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Take your cameras now to those same sites now. June 2024. You'll find that most of them are gone.But keep posting this stuff.If it makes people think twice about moving here...mission accomplished!!
Hi Chris, I've lived in Denver my whole life and everything you mentioned is true. The cost of living is out of control. Everything is going up except the paycheck. A lot of the tents are gone but there's still more than I"d like to see. Thank you for doing such a great job putting this together.😀😃😄👍👍👍
Thank you governor For everything you have done for Denver. Raise the taxes raise the crime rate raise the homeless rate. And deteriorate Denver worse than it has ever been. It's nice to have people wash your windshield at every stoplight and off-ramp. It was nice to take away business and put in bicycle Lanes. Lived here over 50 years, paid off my house but now I can't afford the property taxes. Many older people are losing their houses. You've done a bang-up job!
I visited Denver back in 2021 and I wasn't a huge fan of the city. Luckily, my friend who lives outside of the city picked me up and we got to spend the day just driving around through the mountains so I didn't really deal with the city much other than when I had to go back to the hotel. I did have a lovely encounter with a vile acting homeless woman on Amtrak but she got escorted off the train in handcuffs at the next stop out of Denver for talking vile to everyone on the train including a conductor who wasn't putting up with it. Then she had the audacity to justify her behavior by claiming she was a "transient" and had a rough day.
Good vlog Chris enjoyed been in Denver for.25 yrs and yes things have changed and not for the better. Rich get richer poor get poorer and crimes go up. Vicious circle of life here in Denver. Im from Aurora and just yesterday having dinner with the wife and gun shots out of nowhere...
I am a Denver native, born in 1957..As a teen my family would go to our dentist in down town ..Civic center park is right there along with the state capitol..There is an art museum there as well....That was then and this is now and I have not been anywhere near the area since..It is a damn shame that things have become so bad....It has been years since I was anywhere near down town and I don't see myself going there any time soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have driven in Capitol Hill because of my Lyft job at night. Yes, it is extremely sketchy and dangerous. Rino, 5 Points, & Downtown get pretty bad as well.
@@jonathanielpringlemaniii They’re not Denver, but the city’s sketchy suburbs. Let’s not forget Federal Heights, Glendale, Commerce City, southern Thornton, Wheat Ridge, and eastern Arvada.
@jag92949 Wheatridge!!! What is scary about Wheatridge? You're nuts! Maybe you should get another job. A real job. Or better yet...just move. It's a free country.
I used to live in some crappy neighborhoods in Brooklyn, including East New York, but I never felt as creeped out walking around as when I lived in Denver, even in the day time!
If everybody who feels that way according to these responses. would just do what you did...problems solved. But don't ever Imply that Denver is scarier than NYC. That's laughable.
That’s unfortunate because San Diego is a beautiful city. Best weather in the country and great scenery too. San Diego is by far and away my favorite place in Cali.
The most desirable cities in the country to live are Denver and Austin Texas. But along with that popularity comes the usual problems associated with growth. It's happening in Austin too. But there is noplace I'd rather live...warts and all. And I've lived in 5 US cities.
Live In Denver.. the park by the capitol was absolutely overrun during Covid. Literally the entire park was crammed with tents. I have witnessed a shooting there, right on Colfax and Broadway.. and it’s also the only area in which I’ve ever been threatened after 12 years in the city. Pretty sure I have some clips of it during its peak and a maybe one of it being cleared out while I was driving to work one morning. I’ll also still see the occasional encampment pop up within a block or two of my place, approx 1 mile south of the capitol. I run a high end pipe shop and I’ll get people coming in looking for meth pipes on a daily basis. I’m also frequently offered drugs on my two block walk to work.
@@GodbreadGilfredBiago true but I'll only stock stuff that is unambiguously for cannabis. I mean I'm not surprised that I get these people.. They're definitely more surprised when I tell them "no, I don't have any oil burners.. or roses.. ect" Maybe 20% spend a half hour scouring the cases convinced that they're gonna find one hiding somewhere in there. They're not. I deal in higher end collectible work and don't need these folks frequenting the place.
Go downtown in any major city and you will experience that. I lived in Austin and there were homeless people shitting everywhere in 2018-2021 when I was there. Don't go downtown, that's how downtowns are.
The fact you have to explain yourself so much on how you are not attacking any particular group of people, but actually just simply stating facts, is just mind blowing. The American population is cooked
I have grown up in Denver since I was a year old. My dad was born and raised here and met my mom in college at Arizona State, so they moved here after they had me. Up until around 15 years ago, I would never say one bad thing about living in Denver. I loved everything about it especially the people and how friendly most were. Not saying there were not your common assholes, but not many. I remember running out of gas one night and the gas station being closed and all you were able to use was a credit card which I didn't have I just had cash. I had some man come along and put $25 in my tank. I tried to give him the $10 I had and he said no this is Colorado we help each other out, You don't get that anymore. Either most of the natives left when everyone started moving out here from every which way that also brought their shitty attitudes and crime, but even more because the cost of living especially the property prices nearly tripled in the housing markets and rent over the course of 15 years. This along with our wages not increasing enough, if even much at all to even this out. This is the biggest reason the homeless pop. has become out of control and the cut to literally almost nothing of the Budget for shelters and low income housing. Look up emergency housing options in Denver and Aurora and you will see the lack of this, with over 8 different shelters in these areas closing there doors due to lack of funding despite the 110,000,000 given to Denver since 2022 for homeless and 100,000,000 being unaccounted for when they did a audit earlier this year. So yeah there is that. Some homeless did move because of the pot along with all the jerk offs that think they are better then everyone else but unfortunately more then half were created due to good old American greed. Really a sad thing if you ask me. Funny fact Denver is run by Democrats? The party that supposedly fights for the little man. Crazy.!!
