Residents of Venice Beach Demand LA Move Homeless Off the Streets | NBCLA
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2021
- The number of homeless living on the streets of Venice has apparently skyrocketed during the pandemic, reports of crimes have also gone up. The I-Team’s Joel Grover reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 8, 2021.
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Imagine if they found out what the local politicians did with all the homeless funds
If they can house the millions of illegals , on bases ACROSS AMERICA , LEAVE THE HOMELESS ALONE , GIVE THEM A HAND UP !
@@davidcrawford5711 what are you doing for them David
⭕🔙👈👈👈☠️☠️☠️
Okaaaaaaaaay!!!!
@Tony Rodriguez the neighborhood signed a petition to clean echo park before the petition was enacted.
Don’t worry all these people will vote for the city council guy again, he knows this which is why he doesn’t even bother responding.
Dear S R: This has nothing to do with that councilman or even the LA government. The simple fact is that America is Broke. The real reason for Trump downplaying C19 is that America was too broke to handle it properly. And Biden is just printing more Fake Money just to look better than Trump. Did you know that America is SO Broke that the NPS was actually charging tourists money just to take photos and videos inside of National Parks ? Go to the Institute of Justice channel and see how the cops across the nation are ripping money off people with the civil asset forfeiture law just to keep their police dept running. America is BROKE and independent economists are saying that the American Economy is on the verge of a Total Collapse. Letting all that manufacturing go overseas starting with Clinton has eroded the tax base badly in MANY American cities and what you see in this video is an example of that. The only reason that councilman isn't returning calls is that he can't tell them that it's all because LA is really no better off than those homeless people in Venice. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@JosephKulik2016 this implies that the problem is that the government CAN'T help, when the problem is actually that they WON'T help.
How much has Venice's cost of living skyrocketed since Google moved in?
@@JosephKulik2016 Your stupidity is truly breathtaking. Your inability to grasp simple concepts of governance and economic issues is astounding. You should lie down and rest, I’m sure you’re exhausted after posting what you thought was a coherent statement.
@@johnnysupreme5718 You think no one want to stand up to be the Hero and solve Homeless problem? Think how good your resume would be if you can solve homeless problems. It is just not an easy problem to solve.
1:41 So let me get this straight: He tried to break into her home with threats of violence but they don't want to show his face? Meanwhile her face is unscrambled. WTF?!! 😡
They got her permission they didn’t get his
Let me guess you support laziness? You mixed political ideology with homeless crisis? Then you are probably part of the problem.
@@keenynthewise LOL
@@kurbicksan4917 And you are a troll
@@MegaLivingIt you are a lazy person
This brings a whole new meaning to owning a house near the beach
Lol underrated
Beach front property lol
Underrated comment
@@frankfurtur5531 so true what you said you really dont own a house until its payed off which can be a long long time very expensive
Democrats has done nothing for Black people, they actually used Black people to the point where they rot in hell.
My girlfriend was like Let’s Go To Venice Beach and get some sun yesterday. I’m like HELL NOOOOO.
Dump her lol
Go to Malibu or OC lol
Take her and dump her there.
@@fckyourfeelings69 💀💀
Throw the whole gf away
I'm actually kind of shocked they let this thing get so out of control considering the multi-million dollar houses a few feet away. And the property owners being as wealthy as they having influence on local leaders with their money.
You exaggerate the "power" of these "millionaires". Countless other groups like progressive asses that apply pressure on politicians. And buying a million dollar home via mortgage doesn't mean you have millions in the bank. And certainly it doesn't mean you can or should have to pay for other people's problems like their addiction issues which drives this.
Who's going to pay for their housing and treatment?
And many of them do by want to live in shelters and want to be outdoors. They are the problem.
@@henrykim921 homeless people aren't inherently drug addicts. The fact is there are plenty of homeless drug addicts but that's not the whole picture here. Nearly every town is seeing this humanitarian crisis unfold. The pandemic has increased homelessness in every major US city. Not to mention there drug addicts who don't become homeless- Do they get your scathing words as well? It's clear that you have a bias toward the unhoused population. I'm not sure why you're so against them. I'd be interested in understanding why you hate them so much that you want to convince others of their burden. In my experience working with this population I'd have to say that the unfortunate thing is all of the misunderstanding about how and why people are on the streets. Not everyone is the angry, abusive, drunk person that you say they are. It would help to learn how many children are victims to homelessness and DON'T have addict care takers. Don't they deserve a better life? To be clear, homeless drug addicts deserve a better life, too.
