“Homeless Advocates” AKA shameless grifters, need to be summarily rounded up and fed to starving wild hogs, they are worse than the filthy, violent, thieving “housing challenged” individuals who wreck our communities.
@@KN-eh2fh homeless advocates are not individually equipped to deal with a large number of homeless individuals who need proffesional mental health and addiction care
When we lived in LA 15 years ago, Venice was our favorite place for restaurants, bars and people-watching. Now, I wouldn't go near the place. You can also put Santa Monica is that same category.
Watching homeless in bikinis, and woman on crack screaming and crying about their life….? It’s unfortunate that homelessness is an issue in such a beautiful area. But it’s worse that those in charge of the county’s caused that to happen in the first place. From 💩 paying jobs, to bills increasing drastically every year, and the housing market becoming a greedy business/monopoly that takes advantage of the everyday working class. It’s no surprise why many have mental break downs, turn to drugs and crime and just straight up give up in life and become homeless.
I stopped at an empty Santa Monica park 30 years ago on a Sunday afternoon. Used the restroom. Sneaky cop zapped me with a $25 parking ticket. I will never stop in Santa Monica again.
As someone who worked with homeless daily, I can vouch that most don’t want help, housing or even attempt to find work. And blue glasses needs to mediate before he passes out.
I can vouch for that. I worked with homeless youth on venice buto mstly hollywood and like you said ovewhelmingly they just want to do whatever they want. they want to live with no rules and wouldn't last 2 days in a transitional program.
I worked for NASA for a number of years. As well as a Marine Corp Veteran. But I refuse to make Caucasians their wealth through my labor anymore. The problem isn't that people don't want to work. We just don't want to work for everyone else making the actual wealth. -COMANCHE NATION
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
The reality is most of these squatters are dealing with drug and alcohol addiction. They need to be locked up against their will and cleaned up and not released until they can become productive...wishful thinking.
100% agree. I've worked with the homeless for over a decade and the chronically homeless are ALL, I repeat, ALL, mentally ill, drug addicts, and career criminals. We should not have sympathy for these people, they are mostly dangerous and do NOT care about anyone but themselves. They need to be locked up in facilities. But you are right. It won't happen.
The real question is WHO IS POCKETING THE MONEY THAT IS ALLOCATED FOR THE HOMELESS....? WHO IS ENRICHING THEIR POCKETS WHILE TELLING THE PUBLIC THEY ARE GOING TO HELP THE HOMELESS....? These are the real questions people should be asking the governor, the mayor, the head of LOS ANGELES HOUSING AUTHORITY....??? THEY SHOULD BE AUDITED on the 20 thousand people they say they housed...
they already investigated and said its been lahsa who has been pocketing funds and wasting food supply while doing personal shopping while they are being paid to do outreach and house people.
This people don't want help , all they want is crack cocaine. The real problem is that the police is not doing arrests for illegal drug possession, . Illegal drugs is all over LA and the police are just doing nothing
@@taxfree4603 what happened to it? America is about indvidualism, if you can't pull your weight, many of us have to work 2 jobs, and work jobs we hate everyday just to be a part of that society. Those that don't, we don't need. simple as that.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
If that were the only issue with CA I would still be there. I was forced to leave due to the downfall and major social, economic and policy issues in my home state of 51 years. What a nightmare and I do pray CA and its residents get a miracle, otherwise the state will continue to erode.
It has already been eroding for years - look at the people in the comments sections' attitudes and ignorance of homeless people. God is going to have fun with them on Judgment Day.
Your solution is to stuff them in already crowded prisons as the expense of taxpayers only to be released and repeat the cycle again without anyone address the actual root problems of their homelessness
Move them to housing so they can trash that place as well? Did anyone see what the homeless did to the booshie hotels in San Fran during COVID? One had a meth lab built inside. Housing is not the issue. Why is this so hard to understand 🤦♂️
We have all those unused FEMA camps. Some hold up to a million. Put them in there, give 'em all the dope, booze and weapons they want and let them go at it away from the rest of us.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
They need mandated long term in-patient mental health treatment!! And they should not be allowed to refuse housing or mental health services when they clearly are incapable of making sound decisions for themselves.
To that homeless advocate, I have to ask. Who will pay to house them? Because I know housing is not free. Because if it’s free, I want free housing too.
depends, i have a job and im about to have to get myself a tent. i have cronic health issues that make it hard to live a normal life and i do nothing but work and sleep and spend all my free time recovering and managing my health issues. i dont get to do anything fun anymore i dont go out dont hangout with friends, i cant even buy and play damn video games. basically just bedridden most of the time and take pain killers to get through my work days. Gas has doubled for my car so now im saving almost nothing after living expenses.
@@sergiosandoval2434 i do have damn rough you smooth brain. You can live in a dirt poor country but if you have health you can get through it or even live a decent life. But if your health severely disables you, youre basically doomed. Even poor people can move about freely to find resources or food. But severe illness can limit your mobility, energy, strenght, and keep you from doing anything.
Living rent free on prime beachfront property is a matter of entitlement, not homelessness. These are drug addicts not workers unable to make enough for an apartment. If you’re choosing drugs and the lifestyle that goes with that, then it’s not the community’s job to find you housing. Go to a shelter in downtown L.A. not beachfront. If the police aren’t doing their job, then get new police.
Kamala Harris: "Because we all know, elections matter. And when folks vote, they order what they want. And in this case, they got what they asked for..."
I went to SF several times in 2019. I could not believe the change in that city from 20 years ago. You can't even walk around alone without being accosted, even in a nice neighborhood. The bodies in the street at night are scary. And the stench at all times is overwhelming.
When I was in elementary an old teacher may he rest in peace said , that in the future there is not going to be middle class . It's going to be either you are wealthy or poor . Pretty soon you'll see walls and separating everyone. Just like in the movies
imagine this... while other Not SO Great countries all around the world built affordable houising for their people, yet this so called The Greatest Country in the world unable to solve this sh*t... such a sh*thole...
we actually probably need another major credit and economic collapse at this point. so some of these entities buying up swaths of rental properties and charging that sort of rent can be taken down a couple pegs when the value of their properties get cut in half or worse. there isn't ALWAYS money in brick and mortar lol. 2007/8 all over again but its going to be worse this time.
1500+ for a 1BR , this is what happens when housing gets out of control, enjoy it, complain about drugs all you want, as long as housing prices are unrealistic this is what you are going to get.
I live on the east coast and the beaches near me have strict enforcement so there is no camping at all. Beaches are spotless and beautiful, boardwalk also. It's all about how you manage the issue. Hundreds of beaches in USA do NOT have this problem. The ones that do need to look at how the others do it. It's all about management.
@@klausmkl nope. Totally different culture. At the beaches I visit if even one cigarette butt is on the sidewalk they clean it up immediately and fine you $100 if they catch you dropping it. I'm not joking
Here's an idea. Help them move to the Govener's mansion, the mayor's house, the capital, Napa, Beverly Hills & Bel Aire. I bet they'll come up with something then! They just keep going back to areas where ppl can't help them.
While I would love to see the problem pushed onto the ruling classes (the capitalists who only build unaffordable housing, and the government that complies with that situation), I don't want to see people used as a weapon.
