I'm so happy to hear of the kindness of the police in Dallas. How is this even possible? I'd love to see an interview with those police and their chief... sharing experience strength and hope. What inspires these cops to do what's right..and how is it legal for them to do so, with mandatory sweeps and harsh unfair laws, criminalizing homeless people, etc.
Pooge Onmyway another blind sheep, brainwashed by the TV and can’t see anything but “color”,,,if “race” is what you focus on in every situation,,,then satan owns you, and you don’t even know it
Pooge Onmyway well, Pooge I am black, and I am an American, I’m not a victim, and I’ve had to earn everything I have but that’s being an adult, I would be a poor excuse for a dad if I allowed my children to believe the great lie , “the hoax of black victimization” , you want what the white man has but not willing to earn it like the white man has, you’ve been tricked dear, and you have neither the intelligence nor decency to know it
Not in Austin where Real Estate interests work with the Mayor and city council with the police to go after Houseless people.Same thing in California, If you are White or Black and look down and out they will harass you to no end and the people will judge you how you look and call police on you for walking down the street.I have a home and work and I have learned to not even wear casual clothes into a grocery store or I will get followed or have security called on me that's how bad it is out here.Not a free country anymore.
LaughingblueSu Yeah what happened to free speech? This is getting really sad now. Instead of harassing these people they should be helping them . Prisononers get treated better than the homeless. Makes me so angry. No one in America should be homeless. It's a disgrace to our gov't and rich who don't give a shot about anyone but themselves.
Because its solicitation. Shes obviously doing it for money, most homeless people will tell you they are hungry but theres government assistance for that. They are buying drugs alcohol and cigarettes with your money. Homeless are liars and will give you the saddest bs to trick you into helping them because they are too lazy to do it themselves...
SMH Arrest someone looking for help? And fine them, they aren’t able to live, food, clothes and shelter. How do they expect them to pay fines? 🤨 God Bless, wish you the best! 🙏
BE an example rinirino... Give these people a place in your home for a couple of years so they can save up to have something..You know God will bless you for it, you pathetic creature.
People do this, and then regret it severely later on. My friend's mom (who isn't very smart), felt sorry for a homeless woman outside of a store. The homeless woman told her all types of wild tales about how she became homeless to make my friends mom feel sorry for her. She ended up giving the woman ~$2500 worth of supplies, clothes, money, and invited her and her children to stay with them at her home for a while. My friend found out through investigating online, that this woman had been cheating people out of money all over the place, and had a gofundme page from months prior with a completely different story on it. I'm not saying all homeless people are like this, but I'm willing that if you offered them a place to stay they would be leeching off you for months if not years to come without making a true effort to get a job or pay you back.
I hope that she goes back to Florida. If she has any family she should use one of her relatives address when applying for work. I hope things work out for her.
Jimmy Davis ....please stop it with that smart perspective stuff! 😉 This comment section is mainly for idiots to vent! I've been using the same analogies forever too!....Its like trying to teach the blind to play ping pong!
@Makin it in L.A. I don't have much and feel blessed to have what little I do, but as a taxpaying citizen I feel I have the right to be left the hell alone and find anyone standing in an intersection to be annoying and inappropriate, fill the boot included. Firefighters however stand on the corner raising money for things like MDA and for child burn victims. Please don't sit there and tell me there's no difference...
Many don't realize that when someone goes homeless for more than a year or two, that it is very hard on the body, especially if you are over age 50. Hospitalization is very likely, the longer it goes.
America needs to take care of its citizens. Do not take care of the illegals until all Americans have a home and insurance. However, there are professional homeless in Austin. They have ruined it for the people who really need it.
I'm less than one minute into this video. Her sign (for donations I suppose) is cause to be fined. Yet every one of you see deceptive advertising every day. (More deceptive than most people know).....so tell me why its ok to solicit to make huge profits but not ok to for people like her to solicit.
02:30 I don't answer questions. Am I being detained? Am I free to go? Name and badge number. Ask for his supervisor. Get a lawyer. Take it court before a judge.
obviously u did not watch the full interview!! She says later on why most companies don't employ her... i recommend watchin it again to get an answer for ur question! it's really easy to be judgmental, but very hard to put urself in her shoes and do somethin about it!
they only ask for food because asking for money would be off putting and not get them any cash. There are so many bleeding heart groups in austin that feed the homeless the only reason any of them are hungry is they are too lazy to walk to the soup kitchen.