They just step over them on the way into their apartment haha. Gross
@@teri03 not a man, have been homeless, have used "public resources" in hard times, i have family who have experienced, and some who currently experience, homelessness. I work in a related feild in the public sector, also a history of volunteer and professional work with this community. It has to start basic. Many people blame one group more than others, i.e. the government, private corporations, etc., but why blame the victims? Surely we can see beyond this? We constantly villainize the unhoused population but why not focus our discussions on what basic human rights look like? We ask who"deserves" resources. The US gives billions away to public AND private institutions who kill us, we can't even begin to discuss why we believe our own neighbors don't "deserve" basic human needs: shelter, food, or medical attention. It's bigger than a snide comment from someone online about "getting them out of our neighborhood".
@Joung Kim We can waste time blaming homelessness on one group, but it just isn't that simple. This isn't a new issue, this is a result of a system that already lacked the support out needed from SOCIETY, not just democrats or republicans. You can't really think this is all new... That your suggested "source" of the problem is really why millions of Americans are on the streets. What about the millions who were homeless BEFORE this? It isn't as simple as blaming one group, it's much more complex
That's got to be uncomfortable drinking tea with the homeless staring right at you
Yep...
How u doin Frankie baby ?
I visit the beach around 15yr ago and now that I have children wanted to show them to show how beautiful it was however all the homeless made my kids not impressed and not coming back. So sad it is like this now
Welcome to LA
You've been in the USA for over 15 years?
Exactly I used to go down there every weekend and the 80s and part of the 90s and play basketball now I just go down there and get cheap sunglasses and go home
@@bremCZ you've been inbred since birth?
I love local media for this purpose. This is what journalism should be about, the REAL problems that need attention. Also vote out the criminal politicans who are there to line their own pockets....
I couldn't agree with you more!
Exactly!!
Meanwhile they accuse homeless people of living large worst news station
Recall Gavin Newsom and George Gascon.
@@DC-dk1bo ,,,,,I WAS ACTING LIKE Y'ALL RICH DUMB A$$E$,,,,,,,FYI. 😀
I’d find out where these councilmen live, then give some money to a few homeless people and help them move their tents to right outside of the councilmen’s homes.
then they will resign, new councilmen will be elected, then these councilmen will realize the california legal system is so slow and highly regulated that whatever plan they try to make will take 2-3 years to pass so they end up giving up and wait for the next sucker to handle the problem only for them to realize they're in the same mess as the previous person
That would have the opposite effect and end up making enforcement more likely on those who don’t want it. 99% of these people are transients and choose to live outside so they can use drugs and brush off mental health treatment. All attempts at enforcement get the city sued by the ACLU and other human rights organizations. It has been attempted countless times before and is the very reason things are as bad as they are and why skid row even exists. This needs to be addressed on a federal level. Housing these people is a temporary fix, they need to be well enough to hold down jobs to pay for housing. Their homelessness doesn’t need to be addressed, it’s the reason they are homeless that does. It’s the only way we’re gonna get anywhere.
@@candisham1978 99% of Vancouver, BC MAYBE. Los Angeles it's less than 25%. And the rest includes FAMILIES. inotherwords, you don't have a clue what you're talking about, so quit posting your stupidity. Homelessness is different in every city in North America. Speak to Venice, Calif. and be informed.
hey send them to Garcetti's house too.
@GoogleCensorsTheTruth 34 I have seen the homeless issues got a lot worse over the years everywhere where I can see. I don’t fault people down on their luck or when they try, do the right things and they have just plain bad luck, it can happen. But when a lot of homeless people come from a less expensive region or cities to a more or super expensive area because they can stand by the stop lights or corner asking for money for food and food is given by good samaritans they deny it or throw it away later is just plain wrong.
If a lot of them want to help themselves there are programs that provide assistance,provide food, temporary housing,etc.
But they have to want to help themselves, stay of drugs, booze etc.
I am Nicaraguan, the second poorest country in this hemisphere and I know about poverty and I seen it.
Something you don’t see over there is that people don’t want to stay away from whatever work you can get, dont do drugs or get drunk wasted where you can’t function.
I’m not saying people don’t drink but only saying they don’t/like to get hammer. But they are poor and happy.
So in short if you don’t really help yourself and let other help you get back on your feet then there is no one to blame but yourself.
I do feel bad for the ones who truly went down on their luck/ circumstances and truly want to get out of homelessness specially if it’s a family or children involved.
