Life After Skid Row: a Decade of Homelessness Ends with Inside Safe
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2023
- Cornell was homeless on the streets of Skid Row for over a decade. Also known as Smiley, many of you fell in love with Cornell's positive attitude as he wished people "Happy Monday" • Happy Monday: Life on ...
And while it's always good to smile, Cornell showed us the harsh reality of life on Skid Row living in a tent during the rain • Skid Row in a Rain Sto...
After a decade of homelessness, Cornell is now living in a hotel room provided by Inside Safe, a pioneering program led by Los Angeles Mayor Bass, designed to alleviate the city's chronic homelessness crisis.
Inside Safe provides temporary shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness, providing them with hotel rooms equipped with essential amenities. This initiative aims to provide immediate relief in the form of a safe space to live and restores a degree of dignity often lost in the struggle for survival on the streets. Despite facing significant challenges such as funding limitations and the need for scalable solutions, Inside Safe is a tangible lifeline for marginalized individuals, offering a stepping stone towards stability and a potential pathway out of homelessness. Its impact, as seen through a modest yet profound change of participants like Cornell, underscores its value in the broader context of homelessness relief strategies.
Soma Snakeoil runs The Sidewalk Project, a nonprofit organization striving to provide harm reduction services. Despite the overwhelming need in the community, Soma's unwavering commitment led her to facilitate Cornell's involvement in the Inside Safe program, a pivotal turning point in his life. We featured their fantastic work here: Saving Lives of Sex Workers and Addicts on Skid Row: Sidewalk Project • Saving Lives of Sex Wo...
Support The Sidewalk Project here: www.thesidewalkproject.org
Produced by Adam Trunell www.idiotdreamerbeast.com
More Skid Row stories:
Happy Monday: Life on Skid Row • Happy Monday: Life on ...
Skid Row in a Rain Storm: When It Rains, It Pours Misery • Skid Row in a Rain Sto...
Skid Row Homeless Sweeps Make Homelessness Worse • Skid Row Homeless Swee...
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Happy Monday: Life on Skid Row ruclips.net/video/ZTfIm4xjC6M/видео.html
GOD BLESS YOUR CHANNEL! ✝️🤗💞 This struck a cord in my heart ❤️😭 "I get to eat, I get to eat now." God heal help and protect all these hurting souls and keep it up invisible people! Amen ❤️💞✝️
I am so happy another 1 is off the streets. I spent 27yrs on the streets bouncing all over the country. 5yrs ago I had enough and got clean. I now live in an apt going on 3yrs. I also have a full time job working for the County govt here in Knoxville Tennessee. June 10th I celebrated 1yr at the first job I have held onto. I'm now 54. God's blessings are abundant
Good for you 👍 continued success
Congratulations,and Happy 4th!🎉🎉
God bless you and keep up the good work because it’s worth it.
@livurelife Thank you. Plus today I purchased my first vehicle legally at a dealership. Small goals big steps ahead
@@michaelmann7264 That’s awesome. So happy for you. God is always good in bad and good times. Jesus said,”The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” (John 10:10).
Everyone deserves a roof over their head ❤
*I Agree 😊✋🏽 With, Your Comment! America 🇺🇸 Shouldn't Have, Homeless People! We Take Care Of "EVERYBODY" 👀 But, OUR OWN!!* 💯🎤💔
I was homeless and it was suffering in hell! That being said, yes everyone deserves a roof! It is where we find peace solitude comfort shower eat and peace and a place from the cold a shelter from the storms! Home is where the heart is!!! ❤ I pray for the folks sleeping in the street with urine poop rats drugs alcohol and bullies and murdered a around their head when they close their eyes ❤
I'm homeless myself 😭
Except having s home it's important to give them a possibility to work and feel dignified.
Having been homeless myself I'm so happy to see this!