Anita Lied naw not that. It became too popular and so many people moved to what was a small city and the housing costs went through the roof!! all these rich people bought property there so they could have their “Austin house”...Austin became too popular for it’s own good. it is the Texas city with the highest cost of living hands down.
@@ratherbfishing455 “educated freaks” As a fellow Texan may I ask why you hate education so much, and what harm has it caused you? No wonder we rank 34th in the standard quality of education 😂😂🤦🏻.
See, a homeless person who is actively trying to get help. Not like most in Austin now. Granted, this was 2009. I wish more homeless people would be like her.
1. If you don’t have an address you can’t apply for work. 2. If your work history or education is high it’s quite impossible to apply for a minimum wage job 3. Some states like Austin is strict regarding employing criminal people even if their case was not that serious...
She needs to get the hell out of Austin, obviously. Seems like a lot of homeless people in Austin go nowhere because of the lack of help or sympathy from the authorities. The sign thing made me sick. Anytime I drive by someone on the sidewalk holding a sign that says hungry I'll give em a dollar or something to eat if I just happen to have it. What else would that dollar go too? Some unnessasary junk
Austin seems the problem of why they have homeless. It is only logical to help the people not get homeless, and never it is logical to earn on this, it is exploitation, and with consciousness...so it is a criminal police and court. Power abuse, and human trafficking, as they let the people fall into the trap...and not having the correct way of solving, they create with dark triad behavior the worse outcome... That's is inhumane. Also, everyone must be treated equally, so there is no difference in this treatment allowed per city, and also not allowed to create this worse for all... it has to be the best for all... So, these people in Austin need a lot of help and study to become normal, and best for people, that is what jobs are for.
I'm sure many of the municipalities across the US will not treat homeless people with any caring, it's a crime to punish people for being homeless. I sure hope she can relocate to a better state & get the help she needs. She deserves a new chance for a good life.
It's so good to hear someone who tells it like it is and doesn't conform to the interviewer's desire to have everyone sound upbeat and optimistic. It's also good to hear Austin's undeserved reputation as a "liberal" town shot down. The cops in Austin are horrible, and the people are not liberal anymore either. Too much money and trendiness here for it to be a caring town. There are probably more caring people in Dallas and Houston at this point.
You sound like such a wonderful person and I just know you are going to the nearest homeless shelter right now and handing over 10% of everything you have because God will bless you for it, my friend. This person here deserves to have someone give her and her husband a place in their home. Come people.. Let them stay with you for a few years so they can save up something for a better life.....God will bless you for it., my friend. Give, Give and Give....You people on here are pathetic!!!
any trendy place where there are loads of young 'wannabes' you are going to get lots of uncaring / indifferent selfish people. Camden Town in London is just like that.
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” - Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)
@ShawnHartman She has a criminal history from "soliciting" BECAUSE she is HOMELESS. Not the other way around. Don't get me wrong, there are definatly people out there who are in a bad situation because of choices they have made but for others it is simply a bad sitaution that spiraled out of control and is now very hard to get out of. All I am saying is don't make blanket statement s about people who "belong there" without even listening to the rest of what they are saying.
@@josephkordinak1591 sure the two extremes ....the total lack of social services in the u.s. and the immediate, full, guarantees in Europe.. Whatever the case , it is schocking over in the U.S. different attitudes it seems, different frame of mind, a hugely materialist society. Some great things about the states, but certainly unevolved socially. Thats why you get morons like Trump saying things like "they want to take away your guns ...." (about the opposition). No civilised nation should be drowning in fire arms .....but that's another point , merely to illustrate the alarming backwardness of it all. A heavy handed police , and judges who will get you deeper in the shit. Shame because , as i say , there are wonderful things about the states. Choices as a consumer, ...not asnlimited as in Europe , to name but one.
Austin Texas isn't a shameful place. Austin is a really cool town, however there are some things that are wrong about it. But there's problems in every city in this country.
Too intelligent to be homeless. I find it heart-breaking. i come away from many stories very disturbed. I had nightmares for decades about being lost and having no home. i lived semi-homeless at different times or precarious times. I have sponsored 2 men in my town so they didn't become homeless because the pain of homeless is a nightmare.Please stop doing this to people because everyone needs a home=the consciousness of 'somehow we exist' needs its material compensations!! Cruel&Unjust
While watching her stories , she seemed to have cared about some people who could have the same situation like her , while trying to talking about the things that she got to understand by experiencing it. I mean she have talked about the mood and the mistreatment in some places with the contrasts , still talking about her situation positively, talking that she could be fine in some places. ( but she could have some troubles even in those places) Her time to explain her situation seemed to have finished as she just have thought about explaining the things that people could going through . If I am to write about the treatment that she should have at that time then, it would be something like this. Firstly, she should be in a safe place but she have said she slept on the the bench. Even she is dealing with the officers who are trying to charge some tickets for some reasons. I mean at least they might have to give her some information about shelters to stay safe rather than trying to charge those tickets. They also had to ask her problems and would have to give some information about social security systems which can help her to find better shelters before she could finally got to have her own place with some programs that could afford her a job.
