Homelessness in Austin, TX
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- I talk to some residents and some folks experiencing homelessness in Austin, TX, and call out Mayor Adler for his inability to get a handle on things.
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The Governor of Texas and Mayor of Austin should both resign
This is embarrassing 🙈
If you do more of these, ask also what they have worked on, their training and what they'd be able and like to work on (e.g. cleaning, construction/repair work). Someone later watching this might be able to hire them. This is valuable work, thank you.
It's a start. I was thinking that as well while watching this video
Good point!
Most of them don't want to work. It's that simple in a lot of cases.
The city leaders came from Seattle an San Francisco
Great video Brandon thanks for showing us the people's stories and the news on the ground
Wow, thanks for showing this. Hard hitting topic and crazy to see that to downtown.
The lady you talked to seemed nice
“Welcome to the club.” - LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland
It's all of the US. New York City, Chicago etc. Has lots of it too. The bigger the city, the bigger the differences between rich and poor.
They prove that the more money you throw at homelessness, the worse it gets.
STOP FEEDING THE PROBLEM. STARVE IT TO DISCOURAGE FURTHER GROWTH.
Brandon, So glad to see you back . Saw you when you first came back . Nice that you picked a subject that really shows what is happening in Austin, but many other cities. Truthfully these tent cities look well kept up, and real tents ! Seeing the burned out pile if someone’s belongings is very sad . No telling the reason it was burned out. A real failure of the city . I am sure those people did not choose to live out in the open . Take care, stay well, and safe . God bless you. Try to continue creating content .
It's sad to see this.
I'm from the ATX and it's always been like this
That is so much bullshit.
This is happening everywhere, there's a problem with wealth in America, your mayor can't solve that.
Second
Informative video about homelessness.
Thanks for sharing.
I worked in Austin at The University of Texas. The tents were not down there back when i was living there in 2014. I stayed in Copperas Cove and commuted to Austin everyday. It was a hour drive. I honestly recommend to people to stay outside of Austin. Its overpriced. I had a two bedroom apartment for 500 but i stayed in country. When i sometimes visit 6th street it would smell really bad due to the homeless being on the other block. In my opinion, its good when your young and in college but it comes a point where being in the downtown area gets old and you want to relocate.
Man it's also just dangerous. I live in Leander, born and raised in Austin, but my girlfriend lives downtown by all this stuff. It really gets to me that she and I have to worry when she just goes for a walk or to the park by herself.
It's a sad situation and I felt so bad for the woman who was telling her story. Homelessness is a huge problem with no easy fixes.
I moved back home to Austin in late 2019 after a decade in Seattle. To my fellow Austinites: I've seen where this is all heading, and it isn't good. With this occurring in so many cities across the U.S., yet not in others, it is rather conspicuous when you look what the troubled cities have in common (hint: look to the leadership...)
Isn’t Texas Red Republican state? Cali and most west coast is blue Democratic states. I think they both in it together.
@@flawedsparkle6618 Austin isn't in Texas. It is, but it isn't.
It's in all big cities. Name me one city in the US without homeless.
@@fjellyo3261 To differing degrees. Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio are all cities I've visited in the last year that are not experiencing this homeless crisis. It's not all cities. It's all cities with a predominately Democrat/Progressive/Leftist city council. Truth.
And yes, Austin's city council is comprised of strictly Democrats. As is Seattle, Portland, L.A., San Francisco, Washington DC, etc...
A lot of the ppl on the streets have no family . Its hard to find a* job that pays three times the rent for an *apt that is at least somewhat affordable in an ok area , especially if u dont have a so called college education. Not having a college education doesnt mean an individual is uneducated ,not at all. Homelessness is the same issue we are having in Dallas ,Tx the cost of living is too expensive for most people in the State as a whole. The rate of pay is definitely not what it should be for the labor . I can go on and on. Homelessness is seriously an issue across America if we want to just speak from American pov. Wish I could do more but I am only saying this because a person never knows what's to come. Anything can happen. For better or worse. Missed the videos from you . Have an awesome weekend.👍💯👍
yep I think about moving Iowa because rents are cheaper and houses are affordable on 30K a year.
@David Taylor oh really. And the cost of living For a Single person?? And what kind of jobs are available?
This is all by design. Happening in Democrat run areas all over nation. Born and raised in Austin and moved away in 2014. Im in Austin right now visiting and In complete shock over what is going on.
Rick Perry started this with releasing MHMR affected people into the streets, cutting all funds to MHMR and hospitals for them. This was done by REPUBLICANS CUTTING MHMR SERVICES DRASTICALLY around 2010.
And old Austin had an unhoused hippie culture in the old days. Californians and other transplants killed the Keep Austin Weird spirit that welcomed Willie and so many other artists here.
If you can't do anything but lie and harm people. Shut up.
You can leave Austin. We are Austin.
What did I say that was a lie? What makes you so triggered? Have you not seen this trend happening in other American cities? Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, San Francisco…..? “Leaders” asking for millions and millions of dollars to fight homelessness for years and the problem is worse than ever.