Housings really only a part of the problem. The majority of the homeless population struggle with addictions and mental health issues and that what needs to be addressed.. but reality is you can't force someone to want help or to want to do better , so there will always be homeless people... and now, fentanyl has taken over everywhere and sadly I don't see this problem getting better any time soon ... Need to be funding mental health resources, suboxone programs, rehabs, transitional housing, sober living, proper shelters, job training ... all those billions sent to Ukraine could've been out to good use elsewhere🙄
solution: 1) Venice breaks away from the city and incorporates as its own town and makes its own laws and ordinances. 2) Then sends all those vagrants to skidrow.
I'd be pissed off too can't even take your kid's grandparents to the beach .people who work their asses off pay taxes to keep it clean yes I'd be pissed
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
He has been the one to clear up the many homeless sites, but OFFICIALS are continuing to enable the homeless to come back. You can't expect for the Sheriff to do this 24/7 when other crimes are rising.
It’s only going to get worse. Affordable housing is getting harder and harder to find. The city I live in has several major housing developments going in. Only problem is that none of the folks in the service industry will be able to afford any of it. Even professional couples making over two hundred thousand a year can’t afford the housing going in. Some apartments going for fox thousand dollars a month.
@@colinthomas867 One has nothing to do with the other. This is a case of parasitic landowners and a compliant city building expensive housing for uber-yuppies at the expense of the working class.
@@scottcharney1091 Yes it is, and it has very little to do with the drug addicts and chronically mentally ill folks who are homeless. The help they need requires institutionalization.
I hope everyone who cheered on the clearing of the encampments last year is happy that their tax dollars were completely wasted. Maybe next time you'll listen to homeless advocates.
Sunny southern California.....free beachfront property ......live rent free....where can you find that? Plus, free food, free money and lots of good drugs to get high .
I agree with you but they want to build new villages instead. It's not a coincednce that the fmr exec of LAHSA Heidi M. removed anti camping laws that was done on purpose so that developers would be needed to build these tiny village. Then these developers would get the contracts to build these ugly mega mansions on these hilltops. There never was a housing shortage to begin with, they just needed a reason to justify wasting taxpayer money on housing the homeless.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
You knows what’s crazy I’m in nj and we barely have this stuff. We have programs that integrates addicts from addiction to recovery to sober living. Here’s the part no one wants to hear, there’s no accountability in this country anymore. If you can’t afford living where you, you have to adapt and move somewhere you can afford until you work your way to better wages. A lot of the addicts I see(as a former alcoholic) just manipulate and lie to get an easy ride to their next high. As far as the people that did the work, showed up to group, provided clean urine samples for sixth months. We’re given rental assistance, food stamps and cash assistance. There’s programs out there more people need to take accountability in this country stop pointing the finger Bc you failed yourself not society.
No. You ship homeless to more homeless friendly states such as California, or they move while they are still somewhat functional. Often, their families disown them, and just give them money for one way ticket to Venice beach or wherever they wanna go. Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
People shouldnt have to leave areas they have ties to and family history in just beacause some assholes decide to built luxury condiminums instead of affordable housing
"Homeless" is an overused term that has no meaning anymore. Best to call them clueless. They are clueless as to how to fix their situation in life so they wait for someone else to be the problem-solver.
Nice try, but most homeless are not clueless and certainly not there by choice. They work just as hard and often as you - you know what that term is - its called "Working poor". Maybe you might want to research that, but that would mean having to set aside your ignorance and chosen cognitive dissonance to do so. It is not hard to do. All you got to do is choose to do it. If not, well, then those working homeless are not the fools.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 Nice try? I'm not trying to do anything here except say that life is full of problems and YOU have to be the problem-solver. Somehow that has got you using these made up terms from academia . Cognitive dissonance? Do you know the difference between organically developed language and academically manipulated language. Hello? Truth is expressed in simply words. You might want to go back to school and research some more bullshit.
Lol more excuses to ignore the repercussions of 1500+ for a 1BR, you reap what you sew, enjoy it while its still a minor issue, you haven't seen NOTHING yet.
Housing isn't the solution either, though. Don't get me wrong, it's a very tough situation to properly address, but giving more handouts does nothing but send the message, 'Hey, you don't wanna work? You just want us to take care of you and provide for you? That's OK! We will'.... not all, but there is a considerable amount of people that are homeless by choice, and that is not ok. Again, not talking about those that are genuinely trying or are mentally/physically incapable of taking care of themselves, this is directed towards the abusers of the system that are ever-so-prevalent in 2022.
I personally know ppl that are "housed" that would otherwise be in the streets. I do get your point but it's one of those situations where there is no grey area. Either house them or deal with more encampments. And also keep in mind....how much money was sent to Ukraine???
@@ghostfacedrilla4119 well that further proves my point. If the housing isn't working or sufficient, quit wasting money paying for it and do something more useful. Fix our roads, invest in our poor education system, etc, etc. I've heard of these housing facilities burning down from occupants smoking or doing drugs in them. What a waste.
@@ghostfacedrilla4119 Most don't want housing or hotel rooms, they can't do drugs and then if they do, they get evicted. You can't have it both ways if they offer housing and you don't follow basic rules.
First off, "Society" which means your fellow humans and the Government are two different things. The Government is there first and foremost as an institution to SERVE the citizens, and customer service involves taking care of and providing for people. Yes, that only goes to a certain extent, but the idea that government should do anything other than take care of and provide for people is generally wrong I think. Also, humanity should be sending messages of care as well. Secondly, why is it not ok to be homeless by choice? It definitely is ok, no one should be forced to live in a home if they don't want to. This is the land of Freedom, which means we should be able to express ourselves FREELY. There's a difference between being homeless and being a homeless nuisance. Personally I just think whatever service the government provides should be made universally available to any citizen. Whatever handout, and I think depending on the handout it could make homelessness less socially appealing than it already is. Imagine free college housing to anyone willing to get an education, or UBI pegged to the cost of living in the places that the U.S. is trying to get people to move to and services helping people move to cheaper areas.
I wish I could live on Venice Beach too but I can’t afford it so don’t. Why don’t these people move to smaller towns and cities across America where it is only a fraction to live and rent? Oh right, because they won’t be able to live their life of leisure on the beach for free while doing drugs. They might actually have to work.
@@sheldonhollis5258 What an ignorant comment. Of course wages in small towns are less but when you take into account cost of everything verses wages it is cheaper to live in a small town! It’s also cheaper to live in Oklahoma City than it is in San Francisco, despite far higher wages in SF. It shouldn’t be rocket science.
Generally speaking he is correct if you look at affordability studies that measure median income vs median home prices. CA has 4 of the nations 5 least affordable cities. Bigger point is you are not going to garner sympathy for not being able to afford living on the ocean in LA.
That's why I never go to Los Angeles, The Beaches and Especially Certain Public parks in The San Fernando Valley Because of The Homeless, It's a Deal Breaker for me, I live across the street from a park and the homeless live there Too, It's Really Ugly Obviously
Yep good job California. You do nothing about the homeless and crime for so many years. So regular citizens are leaving your state for good, and we’re taking our tax dollars with us.