I lived in Capitol Hill in the early nineties. My car was broken into weekly. Everyone always remembers the past as so much better than it was. If anything it’s that only people who earn a lot can afford to live there so now it’s the homeless and the college educated. When I lived there an asst manager at a restaurant could afford the area
I make about $150k a year and locked in my home and rate back in 2020. If I were to buy my house now, it would be another $2k a month added to my mortgage!
It’s a lot better now. I left for a year and have been back for about a month. Don’t let these people make you second guess your assertions, I’ve seen a lot of shooting downtown. I’m right off Broadway in the heart of DT and the past three years were hectic.
I've lived in Denver my entire life as well and it's been disgusting for about 20 years now! Wow since the Democrats took back control of the Governorship! What do ya know!
Mexicans are the coolest dudes out there man. They just giggle and drink beer and smoke shitty weed when they aren't working. I never got why they got so much hate. These guys would also down a 12 pack after work and show up the next day for work fine and pull a 12 hour day and not mention shit.
That’s how Colfax and Broadway corner look ALL the time. They sprawl out together, get high in the open. It’s consistent. They come move them out and by the next day they are there. Now it’s also turned into a migrant hang out. They might be of the get high persuasion. Aurora is super bad with the mothers and children, some new norms begging on every corner while their husband sits in a car nearby. For me it’s the Addicts and Migrants that’s made this place crazy. I’m originally from Detroit. East side. This doesn’t compare. There we are just poor. Working and getting by with jobs mostly in the suburbs.❤
I lived in Boulder/Denver for almost 20 years from 99-2016. Sad to see Denver going to complete shit. I lived at 18th and washington, not too far from where this video was filmed.
@@ChrisHarden Thanks for these Denver videos BTW. I don't understand why this migrant situation is so difficult. Whether people agree with Texas or not, these cities are complaining when they are just getting a tiny fraction of what Texas deals with every day. Whatever policies or laws that are in place right now for undocumented migrants is obviously not working and Texas is just bringing attention and highlighting the failures of them. That message is not being received and it's proving costly and negatively affecting residents. See Chicago and what the people there think. They are not happy at all.
30:05, another person moving outta Denver. Grew up in Leadville and lived in Littleton for 20 years. The Denver metro area was a nicer place to live until all the out-siders started moving here. That's when the quality of life in Colorado started going downhill. This brings tears to my eyes...
ive watched denver change drastically from 2016-present. i used to feel so safe in this city, now i always carry a blade with me. the homeless situation is out of control now, crackheads everywhere, migrants swarm your cars now tryin to clean your windows, and get annoyed if you ask them not to, denver is now #2 in auto theft in the country. i25 traffic has gotten ridiculous, always 5 car pile ups cause everyone drives like a lunatic now. ive worked in south denver (sante fe & lipan) for the last 2 years.. just in the last 2 years it has changed drastically. im constantly kicking crackheads out of our dumpsters behind place of business, broad day last summer we had a dude walking down the street with a butcher knife stabbing peoples cars, our business got broken into 3 times .. the last time the cops never even bothered to show up despite alarms going off for hours. just last week i was walking down broadway / euclid at 1pm on a saturday and i just see people smoking meth openly on the sidewalk. mom & pop stores continue to close because they can't afford to stay afloat cause of what property rent is here/ inflation/ never ending spending of money for dumb things besides helping the poor/ middle class. i used to never have to wait to get into bars/ restaurants , now its a shock if you don't have to wait. there is never a place to park anymore, unless you want to spend $20. its infuriating watching denvers pos mayor mike johnston spend 40M on migrants just in the last year, and now want an additional 120-180M for the "migrant crisis" all while he cuts dmv jobs to make them ONLINE and parks and recs job while asking for other city programs to cut their budget by 15% !! he states that more working cuts is on the way. its insane to watch mike johnston fire law abiding citizens to "help people that walked 3,000 miles to get there" then he claims that no one is being laidoff their hours are just being reduced from 35/week to 0... sure seems like a layoff to me!!! . my rent goes up every year, but now mike johnston gives free room board and food to illegals. converts hotels into shelters, but i can barely afford my rent. its sad watching this amazing place go to sh!t since the first time i was out here in 2014. i have to pay $200/ year for my car registration, but now the dmv is online... everywhere you go, you see half the cars without license plates, or their registration is years out of date, traffic is absurd and so are the express lane fees. tell me why i gotta pay for a toll road, when the mayor wants to give 200M to migrants. its quite annoying to constantly see the law abiding citizen get screwed, but lawlessness thrives. these politcians are absolute crooks. all i want to do is buy a house out here and its physically impossible now a days. i pay $400/ month for health insurance, and have to wait 5 months to get an MRI,, but migrants get attended to right away. i was diagnosed with epilepsy last year when i had a seizure while driving, despite seeing doctors for 3 years prior presenting literally the top 5 symptoms of seizures and i was brushed off all because i wasn't vaccinated. they told me to take more vitamin D. another friend of mine started having seizures recently and its been almost 3 weeks, he hasn't even been able to see a doctor in person yet. but we will treat all migrants...thanks johnston & polis. you sure are looking out for your citizens that love this state and pay your salary. bunch of typical liberal @$$holes. and to clarify, i am not republican. i vote for common sense, cheaper taxes, and power to the people, whoever that may be.
