These Homeless Camps In California Are Beyond Belief

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  • Опубликовано: 2 дек 2022
  • I have never seen anything like this in all my travels.
    I’ve seen a lot of homeless camps in my day. I travel a lot, and if you’ve been followin along, a lot of my focus has been on this mess, right here in the good ole’ USA. California has by FAR the biggest homeless crisis. It’s just out of control here, and keeps getting worse.
    This was Day 6 on the road trip, and up to that point, I saw a lot of terrible. But it was in San Jose and Sacramento where I stumbled onto some of the craziest stuff I’ve ever seen.
    This, though, was the oddest thing I think I’ve ever seen while on the road. It was 10 am on a random Sunday, and I was walking around a huge homeless camp not too far from the capitol building.
    I’m guessing a few hundred people live here.
    The weirdest part is, there was no one around. Just me
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Комментарии • 13 тыс.

  • @Hero4Hire4
    @Hero4Hire4 Год назад +2359

    I’m retired now and have been looking around wondering what I worked for and did other than just get by. Seeing the condition these people are living in makes me think I didn’t do so bad after all. I live in an old run down house, not in the best area, but it’s paid for. The same for my car. I don’t have problems paying my monthly bills, buying food, etc. Things could be better, but I see how they could have turned out much worse! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

    • @yayhoo8848
      @yayhoo8848 Год назад +1

      California has become so expensive that a lot of people can easily wind up homeless. And now with the current inflation many people may wind up homeless because an economic recession is very likely in the near future.
      That said, these homeless encampments are people that are drug addicts and alcoholics.

    • @barano9729
      @barano9729 Год назад +28

      They’re asleep Homie. Quit playin.

    • @virginiabolt4725
      @virginiabolt4725 Год назад +79

      Thank you for that I've got a lot to be great full for

    • @chewy2804
      @chewy2804 Год назад +28

      I guess being a hero doesn’t pay as well as anyone thinks-

    • @CH-jk6bf
      @CH-jk6bf Год назад +54

      Me too...40 years of work and know how to save money

  • @melanierobinson4152
    @melanierobinson4152 Год назад +2907

    We can't talk about any third world country when our country looks like this! This is beyond sad!

    • @Justinlearns
      @Justinlearns Год назад +162

      We're what corporate sympathetic capitalism looks like. Full tax breaks for billionaires and 30% taxes on the middle class. Even with resources they don't play fair. In Vegas residents have to watch their water use carefully while casinos and stadiums keep being built?!

    • @rogermoore5764
      @rogermoore5764 Год назад +1

      We are unfortunately being turned into a 3rd world sh*t hole, and what really sucks is, it's intentional!! And the sad part is not one of those so called elected officials is doing a damn thing to stop this insanity!! Oh they make there speeches once in awhile and maybe even form a committee and that's about it!!

    • @automatoncollectives7237
      @automatoncollectives7237 Год назад +93

      @@Justinlearns Corporate Sympathetic Capitalism existed for many decades, so that’s not an excuse. These people would be living in squalor regardless. If anything is to blame, it’s the handouts these people already get, that makes this life appealing to them.

    • @drmidnight2419
      @drmidnight2419 Год назад +65

      @@automatoncollectives7237 they prefer to live like this.

    • @NeverTrustGovrnmentOrGlobalist
      @NeverTrustGovrnmentOrGlobalist Год назад +1

      Well you can thank Democrats for creating the mess in California, you get what you vote for.

  • @virginiaflores8052
    @virginiaflores8052 6 месяцев назад +72

    I am 79 years old now I live in California I was born in California when I was a child. I was homeless with my parents I’m grown now I work every day on my life and I Raise a Three sons and three daughters as grown-ups you can’t give up

    • @capricedowsland3068
      @capricedowsland3068 3 месяца назад +2

      Exactly. Never give up.

    • @johnnyperez1969
      @johnnyperez1969 2 месяца назад +1

      True you can’t!!

    • @m42037
      @m42037 2 месяца назад +3

      If you're 79 ya I'd say you're grown lol. You should've been retired 20 years ago

    • @Slickone9
      @Slickone9 Месяц назад +1

      @@m42037can’t in this economy. SAD

  • @joycegarcia7046
    @joycegarcia7046 5 месяцев назад +56

    This needs to be showed to the people who are at the border coming in..

    • @whopperdad22
      @whopperdad22 3 месяца назад

      They get everything free while American taxpayers pay for their crimes.

    • @user-lz6dm5lk9y
      @user-lz6dm5lk9y 3 месяца назад +6

      It would not stop them.

    • @b.elzebub9252
      @b.elzebub9252 3 месяца назад +12

      The places they're running from are even worse.

    • @DeeTruth415
      @DeeTruth415 3 месяца назад +12

      They're not worried about it. They're going to get so much free stuff when they get here.

    • @boundariessetinstone5893
      @boundariessetinstone5893 3 месяца назад

      @@b.elzebub9252Really then why when they come here they trash places and make our towns unsafe and loud.

  • @stephenwong4934
    @stephenwong4934 Год назад +1317

    I was in a big city in the south-west, used to pass a couple of homeless guys every morning. So one morni g I bought them a coffee and a cheeseburger. I spoke mainly to one of them, asking his story. He said he had worked for forty years in a factory, collecting metal pieces in a mobile skip, had lived in a boarding house mostly. The factory had closed, he moved out of the boarding house, finished up on the street. He looked over 60, so how was he ever going to get a job? There are many like him. Just had a little job, didn't ask much of life. Government globalist policies ruined his life. They make billions making stuff in low-wage and low taxation countries. We leave 80 billions in Afghanistan, send billions to Ukraine, while Ukranian elites cavort in Ferraris in Monaco. There is something wrong with our priorities!

    • @stephenwong4934
      @stephenwong4934 Год назад +72

      I missed out that the former American manufacturers still ask American prices for the goods as well, it's a win-win for them!

    • @gambit_toys6554
      @gambit_toys6554 Год назад +47

      C0rruption

    • @peggyelchert8340
      @peggyelchert8340 Год назад +1

      In the very early 80’s, when NAFTA was enacted, it was the beginning of sending U.S. manufacturing & jobs overseas. It’s had a devastating effect on Americans ever since. In 2017, Trump immediately began the process of renegotiating & forcing China & Mexico to finally “pay the piper” ( the U.S.). Trump said, “No more free lunches on American taxpayer backs, America first !” Of course Biden threw a wrench into that right away.
      We’re looking at 40yrs of poverty in these photos.

    • @zackriederer4243
      @zackriederer4243 Год назад +1

      It’s almost like a great reset planned by the world economic forum or somethin

    • @zackriederer4243
      @zackriederer4243 Год назад +67

      @@sabinegiannamore8711 capitalism is the only thing that will fix these problems, corruption is the real issue. Unless you honestly think socialism which has never worked anywhere will magically start working in the US for some strange reason.

  • @channahnoyb4803
    @channahnoyb4803 Год назад +221

    Millions and millions go towards “fixing” the homeless issue in a single city, But it never gets better because the money goes into people’s pockets and they’re not the homeless.

    • @amg9163
      @amg9163 Год назад +6

      Your comment is *so accurate* that I want to create 100 new RUclips accounts to add more up votes!

    • @dragonf1092
      @dragonf1092 Год назад +4

      And with those millions they could have bought each and every one of them a house and they would all be off the streets.
      U.C.C. 1-308 all rights reserved with extreme prejudice,Freedom of speech.

    • @dragonf1092
      @dragonf1092 Год назад

      Hell with the billions Congress stole and gave to the Ukraine, they could buy every homeless American their own house.
      U.C.C. 1-308 all rights reserved with extreme prejudice, Freedom of speech.

    • @MrDodger3222
      @MrDodger3222 Год назад +6

      @@dragonf1092 But why should they be given a free house? Everyone else has to pay for their housing.

    • @dragonf1092
      @dragonf1092 Год назад

      @@MrDodger3222 no one should have to pay for housing it is a basic human right necessity.

  • @timothycormier3494
    @timothycormier3494 8 месяцев назад +33

    I was just fishing around a little pond on the Massachusetts/Rhode Island border. Literally the pond is split on the border. The spot where we parked and followed the path to the pond is beautiful and everything you’d expect from a little pond in the woods. As we walked around the pond. We came across what looked to be an illegal dumping site. I was like wow! Scumbags dumping trash in the woods! My cousin said laughing. No! This was the homeless camp that the city came in and shut down. What!? When? Almost two years ago. WHAT! TWO YEARS AGO??!
    Microwaves and appliances and clothes and everything you’d need to make a home. Rotting into the ground. No one wants to take responsibility for it and clean up the site. It’s nasty! Needles all over the place. It would be at least 3-4 30yd dumpsters and the manpower to get it done. But outta sight outta mind I guess. I really feel bad for the homeless. It’s a situation that I pray never happens to me or anyone. But the leftover sites are a nasty mess and if the city is going to kick the people out. Then the city needs to go in and clean it up!

    • @Ned88Man
      @Ned88Man 2 месяца назад

      Wallum Lake?