Well.. California is a BIG place.. with alot of land. Just use some of the empty or abandoned warehouses in L.A. or anywhere across the metropolitan area and just build highrises as complexes of "wellness" to treat the homeless and shelter them temporarily until they're ready to get out of the streets. There's money in L.A. ... why doesn't anyone contribute with that?! It will be easier.
Have u followed any of the housing projects theyve attempted? Somehow it costs around half a million dollars to build a single person dwelling for a homeless person. Remember the millionaire that had been homeless once and wanted to give back so he started providing hundreds of sheds painted bright colors for the homeless and the city shut him down? Its all about money and exploiting the unfortunate while perpetuating the problem so the cycle can continue.
It's amazing nowadays that people still believe that these politics are going to make a change good luck with that. People that get into politics nowadays it's just for themselves they don't care about the people it's all about making money and easy living.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
I'm going to take me a 10 out there too if they wouldn't go overboard on prices of the houses and apartments taking advantage of people then it wouldn't be like this they want all your money they want all the rent money all the gas money all the light money your phone money your food money people tired of that they give it they all and they all is not good enough so I may be taking me a 10 out there too f*** that
It is not a shame to be homeless. What is a shame is for the homeless to make the community where they camp out a trash dump. They should really consider thinking about others and keeping the area where they camp out clean.
I was in Los Angeles last week. I talked to a guy who was homeless He said he gets $1179 a month from SS. I said u could easily buy a home in Tx for that.
1500+ for a 1BR , this is what happens when housing gets out of control, enjoy it, complain about drugs all you want, as long as housing prices are unrealistic this is what you are going to get.
It's only going to get worse I never been homeless in my life and then this is the first year that all the money I make goes to rent I don't have money for food or anything else so I have no choice but to move to the streets I only make minimum wage 12 bucks an hour
Funny those advocates of the homeless are also environmentalists🤣Ya, all that trash and all their dirty needles are getting swept right into the ocean and the storm drains🙃🙃🙃🙃🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I actually have watched a lot of videos from Invisible People, they're heartbreaking. I also live in a neighborhood with 2 small kids and can't walk the streets without crossing the street at times to get away from the crazy bums. Where do you draw the line? Who has the rights? If you give homeless the right to set up camp practically wherever they want, then you are taking away the right of everyone else to have a city that's not completely crap. If you make it illegal to camp anywhere in the city, then you are making it a crime to not be able to afford housing? It's all f*cked! 66,000 people and counting living on the streets of LA. Let that sink in. That's the size of the city I grew up in. They need to get off the streets though. This is insanity!
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 how christian and godly of you to show such compassion for someone by telling them they are just whining. fucking hilarious how that is just a narrative that serves to make you feel better while you don't actually live it. good job.
LA has become a safe place for drug addicts to do their drugs. It has attracted people from all across the country who want to engage in their addiction, enabled by a group of people who want to feel good about themselves. The addicted homeless should be moved into shelters with the compassionate stipulation that they actively seek & follow treatment. If they refuse and continue using drugs, engaging in prostitution, stealing, looting, and defecating in public, they should be arrested.
In Eureka CA, we give drug users needles and a "safe" place to get high. This is our way of dealing with addiction. As for those struggling with mental illness, it's a revolving door. They're given counseling, food, shelter, safety, even work, yet they still end up on the streets. Many here believe it would be a human rights violation if we forcefully removed them and placed them into a rehab treatment facility against their will.
@@dakrawnik4208 Yes and No. The whole situation is out of control and not one single politician can undertake it all...BUT! it has to start somewhere and with someone who shakes things up and sets forth a plan to take this head on; Karen is just going to baby the situation, politicize it, and make it worse overall.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
@ El Carlos You are totally wrong! You should be ashamed of yourself. I have noticed people are training theirselves to do what it wrong instead of right!
Is that Matt Foley? (Guy with Blue Glasses)... lol... these old people need a hobbie(the people that have time to complain about this)... Homeless people have a hard enough life... I dare anyone looking to "move" them off the beach to get your own A-$ out there for one night and see what they are enduring... Why not just make a section of the beach for them? Install more "sand showers" and get your "up to do stuck up self" behind a soup spoon and feed them one night a month as a organizer instead of "organizing" a harassment bill to move "them along"... they are hurting no one/ usually "police" and govern themselves and help the "recycling efforts" (typically hunt for cans and bottles) in all communities... Humans genetic make up resort to our primitive (reference to Neolithic Era lifestyles) mindset for survival. The difference between them and you (meant in general) are simply choices made in life, up bringing and opportunities available to them... Pay them to clean the beach from 5 am to 7 am... provide strick guidance to what is allowed to be lived in (covered housing with a tarp for example) ; but let them have a place on the beach or move them to a more suitable but reasonable location that is just as SAFE (Safety is always an issue for them)... And get yourself out there for one night before you judge.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
We need there to be political consequences for elected leaders who fail to solve this problem and political reward for those who do. or at least who make a dent in it.
so then what would solve the problem? because literally no one in the world has the answer. there is homeless everywhere. a lot of these people dont want help. they want to live on the streets.
@@RideRedRacer so just ignore it? our status quo on this one seems unacceptable. Why not at least try some approaches that seem to have had positive results elsewhere? Like Finland, for instance? our politics seems swamped with culture war issues that have little to do with running cities, states or the country for that matter.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
This is an addiction and mental health issue. There’s many factors involve, there is homeless every where but California has the perfect weather to be in as homeless. Put all the homeless together and send them to those ghost towns in the middle of the country. Silly solution but the most realistic when the problem it is so deep as cancer
Ah yes, give them more free stuff so they can do whatever they want without the will or drive to better themselves or be a functioning member of society. Seems to be working very well.
Excuse me. "I have no place to go". Who's at fault that these people don't have a place to live. A person should not be defined by their mistakes. Okay, I will by that; however, I should not be made to pay for their mistakes m
if everyone pays their FAIR SHARE of TAXES you aren't paying for anyone's mistake. you are paying your taxes. and the entities that get that tax money would be able to actually have assistance programs and housing programs for those less fortunate. where dumb mother fuckers get it mixed up is thinking that taxes are still their money. you aren't paying for anyone that you don't take money out and hand it to them. if the local authorities can place these folks somewhere you tax dollars are going to maintaining a safer community. but no people argue that its rewarding these people as if its a glamorous life and they are being rewarded for it... crazy that people can make that retarded mental leap.
People who want to go for transitional housing and get help That will work. The people that are sorry and just wanna lay around & live life free and do drugs and whatever they need to put cameras up and have police force out there and put a stop To this crap. I go to the one in Atlantic City and I don't see tents all along the boardwalk. It's probably because those People that own those casinos are not having it. There's police force all up and down that boardwalk. this is a place that people come from all over the world to visit, and they don't come there to see people laying up in nasty funky tents with funky clothes and garbage all over the place. You can't even get to the beach and enjoy it. Like you could back in the 80s.**** is disgusting.
The advocates always eat well don't they. How many of the 200 given housing are still there? The only solution to dealing with Zombies is to make vagrancy as hard as possible on them near populated areas, so they get so fed up of the life they do try and self correct. The lifers need to be put in asylums. Allowing people free fall in these places because they are allowed to, catered to, and encouraged to stay there, who might otherwise get some sense, is a moral crime.