If you don’t believe me about really poor ness in Nicaragua “Google” or better yet visit the country for yourself, you’ll come back to the States appreciating a lot more of what you have.
Materials things is not happiness, that starts within You!
I used to be homeless in venice, they used to not allow tents down there. The homeless community must be getting out of hand 😬
Thank God though, we got good Socialists in power!
Obviously
Democrats in charge
Exactly the new governor is not going to do anything about it but make broken promises
@@gregj831 This country is a capitalist, not a socialist like many in Europe.
I was in Chico last weekend and they literally fenced off the entire downtown plaza (brand new multi million dollar park) so the homeless don't camp in it. So now nobody gets to use the public infrastructure they paid for with their taxes.
What do they care our money is monopoly money to them !!!
It's happening everywhere
You don't want to be walking after sundown around Venice Beach, it's out of control
What have you seen?
@@hazyb91 u don't wanna know
@@gerard7417 say it
Sunsets on Venice Beach once a beautiful sight to behold, now something to fear.
Just a bunch of drunkies and junkies
CAlifornia Governor: *”ok I’ll raise taxes like an idiot again”*
Agree
I hope the new refresh for GTA V will have more homeless NPCs spawned around Vespucci Beach.
If they are lazy to update the skyscraper at Down Town, what makes u think they'll make the beach dirty?
@@jairoherrera4040 lol I guess it isn't necessary since LS is its own fictional city.
If you beat up a homeless person in GTA, do you still get a wanted star?
They need to clean up not just Echo Park, Venice beach but all over So Cal they are all over and aswel in the the office thats where we need to start clean house from newscum down to all these scumbags that allowed this to happen.
They've all been cleaned up before.Need to bring back mental hospitals, help the ones that are help able & put the ones that don't fit into those categories in jail.
I might move out there. Why not? Beach front property.
Plenty of Skante for you to smoke!
Enjoy contracting the 19th century plague.
Good Luck with that Mate
@@spinninsessions9626 oh he's definitely going to mate there for sure!
Bruh! For FREE
“I have to be honest, I think about moving neighborhoods...” she said it like she was supposed to be ashamed.. lady, I can only imagine the taxes you’re paying... get the f outta there 😭😭
Amen son
Almost everywhere in LA is getting bad. It’s the cities fault for not helping the homeless out.
@@Kickballkixcereal naw they rather fund riots and BLM
She is ashamed.... because she's the well-meaning but misguided voter that allows for this to happen in the first place.
Imagine the amount of privilege one must have in today's America to be able to fathom packing up shop and moving neighborhoods. Sounds nice.
I had a homeless man attempt to break in my house. I called the police but they took a minute and he was acting crazy at my front door. So I put a cup of water in the microwave, poured the boiling contents into a pot and I let him have it. Splash and pots to the dome.
Ok what happened next I'm intrigued! Did he scream and run away
When I read the thumbnail I thought "what's that little city in Italy's beef with L.A? Did they steal their boats?" 😂😂
"Councilman Bonnin is not Available for this Interview"
Well then California, get you someone who IS available, responsible, and doesn't hide from the Camera like a little pansy.
Right
Yeah blame California. That seems just about right.
@Andrew Priester I'm just saying because I've met nice people in california. They're not all douche bags like most people say it is. I honestly never understood why people hated californians. And that's mostly what you hear when it comes to people over there.
@Andrew Priester Yea, screw Texas and Texans. There always talking mad sh## about the great state of California heck not even the homeless like Texas. And if it wasn't for barbed wire not even the cows would stay in Texas .lol
This is LA city, not the state
It's such a shame that Venice Beach Councilman can't even sit down and have an interview.
@venswim politicians always love to live up on the hills above the slums. Look at all the African American politicians who represent South LA, they live in the nice enclave of Baldwin Hills overlooking the slums they represent.
It's a shame? Who elected him?
"All I know to do is scream".......
My wife knows in that situation to grab her Glock 42 out of her purse.
How different our lives are between California and Kentucky.
Someone trying to break into your home and "all i'd know how to do is scream" *Laughs in Glock 17*
Venice Beach didn't always use to be like this. In the 90s, I don't recall seeing any tents. The beach looked like a beach. Times have changed drastically.
Yep, I was on Venice Beach many times from 90 to 94 and it didn't look like that at all. Nice family atmosphere.
