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A deeper look | Realities of homelessness in rural Maine
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Rumford community members say the cost of rent has doubled or tripled over the past few years, but salaries have remained relatively the same.
the problem is greed- the cheap property prices in these areas attract ppl looking to buy property as an investment and then they come in and increase the rent to levels that are on par with bigger cities. this inevitably causes property prices & rent to increase in the area.
This has happened in Arizona for a long time. I was born in Rumford and was lucky not to be homeless. Lots of seniors in Arizona are homeless, while illegal immigrants get all the benefits.
No the problem is lack of regulation and a free market where these assholes can charge whatever the fucck they want
Show some mercy ✝️, you can see it in their faces they're struggling with what ever. At least they have each other and their kids.
Stop letting out of state people buy property in houses in the state of Maine
👍 YES thank you we have been invaded
Out of state? You don't even have to be a resident of the country to buy property in America.
I completely agree! It doesn't even have to be that black/white because there is a mechanism in place already. The legislature could dramatically increase the real estate transfer tax if the Buyer is from out of state.
Too late.
Too late
The Sate of Maine's license plate logo used to read " Vacation Land ", not sure what it is now haven't lived there in years, my point is the State has always put all of it's apples in the tourist's industry and catered to this very short seasonal opportunity to make as much money as you could knowing it was going to be a long, long cold gray winter. State does very well financially, most businesses did well while local banks eager to loan if needed however the blue collar back bone workers of the state have always lived day to day and come fall it's the beginning of a long, cold hungry winter. I have always felt the State of Maine had abandoned it's blue collar hard working folks and spends most of it's energy and attention into the tourist trade end of business. It takes all three to mutually agree on sharing the profits only as long as the first two do their fair share. One must never forget, minimum wage is not a smart wage to pay, but a wage that guarantees hardship.
Just out of curiosity, why did you leave Maine? Because I'm trying to figure out the biggest reasons for me. I want to leave because it's boring and expensive but I'm curious what your reason is.
Denver set up secure areas with heated tents on platforms with cots, portable (nice) full bathrooms and showers, one hot meal a day, and offices on site to help people with permanent housing, jobs, food stamps, transportation, etc.. It's safer for families, and costs the city less than the homeless living on the street, and broken families. Once people have a tent they can stay until they get a place, no packing up daily.
Tiny home villages can also be very helpful as temp housing under these same set ups...
I'm not sure what to do about the Blackrocks and Blackrock wannabe's...but having a net to help the people is a start.
Ya I've been homeless for over two years living in a tent with two cats and I'm.in Maine try going threw a winter with zero heat lol what a joke system is broken
I wish I was in a position to help you.
I’m at school in UMA , I’m a resource major/social worker, I really want to help. I am in the rumford area. Id love to help.
I'm in the same boat with 2 kids. My landlord closed the apartment building.
Bless your soul I wish I could help I’m living with my 90 yr old parents. I’ve worked my whole life since 16 yrs old and cannot afford any rents.
I'm so sorry for these people. I was lucky to have a home in Rumford. I hear that the mill will be laying off more people shortly. This will be a catastrophe for the economy.
Thank all the Massachusetts and NY money contributing to hyper inflated prices.
Rural Maine yet; cannot be escaped in the USA; it's a crying shame
I've been homeless twice and I've lived in Maine my whole life and I think hopefully at this point I finally accumulated enough funds to move the hell out of here. But it's just crazy because you're sort of stuck in a trap. You work so hard to make money but then everything is so expensive that you just end up spending it and the prices are just skyrocketing and as this video point out there's no safe place anymore to live in terms of financial security
Blessings to all affected by this issue in this newsclip
Yes. I was born in Rumford and was lucky to have a home. I really didn't appreciate what I had since I was a kid. In Arizona now, the seniors and others are homeless because rents are skyrocketing.
All the political talk is about equity these days, but what about class?
And notice how kind and stoic and jolly they still are. Never complaining. Money doesnt define character, it only reveals it.
My family is from this area in Mexico, Peru and Canton. They are doing great, thank goodness. We are the first cousins and all seniors.
