Guess who caused this real estate "crisis"? The government. By letting everyone borrow "free" money. And what do people do with "free" money? They buy up all the real estate and now they dictate the rental prices/market. The government should have never reduced the interest rate below 12%.
I use to Live in London & I enjoyed living there. I always felt it was a safe place to live until a brazen murder took place in braid daylight & no one stopped to intervene. I left London before this event but had plans of returning & since then, there have been more BRAZEN style murders. That put a stop to moving back, now the drug issues & homelessness makes London look unappealing now. However this is not an isolated issue for London, this is happening in almost all parts of Ontario. Since Trudeau's first election victory Ontario & many parts of Canada are now falling apart at the seams. Premier Ford is as bad as our federal leaders for all this. What a mess we are in & people still trust our politicians ? One lie after another & with each election things get worse. When will this end >
I had friends in London in the early 2000's and it was such a nice place to visit when wanting a break from my area of Western NY but not wanting to be in crowded Toronto. This is really sad to see Canada suffer such growing pains.
I met Chuck at tent city many years ago and she made a huge difference in my life! I now live in Kelowna B.C and I still help the homeless wherever I can.
@@Dracoool I live in the REAL world but this this problem started long before Trudeau . and if you think Trudeau is bad the worst is yet to come if mini trump Pierre gets elected .. There is no ONE cause or one person to blame for this and many of the homeless you see in London today were shipped in from other places Rents have doubled and in some cases tripled in the last few years . Real Estate developers buying up buildings evicting Tennant's doing a few renovations and doubling the rents , for average senior living on CPP and OAS the rents are higher than monthly income ... In Ontario its the conservative government who are the " rich mans " friend .. Obviously your hate for Trudeau shows and you are in titled to your opinion BUT Harper was worse
As a filmmaker and one who works directly with unhoused people through the church, I can tell you categorically the filmmakers have "spun" parts of the script to suit their own narrative. For example, not only have they omitted the root cause of homelessness they have minimized the devasting effects of addiction which is the number cause of homelessness, and left out the fact that in my 10 years of experience 90%, if not all, who are suffering from homelessness are suffering from addiction to hard drugs - fentanyl, crack, crystal meth. It's rather elementary: drug addiction causes poverty and poverty causes the inability to pay one's rent. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the problem has proceeded to worsen to the point of crisis. It's because the authorities and agencies, for some weird reason have, "misdiagnosed" and misacted that the crisis will continue to worsen. I guarantee it. How do I know? I know because history always repeats itself... simple as that.
ok, I have read what you have written.What is YOUR Solution. I was homeless in 2011, but had friends who let me "couch serf" till I got a job. I did not have addictions...But Now I want to help others who are homeless... Please tell me how I can help.
The problem lies with more immigrants and refugees than we can handle, coupled with housing being treated as a commodity. Both these things can be controlled by the federal government. There is no need for an individual to own several properties to rent out and exploit others.
Wow that sheds a whole new light for me on the info tech building. Every time I go by it I'm like oh wow it's getting bigger and more off putting and I'm not sure what to think. Seeing inside the building and what's actually happening there completely changed my mind. It's amazing the work these people are doing and it actually makes so much sense. I'm so glad people have somewhere to be to get their basic needs met. It's clearly needed and I'm also really happy to hear about that large donation. I had no idea. Great video.
I was very familiar with London in the sixties, and I can agree with today's concerned people that the problem has certainly worsened in the past 20 years, but the roots were obvious in the eighties, when the downtown changed from a pleasant shopping area to a bombed out mess in a very short period of time. You can't blame Ford and Trudeau for that [though they are both poor leaders]; local politicians looked the other way as industry left town and people fled to poorly planned suburbs. Meanwhile, Kitchener-Waterloo [and sometimes, Cambridge] replaced London as southwestern Ontario's main creator of jobs and technology.
P-3's are not working either. Closing the LPH didn't help.Building stupid bus lanes and bike lanes don't help. Priorities out of line. The provincial government made the mistake of down loading housing to municipalities. Now we are paying the price for it.
I have a friend who lives in an area of London where this is common. He just quit locking his car and leaves nothing in it. Went from having a window broke about once a month to about once every 6 - 8 months now. There are still people who don't bother to try the door before breaking a window.
It’s hard to put a finger on it but about 5 years ago the issue in the news was that london had more ‘free’ stuff and injection sites so a migration of homeless from other towns came here
They need to get.more subsidized housing available here. The line is extremely long. I am in a 2 bedroom basement apartment that has ant issues and mold issues and I have a 4 year old who is special needs and we have been waiting to get into subsidized housing for years. I'm kn assistance making 1000 a month from social assistance and 700 from child tax. 1000 goes to my rent (and that is considered cheap rent) and I still have to pay for clothing.. food.. internet.. electricity... for myself and my daughter I'd love to have a safe subsidized housing for us here in London. Especially with that 25 million they got. I'd also like to see more job support programs or school support programs as I'd love to go to school to be a 911 dispatcher.