Nomadzoom, that's a spot-on summary of the disgusting engineered collapse of Denver and society in general. Local Denver area news stations and the Denver Post no longer even bother to keep us informed with crime trends, they just briefly report high profile crimes and 'police misconduct' as law enforcement continues to coddle criminals who are now increasingly emboldened. Very sad to see as a Colorado native but then it's happening in all major US cities while farmers and rural areas are economically deconstructed. I hope more people wake up before it's too late.
Dude. Lived in Denver last 5 years.. I live 5min walk from that "dangerous" intersection. This is excessive AF. Like dude said, I urge you to see Oakland or anywhere else below the poverty line in one.of the most expensive zip codes in the country. Makes Denver seem like Disneyland. I've never felt unsafe in any part of Denver. Homeless people don't want to hurt people . Most part, they want to be off the radar. Housing cost? Yes. Fentanyl? Yes. Migrant workers? Naw.. it's the same.everywhere. Denver isn't near getting it the worst. Even close.
Denver native here.. why are you calling them migrant workers or migrants? They're illegal immigrants.. Lenders and appraisers used to be highly unregulated in Denver, which led to inflated housing costs.. Westword did an article on this about 15 years ago.. God bless us all.
We have to give 6 months of free rent in 5 stars hotels, free telephone and services, free tablets, free food, free a lot! Latinos that we came here in the past we broke our backs and nobody gave us a coin! And the worse part is that these guys are from the Train of Aragua!
which state? Don't worry I'm hella conservative. lol. I moved to Montana, loved it, but the WEATHER. It was so grey so I came back to Denver/Boulder and I don't like it
Its easy to form a narrative when the subject you are speaking on cant really articulate an argument to your points using your syntax. Luckily, i can. Been houseless for well over a decade around the denver metro. Most would think the people you like to blame are not services friendly, but the reality is the services are not people friendly. I would like to see how your perspective would change by comprehending a CAFR from any of these municipalities. The corruption and misappropriation of funds are the greater story. For instance, i was approved for a brain injury waiver after years of evaluation and chasing these programs and services down. I was never notified and had to uncover the local government fraud for accepting funds for these sort of programs but not having the systems set up to administer them. If folks took care of the young, elderly and sick instead of using them for a scapegoat to rake in more funds, maybe community will be revived. Not everyone wants a handout. Sometimes folks just need a hand up instead of getting further exploited for the optics or your feelings. A lot of suffering you are choosing to overlook because it isnt pretty enough for you or doesnt fit your political paradigm. You are no better than the politicians playing games woth peoples' lives while you are likely just another agent of the problem reaction solution
Born and raised in denver metro area and I don't go outside other than to run errands and do my business. People will run over you and drive away. People will steal your dog. Carry a rock in the Rocky mountains. It might come in handy
Been there since 1960. He's definitely exaggerated the violence. They've cleaned up an awful lot of the homeless encampments...He's trying to project sensationalism in order to get clicks. We know better.
Denver is most famous for the best breakfast ever: The Denver Omelette which ironically is a French word meaning folded eggs, It is really delicious. 3 🥚🥚🥚 eggs, bell pepper, onions and ham. Cheese (le fromage) is OPTIONAL but I say go for it Chris
Poor people, drug addicted and mentally ill have to live somewhere in America. So, they migrate to bigger cities that often have soup kitchens etc. There is no big city in America ignoring the issue of homelessness. Re: crime, Denver is not immune from the fentanyl crisis. Your "trust me" editorializing sticks with the standard right wing-chatter.
DENER WAS JUST FINE, UNTIL SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE CRAP....AFTER THAT, NO MORE DECENCY FOR THE CITY, THEN THE HOMELESS....IT S SO SAD...YOU HAVE TO BE "WELL OFF" AND BE ABLE TO LIVE IN THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS.......ONLY WAY.❤
I wish the people that make these videos would understand Fed policy is what has caused inflation to skyrocket. A decade of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) combined with the printing of trillions in stimulus are the causes for rampant inflation.
Californians have destroyed the entire nation!!!!!! They moved to Colorado in waves raising the price of housing 3 to 5 times higher than ever they paid cash for the homes elevating the tax burden on the residents who already owned their homes . These same California immigrants then turned around and tore down affordable single family homes and replaced them with Mc/mansions, again raising the tax burden on established residents, and gentrifying entire communities!!!
Capitol hill or Crackitol Hill has always been sketchy as all hell! I got mugged up there right across the street from the Capitol building! Cops were half a block away! Too many crack heads there is the problem.