Yes I've been homeless a few times no fault of my own with kids at one point I had a 5 yr old and a 15 yr old when I became homeless
People have so much hate and no sympathy for homeless. I look at folks that do and I tell them "well I hope you never have to be in the situation. Not everyone has support or choice. Even with the best job and insurance. You could still lose everything in a minute. So have sympathy for those that have lost it all."
Yup ! There's a much hated stereotype out there,a ' one size fits all ' as in some bearded guy on a bike, carrying alcohol, drugs,a criminal record, and causing all kinds of trouble in a neighborhood. But, there's also the ' hidden homeless,' who are seniors, disabled people, veterans and families. The homeless in THIS category don't have records, aren't addicts, have pensions or jobs. Their only ' crime ' is, they no longer can afford market rates when trying to rent !! That's all. It's been this way, since 1980, it showed up in the big cities first, and spread out all over America. Normal countries don't have huge populations of homeless citizens !! Third World countries sure do. The ONLY way to end homelessness forever, is to launch a massive building campaign nationwide. And bring back good jobs and manufacturing while we're at it.🤩💪🇺🇲
@@JulieSevelson-nb9nj i mean the wealthy can go to space. Go under the ocean. Do all this crazy amazing stuff and not create an established way to get at least the folks that want off the street a way to do it. Humans can go brrrrrr with whatever we want, look at how many horrors of torture and war and industry we created. The imagination just needs funding in a different direction. We just paranoid and wanna kill each other on an international scale. Were all just a tribe of chimps with far more powerful rocks and sticks to throw at each other.
Thank that sister for caring and putting money into real help
Yes. We need more politicians like her. God bless her and keep her safe. I'm in Phoenix Az and we have serious homelessness. Next Monday the weather people have predicted 122 degree weather. I just cant imagine how hard that is going to be for them. They may be drug addicts and mentally I'll (most of them) but they are HUMAN BEINGS. We are not doing enough for them or quickly enough.
Well I pray the Lord be merciful to us all sending prayers that way shalom
May God bless you and keep you.
Everyone does deserve a safe place with a roof over their head , god bless these people and don’t give up
If it weren't for government transitional housing I would have been homeless back in 2016. It was only thanks to a safe, stable shelter that I was able to maintain a job that would allow me to save up and get my own place. Now, I have been self-sufficient and living on my own since 2018.
I am so glad that he has housing. No one should live on the streets for the better part of their lives. People deserve better.
Homelessness is a worldwide social issue that needs to be further addressed. Many people still strive to live day by day despite having to suffer the harsh realities of life. God bless them all.
More less social It's a drug issue. Most people on the street they did have a job and housing but started doing drugs and fvcked up their lives .
it's decisions, life decisions.
Yes, instead of giving vouchers to people in California maybe California can pay a motel to house these people it will be cheaper and better ❤
Sounds positive, absolute respect for these caretakers and participators.
Thanks for posting, hoping that Inside Safe can help many people. Was heartwarming to see this man feeling safe and with housing and the night and day difference that seems like it's made for him.
Good for him!
These mini docs are fantastic. Great work 👏🏼
I am happy to see him get off the streets
Praise God!!! This is the church.
Los Angeles Mayor needs to link up with Gavin Newsom and show him how to house the homeless people and families in Sacramento CA also cuz it looks like she knows what needs to be done. Good job Ms Mayor of LA
Good idea, and homeless people need to start becoming active in lobbying for more affordable housing to be built, that's the greatest driver of homelessness. There's always been drugs, dealers,alcoholics, but until the year 1980,in Southern California, people did these dysfunctions indoors because rents were abundant and cheap. Apartments stopped getting built by that same year,1980. And at the same time, lots of people were both being born,and immigrating here- but housing wasn't built to keep up with the surging population. So a severe housing shortage was launched,yet leaders and politicians were in denial regarding homelessness being a crisis,or even abnormal. Until around 2020, no real attempt was made to even try ! Measure H,and HHH were just used as props that mouthed " promises" of housing getting built,under Eric Garcetti ( good riddance). 17 billion dollars thrown at supposed construction of affordable apartments- where the heck is that 💰💰💰💰 money ?? It's way overdue for a bipartisan forensic audit, for all homeless funds and how they were distributed ( diverted).😮
Gruesome Newsom it's too busy attempting to Nationally disarm honest citizens from defending themselves. Despite the abysmal failure of such attempts in his own state.