Need caps on rents omg it’s not rocket science
The government tried that in Ireland. Landlords are now selling up as fast as they can and getting out of renting leaving this activity to large scale REIT's who buy houses in the 100's if not 1000's. These new style large scale landlords can afford to sit on empty units for the needed 2 years to break the legal obligation to hold rent prices down. They then release these vacant units onto the market. They can then charge what they like.
Many counties in Ireland have tiny numbers of rentals available now, often with 50 to 100 people forming queues to compete for the scarce units. The old style solution of moving to rural areas to get cheap rents no longer applies. The whole country is now a high rent area.
This is happening worldwide from Canada to Australia and anywhere good jobs are available.
A 3 bedroom apt in Maine is 1,600 ?
Ya to live in a refrigerator cold af
We're paying illegal aliens that have broken into our country $40K a year and free medical, while many Americans are homeless. We give BILLIONS to Ukraine but can't house and feed our own people that are homeless.....? Something bad wrong with this picture. Breaks my heart to see this.
You must believe the lies in the conservative media. The ignorance of conservatives has no bottom. I live within sight of Mexico. Seeing you are all knowing where these illegals are because I never see them. BTW. It's not illegal to enter the US and ask for refuge. Here many white conservatives go to Mexico because medical care is cheaper there. I've seen Americans without visas in Mexico and Europe.
If you had finished high school you might know not confronting the father of conservatism Hitler lead to WWII. You heroes Tucker and Green are shows positively and nighty on Russian state media.
Those examples are really good things we're doing with our money. The TRILLIONS we spend on defense and military could easily be slashed by 1% to help our citizens at home
@@MikeJohnson-nj1ry Wrong dummy. The refuge must ask for asylum. The law is, they must ask for asylum in the first country they come to after leaving their own country. So the only ones asking for asylum would be Mexicans. For your information I'm a retired, educated, successful businessman. An Independent. And don't watch TV. I don't go to Mexico or any other country to get healthcare or meds. I can well afford to pay my own way in my own country. I think your problem is being out in the heat and sun too much and it has baked your small brain and made you incapable of clear and concise thought. Get in the shade and shut your mouth so you won't continue to embarrass yourself. LMFAO
@@dabprod You grew up in a conservative ghetto and because of this, like a good fascist you have no compassion or morality.
I'm not so stupid I believe the lies of conservative propagandist. If you want to solve a problem, something conservatives are incapable of doing, you address causation. Why are people showing much more courage than we will never see from a white conservative waling across a vast deadly desert that is home of 11 species of rattlesnakes?
Stupid wee are the greatest nation of illegal drug users. Americans are funding drug cartels that are fund murderous drug cartels.
I know this concept is unknown to people who aren't Christians or even decent people. If you break something, you have a obligation to fix it.
@@MikeJohnson-nj1ry Good bye Mike Johnson. You're just too stupid to converse with. Brainwashed ignorant liberals on the loose.
Black rock did this this shit. Raised rents all over the world.
I’m absolutely sick and tired of well to do’s saying “That’s the going rate”!!! Inexcusable and unacceptable!!! Everyone deserves a place to live. And I’m conservative!!!
They were rejected for housing probably because they don't look like desirable potential tenants. If I was a landlord I'd be selective who I rented to also.
If the richest country in the world can afford an almost $Trillion military budget and $64 Billion and counting to Ukraine then it can afford Universal Health Care, public funded higher education/trade schools, and affordable housing for its citizens.
Amen!!!! Can you believe they took OUR HARD EARNED working peoples taxes and gave TRLLIONS to Ukraine to fight a war we never asked to be involved in!!! Makes me sick! I totally agree with this!!
We need to do something it's time we calmly go to our state and town and let our voices be heard people need help
Oh no Maine also got hit by public safety issues
No maple trees to tap for work ?
Homeless Americans in the street with nothing to eat.. It's a shame. living in the new world 🌎
While the 1% get richer by the month, the most basic of human needs and it is getting so unattainable for so many people.
Homelessness in Maine, I'm Shocked.
We need land reforms, we need to hold the Lords of the Land accountable.
Notice how there is no adjacent medical school helping maine like washington did to idaho. Um.
Say thank you to greed
I don’t know they look young. My question is why is it that so many people are in disability this days I don’t want to assume but it’s facts people don’t want to work because they loose their disability
LOVE Wins.