Most of what you said is onpoint except the make-up of the migrants. The vast majority are Venezuelans versus in previous years it was mostly people from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc......
stop sending the buses to denver, SEND THE BUSSES TO MAYOR MIKE JOHNSTON'S HOME ADDRESS, kamala harris home address, joe biden home address, send them to these politicans HOME ADDRESSES.
The doors on Colfax at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception are not covered in gold-- they are bronze. Denver has beautiful lighting. Denver has too many Democrats.
What are the reasons for this explosion of homeless? It was not like this 30 years ago. Did the bums get lazy and start pooping? Its funny you yourself says it's not that bad.
The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was opened in 1912, not 1921. Dude your weird wrong facts plus your rant on how legal weed is bad because illegal weed is laced with fentanyl, which it is not, makes me just completely want to stop watching this bullshit.
5th generation, you drove by a ton of our work including the capitol. 60 and 70s were the sweet spot but our grandparents in that era were mostly church goers. Now, the poor are dopers the well off are drunks. We’ve always worked in Denver but lived outside of it. What we need is stricter laws, we didn’t jack around in the 80 because the cops would beat your ass therefore people minded their manners. Ultimately, the liberals have destroyed grandpa’s town. The trick is 1876 style, pack a piece,lol. It will probably only get worse. Good time to be old.
… And to be fair I would rather spend a week in the mountains during the summer than a week in the woods in northern Michigan, mostly because I have spent essentially my entire life in the Midwest.
@@ChrisHardenDowntown Detroit is way nicer than Denver right now. You also don’t have to sit in traffic for over an hour to drive there from the suburbs.
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5:22 - 20:25 Breakdown of Denver's homeless, crime and migrant problems
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Take your cameras now to those same sites now. June 2024. You'll find that most of them are gone.But keep posting this stuff.If it makes people think twice about moving here...mission accomplished!!
Hi Chris, I've lived in Denver my whole life and everything you mentioned is true. The cost of living is out of control. Everything is going up except the paycheck. A lot of the tents are gone but there's still more than I"d like to see. Thank you for doing such a great job putting this together.😀😃😄👍👍👍
My name is also Chris and I also live in Denver, so you really freaked me out for a sec
I live in a suburb of Denver. I once worked in downtown Denver, so glad am not any more!!😂 Good show! New sub!
They were moved but just as long as YOU don't have to see it right? Out of site out of mind. That ought to solve the problem huh? Smfh
True the cost of living here is insane!
I've lived here all my life and it's not bad at all 😂🤡
The biggest crooks / criminals in Denver, do business in the State Capital.
The REAL biggest crooks behind the scenes do their business in the building shown at 4:40
Thank you governor
For everything you have done for Denver. Raise the taxes raise the crime rate raise the homeless rate. And deteriorate Denver worse than it has ever been. It's nice to have people wash your windshield at every stoplight and off-ramp. It was nice to take away business and put in bicycle Lanes. Lived here over 50 years, paid off my house but now I can't afford the property taxes. Many older people are losing their houses. You've done a bang-up job!
Used to live there. 2000-2015. Had to leave. Cost of living was insane and it was no longer safe
I visited Denver back in 2021 and I wasn't a huge fan of the city. Luckily, my friend who lives outside of the city picked me up and we got to spend the day just driving around through the mountains so I didn't really deal with the city much other than when I had to go back to the hotel. I did have a lovely encounter with a vile acting homeless woman on Amtrak but she got escorted off the train in handcuffs at the next stop out of Denver for talking vile to everyone on the train including a conductor who wasn't putting up with it. Then she had the audacity to justify her behavior by claiming she was a "transient" and had a rough day.
I’m a fan of the area, would’ve been more of a fan of the city proper probably 10 years ago. That’s quite a story though ha
Build back better," You will own nothing and be happy" !
Good vlog Chris enjoyed been in Denver for.25 yrs and yes things have changed and not for the better. Rich get richer poor get poorer and crimes go up. Vicious circle of life here in Denver. Im from Aurora and just yesterday having dinner with the wife and gun shots out of nowhere...
It's all good deep in the South Havana 'hood.
I lived here all my 59 yrs and it has been getting bad for the past few years due to the fentanyl... So sad to see my City go down 😢.
Really nice comprehensive video along with great drone shots Chris!👍
I am a Denver native, born in 1957..As a teen my family would go to our dentist in down
town ..Civic center park is right there along with the state capitol..There is an art museum
there as well....That was then and this is now and I have not been anywhere near the
area since..It is a damn shame that things have become so bad....It has been years since
I was anywhere near down town and I don't see myself going there any time soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have driven in Capitol Hill because of my Lyft job at night. Yes, it is extremely sketchy and dangerous. Rino, 5 Points, & Downtown get pretty bad as well.
lakewood and aurora are pretty bad too.
@@jonathanielpringlemaniii They’re not Denver, but the city’s sketchy suburbs. Let’s not forget Federal Heights, Glendale, Commerce City, southern Thornton, Wheat Ridge, and eastern Arvada.
I lived in 5 Points in the 70's. The store on the corner used to get robbed about 1x per week.