    • @timothycormier3494
      @timothycormier3494 2 месяца назад

      @@Ned88Man no the blackstone / Woonsocket line. Wallum isn’t all filthy now, it it? I love wallum. Haven’t been there in forever. But I spent many weekends there with family when I was a kid. Water tubing and fishing and cookouts. I did go to a game dinner a few years back at the rod and gun club though

    • @Ned88Man
      @Ned88Man 2 месяца назад

      I will have to check it out, I just know Wallum straddles the border@@timothycormier3494

  • @srhs_wrestling7480
    @srhs_wrestling7480 5 месяцев назад +14

    I left California in 2022, clearly seeing the direction of things. How did this once great state become a post-apocalyptic hellscape in such rapid fashion? Very painful state of affairs.

    • @spudspuddy
      @spudspuddy Месяц назад

      years of democrats

    • @leesadoe2440
      @leesadoe2440 Месяц назад

      our leaders choices. thats how

    • @mikejoy9721
      @mikejoy9721 8 дней назад

      always been the land of nuts and fruits

    • @mikejoy9721
      @mikejoy9721 8 дней назад

      clean up your own state people.

  • @Mercurychyld1
    @Mercurychyld1 Год назад +671

    How are the politicians and high office people NOT embarrassed and utterly ashamed of this?! Wow!

    • @anakatana777
      @anakatana777 Год назад +110

      they created the problem my dear.... wake up and smell the flowers.

    • @rita4missions
      @rita4missions Год назад +44

      People should be ashamed of themselves. You can be clean even if you are poor

    • @kimberlyriffe4849
      @kimberlyriffe4849 Год назад +63

      Where are all the celebrities at? As much as they try to tell everyone else how to live, why aren’t they helping these people. There are so many Americans one paycheck away from being homeless. People who have worked their whole lives and still struggling. Unfortunately, California keeps re-electing the same politicians and I guess expecting a different outcome. Pelosi has become a multimillionaire abusing her power in office. California politicians and the liberal celebrities need to do better.

    • @lilblackduc7312
      @lilblackduc7312 Год назад

      Chuck Schumer & Democraps are celebrating & laughing publicly at the 11-MILLION PLUS illegals that OBiden paid to traffic in...

    • @weirdgirl7475
      @weirdgirl7475 Год назад +10

      @@kimberlyriffe4849 Exactly my thoughts as well! The only one I ever heard speak of homelessness, was Miley Cyrus, when she brought that one guy that was supposedly homeless, and I truly think he was invited because he looked like a model. I can't remember if it turned out to be a big sham or not.

  • @jmmm5919
    @jmmm5919 Год назад +368

    How can this not be the #1 issue being talked about and or addressed…

    • @McRemmyBaby
      @McRemmyBaby Год назад +34

      cuz nobody with money who can actually help/change shit care

    • @auntyfluffy
      @auntyfluffy Год назад +22

      Helping homeless people does not generate wealth, thus, ignored in our country. Find a way to make money fixing the problem, there's the solution.

    • @MasterExploder61
      @MasterExploder61 Год назад

      @@auntyfluffy Less homeless increases land values. Relocate them to an African country.

    • @jvalentine8376
      @jvalentine8376 Год назад +25

      Because the homeless situation and substance abuse in many of these people also reflects back on the Governments failures . Failure to control illegal drugs , failure to supply free rehab , failure to supply affordable housing , failure to supply a livable minimum wage , failure to create suitable jobs for unskilled people . The politician is part of the rich set so as long as the rich are ok they don't care .
      Drugs are destroying communities around the World but they do very little to stop it because there is billions floating around in bribe money .

    • @rickmolton3057
      @rickmolton3057 Год назад +1

      Sad n depressing. Needs to be a priority.

  • @tedfred3861
    @tedfred3861 4 месяца назад +5

    I was right where these people are 15 years ago. I was fully addicted to meth. Moved to Texas got my 💩 together and now I’m a journeyman electrician. Just bought a home and am 8 years sober. I did all this in 8 short years. People just need to try harder if they really want to get out of it. God bless everyone in this situation with an opportunity to work their way out. 🙏🙏🙏

  • @ediddysmith2500
    @ediddysmith2500 4 месяца назад +7

    Can you imagine all the rats, mice ,bugs and all the health risks there is going to be.

  • @marksandoval5361
    @marksandoval5361 Год назад +143

    Where I live, we had a homeless tent camp (no vehicles or RVs) of about 100 people. The city provided dumpsters and porta-pots. Ultimately the trash was waste deep in this camp even though dumpsters were provided. In addition, much of that trash is full of human feces even though porta-pots were provided. The camp was so unsanitary that it had to be closed. The city estimates that 100 dump trucks of trash needs to be removed at a cost of $300,000. And, the workers removing the waste must wear special protective clothing to avoid becoming infected.

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz Год назад +16

      It seems it's gonna just get worse in near future.

    • @josephinemiller4780
      @josephinemiller4780 Год назад

      That happened to us in Austin TX. Somehow we got it on the ballot to vote against homeless encampments and it passed. It’s now a misdemeanor. The encampments were slowly taken down and homeless moved into a run down hotel to help them transition. Then….our stupid city council told our law enforcement to stop enforcing the new law and now I’m seeing encampments show up again. We have a lawsuit against the city but I have no idea how that’s going. Our city is being trashed again. It’s very sad.

    • @candancepeace1539
      @candancepeace1539 Год назад +17

      If they would empty the trash on a regular basis, it wouldn’t get like this. We all live in neighborhoods, where there is trash pick up every week. If they did the same, the trash wouldn’t get this high. 😢

    • @redemptionhappens7725
      @redemptionhappens7725 Год назад +33

      And that’s why giving them low cost or free housing doesn’t work. They can’t manage. They end up trashing it.

    • @marksandoval5361
      @marksandoval5361 Год назад +35

      @@candancepeace1539 The people living in this camp were too lazy to throw their trash in the dumpster and too lazy to walk over to the porta-pots to do their business. The hallmark of all these homeless camps is the piles of trash and the lack of sanitation even though porta-pots and dumpster are provided. You can't save these people because they don't want to be saved. They won't even engage in basic sanitation.

  • @stevetaylor9265
    @stevetaylor9265 Год назад +253

    Hard to believe when I was a kid California was the dream location.

    • @jesse_-
      @jesse_- Год назад +1

      Now it’s a dream location for the homeless, the derelicts, and the anti-freedom leftists! I’ll never set foot in that state again.

    • @angelaarmie5789
      @angelaarmie5789 Год назад +10

      I left 15 years ago. Even as a teen living there as an adult didn't make sense.

    • @richardmorris7063
      @richardmorris7063 Год назад +1

      Not hard for me to believe. It's only going to get worse. Keep doing fentynal, you're replacements are crossing the border..

    • @AH-xf6cp
      @AH-xf6cp Год назад +25

      My husband is from the Midwest and he was so disappointed when he first came to California for college. It was “nothing like the movies” he said.
      Seems most can’t even imagine how bad it is

    • @tolfan4438
      @tolfan4438 Год назад +12

      Literally California dreaming

  • @Patricia-kh3bg
    @Patricia-kh3bg 4 месяца назад +10

    Good job Gavin. I understand homelessness, but I don’t understand the filth.

    • @lindsaymarin2772
      @lindsaymarin2772 4 месяца назад +1

      It's not that they prefer filth, I mean who does. But that theres not running water or trash service, and it's illegal to use someone else's trash receptacle. Most people prefer to stay tidy but there's a fraction of them that are mentally disabled and leave trash everywhere making the whole lot look bad.

    • @minzegotbangerzmgb3673
      @minzegotbangerzmgb3673 17 дней назад

      Meth addicts love hoarding items you throw away and collect garbage 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @minzegotbangerzmgb3673
      @minzegotbangerzmgb3673 17 дней назад

      @@lindsaymarin2772no if they gave up on life by choosing drugs you think they give a damn about keeping the earth clean 😂

  • @napoleonfeanor
    @napoleonfeanor 5 месяцев назад +16

    I think it would make sense to subdivide the homeless into different groups. There are people who just fell into poverty and lost their home because of recession, there are the people who are homeless because of drug problems/mental health and there are people who are homeless because they either entered the country illegally or are wanted by law for any reason. These three rough categories are very different problems and therefore also require different approaches as solution.

    • @user-tl6xz3yq9u
      @user-tl6xz3yq9u 4 месяца назад +2

      I agree. A lot of veterans choose this because of the strict rules that come with low income or income based housing. They simply don't want to give up their freedoms.

    • @joeldavid7383
      @joeldavid7383 4 месяца назад +1

      1st, landlords are greed, just because they can raise up the rent up to 5 percent plus cpi each year, which will be 9 percent each year, they will do that every year which causes the cost of living to go up. 2nd, owning a home is becoming expensive. I think the government should dictate the prices based on affordability so that the realtors and builders can find a way to lower its cost. The government should lower its taxes too to compensate to lower the cost.

    • @napoleonfeanor
      @napoleonfeanor 4 месяца назад

      @@joeldavid7383 very generalising. Landlords need to do a lot of things,too, and their costs rise,too. Sure, there are greedy faceless corporations doing that. I think the law varies a lot within the USA but government price controls are no good idea. Lowering taxes for home owning and for building affordable housing are a better idea. But any such improvements will not address the big population of those with mental health and substance abuse problems.

