elders age out of "affordable" apartments as rent increases outstrip our Social Security incomes.
The middle class complains when they build low income housing in their areas! It can lower property values and bring in gangs and drug addicts. They want to tear them down so rich people with foreign money can buy the land; they then build unaffordable rentals. All of the cheap hotels and flop houses are swank hotels now (with homeless lying and pissing nearby). China’s poor live in cages because housing is not affordable.
@@oaf-77 why not on Skid Row? Convert those shelters into low income apartments? It's a lot of empty buildings in that area to make shelters. Those shelters are primarily big businesses: they need to keep people homeless and dependant.
Society left agrarian life looking to leave physical labor behind & now we need to work more than ever just to live! We need to go back to a simpler way of life. Do we even consider that there was a time that people didn’t need money for every little thing? Now we have created a lifestyle in which money is needed for literally everything from food to water.
Jackie Ward That’s what the rich want people to do. They want everyone else out of here. They know California is the best state to live in so they are raising prices to properties they own. Even big companies are starting to pay people around 10,000 to leave California.
Housing, food, education and health care is just like water. Everybody needs them to survive. They should be a right; not a commodity, a vehicle of investment to make money. Fight to make FDR’s 2nd bill of rights into law! Our constitution guarantees the pursuit of happiness as one of our basic rights. But without shelter, food, education, and health care also as our basic rights; nobody except the very few rich can ever pursue happiness bc most are too busy trying to secure the basic needs of life. So the current system do not make it possible for people to pursue our basic right of pursuing happiness. FDR said that necesstious men are not free. We cannot have freedom to pursue our basic right to happiness when all are enslaved by constant struggle to acquire the most basic necessities of life. This is the reason why there are so many crimes involving money persist in our society. Imagine a society where all the basic needs are guaranteed. It will be a vibrant society where people can truly be free to pursue their interests instead of choosing their education, and careers based on how much money they can make. A society where professions like doctors are doctors bc they want to really help sick people. Not just bc it pays well
This world is f up. One man making so much money and everyone eles suffer. Smfh rent goes up every year from $50 and up, yet an employee earns minimum of 25 c raised a year. This world is cold
This is capitalism. Try voting Bernie for a better way. Housing is a human right as is health care and education. Can't wait to see my landlord cough up the fair share of taxes he owned. Mine is a big corporate landlord. He owes a lot to the people he drives out with rent raises. Vote Bernie.
This is so sad... I mean yes landlords can do whatever they can to their own property, but this happened all of the sudden after the 2008 crash. It’s new to our community and happening too fast. Some develop company bough all of the available properties and raise the rent like 50% without any consideration to the people who lived there for whole life. I get that it’s about the profit but it’s just brutal...
Exactly,and a Lady has done this to me and my husband and he's an veteran,she raised our rent 350$ in one year been here 10 year's she's just trying to Cash in on the market,it's no longer a place for anyone who is disabled are low income!
the owners of the rental properties know they can rent the units for more money. and since they own the property they can evict you within 60 days. I see no way that the renter has any rights at all. It is the private property laws of the US granted to the oweners by our constitution
the market dictates rents, and sometimes its not fair.... if you cant afford to stay there, move somewhere you can and set down roots.... stop RENTING and learn from the experience so it doesnt happen again while teaching your children a lesson.... dont put your well being in someone elses hands....
Same thing happening in SF. City would rather pay developers for fancy luxury housing and charge $2800-3000 for a studio or 1 bedroom. It’s more attractive to develop these to cater to the tech millennial population than create affordable, low income housing. When you see tent encampments on the same block as a new luxury apartment, the contrast hits you quick.
In 1971, I moved into an old apartment building which was long paid off. A studio apartment was $125 and a 1 bedroom was $155. The same building now charges $900 for the 1 bedroom. Make a law that limit rents in old buildings that are paid off.
It's rent. You are not entitled to stay forever. The landlord can do as they please with the building/house. Why do people feel entitled like they own it. Most everywhere in the country is this way. Rent control raises the rent for all new tenants. The free market should dictate the price. Need to purchase a house to have the right to stay indefinitely.
@@amyangell2378 " its not entitlement, my rent has been raised for what" ... um sounds like entitlement to me. Because THEY CAN. Here's a analogy.... lets say you make 17 per hr right now... and i offer u 19. You're gonna take the 19 bcuz the market dictates i can pay u that. Its no different with housing! Why would i let u rent for 1100 when i can get 1800!!! c'mon now. And, i feel ur pain cause once upon a time i rented. Im a homeowner now
Ziki Roark you must have missed the 2008 crash otherwise you would've never made that statement. Unless you buy in full with cash you're subject to go under water with the mortgage in an economic downturn, unless you own the City you can lose your home due to property taxation and unless you change government law something called "imminent domain" can rip your house from up under you and NO the government does not have to pay you one penny if they don't want to. That is the the LAW and anyone can become homeless.
I feel like if you’re living in your car, you might as well pack up and relocate to where it’s cheaper. I only pay $920 for 3 bed 2/1/2 bath in NC. Rent is even better further down south.
You NEED to address addiction, mental illness, and in some cases poor choices. MOST OF ALLLLLLL!!! The politician's in charge of these cities are to blame!! If these Communist politicians actually CARED about these people this wouldn't be happening!!!
I live in Texas and the housing costs and rents are going up here as well. Big time! I’m fortunate that I bought my home twelve years ago at a decent, fixed interest rate. Over the years, many times I thought of selling because I got tired of dealing with maintenance, lawn care, etc. Now I’m so glad I didn’t. Even though the maintenance part sucks, I now consider my home a huge asset and a refuge.
@@ljpal18 The minimum wage increases rippled up to those who had the items they wanted, so they bought time. That is they reclaim commute time, by living closer to work. The other factor is venture capitalists pushing up property values for profit. One is demand side, and the other is supply side. Setting up public transport to an area outside of these cities and using zoning changes to create affordable housing there would be the solution with the least push back, I think. Free market people will object less to that than attacking the market forces causing the gentrification.