@@jonathanielpringlemaniiibro Lakewood is not dangerous they just broke😭
@jag92949 Wheatridge!!! What is scary about Wheatridge? You're nuts! Maybe you should get another job. A real job. Or better yet...just move. It's a free country.
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I used to live in some crappy neighborhoods in Brooklyn, including East New York, but I never felt as creeped out walking around as when I lived in Denver, even in the day time!
Good, tell all your friends how creepy Denver is. Haha
Bro New York is safe asf whatchu talking ab😭🤣
Glad you're back where you belong. Denver is weird and we like it that way.
If everybody who feels that way according to these responses. would just do what you did...problems solved.
But don't ever Imply that Denver is scarier than NYC. That's laughable.
@@tomneff7030 bro you’re not even allowed to have guns in nyc💀 Denver is way worse than New York saying New York is dangerous is laughable😭😭
No cancellation from me, Chris. I totally agree with you. I left my lifetime home in San Diego because it was turning into a third world shithole.
That’s unfortunate because San Diego is a beautiful city. Best weather in the country and great scenery too. San Diego is by far and away my favorite place in Cali.
We left San Diego 23 years ago ! Don't miss it at all !
Like 10-15 years back, I was hearing Denver was one of the best cities in the country.
It still is.
The most desirable cities in the country to live are Denver and Austin Texas. But along with that popularity comes the usual problems associated with growth.
It's happening in Austin too. But there is noplace I'd rather live...warts and all. And I've lived in 5 US cities.
Live In Denver.. the park by the capitol was absolutely overrun during Covid. Literally the entire park was crammed with tents. I have witnessed a shooting there, right on Colfax and Broadway.. and it’s also the only area in which I’ve ever been threatened after 12 years in the city. Pretty sure I have some clips of it during its peak and a maybe one of it being cleared out while I was driving to work one morning. I’ll also still see the occasional encampment pop up within a block or two of my place, approx 1 mile south of the capitol.
I run a high end pipe shop and I’ll get people coming in looking for meth pipes on a daily basis. I’m also frequently offered drugs on my two block walk to work.
Yeah, people smoke meth and you run a pipe shop.
@@GodbreadGilfredBiago true but I'll only stock stuff that is unambiguously for cannabis. I mean I'm not surprised that I get these people.. They're definitely more surprised when I tell them "no, I don't have any oil burners.. or roses.. ect" Maybe 20% spend a half hour scouring the cases convinced that they're gonna find one hiding somewhere in there. They're not. I deal in higher end collectible work and don't need these folks frequenting the place.
I always look forward to your videos. I really liked this video!😊❤
I went to downtown Denver to visit a bank. I smelled human feces for blocks. It was disgusting
That's a gross exaggeration. The solution to your problem is to leave.
Go downtown in any major city and you will experience that. I lived in Austin and there were homeless people shitting everywhere in 2018-2021 when I was there. Don't go downtown, that's how downtowns are.
The fact you have to explain yourself so much on how you are not attacking any particular group of people, but actually just simply stating facts, is just mind blowing. The American population is cooked
I wish we had done as good of a job here in Detroit in preserving old mansions as they seem to have done in Denver.
I miss the Denver Boulder metro area of 2000. It was such a cool time to be in such a cool place! But alas, everything must end I suppose 😢
I moved here 30 yrs ago and Ive been downtown Denver probably 6 times…. Although some parts of Aurora is pretty bad too
So their complaints were homeless people, crime, and lack of affordable housing...so they decided to move to Los Angeles? Make that make sense please.
The homeless camps are now at Speer and Zuni next to the old motel.
They won't be there long.
I have grown up in Denver since I was a year old. My dad was born and raised here and met my mom in college at Arizona State, so they moved here after they had me. Up until around 15 years ago, I would never say one bad thing about living in Denver. I loved everything about it especially the people and how friendly most were. Not saying there were not your common assholes, but not many. I remember running out of gas one night and the gas station being closed and all you were able to use was a credit card which I didn't have I just had cash. I had some man come along and put $25 in my tank. I tried to give him the $10 I had and he said no this is Colorado we help each other out, You don't get that anymore. Either most of the natives left when everyone started moving out here from every which way that also brought their shitty attitudes and crime, but even more because the cost of living especially the property prices nearly tripled in the housing markets and rent over the course of 15 years. This along with our wages not increasing enough, if even much at all to even this out. This is the biggest reason the homeless pop. has become out of control and the cut to literally almost nothing of the Budget for shelters and low income housing. Look up emergency housing options in Denver and Aurora and you will see the lack of this, with over 8 different shelters in these areas closing there doors due to lack of funding despite the 110,000,000 given to Denver since 2022 for homeless and 100,000,000 being unaccounted for when they did a audit earlier this year. So yeah there is that. Some homeless did move because of the pot along with all the jerk offs that think they are better then everyone else but unfortunately more then half were created due to good old American greed. Really a sad thing if you ask me. Funny fact Denver is run by Democrats? The party that supposedly fights for the little man. Crazy.!!
Thats the cleanest Ive seen downtown in awhile. They swept a few encampments last week from what i heard.