Super happy for him!
Wow! Thank goodness! I never thought I'd see the day this would happen. Hope it continues to ease these folks into safe places they can rest.
Yes,and it makes people's lives better,back on track, and neighborhoods benefit too.
So wonderful!🙃😉😊👍Good to see at least some of these people finally getting some help.💙
Yes, it's one way to reverse homelessness.
So glad you are safe.
So glad this gentleman has a room of his own now!! Much peace,love n light to him 💗🙏
Thank you for the inside sage program!!
Aawwww love I'm so happy for you that you got out of skid row 🫂❤️. Omg thank God for that. It filled me with happy tears
I'm happy he got off the streets. Ok I'm officially blown away. That Social worker said a person she wants to find was handed and explosive and it blew off her hand! So now she needs wound care. I'm like really life on the streets in 2023 is so bad we have people passing out explosives like gum drops. What is instantly more shocking is the social worker driving her car so causally related her client being handed a bomb like it was another day at the office. I find it horrific \ shocking that someone living on the streets gets handed an explosive and it blows their hand off being treated like it's nothing. That is enough to outrage even this jaded wolf. I don't usually like these harm reduction people but in this instance I owe her a thank you for being there!
"Blown away."
True ! And how can one be practicing ' harm reduction' when being homeless is the major source of HARM ?! Housing will end all this harm,and actual rehabilitation will help those who are addicted or mentally ill. Many homeless people don't have addiction issues. Many work,are seniors and disabled.
I'm so happy for him, they gave him hope. God Bless!
I want to know this guy
He seems like such a character
The homeless are still human-beings.
We need to remember that and not turn a blind eye to their vulnerabilities and mental health problems.
Yes,and most homeless people did have places they rented,even owned at on time. That damned foreclosure crisis caused many suicides among those who couldn't pay their mortgages anymore,I remember that. They entered an already crowded rental market. So many lives were ruined ! We can't arrest our way out of homelessness, but we sure can build our way out of this, if the funds for building affordable housing aren't stolen anymore !
Thanks ❣️
I am so happy and so wonderful to hear that these people can get off the street cuz everybody deserves to be able to take a hot shower and sleep in the bed everyday if you have clean clothes❤
Very heart warming to see this. Everyone deserves a home. Everyone deserves support & tlc. ❤
Mayor Bass refuses to remove those who live inside Metro train/subway cars. When interviewed about it, she dodged the question and said that Metro is looking to see what land it can donate or sell to build housing. Huh? What does that have to do with it? If squatters were tolerated at a business, that business must later build apartments for the squatters?
I have to ride that Metro train system almost daily. I saw an assault down on the Red Line platform at Union Station last week. When riding I'm always on guard and stay close to the police when I see them. Walking the gantlet,that's what I call it ! Now, it would make sense to investigate the situation of every homeless person on those trains, and separate the mentally ill, the thugs, and just homeless people who simply can't afford to rent( thanks to insane prices) and place them according to those categories where they need to be. It would be more cost effective to do that, instead of the liability that goes with the status quo, which obviously does NOT work,lol ! There IS money for residential facilities for mental patients, thugs in rehab or jail, depending on their records, and for the people who need just housing, build that housing that the state already gave them- 17 billion dollars,as I recall hearing on the radio recently. Homeless people can't simply be dumped into the street from the trains, because that's dangerous for society. Average citizens must demand that politicians do THIS,soon.
So happy to see you so happy.😊👍💖
Thanks!
Thank you
Note to self stay out of LA
she deserves an award.