I will be homeless on Sept 1/24. I’m an educated adult with no drug or alcohol addiction. I’m in this situation bc I lost my job and my GREEDY LL decided to issue me a N12 (which they claim an immediate family member will move in) ~ which is a 100% a LIE as he has tried to increase my rent since he bought the building! So NOT everyone who is homeless has a drug or alcohol addiction. It’s a sad reality that is happening to me. Never thought I would end up homeless. My family is gone and no friends to help. Please be kind and don’t judge.
@yurabeech5268 it's not nonsense, I was homeless for 4 years. I ate better being homeless than having a full time job. I was given free drugs from intercommunity everyday
So sadly for the homeless it’s everywhere in Canada. I’m not sure what the answer is but I believe it started at the top by the Liberal government. He does not care about Canadians. Trudeau is in government for himself and no one else. The Liberals have destroyed this once amazing country that I am no longer proud of to call home. We have to get him out of his power trip and bring Canada back to the once prosperous beautiful country it once again was.
i live in a small town in the middle of the woods and ive never seen homeless people here, now, we have 4 in town and that for us is a lot !! It breaks my heart watching us go like we are... I know were better than that as humans, we can do much better than this. I hope we can start to love more and be at peace in our lives.
So u said we dont have enough housing spaces... wrong... we have tons of housing . Problem is no one can afford to buy a house here tons of houses being built and no one living there because a 200 000 dollar home is over a million dollars. So dont lie. Greed is the issue.
These are scary times because the growth has begun. Once it starts there is no turning back. I grew up in Burlington and never saw a homeless person in this city until my early 40's. I am 50 now and see multiple homeless people and beggars in Burlington.
You say there's not enough housing spaces for people that need it yet there's a number of churches that have got church halls there's no reason why the church halls could not be used at night for the homeless people a couple of blankets and the pillow the churches have got a kitchen and toilets that's all you need for someone to sleep in the church a truth is the churches refuse to help...
Not so. Here in Sarnia, a church opened its doors to homeless via country services and when the weather got warmer, there were barely any there. They want to be in a tent city where they can do all the drugs they want, not supervised in a shelter.
We do have a problem with homeless people in london.. I wish I had the answer. I like the idea of building tiny home communities. Could this idea be a reality? More outreach help, more mental health outlets, feeding the poor and contributing towards self accept ion and education .trade work, willingness to work on a farm picking fruits and vegetables.
Housing first. Housing should be a right. We have the resources to do it but too many people don't view these people as human like the young man said. This program only happened through a private donation.
@@shauncameron8390 it's called living in a society. I don't smoke but my taxes pay for cancer treatments for those that choose to. I don't have kids but my taxes pay for schools. I'm not disabled but my taxes pay to help those that are. If you don't like those things congratulations on being an a$$hole. Don't ever call an ambulance or fire department or cops because my taxes also pay for those for you.
As a Business owner in London , On Dundas east of Adelaide ...right in the heart of this issue. We've had minimal problems. Call it luck or compassion for our fellow citizens. This is our community , We unite together and continue to do our best.
Ill chime in as someone who lived here 20 years ago and just recently moved back. Overall London is a beautiful city. Great parks, beautiful trails, great and abundant food. However, the homeless just smoking meth and feynt in the middle of the street is mental. Variety stores selling spoons and tin foil and I suspect some of selling the actualy drugs.. Markus Mini Mark comes to mind.. I know it happens in every major city. Here it happens across the street from the Police station. They need to clean this up. Downtown and Dundas the middle half atleast needs to be dealt with. Just going to keep loosing businesses and people. If they clean it up it will thrive. Sure you can move to a less homeless part of the city but out of sight does not mean its not happening. Im not going to leave the city. We need to clean this up
Every city in Ontario is having the same issue in the last few years I’m in Owen sound a city of 20k we got at least a hundred homeless. It’s not as simple as giving housing…. 90% of ppl you just give housing destroy the property in a matter of months, bed bugs etc. we need more mental health psych wards etc
I just quit working for a resto where my smoking colleagues made me furious and sick everyday for 2 yrs. I have applied to 3,500 jobs, if I can't get an income, I will be homeless out in the snow in 4-5 mos. Autistics like me should be able to get MAID! Easy, quick, permanent!