@@abram730 HOW ABOUT VOTE A REPUBLICAN INTO GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA AND A REPUBLICAN MAYOR THEN THEY WOULD LOWER TAXES MAKING CALIFORNIA WHAT IT ONCE WAS A REPUBLICAN AMERICAN DREAM PARADISE
No, this is the consequence of importing millions of new residents from Mexico. Supply and demand. The supply of homes is outstripped by the rising demand of millions of new people. Californians actually demanded for this to happen to them.
It's dealt with on a local level but: if such a problem endangers the well-being of masses of people state-wide is not dealt with by using emergency state funds, the problem will spread to a national level. Greedy politicians need to acknowledge their own faults and swiftly make appropriate corrections! They were voted into office for THAT reason!!!
Something not being discussed in this vid is the rampant drug use in these encampments, and the issue of mental illness amongst many of the homeless. It's not just rising rents.
People are coming to Nashville TN. with dreams of a better life and finding out it full of 10 hr. jobs with 1,000 mo for one bedroom apt. Good luck horrible
For every tear that is shed by a tenant, that you see in this video, there is a tear that is also shed by a landlord. Landlord’s ALSO has had their life turned upside down by a ruthless tenant.
This interview is the saddest yet because LA is not only place with homeless problem. Its scary reality it can happen easily with that one check away from being homeless.
I grew up in LA County but left years ago. Since then I've lived all over the country, nowadays I'm about to buy a brand new home in Albuquerque that I could only dream back in LA. There's a world outside of LA and it's just as beautiful as LA use to be.
Ahh yes of course because there are just soooooo many high paying jobs in rural areas. Please you need a reality check. I'll pay my 1800 in rent in Chicago while making 140k. Good luck even getting close to 100k in your late 20s in rural areas, it's not really possible. There are a reason cities exist. They're where innovation and high paying jobs exist unlike the sticks.
@@Ab-lx1ck Chicago is relatively affordable compared to California. 1800 won't get you anything in the Bay Area and not much in Los Angeles. Chicago COL is on par with living in Dallas or Atlanta. the salaries are better in Chicago than in the South. The cost of living in Indiana is less but good luck finding a high-paying job there.
FROM AUSTRALIA, I FEEL FIR THESE LOVELY FOLKS. SAME HERE IN AUSSIE LAND. NOT BUILDING ENOUGH LOW COST HOUSING. IT IS DELIBERATELY DONE TO PEOPLE AS MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT TGAN PEOPLE. ITS CALLED CLASS DISTINCTION, IN FAVOUR OF THE RICH. THE CHINESE HERE PUSH UP THE PRICES OF OUR HOUSING AND WAS HARD TO OUTBID THEM. HAPPENED IN MY FAMILY. THE GOVERNMENT COULDNT CARE LESS. WHY SHOULD THEY. THEY HAVE FAT POCKETS. LOVE TO OUR AMERICAN COUSINS.
This reminds me of jackson hole wyoming.The rich country singers have nice hotels and casinos,but they do not pay the people who work at these places enough money to live on and the price of housing is so high they the workers cannot afford to rent a house or apartment.Most of these workers live in the woods having to put up tent cities to live in.i am talking about whole families with children.That is a damn shame too.
It's because property taxes are so high. Don't come to Texas my taxes went to 6000. This is outrageous. Rich people are coming here from California buying our homes at sky high prices.
Also, (this may sound privileged) never move into somewhere without at least a rent control. Sometimes you can get landlords to negotiate one with you and put it on paper. You dont always need municipal codes and laws to do it for you.
I was speaking to a girl friend of mine her mother-in-law is going to Denmark to clean out her deceased mother's apartment in Denmark when you're born you are given an apartment that you will occupy appropriate age. Therefore you will be able to live in said place until the day you die the United States " should consider something like this for their US citizens
News flash folks this has been going on for over 25 years or more. It's just that it has gotten worse now. Back in the 1980's in Georgia, Doctor's, Lawyers and all kinds of businesses were buying up rental housing and turning them into offices making affordable housing obsolete. I had roommates but finding one that was responsible was hard. Now corporations are buying up apartment complexes and jumping up the rent so high that the average person or poor person cannot afford it. It is a shame that the government is allowing this to happen here in this so called great country.
And what the attorney did not say (or cannot say) is that while being evicted is difficult enough to one's future rental possibilities, the new landlord "enjoys" also, creating damages to your dwelling that you've left that you probably did not cause, to attain MORE MONEY for his company and ability to also ruin your credit too! Find the new place to live, BEFORE the landlord and the county clerks can get "around" to producing the paperwork that shows you damaged their property. They love to do this so they can attain funds to so-termed "renovate" your old apt for a new higher price paying tenant! Been there done that; One company actually WANTED to claim they had VACANCIES (that they , themselves caused, ) so they could even BORROW MORE FUNDS FROM THE GOVERNMENT! ( Them that got (figure ways to ) GET MORE, while those merely working to pay their rents, get booted out!) IT'S CALLED GREED!
This problem is directly related to flat wages in this country.The 2 bedroom house that I rented in (St Pete FL) back in 1994 was $450 a month today it rents for around $2600. That is a 570% increase in 26 years. Adjusted for inflation and other economic factors wages in this state have remained flat.I don't need in depth reports from the govt or major universities. These are the facts derived from basic math and living in this city for 30 years. Corporate profits continued to increase,taxes are at record lows for the top ten percent and income for the working and poor class has remained flat of increased in the low single digits at best.
Praise the Lord I live in Texas! I pay for a small all bills paid one bedroom apartment for $500 a month. A apartment complex designed for efficiency renters.
It's due to a lack of housing supply, not due to "relaxed laws". Stricter laws have been found to increase homelessness because landlords are more reluctant to rent out to higher risk tenants.