As far as housing goes she's absolutely correct this is not just a housing problem this is also a drug problem there's not enough resources in Austin and if you have a criminal history nobody will rent to you nobody so you'll be living in the back of your van for the rest of your life and the sooner you accept your fate the better off you'll be just like me I live in my van with two small dogs and I am as sober as the Pope and my life hurts like hell I can't accept my fate I refuse to even address it because I think it is to much for me
She is telling the truth..I was homeless 2 years ago in Ms and living in a shelter. There's so many out there to use and abuse the homeless. Those making money off the pain of other's. But I'm thankful I chose to go to a revival at a Pentecostal Church of my youth. I received the holyghost and God set me free.Now today I'm married have a home family and job.I also I'm in youth ministry and do outreach every week for at risk children. I can't thank my lord and savour enough for what his done for me. My prayer is always for the addict on the street or just in tangled in sin. God bless those that reach out to help the poor and hungry. Jesus said if you done it to the least of one of his it was done to him. Love cover a multitude of sins
I wasn't from a rich family, but made right choices in my life and now i live a comfortable life at 88. It is very difficult for me to understand how and why people are homeless. I am an atheist and I depend only on myself for my well being. Humans are very complex animals.
It just seems weird to me that all these people you interview have no family members to help them out!Moms,dads,cousins,brothers ,sisters ,aaunts ,uncles!Why no support till they get jobs or whatever.?
Use the address of a relative or friend when applying to a job. Worry about the W2 next year. Even if it gets sent somewhere where you can’t retrieve it a year later, you can always request a new W2 from the company at a later time. It’s more important to find work and make money right now than to worry about a missing W2 you won’t get til a year from now. I believe this woman could find work anywhere. She looks very attractive and presentable. If I walked past her I would never think she was homeless. Also, if you are homeless and you have some form of identification, you can go to your local post office to get a free PO Box. Then you can use the PO Box as your address when applying for work.
Poor soul. She sounds intelligent. If i was the judge, i would fine the city hall, fine the police and order the city hall to give her a job. Morality is first, being human is first, the law is secondary. People there are squre and selfish and cruel. If a homeless woman ask me for a job, she is my first priority , i write down my personal address as her's. If i had the privilege to help a homeless woman, i would do it , even on my expense. This woman is in need, she is not a junki/drug abuser. A society that turn a cold shoulder on needy people, is nothing but a pack of wolves.
This is so old...where are recent videos of homeless? Where are updates about the people in these old videos? In 2018 homelessness is more prevalent than ever yet not according to RUclips videos.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH HOLDING A SIGN ASKING FOR HELP? I THOUGHT THIS COUNTRY TRY SO HARD TO FIGHT HOMELESSNESS AND SHELTERS. THESE EFFING POLICE HAVE NOTHING TO DO BETTER TO HARRASS THE WEAK...WTF 🤬😬👎
Pretty harsh. Most cities have food pantries and churches also. There are soup kitchens. When the cops see this it would be appropriate to direct these people where they can get help. I do believe there should be a sense of order, but human needs should be addressed too.
In Canada, people get arrested in the winter so that they can get three meals a day and sleep in a warm jail cell. It beats freezing outside... I’ve heard those stories going back 40 years to when I was a little kid. My mother was a jail nurse.
@@emmaleechase613Similar happens in Europe. In the coldest parts of winter, people used to throw rocks in store windows to get arrested and go to jail for some days. But then the punishment was changed from jail to fine/community service, so this doesn't work anymore.
Turn your way to God for help lady. Stop addiction if you maybe have. Read the Holy Bible for answers, for consolatian, read the New Testament in it for the Gospel. Go to church, ask there for shelter included some work for money. Pray God for forgiveniss of your sins through the powerful work of His Son Jesus Christ. Amen. Pray and work if you can, I am sympatize with you all.
