Homeless Shelters Made This Man Sick! He's 72 Living in a Tent
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2023
- Thomas is making the best out of living on the streets in San Diego, but at 72 years old, he shouldn't be homeless. We learned after this interview that Thomas is a veteran, which validates even more Thomas should not be spending his senior years homeless. No one, young or old, should be homeless.
Thomas says you could not pay him to stay in a homeless shelter. He says shelters made him sick, and his health didn't get better until he went back outside in a tent.
Thomas wants to go into an apartment, but he shares that the housing being offered to the elderly is rundown and not suitable to live in or they take most of his Social Security money, leaving him nothing to live on.
Sadly, Thomas is just one of many seniors that cannot afford housing. The issue of elderly homelessness in America is a growing and disconcerting crisis that underscores systemic shortcomings in both healthcare and social support networks. Often falling through the cracks of an already burdened system, elderly individuals face unique challenges such as declining physical health, increased medical needs, and social isolation. Traditional support systems like pensions or family structures are increasingly insufficient while skyrocketing healthcare costs and a lack of affordable housing contribute to the complexity of the problem. The vulnerability of this demographic is further exacerbated by their susceptibility to physical and emotional abuse and even exploitation. This crisis is not only a tragic reflection of societal values but also a critical issue that demands immediate, comprehensive, and compassionate solutions. The current situation is a clear call to action for policy changes that address the root causes of homelessness, particularly among the elderly, who are one of the most vulnerable populations in society.
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Nobody deserves to be homeless, especially at his age. This is so sad🥺. I wish him well
@@mendyviola Yeah, how dare Republicans expect people to work and contribute instead of sitting on a cardboard box all day soiling themselves and getting drunk/high! Everything should just be free and everyone should be happy!
Plenty of people deserve to be homeless, namely the homeless since they refuse to work or contribute to society.
@@mendyviola
This crisis is not because of any political party.
This crisis is directly due to the result of systemic corruption and corporate greed.
Pakistan is a 3rd world country but homelessness among older pppl is non existent as compared to West.All cuz of close knitted family structure.West needs to learn family values from East
@@superjokerxxx I thoroughly agree with you. There is also less mental illness and higher birth rates because of this. Even among families only a few generations removed outside of places like that and east Asia, close knit families are more common. That is one thing the West is super behind in.
With 1200 a month, this poor guy can live easily in another country without being homeless!
Someone needs to fly him and Rachel out to Thailand
Yeah, when I lived in taiwan, it was seventeen hundred a month.
I could take care of three people for that.
I did that, actually
This is how the U.S. treats it's elders.
The future's so bright you gotta wear shade's
Insane
This is heart breaking 💔. No one deserves this life especially a senior citizen. People you can do better. This could be anyone of us. Thank you Marc for giving these people voices.
Plenty of people deserve this life, particularly the people who refuse to get a job and who use drugs all the time. This man is not holding down some 9-5 office job. He hasn't had a job in years and likely uses.
There are just too many regulations, rules, and paperworks screwing regular people.
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no one should suffer
All it would take is 1 in every 1000 people to think this same way and it would stop
This is so sad that this is best they can do for our seniors
Homeless is growing fast. Yet government will not do anything about it
@@8ofwands300lol government housing yeah I bet it’s just sooooo amazing.
@@8ofwands300 Always easiest to blame the individual then to critically question the system we live under and its part in all this.
@@8ofwands300 Tell that to the thousands of illegal immigrants that Biden allows to come into this country. Smh
@@8ofwands300This man however tried it the way you suggested and he said he got sicker and lost more of his money. As someone who is 38 years old and with a chronic kidney disease, and yet who is still working and homeless at the same time - trying to pay off the huge medical debts for my failing kidneys, while trying to also get healthy stable housing, you have no idea what you are talking about.
You mean other than spend tens of billions of dollars on it? Yeah, sure....
This is proof that there’s something wrong around the world when we allow fellow human beings to live on the streets with all the wealth in this country people are still struggling and suffering to survive.
Well maybe he should get some of that wealth by WORKING. You can hardly complain about being poor when you refuse to get a job.
72 year old homeless…….those streets and the harsh elements will kill them!
This man shouldn't be homeless. Bless him
GOD AND MAN PLEASE HELP THIS GUY!!! THIS IS A SHAME, HE DESERVES WAY BETTER!!
YOU help him. Let him move in with you.
I was in a shelter where I was asked to give them a third of my wages and tax return. Needless to say, I left the program before my first pay check.