@@LizzardoGiganticus and lol at you blaming California. Thats not very woke of you.
@@forestdweller512 #leave #don't come back to Austin. We don't want you yuppies here. #snowflakes
Austin has changed I grew up there sad
Yup, same ! Changed so much .
I feel so sad for that poor lady
that place smells like a portal potty, like an unsanitary toilet. urine!!! everywhere I try to stay away from downtown.
Been working out of town in Austin for about 2 months now and I gotta say Austin is a beautiful city but the homeless problem ruins it ...
Yes ! It’s ruined it’s so sad I’m from Austin and still living here it’s just getting worse
@@Jennifer-jv3rg Be prepared for more, I've always been saying that Austin is about to get Bay Area'ed.
@@DARKSEID76 yeah I know , there’s prop b where you can vote to ban camping I voted hopefully it ends .
it's called gentrification. I know that word is too big for you. So stfu
This is sad...you are right...it's not our job but we can do at least a bit for the unfortunate ones..thanks for wishing them good despite their circumstance.
Where do you expect them to move to are you just want them to go away and don't care that they have nowhere to go and they give them food I think in the city here so they're supposed to starve to whatever.
God bless them
Ever since silicone valleys busness moved here u see more and more homelessness companies like tysla,🍎 and the rest of the big companies r making more expensive to live here
like planned obsolescence through evictions for humans that live in Austin?
I have lived in this city for over 10 years and the past 2 years the issue has been exacerbated despite businesses coming and gentrification booming. Making the city less affordable and furthering the divide. It's maddening, especially when you see studios for $1000+ / month and new apartment being built in the city all over! I don't understand it, why not increase affordable housing options and services! It's disgusting. I'm glad that these transplants are moving in and moving out'...because they aren't adding to the communal and awesomeness of this city.
ROUND THEM UP, PUT THEM IN WORK CAMPS!!!
Yo good to see you back with some videos. Some good insight to a serious topic there.
Time to vote - May 1st
Well done video man!
In the 90's the citizens of Austin wanted growth, now they got it.
I left in the late 90's because this is what I predicted was going to happen.
the solution is literally housing...end of story
Or they could stop doing drugs and take advantage of this city which has a ton of help for homeless? But nah lets spend tax money building "houses" because that's the END OF STORY.
@@Sean-kv1uj you stop being stoopid, you are the one that needs help.
@@LizzardoGiganticus I have to walk around shit in this city thanks to you and your friends.
I'm not the one who needs help!
Shout-out to the trinity church in austin they are Angels 🙏🍀💛💛💛💛💛💛💛🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💛💛💛
I be been homeless before when I moved to california ran out of money expensive but I found a job worked lasted 3 weeks didn't like it sleeping outside taking a bath in park so I grabbed my last check moved back to Austin got a job saved n came back got a room got a job n doing well you got to want to get off the street n try alot of help if you seek it some do some don't
These people need mental help also
Hey man very enjoyed watching your documentation showing the problem of homelessness here in the central area I live Around the Area love to sit down and have a podcast with you on mine if you be down.
My heart goes out to the woman you interviewed.
Send them to california
WOW outstanding slam to the Mayor. tax payers try and walk the streets look what happen to your city be safe stay healthy. Happy Holidays
I wish you had a better mic setup to record the interviewees. The background noise takes over a lot.
And this is the GrEAtEsT cOUnTrY iN tHe WOrLd!
Austin's legalization of camping and sidewalk sleeping.
Austin is the new California.
WE NEED TO PROTEST TO THE CITY AND COUNTY that we the tax payers REFUSE TO PAY SCHOOL AND PROPERTY TAXES UNLESS THIS CRAP IS REMOVED. Those so called homeless drug users are. lost cause
They are a drain and a cancer to this city and need to be excised from it. They should be bussed to the woods and told if they come back to the city that they will be beaten. Let them fend for themselves like the vermin that they are.
@@peebay3515 the hate thats seethes from this comment is disgusting. They’re humans, and your devaluation of their life makes you the cancer to the community-not them.
Crap like you?
"We" need to do more than protest on the internet
go ahead and stop paying taxes you facsist tool of evil. Go to jail on your way to hell.
the mayor and city counicl need to have place for these homeless people to go. A homeless park is cheap to set up. Just need public bathrooms with showers, trash cans and police station. Austin not like new york where it really high density.