  • @bettyboyne8531
    @bettyboyne8531 Год назад +418

    This is no longer sad, it is sick to what depths humanity has sunk to.

    • @kentmccoy592
      @kentmccoy592 Год назад +21

      We live in an ego Consciousness reality this is the result of ego and self-induced pain and hopelessness

    • @243wayne1
      @243wayne1 Год назад +12

      This has been going on forever. They used to have Hoovervilles in the depression of the 1930's...

    • @brianmatthews4149
      @brianmatthews4149 Год назад +27

      This is what giving out free money and not makeing people be responsible this is the outcome.

    • @CC12398
      @CC12398 Год назад +11

      Yeah and someone keeps promising them non-existent tiny homes

    • @Job0121
      @Job0121 Год назад +1

      you should c most other countries ....

  • @stormyseas2day
    @stormyseas2day Год назад +462

    I used to live in a homeless camp under a bridge in Maryland and was not doing things right so once I got myself together and started doing things the right way my life has changed for the best these days. God bless the ones who are trying to get thier life's together.

    • @lunalea1250
      @lunalea1250 Год назад +14

      Bless you & take good care of yourself.😊

    • @randyrobinson3951
      @randyrobinson3951 Год назад

      Most people did it right. The system is rigged.

    • @fredread9216
      @fredread9216 Год назад +18

      It’s so easy to judge others. But as is said, “unless you have walked in their shoes”.

    • @jlvjazz
      @jlvjazz Год назад +7

      Guess all it takes is for people to do things the right way.

    • @bela-sofia34
      @bela-sofia34 Год назад +15

      @@jlvjazz Unless the mental illness and addiction is so insurmountable that they can't even imagine what the "right thing" is.

  • @tommybutler2454
    @tommybutler2454 6 месяцев назад +10

    Omg, please be super careful in those rough areas Nick !!!

    • @2ndEditionBryce
      @2ndEditionBryce 5 месяцев назад +1

      You'd be surprised how nice a lot of these people are. A lot of the violence that happens is almost always drug related. Pretty sad.

  • @mistergoodcitizen9914
    @mistergoodcitizen9914 5 месяцев назад +3

    It’s probably because California is the closest to ideal weather for living outside.

  • @barbarashepherd2834
    @barbarashepherd2834 Год назад +362

    I am a native Californian in the San Francisco Bay area and thoroughly disgusted by what has been happening in our communities...so sick and dangerous.

    • @Flyonthewall11
      @Flyonthewall11 Год назад +20

      Nothing personal - I am certain there are many whose opinions are like your own, and as a native Californian, I can relate. But after being disgusted, I asked myself what I could do to help. I found some options, and while my contributions of time, energy and a little gasoline may be small, it makes a big difference to a few. Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for contributing your journalistic talents in making others aware. If everyone who does NOT live in these conditions could find a way to assist someone who DOES, it could make a world of difference.

    • @cicidenard
      @cicidenard Год назад +11

      But yet no one wants to help no one wants to put the money where it needs to go the rich get rich in the poor get poor I'm from the Bay area I know I had to move out of the Bay area down to the valley just to survive with my kids and now the valley is so expensive I'm very happy that my kids grew up graduated and bought their own homes but I am still stuck in a situation because requirements are just too much

    • @johndavis2938
      @johndavis2938 Год назад +16

      @@cicidenard capitalism = profit over lives. Our economy isn't designed for those who don't earn. Factor in class warfare and two of America's most toxic slogans, "pick yourself up bootstrap style" and "not in my backyard" and you have an epidemic with no cure.
      As long as there is no money in helping the less fortunate, there is no hope

    • @tisenhow
      @tisenhow Год назад +1

      Move!

    • @marywest6844
      @marywest6844 Год назад +2

      @@johndavis2938 true. Only people who look after themselves, in this capitalist system. Need to have the skills and know how, to stay ahead of the game. Unless Mum and Dad have the shispah.

  • @pduidesign
    @pduidesign Год назад +202

    It’s just like Hooverville during the Great Depression where all the people who lost their homes and couldn’t find jobs built shacks made of pallets in Central Park. The fact that we aren’t in a depression and this is happening just shows how the politicians of California have failed absolutely miserably.

    • @jx1668
      @jx1668 Год назад +24

      Emmm we our in a depression genius. Their just not calling it that this time because they don't want to fix it

    • @circesoul2218
      @circesoul2218 Год назад +6

      They vote for this. Let them live however they want, it's none of your business.

    • @pduidesign
      @pduidesign Год назад +14

      @@circesoul2218 it’s my business because I live in California.

    • @metalmike570
      @metalmike570 Год назад +7

      Yes it's a dystopian society in Los Angeles and surrounding areas, and many other places in California too.
      The billionaires should get together with local government and build tiny homes for them. Make small - used to be homeless communities.

    • @thewarrior777
      @thewarrior777 Год назад +8

      Sorry to tell you, we are in one. Consider us already there.

  • @Allannah_Of_Rome
    @Allannah_Of_Rome 8 месяцев назад +11

    This is atrocious! This would never be allowed to happen in Australia, we take to much pride in our land and people. But in saying that, we do have homelessness of course but nothing like this, this isn't even humane!! 😭

    • @reneelibby4885
      @reneelibby4885 5 месяцев назад

      USA is a very cruel country full of holier than thou religious hypocrites and hateful bigots. And voila! we get a creep like Trump because they relate to him.

    • @cathlaurs9754
      @cathlaurs9754 5 месяцев назад +2

      It is atrocious. It is happening in Australia - you have a homelessness emergency.

    • @DD-ts5oj
      @DD-ts5oj 2 месяца назад +1

      I agree with you. I'm an Aussie as well & l can't imagine things ever being allowed to reach such depths here. Heartbreaking.😢 😰 💔

    • @Dan-440
      @Dan-440 15 дней назад

      Most of the US doesn't look like this. Mostly, this occurs in blue cities.

  • @thomasrobertson8109
    @thomasrobertson8109 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for sharing your experience with us all. God bless you, Brother

  • @stevekovacs4093
    @stevekovacs4093 Год назад +418

    I was born and raised in California over 8 decades. I am truly ashamed of my home state. We deserve all the derision and ridicule we get. Funny how our ruling politicians and governing authorities have collectively no viable solutions. It's only a talking point for election purposes. We are more concerned with electric cars and sanctuary status. This state is an absolute disaster and getting worse.

    • @CBoogieLA
      @CBoogieLA Год назад

      85 % of Californians homeless are from OTHER states. We need to send them back to their home states.

    • @detroitmettle5719
      @detroitmettle5719 Год назад +16

      Thank Nancy .

    • @truelies3690
      @truelies3690 Год назад +32

      Bingo! Bullseye correct. Lived there from 1959 till 1977, visited from 1979 to 1999. California was once upon a time a different state, different people, different era, different time, different styles, different values, different world. The California I once knew, lived, saw, heard, even smelled was like paradise compared to today. 25¢ a gallon gasoline, $100 a month rent, no lease. No security deposit, no first and last, all utilities included, except your $3 a month landline corded telephone. Food dirt cheap. The cost of living was easily affordable. A once vibrant state turned 3rd world. But then USA TITANIC is sinking slowly but surely now and will sink faster soon next year.

    • @meb777
      @meb777 Год назад +18

      Politicians and others that can afford it have been taking advantage of the collapse by buying up property.

    • @frankmartinelli5204
      @frankmartinelli5204 Год назад

      The reason for this situation...Demorats took control of the State... Now,most of the politicians are millionaires,Califórnia is bankrupt,and Californians are homeless...Easy to see...

  • @Valhalla_Heathen
    @Valhalla_Heathen Год назад +95

    The crazy thing is that when I visited Oslo, Norway about 2 months ago I did not see one single homeless person out on the street or a single tent on the side of the freeway. Something is seriously messed up in the USA because the homeless crisis is out of control and it’s getting worse each year!

    • @obeycorruptgovernment-else2628
      @obeycorruptgovernment-else2628 Год назад +13

      iS FAR TOO FRIGID TO BE HOMELESS IN NORWAY, WHEREAS CALIFORNIA IS A MORE TEMPERED STATE FOR OUR BELOVED LESSHOME BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO BE MORE COMFORTABLE.

    • @charlottesometimes1278
      @charlottesometimes1278 Год назад +13

      It's getting worse because even with a degree your only making like 25 to 30 grand a year, yet rent is 2500 to 7000 a month.

    • @hdj81Vlimited
      @hdj81Vlimited Год назад +5

      @@charlottesometimes1278 in europe we make 1100€ a month..............

    • @Sneakyhorse12
      @Sneakyhorse12 Год назад +1

      @@obeycorruptgovernment-else2628 same in germany, you can be homeless for a summer, but how do you survive minus 8 and snowing, there are a lot less people who are just homeless because its the easiest option, but people who are seriously ill still become homeless, i imagine they are forcibly treated in places like this.

    • @Sneakyhorse12
      @Sneakyhorse12 Год назад

      @@charlottesometimes1278 same everywhere,

  • @mandyharrison3799
    @mandyharrison3799 3 месяца назад +4

    It's hard to understand how it gets so bad. Noone should live like this! How does one get out of this cycle. Drug addiction and other struggles people face are a major issue affecting the homeless. What are the government doing? There is no quick fix and the problems these people are facing are monumental. My heart goes out to them.