Amazing Peice! Keep it up- Shared it on my Justice Twitter
Inside safe seems to be working but what about the rand report that says homelessness increased in LA. Also what about those moved into motels that are just as dirty and just as dangerous as the street.
Unfortunately the housing first philosophy will only work if there are ancillary support programs already in place. Unhoused people will continue to fail most of the criteria unless the underlying problem is addressed. 😢
This certainly applies to people who have addiction issues, or are mentally ill. But there's another side to this- many ' hidden homeless' simply need affordable housing built ! By this, I mean seniors, disabled people, veterans,and working class renters. Renting USED to be very easy to do. You had one basic form to fill out,and cash,check, or money order- and you were in. Now so many laws have changed, and keep potential tenants from renting, like credit histories, or the income- to - rent ratio isn't high enough- thanks to these astronomic prices. If enough housing is built, and good jobs return, homelessness will be eliminated. The problem is this Homeless Industrial Complex, which is designed to keep you homeless,if you ARE homeless ! Until 2020,it was business as usual. And lots of deaths. 💀👀
So glad he got off the streets..gosh..to hold it together even when one feels completely alone with no one...how brave. Blessings for all who know the struggles of houselessness...my prayers are that things change and our leaders address it, with the passion that they do for other issues....
Happy PRIDE month 💞🌈💞🌈💞🌈💞Proud supporter of all LGBTQ
""Proud supporter of all LGBTQ" This isn't about you, so stop making it about you. Go away.
Pray to Jesus and Jesus will show you the truth. God is love. The rainbow belongs to Noah. GENESIS 9. Peace and love people.
God Bless
Praise God!
Glad for the dude he deserves a break.
It's still only temporary though. Where does the city send them after the hotel? During the plandemic here in the UK, many cities put the homeless up in hotels. Every hotel which did it had problems with people just walking out to go back to the streets, with drugs dealers in the hotels. It didn't stop street begging in my town.
Here during the pandemic the government let the camp anywhere all the time around the city and it went on for 3 more years so far. Tents are spread all over.
Mayor London Breed of San Francisco need to take some notes!
London Breed is the worst Mayor of San Francisco.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hcI heard about how their policies up there have destroyed that city. I know there's lots of hotels available for such programs. But at the same time, many stores are pulling out and abandoning malls, because of the shoplifting by wilding crowds, AND of course,the crazy people who are walking around screaming.
I have to call my Father's side of the family. I can't call my mother's side of the family due to/ broke up due to Abuse in 1992. In 1992 i was a child.
i hope it goes well
Yay!
❤
Hi Gods people
Did she just say someone gave her a bomb
Yes,that was what happened. What kind of person does something like that !!
Karen bass' ads didn't say she'd end homelessness. they said she had a plan to "tackle" homelessness.
Yup. It has to start( for real) somewhere. One thing that the state should have done,was to help the landlords that were waiting on their tenants to pay their rents or leases. Not helping THEM out was a mistake,and pitted landlords against tenants. Ending homelessness in this country is actually a societal investment. Makes for safer, quiet neighborhoods.
@@JulieSevelson-nb9nj Absolutely right. The state should have taxed you to make you pay other PO people's rent.
Do u have a roof over u head sir if so God bless
I'm very glad you are off the street 🙏 I was homeless for years. I know how you feel 😊 I now live in my rv. I pray you find Jesus 🙏 Jesus will never turn his back on you 🙏🙏 peace and love brother. 🙏✌️👍🇺🇸
Hi, Alan.
Can you apply for housing while waiting in the RV ? Lots of seniors are forced to do that. And people living in campers and cars,too. The entire world does know about America's massive homeless crisis, because it's all over the Internet. Have a safe Fourth of July.🎉
@JulieSevelson-nb9nj I'm happy living in my rv. I rebuilt it for all year round. I have a place on a farm to park. And a place to call my own. Jesus takes great care of me. Thank you 🙏 and peace
Damns I want a free hotel with full out bed, bathroom and “AC” like he stated 😂
It would really be helpful to learn of the incident that actually caused Cornell's homelessness. We want to stop this matter at its source. Is he a "native" Californian or did he just come homeless from somewhere else due to the better So. Cal. weather, like millions of other have?