This is such an embarrassment, for a once great country, that has been destroyed by substandard, misdirected Government. Trudeau will be remembered as the worst PM in Canadian history, who took a faltering country down a fast track of destruction, with Liberal policies, wide open immigration, drug ridden, poverty stricken neighbourhoods and cities filled with aimless, depressed, angry and a generally 5:22 hopeless population. Only a small percentage of rich Canadians who have benefited from this leadership, will enjoy like in Canada, or leave when crime spills into their secured communities.
what did the city really do with that $25 million dollars ??? they were supposed to have these hubs, and cancelled, they need to build tiny homes and give back their dignity and self respect to the homeless, its a damn shame that the city of london doesnt care, there is absolutely nothing down town to see or to shop, nothing, not even a decent grociery store, put people where it is close to shopping .
one huge problem is that municipal government, while crucibles of legislation are also the most poorly funded, decades of cuts from the province and federal government have forced municipalities to make desperate decisions.
Municipalities are part of the problem with their high permit fees and zoning restrictions resulting in high building costs and only luxury condos being the only viable form of housing allowed to be built.
WRONG! I’m a well educated adult with no drug or alcohol addiction and will be homeless Sept 1/24!!! All bc I lost my job and my GREEDY LL decided to issue me a N12 (an immediate family member will move in) ~ which is a lie as he has tried to increase my rent since he bought the building! So NO not everyone who is homeless has a drug or alcohol addiction. It’s a sad reality that this can and WILL be happening to lots more ppl bc of the cost of rents and lack of employment.
There are two issues not discussed in this video that are very important. The first is some of the homeless are homeless through circumstances not intirely of thier making like a loss of income, these people you won't see on the downtown streets, they will try to avoid the pitfalls of streetlife. The second is a much more visable and dangerous street person. I wouldn't classify these people as homeless in the same way as the first group. This type of person prefers to be on the street because they are mostly addicts that won't adhere to societies rules, most have criminal records and after they have stolen from thier friends and family are then forced to live on the streets were they can do as they please. They make for bad tenants if housed and most are ivicted within a year. This citys solution is to give them free drugs medical attention food clothing and whatever else they need. Most people don't like helping someone that won't help them selves.
People don't you understand already, 2001,2008,2020, those years show it to you every 10, 11 years you are going down, and people who create pandemics and wars going straight UP that is all
I think most people are puzzled by homelessness rather than being convinced that the homeless somehow deserve their circumstances. Yet homelessness is easily understood from an economic perspective. Our capitalist/consumer culture has, over time, seen greater wealth concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. It's like a late stage game of Monopoly; many players have been eliminated while one or two own everything. Those one or two don't have to do anything productive to expand their wealth, they simply live off the income generated by their ever more valuable assets. The giant real estate development companies can grow in value without ever filling to capacity the buildings they own because the asset itself is the thing that increases in value. In other words, scarcity of affordable property necessarily means that existing property increases in value. Marketplace competition as we once knew it, doesn't exist anymore. A handful of massive corporations with no greater responsibility than returning a profit to its shareholders, have eliminated the competition and, in so doing, eliminated many of the opportunities that were once commonly available to everybody who were there at the beginning of the game. We know who the winners and losers are, it's time to start a new game.
Completely ignoring the main causes of homelessness which are addiction and mental health. Very few of the homeless are there for economic reasons. And lets be clear, there is shelter available but YOU HAVE TO NOT USE OR DRINK and addicts will choose the streets over shelter just because they refuse to stop using or have stopped taking their meds. Romanticizing this issue has cost London dearly. The homeless have refused housing in many instances and continue to break the law and indulge in criminal activity. Londoners are tired of this indulgence and enabling policies that have only contributed to the problem without truly helping anyone.
Well we do also have evidence and a documentary by trunorth about our safe injection sites how people are literally giving there rents up. To be homeless to get access to safe supply but that’s another social issue but they are also tied and link together. We do have a wage issue our factories in London don’t even pay the national average unless you been there for 20 years and then still under the national average. There’s alot of issues in London but the same issues also exist in all cities. We also need to have better land lord laws and less tenant rights in areas like removing people who don’t pay. What MOST people truly don’t understand is people other than corporations want people to succeed however… HOWEVER in today’s world and with tenants literally not paying for over a year the landlord has to carry that debt. Which means carrying 2 Mortages. This means now my risk is insanely high you don’t pay ultimately I’m the one who pays the price in this society not you the tenant. This means one has no choice but to inflate the housing costs to help cover loss down the line. If we could have less laws and I could remove a tenant who doesn’t pay my risk is lower and rent will be lower. Finding a quality tenant is what everyone wants but right now there’s soo many people not paying which is forcing people to ultimately sell their income property which statistically via statsCAN we have seen about 33% of homes purchased by private buyers. This means less compassionate and higher rent prices for the people. We all want but often don’t understand the entire picture or ripple effect. London is just not the city it use to be our city doesn’t help the people we see a consistent property tax hikes with little changes to roads and Infalstructure . Regardless of our economic position, we had 25% of the nation not working during covid and we still increased property tax increases which would have helped the people put a little more in their pockets to spend in the local economy: So we have seen food increase 9-12% property taxes increase set to be what around 7% increase over the next 3 years. All the while wages for the manufacturing/Factory and Skilled workers has been stagnant while minimum wage has gone drastically up your now only making $10 more then a 16year old at tim Hortons while literally producing goods the country needs not wants but needs. Even after many were forced mandatory OT during Covid to keep the nation going. You go to McDonalds now it’s like $40-$60 for a family of 4.