  • @bootlegcraig6525
    @bootlegcraig6525 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great footage Nick! Be careful out there though.

  • @kimgow7671
    @kimgow7671 Год назад +140

    I had been homeless as a kid, since 8yrs old. By 10 went to my 1st fostercare and left and at 15 went to another. I then got apartment of my own, in 2010 had a surgery that left me in hospital for 3 mths. I loss EVERYTHING bc I had no family. 3 1/2 yrs in shelters and outside on ppl's couchs . I finally got a place in a bad nieghbor in June 2014. On July 25th 2014 was home invaded and faked my death to survive. I hate this world, it's been very sad and scary. Not everyone is a pos that's homeless, so becarful how you view these ppl especially after wth covid did to everyone, they made us stay home and not work. I am now on disability and 48 and work but can't make ends meet but I'm thankful I'm not out there. I use to want to go to California my whole life and tried at 19 in a friend rig and went to over 20 states but came back after 3mths of trying. Happy Holidays to you and your family be grateful you don't understand that lifestyle!!

    • @janineparker3041
      @janineparker3041 Год назад +14

      Sending you a hug

    • @Earthbound369
      @Earthbound369 Год назад +11

      Happy Holidays pal.

    • @d2670
      @d2670 Год назад

      This is what republikkkans have done to society. They said they'd make everyone destitute. If you have no permanent address, you cannot vote. They want to remain in power to continue this. This is exactly why every person must vote. We must change this shiiiiiit by winning.

    • @Fapnyr
      @Fapnyr Год назад +5

      Just life under capitalism

    • @favoniansedalia4855
      @favoniansedalia4855 Год назад +1

      That's the American way for you, it's a crappy country ain't it.

  • @jimmylujan1457
    @jimmylujan1457 Год назад +819

    It's a wonder how our country spends billions on wars overseas and cannot help the homeless by the way many are veterans who served ,what an absolute shame and disgrace, God Bless us all.

    • @ree6553
      @ree6553 Год назад +17

      Yes, it is backwards for our country to do that.

    • @ioswd1
      @ioswd1 Год назад +65

      It’s pretty simple really, politicians don’t get rich helping homeless people

    • @JoyofBooking
      @JoyofBooking Год назад

      Billions are spent on these bums, money doesn't magically solve mental health and drug problems

    • @o9rgeronimo979
      @o9rgeronimo979 Год назад +39

      You talking about Joe potato? And Ukraine?

    • @jramsey9690
      @jramsey9690 Год назад

      @@o9rgeronimo979 Oh please. Do you think this just occurred in the past two years? Republicans don’t want to take care of the homeless or poverty problem, which is a lot more complex and which requires more taxation (horrors!)

  • @donrobertson4611
    @donrobertson4611 7 месяцев назад +5

    Well-produced video, very good narration.

  • @adamhopkins6058
    @adamhopkins6058 6 месяцев назад +5

    I live in San Diego and it's out of control.I started to talk to the homeless and here's what I found out.The homeless are being shipped here from other states because of our good weather.Pretty much more than half of all the homeless you see on the streets here are not even from here.

    • @michelekirby7907
      @michelekirby7907 5 месяцев назад

      Did you record any of that data? This is what we need to find out - where were those people born, where did they move from, how did they end up in California. What you say is what I suspected that Republican states have a deliberate plan to break California by setting fires and shipping homeless vagrants there. Several political figures in Texas play these games bussing illegals/ immigrants up to the Vice President's house and dropping them off, also to Martha's Vinyard, etc. I think DeSantis plays this political game also. It's all driven by greed... this has caused a huge influx of California money into Texas with corporations and employees relocating to Texas. The cost of living and homeless blight are driving residents in droves to other states.

    • @samgibson684
      @samgibson684 4 месяца назад

      San Diego has a reputation for 70's and sunny all the time
      70 ain't that warm and it gets down to 55 every night with thick fog
      Being homeless there isn't a picnic

  • @richards7073
    @richards7073 Год назад +192

    As a child of the late 70s and 80s I am reminded of all sorts of prophetic "sci-fi" movies depicting this exact scene. It's truly terrifying to consider how accurate the writers of these stories were and much worse it is likely to become

    • @puudavis2007
      @puudavis2007 Год назад +9

      True story my brahdah! And it is going to get worse

    • @Brad-99
      @Brad-99 Год назад +9

      I was thinking the same thing .
      It's going to get so much worse 😔

    • @djtall3090
      @djtall3090 Год назад +4

      Same, 100%

    • @hdj81Vlimited
      @hdj81Vlimited Год назад

      because its all planned. its a script the writer folow, they get there script from the 1% elite who has all control over music and video indutrie

    • @Diesel0807
      @Diesel0807 Год назад +7

      This will sadly lead to something far darker

  • @ccsmooth55
    @ccsmooth55 5 месяцев назад +3

    We have to remember that there are a lot of "working homeless", people who actually have jobs but still cant afford a place to live, especially in California. But the vast majority of homeless people are there because of substance/drug abuse.
    This problem is solvable. However, it wont be solved because people today are too soft to accept what would be required to solve the problem.

  • @sokpisethlalalanno
    @sokpisethlalalanno 8 месяцев назад +5

    Nick you're a monster of information man, Good job bro

  • @johnndamascene
    @johnndamascene Год назад +296

    Thank you for showing this to the world. This has gone way too far.

    • @jackiecordova1079
      @jackiecordova1079 Год назад +15

      I see this on RUclips from Switzerland how is this possible to be erlaubt the richest country in the world

    • @US_ARMY_25_INF._DIV.
      @US_ARMY_25_INF._DIV. Год назад

      I will tell you if you are going into these camps wear sturdy thick soled shoes.....nothing like wearing thin soled sneakers and stepping an HIV tainted needle that sticks your foot...

    • @pruneclair7christian706
      @pruneclair7christian706 Год назад

      @@jackiecordova1079 America has Huge debts now and has been destroyed by satanic forces of various ilks and will try to recover with God's help but may not be able to since the destruction is so EXTREME!!! PLEASE GOD IN JESUS NAME DO MORE TO HELP ALL THE PEOPLE ON EARTH MURDERED OR ENSLAVED OR LIVING IN MISERY OR EXTREME POVERTY OR BEING STARVED OR KILLED IN ENDLESS WARS FOR PROFITS OR NOT ABLE TO FIND A JOB OR AFFORD TO EXIST ANYMORE!

    • @jackiecordova1079
      @jackiecordova1079 Год назад +3

      @@pruneclair7christian706 thank you for replying thank you for explaining I really feel bad what you are going through yes what I see on RUclips it's very bad what can your government do? to change this problem and you have also problems with all this immigrants coming to your country I can be blessed where I live but everything is very expensive but our wages are high we can live good I wish you happy holidays I do prayers for your country that next year 2023 will be a better year 🙏🙏🎄🎄✨✨🇨🇭🇨🇭🇺🇲🇺🇲

    • @NeverTrustGovrnmentOrGlobalist
      @NeverTrustGovrnmentOrGlobalist Год назад

      Yes it has gone too far thanks to the Democrats running California for ever.

  • @mississippidrifter5960
    @mississippidrifter5960 Год назад +193

    As someone who spent over five years homeless on the East Coast I will be following your channel as well and I know the lifestyle better than most obviously. I want everyone to know that not all camps look like that I get mine clean and stayed away from other homeless people but I have walked into ghost camps like that and it's pretty spooky and it always makes you wonder what happened. Where did they get the motorhomes I could barely afford a tent. And yes I was trying to forget about something as well I was trying to forget about seeing my wife die that's what led me to being homeless.

    • @Elhastezy888
      @Elhastezy888 Год назад +26

      I'm so sorry for your loss.
      Some losses are far far more devastating than others.
      And that's just all there is too it💔
      Hope you are doing better today.
      Many blessings

    • @theirmom4723
      @theirmom4723 Год назад +10

      From some other documentaries I have watched, some rolled in with their motorhomes and RVs being pulled by vehicles. They lost their homes but had the campers for recreation. They chose to live the RV life.

    • @Thing1DadaThing2Kiki
      @Thing1DadaThing2Kiki Год назад +22

      I understand wanting to forget about seeing ur spouse die. Was married 27yrs. From 15-41 yrs old. So most of my life we were together. His family screwed me and our kids. We had to sell our beautiful 3story dream home bc he was the bread winner and after he got out of the icu the last time moved in with his family (in their 7,000sq.ft home!) He had put everything in his mom name to keep his Insurance/disability. I got screwed big time when he died by his greedy brother. Me and my then 11yr old daughter out on the streets no money etc. We moved into a nice 40ft 5th wheel camper. But had no running water and the 1st weekend we moved In a storm fired my system so no electricity. It's always something. Lol at this point I just laugh. Anyways I'm blabbing. Hope ur ok now. I'm moving up slowly.

    • @davidhott6395
      @davidhott6395 Год назад +3

      @@Thing1DadaThing2Kiki I hope things get better.