Yeah this was a year and a half ago. Last time I was there was this past September and it was bad
Denver has gotten a lot worse since mid 2022. Cap Hill and Downtown look disgusting right now.
I live in St Louis and work downtown and yeah the poop in the streets is an issue as well.
I lived in Capitol Hill in the early nineties. My car was broken into weekly. Everyone always remembers the past as so much better than it was. If anything it’s that only people who earn a lot can afford to live there so now it’s the homeless and the college educated. When I lived there an asst manager at a restaurant could afford the area
It isn't just Denver it is litterally everywhere, you can't even escape in the Mountain towns
I love your "Ghetto" music!!
I was out at the Capital building and in the park three venders handing out cell phones. All the homeless lined up and hanging around by library.
I make about $150k a year and locked in my home and rate back in 2020. If I were to buy my house now, it would be another $2k a month added to my mortgage!
It’s a lot better now. I left for a year and have been back for about a month. Don’t let these people make you second guess your assertions, I’ve seen a lot of shooting downtown. I’m right off Broadway in the heart of DT and the past three years were hectic.
The capital did not attract rich people It's much more likely that it created rich people.
I lived in 5 different spots of Capitol here. The first being Colfax and Sherman street right by Civic Center park. Fun times 😂
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I've lived in Denver my entire life as well and it's been disgusting for about 20 years now! Wow since the Democrats took back control of the Governorship! What do ya know!
I have never noticed a large number of homeless Mexican immigrants because they work and share houses.
Mexicans are the coolest dudes out there man. They just giggle and drink beer and smoke shitty weed when they aren't working. I never got why they got so much hate. These guys would also down a 12 pack after work and show up the next day for work fine and pull a 12 hour day and not mention shit.
FACTS
Hickenlooper started the decline of Denver.
You mean to tell me one man can be the reason for the decline of an entire city, while caring people sat idle and did nothing?
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@@elizabethfrownfelter2531wow. I’m a black man so I won’t EVER vote red.
That’s how Colfax and Broadway corner look ALL the time. They sprawl out together, get high in the open. It’s consistent. They come move them out and by the next day they are there. Now it’s also turned into a migrant hang out. They might be of the get high persuasion. Aurora is super bad with the mothers and children, some new norms begging on every corner while their husband sits in a car nearby. For me it’s the Addicts and Migrants that’s made this place crazy. I’m originally from Detroit. East side. This doesn’t compare. There we are just poor. Working and getting by with jobs mostly in the suburbs.❤
I lived in Boulder/Denver for almost 20 years from 99-2016. Sad to see Denver going to complete shit. I lived at 18th and washington, not too far from where this video was filmed.
If you travel to New York City, would you split up by five separate series for each borough.
Yup probably!
Wanna blame homeless blame greedy slumlords for raising rent and lacking in maintenance.
Definitely strange in the crime cause the neighborhoods look good for the most part.
Right?
@@ChrisHarden Thanks for these Denver videos BTW. I don't understand why this migrant situation is so difficult. Whether people agree with Texas or not, these cities are complaining when they are just getting a tiny fraction of what Texas deals with every day. Whatever policies or laws that are in place right now for undocumented migrants is obviously not working and Texas is just bringing attention and highlighting the failures of them. That message is not being received and it's proving costly and negatively affecting residents. See Chicago and what the people there think. They are not happy at all.
The buildings look decently kept, but you’re also looking at tents, garbage, and feces covering the ground as well.
Lives here 16 years and it’s just bad it’s not how it used to it’s Denverzuela it’s so much migrants
Capital hill was not a good neighborhood even back in the day
30:05, another person moving outta Denver. Grew up in Leadville and lived in Littleton for 20 years. The Denver metro area was a nicer place to live until all the out-siders started moving here. That's when the quality of life in Colorado started going downhill. This brings tears to my eyes...
I grew up in Leadville too. I currently live in Denver and it has changed dramatically.