Not trying to be insensitive to their situation, but if they all rely on disability payments from the government, they should not expect the rest of us to support them and not complain about not being able to make ends meet. If they are not capable of working then they should be thankful for getting any assistance at all. In many countries they would be on the street and with no support of any kind. Assuming they could pick up a phone, why not look into telemarketing or customer service type jobs? That would not require mobility or high degree of training and would provide income.
@Lisa Love Totally agree. I was born in Rumford and was lucky to have a home. I was a kid and really didn't appreciate fully what I had then.
Exactly. I try to balance the mindset of those in need and those that rely on the government. Never rely on the government for help. People need to learn in this country again how to be self-sufficient. We all make choices and have options in this country. If most Americans saw how other countries lived, especially third-world countries, people would not complain as much. And for the record, many people on "disability" are complete liars. I've known far too many on it that don't need to be, but actual disabled people can't get on it. It's a joke of a system.
Yes in many 3rd world countries , the mentally ill, addicted and the poor like them with no family support do live on the streets like animals. Oh wait, there are 70000 of those people in LA alone. America should be ashamed .
It's over
Do they work??? Have the dude work during the day and the chick take the night shift, not that hard.
They're disabled. It's not a long video, how did you miss that?
@@TaldanZero don’t see a single wheel chair or crutch in the video
@@mickyosully4592 It's at 1:40. Get your ears checked if you're having trouble hearing the video
@@TaldanZero that’s a stationary bike dipshit…nearly everyone can qualify for disability you can quite literally just a fake a mental health issue. I see it on a daily basis
@@mickyosully4592 I don't know why you're talking about a stationary bike. It's not relevant, and I never said anything about a bike of any kind
You're diagnosing two people based on seeing them in a youtube video, and assuming they're exactly like other people you have seen. You know nothing about their disability and have no expertise in diagnosing disabilities
If they could work, they almost certainly would be working. There is an extremely small number of healthy people that would choose to be homeless instead of working. That's why so few homeless are able-bodied. If they were, they'd work. Being homeless sucks
State is mostly run by democrats. What's the issue ? With high taxes where does the money go? Not to help it's citizens. FO Democrats?
It’s Sad,Angry little people like YOU who create separation……always playing the victim…I guess democrats implanted a computer chip in you….
While they house THOUSANDS of foreigners.
I don't understand...I have a severe spinal disorder and deal with pain every day but I still get up and work 40 to 60 hours a week to make ends meet....there are soooo many jobs out there, why is a couple with 1 fixed income of $2000 & ability to work not able to have a home?! I agree the house and apartment rental asking for 1 month prior and after is a bit crazy....i think 1 month security deposit is plenty...seriously wt heck! But to my point, get up and work like everyone else...yes it sucks but it's part of life, you can't sit on your butts and expect hand outs to work, or use the govt hand outs as a "career" its a stepping stone to help get you going not the only thing you live on...no? Am I wrong? Both parents can't be unable to work at all...am I not understanding this?
The government local police departments need to stop putting people in jails and prisons out for stupid crap and start helping him. There’s no rehabilitation there’s nothing good about Nathan people have criminal records caused him to have criminal records for every petty thing they can come up with that would be a start at home homelessness when you get that then it makes it harder to even have a job get a job. Did anything get anywhere in life problem solved end the bureaucratic bullshit with the tyrant government.
All of them on social security? Therein lies the problem. Social security is a safety net, NOT a lifestyle.
"....from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away." -- Mat 13:12
For people on often permanent disabilities Social Security is often the only choice. People in this situation used to be housed at low cost in most European countries but then the governments sold off the public housing and came to rely on small scale private landlords to supply housing. This supply has now dried up as the older landlords sell up but are not replaced by a new set of younger landlords, who cannot afford even one house not mind a second one to rent out. These small scale landlords have been replaced by large scale landlords and investors, often buying up entire developments pusning up prices and pushing first-time buyers out of the market.
Many European countries now face an entire generation of people not able to afford their own house, living with their parents or on the streets or in emergency hostels often for decades.
It has become so bad that only people on very high incomes can afford a place of their own.
And a large dog