    • @magdatorruellas9122
      @magdatorruellas9122 Год назад +3

      My condolences…

  • @junebaldwin5352
    @junebaldwin5352 5 месяцев назад +2

    Nick you do great videos on homelessness .it brings attenttion to the misery

  • @sagora3114
    @sagora3114 6 месяцев назад +12

    Most of the behaviour must come down to mental disorders and I think we as a society need to fully comprehend that and be empathetic of it

  • @conniewaterman1673
    @conniewaterman1673 Год назад +170

    Our rent for our 2 bedroom low income apartment was 760.00 when we left California in 2016. The rent has now gone up to 2200.00 for the same apartment complex. If we had stayed, we would have wound up in the same boat. These poor people! We thank God we got out, thanks to a group of our friends just in the nick of time.😢

    • @conniewaterman1673
      @conniewaterman1673 Год назад +6

      Trust me, this damn lifestyle is NOT appealing sir!

    • @birdsunfire7116
      @birdsunfire7116 Год назад +5

      Where did you move.? Curious. I've been looking..

    • @azizabahati7037
      @azizabahati7037 Год назад +3

      I live in the Bay Area and can confirm your rental increase.
      However the majority of homeless occupants aren’t people whom have been priced out.
      What you’re speaking of is driving us all to either move out of California or figure it out. What we are seeing are those whom have chosen the lather among other additional factors.

    • @athena3865
      @athena3865 Год назад +6

      That's a normal rent (2200) in Dallas for a 2 bedroom apt.

    • @thewalkofthewest4466
      @thewalkofthewest4466 Год назад +11

      @@athena3865 maybe it was normal rent a few years ago. Now a bunch of Californians moved here and drove up prices and brought along their disastrous policies that caused them to flee in the first place. Dallas is now having the same issues begin here that we’re never a problem before like crime and homelessness

  • @user-og2wt3le4j
    @user-og2wt3le4j 9 месяцев назад +2

    At 1:03. We have the same problem in most Canadian cities. My hometown now has a plan to allow people to set up in city parks. The ling-term goal is to have mini-homes the size of a backyard shed to be built on city owned vacant land.

    • @marleneg7794
      @marleneg7794 7 месяцев назад

      Yeah Canada and CA socialists society incarnate

  • @mapagmatyaga9174
    @mapagmatyaga9174 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the truth and brave to expose the reality of sacremento

  • @jerryh2954
    @jerryh2954 Год назад +68

    I moved to CA back when Arny was the Governor. I came and looked the place over to be sure I wanted to move my family here first and found the City I picked was very clean and safe and so we relocated here. Now the place is a complete mess, there are meth addicts everywhere, the roads are littered with garbage, and the expense is 2 to 3 times what it was when I moved here. I am rethinking my decision and I'm looking to move my company out of this state very soon. Sadly, the people keep voting for politicians that do everything to make life worse for them.

    • @kentmccoy592
      @kentmccoy592 Год назад +8

      What's your solution and why is this a crisis of politics?

    • @IVY12023
      @IVY12023 Год назад +11

      @@kentmccoy592 policies of particular politicians have exacerbated the problem.

    • @g.o.b.2558
      @g.o.b.2558 Год назад

      Definitely looks like a democratic run state.🤬😥

    • @Scott-ly2nk
      @Scott-ly2nk Год назад

      @@kentmccoy592 leave them alone they seem to be doing ok they have adjusted to there life style

    • @mritzs5142
      @mritzs5142 Год назад

      I saw downtown LA tent city when Arny was Gov ..it was a freak show, big time . True it was mostly down there several square blocks but gradually it festered,,through several presidents , has nothing to do with Red Blue or any of that It’s been happening ...only there has always been smoke screens guess what they kicked the screens down I Left LA one and a half years ago

  • @leokimvideo
    @leokimvideo 10 месяцев назад +86

    Mental health, drug addiction and poverty all combined to create a new class of Americans. And this is the fastest growing class there is. Thanks Joe

    • @creeindianblood1005
      @creeindianblood1005 5 месяцев назад +6

      Canadas same- too many immigrants our coun try cant hosue or feed

    • @CarmenPerez-kz6rw
      @CarmenPerez-kz6rw 5 месяцев назад +6

      We have a non profit and work with the homeless and most, not all, have drug problems. En punto!

    • @napoleonfeanor
      @napoleonfeanor 5 месяцев назад

      Don't forget illegal mass migration. Many of them end up in that situation.

    • @jerrydonquixote5927
      @jerrydonquixote5927 4 месяца назад

      ​@@CarmenPerez-kz6rwyep

    • @craigjohnson6286
      @craigjohnson6286 4 месяца назад

      The homelessness has been going on long before Joe was in office. America has a drug problem, and the drugs addicts are Democrats, Republicans, black, white, latino and what have you.
      Democrats and Republicans need to get their shit together.
      I do agree with closing the border. America has to do something shit!!!!

  • @Robinjuneable
    @Robinjuneable 4 месяца назад +4

    Wow, this is so sad! My mom moved us out of California when I was a teen! It was still beautiful and cool when we left! I’m so glad now! What a shame, we lived in Fremont.

  • @ChristinaMacDonald777
    @ChristinaMacDonald777 5 месяцев назад +2

    Heartbreaking what's happening to the people in our country. Why can't our government spend some money on making places that could help these people🙏💓.

  • @generichumor
    @generichumor Год назад +61

    It's happening all over the USA. In NEw England the homeless have exploded and they are sleeping out in public places in the cold weather. But California looks like a scene from Mad Max.

    • @joeycarbonaro
      @joeycarbonaro Год назад +5

      I moved outta the east coast, in Vermont I wasn’t seeing any, how bad has it gotten?

    • @tonyburzio4107
      @tonyburzio4107 Год назад +2

      It follows the disease of Socialism.

    • @mostinterestingmaninthehoo4630
      @mostinterestingmaninthehoo4630 Год назад +4

      @@joeycarbonaro Hopefully it never reaches Vermont or Maine. I'm next door in Connecticut right now.

    • @bertram46
      @bertram46 Год назад +19

      And it's all in Democrat run cities but nobody wants to talk about that

    • @bertram46
      @bertram46 Год назад +13

      @@blackcherry6877 it's happening in Democrat run cities primarily New York Chicago California Oregon and people keep voting these politicians in and wonder why this is happening it's just unbelievable the people that live in these areas have no one to blame but themselves. And I'm talking about the people that vote the politicians in not the homeless people

  • @jmsiii4751
    @jmsiii4751 Год назад +179

    And in the mean time the CA politicians just keep getting richer and richer..

    • @erict3032
      @erict3032 Год назад +15

      Ain’t that the truth! Nancy pelusi with her sub zero fridge and designer ice cream

    • @lynwood9615
      @lynwood9615 Год назад +3

      They are controlled by demigods, and wicked angels.

    • @redrufus444
      @redrufus444 Год назад +10

      10% for the big guy!!!!....

    • @tamarevans9025
      @tamarevans9025 Год назад +16

      And in the meantime, people in California keep voting Democrat.

    • @kleopatra6234
      @kleopatra6234 Год назад +10

      Yep. Gavin Gruesome's wife has put together two videos which she has sold to schools regarding gender inequality or some such nonsense and she's raking in a fortune. Isn't that called "conflict of interest"?

  • @user-yf3ww5el9u
    @user-yf3ww5el9u 6 месяцев назад +1

    thanks for showing this telling the truth i live in state and i am disgusted what has happen to this state .

  • @leesadoe2440
    @leesadoe2440 Месяц назад +3

    drug dealers and cartels are getting richer buying land, homes and businesses, and their drug buyers are getting addicted and homeless and dying. (bay area resident)

  • @esterrios3998
    @esterrios3998 Год назад +62

    Nick, I was there! But unlike these people I chose to get out! By any honest means. I am glad I did. I am a very proud (of myself), elderly woman now and Asian at that.

    • @fistfull1
      @fistfull1 Год назад +3

      What does being Asian have to do with anything ? Do tell do tell

    • @CH-jk6bf
      @CH-jk6bf Год назад +7

      Good for you...stay safe

    • @fistfull1
      @fistfull1 Год назад +1

      @@CH-jk6bf woman is Asian, what could that possibly infer ?

    • @Earthbound369
      @Earthbound369 Год назад +3

      Stay strong and safe,sis.

    • @fistfull1
      @fistfull1 Год назад +2

      @@Earthbound369 Asian? So what

  • @alexo1226
    @alexo1226 Год назад +68

    Is a sad situation. Is amazing how much money we throw away to other countries, and here we are struggling, is a shame

    • @user-di8vz5ec1i
      @user-di8vz5ec1i Год назад +2

      I'll call myself out and say how much money I spend/throw away on things I really don't need.

    • @chowwh308
      @chowwh308 Год назад

      Get it right.. those give aways are just a small fraction of unrestricted money printing by US to project its hegemony. But this will soon to end as the world are getting fedup with feeding the US but getting paid by soon to be useless IOU treasury papers.

    • @alexo1226
      @alexo1226 Год назад +3

      @Chow Wh The world is a dangerous place, but because of those that read and look on and do nothing.