I mean, is their no outreach program to help her? Are their not systems to help her get back on her feet? Why not use those systems. They recently legalized panhandling in my city, we saw a 200 fold increase in homeless people after that. On every offramp from the freeway, now there’s a homeless person. Well, I’m guessing homeless, because nothing prevents anyone from panhandling if they need to or not. Second chance, yeah, third chance? Starting to push it. 4th 5th 6th and more chances? Really need to start questioning how these chances are doing them any good at all. Just like the banks that got bailed out because they were “too big to fail” sometimes people need to hit rock bottom to make meaningful changes in their life, otherwise with no ramifications and consequences for decisions made, what’s to prevent someone from doing it again?
her story is nothing, in 2013 Austin put a homeless camp in east Austin directly adjacent to a residential community. the city of Austin lied and called it sunshine RV park. they had no intentions of informing the home owners, when this lie was exposed they did it anyway. now this residential community is no longer the same, crime has gone way up. she is telling a twisted slanted story, she never says anything about the crime innocent citizens are suffering from, she never says anything about the failures of the non profits that are not held accountable for there businesses. she says nothing about the loss of life as a result of these people here and the pain there victims families are still enduring today. true we as community should help people in need, but there are no boundries considered to protect innocent working people. these are the ones that are the biggest victims innocent citizens and businesses.
If you are homeless or about to be and you don't have a physical address, you can use anytimemailbox to have your mail delivered to a physical address. The home is signed up as an affiliate partner to the anytimemailbox. I haven't used the service, and can't recommend it, but after searching online for options in this situation, this is what I found.
Her 3 wishes: “For my kids to come home, to get a job & have a normal life.” I hope she achieved all of them!
only in "the land of the free" is it a CRIME for a hungry person to ask for food, MAKES ME SICK !!!
its illegal in pretty much all countries to a certain extent
@@deprogramm what?! tell me just one, USA is sick !!!
I'm so happy to hear of the kindness of the police in Dallas. How is this even possible? I'd love to see an interview with those police and their chief... sharing experience strength and hope. What inspires these cops to do what's right..and how is it legal for them to do so, with mandatory sweeps and harsh unfair laws, criminalizing homeless people, etc.
Pooge Onmyway another blind sheep, brainwashed by the TV and can’t see anything but “color”,,,if “race” is what you focus on in every situation,,,then satan owns you, and you don’t even know it
Pooge Onmyway well, Pooge I am black, and I am an American, I’m not a victim, and I’ve had to earn everything I have but that’s being an adult, I would be a poor excuse for a dad if I allowed my children to believe the great lie , “the hoax of black victimization” , you want what the white man has but not willing to earn it like the white man has, you’ve been tricked dear, and you have neither the intelligence nor decency to know it
They really gave this woman tickets nothing but wicked people.
They always target the poor with tickets. They know it’s harder for them to defend themselves and it’s easier to collect from them.
Her eyes. Turning from cold steel to honest hope.
Wish you all the best.
I hope this woman is ok now with a beautiful home ❤️ What a wonderful woman ❤️ She deserves only the best ❤️
Would arresting her for her "hungry" sign violate her Constitutional right to freedom of speech?
Not in Austin where Real Estate interests work with the Mayor and city council with the police to go after Houseless people.Same thing in California, If you are White or Black and look down and out they will harass you to no end and the people will judge you how you look and call police on you for walking down the street.I have a home and work and I have learned to not even wear casual clothes into a grocery store or I will get followed or have security called on me that's how bad it is out here.Not a free country anymore.
LaughingblueSu Yeah what happened to free speech? This is getting really sad now. Instead of harassing these people they should be helping them . Prisononers get treated better than the homeless. Makes me so angry. No one in America should be homeless. It's a disgrace to our gov't and rich who don't give a shot about anyone but themselves.
Because its solicitation. Shes obviously doing it for money, most homeless people will tell you they are hungry but theres government assistance for that. They are buying drugs alcohol and cigarettes with your money. Homeless are liars and will give you the saddest bs to trick you into helping them because they are too lazy to do it themselves...
Yes I believe so, you have a good point, Austin just is not homeless friendly.
She was probably blocking traffic.
I really wish there would be updates. It's been 11 years
yeah no kidding
@Just Praveen 11 1/2.
My heart and prayers for this lovely lady, are there any updates?
SMH Arrest someone looking for help? And fine them, they aren’t able to live, food, clothes and shelter. How do they expect them to pay fines? 🤨 God Bless, wish you the best! 🙏
yeah no kidding
pigs are a mob of criminals
This 11 years ago, if anyone knows this lady, please give us all an update. I hope sincerely that she is doing already now.