It's important to show the homeless are real people. Too often they're depicted as drug addicts and/or mentally ill.
It's hard when you say homeless because everyone is grouped under one big umbrella. I had a guy at my work living in his car for a while but got into a apartment after a few months. Alot are working but unfortunately living in their cars. On the other side though what I see first hand at my work dealing with these homeless is yes there is alot of needles and glass pipes you find everywhere and some very mentally unstable people that really could use some help.
Aimee Webber nobody should be depicted as a BUM!! Every human whether mentally ill or homeless deserve respect! But for the grace of God go I or you! Tomorrow could be your turn🤔🤔
Aimee Webber what’s wrong with you? Bums and animals? Better hope and pray that you never end up homeless.
Aimee Webber
Well animals clearly raised you so you should know all about that topic 😉.
Totally agree
I left LA years ago. I feel bad for many people living on the streets.
im still here dont feel sorry for them
Ramír Delgado The feds give California money yet California keeps asking for more $$ ...
California is clearly overrated and full of propaganda....In fact, California state got billions from federal tax payers and making all the other states suffer in the process . California needs to deal with their own problems and policies . We gave them enough already for failed Bay Area subway, planes and fires- just this year alone. All recent and unethical handouts at the expense of all of the other states.
I did, too. Feel bad for my son (33), married with a child, living in a shared home at a poor neighborhood.
@@danielzunigagutierrez6300 then for God sake get them out of there!
@@irish327rose5 I imagine, it's not as simple as that? I very much doubt any parent would want to see their kids living the life of hobos?
I was born and raised in Los Angeles and it’s disgusting to see what this city has turned into. Government has failed its constituents and sold out to big business. Thousands of people left out in the streets. That’s why I left LA cause there was no way that I could afford to pay rent. I worked at a job making 22 dollars an hour and that still wasn’t enough to pay for a decent apartment in LA. I moved to Nebraska and was able to get a two bedroom two bath apartment for 800.
Capecrusader79 People are saying the same thing about San Francisco and it's a disgusting city now. I'm surprised The Tanners/Fullers still live there.😆 If they knew how bad the city has become (now that they have kids), they'd sell the house and move to another state such as Texas or even Florida. Besides, the house is worth much more than they paid for. 😆😆😆
Glad that you did. I live in South Carolina and the rent is not bad at all but it slowly rising.
watch ch out for the heating bills !!
NYC city council doesn't encourage this, they clamped on these landlords, for the better of tenants.
@@jermainelatimer804 In Charlotte the rent is rising at an alarming rate.
LA rich and politicians are awful people.
Chad Zody it’s so corrupt ! This is Maxine Watters district
Democrats
Republicrats
@@TheUtuber999 Idiots! Don't forget to tick that against your name!
Chad Zody quit putting money in the bank
The bank is using your money to build skyscrapers of luxury apts
You have got to be kidding me. On a waiting list living in your car in a safe parking lot? What the he'll has happened to america?
It's always been like that only now ppl are taking notice.
@@incognito96 you are right and the homeless problem in California has been bad for a long time. I remember being shocked at the amount of homelessness in Los Angeles back in the 90s. the homeless problem is bad everywhere now and it's gotten to third world proportions in California. Look at the slums in the cities of Brazil and that's going to become a permanent fixture in California as well.
@laurenmlahrman No, it's a stupid GREED thing. And the Republicans are no better, so get off your high horse!
Cali and New York are America in name only.
This is not just LA, it' s every major city in the US.
True. It's not just a California problem or a democratic problem.
@@wturner777 its a free market problem.
Right I'm leaving Tacoma Washington to live in Laughlin Nevada for the same price of a house that it cost for a one-bedroom apartment my poor vet friend Sharon is being priced out and she's retiree she can't afford to hear don't know where she's going to go
Every city does have homelessness, but not every city is as bad as LA
Like in Ohio and possibly other cities too, There are programs, monies, helps and housing for those who are homeless.
So it is a problem in every city, but every city is not as bad as LA.
The best thing for all these people to do if and when they can do it, is just to leave LA and don't look back. This city cares nothing about its residents. Because if they did they would not allow landlords to keep doing is residence this way. They would put a cap on landlords with some type of law. That no matter what kind of rental agreement they have. That they cannot raise the rent. And this would include new owners of buildings also. This is being done on purpose. They don't want the medium income people. Even if they have a job. To even be in LA. They're trying to push them out. To me I say if and when you can, pack up all your things in your car and leave LA, Sometimes you have to leave those things behind. And just catch a train, or a bus just to get away from where it's just not working Where You Are. I will tell people don't just stay there because you're used to being there. , don't just stay there because the weather is nice. , and sadly don't just stay there because your family is there. , unless they need someone to help take care of them. The best thing to do is to get out of LA. Keep trying to make a go over there. You're just wasting your time. Abandoned LA leave it all behind. Why keep struggling in the place where there is other places even though you would have to take time to get used to it? Why stay in a place that clearly is not trying to help you and making matters much much worse for you.? Leave LA! Leave LA! Leave LA!
@@wturner777 it is republican cities are cheaper and states too ie Texas Arizona Florida
Richest state with the most homeless and one of the highest places in the country for rent.
Bless his memory, he understood and said it out loud.
And yet everyone wants to live in L.A. i left there 7 month ago and it by far the best decision i made in my life, i only miss the great weather. Living in Dayton, Ohio
@@silviajames7150 that's because its the place for the rich, not the poor.
This isn't just happening in LA. I could be wrong but I feel like the states allow landlords and property management firms most all of the rights and leave the working folk to just deal with whatever, just like they do with banks and businesses. So, yea, there's no entitlement to renting in one place forever but there's also a very serious problem of income/wage stagnation and a severely broken affordable housing system, in this country. Any bozo can try and tell the masses to "just buy a home." That's not how this works. SMH
@Fahad Amin Please send all correspondence with checks or money orders because my landlord doesn't care about your illusion, nor does my insurance company.