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Me again oh u in a hotel room sir u can go up with u life now do that go up with u life. Save u money sir
Eat u some good food take care of u Mr sir wooooooooo
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This is an amazing thing, lets hope the rest of the states follow suit!. Whats really annoying is, the UK where im from prefer hosting immigrants who come over on boats than their own homeless or vets living on the streets. Paying for illegals to stay in hotels at the tax payers cost. I wouldnt mind paying for it, if it were our own homeless and vets.
You're absolutely right, c2wak !! The same thing has been in place since 1980. People have wondered how this was being done,and who's policy was behind it. Veterans are routinely turned down when applying for housing, yet if you're from a ' protected class,' the red carpet is rolled out for you ! I'm not against benefits for immigrants, as long as it's all equally for everyone. I read that there are investors in flats there in Britain that keep their apartments empty, because it profits them to do so. Tax shelters, maybe. And that Margaret Thatcher started the trend to shave down affordable housing there in the UK.
Doesn't have to be an either/or thing. Everyone deserves a home regardless of where they're from.
So to solve the problem that stems from not enough established resources, workers, and permanent housing - LA's solution is to spend 100 million dollars on hotels for a tiny fraction for a small amount of time? Greeeaaatttt.
It's harebrained to only use hotels,and not use those funds for building affordable housing,as lots of seniors, disabled people, and veterans are desperate for an apartment. The hotels are meant to be temporary. It's a start, and all funds must be audited and accounted for. Because in the past under Garcetti,and previous mayor's, billions went missing !
Why can they not just put a bunch of teepees on a piece of land outside of the city with facilities to shower and buildings with access to computers so they can attempt to get their lives back together? This housing them temporarily in hotels does not seem sustainable...
It seems like you have a good idea but the problem is that solution would require homeless to be civil with each other and be fair with the facilities uses. Otherwise someone can just break a facility and everyone loses that privilege. To prevent and maintain facilities it would require manpower, which isn’t easy to get. But at a hotel they already have a staff in place who are trained and have taken care of these rooms before. I’m not an expert, nor do I have any experience with homelessness but I believe that your solution would be a band aid while this solution is a splint. It may not solve the issue but it’s a start to building something more sustainable.
The problem is that for 42 years, homelessness and housing needs have been ignored. People turned a blind eye,and simply had that Darwinism attitude about those who can't afford to rent. Neoliberals. But now the whole world 🌎 knows about this American disgrace, so in some areas, the authorities were shamed into finally doing something. This includes Los Angeles County,and I'm glad to see this, if it's done correctly. No corruption, no bribes, and all funding uses need auditing from outside the County. Much of this housing grants and budgets actually have been stolen ! Citizens need to demand an account. City Council meetings are a great way to do that.
How can we help when we dont know their stories !!
Bad news. They are going to Evict my mother on july 2023 in JC NJ. 😭.Don't move into Battery View Apts Plaza Apts and Jones Street Apts in JC NJ. Because they have a bad reputation.
Wow, that's terrible! Can you get emergency housing voucher for your mother ? Thank you for alerting renters about those bad companies that abuse tenants !! People often wind up homeless because of dirty deeds by owners and property management. Document everything,take pictures, call Legal Aid,if you haven't already. If you're a good tenant,that's not enough anymore. No- fault evictions should be illegal nationwide. We have those in California,that must go. And the Costa- Hawkins Act. Another homeless trigger.
Did she go to court and wait for an eviction process to happen. Might buy her some time.
Our government gives billions of taxed dollars to foriegn countries.
Our cities spend millions of taxed dollars on civic buildings, museums, parks, neighborhoods, roads, bridges, animal adoption centers, etc.