SO WHAT IF SHE HAS A SIGN SAYING SHE IS HUNGRY AND GOD BLESS. SO WHAT!! HELP HER SOME HOW. GOODNESS PEOPLE!!!
BE an example rinirino... Give these people a place in your home for a couple of years so they can save up to have something..You know God will bless you for it, you pathetic creature.
People do this, and then regret it severely later on. My friend's mom (who isn't very smart), felt sorry for a homeless woman outside of a store. The homeless woman told her all types of wild tales about how she became homeless to make my friends mom feel sorry for her. She ended up giving the woman ~$2500 worth of supplies, clothes, money, and invited her and her children to stay with them at her home for a while.
My friend found out through investigating online, that this woman had been cheating people out of money all over the place, and had a gofundme page from months prior with a completely different story on it.
I'm not saying all homeless people are like this, but I'm willing that if you offered them a place to stay they would be leeching off you for months if not years to come without making a true effort to get a job or pay you back.
Don't help people that aren't willing to help themselves, using the Lord for a free meal, shameful, go to any church, they have food to give.
joshua raglin let them starve? Are you even human?
thank you
I hope that she goes back to Florida. If she has any family she should use one of her relatives address when applying for work. I hope things work out for her.
Although it's so tough living on the streets, she is still so pretty. Woman Jesus loves you. I wish you the best.
God bless her. I pray things get better for her.
I wish they made a TV show giving all of these people a PLACE TO LIVE because being HOMELESS IS HELL!
Hosing and food is really expensive in Austin.
But it's ok for fireman to stand on corners and beg for money
Jimmy Davis ....please stop it with that smart perspective stuff! 😉
This comment section is mainly for idiots to vent! I've been using the same analogies forever too!....Its like trying to teach the blind to play ping pong!
jusayen so thank you lol
So true!!!
They're collecting money for charity Einstein. They're not "begging."
@Makin it in L.A. I don't have much and feel blessed to have what little I do, but as a taxpaying citizen I feel I have the right to be left the hell alone and find anyone standing in an intersection to be annoying and inappropriate, fill the boot included. Firefighters however stand on the corner raising money for things like MDA and for child burn victims. Please don't sit there and tell me there's no difference...
Astonishing to me that when they get asked about the 3 wishes, they never say “money”.
The U.S. government & the police should be ashamed of themselves for the way that they treat homeless people!😡 Love from Australia!🇦🇺
Everybody DOES deserve a second chance...
Many don't realize that when someone goes homeless for more than a year or two, that it is very hard on the body, especially if you are over age 50. Hospitalization is very likely, the longer it goes.
The cops see a specific individual and see a wound and keep picking at it till the person bleeds out
I never looked down at the homeless ,if anything I try to help them out.
America needs to take care of its citizens. Do not take care of the illegals until all Americans have a home and insurance. However, there are professional homeless in Austin. They have ruined it for the people who really need it.
when will people learn theres 99% of us an 1% of them i think the odds are in our favor
people thinking they're the 1% and they are the majority?
Yeah but we're 99% dummies and they're 100% geniuses
" Death is one moment, and life is so many of them." Tennessee Williams.
@Tim Terrell who are you to tell me to stop?
Give her a ticked out of Austin.
She seems like a nice lady .I hope she finds a place ,and a job.
I'm less than one minute into this video. Her sign (for donations I suppose) is cause to be fined. Yet every one of you see deceptive advertising every day. (More deceptive than most people know).....so tell me why its ok to solicit to make huge profits but not ok to for people like her to solicit.
good point
I am so ashamed at times like this. The police, courts, the wealthy oppress the most vulnerable poor amongst us. Especially in Texas!
02:30 I don't answer questions. Am I being detained? Am I free to go? Name and badge number. Ask for his supervisor. Get a lawyer. Take it court before a judge.
Does that actually work??
Amazing her comparison of Dallas vs Austin..adds credibility to what she says.
That's the absolute TRUTH... I lived there!!!
Eric Boswell were you homeless while there?
obviously u did not watch the full interview!! She says later on why most companies don't employ her... i recommend watchin it again to get an answer for ur question! it's really easy to be judgmental, but very hard to put urself in her shoes and do somethin about it!
If you can’t even ask for food without getting arrested, your nation is not free.
they only ask for food because asking for money would be off putting and not get them any cash. There are so many bleeding heart groups in austin that feed the homeless the only reason any of them are hungry is they are too lazy to walk to the soup kitchen.
Everyone needs shelter food a clothes ,,,,,a things they need. God bless everyone that's homeless.
Health insurance also
30% of Texans do not have insurance. That does not count the million illegals who live in Texas.