The couple aka blue dyed hair lived above me for several years. New company took over the building, renovated and doubled the rent. They could not afford the rent increase and left. Lets not pass judgment out of ignorance before knowing the facts.
Welcome to the USA. This reminds me of Vancouver. Homeless all over the streets same in Toronto. Everything was all right in America until Greed got in the way.
I am grateful to our London Mayor who takes this issue seriously and is "acting in ways" that recognize the emergency that homelessness is in this city.
Politically You can expect nuthing but the same from the Ontario Government...Doug Ford will protect the status quo between rich and poor till the day he dies...hopefully soon, the P.C. government has no heart for the disadvantaged, they are only interested in their rich business, developer friends.....WE NEED AN N.D.P. PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NOW !!!! HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN THE NAME OF THE ECONOMY DOUG....??
So they can bankrupt the province like they did in the early 90's when Bob Rae was in charge? Never mind that was Ontario's first real experience with rent control.
It takes over 3.5 years now to evict a bad tenant in Ontario. That is the true nub of the problem of homelessness. Too many landlords have been driven out of business by the inferior Court of Ontario. Tenants need landlords, not communism.
The system is broken 😔 in that relates to the people being broken 💔 government doesn't care, just as long as they look good in the international scale 😉 that's all that matters inside they don't care 😒
You can tell this was made by people at Western. It omits key facts and plays like people living on the street are not at fault in any way. Yes, there is a housing crisis, but the vast majority of the homeless are there due to addiction, not high rent. some are sure. but not most. For example, most people trying to get off the streets don't waste money on blue hair dye.
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Guess who caused this real estate "crisis"? The government. By letting everyone borrow "free" money. And what do people do with "free" money? They buy up all the real estate and now they dictate the rental prices/market. The government should have never reduced the interest rate below 12%.
After the government forced mom-and-pop owners out of the market with rent control leaving corporations and investors to fill the void.
I have said for years that the economy should be running between 8 and 10 % interest rate
"People" hahaha yeah banks and chinese companies are People
I use to Live in London & I enjoyed living there. I always felt it was a safe place to live until a brazen murder took place in braid daylight & no one stopped to intervene.
I left London before this event but had plans of returning & since then, there have been more BRAZEN style murders. That put a stop to moving back, now the drug issues & homelessness makes London look unappealing now.
However this is not an isolated issue for London, this is happening in almost all parts of Ontario.
Since Trudeau's first election victory Ontario & many parts of Canada are now falling apart at the seams. Premier Ford is as bad as our federal leaders for all this. What a mess we are in & people still trust our politicians ? One lie after another & with each election things get worse. When will this end >
I had friends in London in the early 2000's and it was such a nice place to visit when wanting a break from my area of Western NY but not wanting to be in crowded Toronto. This is really sad to see Canada suffer such growing pains.
Yet politicians use our tax money like an ATM machine
I met Chuck at tent city many years ago and she made a huge difference in my life! I now live in Kelowna B.C and I still help the homeless wherever I can.
We dont have a 'housing' issue, we have a mass imigration issue!
Both
liberals suck
Agreed. It's not immigrants you see homeless on the streets. There is a definite obvious demographic.
A great doc shedding light on a problem that can no longer be ignored.
CCP CHINA LAND BANKING ALL OVER THE WORLD IS THE MAIN CAUSE.
What do you mean, it can't be ignored. It will be for ever. Wake up.
Trudeaus version of Canada is appalling.
Doug Ford’s version of Ontario is appalling.
@@joananne7802 .... are you sure?
There are many reasons for homelessness to blame it on one person is wrong , Greed , lack of healthcare lack of housing , Reno evictions ect ect ect
@@gotaplay .... in the real world when things go bad its always the leaders fault.