@ChrisTopher Strong LOL! It was a family atmosphere in the 90's. I was a pre-teen,, and I remember going out on Venice Beach with my family many times.
@ChrisTopher Strong No your family wasn't there it's southern California but not like that!!!!
@@jonmacdonald5345 some of the largest Klan enclaves operate out of SoCal
@@seismic6435 orange county maybe!
I was homeless and its hard to find a shelter but on my experience 90 % i called them crackheads ,always causing trouble,stealing anything they can find ,fighting with everyone and walking around high as a cloud ,the other 5 % is veterans and people with mental illness and the other 5% is people like me that end up homeless because of social circumstances
I would say at least 50% from my experience are from circumstances who fall in and out of homelessness. (Then 50% who are struggling w addiction and mental illness) Yet those are the invisible ones who blend in, keep clean with showers, live in cars, shelters, a hidden stoop. The homeless crisis is way bigger than the obvious tents, encampments. And an economic crisis like Covid makes it all 10x worse. That clean cut guy with a small backpack at Starbucks is just as likely to be homeless.
@Lord Sith Lego Why not move?
@studio bauhaus
Probably be better if they moved him to Fresno or Modesto be a great view of nothing how bad he will slow them down a little bit
@studio bauhaus I don't think migrants turn "natural born Americans" into crack heads.
dont do drugs son.
Buy a tent and live rent-free, with no property tax!
“All i know to fo is scream” thats what guns are for lady!
Or at least bear spray!
Y’all in Venice voted for this. You get what you get.
Oh 🙀🙌 truth be told
Lmao thats every city, every state
Fake news!
@@princegroove lmao what's fake?
@@kevingarcia5923 L.A. didn’t vote to allow the homeless to set up camp anywhere they choose. It’s a wide spread problem that needs to be addressed already.
This is on purpose. Its meant to facilitate large wealth transfer. I live in CA. Why the people around me continue to vote for the same people who do this is painful to think about.
Yup, the politicians in LA are deep in the pockets of property developers, they’re the ones who they take orders from. Google “garcetti property developer scandal” also google “Jose Huizar scandal”
Because shitlibs are the most ignorant people on this planet. No better than right wing loonies they just like the color blue more and talk about how 'progressive' they are at their 60$ brunch.
The Councilman doesn’t have to answer to you all because he got a big “D” behind his name and that’s enough for people to keep voting for him
Absolutely
That is %100 the answer to how democratic led city leaders think, they got bodies for days to vote for them so why do actual work for the tax payer
These elections have to be rigged as well.No one is this stupid.
Moving out of state in 3 months. Everybody says you can beat the weather I tell them " I'm not a bum I have a pool and ac". Best place to live if your a bum.
“the unhoused”? Jesus we are nerfing this world.
I cringed when I heard that.
I was in high school in 2010 and I remember one day I said homeless/bum and my teacher reprimanded me saying that it was offensive to call them homeless/bum because blah blah blah oppression blah blah blah. I still call them homeless/bum and anyone tries to correct me can fk off. They are HOMELESS not unhouse. homeless. They're bums period.
Street person
Unemployed unhoused American
These are refugee camps. America doesn’t like to admit it. But they are! First world country? I think not!
That’s one way to keep overinflated real estate values in check. 😂
That's the REAL problem, right? The fact that the unhoused aren't paying for it, it's making the rich folks angry. "I paid good money for this view!" 🤑
@@starcheese Yep. The homeless have standards too. 😂
@@princegroove if I ever end up homeless, you’re dang right I’m about to buy a bus ticket to the beach!
The crazy thing is it hasn't. A rundown cracker box bungalow will still run you well over a million bucks in Venice.
@@ericday3538 yep 😌 if the "unhoused" aren't ever moved, I would imagine it would affect property values long term though
Look at all that compassion
Who could imagine a place where the cost of living is outrageous and you can’t pay for residence normally? Then add a pandemic and massive job loss then wonder why people are living in the streets🤦♂️
This went to hell long before the pandemic.
Its 1 of the most expensive places to live in the U.S.Cali is for uber rich people, homeless people flock to this area because of liberal policies.Because they can,& they are coddled.
@@richardmorris7063 coddled how so? If these people lost their homes and are living in the streets, maybe you would think the government has housing for them that is affordable. Getting them jobs with affordable housing just seems like the right thing to do.
@@ghostlinks its not the government place to find these people jobs.I say coddled because if they were camping on the beach in my town they'd get a boot up their a..