And all the hobos in Austin get everything thy need that's why they are coming here in droves.
Prayers...
Too dangerous to ask people on a public forum where they will sleep tonight. Evil people don't need to know where to start looking for them.
Why is she in Austin and not in Florida?
So much for progressive Austin
Anita Lied naw not that. It became too popular and so many people moved to what was a small city and the housing costs went through the roof!! all these rich people bought property there so they could have their “Austin house”...Austin became too popular for it’s own good. it is the Texas city with the highest cost of living hands down.
There are a lot of educated freaks there. It hasn't been charming for 25 years.
@@ratherbfishing455 “educated freaks” As a fellow Texan may I ask why you hate education so much, and what harm has it caused you? No wonder we rank 34th in the standard quality of education 😂😂🤦🏻.
Any updates?
Everyone deserves a second chance.
She didn't even do anything in the first place!!
whatevert how do you know?
See, a homeless person who is actively trying to get help. Not like most in Austin now. Granted, this was 2009. I wish more homeless people would be like her.
This lady has a beautiful complexion. Hope things work out for her.
1. If you don’t have an address you can’t apply for work.
2. If your work history or education is high it’s quite impossible to apply for a minimum wage job
3. Some states like Austin is strict regarding employing criminal people even if their case was not that serious...
She needs to get the hell out of Austin, obviously. Seems like a lot of homeless people in Austin go nowhere because of the lack of help or sympathy from the authorities. The sign thing made me sick. Anytime I drive by someone on the sidewalk holding a sign that says hungry I'll give em a dollar or something to eat if I just happen to have it. What else would that dollar go too? Some unnessasary junk
On boy that’s horrible they should help her
Is there not a foodstamp program in Texas?
I pray her wishes come true💫
You are beautiful
You are beautiful xx
Austin seems the problem of why they have homeless. It is only logical to help the people not get homeless, and never it is logical to earn on this, it is exploitation, and with consciousness...so it is a criminal police and court. Power abuse, and human trafficking, as they let the people fall into the trap...and not having the correct way of solving, they create with dark triad behavior the worse outcome... That's is inhumane. Also, everyone must be treated equally, so there is no difference in this treatment allowed per city, and also not allowed to create this worse for all... it has to be the best for all... So, these people in Austin need a lot of help and study to become normal, and best for people, that is what jobs are for.
I love how that's considered fair in our "justice system". Justice! pffft
I'm sure many of the municipalities across the US will not treat homeless people with any caring, it's a crime to punish people for being homeless. I sure hope she can relocate to a better state & get the help she needs. She deserves a new chance for a good life.
I'm sorry Kathy.
want to know if her situation has been improved or not.
What criminal activity she has done btw?
It's so good to hear someone who tells it like it is and doesn't conform to the interviewer's desire to have everyone sound upbeat and optimistic.
It's also good to hear Austin's undeserved reputation as a "liberal" town shot down. The cops in Austin are horrible, and the people are not liberal anymore either. Too much money and trendiness here for it to be a caring town. There are probably more caring people in Dallas and Houston at this point.
You sound like such a wonderful person and I just know you are going to the nearest homeless shelter right now and handing over 10% of everything you have because God will bless you for it, my friend. This person here deserves to have someone give her and her husband a place in their home. Come people.. Let them stay with you for a few years so they can save up something for a better life.....God will bless you for it., my friend. Give, Give and Give....You people on here are pathetic!!!
any trendy place where there are loads of young 'wannabes' you are going to get lots of uncaring / indifferent selfish people. Camden Town in London is just like that.
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” - Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)
Wish her well to come her way soon :'(
@ShawnHartman
She has a criminal history from "soliciting" BECAUSE she is HOMELESS. Not the other way around. Don't get me wrong, there are definatly people out there who are in a bad situation because of choices they have made but for others it is simply a bad sitaution that spiraled out of control and is now very hard to get out of. All I am saying is don't make blanket statement s about people who "belong there" without even listening to the rest of what they are saying.
Holy hell, this story is 11 years old?
Sleeping on park benches and in town streets is pretty damn stupid.
This would NEVER HAPPEN in Europe. Well, at least not here in England. Outrageous.... unacceptable, sad.
We make it too easy to be homeless here. Just about everything is provided to them.
@@josephkordinak1591 sure the two extremes ....the total lack of social services in the u.s. and the immediate, full, guarantees in Europe.. Whatever the case , it is schocking over in the U.S. different attitudes it seems, different frame of mind, a hugely materialist society. Some great things about the states, but certainly unevolved socially. Thats why you get morons like Trump saying things like "they want to take away your guns ...." (about the opposition).