The government and cities should built sleeping night shelters (Chinese style pods are fine) with showers and toilets availability.
Our soldiers should oversee these facilities, if they can safeguard foreigners in their countries they can help homeless Americans.
All churches in America should feed the hungry.
We pay plenty of taxes. Government officials are mismanaging them.
Every American deserves a safe place to sleep, shower,and toilet use.
You mean they require structure and rules
LA central party 🎉🎉🎉24/7
even criminal inmates have a roof over there head. nobody should be out in the streets.
i've seen this black man on the street on some youtube video about homless and here on this vid he looks drunk, i've seen him very sober
The problem will continue as long as California takes on the world's population of needy and poor. When the State keeps saying it's all about affordable or in this case free housing, the forget that they keep the boarders open as a "sanctuary state". California has 40 million people already.. that's too many to continue to provide housing and services for everyone. And let's be honest.. providing "free housing" or free food and services is not really " free". Someone pays..the taxpayers, other people basically are paying for others to live. Seems like that's known as Socialism.
But you have no problem with corporate welfare musk Trump not paying their fair share WHT did you think musk left for TX they gave him the everything gets to pay his workers even less fattening his wallet nice huh
Safety nets aren't Socialism, or Communism. Before 1980, there was a good quality of life here, emphasis on the ' WAS.'. You're right about too many people. Because while so many people were arriving,or being born, the housing stock stayed the same,even destroyed by getting bulldozed. We lost housing stock and didn't replace and add to it for four decades. There's a permanent housing shortage, thanks to that. So much competition for apartments,the average fast food worker can't afford a one bedroom apartment in America by themselves anymore !! That's so un- American,to live that way,as is this homeless crisis ! And don't forget, agencies and shelters do profit from homelessness. Lots of examples of that online. Homeless people are livestock to them.
what about changing society to socialism. Richard Wolff talks about chinese society. china ia socialist. Homeless is not
a problem in china. The USA must change and share our wealth so that all receive what they need. we must all work
together to accomplish this
Please see Jw or Jehovahs Witnesses to know when no one will be homeless and they will have a home and Every thing we need and the earth won't be Money based
They need to go to summer camps. Certainely not 100 dollar a night hotels for free. Hell no leeches
Elon musk is leech its called subsidies corporate welfare its ok for billionaire
Hotels are just band- aids when it comes to this crisis. Instead of those, affordable housing should have been built all along. Neighborhoods would be safer, without people living in the streets. Normal countries don't have homeless people. Britain,Canada and the other English speaking countries all seem to have the same thing going on !! Don't you find that odd?
$100 million dollar scam. Great !
Well Mayor Bass you're welcome from all the tax payers who are going to foot the bill on this experiment. God forbid, the law should be enforced. How about some of your compassion and sympathy for the good citizen who pays YOUR salary
You may like these if you’re concerned about tax money ruclips.net/p/PL51CPD51hq2Q6xjIg9j99c0WrdMGrM4_v
Remember, it's only in the last couple of years,that any attention was paid to homeless people,and why they WERE homeless. Lots of money thrown at this crises was STOLEN. Garcetti should be hauled back to LA, and made to account for what was done with all those missing millions he and his cronies played with,thanks to no oversight or audits done ! Complaints should be filed against him for that. He lied about Measure H, his " experiment.". I'm very glad that Judge David Carter filed that lawsuit against City Hall when he did. It exposed a lot of wrongdoing,big time ! Before he lets them sign off, he must make certain that audits are part of that settlement. No more thefts of public ( tax) money! If you're not mad, you're not paying attention.
fake news
Meth kills buttercup
U need to work thats what u need to do if my migrate family can come here illegally snd start working in the field anybody can no excuses
But you're here lol illegally no excuse would also indicate your azz back to Tijuana
Good jobs and manufacturing must be brought back to America. It gave this country a great, middle class lifestyle ! It wasn't a Catholic economy either. We have a Catholic economy now. It's known as ' oligarchy.'