    • @chowwh308
      @chowwh308 Год назад +1

      @@alexo1226 unfortunately doing good for humanity is no longer an agenda in the US doctrine..worst yet making the world even more dangerous by repeatedly instigating color revolutions n regime changes everywhere in its bid to remain as top dog to the extent of neglecting or deflecting attention of its own rot at home.

    • @hdj81Vlimited
      @hdj81Vlimited Год назад

      all money is PRINTED..........

  • @stevedouglas8851
    @stevedouglas8851 8 месяцев назад

    Good job Nick.

  • @PhenoDominoCo
    @PhenoDominoCo 4 месяца назад +1

    Theres a lot of people with warrants, but the jails are overcrowdedd. No low income housing, and a lot of ppl on SSI and still Homeless. Crazy.

  • @s.leayoung5456
    @s.leayoung5456 Год назад +357

    This is such an embarrassing situation for any state. I just can't believe that this is what it's come down to in our country. Very sad and depressing.

    • @Followmybliss777
      @Followmybliss777 Год назад +8

      The vote Democrat to get better education, healthcare, drug treatment, reproductive care, worker wages and mental healthcare to the people.

    • @Steven-fi4gf
      @Steven-fi4gf Год назад +17

      ​@Justine Tarot they don't care about any of that, neither does Republicans.

    • @s.h8589
      @s.h8589 Год назад +4

      @@Steven-fi4gf Republicans do care. What do you think we should do????

    • @loralarose9615
      @loralarose9615 Год назад

      @@Steven-fi4gf yeah we do all kids in my get medical

    • @donnalechak6980
      @donnalechak6980 Год назад +9

      CA can't help homeless, but it will pay every black million of dollars. Priorities. Most homeless don't vote.

  • @lasharlaluke623
    @lasharlaluke623 2 месяца назад +1

    It was the chickens running around for me 😅. They keep fresh chicken on the premises at all times, lol. I was looking for the homemade deep fryer 😂😊.

    • @LookofLuv
      @LookofLuv 29 дней назад

      They provide free eggs 😊

  • @martykimble9999
    @martykimble9999 6 месяцев назад +1

    I remember tv commercials, when i was a kid, asking for donations to help a child living in foreign camp... just like this. "Just one dollar a day will help feed a starving child."

  • @debra1363
    @debra1363 Год назад +95

    I've read about and seen films of homeless camps in the Great Depression(1930s)and it was completely different then.Rules of conduct,safety,and sanitation were enforced by the homeless themselves.The camps and dwellings were kept litter free and as clean as possible.People lived there with their kids and everyone was pretty safe.Sure there were some troublemakers but they were dealt with and either shaped up or left.The difference I see is even during a Depression the mentally ill were in hospital and people still regarded each h other as human beings.

    • @freckledass
      @freckledass Год назад +3

      1930’s camps might have enforced sanitation since the Spanish Flu was fresh in their memory

    • @arnsnicklefritz9634
      @arnsnicklefritz9634 Год назад +5

      Probably didnt have opium either

    • @AhJodie
      @AhJodie Год назад

      Did you ever research some of the horrors of what was done to the mentally ill then?

    • @arnsnicklefritz9634
      @arnsnicklefritz9634 Год назад

      How about how the Greeks treat those with downe syndrome.

    • @AhJodie
      @AhJodie Год назад

      @@arnsnicklefritz9634 How is that?

  • @douglorimer5985
    @douglorimer5985 Год назад +19

    I fight poverty everyday, by going to work everyday. If I don't work, I'd be forced to live like this. I'm 64 and will probably work till I'm 70. Its socks but that's just how it is, I have to pay bills,and they should to.

    • @James-nv1wf
      @James-nv1wf Год назад +6

      I worked a variety of jobs, 98% basically ran me out. No matter how hard I wanted to work, and I did for these companies, they were just A-holes. Some people can only take so much, especially working for low wages.

  • @EnVee863
    @EnVee863 4 месяца назад +2

    You can't solve a problem until you can identify it, and the problem isn't a shortage of affordable housing.

  • @mitchelllittrel653
    @mitchelllittrel653 6 месяцев назад +2

    Not everyone that is homeless is that way because they're drug addicts, mentally ill, or criminals. Some people just have had bad things happen to them. On the other hand there are those that do nothing to help themselves out of this situation. I know people that have offered homeless people day work like raking leaves, picking up sticks, etc. and almost everyone of them refused the work and just wanted a hand out. If i offered work and they accept i would gladly buy them a meal just because of their honesty and willingness to work.

  • @devingalloway9900
    @devingalloway9900 Год назад +120

    The price to rent a one bedroom in California is astounding. As someone living in Missouri and visiting San Diego to see friends I was blow away at the cost of living. I really cant believe that anyone is capable of making it in those states without making a large salary. Most of Missouri has little homeless on the streets until you get to the larger cities but even then its not this bad. Its sad that places like Cali, Philly, Denver all have gotten to this point.

    • @didforlove
      @didforlove Год назад

      @K A exactly yup go to mexico and evade the collapse

    • @leob4403
      @leob4403 Год назад +2

      ​@K A where the heck is rent $200? It sure cant be anywhere near where I live in Europe

    • @leob4403
      @leob4403 Год назад +2

      @K A are those countries safe to live though?

    • @leob4403
      @leob4403 Год назад

      @K A Ghana is that safe really? I thought there was a lot of corruption and stuff there. Maybe this is exagerrated by the media

    • @leob4403
      @leob4403 Год назад +3

      @K A its sad the only time the western medias mention Africa would be with a negative spin on it, never a positive word, when in fact the homocide rate in the US is more than three times higher than in Ghana for example

  • @josephnason8770
    @josephnason8770 Год назад +55

    Nick the busted, spalled concrete you filmed under that freeway overpass was caused by a fire in the previous encampment in the same spot, derelict rvs, structures, tents and tarps all going up in flames causing the concrete to expand and explode. Now the camp is reestablished and it will happen again further weakening the overpass. I live 4 miles from here in a great neighborhood. Keep an eye on this homeless site. The fire was less than 6 months ago.

    • @rebeccalindley153
      @rebeccalindley153 Год назад +1

      All the burned down houses seen in Detroit are from drug addicts starting fires in them, accidentally of course.

    • @paulramsey8187
      @paulramsey8187 Год назад +3

      You are correct about the concrete spalling.

  • @donsergio2406
    @donsergio2406 4 месяца назад +1

    There are approx. 700K people homeless in the USA as of late 2023. Of those, about half are in California, and almost 70% of that half live on the streets (FYI, it is approx. 5% in NY).
    The golden state has spent around $20B through 2024 in programs to fight homelessness.
    If you divide that money for the number of “affordable” housing units created, the cost of each is around $1.4M (scattered all over the state). And as we all know, the number of homeless folks has only increased since COVID.
    I let you ponder why it has to be so expensive to aid poor people (and if there is no other way to be more effective).

  • @suzysanders6267
    @suzysanders6267 6 месяцев назад

    Looks like the shanty towns in central Ca during the dust bowl days.

  • @mashton6631
    @mashton6631 Год назад +17

    I live in Australia and we are in the worst housing crisis in Australian history. Here’s who doesn’t get a rental no matter what : single mums, young single males,people with pets, people with lots of kids, low income people. Of course we have lots less population and permanent camping is illegal as is rubbish dumping. But there are people living in tents. It’s much more regulated here but there you go. I have let a room in my house to such a person and it’s fine

    • @maryhull531
      @maryhull531 Год назад +1

      True . From another Aussie .

  • @jsulliv19939
    @jsulliv19939 Год назад +22

    this breaks my heart. my brother-in-law had a stable living with my husband before we were married, but for whatever reason he chose to leave to live on the streets. I know people may be thinking his brother may have done something, but nothing we can think of. he was an adopted child from Vietnam at 4 years old and later an alcoholic, probably from PTSD. he had several times in his life come home to later leave to live the streets. we always welcomed him back when he was ready, and our kids loved him. he sadly died alone at 42 in a basement from internal bleeding. he will be forever missed. it was very difficult lesson to learn that he wanted to live this life or could not live another life at his time. he has good times despite what one would think.

    • @verily360
      @verily360 Год назад

      Very sad story. Might have been something in the womb that affected him.

  • @danielgonzalez-mk3oc
    @danielgonzalez-mk3oc 3 месяца назад

    Those two leather couches in the beginning were pretty sweet 😊

  • @jrtej9575
    @jrtej9575 4 месяца назад +4

    This is going to spread throughout America, especially if Gavin Newsom becomes president.

  • @shnarklevonbarkle110
    @shnarklevonbarkle110 Год назад +29

    Those chickens living in Sacramento looked incredibly healthy! Kind makes one wonder why so many hundreds of thousands of chickens are being culled by the government for being so sick, and yet they're fine when they're living in squalor with homeless people.

    • @ramblingrose6967
      @ramblingrose6967 Год назад

      The chickens are kept in giant buildings with wall to wall chickens so if the bird flu gets in with those conditions it causes it to multiply fast . Chickens running around outside if one gets sick you can isolate the sick bird from the others . Those factory chicken farms are not healthy at all .