This man is a living legend...wow...making the best out of nothing😵🧡 blessed spirit🙏🙏
God bless this man. We all know he’ll be able to get through this.
god is fiction
My guy has a smile on face for most of the video. Bless his soul.
God bless Thomas and every homeless man and woman!
Homelessness should not be here in America.
Hopefully, we all can be there for change by voting for the best person who speaks about these issues and means it.
Thank you, Marc, for giving each human being their voice to be heard. ❤
Don't forget child molested are homeless too .
72 years old. He has aged beyond his years.How much longer will he be mentally sound?
Yes, because there's just no substitute for affordable housing,and it needs to be created all over the country, because we have a permanent housing shortage in America,and have had this growing problem since 1980. Shelters are money makers for the operators. I hope this man has a caseworker who can connect him with affordable housing for seniors ! Someone should steer him in that direction. I'm not surprised to see that he's been offered terrible solutions to being on the street. High rents are the main reason so many times are homeless now. It's a stereotype to claim that only addicts, alcoholic people or mentally ill people are homeless, because this is primarily economic in nature. We have millions more people now, than in 1980. But the same amount of housing stock , because apartments stopped getting built by that year. Please remind people to go to City Council meetings, and demand that housing is built, or created, for low income people.
@@JulieSevelson-nb9nj The problem with homeless people isn't that they can't afford rent or don't have a home. That is merely a symptom. The REAL problem is they have substance abuse problems and are lazy. That is the bottom line. If these people were truly capable, productive people, they would have found somewhere they could afford to live by now. Any homelessness would be purely, very temporary. They wouldn't be sitting on their asses day after day on a cardboard box whining how they can't have afford to live anywhere. Even when we put these people up in some place, much like the people living in the projects or the migrants being put up in hotels, they just destroy the places. It's a completely waste of time and money to try to solve this problem by giving these people homes, because they will just destroy everything they touch.
@@JulieSevelson-nb9nj
That's really it, the housing supply. And these good for nothing politicians of ours do nothing about it. They could get emergency housing up for EVERYONE in weeks or months.
Things will get better even though its bad now bless you dear man❤
How?
He should be out of the streets. No one should be homelessness.
Got any suggestions besides what he’s already been trying to do? Hmm?
He should move to the Midwest like Ohio or Indiana. In my town in Indiana there are apartments that are 400 a month, the same as his storage unit.
Yeah born and raised in St Louis MO and after living in Florida the past 3 years I’m going back to STL I can’t afford this place I miss the Midwest and can’t wait to go back. Florida is stupid.
When you are old and disabled, you can't move across the country! Especially if your broke!
My I ask what town in Indiana?
@D7791A look at the governor
@@lovesallanimals9948 what Florida or Missouri?
I think someone up there is watching over him. Nice guy!
So that’s basically what these holier than Thou’s who claim to obey Christ but who don’t actually do what Christ said and help the poor. Truly Christ is right when he said “Not all who say “Lord Lord” will get to enter heaven”.
Most people who are christians they do help the homeless.
They don't eat money in different ways.Not only to the church but to other charities.
Christians can only do so much.
If our government is corrupt which it is on a local and federal level.
Unless politicians are held accountable and they're supposed to do really what the people want nothing can get done.
Billions are given to homelessness and we have yet to solve the problem
That should tell somebody that the money's not being used properly.
Even if you're paying staff that run the homeless shelters you can't possibly be using all about money.
God Bless you Thomas!
Thank goodness this gentleman has a relatively positive attitude in spite of all the hardship he must deal with. Very inspiring, and I pray he ends up indoors in a decent place.
It makes no difference if he was positive or not. I prefer a person who is real.
Why don't you put him up at your place then? You call him inspiring and you sound like you have a heart.
@@kommisar.Why do you always make that same silly comment to people? Why would you suggest they put him up in their place when they never said that to anyone else, including you? They said the GOVERNMENT should provide shelter. Your favorite little comment is a irrational non sequitur. Is that the best you can come up with?
@@linsqopiring6816 Because you are the ones saying these people have hearts of gold and would work and be self-reliant and productive if they could but unfortunately can't. If they are such good people, then why don't you and the rest of the homeless advocates take them off the street one at a time by letting them stay at your house, at least temporarily? I'm sure if you let them stay at your place, they wouldn't trash it, eat all your food, destroy your bathroom, use drugs, smell the place up, assault/creep out your children, etc., right?