If you work a contract job, you may not qualify for a mortgage.
Sharaya Smith nope Michigan stopped this long ago 1980s. Landlords have a ceilingcap
It's happening in most major metropolis's . . . two major assists on helping the 'downtrodden' here in Washington, D.C. is Catholic Charities and Pathways to Housing. If not for these two major organizations, many more in D.C. would be homeless . . . living on the streets. i know, I was there 5+ years ago . . . not having the income for an affordable rent ! With the assistance of a 'housing voucher' I was able excape the confines of a homeless shelter . . . and live a normal life . . . from a one bedroom apartment !
Thanks everyone
Exactly that has happened to me and my friend,we are an nurse and he's a vet and a Lady bought it and raised the rent 350$ we don't have food money as it is but she is making it harder on trying to get us out! She's even said she will get more money from her places . she's looking out for her self and she's in her late 60,s hmh you'd think that an older person would have more compassion and not be so Greedy!!
Have her stop over to see a needed repair and then push her down the steps and drop a piano on her head! Problem solved!
Please it is the older people who have+ will continue to vote to have & keep the USA in the fiscal bankruptcy the USA is in.
A nurse or vet in Dallas Texas can afford any home, apartment, condo or townhouse in Dallas.
Rent for 16 years? People, stop renting. If you have to move to Tulsa to afford a place, do it. Do not rent.
One of the problems is that in some cases it's just as hard to rent as it is to own and that shouldn't be the case. Rent prices are ridiculous. People see manageable mortgage prices and think it's better to buy a home--in many cases it is--but there is a LOT more involved financially to own than rent which I'm learning as I write this. I think if you can get some kind of down payment grants, or have at least 5% and not do FHA, and can find the cheapest move in ready home you can find with no problems (bad roof, termites, bad plumbling, etc) it's better to buy a home than keep renting. Some places are just 1 bedroom or a studio for $2,000 plus, not including utilities and more if you have pets. It's hard getting in the home, but if you buy an affordable home and continue to save and budget you can afford to keep it.
@@Gunngirl these days it's easy to own. There are a lot of government programs to get people a mortgage. I have never rented.
@Red Balloon actually you're dead wrong. It's regulations that actually have caused the housing crisis. Rents are regulated in SF and LA. Hence the problem. Keep government out of our lives. Anyone is able to own if they seek out the right area, and housing programs and avoid bad decisions like college and "student loans".
Get your damn head out of the sandbox. I have no time to defend "stupid".
@Red Balloon aw, do we have a Brit here? Using s instead of z? I have an extensive knowledge of economics and can let you know a thing or two about the Austrian school. Perhaps you can read some Hayek or Von Mises?.
I didn't miss your point. Owning a house is less than renting, and there are programs to help people own. We're not talking about the balloon mortgages of the early 2000s. I'm talking about fixed rate loans with a set payment.
Please move on. You're a lost cause.
@Red Balloon those "publications" are nothing other than well-connected real estate developers that want tax money to build and build, under the guise of "low income housing". Government is corrupt. Leave it alone.
We are all . . . a few paychecks, from being homeless !
Most homeless are unemployable it's a small percentage you could call homeless. I know first hand.
@@michaelmarkham8065 says:
"Most homeless are unemployable.."
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1) Some homeless people have a job.
Yet, they still have no home and need public assitance
Watch the video.
2) How can you be employable if you don't have a phone, address, don't have a way to bathe?
So, your comment is false.
Not most homeless, all homeless are unemployable.
Why employers hire them while they can find hundreds of others who have all of the above?
The Democrats have failed these people so, obviously, you can't depend on the government for help. This is a time for innovation and self-help. All the working homeless people should pool their resources and with help from charities and crowd-funding, buy/build their own apartment buildings. They can manage it like a condo or co-op.
@@Gitn2it says:
"The Democrats have failed these people so, obviously,..."
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Which policy did that?
"Costa Hawkins, California’s rent control law, explained"
la.curbed.com/2018/1/12/16883276/rent-control-california-costa-hawkins-explained
Signed by Pete Wilson(republican) in 1995.
It prohibits cities from rent control on any houses built after 1995.
Paul Suprono A few? It's that bad that many people are only one paycheck or one emergency away from homelessness.
Amerikkka the beautiful!!! I left Chicago for Puerto Rico and I don't regret it! I live a minimalist life and lo happy! The rich don't care!
@CJ J Florida is the best choice for you.
@Pulling the Strings 😩😩😩
For those saying TX, rents have doubled here in the last 10 years as well. 10% a year is the average raise.
Incorrigible Panda Yes, it has! I’m in Austin where it is ridiculous. People are leaving these high rents, and bringing them here when they move here thinking they are escaping. Texas has never been an expensive place to live, but that is changing quickly. I’m a native Texan. They are coming in multitudes, and bringing their California dude attitudes with them. They trashed their state, and want to trash ours. Alaska is bigger than Texas with less people, so they need to go there to live.
@@chrisbeatty9280 no you have a democrat as mayor vote him out and put a republican in
This is heart wrenching.
No excuses..So many people have worked all of their lives & now their treated like trash..
I just noticed that Walmart used to invite and encourage people to camp out in their parking lot but I just noticed a no camping in car sign today.
And the people camping in the lots were taking advantage of Wal-Mart, leaving the lots nasty, and making too much noise.
On Walmart property the company would be liable for anything going on there, too many lawyers
Too many shoplifters moving in right outside on the parking lot.
come to Los Angeles they said,land of plenty they said
Nashville Tennessee Rent Has Tripled In The Last 10 Years. Mortages Are Out Of Site. Glad I Purchased 13 Years Ago On A 15 Year Mortage !