No civilised nation should be drowning in fire arms .....but that's another point , merely to illustrate the alarming backwardness of it all. A heavy handed police , and judges who will get you deeper in the shit. Shame because , as i say , there are wonderful things about the states. Choices as a consumer, ...not asnlimited as in Europe , to name but one.
Austin Texas isn't a shameful place. Austin is a really cool town, however there are some things that are wrong about it. But there's problems in every city in this country.
Too intelligent to be homeless. I find it heart-breaking. i come away from many stories very disturbed. I had nightmares for decades about being lost and having no home. i lived semi-homeless at different times or precarious times. I have sponsored 2 men in my town so they didn't become homeless because the pain of homeless is a nightmare.Please stop doing this to people because everyone needs a home=the consciousness of 'somehow we exist' needs its material compensations!! Cruel&Unjust
Intelligence does not have anything to do with homelessness. All legally native born should be taken care of in America.
Pray pray to God Lady u doing nothing wrong it can happen w any of us
While watching her stories , she seemed to have cared about some people who could have the same situation like her , while trying to talking about the things that she got to understand by experiencing it. I mean she have talked about the mood and the mistreatment in some places with the contrasts , still talking about her situation positively, talking that she could be fine in some places. ( but she could have some troubles even in those places)
Her time to explain her situation seemed to have finished as she just have thought about explaining the things that people could going through .
If I am to write about the treatment that she should have at that time then, it would be something like this.
Firstly, she should be in a safe place but she have said she slept on the the bench. Even she is dealing with the officers who are trying to charge some tickets for some reasons. I mean at least they might have to give her some information about shelters to stay safe rather than trying to charge those tickets. They also had to ask her problems and would have to give some information about social security systems which can help her to find better shelters before she could finally got to have her own place with some programs that could afford her a job.
As far as housing goes she's absolutely correct this is not just a housing problem this is also a drug problem there's not enough resources in Austin and if you have a criminal history nobody will rent to you nobody so you'll be living in the back of your van for the rest of your life and the sooner you accept your fate the better off you'll be just like me I live in my van with two small dogs and I am as sober as the Pope and my life hurts like hell I can't accept my fate I refuse to even address it because I think it is to much for me
Homelessness is exploding
Practical (opinion) advice i would give is go back to Dallas or florida
I hope she headed back to Dallas.
She is telling the truth..I was homeless 2 years ago in Ms and living in a shelter. There's so many out there to use and abuse the homeless. Those making money off the pain of other's. But I'm thankful I chose to go to a revival at a Pentecostal Church of my youth. I received the holyghost and God set me free.Now today I'm married have a home family and job.I also I'm in youth ministry and do outreach every week for at risk children. I can't thank my lord and savour enough for what his done for me. My prayer is always for the addict on the street or just in tangled in sin. God bless those that reach out to help the poor and hungry. Jesus said if you done it to the least of one of his it was done to him. Love cover a multitude of sins
rebecca -Well said! Glad you found that church and are now doing well.
I wasn't from a rich family, but made right choices in my life and now i live a comfortable life at 88. It is very difficult for me to understand how and why people are homeless. I am an atheist and I depend only on myself for my well being. Humans are very complex animals.
It just seems weird to me that all these people you interview have no family members to help them out!Moms,dads,cousins,brothers ,sisters ,aaunts ,uncles!Why no support till they get jobs or whatever.?
Thats how people end up homeless. No family, no friends, no connections. They slip through the cracks of society.
She probably burned all her bridges and everyone wrote her off as a bum.
This is wrong. I don’t think cops should be able to harass homeless people. Of course a homeless person needs help.
We're not allowed to give handouts to our homeless. The cops fine us. But I do anyway.
Im a rebel. ✌
Use the address of a relative or friend when applying to a job. Worry about the W2 next year. Even if it gets sent somewhere where you can’t retrieve it a year later, you can always request a new W2 from the company at a later time. It’s more important to find work and make money right now than to worry about a missing W2 you won’t get til a year from now. I believe this woman could find work anywhere. She looks very attractive and presentable. If I walked past her I would never think she was homeless. Also, if you are homeless and you have some form of identification, you can go to your local post office to get a free PO Box. Then you can use the PO Box as your address when applying for work.
Homelessness is always treated like sh*t by the government...
Poor soul. She sounds intelligent.
If i was the judge, i would fine the city hall, fine the police and order the city hall to give her a job. Morality is first, being human is first, the law is secondary. People there are squre and selfish and cruel.