And as far as the government goes, currently the government spends billions on these people, and all that has happened is that their numbers have grown. Why should we keep pumping money into the problem through the government when it's clearly not working? Better yet, why is it OK for you to say these are good, honest, moral people who need help, but YOU shouldn't help them, the government should? You're just trying to shift all the costs to the taxpayers while trying to look like a good, kind-hearted person. How are you any better than me if you do just as little to help these people as I do? You and I have taken in exactly the same number of homeless people: 0. You and I have gotten exactly the same number of people off the street: 0. How are you any better than me?
I'll never forget back in 2007 when i volunteered at a mens shelter one night when i witnessed a man get Unalived by another man for touching his blanket. It was the very last time i ever did that. So horryifing.
Just heartbreaking and I just lost a brother that was homeless for many many years. He was shot while walking in Baton Rouge late night in July and he died..I don't think we will ever know who killed him. 😢
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Why didn’t you take him in?
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 mows not the time for guilt sweetie
Why homelessness now days is the New American Dream?🇺🇸
They just lazy but dreaming becoming rich n go party without any effort
Vote way too many encumbants and Republicans in..also no term limits caused this along with southern baand catholics. 😮
Could it be because democrats are killing the government and wasting money like it's going out of style?
A society that cant care for their elders is a piss poor one. Sad state of affairs. Id pay an extra coupla bucks in taxes to at least help the elderly get housed.
The real kicker, they’d never get a dime
@@schan9547 very true. 🤝
@@schan9547exactly.
I hope this man becomes 100% recovered and healthy and finds a beautiful home very very soon ❤️ What a wonderful man ❤️ He deserves only the best ❤️
He’s not an alcoholic or drug addict. Did you even listen to him?
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 They never do 🙄. Probably a shill.
What a wonderful man! His personality is priceless!. I just want to give him a hug
He's paying child support at 72 years old?
Who says you can’t have children in old age? Even God shows that can happen in the Bible and even if you do a little research, you’d be surprised how many older people can have kids. Knowledge and education are sometimes helpful.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984
It's weird because this guy has tons of issues. Why would any woman sleep with him??
If you don’t pay court-ordered child support, your social security check can be garnished, even if your kids are long grown up.
Unbelievable how society treats the elderly.
With so many homeless people complaining about shelters, maybe we need to improve existing shelters instead of trying to make a solution from scratch. I stayed in a homeless shelter in Chicago once, and it's very, very hard to get to sleep with strangers walking and standing over your body the entire night. Half of these guys were from gangs. I did not sleep a *wink.*
Sounds like neither did they
They should have security in these shelters
I think your suggestion is spot on. Make shelters a place that people WANT to go to. God bless the ones that really do the very best they can at their shelters.
Right? Security and beds. Even bunk beds would be nicer than nothing. You cannot sleep on the ground. I’d rather sleep in my car, and that’s what I do. It’s illegal, but no one has bothered me yet.
@@lovesallanimals9948
" They should have security in these shelters "
It's such an obvious thing that it makes me shake my head that it actually needs to be said because these idiots designing the places don't do that. Almost every interview of a homeless shelter user ALWAYS says they don't feel safe. That's what's keeping many away from the shelter and the life changing help to get off the streets.
The man could double as an American Saint Nick!
Seriously, the black mould in a shelter is terrible. The U.S. policies are rubbish. Completely against its own people. Woeful.
I hope this man can find some decent accomodation.
Black mold is horrible for your lungs and health no wonder he feels better out in the sunshine .
@@ramblingrose6967 💯 agree.
@@ramblingrose6967 Exactly! Smh
Both this man and his brother are homeless how sad.💔
If I had the room in my house, I would invite him to live with us! How many people are living in massive homes with plenty of rooms that could take on an older gentleman like this, who is minding his own business and living on the streets?
how much did you pay for your house? This guy lived when houses were $50,000
Why not make the room?
So why don't you find another homeless person to live with you? Might want to ignore that recent news story where the homeless man murdered the person who was housing him....
lol no you wouldn’t
Thanks!
Thank you for the support.
Why do homeless people always seem to be the kindest ones?😢I wish society Would help people more no one deserves this
I've heard so many of the homeless talk about how shelters are just horrible. Truly sad.
Disgusting they pit people against each other while abusing both parties
Wrong it's only one side of that equation that pits people and divides. You know that same one that cares only for the rich and corporations...
He's fallen through the cracks financially. This is reality vs. theory.
Ugh. Everything is a catch 22 when your homeless. If you stay with family or friends, you're considered "housed" and ineligible for any help. I spent all of my time applying for section 8 and/or a housing voucher. I was just about to move to Utah, just because they had openings. I live in CT! I did finally come up on a waiting list and got my "affordable" apartment. It took 4.5 years. 😡
You were lucky! I've been waiting over twenty years in California! I'm over 85 years old, but finally got an old motor home. The older you get, you get scammers by the dozen, " helping you out out",! Especially in the medical field!