Yep hot market in Tennessee
Real estate is a multi billion dollar a year industry. As long as real estate is allowed to be a big dollar game with forgein investors allowed to buy up land then the crisis continues. Sad thing is no one wants to change it.
I wonder why there are so many people who are able to afford these exorbitant rents/mortgages. You have to make more than 100k a year just to live in a one bedroom unit. The building owners would go out of business or would have to lower prices if the supply was not meeting the demand. Obviously, there must be a lot of wealthy people in these cities.
People can't afford the rent BY Themselves. It is very common for people to rent a BED in a home at average cost of $600-1,000 for each bed. Often there are 2 to 4 beds per room..
@@Gitn2it I am sorry but this narrow minded highschool lesson version supply and demand has done nothing but create destuction. It is disturbing that people find this acceptable. These investors needed to be held criminally accountable for theit crime against humanity.
@@chasingsunsets87 Sadly, a lot of people have the attitude of "It's not me, so I don't care!" And that's why these people are allowed to get away with it.
When that woman cried...shame on those new landlords!!! Rich based on others misfortune; how do you sleep at night?
Most often it's corporations taking over. And like some monster, they don't sleep or have a conscience. And will always seek to maximize profits with whatever means.
And what the attorney did not say (or cannot say) is that while being evicted is difficult enough to one's future rental possibilities, the new landlord "enjoys" also, creating damages to your dwelling that you've left that you probably did not cause, to attain MORE MONEY for his company and ability to also ruin your credit too! Find the new place to live, BEFORE the landlord and the county clerks can get "around" to producing the paperwork that shows you damaged their property. They love to do this so they can attain funds to so-termed "renovate" your old apt for a new higher price paying tenant! Been there done that; One company actually WANTED to claim they had VACANCIES (that they , themselves caused, ) so they could even BORROW MORE FUNDS FROM THE GOVERNMENT! ( Them that got (figure ways to ) GET MORE, while those merely working to pay their rents, get booted out!) IT'S CALLED GREED!
The greed needs to stop
Let me add a bit of a “human” element to some of those new landlords. The landlords don’t meet or know or want to know their tenants . The tenants (or rather the unit they occupy) are simply an apartment/unit in a color-coded cell in an Excel spreadsheet. It’s Part One, Line 26 Schedule E income. If you want to know how they sleep at night, it’s plausible deniability. That’s it.
They probably sleep better. Did a conscience- ectomy a long time ago.
It's scary to think in 20 years every large in America is going to follow LA problem with homelessness. Rent is getting out of control everywhere.
You can sleep on the street and even pitch a tent, but you can't sleep in your car? How does that make any logical sense?
Sad 😔
My City 🌃 Destroyed by
Years of Mismanagement and Greed!
Villagrosis and Garcetti Have Destroyed Los Angeles!
It is worse than that! Reread Grape's of Wrath? It's that reading assignment from some HS's. It's a protest story.
The housing situation in the City and County is critical. Join or form a tennant's union. Find information at LATU which is Los Angeles Tenants Union. Look it up and organize.
The California dream... ?? And get ready everyone it's coming to the smaller towns near you..
Tejas felix you know what else is coming? The end. The end of this system of things of this world. It’s coming fast. Seek God while he may still be found.
You're right, I've been looking at smaller towns to move into.
I remember buying our tract house in the Valley for $13.5K. I looked online and the same tract houses how cost $750K. I should have gotten into real estate.
That was in 1961.
@@clarkewi You still would have had to keep the houses you bought. Therein lies the problem
The folks featured are truly homeless and would do anything to not be. The street folks are a different matter.
@Aimee Webber You keep making this distinction but a vehicle can be lost overnight. Then your car dweller becomes a street dweller with no prerequisites.
It all boils down to greed!
When a totem pole rots it rots at the bottom, But it supports the top. This is society... leg sweep us ..leg sweep you.
This is the most disgusting thing going on in our current society where
your legal income cannot cover your basic living necessities. When i was
growing up, no matter what your income was, minimum wage or whatnot, if
you worked an honest 40 hr week tax paying job you could always afford
to have a roof over your head and your bills paid. What kind of
hellified nonsense is this? My father was a menial laborer in a factory
and we lived in a nice clean apt, never went without decent food, and
even had a little left over at the end of the month to treat us to a
movie or some Chinese takeout. Unbelievably, he even put a few dollars
away in the bank. If the wealthy have acquired riches beyond their
wildest dreams since that time, how is it possible that the lowest
earners today are living worse than anyone could imagine back then? This
is wrong, wrong, wrong and anyone that thinks that's the way things are
you're living on another planet and don't belong in the human race.
Sudhir Kakar I partially agree but riding a bike is incredibly dangerous in some cities. An injury could set you back thousands.
If you want affordable housing the government needs to relax the cost of building. To build anything in San Francisco the permits cost more than the actual building. The government of California doesn't want anything to change. The government cut off the supply so the price goes up. If you make permits so expensive, you can't make money building small apartments, you have to build luxury complexes because only the rich can afford to shoulder the permit costs. If you dont want someone to come in and tell you this isn't your house then buy, don't rent.
This is happening everywhere including in England Uk . Low wages and high rents .
Not only in California, is happening everywhere.
Hello, people need to get engaged in public policy when life is good. Too many people sit back and don't get engaged in their communities. Get engaged people.
isn't this utterly embarrassing everyone? smh!
ALL THESE SLUM-LORDS NEED TO BE SENT TO PRISON!
What makes them a slum lords there not the enemy . The system is the problem .
@@mayataylor5743 the SLUMLORDS pay off the politicians, I know. Quid Por Qruo!
@@williethomas2628 The politicians are the landlords
@@leonhenry4861 they should be healed accountable for their actions also. Are u a tenant?
They too busy trying to jail the homeless. No space left for landlords and politician.