These people need to be cleaned up, assessed for health and mental wellness needs and placed appropriately in institutions that can meet their needs and allow them to participate productively in society.
The guy with the blue glasses come on okay why don't you put them at your house 🤡 most of these people are addicted to drugs with mental problems that's why they end up where they're at. I Have watched Friends go down this road make the mistakes that put them in that position burn all their Bridges with friends and family what do you think's going to happen. I made better choices in my life and that's why I'm not in that position. Stop enabling these people and get them real help.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Property and home prices on/near the beach are not affordable, thanks to wealthy foreigners who have priced Americans out of home ownership. For the US working class, the tent/shanty homesteaders could be on the cutting edge of a ground floor opportunity. The homesteaders could sell their homestead (tent) on the beach to permanent and or vacation home buyers.
Bring back the draft. I remember how once there was a choice of college or the draft and it was a powerful motivational tool. Then it was over and the pressure was off. Drop out,kick back,go surf in Mexico and then live on the beach. I've been trying to promote an Urban Corps. Take freshly discharged military and go into the homeless camps and rescue the veterans and those who are willing to work. Take them to barracks with meals and showers and train them to operate a campground and machinery. Then start cleaning camps up. Give the homeless some choices. Either go to the legal campground,join the Urban Corps or hide somewhere we can't find you. Make it clear hiding is a crime and camps will be cleared and may be cited. No veteran should be homeless and with this program we can take care of them while they can continue to serve the country.
Why don't the pro homeless invite homeless to camp in their yards? You can offer them to come into your home, use your bathroom, set in your living room in the air conditioner on hot days. Come on where's all that compassion that you have?
I must be an idiot so please explain: where would you actually want homeless people to be? Not on the street, not on the beach, not in their cars, not in un a house... Outer space? Underground? The Moon? Mars? Should they acquire the ability to "not be in any place at all"? How does logic works?
Woke Mark seems like a real 🥜 Job, I think I'm going to try to go homeless and see if I can get a free apartment, with free utilities, with a view of the Puget Sound and the Space Needle! 👍🤪👍
These advocates are disgusting, they never have any solutions
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“Homeless Advocates” AKA shameless grifters, need to be summarily rounded up and fed to starving wild hogs, they are worse than the filthy, violent, thieving “housing challenged” individuals who wreck our communities.
@@tpolerex7282 indeed
@@tpolerex7282 they only pop up in front of cameras when they city crew finished cleaning all them filthy human waste.
These advocates make sure the problem never gets resolved otherwise they would be out of a job.
Blue glasses should have all those homeless move in with him
Yup but he won't
Like all these people trying claim West side to fit in & look cool...Pfft...grow up.
@@TacoJ1LL yeah the hobos
He passes out food to the homeless everyday. What are you doing other than offering sarcasm?
@@sinebar passing out food is not helping the homeless but enabling them.
Send homeless people to those advocates home. One wants free housing and the other wants to help. Problem solved.
@AJ XOXO That's why I said sending homeless to advocates home. That's the way to help if they truly care.
@AJ XOXO Government officials are so incompetent in the first place. Better doing nothing than doing something is their philosophy.
@AJ XOXO Great observation, Captain.
@@KN-eh2fh homeless advocates are not individually equipped to deal with a large number of homeless individuals who need proffesional mental health and addiction care
I don't get that logic. Nobody can house thousands of people. It takes a functional, working government to solve this. Not one lone individual.
imagine stepping on a needle while walking along that beach.
there u go the std. STD
People have and do and will
When we lived in LA 15 years ago, Venice was our favorite place for restaurants, bars and people-watching. Now, I wouldn't go near the place. You can also put Santa Monica is that same category.
Watching people in bikinis?
Lived in Venice Beach from 1993-94. Wonderful at the time. My last trip in 2018, it was barely recognizable.The last few yrs have been Thunderdome.
Watching homeless in bikinis, and woman on crack screaming and crying about their life….? It’s unfortunate that homelessness is an issue in such a beautiful area. But it’s worse that those in charge of the county’s caused that to happen in the first place. From 💩 paying jobs, to bills increasing drastically every year, and the housing market becoming a greedy business/monopoly that takes advantage of the everyday working class. It’s no surprise why many have mental break downs, turn to drugs and crime and just straight up give up in life and become homeless.
I stopped at an empty Santa Monica park 30 years ago on a Sunday afternoon. Used the restroom.
Sneaky cop zapped me with a $25 parking ticket.
I will never stop in Santa Monica again.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is.
As someone who worked with homeless daily, I can vouch that most don’t want help, housing or even attempt to find work. And blue glasses needs to mediate before he passes out.
I can vouch for that. I worked with homeless youth on venice buto mstly hollywood and like you said ovewhelmingly they just want to do whatever they want. they want to live with no rules and wouldn't last 2 days in a transitional program.
I worked for NASA for a number of years.
As well as a Marine Corp Veteran.
But I refuse to make Caucasians their wealth through my labor anymore.
The problem isn't that people don't want to work.
We just don't want to work for everyone else making the actual wealth.
-COMANCHE NATION
@@thechiefwildhorse4651 way to make it about race lmao
@@voidy2077
Way to avoid the truth lol
-COMANCHE NATION
mediate or meditate? or both?
They should camp at the homeless advocates’ homes.
And what happens if there are no more homeless advocates? Where will the homeless go then?
@@ericp1139 find a job and then get an apt. If Cali is too high, move somewhere else.
@@MrMarkmcfarland oh, it’s that easy? Why didn’t anyone else think of that?
@@ericp1139 because DRUGS
If they want to live on the beach, let’s send all of them to the Salton Sea. They can have all the beach they want.
Get rid of them please they just trash everything
and steal everything
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
And they have no hygiene facilities, so ….
And poo everywhere
The reality is most of these squatters are dealing with drug and alcohol addiction. They need to be locked up against their will and cleaned up and not released until they can become productive...wishful thinking.
Yep. The book ‘San Fransicko’ lays out the actual reality of the situation.
Yes! We need more Americans locked up for not complying. Freedom is only real when they bend to our ̶w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ will.
100% agree. I've worked with the homeless for over a decade and the chronically homeless are ALL, I repeat, ALL, mentally ill, drug addicts, and career criminals. We should not have sympathy for these people, they are mostly dangerous and do NOT care about anyone but themselves.
They need to be locked up in facilities.
But you are right. It won't happen.
In Russia they would do that
there are too many liberal lunatics living of the taxpayers working in the HIC
The real question is WHO IS POCKETING THE MONEY THAT IS ALLOCATED FOR THE HOMELESS....? WHO IS ENRICHING THEIR POCKETS WHILE TELLING THE PUBLIC THEY ARE GOING TO HELP THE HOMELESS....? These are the real questions people should be asking the governor, the mayor, the head of LOS ANGELES HOUSING AUTHORITY....??? THEY SHOULD BE AUDITED on the 20 thousand people they say they housed...
they already investigated and said its been lahsa who has been pocketing funds and wasting food supply while doing personal shopping while they are being paid to do outreach and house people.