    • @mikey120882
      @mikey120882 Год назад

      they kill healthy birds and pay farmers to destroy their harvest. its called democide

    • @mr.willywinker4u849
      @mr.willywinker4u849 Год назад

      Key word government they still kill and destroy we live in a majorly corrupt country . And it is and will only get worse. Unless we the people take our country back. That's the only way. FACT!

    • @shnarklevonbarkle110
      @shnarklevonbarkle110 Год назад

      @@mr.willywinker4u849 There is no country to take back. Too many people are completely brainwashed, and those who aren't don't have the firepower to do much of anything about it. There's only one way out of this and that's to pull up stakes and leave. Find a better place to live because the implosion of what used to be the US is well on it's way and intentional. They're taking control of everything from your food, your money, you home, your, groundwater, your air, your very thoughts, etc.
      They want wholesale pandemonium. Once the peasant classes have killed each other off, the powers that be can pick off the stragglers afterwards.

    • @emilycunningham8125
      @emilycunningham8125 Год назад +3

      bingo

  • @ArtTasticCreations
    @ArtTasticCreations Год назад +451

    I worked with the homeless many years with different organizations. People don't realize that a lot of homeless are not what you expect. There are a lot of homeless children, teens and families. There are also a lot of homeless veterans and adults with disabilities. It's a complex issue because every homeless person is different and has a different circumstance. A lot are trying to escape an abusive household or circumstance (runaways like kids and teens or battered wives and so on). The economic crisis is making things worse. Where I am in Arizona we have many of these encampments popping up. Local government just keeps stealing money but none goes to help the people. Typical stuff. Also let this sink in: we are giving billions to illegal/ non citizens to live in 5 Star hotels but we can't find housing for these people. It's a disgrace.

    • @carelgoodheir692
      @carelgoodheir692 Год назад

      The US is not giving " giving billions to illegal/ non citizens to live in 5 Star hotels" and, not beat about the bush, someone who says that is a liar.

    • @ArtTasticCreations
      @ArtTasticCreations Год назад

      @@carelgoodheir692 From Business Insider: "Biden is spending $86 million on hotel rooms for illegal/ non-citizens as his administration struggles to handle the surge of families and kids trying to come to the US."
      This is one spending cycle but the amount of money we've spent on housing illegal immigrants/ non-citizens has actually gone significantly up since then.
      Look up the article from Business Insider. I quoted from it but you can read it yourself.
      We have that money to house non-citizens but we can't help our own people get off the street. It's disgraceful.

    • @Spike-qh2bb
      @Spike-qh2bb Год назад +13

      Yes that women was very interesting strong lady thats doing her best amazing.
      I'm in England it's not that bad here yet.

    • @ArtTasticCreations
      @ArtTasticCreations Год назад +8

      @@Spike-qh2bb Here's hoping that help will be available for all those who need it. I hope that things continue to go well in your neck of the woods.

    • @carelgoodheir692
      @carelgoodheir692 Год назад +11

      @@Spike-qh2bb I'm in Scotland. What the UK and US homelessness problems have in common is that there are too few homes being built for the number of people that need a home. Once that is the siruation then the exact reasons a particular person is homeless varies and how much they are to blame varies (if that's a helpful way of looking at it) but there are bound to be a number of homeless however hard any one of them tries.

  • @edgarmena5457
    @edgarmena5457 6 месяцев назад +2

    What you failed to say is that about 60% of the homeless are not even from California and there’s many lawsuits so cities are not allowed to remove the homeless

  • @user-qr7ee2cp4y
    @user-qr7ee2cp4y 4 месяца назад +2

    California has the perfect climate for homelessness, why are we surprised they go there?

  • @richardanderson9957
    @richardanderson9957 Год назад +25

    Imagine what will happen after the dollar collapses and millions more lose everything.

    • @forgottenmorethanyoulleverknow
      @forgottenmorethanyoulleverknow Год назад +3

      That will happen soon... Petro dollar just got dropped by alot of nations

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso Год назад

      People just don’t believe that SgonnaHTF!😢I’m so glad I held onto my house w 190.00 a yr taxes out in the country=I almost let it go 3 yrs ago 😮

    • @stevoschannel4127
      @stevoschannel4127 Год назад

      With people like clueless Janet Yellen appointed by the worst administration in history, its not that unlikely

    • @masterbullshitdo
      @masterbullshitdo Год назад

      The dollar about to collapse.

  • @ismaelsolares9164
    @ismaelsolares9164 Год назад +26

    I feel sad for these people.
    From small towns in Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico, etc.
    To big cities like LA and Chicago.
    It got worst in the last decade.

    • @michaell6807
      @michaell6807 Год назад +1

      You can say that but a lot of these people have peace of mind. I know a large amount of homeless who are kinder than any trash with money.

  • @acevers
    @acevers 4 месяца назад

    How do they come up with campers and sometimes nice looking vehichles?

  • @franzschneider9416
    @franzschneider9416 4 месяца назад +2

    Newsflash - it's not just California. Every U.S. city now has homeless. Your tax cuts at work...

  • @matthewmead2374
    @matthewmead2374 Год назад +768

    You and many of your viewers have no idea how easy it is to become homeless. I made a lot of money starting one of the biggest call centers in Orange County. I sold my half of the business and moved to Oregon. My mistake was not saving or investing money intelligently. My fiance started having severe mental issues and became convinced by the voices in her head that I needed to leave the apartment I was paying for. She reported me for domestic abuse despite the fact I never laid a hand on her. By law I couldnt be in contact with her. I found myself freezing cold sleeping in my van thanking God I had a vehicle. Four years earlier I was in the highest tax bracket. I wasn't on drugs. I didnt have mental issues. This kind of thing can happen to anyone. Be nice to the people you meet on your way to the top you never know who you meet on your way to the bottom.

    • @801k5
      @801k5 Год назад +27

      I've been in a similar situation

    • @tjlee9901
      @tjlee9901 Год назад +30

      at least u didnt marry her ?

    • @mdas5990
      @mdas5990 Год назад +1

      That's whole problem, Why Indians and Asians outperformed others in one generation; "Savings and Substance over Glamour". American Dream is glamour bullsh**t fueled by cheap debt and petrodollar, not by innovation (any more). You could have easily avoided all of this by living in India or any other country. But Media and Politician made you a fool sothat you keep on taking debt and live beyond your means. You should look for good character in woman not physical beauty. Physical beauty can be bought form market, but good character can not be bought.

    • @fadedillusions867
      @fadedillusions867 Год назад +35

      It's becoming easier and easier, it seems. I make fairly decent money, currently; and, by the looks of it, I'll soon be staying out of my car for at least the next 6 months (while still holding a full-time job).

    • @Airborne80
      @Airborne80 Год назад +80

      Most of us are a couple of paychecks away from homelessness and don’t realize it

  • @michellesaylor440
    @michellesaylor440 Год назад +49

    I just moved to South Dakota from Sacramento in August this year, thanks to Nick's videos. I love it! Thank you, Nick.

    • @louislamonte334
      @louislamonte334 Год назад +4

      Good for you! I sure wish I was there with you!

    • @RealWallyGator
      @RealWallyGator Год назад +6

      You might not love it come January. Good luck

    • @louislamonte334
      @louislamonte334 Год назад +5

      @@RealWallyGator Well, I'm originally from Nebraska so I think I could handle it!

    • @calebhoward8940
      @calebhoward8940 Год назад +9

      @@RealWallyGator Ive been in South Dakota for two years now from California and its an amazing upgrade to ones quality of life. A little snow is worse than the apocalypses in California? Grow a spine

    • @dante5622
      @dante5622 Год назад +16

      Please vote Republican in South Dakota. Kristi Noem rules

  • @lyndaslocs
    @lyndaslocs 4 месяца назад +1

    Do you know the way to San Jose?

  • @TheSportsPROgram
    @TheSportsPROgram Год назад +103

    I drove recently around an area of Los Angeles where you had an encampment under the freeway that looked apocalyptic. Even worse than on this video, and then 2 blocks away you had 5 million + homes, Apartments that rented for 3500+ a month for a 2 bedroom, and a private school (primary school) that costs 40 K+ a year in tuition. The wealth gap is insane in Los Angeles, and buying a house is out of reach for even people making 6 figures a year. There are a lot of people that are just one paycheck away from disaster and going homeless. Of course, the other big thing is drugs and mental health.

    • @primsandwhims7533
      @primsandwhims7533 Год назад

      It's more about greed and government than drugs. They house drug dealers in the progects but don't care about a mother and child that needs a home.

    • @jramsey9690
      @jramsey9690 Год назад +2

      Thank the Republicans.

    • @trumpforever6706
      @trumpforever6706 Год назад +7

      @@jramsey9690 Brandon has been in power for two years and what has he done to improve the situation? Absolutely nothing, in fact, he made it worse by needlessly spending a lot of money on Ukraine. There is strangely enough money there, but not to help the poor.

    • @boat6float
      @boat6float Год назад +1

      Sadly, a $5 million house isn't as much "house" as it once was.

    • @looper964
      @looper964 Год назад +2

      ​@@jramsey9690 Oh no no buddy this is California

  • @windytatom
    @windytatom 8 месяцев назад

    We are experiencing a lot of homeless in southern Oregon as well. I know a lot of them have migrated here from California. Our city parks look like this as well as grocery store parking lots.