@@Dracoool I live in the REAL world but this this problem started long before Trudeau . and if you think Trudeau is bad the worst is yet to come if mini trump Pierre gets elected .. There is no ONE cause or one person to blame for this and many of the homeless you see in London today were shipped in from other places Rents have doubled and in some cases tripled in the last few years . Real Estate developers buying up buildings evicting Tennant's doing a few renovations and doubling the rents , for average senior living on CPP and OAS the rents are higher than monthly income ... In Ontario its the conservative government who are the " rich mans " friend .. Obviously your hate for Trudeau shows and you are in titled to your opinion BUT Harper was worse
Homelessness not seen since the Great Depression
As a filmmaker and one who works directly with unhoused people through the church, I can tell you categorically the filmmakers have "spun" parts of the script to suit their own narrative. For example, not only have they omitted the root cause of homelessness they have minimized the devasting effects of addiction which is the number cause of homelessness, and left out the fact that in my 10 years of experience 90%, if not all, who are suffering from homelessness are suffering from addiction to hard drugs - fentanyl, crack, crystal meth. It's rather elementary: drug addiction causes poverty and poverty causes the inability to pay one's rent. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the problem has proceeded to worsen to the point of crisis. It's because the authorities and agencies, for some weird reason have, "misdiagnosed" and misacted that the crisis will continue to worsen. I guarantee it. How do I know? I know because history always repeats itself... simple as that.
ok, I have read what you have written.What is YOUR Solution. I was homeless in 2011, but had friends who let me "couch serf" till I got a job. I did not have addictions...But Now I want to help others who are homeless... Please tell me how I can help.
Bullshit. Every single tenant I know is at risk of homelessness because landlords are pushing tenants out in order to make more money.
Addiction is a symptom of the greater problem of accessability to affordable housing and medical care for serious mental illnesses.
The problem lies with more immigrants and refugees than we can handle, coupled with housing being treated as a commodity. Both these things can be controlled by the federal government. There is no need for an individual to own several properties to rent out and exploit others.
All enabled and encouraged by government intervention.
Wow that sheds a whole new light for me on the info tech building. Every time I go by it I'm like oh wow it's getting bigger and more off putting and I'm not sure what to think. Seeing inside the building and what's actually happening there completely changed my mind. It's amazing the work these people are doing and it actually makes so much sense. I'm so glad people have somewhere to be to get their basic needs met. It's clearly needed and I'm also really happy to hear about that large donation. I had no idea. Great video.
I was very familiar with London in the sixties, and I can agree with today's concerned people that the problem has certainly worsened in the past 20 years, but the roots were obvious in the eighties, when the downtown changed from a pleasant shopping area to a bombed out mess in a very short period of time.
You can't blame Ford and Trudeau for that [though they are both poor leaders]; local politicians looked the other way as industry left town and people fled to poorly planned suburbs. Meanwhile, Kitchener-Waterloo [and sometimes, Cambridge] replaced London as southwestern Ontario's main creator of jobs and technology.
P-3's are not working either. Closing the LPH didn't help.Building stupid bus lanes and bike lanes don't help. Priorities out of line. The provincial government made the mistake of down loading housing to municipalities. Now we are paying the price for it.
I wish they’d stop breaking into my car and smashing my windows in wortley village
This is so true.
I have a friend who lives in an area of London where this is common. He just quit locking his car and leaves nothing in it. Went from having a window broke about once a month to about once every 6 - 8 months now. There are still people who don't bother to try the door before breaking a window.
Grew up in London. There were only a few, literally A FEW homeless in the 90s. Something else is happening here .
It’s hard to put a finger on it but about 5 years ago the issue in the news was that london had more ‘free’ stuff and injection sites so a migration of homeless from other towns came here
When schools are closed down ,could they be converted into housing for the poor instead of demolishing them?
Exactly two schools that are on the brink of closing down Davidson high school and there another one can't remember the name.
They need to get.more subsidized housing available here. The line is extremely long. I am in a 2 bedroom basement apartment that has ant issues and mold issues and I have a 4 year old who is special needs and we have been waiting to get into subsidized housing for years. I'm kn assistance making 1000 a month from social assistance and 700 from child tax. 1000 goes to my rent (and that is considered cheap rent) and I still have to pay for clothing.. food.. internet.. electricity... for myself and my daughter
I'd love to have a safe subsidized housing for us here in London. Especially with that 25 million they got.
I'd also like to see more job support programs or school support programs as I'd love to go to school to be a 911 dispatcher.
CCP CHINA LAND BANKING ALL OVER THE WORLD IS THE MAIN CAUSE.
I will be homeless on Sept 1/24. I’m an educated adult with no drug or alcohol addiction. I’m in this situation bc I lost my job and my GREEDY LL decided to issue me a N12 (which they claim an immediate family member will move in) ~ which is a 100% a LIE as he has tried to increase my rent since he bought the building!