@@richardmorris7063 well this is exactly the uninformed nonsense I expect from the dipshits that live in this country. Thanks for proving my conscious correct.
Imagine eating brunch with a fresh breeze of garbage. Holy crap Venice is gone.
Beautiful homeless beach front property.
I'm just wondering how much the property taxes would be for a tent on the beach??!!
Exactly , public beach"s , are the property of all people HOMELESS LIFE'S MATTER !!
Really....take some home with you.
Thats what i was thinking!
ocean views still ocean views
Imagine a politician ignoring their constituents and still calling this country "democratic". The capacity for communities to recall unresponsive, irresponsible, or corrupt bureaucrats should be sacrosanct but here we are.
Venice has only been thought of as ‘Idealic’ over the past 10 years when all the tech companies opened offices to be close to advertising agencies. Santa monica & Venice have been a strange safe haven for the homeless since the 60s.
You're like what 30, yet you know how the streets were back in the 60s? I mean you look a little like Michael J Fox so I guess it's possible you know.
For the taxes that are paid, government should perform.
Right, these councilman makes $100K a year only meet like 8 times a year.
voters need to perform.
@@mrtee3477 Try $300k/yr.
@Red Panda how did they get the job? Voters. put in candidates that promise change and make sure they perform or vote them out. This isn't hard.
But it doesn't because america is just as corrupt if not more corrupt than some third world countries.
I was down in skid row the other day, I felt like I was in “the walking dead”
This is America. Ignore problems until it’s in our face again...
@@charminagray990 Trump wasn’t ignoring it, he wanted to stop drug smugglers, which would help with our homeless problem since 95% are drug addicts. Less drugs on the streets= less druggies. But everyone wanted to call him racist for trying to build a wall. Now the smugglers have a free pass to come in since Joe doesn’t care.
@@user-in8xx1xu5b what does that has to do with COVID-19? Is drug smuggler creating homelessness from Lockdowns ??
@@charminagray990 what are you even saying loll
@@charminagray990 pos commie 🤡what you dont like trump
The REAL blame for all of this homelessness is the GREEDY landlords - rent QUADRUPLED in Los Angeles in just 20 years, while income DROPPED (until recently, it's increased by small amounts).
That is all over socal. I moved away in 2012 and only go back once a year to visit family and friends.
not imperial county.... tf?
Where did you go I hear Californians are going to Texas
@@Sebastianx007 Virginia
What did you move to
I've been following the homeless crisis in CA for the last several years-it's like watching a train wreck in motion and the train just keeps getting longer and longer. I keep hoping a report will come out showing things will get better/are getting better. I hate seeing so much human suffering :(
It will actually get worse when the eviction memorandum is lifted.
it's not a crisis, it's an industry. they could end it in six months if they really wanted to. your heart probably wouldn't bleed so much if you were victim to one of these lawless animals leeching off society's misplaced good nature and mislayed paths of good intentions. what's comical is these are the same 'leaders' who can't fix a homeless issue, yet they want to control your healthcare as if we were some pissant european sheep state. all that's been proven is that with endless funds, they can't accomplish any goal put to them. indeed, no amount of money exists that would lead a democrat politician to success, they just find more expensive ways to fail.
If you’re just reading the news you aren’t following it.
@Matthew James Don’t worry, Matthew, we’re just sending you the trash.
spent two weeks in dec . of 2019 down at santa monica beach which surprisingly has a similar issue .i used to get a kick out of watching the locals there in the mornings while out walking they would pass some of these homeless people and theyd have looks of disgust on their faces.i just remember thinking to myself that its these people who supported the politicians who allow such things to get out of hand
HOW EMBARRASSING THE CITY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING QUICK 🤦♂️ SMH
Can we have the FBI or IRS investigate CA Officials and Politicians for misuse of funds that are meant to fix this homeless problem?
FBI ???????????? Are you f'in serious ?????
Imagine paying so much money to live near a scrapyard
The cities Mayor needs to be required to go undercover as a homeless person just like the Mayor from some town in Utah did to figure out the solution.
They actually had the governor of CA walking through skid row a few weeks ago. So they know how bad it is. But why isn't more being done? I think there is definitely a movement of locals getting tired of it. And you'll see more action taken soon.
You get what you vote for
@@mikem7767 because we've spent half a century getting to this point, and getting out is probably going to take at least 25 years, IF we avoid issues that make it worse. And that's North America, not just the USA.
"Why would someone live like that?" Seriously dude??