This people don't want help , all they want is crack cocaine. The real problem is that the police is not doing arrests for illegal drug possession, . Illegal drugs is all over LA and the police are just doing nothing
Yep...The Homeless Industrial Complex...lots of taxpayer money involved going to government who don't ever want the problem solved.
The answer is Democrats.
Blue glasses getting a bunch
California loves the homeless. We need to provide them with more benefits and free housing. What could go wrong?
Whatever happened to taking care of our own citizens?
🤦🤦🤦
@@taxfree4603 They are fentanyl addicts.
What housing
@@taxfree4603 what happened to it? America is about indvidualism, if you can't pull your weight, many of us have to work 2 jobs, and work jobs we hate everyday just to be a part of that society. Those that don't, we don't need. simple as that.
They never left. I see them creeping around like coyotes at night.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
I was trying to figure out if it was your mom or a coyote I saw creeping about recently.
@@SwampDweller67 it was your sister walking on her hind legs.
If that were the only issue with CA I would still be there. I was forced to leave due to the downfall and major social, economic and policy issues in my home state of 51 years. What a nightmare and I do pray CA and its residents get a miracle, otherwise the state will continue to erode.
It has already been eroding for years - look at the people in the comments sections' attitudes and ignorance of homeless people. God is going to have fun with them on Judgment Day.
Miracle? How about stop voting for leftist politicians.
Whered u go
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 Uh, its the homeless people that are going to be judged. Parasites living off the work of others.
What has happened to California is what happens to all places run by liberals.
Get clean and sober and get a job or get sent to slab city.
That’s a great idea
Very good idea WOW.
Yeah let's just funnel more money to prisons I'm sure that'll work
Your solution is to stuff them in already crowded prisons as the expense of taxpayers only to be released and repeat the cycle again without anyone address the actual root problems of their homelessness
@@user-gm2qh1td4c Slab city is a place in the desert without laws. So it's perfect for those that don't want to obey any laws.
We need asylums. That's the permanent housing solution many permanently homeless people need.
Abandoned military bases. House the drug addicts there until they sober up or OD
This
Note the de-institutionalization that began in the 1970s but was finalized by Reagan & company.
Move them to housing so they can trash that place as well? Did anyone see what the homeless did to the booshie hotels in San Fran during COVID? One had a meth lab built inside. Housing is not the issue. Why is this so hard to understand 🤦♂️
We have all those unused FEMA camps. Some hold up to a million. Put them in there, give 'em all the dope, booze and weapons they want and let them go at it away from the rest of us.
They don't want housing, funding for homeless services needs to be suspended.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
I wonder if Devils island can take them or maybe restructure Alcatraz
They need mandated long term in-patient mental health treatment!! And they should not be allowed to refuse housing or mental health services when they clearly are incapable of making sound decisions for themselves.
To that homeless advocate, I have to ask. Who will pay to house them? Because I know housing is not free. Because if it’s free, I want free housing too.
Colonizers stole everything. They should pay.
@@AJBlueJay SMH, we’re talking about today, not things that happen 3-400 years ago. Please stay relevant.
You're bitter that a houseless person would receive a free place to sleep and you can't? Loser behavior.
Living on the beach full time would be a dream.
🚿 shower's and restroom 🚻 easily accessible IJS
Advocates, how about showing some examples by allowing homeless camp in your front and backyards?
Go to San Francisco.. take the advocates with you
dont worry, the US$ 40 Billion relief fund will be handed out soon... to the Ukraine...
"Nowhere to go". How about go look for a job.
depends, i have a job and im about to have to get myself a tent. i have cronic health issues that make it hard to live a normal life and i do nothing but work and sleep and spend all my free time recovering and managing my health issues. i dont get to do anything fun anymore i dont go out dont hangout with friends, i cant even buy and play damn video games. basically just bedridden most of the time and take pain killers to get through my work days. Gas has doubled for my car so now im saving almost nothing after living expenses.
I have a job. I work 6 days a week. I'm homeless.
Too busy looking for that next fix or thing to steal.
@@jhnyjoejoe69 You want to talk about having it rough go to other countries and see how much people make out there.
@@sergiosandoval2434 i do have damn rough you smooth brain. You can live in a dirt poor country but if you have health you can get through it or even live a decent life. But if your health severely disables you, youre basically doomed. Even poor people can move about freely to find resources or food. But severe illness can limit your mobility, energy, strenght, and keep you from doing anything.
The problem is not sober homeless, but drug addict homeless that refuse help and continue with this nuisance dangerous cycle.
Drugs are fun and pleasuring
Asylums need to be built.
Yeah
For the mentally ill rich consumers.
Living rent free on prime beachfront property is a matter of entitlement, not homelessness. These are drug addicts not workers unable to make enough for an apartment. If you’re choosing drugs and the lifestyle that goes with that, then it’s not the community’s job to find you housing. Go to a shelter in downtown L.A. not beachfront. If the police aren’t doing their job, then get new police.
band aid solutions
I couldn’t agree more. I’m compassionate but this is beyond people down on their luck.
Yup. The prices of real estate in that area is crazy.
It is a nightmare,… we don’t go there any more. Shame for the city, for the people who pay for the parks and businesses
Kamala Harris: "Because we all know, elections matter. And when folks vote, they order what they want. And in this case, they got what they asked for..."
I live in San Francisco and it's the same here. These people do not want help because they rather live off state money and not follow any rules.
I went to SF several times in 2019. I could not believe the change in that city from 20 years ago. You can't even walk around alone without being accosted, even in a nice neighborhood. The bodies in the street at night are scary. And the stench at all times is overwhelming.
But if you even say the wrong thing your life will be destroyed I guess this is why my grandpa always railed against communism
When I was in elementary an old teacher may he rest in peace said , that in the future there is not going to be middle class . It's going to be either you are wealthy or poor . Pretty soon you'll see walls and separating everyone. Just like in the movies
We def need a wall…
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness.
What a depressing day at school
@@sarbantz life is all about choices. Don’t blame an inanimate object on peoples’ poor decisions.
@@sarbantz nope. What it means is that people who are already homeless tend to do fentanyl .
2bedroom rent is $3000 in Los Angeles. How can homeless people afford that when average American is having difficult time paying rent
minimum pays less then that a month, after taxes, gas, food, and appliances, its not even enough for a studio, barely enough for a room.
I have a job. I work 6 days a week. I'm homeless.
imagine this... while other Not SO Great countries all around the world built affordable houising for their people, yet this so called The Greatest Country in the world unable to solve this sh*t... such a sh*thole...
we actually probably need another major credit and economic collapse at this point. so some of these entities buying up swaths of rental properties and charging that sort of rent can be taken down a couple pegs when the value of their properties get cut in half or worse. there isn't ALWAYS money in brick and mortar lol. 2007/8 all over again but its going to be worse this time.
Then they should move to a low cost area.
I wonder when California is going to decide to enforce their laws??
There are plenty of places to go. They just don't want to go there because they prefer the beach lifestyle.
Entitled hobos
1500+ for a 1BR , this is what happens when housing gets out of control, enjoy it, complain about drugs all you want, as long as housing prices are unrealistic this is what you are going to get.