So NOT everyone who is homeless has a drug or alcohol addiction.
It’s a sad reality that is happening to me. Never thought I would end up homeless. My family is gone and no friends to help. Please be kind and don’t judge.
Try out roomies ca
These ppl have worsened the homeless problem. They have made it so easy to be homeless that everyone flocks here.
4 square meals a day and free drugs
😂😂😂 what a load of nonsense. What are you doing to help solve the problem?
@yurabeech5268 it's not nonsense, I was homeless for 4 years. I ate better being homeless than having a full time job. I was given free drugs from intercommunity everyday
By design? you will own nothing and be happy. Bringing in millions of people each year doesn't help. Good video. Thank you for discussing this.
So sadly for the homeless it’s everywhere in Canada. I’m not sure what the answer is but I believe it started at the top by the Liberal government. He does not care about Canadians. Trudeau is in government for himself and no one else. The Liberals have destroyed this once amazing country that I am no longer proud of to call home. We have to get him out of his power trip and bring Canada back to the once prosperous beautiful country it once again was.
i live in a small town in the middle of the woods and ive never seen homeless people here, now, we have 4 in town and that for us is a lot !! It breaks my heart watching us go like we are... I know were better than that as humans, we can do much better than this. I hope we can start to love more and be at peace in our lives.
So u said we dont have enough housing spaces... wrong... we have tons of housing . Problem is no one can afford to buy a house here tons of houses being built and no one living there because a 200 000 dollar home is over a million dollars. So dont lie. Greed is the issue.
These are scary times because the growth has begun. Once it starts there is no turning back. I grew up in Burlington and never saw a homeless person in this city until my early 40's. I am 50 now and see multiple homeless people and beggars in Burlington.
We really do not need,or want,the background music,please,it belittles what is a serious topic.
You say there's not enough housing spaces for people that need it yet there's a number of churches that have got church halls there's no reason why the church halls could not be used at night for the homeless people a couple of blankets and the pillow the churches have got a kitchen and toilets that's all you need for someone to sleep in the church a truth is the churches refuse to help...
Not so. Here in Sarnia, a church opened its doors to homeless via country services and when the weather got warmer, there were barely any there. They want to be in a tent city where they can do all the drugs they want, not supervised in a shelter.
How come there is enough room for all the refugees ?
Ask the government why ?
Not one refugee is complaining
Valid statement. It's not refugees you see living on the streets!
@@westwass I don't think they are drug addicts.
Sad place London has become...
We do have a problem with homeless people in london.. I wish I had the answer. I like the idea of building tiny home communities. Could this idea be a reality?
More outreach help, more mental health outlets, feeding the poor and contributing towards self accept ion and education .trade work, willingness to work on a farm picking fruits and vegetables.
Very well done. Would like an update if possible!!
This was the best place for a hundred years and literally ruined in less than 20 years!! Families and relatives ran out!
Housing first. Housing should be a right. We have the resources to do it but too many people don't view these people as human like the young man said. This program only happened through a private donation.
And who should be forced against their will to provide it?
@@shauncameron8390 it's called living in a society. I don't smoke but my taxes pay for cancer treatments for those that choose to. I don't have kids but my taxes pay for schools. I'm not disabled but my taxes pay to help those that are. If you don't like those things congratulations on being an a$$hole. Don't ever call an ambulance or fire department or cops because my taxes also pay for those for you.
@@Jordan-pf9ws
No. Your taxes go to pay the salaries and pensions of administrators and bureaucrats.
Bring in MORE immigrants. That's the answer!
Praying for us all
Hoping the best for us all
Hope Unifor gets good contracts for my union Brothers and Sisters
As a Business owner in London , On Dundas east of Adelaide ...right in the heart of this issue. We've had minimal problems. Call it luck or compassion for our fellow citizens. This is our community , We unite together and continue to do our best.
Enjoyed this video, have you heard about rainbow park in sarnia?
This would be a great video
another day in trudeaus canada
It was here before him.
I agree. Jusin is sooo hot! I like it when he cries and carries his Teddy Bear. Now that he is single I want to date him@@asimskentzos9231
Ill chime in as someone who lived here 20 years ago and just recently moved back.
Overall London is a beautiful city.
Great parks, beautiful trails, great and abundant food.
However, the homeless just smoking meth and feynt in the middle of the street is mental.
Variety stores selling spoons and tin foil and I suspect some of selling the actualy drugs..
Markus Mini Mark comes to mind..
I know it happens in every major city.
Here it happens across the street from the Police station.
They need to clean this up.
Downtown and Dundas the middle half atleast needs to be dealt with.
Just going to keep loosing businesses and people.
If they clean it up it will thrive.