Wow, beach front property for free! I must be doing something wrong.
"All I know to do is scream"
We got a couple bubble blowin babies, and don't think we dunno how to weed em out
AND OPEN THE BORDERS! HOW STUPID!
The term "housing the homeless" is an oxymoron.
Housing home owners is an oxymoron
Lol dumbest comment 🥇
Many people are homeless by choice. Decades ago I commuted through L.A. near city hall, the transients there were relatively sedate and talkative.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k oh my god you are literally talking about 0.01% of the homeless. Get out of here.
I noticed they use "unhoused" is that what I heard? is that the PC way of saying homeless?
It's just a shame and really sad things have come to this point.
It's shocking the problem had to get this bad before people started making noise. I was in San Francisco in 2015 and was appalled then at the homelessness plague in the city which I know has only gotten way worse since that time.
OH, it's WAY WORSE than you think. People HAVE been working on the problem. Some artist crowdsourced $100,000 to build a shelter for the homeless in the area, a bunch of tiny homes, and the city seized and destroyed them.
Well I'll guess I'll see for myself this Sunday I'm going up there for a Scenic Drive
German In Venice was waaaaay ahead of this topic.
Years ahead for sure.
yup
Taxed without representation. You voted for this.
LA peeps, “find housing for the homeless “. Also LA peeps, “but don’t raise our taxes”.
This is not fair to business owners.
It's all about enabling bad behavior. Until you stop doing that, the problem will only get worse.
Yupp, the most optimal thing to do isn't always the most comfortable just like eith this whole covid thing. The elderly in government put themselves before the youth of this entire nation.
Yep, giving them money and crackpots doesn't seem to be paying off
They should move all homeless people to Beverly hills better place to live 😂
larger streets also lol
BH would send SWAT the instant a tent is pitched😂
There are no homeless in Beverly Hills... Ummm, I wonder why???
Mar-a-Lago is open
Or Garcettis house
All that money we send to other 3rd world lands. Our leaders should be held accountable.
With the cost of real estate so high in Venice combined with this, why would anyone want to live there?
Thank you NBC for adding the statistic that shows how violence TOWARDS unhoused folks has increased 83%.
Please. The homeless addicts are the violent ones. If you love them so much, bring them to your neighborhood.
@@henrykim921, you seem a little defensive. I'm simply writing a fact that is often overlooked in these stories. I'm not happy to let you know that my LA area neighborhood is no exception, I'd say it's pretty much the same except that the unhoused live in the local parks, not the beach. Nonetheless, this issue is complex, your crap response only shows me where you stand with trying to seek solutions. I'm guessing you'd rather they go "somewhere else", but you don't care where. Don't get crappy with ME for repeating a fact that was in the segment. Get mad at our political leaders who do little to curb this humanitarian crisis. Or even just donate some food to a local organization. I'm not the one you are going to sway with some canned response about "invite them over to your town"... Buddy, the issue is global. It's bigger than Venice Beach. 💩
You're part of the problem!! Enabler! Addicts don't get clean easy. Tough love. But you wouldn't understand!! It's like a white person talking about being black.
they should lock their door.
oops.
Have some compassion. These people have nowhere to go...
Wait... that really is a load of whooey, isn't it?
I stopped going to Venice years ago dirty homeless everywhere , graffiti polluted beach literally trashed. Aggressive panhandlers ... I always felt bad for tourist and local businesses
Same.. no interest in going to Venice.. I'll just stay in Malibu
Aggressive panhandlers? I like those the best because I straight tell then to gtfo and they get even more mad 😂 I tell them no money and go to work. Also been seeing lots of gypsies begging for cash
Don't forget the fresh smell of urine 😌👍
I drove by it to check it out, and turn around and left before even trying to get a parking spot since the tents cover all available street parking. Cheapest I could get for a dodgy alleyway parking was 15 dollars.
I was there around 2017 and it was already a problem during pre-pandemic time. I’ve walked around there inhaling various smells: armpit smell, body odor, weeds, and urine.
This is ridiculous! I’m from New York & it looks nothing like this. Why is no one helping these people? 🤯
I dont see how the city can now turn this around knowing how bad the situation is. Its has gotten to the point of no return.
The homeless can stay with the migrants at the convention centers. There's plenty of money and resources for them there, even in person learning.
"Migrants"??? You mean illegals.
@@saintpreferred9223 Or just People?
That is a great idea. Better still, return anyone in the detention centers who is not here legally and repurpose the centers to house the displaced transients.