I live on the east coast and the beaches near me have strict enforcement so there is no camping at all. Beaches are spotless and beautiful, boardwalk also.
It's all about how you manage the issue. Hundreds of beaches in USA do NOT have this problem. The ones that do need to look at how the others do it. It's all about management.
I live on the East Coast and the beaches are filthy, even minus homeless people.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 Well maybe some. Not the ones I know well from Northern FL to Rhode Island. Many beautiful ones.
@@spg5658 Don't worry, you're beaches will fall
@@klausmkl nope. Totally different culture. At the beaches I visit if even one cigarette butt is on the sidewalk they clean it up immediately and fine you $100 if they catch you dropping it. I'm not joking
True. California is managed by corruption and incompetence.
Here's an idea. Help them move to the Govener's mansion, the mayor's house, the capital, Napa, Beverly Hills & Bel Aire. I bet they'll come up with something then! They just keep going back to areas where ppl can't help them.
While I would love to see the problem pushed onto the ruling classes (the capitalists who only build unaffordable housing, and the government that complies with that situation), I don't want to see people used as a weapon.
Housings really only a part of the problem. The majority of the homeless population struggle with addictions and mental health issues and that what needs to be addressed.. but reality is you can't force someone to want help or to want to do better , so there will always be homeless people... and now, fentanyl has taken over everywhere and sadly I don't see this problem getting better any time soon ... Need to be funding mental health resources, suboxone programs, rehabs, transitional housing, sober living, proper shelters, job training ... all those billions sent to Ukraine could've been out to good use elsewhere🙄
I agree with the man who said that the homeless don't have any laws. They just do as they please!
solution: 1) Venice breaks away from the city and incorporates as its own town and makes its own laws and ordinances. 2) Then sends all those vagrants to skidrow.
No Way, get them out NOW! Don't wait till it gets bad again
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is.
I'd be pissed off too can't even take your kid's grandparents to the beach .people who work their asses off pay taxes to keep it clean yes I'd be pissed
Lol, "your kid's grandparents"? ha ha
This guy is implying homeless people shouldn't have rights.
They shouldn't they are not contributing members of society.
Where's Alex Villanueva? This was an important issue to him only a year ago.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
He has been the one to clear up the many homeless sites, but OFFICIALS are continuing to enable the homeless to come back. You can't expect for the Sheriff to do this 24/7 when other crimes are rising.
@@abrahamvazquez4704 whatever you say deputy.
Illegals are helped more!!!! Reason Americans?
It’s only going to get worse. Affordable housing is getting harder and harder to find. The city I live in has several major housing developments going in. Only problem is that none of the folks in the service industry will be able to afford any of it. Even professional couples making over two hundred thousand a year can’t afford the housing going in. Some apartments going for fox thousand dollars a month.
Housing shortage in a sanctuary city? No way!
It's not about housing. It's about drugs and chronic mental illness.
@@colinthomas867 One has nothing to do with the other. This is a case of parasitic landowners and a compliant city building expensive housing for uber-yuppies at the expense of the working class.
@@helenofirvine The housing crisis is real.
@@scottcharney1091 Yes it is, and it has very little to do with the drug addicts and chronically mentally ill folks who are homeless. The help they need requires institutionalization.
They're not homeless. They're UBFs. (Unemployable Bottom Feeders.)
I hope everyone who cheered on the clearing of the encampments last year is happy that their tax dollars were completely wasted. Maybe next time you'll listen to homeless advocates.
Oh man I spent a year in Portland and I'm effectively sick to my stomach of people like this 0:45
Sunny southern California.....free beachfront property ......live rent free....where can you find that? Plus, free food, free money and lots of good drugs to get high .
Why not renovate old run down motels/hotels and offer it to the families as a stepping stone to bettering their situation.
Why should the taxpayers pay to house bums, vagrants and drug dealers?
I agree with you but they want to build new villages instead. It's not a coincednce that the fmr exec of LAHSA Heidi M. removed anti camping laws that was done on purpose so that developers would be needed to build these tiny village. Then these developers would get the contracts to build these ugly mega mansions on these hilltops. There never was a housing shortage to begin with, they just needed a reason to justify wasting taxpayer money on housing the homeless.
Sure why not?! It's totally gonna fix their issues with rampant drug addiction and overall laziness.
Because we see a stepping stone and they see a permanent tent site
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Duh, this is what happens with uncontrolled illegal immigration. FJB FBOBAMA
It’s a business for all the people providing services. The homeless need to be cleared on a daily business.
You knows what’s crazy I’m in nj and we barely have this stuff. We have programs that integrates addicts from addiction to recovery to sober living. Here’s the part no one wants to hear, there’s no accountability in this country anymore. If you can’t afford living where you, you have to adapt and move somewhere you can afford until you work your way to better wages. A lot of the addicts I see(as a former alcoholic) just manipulate and lie to get an easy ride to their next high. As far as the people that did the work, showed up to group, provided clean urine samples for sixth months. We’re given rental assistance, food stamps and cash assistance. There’s programs out there more people need to take accountability in this country stop pointing the finger Bc you failed yourself not society.
No. You ship homeless to more homeless friendly states such as California, or they move while they are still somewhat functional. Often, their families disown them, and just give them money for one way ticket to Venice beach or wherever they wanna go.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Preach!
Wow! They wont go for that. It sounds too much like being an adult!
CA is warm year round…NJ is freezing for 6 months!
People shouldnt have to leave areas they have ties to and family history in just beacause some assholes decide to built luxury condiminums instead of affordable housing
Drop them off in Mexico, like some kind of exchange program.
Slab city
Canada
That's ignorant.
LIBERALS CAN END HOMELESSNESS OVERNIGHT. ADOPT A HOMELESS. TAKE TWO TO SHOW HOW WOKE YOU ARE.
"Homeless" is an overused term that has no meaning anymore. Best to call them clueless. They are clueless as to how to fix their situation in life so they wait for someone else to be the problem-solver.
Nice try, but most homeless are not clueless and certainly not there by choice. They work just as hard and often as you - you know what that term is - its called "Working poor". Maybe you might want to research that, but that would mean having to set aside your ignorance and chosen cognitive dissonance to do so. It is not hard to do. All you got to do is choose to do it. If not, well, then those working homeless are not the fools.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 Nice try? I'm not trying to do anything here except say that life is full of problems and YOU have to be the problem-solver. Somehow that has got you using these made up terms from academia . Cognitive dissonance? Do you know the difference between organically developed language and academically manipulated language. Hello? Truth is expressed in simply words. You might want to go back to school and research some more bullshit.
Lol more excuses to ignore the repercussions of 1500+ for a 1BR, you reap what you sew, enjoy it while its still a minor issue, you haven't seen NOTHING yet.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 then move to where your skill level / wage can afford i did i bet you vote lib
Should have used the money for housing instead of making that stupid bridge.. 🤷
Housing isn't the solution either, though. Don't get me wrong, it's a very tough situation to properly address, but giving more handouts does nothing but send the message, 'Hey, you don't wanna work? You just want us to take care of you and provide for you? That's OK! We will'.... not all, but there is a considerable amount of people that are homeless by choice, and that is not ok. Again, not talking about those that are genuinely trying or are mentally/physically incapable of taking care of themselves, this is directed towards the abusers of the system that are ever-so-prevalent in 2022.