“At 72 your porta potty is a bucket” “I got an Auto zone bucket with arm rails” 😂😂😂
What a sweetheart! Hes absolutely right on how the system works and its far from fair. Hes better off with no income than even $50 that they will still say your $10 over or somwthing stupid just to make it difficult. One year free rent then you'll be back on the streets, this country is an embarrassment. 😢
God loves these like His Son. Love you know we hear and care.
And how are you actually obeying Christ? Read what he says about actually helping the poor.
Poor guy. I hope he gets the help he needs
He is the sweetest ❤❤
I have been to homeless shelters on reconnaissance.
I have personally witnessed entire rooms filled with sick people with COVID and a significant portion of them were packing firearms.
(Because the security detail is lax/non-existent.)
may GOD bless him, AMEN !
god - illusion
@@FlockOfHawks GOD--- real
@@darrellfort1668 bs
Sometimes staying at a homeless shelter isn't the best option... sometimes living in a tent is the best option.
What a sweet man 🌸
God be with you.❤
This MUST BE FIXED...WE CAN DO BETTER...SO CAN THEY!
$400 for storage is robbery.
Interviewer: If you had three wishes, what would they be?
Thomas: Three. Well, right off the top. We best wish for a million dollars.
Interviewer: Okay.
Thomas: And that'll probably handle the other two.
Priceless, words of wisdom. He deserves a milliond dollars for best reply ever.❤
Old ones go ,New ones come, when were it end ??????
This man knows exactly what he's talking about. That man is 72yrs old.But lots of money for the war
It’s nice to hear some people are getting a year of free rent in a nice apartment.
Sweet man
God bless this man!
No wonder people don’t want to pay child support! But it’s important to make sure that the child is taken care of. Those hotels/apartments should be ashamed of themselves.
Storage. $400.
and living on the street
Storage is really expensive .He probably has his previous apt things in there while he waited for an apartment that is 30 percent of his income then he can stop paying for his storage . I have a cubby and it's 100$ a month .
The churches need to HELP MORE
This man seems like a nice man.Where are his children
In Arkansas these apartment complexes are raising the renta up
Higher than society security in some places
Apartments have been dumping ALL the tenants too
Raise the rents
Itd ridiculous
Their raising a one bedroom higher than people checks if you add the electric bill
Its ridiculous
God bless you.
what a sweet man. Making the best of his situation.
I wonder if he stays in the storage?
I would.
not allowed - tried it myself
Our storage unit doesn’t allow us either. We would get arrested if we tried it. Others have tried it and gotten arrested.
Thomas is wonderful
Its pity to see at this age to be homeless....
We treat are pets better. We need affordable housing for are elderly. It needs to be done
That $1250, is what he received a month how dumb is that housing program.
😢IT CALLED GREED
A right gentleman !! Bless his soul and shame on America'.
He could live in a eastern european country with his social security no problem. 1200 a month is more than the wages there. You could live in a nice apartment and have healthcare and lots of money to spare.
Okay, Why is no one doing this ??
Where will they take a senior American making 1200 a month and give them health insurance and a place to live ???
@@ramblingrose6967 : Since he's on Social Security, he's already entitled to Medicare, the US's socialised health care.
@@myoldvhstapes Medicare you pay into when you work and depending on your income you pay alot when you retire and you can't take it with you when you go to Europe they don't accept it or Medicare doesn't pay in Europe I have looked into it but it really doesn't work you have to get specialized insurance and that's expensive . Plus Visa requirements for extended stays I doubt this man's income would be acceptable . I just wish they wouldn't go after the tents . Try to find an area that's vacantant allow the tents a few comfort stations and access to a water source . It would be cheaper and then people could live until housing becomes available where the weather permits this !.( The focus has to be on housing as a # 1priority )
@@ramblingrose6967 There is no need for health insurance in many european countries. You are a citizen, you get healthcare.
housing is a human right he should be comfortable retiring
I am homeless in n.j. & am trying to get my ID valid / renewed so I can get a job & get back on my feet , so this one places I called is named The Rescue Mission & they would only help me only if I stay there in which I remember people telling me about bedbugs , stealing when your sleeping assaults fights & I am 50 too old for any of that crap just want to eat every day have a job & do everything myself so I 10 % agree with this guy
It's so ridiculous ,we can spend billions on war , but not on the homeless in this country!