This is a microcosm of every city in California.
Why not a tiny house community with social resources & a jobs program located out in the desert to get these people a chance to rebuild their lives.
I terribly feel sorry for the homeless but at the same time I don’t feel safe at all knowing a community is living literally across me
yeah, but there's a time and a place for having a bleeding heart. the problem is that doesn't solve anything. there literally is no viable plan for the billions that's been wasted, and billions more that will somehow disappear in boondoggles, 'studies,' and just plain 'we don't know where the money went' situations. it's time to get tough with these people, many of whom are criminals, nutjobs, addicts, and just drifters. society deals with these people well enough when spread out, but as a concentrated 'community' that's when you have to crack down and actually enforce the laws politicians take oaths to make sure gets enforced.
your 'leaders' aren't doing their jobs. at all. if they did, the bleeding hearts wouldn't vote them back in, and then they'd lose access to their funds which 'somehow' is never enough and doesn't do much of anything to begin with.
Move a few into your place.
You don’t feel safe because they want to find a place to sleep and relax ?
Let's be real, if all they were doing is sleeping then the complaints wouldn't be this bad. They're not all drug addicts but just like with how a few bad cops give all cops a bad name, so do the homeless who do drugs, defecate on our streets, or fornicate in plain view. That simply make the whole neighborhood more dangerous to live in, not just for residents and homeowners but other homeless too.
The homeless live just as they want to. No reason to feel sorry for them.
Venice has ALWAYS been like this. Didn't you look around when you paid ALL that money for your homes?? You thought it was going to change all of a sudden because you moved there?? That was dumb thinking.
It has gotten way worse
Y'all need to get him outta office cause he doesn't care about the American people. Let's start voting for people who care.
What a dump! Even as a tourist when I visited Venice beach many years ago I still thought it looked unsafe, dirty and undesirable
The word beach bum literally took a different meaning... Venice used to be a tourist spot, and now this? I'm scared to take my son there.
Decades ago Venice had druggies, creepers, and transients. What seems to have happened is that cities have enacted legislation to protect them from being removed.
Even several years ago to even decades, Venice was a grossly overrated ugly dump anyway. Just simply went from bad to worse.
Yeah definitely don't take your son there lol
Wow do you hear yourself talk? God loves your humanity! You won’t help homeless nor want to see them, I hope one day you won’t have to walk in their shoes
You should still go visit, it's a great place to give kids life advice and have ice-cream at the same time
Mayor of Los Angeles should follow the direction of San Diego's mayor.
Send veterans to the VA
Send elderly to Social Security office
Send non-residents on a bus back to their state/country, etc.
My mom lives in an upscale neighborhood in SoCal and I saw a few homeless (about 15) throughout her community. I will attend city counsel meetings if the situation gets any worse.
My sister, a California detective, moved from her home of 16 years in Long Beach, one block from the ocean, because she woke up one morning to about a hundred homeless who were dumped in her neighborhood, overnight.
Tax payers should not have to move to give way for drug addicted homeless.
This nonsense has to end.
Todd Gloria?
Where do you move to get away from problems in our society?
And after all this time nobody holds the policymakers responsible for their absurd policies
Two years ago a singer by the name of "Lynette" was brutally murdered to death by her homeless black boyfriend right on the Venice boardwalk! An hour later, it was cleaned up and forgotten. Typical day on Murder Row Walk. I own a recording studio & years earlier, I invited Lynette who was a friend of mine, to be recorded singing on tape with a drum machine. I looked thru my archives and found it! I'm too scared to listen to it. My tears just stopped! Such a wasted city Los Angeles has become! These are dangerous times.
Instead of building random big huge luxury apartment buildings the city and state need to get together and clean this up because it’s ridiculously out of hand I live Koreatown Los Angeles and I’ve never seen it this bad with the homeless population it’s flooded with unfortunate souls
LA does not build luxury apartment buildings, private investors do. Want to solve this problem, notify people that LA isn't one of THE places to have your dreams come through.
Try offering them work, and you’ll see just how lazy and useless they are.
Then move and stop complaining cause you know that will never change. I’m from LA now I live in Florida where it’s nicer
@Jon Dickles ronnie rayguns is the one responsible for opening the asylums and letting all the nuts out onto the streets. ronnie was a republican
@@gregh7457 Then, why haven't Democrats done anything to fix the issue?? All they've done, is let it evolve.