Sure you can move to a less homeless part of the city but out of sight does not mean its not happening.
Im not going to leave the city.
We need to clean this up
This is the age of growing homelessness.
Shelters have become unsafe for them what can the city and social workers do to make them safe again.
Exactly
Every city in Ontario is having the same issue in the last few years I’m in Owen sound a city of 20k we got at least a hundred homeless. It’s not as simple as giving housing…. 90% of ppl you just give housing destroy the property in a matter of months, bed bugs etc. we need more mental health psych wards etc
Well done video
London looks like tent city everywhere too bad use to be a nice place to visit and shop forget it now.
I just quit working for a resto where my smoking colleagues made me furious and sick everyday for 2 yrs. I have applied to 3,500 jobs, if I can't get an income, I will be homeless out in the snow in 4-5 mos. Autistics like me should be able to get MAID! Easy, quick, permanent!
This is such an embarrassment, for a once great country, that has been destroyed by substandard, misdirected Government. Trudeau will be remembered as the worst PM in Canadian history, who took a faltering country down a fast track of destruction, with Liberal policies, wide open immigration, drug ridden, poverty stricken neighbourhoods and cities filled with aimless, depressed, angry and a generally 5:22 hopeless population. Only a small percentage of rich Canadians who have benefited from this leadership, will enjoy like in Canada, or leave when crime spills into their secured communities.
what did the city really do with that $25 million dollars ??? they were supposed to have these hubs, and cancelled, they need to build tiny homes and give back their dignity and self respect to the homeless, its a damn shame that the city of london doesnt care, there is absolutely nothing down town to see or to shop, nothing, not even a decent grociery store, put people where it is close to shopping .
one huge problem is that municipal government, while crucibles of legislation are also the most poorly funded, decades of cuts from the province and federal government have forced municipalities to make desperate decisions.
Municipalities are part of the problem with their high permit fees and zoning restrictions resulting in high building costs and only luxury condos being the only viable form of housing allowed to be built.
What is it about drugs that make you lose your self respect, your ambitions, your existence?
Average house prices are around $650k.
Homelessness in almost every case is about addiction. That may change soon but historically 99% of homeless people are wired to something
WRONG! I’m a well educated adult with no drug or alcohol addiction and will be homeless Sept 1/24!!! All bc I lost my job and my GREEDY LL decided to issue me a N12 (an immediate family member will move in) ~ which is a lie as he has tried to increase my rent since he bought the building!
So NO not everyone who is homeless has a drug or alcohol addiction. It’s a sad reality that this can and WILL be happening to lots more ppl bc of the cost of rents and lack of employment.
It takes simply two events like mine to end up homeless!
@@wendythewitch01 i live in Canada btw...where handouts are a plenty. People dont lose homes over medical bills for example
@@mastersamurai7683 AND ?
@@wendythewitch01 and thats why my statement may seem short sited to an American.
There are two issues not discussed in this video that are very important. The first is some of the homeless are homeless through circumstances not intirely of thier making like a loss of income, these people you won't see on the downtown streets, they will try to avoid the pitfalls of streetlife. The second is a much more visable and dangerous street person. I wouldn't classify these people as homeless in the same way as the first group. This type of person prefers to be on the street because they are mostly addicts that won't adhere to societies rules, most have criminal records and after they have stolen from thier friends and family are then forced to live on the streets were they can do as they please. They make for bad tenants if housed and most are ivicted within a year. This citys solution is to give them free drugs medical attention food clothing and whatever else they need. Most people don't like helping someone that won't help them selves.
Please don’t paint everyone as judgemental toward homeless,we don’t all judge, some like to be able to help
People don't you understand already, 2001,2008,2020, those years show it to you every 10, 11 years you are going down, and people who create pandemics and wars going straight UP
that is all
I think most people are puzzled by homelessness rather than being convinced that the homeless somehow deserve their circumstances. Yet homelessness is easily understood from an economic perspective. Our capitalist/consumer culture has, over time, seen greater wealth concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. It's like a late stage game of Monopoly; many players have been eliminated while one or two own everything. Those one or two don't have to do anything productive to expand their wealth, they simply live off the income generated by their ever more valuable assets. The giant real estate development companies can grow in value without ever filling to capacity the buildings they own because the asset itself is the thing that increases in value. In other words, scarcity of affordable property necessarily means that existing property increases in value. Marketplace competition as we once knew it, doesn't exist anymore. A handful of massive corporations with no greater responsibility than returning a profit to its shareholders, have eliminated the competition and, in so doing, eliminated many of the opportunities that were once commonly available to everybody who were there at the beginning of the game. We know who the winners and losers are, it's time to start a new game.