I live in an "affordable" apartment I cannot afford on social security and a small pension. Lately the landlord has raised the rent in the last 2 years 7.25% and 5.3% respectively. Social security raises were only 2.9% and 1.6% respectively. The rent went up enough over time that I had to sell all the jewelry I inherited from my mom to afford one more year in an " affordable" apartment. I pay well over 50% of my income for this "affordable" apartment and my next home will be my '92 Honda hatchback. I promised my County Supervisor that I would park in her parking lot so she could watch a 78 year old woman with several chronic diseases deteriorate. She did not care. She allowed the landlord to raise rents substantially higher than social security cost of living raises in an apartment that is " affordable" on County Owned land in her district. She is up for reelection in Los Angeles County. She is Janice Hahn. Ask her how she can do this to hundreds of low income people living in "affordable" housing in her district who will, over time, have to vacate because of these rent raises that are higher than the senior community can afford. We have been blessed to have these apartments that we fought for and won on pain of a law suit because the County and landlords were ignoring a law on the books that said new housing in the coastal zone must include affordable housing. Ask Janice Hahn why she did not fight to stabilize the "affordable" apartments, to say nothing about the overpriced full pay apartments. These are supposed to be "affordable" for low income tenants and they were 14 years ago, but our incomes are fixed and the rent outstrips our income over time if we qualify for an apartment. Ask Janice Hahn how she can allow this in her own district? You must qualify and requalify each year. She is aware of this because we have informed her. She is taking the side of the landlords who pay for her reelection campaign. Ask her how she can accept expensive fundraising money from the landlords' association while elders age out of "affordable" apartments as rent increases outstrip our Social Security incomes.
The city of LA needs to lower the rent ,studios apartments need to be lower rent 1bdrm,2bdrms ,3bdrms apartments need to lower the rent .
Nisha Sanchez need.? ok..... that will make them change their ways.
better u get ur degree and move to a different state.
At the end of the day it’s all about the mighty dollar
Losing your rental home is hurtful or sad. It's not devastating. There are houses in the Palm Springs area that sell for about $100,000.
They need to build more low income housing projects like they had in the 40s and 50s
You are 100% right but they won't because the rich will not allow it. Sad day in America!
The middle class complains when they build low income housing in their areas! It can lower property values and bring in gangs and drug addicts. They want to tear them down so rich people with foreign money can buy the land; they then build unaffordable rentals. All of the cheap hotels and flop houses are swank hotels now (with homeless lying and pissing nearby). China’s poor live in cages because housing is not affordable.
Where?
@@oaf-77 why not on Skid Row? Convert those shelters into low income apartments? It's a lot of empty buildings in that area to make shelters. Those shelters are primarily big businesses: they need to keep people homeless and dependant.
@OldskolFan, I agree there’s lots of vacant buildings. And shelters do tend to cause dependence on them. People need work
Society left agrarian life looking to leave physical labor behind & now we need to work more than ever just to live! We need to go back to a simpler way of life. Do we even consider that there was a time that people didn’t need money for every little thing? Now we have created a lifestyle in which money is needed for literally everything from food to water.
Move out of California.
@liar fighter No it isnt. Especially Mississippi who want to live in the Past with a Confederate State Flag?
Jackie Ward That’s what the rich want people to do. They want everyone else out of here. They know California is the best state to live in so they are raising prices to properties they own. Even big companies are starting to pay people around 10,000 to leave California.
Vote Republican
That is stupid not everyone can move with no savings how do you move?
But wait who is going to do the work that the rich is to lazy to do?
In NYC we have all these large storage facilities. I really don’t get why these storage facilities couldn’t be turned into housing. Smh
Housing, food, education and health care is just like water. Everybody needs them to survive. They should be a right; not a commodity, a vehicle of investment to make money. Fight to make FDR’s 2nd bill of rights into law! Our constitution guarantees the pursuit of happiness as one of our basic rights. But without shelter, food, education, and health care also as our basic rights; nobody except the very few rich can ever pursue happiness bc most are too busy trying to secure the basic needs of life. So the current system do not make it possible for people to pursue our basic right of pursuing happiness. FDR said that necesstious men are not free. We cannot have freedom to pursue our basic right to happiness when all are enslaved by constant struggle to acquire the most basic necessities of life. This is the reason why there are so many crimes involving money persist in our society. Imagine a society where all the basic needs are guaranteed. It will be a vibrant society where people can truly be free to pursue their interests instead of choosing their education, and careers based on how much money they can make. A society where professions like doctors are doctors bc they want to really help sick people. Not just bc it pays well
Greed is destroying America.
This world is f up. One man making so much money and everyone eles suffer. Smfh rent goes up every year from $50 and up, yet an employee earns minimum of 25 c raised a year. This world is cold
This is capitalism. Try voting Bernie for a better way. Housing is a human right as is health care and education. Can't wait to see my landlord cough up the fair share of taxes he owned. Mine is a big corporate landlord. He owes a lot to the people he drives out with rent raises. Vote Bernie.
This is so sad... I mean yes landlords can do whatever they can to their own property, but this happened all of the sudden after the 2008 crash. It’s new to our community and happening too fast. Some develop company bough all of the available properties and raise the rent like 50% without any consideration to the people who lived there for whole life. I get that it’s about the profit but it’s just brutal...
The ones who caused this work for US supposedly
Exactly,and a Lady has done this to me and my husband and he's an veteran,she raised our rent 350$ in one year been here 10 year's she's just trying to Cash in on the market,it's no longer a place for anyone who is disabled are low income!
the owners of the rental properties know they can rent the units for more money. and since they own the property they can evict you within 60 days. I see no way that the renter has any rights at all. It is the private property laws of the US granted to the oweners by our constitution
the market dictates rents, and sometimes its not fair.... if you cant afford to stay there, move somewhere you can and set down roots.... stop RENTING and learn from the experience so it doesnt happen again while teaching your children a lesson.... dont put your well being in someone elses hands....
You will reap what you sow !