ive watched denver change drastically from 2016-present. i used to feel so safe in this city, now i always carry a blade with me. the homeless situation is out of control now, crackheads everywhere, migrants swarm your cars now tryin to clean your windows, and get annoyed if you ask them not to, denver is now #2 in auto theft in the country. i25 traffic has gotten ridiculous, always 5 car pile ups cause everyone drives like a lunatic now. ive worked in south denver (sante fe & lipan) for the last 2 years.. just in the last 2 years it has changed drastically. im constantly kicking crackheads out of our dumpsters behind place of business, broad day last summer we had a dude walking down the street with a butcher knife stabbing peoples cars, our business got broken into 3 times .. the last time the cops never even bothered to show up despite alarms going off for hours. just last week i was walking down broadway / euclid at 1pm on a saturday and i just see people smoking meth openly on the sidewalk. mom & pop stores continue to close because they can't afford to stay afloat cause of what property rent is here/ inflation/ never ending spending of money for dumb things besides helping the poor/ middle class. i used to never have to wait to get into bars/ restaurants , now its a shock if you don't have to wait. there is never a place to park anymore, unless you want to spend $20. its infuriating watching denvers pos mayor mike johnston spend 40M on migrants just in the last year, and now want an additional 120-180M for the "migrant crisis" all while he cuts dmv jobs to make them ONLINE and parks and recs job while asking for other city programs to cut their budget by 15% !! he states that more working cuts is on the way. its insane to watch mike johnston fire law abiding citizens to "help people that walked 3,000 miles to get there" then he claims that no one is being laidoff their hours are just being reduced from 35/week to 0... sure seems like a layoff to me!!! . my rent goes up every year, but now mike johnston gives free room board and food to illegals. converts hotels into shelters, but i can barely afford my rent. its sad watching this amazing place go to sh!t since the first time i was out here in 2014. i have to pay $200/ year for my car registration, but now the dmv is online... everywhere you go, you see half the cars without license plates, or their registration is years out of date, traffic is absurd and so are the express lane fees. tell me why i gotta pay for a toll road, when the mayor wants to give 200M to migrants. its quite annoying to constantly see the law abiding citizen get screwed, but lawlessness thrives. these politcians are absolute crooks. all i want to do is buy a house out here and its physically impossible now a days. i pay $400/ month for health insurance, and have to wait 5 months to get an MRI,, but migrants get attended to right away. i was diagnosed with epilepsy last year when i had a seizure while driving, despite seeing doctors for 3 years prior presenting literally the top 5 symptoms of seizures and i was brushed off all because i wasn't vaccinated. they told me to take more vitamin D. another friend of mine started having seizures recently and its been almost 3 weeks, he hasn't even been able to see a doctor in person yet. but we will treat all migrants...thanks johnston & polis. you sure are looking out for your citizens that love this state and pay your salary. bunch of typical liberal @$$holes. and to clarify, i am not republican. i vote for common sense, cheaper taxes, and power to the people, whoever that may be.
Nomadzoom, that's a spot-on summary of the disgusting engineered collapse of Denver and society in general. Local Denver area news stations and the Denver Post no longer even bother to keep us informed with crime trends, they just briefly report high profile crimes and 'police misconduct' as law enforcement continues to coddle criminals who are now increasingly emboldened. Very sad to see as a Colorado native but then it's happening in all major US cities while farmers and rural areas are economically deconstructed. I hope more people wake up before it's too late.
Keep your head high man thank you for your insights sir.
Bidens America!
Dude. Lived in Denver last 5 years.. I live 5min walk from that "dangerous" intersection. This is excessive AF. Like dude said, I urge you to see Oakland or anywhere else below the poverty line in one.of the most expensive zip codes in the country. Makes Denver seem like Disneyland. I've never felt unsafe in any part of Denver. Homeless people don't want to hurt people . Most part, they want to be off the radar. Housing cost? Yes. Fentanyl? Yes. Migrant workers? Naw.. it's the same.everywhere. Denver isn't near getting it the worst. Even close.
Denver native here.. why are you calling them migrant workers or migrants?
They're illegal immigrants..
Lenders and appraisers used to be highly unregulated in Denver, which led to inflated housing costs.. Westword did an article on this about 15 years ago..
God bless us all.
My friend sold both of his houses in Denver and moved north a few years ago.
Update, a homeless person punched my car today while he was standing in the street. I was driving a Lyft passenger in Cap Hill.
Dang
@@ChrisHarden Mean Streetz, literally.
Be happy
Every community has their own Rec
Centers.
We have to give 6 months of free rent in 5 stars hotels, free telephone and services, free tablets, free food, free a lot! Latinos that we came here in the past we broke our backs and nobody gave us a coin! And the worse part is that these guys are from the Train of Aragua!
I saw the writing on the wall in 2021, left Denver and moved to a red state where homelessness is illegal. I’m very lucky.
which state? Don't worry I'm hella conservative. lol. I moved to Montana, loved it, but the WEATHER. It was so grey so I came back to Denver/Boulder and I don't like it
Good riddance
Its easy to form a narrative when the subject you are speaking on cant really articulate an argument to your points using your syntax. Luckily, i can. Been houseless for well over a decade around the denver metro. Most would think the people you like to blame are not services friendly, but the reality is the services are not people friendly. I would like to see how your perspective would change by comprehending a CAFR from any of these municipalities. The corruption and misappropriation of funds are the greater story. For instance, i was approved for a brain injury waiver after years of evaluation and chasing these programs and services down. I was never notified and had to uncover the local government fraud for accepting funds for these sort of programs but not having the systems set up to administer them. If folks took care of the young, elderly and sick instead of using them for a scapegoat to rake in more funds, maybe community will be revived. Not everyone wants a handout. Sometimes folks just need a hand up instead of getting further exploited for the optics or your feelings. A lot of suffering you are choosing to overlook because it isnt pretty enough for you or doesnt fit your political paradigm. You are no better than the politicians playing games woth peoples' lives while you are likely just another agent of the problem reaction solution
Born and raised in denver metro area and I don't go outside other than to run errands and do my business. People will run over you and drive away. People will steal your dog. Carry a rock in the Rocky mountains. It might come in handy
Well that turned out well for you all? Didnt it! NOT
In this video danger is just so exaggerated.
Been there since 1960. He's definitely exaggerated the violence. They've cleaned up an awful lot of the homeless encampments...He's trying to project sensationalism in order to get clicks. We know better.
Denver is most famous for the best breakfast ever:
The Denver Omelette which ironically is a French word meaning folded eggs, It is really delicious. 3 🥚🥚🥚 eggs, bell pepper, onions and ham.