Completely ignoring the main causes of homelessness which are addiction and mental health. Very few of the homeless are there for economic reasons. And lets be clear, there is shelter available but YOU HAVE TO NOT USE OR DRINK and addicts will choose the streets over shelter just because they refuse to stop using or have stopped taking their meds. Romanticizing this issue has cost London dearly. The homeless have refused housing in many instances and continue to break the law and indulge in criminal activity. Londoners are tired of this indulgence and enabling policies that have only contributed to the problem without truly helping anyone.
The pofferty of one is the capital of the other
Rent went up because they keep raising property taxes no matter how you look at it people how own property want to make a profit
Well we do also have evidence and a documentary by trunorth about our safe injection sites how people are literally giving there rents up. To be homeless to get access to safe supply but that’s another social issue but they are also tied and link together.
We do have a wage issue our factories in London don’t even pay the national average unless you been there for 20 years and then still under the national average. There’s alot of issues in London but the same issues also exist in all cities.
We also need to have better land lord laws and less tenant rights in areas like removing people who don’t pay. What MOST people truly don’t understand is people other than corporations want people to succeed however… HOWEVER in today’s world and with tenants literally not paying for over a year the landlord has to carry that debt. Which means carrying 2 Mortages. This means now my risk is insanely high you don’t pay ultimately I’m the one who pays the price in this society not you the tenant. This means one has no choice but to inflate the housing costs to help cover loss down the line. If we could have less laws and I could remove a tenant who doesn’t pay my risk is lower and rent will be lower. Finding a quality tenant is what everyone wants but right now there’s soo many people not paying which is forcing people to ultimately sell their income property which statistically via statsCAN we have seen about 33% of homes purchased by private buyers. This means less compassionate and higher rent prices for the people. We all want but often don’t understand the entire picture or ripple effect.
London is just not the city it use to be our city doesn’t help the people we see a consistent property tax hikes with little changes to roads and Infalstructure . Regardless of our economic position, we had 25% of the nation not working during covid and we still increased property tax increases which would have helped the people put a little more in their pockets to spend in the local economy: So we have seen food increase 9-12% property taxes increase set to be what around 7% increase over the next 3 years. All the while wages for the manufacturing/Factory and Skilled workers has been stagnant while minimum wage has gone drastically up your now only making $10 more then a 16year old at tim Hortons while literally producing goods the country needs not wants but needs. Even after many were forced mandatory OT during Covid to keep the nation going. You go to McDonalds now it’s like $40-$60 for a family of 4.
they cant afford food, but they can afford dye for there hair
The couple aka blue dyed hair lived above me for several years. New company took over the building, renovated and doubled the rent. They could not afford the rent increase and left. Lets not pass judgment out of ignorance before knowing the facts.
Welcome to the USA. This reminds me of Vancouver. Homeless all over the streets same in Toronto. Everything was all right in America until Greed got in the way.
The politicians will talk this issue to death name the city and no one has any answers I know this first hand
I am grateful to our London Mayor who takes this issue seriously and is "acting in ways" that recognize the emergency that homelessness is in this city.
Politically You can expect nuthing but the same from the Ontario Government...Doug Ford will protect the status quo between rich and poor till the day he dies...hopefully soon, the P.C. government has no heart for the disadvantaged, they are only interested in their rich business, developer friends.....WE NEED AN N.D.P. PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NOW !!!! HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN THE NAME OF THE ECONOMY DOUG....??
So they can bankrupt the province like they did in the early 90's when Bob Rae was in charge? Never mind that was Ontario's first real experience with rent control.
Kalergi Plan
Josh Morgan isnt doing anything to fix the homeless crisis. He is to scared to make and decisions or action .
Londoner all my life
“ a human having an experience”
Yep drug addicts and the homelessness are what we attract
Just like Vancouver. The most expensive place to live in Canada.
It takes over 3.5 years now to evict a bad tenant in Ontario. That is the true nub of the problem of homelessness. Too many landlords have been driven out of business by the inferior Court of Ontario. Tenants need landlords, not communism.
The system is broken 😔 in that relates to the people being broken 💔 government doesn't care, just as long as they look good in the international scale 😉 that's all that matters inside they don't care 😒
Normal country.
Whoops you misspelled homelessness.... It's actually spelled like this: "liberal drug addicts"
Everyone everywhere nowadays
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More Tiny Homes
Bunghole Bungalow!!
This video is dimly a narrative . No problem solving no explanation of cause .
Ooooo let republicans fix it
You can tell this was made by people at Western. It omits key facts and plays like people living on the street are not at fault in any way. Yes, there is a housing crisis, but the vast majority of the homeless are there due to addiction, not high rent. some are sure. but not most. For example, most people trying to get off the streets don't waste money on blue hair dye.