Same thing happening in SF. City would rather pay developers for fancy luxury housing and charge $2800-3000 for a studio or 1 bedroom. It’s more attractive to develop these to cater to the tech millennial population than create affordable, low income housing. When you see tent encampments on the same block as a new luxury apartment, the contrast hits you quick.
In 1971, I moved into an old apartment building which was long paid off. A studio apartment was $125 and a 1 bedroom was $155. The same building now charges $900 for the 1 bedroom. Make a law that limit rents in old buildings that are paid off.
It's rent. You are not entitled to stay forever. The landlord can do as they please with the building/house. Why do people feel entitled like they own it. Most everywhere in the country is this way. Rent control raises the rent for all new tenants. The free market should dictate the price. Need to purchase a house to have the right to stay indefinitely.
Its not entitlement, my rent has been raised 3 times now for what ??? I live in a low income community also....Its crazy.....
You're a greedy foreigner, your name is foreign, so why should you care about the American people?
@Cynthia Dickerson you are you calling they??? Don't need advice from people like you to partronize someone!.
@@amyangell2378 " its not entitlement, my rent has been raised for what" ... um sounds like entitlement to me.
Because THEY CAN. Here's a analogy.... lets say you make 17 per hr right now... and i offer u 19. You're gonna take the 19 bcuz the market dictates i can pay u that.
Its no different with housing! Why would i let u rent for 1100 when i can get 1800!!! c'mon now.
And, i feel ur pain cause once upon a time i rented. Im a homeowner now
Ziki Roark you must have missed the 2008 crash otherwise you would've never made that statement. Unless you buy in full with cash you're subject to go under water with the mortgage in an economic downturn, unless you own the City you can lose your home due to property taxation and unless you change government law something called "imminent domain" can rip your house from up under you and NO the government does not have to pay you one penny if they don't want to. That is the the LAW and anyone can become homeless.
I feel like if you’re living in your car, you might as well pack up and relocate to where it’s cheaper. I only pay $920 for 3 bed 2/1/2 bath in NC. Rent is even better further down south.
Mankind is not kind anymore !
when has it ever been kind?
You NEED to address addiction, mental illness, and in some cases poor choices. MOST OF ALLLLLLL!!! The politician's in charge of these cities are to blame!! If these Communist politicians actually CARED about these people this wouldn't be happening!!!
Buying and paying early off my house was by far the best financial and emotional decision.
In my country Åland/Finland foregners cant buy real estate.
this is really sad.
I should've guessed that LA would create a drive in shelter for homeless people. There's drive-in everything else, why not that?
We live by paycheck to paycheck this is sad we work and still dont have a house that we can provide for are family:(
That's one of the reasons I left LA years ago.
Restrictions on building new apartments and rent control is the primary driver of the housing shortage.
Be glad you have a car
Hope they own the car, because if they have payments and can't afford it, guess what.... they get evicted from their cars, too.
Get the feeling that leaving California is not an option, it is a necessity.
"Rent" a bulldozer and remodel for them
54k.....average......in UK thats 42k.
Thats high income bracket for us.
Average Uk is 25k before tax etc
Wow
Check median, as a few super rich will drag up the average.
I live in Texas and the housing costs and rents are going up here as well. Big time! I’m fortunate that I bought my home twelve years ago at a decent, fixed interest rate. Over the years, many times I thought of selling because I got tired of dealing with maintenance, lawn care, etc. Now I’m so glad I didn’t. Even though the maintenance part sucks, I now consider my home a huge asset and a refuge.
An easy way for rent to go down... crime gotta go up
Send a few rounds into the air at night to keep the yuppies away.
the cost people pay for the greed of others.
In Boston metro area, $3500+ for 2 bedroom. 4000+ for 3 bedroom.
Is this " gentrification"?
Could be. In Europe, the rich people live in the cities, walking distance from their good jobs.
No. Not really. It's a trade off of the free market.
@@ljpal18 The minimum wage increases rippled up to those who had the items they wanted, so they bought time. That is they reclaim commute time, by living closer to work.
The other factor is venture capitalists pushing up property values for profit. One is demand side, and the other is supply side.
Setting up public transport to an area outside of these cities and using zoning changes to create affordable housing there would be the solution with the least push back, I think.
Free market people will object less to that than attacking the market forces causing the gentrification.
@@abram730 HOW ABOUT VOTE A REPUBLICAN INTO GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA AND A REPUBLICAN MAYOR THEN THEY WOULD LOWER TAXES MAKING CALIFORNIA WHAT IT ONCE WAS A REPUBLICAN AMERICAN DREAM PARADISE
No, this is the consequence of importing millions of new residents from Mexico.
Supply and demand.
The supply of homes is outstripped by the rising demand of millions of new people.
Californians actually demanded for this to happen to them.
This is madness, the sad thing this is taking rise nation wide.
Recall Gavin Newsom
It's dealt with on a local level but: if such a problem endangers the well-being of masses of people state-wide is not dealt with by using emergency state funds, the problem will spread to a national level. Greedy politicians need to acknowledge their own faults and swiftly make appropriate corrections! They were voted into office for THAT reason!!!
An election is coming up now. Vote Bernie for federal housing policy for the people not the landlords.
Something not being discussed in this vid is the rampant drug use in these encampments, and the issue of mental illness amongst many of the homeless. It's not just rising rents.
30% rent issues, and 60% drug and brain issues. But the 30% of working homeless is new. Everybody knows about druggies and crazies.
@Aimee Webber You republicans have no solutions. Clean needles cuts down on the spread of diseases. You'd rather have some disease outbreak spread?
People are coming to Nashville TN. with dreams of a better life and finding out it full of 10 hr. jobs with 1,000 mo for one bedroom apt. Good luck horrible
SMH what kind of 10.00 an hour jobs? What about other parts of Tennessee?
For every tear that is shed by a tenant, that you see in this video, there is a tear that is also shed by a landlord. Landlord’s ALSO has had their life turned upside down by a ruthless tenant.