Ventura County needs this attention too. It has gotten bad, you walk around and find used needles lying around where kids walk to school. They try to break in in broad daylight. It is so sad. Mental health and shelter is needed.
They'll probably push them here
You voted for the politicians that allow drug use, no prosecutions, and illegals into the country by the thousands every day. YOU voted for these people.
@@saintpreferred9223 well said
They do need a mental health asylum like back in the day. Some of these people are dangerous to them selves and the community
meanwhile, Biden wants open borders. I hope everyone who voted for him, I know the number is very small, sees this
Everybody: mad about the homelessness and politicians
Me: why is her skirt so long?
I've been to Venice Beach about 20n years ago and there were no homeless people there. Weirdest place I have ever been in the world.
Sad went to gold's for the first time pre covid and it was insane. Never going back.
It was not insane. Also, I have the best RUclips channel.
@@jordanjohnson9866 Compared to now maybe it wasn't insane. Just crazy how such a nice area has been ruined.
Sad to say alot don't want help.
Sad to say, they only want fentanyl. It is what they dream of all day long.
I moved back to NYC from the beach..only to realize it's just as bad here. I had forgotten about nyc.
I was in Cali last month for the first time, went to Santa Monica and that was enuff for me 😅
Imagine paying $5-$10 million more than the homeless person for the same zip code.
Why imagine? Are you that stupid? We just watched the same video that you did!
We have so many prison buildings that were shut down years ago. That would be a better place to keep them off of the streets. Give them medical treatment if needed and give them hope.
Lol imprisoning homeless people will give them hope??? Wtf are you on??
You sound stupid
@@dougtond1380 I think he meant as in they can use the buildings for them to stay in as opposed to in the streets not to lock them up lol
Politicians rather fund prison for profits rather than help homeless veterans. Shame on this country.
@@cortez_d3352 thats the new slavery. well i shouldnt say new, as it says in the constitution the government can actually enslave felons
Mental health facilities need to be opened up again for those in need for long term living
The house pricing here is 500k and it goes up every year here in Melbourne, AU.
500k would be a dump in that area.
@@richardmorris7063 We have something called Centrelink, It's basically welfare in Australia offering money to those without jobs or can't work because of work injury. So It would be 200 dollars for a normal person a week while the people who have disability support pension earn 900-1000 dollars a week.
@@Ev0Apex we have welfare & disability here.These people mostly are mentally I'll drug addicts.The liberals don't want to force these people to get help.kick the can down the road until you get this.
@@Ev0Apex these people would be eligible for welfare or govt assistant but you need an address,I'd card etc.These folks don't have bank accounts & can't help themselves.Just want handouts.Not every 1 but most are lost in a world of drugs & ripping people off.tough situations....
I used to love Venice beach and went down there to shop, rollerblade and have fun people watching but the last time I went was about a year ago....and I'll never go back....it's been destroyed.
that's the problem with letting everyone do what they want until it is ruined! then.... no one wants to undo all the damage. Sad! I wonder if all the illegals rushing thru at the border have seen these places?
What happen to all the tax payers tax money?
The convention center migrants facilities and in person learning
And rising home prices have nothing to do with it?
Pay for the homeless’ housing?
That’s like rewarding a disobedient child with candy
Any money spent on homelessness needs to be spent on drug treatment and rehabilitation
Yessir.
Wait a minute! That's district 9 except there's no big space ship hovering over the city.
If there not paying rent they need to remove them serious other states don’t allow this LA gave them a building to live in but most don’t want help they need to clean the streets
Lmao nope every state allows this.
@@kevingarcia5923 wow that’s crazy
@oroincorporated you don’t have to take vaccine but you do have to wear a mask in some places or most for now it depends what state
The city has allowed the situation to get out of hand. If they clean up the streets, who knows where the displace people will go? Many quiet residential neighborhoods are NIMBY when it comes to that.
We have the same problem here in Seattle and Tacoma
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I really hope they actually start doing something about it, there should be limits on where you can set up camp. Especially when comes to in front of businesses, parks, etc.
heck I live in Oregon and its illegal to camp out on the beach out here. It's a $500 fine out in this state. Camping in the wilderness is legal, but it's a 14 day limit.
But in Oregon there is the same problem with homelessness. Just look at Portland. Used to be nice. Now it's a dump.
@@lenatran2471 Portland, Salem, Eugene, and Medford are all extremely bad now. But as for the coast there is nobody out there at all. State property has different laws compared to city and county property, I think that plays a big part in it.