If you live in austin, vote "YES" on PROP B on MAY 1st to REINSTATE THE CAMPING BAN
If u have not been there in there u can not we're late to the homeless people in Austin Texas that are living in camps the situation is worse you have more people on 6th Street you have homeless people that have mental health you have homeless people that are exposing their pants and staying in those pants with mental health disabilities so if anybody wants to do anything and I was three I was on the street for 21 years in Austin I know that I know the people help the ones that cannot make right decisions for themselves those are the ones that need help if they cannot mentally make a decision on their own they should be put up somewhere to receive services but Austin's too cheap to do that I have lost several friends in the street in Austin Texas I was popular around 3rd and lavaca my name is my nickname was spider and I hung around with Draco and Matt I'm the only one left that has someone sent to me in me I suffer for mental health disability as well but there are there is one that still remains there that is his name is Matt he's mine is gone so if you care about anything about the homeless anywhere I just hope that you can do something
Good man
California tech companies are moving there from Califirnia so rents are rising plus pandemic this is results this is sad liberal policies not good
I like listening to her story but it is hard to understand her
Steroids sticker tattoos he just a step above heroin
Travis county share a border with Williamson county, the difference couldn't be more stark, Williamson county still enforces vagrancy laws, no pan handling, no living on the street or parks and it's "Do Drugs and do time" Hence no street bums, as compared to Travis county/Austin where it's "Do Drugs and have a good time" "if it feels good do it"
That's what we need here. We need to make life utterly miserable so these loser bums leave. They don't want to work and pay their share, they can go die in the woods like the wild animals that they are.
@@peebay3515 a good portion of homeless in Austin are only homeless because of the transplants running the cost of living up to beyond reasonable. Send the transplants home stop the gentrification and watch the homeless problem decrease exponentially.
This sounds like California 2.0
It's the mayor fault and city officials not the homeless if you can't help the situation why even video
To call attention to the fact that it is the fault of the mayor and city council members
Thank you! I was two years homeless. I could not get help! I got better meals out of dumpsters. I tried to work but being homeless is a job itself. I ended up with 10 blisters and 3 cracked toes. I had to let go of my job. It was faith that saved me. The Most High heard my cries. He seen what St. Davids Hospital did to me. He seen churches turn me away. He witnessed their heartless prayers. He witnessed them give me rotten fruit when I gave them the candy and asked for something healthy. He seen the way I was being gang stalked. No one would help me and I don't think they believed I was being stalked. The Most High Saved my life not the city of Austin. Because some are bad they treat everyone like a criminal. I was just broken inside after losing my kids father and then my children. The Most High truly Saved Me!
Well done. That Mayor needs to go, he's clueless
You are the one that's clueless lol
Is socialism social???
What do you want Mayor Adler to do? Make it against the law to be homeless? Throw all of the homeless in jail? You think that would a solution to the problem? Just round them all up and toss them in the clink? Then what? You would have enough jails and jail cells to put them in and then also think of the cost to the taxpayers what the cost would be to do something like that!
The camping ban should be reimplemented.
@@personaexplora1205 So what are going to do to them, throw them all in jail? How well do you think that would work? Oh hey being homeless and camping out is illegal so if you don't stop it we are going to arrest you???!!!? Then how long are you going to keep them there in jail? Like I said you try to do something like that and the cost to the taxpayers in Travis county would go right through the roof.
@@vbboyd it shouldn’t be illegal to be homeless, but pitching tents in the middle of town should not be permitted.
@@personaexplora1205 Like I say you can't pitch a tent if you are homeless to shelter yourself from weather and so what we are going to do to them, throw you in jail if you live in a tent? Again how well do you think something like that would last? You gonna throw them all in jail for it? How long would you keep them there?
FYI: I have a friend who lives in Houston, Texas in a fairly nice neighborhood but down at the end of the block is a rather large forested area where a lot of homeless people live. People in his neighborhood complained to the city about it all and so the police would come in about once every three to four months and they would roust the homeless people out of their homeless camps and tear up their tents and the campout places and then in less than about 2 to 3 weeks later the homeless would right back there living in that area again. So the cops would come in and roust them out again and then in about 2 to 3 weeks later the homeless would be right back there again. After a while the police and the city said forget about it, this is a never ending battle and there isn't much we can do about it.
So a community organization that deals with homeless went into the place with social workers and counselors and they went in and tried to find who these people were and what their problems were and what their needs were. So the people of this community organization went to great lengths to get these homeless people into facilities that could help treat them for their mental illnesses and their drug and alcohol addictions and helped the people who were out of jobs to get jobs and to get back into the workforce and to be independent and since that has happened the homeless problems in my friend's neighborhood in Houston he says, have gone way down. If we just treated people who have these issues like this on the regular we wouldn't have this problem. But oh no people like you want to just throw the bums in jail and think of them as being something other than human beings. That is pretty sad and pathetic that there are people like you with that kind of attitude to the less fortunate of our society. Remember there but by the grace of God go you or I
@@vbboyd Lol, I didn’t say anything like that. I said that it should be illegal to pitch tents IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN!! There are resources available to the homeless, many of them would prefer to live on the streets and drink and take drugs. There has been an uptick in homeless violence, pollution, and open drug use (including discarded) needles since the morons on the city council voted unanimously to lift the camping ban. It’s pretty sad and pathetic that there are people like you who are so wrapped up in their phony moral superiority that their unable to see th damage that has been done by this awful policy decision.