This interview is the saddest yet because LA is not only place with homeless problem. Its scary reality it can happen easily with that one check away from being homeless.
I grew up in LA County but left years ago. Since then I've lived all over the country, nowadays I'm about to buy a brand new home in Albuquerque that I could only dream back in LA. There's a world outside of LA and it's just as beautiful as LA use to be.
Don't live inner city. Go rural, totally affordable
Ahh yes of course because there are just soooooo many high paying jobs in rural areas. Please you need a reality check. I'll pay my 1800 in rent in Chicago while making 140k. Good luck even getting close to 100k in your late 20s in rural areas, it's not really possible. There are a reason cities exist. They're where innovation and high paying jobs exist unlike the sticks.
@@Ab-lx1ck Chicago is relatively affordable compared to California. 1800 won't get you anything in the Bay Area and not much in Los Angeles. Chicago COL is on par with living in Dallas or Atlanta. the salaries are better in Chicago than in the South. The cost of living in Indiana is less but good luck finding a high-paying job there.
@@Ab-lx1ck commuting is a thing fool
Greed !!!
There is no safely net in LA. This is beyond a nightmare and very scary for those still living there. Blessings.
Nobody thinks about all the wildlife and trees that got killed clearing for apt and houses ect.
FROM AUSTRALIA, I FEEL FIR THESE LOVELY FOLKS. SAME HERE IN AUSSIE LAND. NOT BUILDING ENOUGH LOW COST HOUSING. IT IS DELIBERATELY DONE TO PEOPLE AS MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT TGAN PEOPLE. ITS CALLED CLASS DISTINCTION, IN FAVOUR OF THE RICH. THE CHINESE HERE PUSH UP THE PRICES OF OUR HOUSING AND WAS HARD TO OUTBID THEM. HAPPENED IN MY FAMILY. THE GOVERNMENT COULDNT CARE LESS. WHY SHOULD THEY. THEY HAVE FAT POCKETS. LOVE TO OUR AMERICAN COUSINS.
This reminds me of jackson hole wyoming.The rich country singers have nice hotels and casinos,but they do not pay the people who work at these places enough money to live on and the price of housing is so high they the workers cannot afford to rent a house or apartment.Most of these workers live in the woods having to put up tent cities to live in.i am talking about whole families with children.That is a damn shame too.
And i might add,that is not the america that i want to live in
It's because property taxes are so high. Don't come to Texas my taxes went to 6000. This is outrageous. Rich people are coming here from California buying our homes at sky high prices.
Also, (this may sound privileged) never move into somewhere without at least a rent control. Sometimes you can get landlords to negotiate one with you and put it on paper. You dont always need municipal codes and laws to do it for you.
if people really cared about people there would be no homeless , may god or karma avenge them
I was speaking to a girl friend of mine her mother-in-law is going to Denmark to clean out her deceased mother's apartment in Denmark when you're born you are given an apartment that you will occupy appropriate age. Therefore you will be able to live in said place until the day you die the United States " should consider something like this for their US citizens
You could have had a better headline
It could have said “THE RESULT OF DEMOCRATIC POLICIES “
It could happen to everyone but it sure seems to be a really big issue in LA. I wonder why?
News flash folks this has been going on for over 25 years or more. It's just that it has gotten worse now. Back in the 1980's in Georgia, Doctor's, Lawyers and all kinds of businesses were buying up rental housing and turning them into offices making affordable housing obsolete. I had roommates but finding one that was responsible was hard. Now corporations are buying up apartment complexes and jumping up the rent so high that the average person or poor person cannot afford it. It is a shame that the government is allowing this to happen here in this so called great country.
Rent without right to property needs to be ILLEGAL!!!!
And what the attorney did not say (or cannot say) is that while being evicted is difficult enough to one's future rental possibilities, the new landlord "enjoys" also, creating damages to your dwelling that you've left that you probably did not cause, to attain MORE MONEY for his company and ability to also ruin your credit too! Find the new place to live, BEFORE the landlord and the county clerks can get "around" to producing the paperwork that shows you damaged their property. They love to do this so they can attain funds to so-termed "renovate" your old apt for a new higher price paying tenant! Been there done that; One company actually WANTED to claim they had VACANCIES (that they , themselves caused, ) so they could even BORROW MORE FUNDS FROM THE GOVERNMENT! ( Them that got (figure ways to ) GET MORE, while those merely working to pay their rents, get booted out!) IT'S CALLED GREED!
This problem is directly related to flat wages in this country.The 2 bedroom house that I rented in (St Pete FL) back in 1994 was $450 a month today it rents for around $2600. That is a 570% increase in 26 years. Adjusted for inflation and other economic factors wages in this state have remained flat.I don't need in depth reports from the govt or major universities. These are the facts derived from basic math and living in this city for 30 years. Corporate profits continued to increase,taxes are at record lows for the top ten percent and income for the working and poor class has remained flat of increased in the low single digits at best.
What happened to the Mom and her daughter??
Where are they now??
If you go downtown, prepare to see a lot of tents. That's how bad it is.
Praise the Lord I live in Texas! I pay for a small all bills paid one bedroom apartment for $500 a month. A apartment complex designed for efficiency renters.
Location please California we've had enough,!
3:00 How's it an investment that you purchased? I thought you were renting?
Listening comprehension fails.
Choose Any 50 states EXCEPT CA! 😫😫😫😠
Tracy's Kitchen and Appalachian Adventures exactly
And Hawaii...apparently very expensive and many homeless there as well.
@@chicnoir29 Thx for telling me that! I will spread
The word!
Tracy's Kitchen and Appalachian Adventures 👍
😭😭 I'm showing you my whole room and this sucks I feel you man. Living the same life
It's due to a lack of housing supply, not due to "relaxed laws". Stricter laws have been found to increase homelessness because landlords are more reluctant to rent out to higher risk tenants.