If a homeless woman ask me for a job, she is my first priority , i write down my personal address as her's.
If i had the privilege to help a homeless woman, i would do it , even on my expense. This woman is in need, she is not a junki/drug abuser.
A society that turn a cold shoulder on needy people, is nothing but a pack of wolves.
This is so old...where are recent videos of homeless? Where are updates about the people in these old videos? In 2018 homelessness is more prevalent than ever yet not according to RUclips videos.
Why didn’t she stay in Dallas she also talks about Florida being better but she’s here
Austin sounds great
wow i cannot this is going on in my hometown. This is bull shit. Idk how I can help though until i'm older and I have my own job.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH HOLDING A SIGN ASKING FOR HELP? I THOUGHT THIS COUNTRY TRY SO HARD TO FIGHT HOMELESSNESS AND SHELTERS. THESE EFFING POLICE HAVE NOTHING TO DO BETTER TO HARRASS THE WEAK...WTF 🤬😬👎
I'd really like to know what judge that was. What is this the thought police?
Pretty harsh. Most cities have food pantries and churches also. There are soup kitchens. When the cops see this it would be appropriate to direct these people where they can get help. I do believe there should be a sense of order, but human needs should be addressed too.
this Kathy woman is very astute- she is no dummy- hope some good things come her way
in japan, homeless ppl go to store and intentionally steal and ask to get taken in. So they have a shelter and food.
In Canada, people get arrested in the winter so that they can get three meals a day and sleep in a warm jail cell. It beats freezing outside... I’ve heard those stories going back 40 years to when I was a little kid. My mother was a jail nurse.
@@emmaleechase613Similar happens in Europe. In the coldest parts of winter, people used to throw rocks in store windows to get arrested and go to jail for some days. But then the punishment was changed from jail to fine/community service, so this doesn't work anymore.
I wonder what she's doing eleven years down the road?
I doubt shes on drugs ,she seemed like she had her head on right,,so good chance life got better,she had a hubby,
Hope she gets a job and housing soon
this was filmed 11 years ago
I doubt she did. they make it too easy to be a bum in Austin.
Turn your way to God for help lady.
Stop addiction if you maybe have.
Read the Holy Bible for answers, for consolatian, read the New Testament in it for the Gospel.
Go to church, ask there for shelter included some work for money.
Pray God for forgiveniss of your sins through the powerful work of His Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
Pray and work if you can, I am sympatize with you all.
How is she doing?
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I mean, is their no outreach program to help her? Are their not systems to help her get back on her feet? Why not use those systems. They recently legalized panhandling in my city, we saw a 200 fold increase in homeless people after that. On every offramp from the freeway, now there’s a homeless person. Well, I’m guessing homeless, because nothing prevents anyone from panhandling if they need to or not. Second chance, yeah, third chance? Starting to push it. 4th 5th 6th and more chances? Really need to start questioning how these chances are doing them any good at all. Just like the banks that got bailed out because they were “too big to fail” sometimes people need to hit rock bottom to make meaningful changes in their life, otherwise with no ramifications and consequences for decisions made, what’s to prevent someone from doing it again?
Bless 💛
Mostly poor people get charged by the police
Its all false accusations and if the cops want her to look for "criminal activities" they should pay the women.
I guess things changed in Austin, because I see people with tents and signs everywhere.
yay
Its turning into a cesspool.
her story is nothing, in 2013 Austin put a homeless camp in east Austin directly adjacent to a residential community. the city of Austin lied and called it sunshine RV park. they had no intentions of informing the home owners, when this lie was exposed they did it anyway. now this residential community is no longer the same, crime has gone way up. she is telling a twisted slanted story, she never says anything about the crime innocent citizens are suffering from, she never says anything about the failures of the non profits that are not held accountable for there businesses. she says nothing about the loss of life as a result of these people here and the pain there victims families are still enduring today. true we as community should help people in need, but there are no boundries considered to protect innocent working people. these are the ones that are the biggest victims innocent citizens and businesses.
Go to Florida please
Alot of these people, have moved around the country, like gypsys. This doesn't work. U have to set down some roots in life.
Move back to Dallas.
If you are homeless or about to be and you don't have a physical address, you can use anytimemailbox to have your mail delivered to a physical address. The home is signed up as an affiliate partner to the anytimemailbox. I haven't used the service, and can't recommend it, but after searching online for options in this situation, this is what I found.
Harrassed by the police isn't Austin a sancutary city?
locker125 only if you're Mexican