Cheese (le fromage) is OPTIONAL but I say go for it Chris
(It's every city in America)........ i just go blank when i hear it. No its not
This is a joke. Head to Oakland and see how dangerous you think Denver is 😂
100 bus loads of imagination dreamers will help
Looks fine to me. Don't live in the big city if you're gonna get all butt hurt about bums.
Denver homeless camps grew like crazy after weed was legalized there.
East n West Colfax is the blame here sir. It's where the ruckus stems from. Since along time ago.
If you removed the bums from denver, would it still be dangerous?
My old stomping grounds 😅😢
Most dangerous neighborhood in Denver is still safer than Houston.
Poor people, drug addicted and mentally ill have to live somewhere in America. So, they migrate to bigger cities that often have soup kitchens etc. There is no big city in America ignoring the issue of homelessness. Re: crime, Denver is not immune from the fentanyl crisis. Your "trust me" editorializing sticks with the standard right wing-chatter.
DENER WAS JUST FINE, UNTIL SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE CRAP....AFTER THAT, NO MORE DECENCY FOR THE CITY, THEN THE HOMELESS....IT S SO SAD...YOU HAVE TO BE "WELL OFF" AND BE ABLE TO LIVE IN THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS.......ONLY WAY.❤
I wish the people that make these videos would understand Fed policy is what has caused inflation to skyrocket. A decade of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) combined with the printing of trillions in stimulus are the causes for rampant inflation.
I live in Colorado. The homeless people are out of control being violent BECAUSE of Denver’s far left politicians.
It's all being none on purpose by the NWO,paying off politicians on both sides.Spend ,spend, spend ,and open borders.
The people that have the high paying jobs aren't making anything but more beauacuracy .
Californians have destroyed the entire nation!!!!!! They moved to Colorado in waves raising the price of housing 3 to 5 times higher than ever they paid cash for the homes elevating the tax burden on the residents who already owned their homes . These same California immigrants then turned around and tore down affordable single family homes and replaced them with Mc/mansions, again raising the tax burden on established residents, and gentrifying entire communities!!!
@jag92949 Yes That is a fact. And I'm old enough to remember when the Left didn't run the city. The slow movement to the left began in the late 90s.
I'm not sure how true all of this is, I moved here 6 months ago and haven't seen any shit happen yet
You can lie/pretend all you want homes. Anyone who's spent any time in Denver at all knows that these are major issues.
Stay TF away from Denver. It's scary and it snows like crazy.
Car jacking capital of the US
Capitol hill or Crackitol Hill has always been sketchy as all hell! I got mugged up there right across the street from the Capitol building! Cops were half a block away! Too many crack heads there is the problem.
So, people are heading to Indiana from Chicago?
What's going to support that--in the future?
Where are the economics?
, the 2024 version , of : Send us Your huddled, masses , with their gangster roots !😢
Most of what you said is onpoint except the make-up of the migrants. The vast majority are Venezuelans versus in previous years it was mostly people from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc......
stop sending the buses to denver, SEND THE BUSSES TO MAYOR MIKE JOHNSTON'S HOME ADDRESS, kamala harris home address, joe biden home address, send them to these politicans HOME ADDRESSES.
It's disgusting for sure!
Colorado for Trump and Vance 🇺🇸
A vote for sanity
Funny I lived in Denver its nowhere is bad as LA, Phonenix or other cities in the west. The cost of living is another story entirely.
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Start at the State Capitol ?
Can’t wait to move here and vote red
The doors on Colfax at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception are not covered in gold-- they are bronze.
Denver has beautiful lighting.
Denver has too many Democrats.
What are the reasons for this explosion of homeless? It was not like this 30 years ago. Did the bums get lazy and start pooping? Its funny you yourself says it's not that bad.
The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was opened in 1912, not 1921. Dude your weird wrong facts plus your rant on how legal weed is bad because illegal weed is laced with fentanyl, which it is not, makes me just completely want to stop watching this bullshit.
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49,000 illegal immigrants in Denver 6 months ago.
5th generation, you drove by a ton of our work including the capitol. 60 and 70s were the sweet spot but our grandparents in that era were mostly church goers. Now, the poor are dopers the well off are drunks. We’ve always worked in Denver but lived outside of it. What we need is stricter laws, we didn’t jack around in the 80 because the cops would beat your ass therefore people minded their manners. Ultimately, the liberals have destroyed grandpa’s town. The trick is 1876 style, pack a piece,lol. It will probably only get worse. Good time to be old.
Detroit is broke and has no resources for the homeless (lightbulb: moth)
Maybe not but I would spend a night or a weekend in Downtown Detroit over Downtown Denver all day everyday.
… And to be fair I would rather spend a week in the mountains during the summer than a week in the woods in northern Michigan, mostly because I have spent essentially my entire life in the Midwest.
@@ChrisHardenDowntown Detroit is way nicer than Denver right now. You also don’t have to sit in traffic for over an hour to drive there from the suburbs.
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SOCIALISM WORKS
go to Cuba then lol
Confiscates from those who work
Biden n Harris made this happen... Donald Trump 2024