I personally know ppl that are "housed" that would otherwise be in the streets. I do get your point but it's one of those situations where there is no grey area. Either house them or deal with more encampments. And also keep in mind....how much money was sent to Ukraine???
@@ghostfacedrilla4119 well that further proves my point. If the housing isn't working or sufficient, quit wasting money paying for it and do something more useful. Fix our roads, invest in our poor education system, etc, etc. I've heard of these housing facilities burning down from occupants smoking or doing drugs in them. What a waste.
They trash everything.
@@ghostfacedrilla4119 Most don't want housing or hotel rooms, they can't do drugs and then if they do, they get evicted. You can't have it both ways if they offer housing and you don't follow basic rules.
First off, "Society" which means your fellow humans and the Government are two different things. The Government is there first and foremost as an institution to SERVE the citizens, and customer service involves taking care of and providing for people. Yes, that only goes to a certain extent, but the idea that government should do anything other than take care of and provide for people is generally wrong I think. Also, humanity should be sending messages of care as well.
Secondly, why is it not ok to be homeless by choice? It definitely is ok, no one should be forced to live in a home if they don't want to. This is the land of Freedom, which means we should be able to express ourselves FREELY. There's a difference between being homeless and being a homeless nuisance.
Personally I just think whatever service the government provides should be made universally available to any citizen. Whatever handout, and I think depending on the handout it could make homelessness less socially appealing than it already is. Imagine free college housing to anyone willing to get an education, or UBI pegged to the cost of living in the places that the U.S. is trying to get people to move to and services helping people move to cheaper areas.
I wish I could live on Venice Beach too but I can’t afford it so don’t. Why don’t these people move to smaller towns and cities across America where it is only a fraction to live and rent? Oh right, because they won’t be able to live their life of leisure on the beach for free while doing drugs. They might actually have to work.
Small towns don't pay enough
@@sheldonhollis5258 What an ignorant comment. Of course wages in small towns are less but when you take into account cost of everything verses wages it is cheaper to live in a small town! It’s also cheaper to live in Oklahoma City than it is in San Francisco, despite far higher wages in SF. It shouldn’t be rocket science.
@@sobmaz who has the more successful economy? Why is the quality of life higher than San Francisco. Let's not talk about racism either
Generally speaking he is correct if you look at affordability studies that measure median income vs median home prices. CA has 4 of the nations 5 least affordable cities. Bigger point is you are not going to garner sympathy for not being able to afford living on the ocean in LA.
They're not living well on the beach, and you know it.
That's why I never go to Los Angeles, The Beaches and Especially Certain Public parks in The San Fernando Valley Because of The Homeless, It's a Deal Breaker for me, I live across the street from a park and the homeless live there Too, It's Really Ugly Obviously
you know Trump raped his own kids and fathered children with Ivanka
Yep good job California. You do nothing about the homeless and crime for so many years. So regular citizens are leaving your state for good, and we’re taking our tax dollars with us.
Well.. California is a BIG place.. with alot of land. Just use some of the empty or abandoned warehouses in L.A. or anywhere across the metropolitan area and just build highrises as complexes of "wellness" to treat the homeless and shelter them temporarily until they're ready to get out of the streets. There's money in L.A. ... why doesn't anyone contribute with that?! It will be easier.
Have u followed any of the housing projects theyve attempted? Somehow it costs around half a million dollars to build a single person dwelling for a homeless person. Remember the millionaire that had been homeless once and wanted to give back so he started providing hundreds of sheds painted bright colors for the homeless and the city shut him down? Its all about money and exploiting the unfortunate while perpetuating the problem so the cycle can continue.
Where did these people come from?
They're not home grown. Problem reaction solution. City creates a problem, and you know how the rest works.🤦
It's amazing nowadays that people still believe that these politics are going to make a change good luck with that. People that get into politics nowadays it's just for themselves they don't care about the people it's all about making money and easy living.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Only at voting time
please remove them from venice!!!
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
I'm going to take me a 10 out there too if they wouldn't go overboard on prices of the houses and apartments taking advantage of people then it wouldn't be like this they want all your money they want all the rent money all the gas money all the light money your phone money your food money people tired of that they give it they all and they all is not good enough so I may be taking me a 10 out there too f*** that
It is not a shame to be homeless. What is a shame is for the homeless to make the community where they camp out a trash dump. They should really consider thinking about others and keeping the area where they camp out clean.
I was in Los Angeles last week.
I talked to a guy who was homeless
He said he gets $1179 a month from
SS. I said u could easily buy a home in
Tx for that.
Drug enforcement is key. No more catch and release. Crack down on drugs.
Drugs are bad mkay
1500+ for a 1BR , this is what happens when housing gets out of control, enjoy it, complain about drugs all you want, as long as housing prices are unrealistic this is what you are going to get.
show me a single statistic or data that prison has decreased the likelihood of being homeless?
What help!? How many administrators got paid big bucks to do absolutely nothing!
Put them on a boat and sink it in the middle of the ocean
I feel like that about gays
I feel like that about humans
I have a job. I work 6 days a week. I'm homeless. Society is a failure.
@@Network126 don’t do drugs
@@ktp-delta9 I'm not on drugs dude.
It's only going to get worse I never been homeless in my life and then this is the first year that all the money I make goes to rent I don't have money for food or anything else so I have no choice but to move to the streets I only make minimum wage 12 bucks an hour
Imagine stepping on a needle on the sand 😳
Funny those advocates of the homeless are also environmentalists🤣Ya, all that trash and all their dirty needles are getting swept right into the ocean and the storm drains🙃🙃🙃🙃🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I actually have watched a lot of videos from Invisible People, they're heartbreaking. I also live in a neighborhood with 2 small kids and can't walk the streets without crossing the street at times to get away from the crazy bums. Where do you draw the line? Who has the rights? If you give homeless the right to set up camp practically wherever they want, then you are taking away the right of everyone else to have a city that's not completely crap. If you make it illegal to camp anywhere in the city, then you are making it a crime to not be able to afford housing? It's all f*cked! 66,000 people and counting living on the streets of LA. Let that sink in. That's the size of the city I grew up in. They need to get off the streets though. This is insanity!
encourage social safety nets so that these people have somewhere to go. its a really easy fix.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Then what are you doing besides whining?
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 how christian and godly of you to show such compassion for someone by telling them they are just whining. fucking hilarious how that is just a narrative that serves to make you feel better while you don't actually live it. good job.
LA has become a safe place for drug addicts to do their drugs. It has attracted people from all across the country who want to engage in their addiction, enabled by a group of people who want to feel good about themselves. The addicted homeless should be moved into shelters with the compassionate stipulation that they actively seek & follow treatment. If they refuse and continue using drugs, engaging in prostitution, stealing, looting, and defecating in public, they should be arrested.
Guy in the blue glasses is possibly a drunk.
In Eureka CA, we give drug users needles and a "safe" place to get high. This is our way of dealing with addiction. As for those struggling with mental illness, it's a revolving door. They're given counseling, food, shelter, safety, even work, yet they still end up on the streets. Many here believe it would be a human rights violation if we forcefully removed them and placed them into a rehab treatment facility against their will.