Don't think people should plop a tent down on the sidewalk and decide they life there now, should be mobile and move everyday, everything should fit in a backpack, agree with "No Daytime Camping" bans many cities are imposing. People can live homeless with a few basic things: A mailing address, An ID, a bank account, a storage place for seasonal clothes & food supplies, a gym membership for workouts & showers, some type of nightly shelter. A storage facility can be one of those 65 gallon lockable trash cans located at a church. Doesn't take much to function while homeless.
You all not saving for old age, take heed. You will not be able to work for your entire life. Even if bad luck doesn’t hit your life, you still need to take care of the old you.
Most people will not listen to your wisdom.
The masses want that dopamine hit right now with the new laptop or designer purse.
Then many years from now when they are too old to work and have no money and social security doesn’t exist they will blame either a politician or a billionaire.
Dumb people can’t be saved. That’s why I don’t even try any longer.
You Are Still Getting $1,250 = They Just cannot Tax That $50 due to its a court Ordered NON taxable Income , But THAT Would Disqualify = EVERYONE on ss , ssdi and other programs
I worry for him when his body starts to give up.....🤔
I would be curious how he ended up in this situation to begin with.
You probably won't understand the reàl reasons!!?
Find out who is responsible for blocking this man from get housing because he lacked an extra 50 dollars a month and do everything you can to have them removed from their job
How does that help him, in the meantime?
You must assume he evaded child support as his child(ren) were growing up and now his social security is being garnished. Now no kids are there to help in his time of need.
God help those peoplePlease
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Can we get a update on sergei from "Today is Sergei's 18th birthday. Also his first day homeless!"
There are updates on Sergei in the comment section of that video. :)
He’s right.
I know people who work two jobs and are still homeless people forget also the working homeless exist too some people can't afford rent even when they work these days and they make to much to get assistance
We have to fix this in America
This is why I suppport aggressive building of affordable housing instead of more shelters, incarceration, and stupid gimmicks like "the tiny home movement."
A very common story of homelessness is someone becomes elderly or disabled and receives an SSI or social security check. Yet that check is too small to afford anything in the city. This man may be able to afford a $500 a month SRO unit, if it were legal to build.
Affordable housing is not low income housing for those on fixed incomes.
Or he could move to the Midwest where studios are $500 or less.
Note that social security is meant to supplement your retirement. It is not meant to be your only means of living. You probably know, but an important point for all readers. This is the perfect example of this fact. Technically, I’ve always heard it should make up no more than 40% of your retirement income.
What's a SRO unit?
@@robertchilders8698 Single room occupancy unit. It is typically a room to sleep in, with shared bathrooms and kitchens.
Y'all think this was the net result of VOTING?!
LOL
$1200 per month for the rents?! oh my god it sound like it was getting lot of worse thing happened. I'm very sad for those people and I'm feeling heartbroken for them.
Thats nothing in California
Whaaat?? This is insane!
Housing is a human right. This is so sad. There are some good people around who care about the homeless. I’m lucky to be housed by the Australian government. The homeless situation is getting bad here in Australia too. It’s just not acceptable.
Could you update the situation of Saige Summers. How is she doing ?
Out of the $1200 , he has remaining of his money per month after child support of $50, he has $400 to pay on a storage unit. Maybe he needs to downsize or sell off things in that storage unit to get some money in that way. After paying $400 storage unit payment, he only has $800 left. There has to be some kind of senior housing he can be helped with. There is lots and lots of senior housing being built everywhere in San Diego. It is project based housing where he would only pay 30% of his income for rent for that. No senior should be homeless. Someone dropped the ball on this man.
The biggest problem with all that project based housing is that the waiting lists to get into them are often years long. That was addressed in another one of their videos.
New apartment 1.00000 45 hours a week
That black mold is a killer! I was sick with it for 2 years and almost died and the Drs couldn’t figure it out and I found black mold all throughout the house we were renting, moved out, and slowly got better. Very very dangerous! The Drs said it was all in my head because they couldn’t figure it out. Drs haven’t been trained and schooled about that stuff..
Most pple wouldn’t know that black mould & mould is toxic to humans,a lot of buildings would be mould filled & because it can’t be seen, pple wouldn’t realise they r sick because of it.
Plus Drs & nurses r brainwashed with the education they study,healthcare is owned by the government.Can’t make money off healthy pple.
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No disrespect to this man, but our government will pay Viagra costs for a man in his 70's before they will house him. I wish him the best. ♥
Yet you won’t obey what Christ said to actually help those in his situation.
Im a volunteer social worker and advocate for the homeless in Los Angeles. I help them every day of the week@@EmilyGloeggler7984