  • @lucianoosorio5942
    @lucianoosorio5942 Год назад +29

    “We built this city, we built this city and now it sucks.” Nick Johnson

    • @Ben83597
      @Ben83597 Год назад +3

      We built this city on drugs, sex, and Rock and Roll.

  • @jimmybonifacio6734
    @jimmybonifacio6734 Год назад +85

    Unfortunately its slowly becoming a countrywide problem - and no PERMANENT solution in the horizon! As always, thanks Nick for bringing social awareness to this heartbraking living conditions.

    • @amandagrant4331
      @amandagrant4331 10 месяцев назад

      The homeless don't have votes. Which politician will pay attention to them?

    • @rockinrobin7105
      @rockinrobin7105 6 месяцев назад

      Even Kansas

    • @whopperdad22
      @whopperdad22 3 месяца назад

      While trash like Pelosi get rich insider trading while Americans suffer under taxation without representation.

  • @Unlike230
    @Unlike230 9 месяцев назад +1

    You can be homeless and not be nasty in the environment you keep. I met some families at the soup kitchen I helped out and I was amazed to come across some families who are homeless yet so tidy. They keep a drum to throw and burn their trash. One drum to keep rain water. They dug holes a distance away from where they are to use as restrooms. I have had a very hard life and know any of us can be in a situation in a minute and not everyone is able bodied to do so but many chose to live in a messy situation. Some chose drugs over their lives and families, and some have no one and one choice but to be on the street but what I notice is for many following the rules to stay in the facilities provided to them by the city is a problem so they stay on the streets. Perhaps if they kept it clean the city might of considered letting then stay but dirty environment becomes hazards.

  • @jacobpieprzyk8720
    @jacobpieprzyk8720 2 месяца назад

    The callousness is asphyxiating.

  • @grumpyoldfart3891
    @grumpyoldfart3891 Год назад +39

    Several years ago, I was homeless for about eight months. I kept my campsite clean. There is no excuse for this crap.

    • @margaretwebb389
      @margaretwebb389 Год назад +1

      No there isn’t!!

    • @michaelmyers3892
      @michaelmyers3892 Год назад +3

      Absolutely when I lived in my van back in 2000s my van was always maintained and clean and wherever I park you never saw trash or anything else

    • @mgm8822
      @mgm8822 Год назад +4

      @@michaelmyers3892A lot of these people are incapable of proper self care.

    • @michaelmyers3892
      @michaelmyers3892 Год назад +2

      @@mgm8822 it's sad but that is true and it makes you wonder how did they live if they had an apartment or a house

    • @elwoodblues9613
      @elwoodblues9613 Год назад

      "Leave No Trace." That is as important for living in a vehicle as it is for camping in the forest.

  • @hannw7
    @hannw7 Год назад +12

    It’s all so depressing. They want to live like this. Drugs, mental illness, I don’t see how it can change now. Mental hospitals should have never been shut down in the 80’s.

    • @Robert-fs6ge
      @Robert-fs6ge Год назад

      vote for leftists political leaders and that's what happens

  • @SafetyProMalta
    @SafetyProMalta Год назад +16

    Whats weird is that homeless doesn't mean it has to be a shithole, this is just feral.

  • @birdlynn417
    @birdlynn417 Месяц назад

    So, what area in Sacramento are you in?

  • @Robbie-Kom
    @Robbie-Kom 3 месяца назад +2

    Homelessness in California… so dirty compared to homeless in India.

  • @be_easy001
    @be_easy001 Год назад +48

    It’s happening in Austin too. Might as well be Cali 2.0. I was playing disc golf with some friends a few months back. The course was turned into a makeshift camp. Tents and shacks filled the course. Even a bicycle chop shop. On hole 17 a man came out of the bushes, looked at us, and ask what sport we were playing. Then pulled out his meth pipe and started toking. The next day the local news reported multiple bodies found in the encampment. Definitely eye opening. One of those weekends you never forget

    • @danielhedrick5643
      @danielhedrick5643 Год назад +4

      Yup...Ben White and Westgate overpass...across from Rrandalls...good store...I feel sorry for the employees..every day a drama now.

    • @henrykaiser8809
      @henrykaiser8809 Год назад

      Austin was becoming a liberal den of fools well before liberals from California started invading Texas. With all the illegal immigration its sure to get worse.

    • @wakeuppeople7327
      @wakeuppeople7327 Год назад

      Austin is a DEMOCRATIC CITY i wonder why it’s bad there. Why is that? Democrats destroy everything

    • @rum4906
      @rum4906 Год назад

      So why keep voting dem? Blue state losers cry but don't fix the issues

    • @tommurphy4307
      @tommurphy4307 Год назад

      are you gonna blame your high prices on californians, too??

  • @racerluke5412
    @racerluke5412 Год назад +58

    These scenes are right out of 3rd world. Heartbreaking oh my gosh.

    • @buckshot6481
      @buckshot6481 Год назад

      Why ? Exactly what Democrats want.

    • @bertram46
      @bertram46 Год назад +10

      That's exactly right and this is what voting Democrat gets you

    • @bertram46
      @bertram46 Год назад +5

      @@gra156 if people keep voting the way they do it will be for all of us

    • @davidkenneth3983
      @davidkenneth3983 Год назад

      Seriosly sad beyond descript in america people turning awY as if its not really (here).build big hole bulldoze bodies in .soon reality especially in cold states foul play people with the resources taking awY life from what used to be people lying cheating pretending its nonexistant.

    • @DiahRhiaJones
      @DiahRhiaJones Год назад

      @@bertram46 You morons keep saying that yet you won't clarify what specific policy that you attribute to democrats that you think leads to this. Whats far more likely is the right pushing through legislation that benefits the rich getting richer and making the working man poorer. Theres actual evidence for that.
      But you just keep on babbling about democrats like you idiots always do. BTW the democrats also want to make themselves richer and theres very little difference between the two sides in our government when it comes down to the things they really care about. Keep pretending otherwise though. I guess you have to since all you care about is cult of personality.

  • @EdithParks-uy3pn
    @EdithParks-uy3pn 7 месяцев назад

    I grew up in San Jose, and when Drive through there I'm in shock. I grew up there and lived there from 1965 to 1988.

  • @cultureclique2173
    @cultureclique2173 7 месяцев назад +2

    Well when 3 people own more than the bottom half, this is the bottom half.

  • @horizon592
    @horizon592 Год назад +87

    It's very sad watching this tragedy unfolding.

    • @dankelly5150
      @dankelly5150 Год назад +4

      But hey California, keep voting Democrat !! 🙄

    • @WorkingmanX
      @WorkingmanX Год назад

      @@dankelly5150 true. As long as we keep voting democrat, all these people from red states will flock here. Because republicans provide zero services to the needy. Instead they make being homeless illegal.
      We take your needy. And feed 1/3 of this country. You're welcome.

    • @dankelly5150
      @dankelly5150 Год назад

      @@WorkingmanX You know that's not true because nobody is "flocking" to blue states, give your head a shake! If anything they're "flocking" to red states like Florida and Texas, nice try though !

    • @WorkingmanX
      @WorkingmanX Год назад +2

      @@dankelly5150 reread my comment. Homeless people are flocking to California. Because of the services provided. How is that not true?

    • @WorkingmanX
      @WorkingmanX Год назад

      @@dankelly5150 or have someone reread it to you. Dolt.

  • @sergpie
    @sergpie Год назад +37

    Admittedly, things are bad here in San Diego, but nowhere near the extent of anything north of us, but we have this phenomenon where there’ll be a literal exodus of hundreds of homeless every time ground breaks on a new building downtown, so they scurry to the next empty lot, which are usually east of downtown. East Village in San Diego after sundown is a circus of the most abject and vile aspects of indigence.

    • @pablopicaro7649
      @pablopicaro7649 Год назад +6

      SD headed down the same path

    • @copiouscat
      @copiouscat Год назад +2

      Yeah and college park trolley stop is like a hub after 12&imperial station 😮‍💨 been livin here for a year and I’m ready to GO! Lol I luckily live in otay ranch but I rather be back home in Miami 😬

    • @TheSnerggly
      @TheSnerggly Год назад +1

      Truth

  • @ssla8723
    @ssla8723 8 месяцев назад

    I think people just don't realize the magnitude. Thank you for enlightening all of us. Do you know what happened to any of them?

  • @saragoltz1191
    @saragoltz1191 4 месяца назад

    Homelessness was bad even before covid in Sacramento. I have lived here for 40 years. Gets worse every year. It’s bad. And very sad.

  • @mritzs5142
    @mritzs5142 Год назад +31

    First off Nick be careful! You need a body guard for some of the places Just want to say, we must not forget it’s not all about drugs, a lot yes, but there are children growing up in places like this , When I worked adolescent units in LA, once the late 2000’s came around there were children leaving their parent’s car going into the school bathroom, washing up and getting their breakfast there to start their day, one family who had 2 cars had a parent in each car with the kids, that was home , these were not people on drugs😢

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 Год назад +2

      You beat me to the punch by 3 weeks. Nick is going into dangerous territory with junkies with nothing to lose. Getting arrested for assault gets the junky off the street, 3 meals, an orange jumpsuit to wear, and a bed to sleep on.