Harm reduction works.
FREE FOOD FREE MONEY FREE HEALTHCARE FREE OBAMA PHONE.. WHY WORK ? HELP WANTED SIGNS EVERYWHERE
Muh free money
A vote for Karen Bass will continue all this!
Voting won't do a damn thing but delay the inevitable. You'll never learn.
The corrupt Italian republican is no better he is a scientology cult member at least Karen renounced scientology
@@dakrawnik4208 Yes and No. The whole situation is out of control and not one single politician can undertake it all...BUT! it has to start somewhere and with someone who shakes things up and sets forth a plan to take this head on; Karen is just going to baby the situation, politicize it, and make it worse overall.
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
@ El Carlos
You are totally wrong! You should be ashamed of yourself. I have noticed people are training theirselves to do what it wrong instead of right!
Is that Matt Foley? (Guy with Blue Glasses)... lol... these old people need a hobbie(the people that have time to complain about this)... Homeless people have a hard enough life... I dare anyone looking to "move" them off the beach to get your own A-$ out there for one night and see what they are enduring...
Why not just make a section of the beach for them? Install more "sand showers" and get your "up to do stuck up self" behind a soup spoon and feed them one night a month as a organizer instead of "organizing" a harassment bill to move "them along"... they are hurting no one/ usually "police" and govern themselves and help the "recycling efforts" (typically hunt for cans and bottles) in all communities...
Humans genetic make up resort to our primitive (reference to Neolithic Era lifestyles) mindset for survival. The difference between them and you (meant in general) are simply choices made in life, up bringing and opportunities available to them...
Pay them to clean the beach from 5 am to 7 am... provide strick guidance to what is allowed to be lived in (covered housing with a tarp for example) ; but let them have a place on the beach or move them to a more suitable but reasonable location that is just as SAFE (Safety is always an issue for them)...
And get yourself out there for one night before you judge.
Mark, your on a mission. Jesus Christ is watching. This is a moral and Christian Issue. Have a heart and lend a hand up. Prayers
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Nowhere to go? Isn’t California a large state with many forests and outside area? I’m confused
We need there to be political consequences for elected leaders who fail to solve this problem and political reward for those who do. or at least who make a dent in it.
so then what would solve the problem? because literally no one in the world has the answer. there is homeless everywhere. a lot of these people dont want help. they want to live on the streets.
@@RideRedRacer so just ignore it? our status quo on this one seems unacceptable. Why not at least try some approaches that seem to have had positive results elsewhere? Like Finland, for instance? our politics seems swamped with culture war issues that have little to do with running cities, states or the country for that matter.
why do the homeless only live in some areas and not others?
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
police and civiliansl harassment.. lax law enforcement in certain poverty areas compared to heavy police presence in middle class or upper class areas
This is an addiction and mental health issue. There’s many factors involve, there is homeless every where but California has the perfect weather to be in as homeless. Put all the homeless together and send them to those ghost towns in the middle of the country. Silly solution but the most realistic when the problem it is so deep as cancer
The US doesn't have an exclusionary Hukou system (户口). Since you want that, you should move to China or North Korea. Nobody will miss you.
How about a few floating barges instead of ghost towns and then torpedo them?
bascially advocating for putting american citizens in concetration camps in the middle of nowhere
Ah yes, give them more free stuff so they can do whatever they want without the will or drive to better themselves or be a functioning member of society. Seems to be working very well.
Excuse me. "I have no place to go". Who's at fault that these people don't have a place to live.
A person should not be defined by their mistakes. Okay, I will by that; however, I should not be made to pay for their mistakes m
I have a job. I work 6 days a week. I'm homeless.
@@Network126 If you're homeless how do you have interent connection?
@@peni1641 Umm because it's not 1995 anymore?
@@peni1641 We have these amazing devices called smart phones now. The government even gives them away for free to the poor, with full service.
if everyone pays their FAIR SHARE of TAXES you aren't paying for anyone's mistake. you are paying your taxes. and the entities that get that tax money would be able to actually have assistance programs and housing programs for those less fortunate. where dumb mother fuckers get it mixed up is thinking that taxes are still their money. you aren't paying for anyone that you don't take money out and hand it to them. if the local authorities can place these folks somewhere you tax dollars are going to maintaining a safer community. but no people argue that its rewarding these people as if its a glamorous life and they are being rewarded for it... crazy that people can make that retarded mental leap.
People who want to go for transitional housing and get help That will work. The people that are sorry and just wanna lay around & live life free and do drugs and whatever they need to put cameras up and have police force out there and put a stop To this crap. I go to the one in Atlantic City and I don't see tents all along the boardwalk. It's probably because those People that own those casinos are not having it. There's police force all up and down that boardwalk. this is a place that people come from all over the world to visit, and they don't come there to see people laying up in nasty funky tents with funky clothes and garbage all over the place. You can't even get to the beach and enjoy it. Like you could back in the 80s.**** is disgusting.
Set up campgrounds with porta pots.....
The advocates always eat well don't they. How many of the 200 given housing are still there? The only solution to dealing with Zombies is to make vagrancy as hard as possible on them near populated areas, so they get so fed up of the life they do try and self correct. The lifers need to be put in asylums. Allowing people free fall in these places because they are allowed to, catered to, and encouraged to stay there, who might otherwise get some sense, is a moral crime.
These people need to be cleaned up, assessed for health and mental wellness needs and placed appropriately in institutions that can meet their needs and allow them to participate productively in society.
The guy with the blue glasses come on okay why don't you put them at your house 🤡 most of these people are addicted to drugs with mental problems that's why they end up where they're at. I Have watched Friends go down this road make the mistakes that put them in that position burn all their Bridges with friends and family what do you think's going to happen. I made better choices in my life and that's why I'm not in that position. Stop enabling these people and get them real help.
Duh 🙄 🤷🏽♀️
When the govt cab spend 2/3s of a trillion dollars for the military complex, but not on it's citizens.
Ship them across the border!! It’s a fair trade!!! Lol
Fentanyl is the number one cause for this massive street/beach homelessness. Street homeless cause lots of crimes wherever they go. They are not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy any housing by pulling wall wires out just to sell for fentanyl 💊. They are not capable of cleaning after themselves. Fentanyl damaged them mentally and physically beyond the point of repair.
Housing won’t make it. Because there’s always new people coming out because they know , they’ll get new homes if they do stay long enough.
now that’s waking up to the beach everyday
"this time it will be different " lulz
Property and home prices on/near the beach are not affordable, thanks to wealthy foreigners who have priced Americans out of home ownership.
For the US working class, the tent/shanty homesteaders could be on the cutting edge of a ground floor opportunity. The homesteaders could sell their homestead (tent) on the beach to permanent and or vacation home buyers.
Bring back the draft.
I remember how once there was a choice of college or the draft and it was a powerful motivational tool.
Then it was over and the pressure was off.
Drop out,kick back,go surf in Mexico and then live on the beach.
I've been trying to promote an Urban Corps.
Take freshly discharged military and go into the homeless camps and rescue the veterans and those who are willing to work.
Take them to barracks with meals and showers and train them to operate a campground and machinery. Then start cleaning camps up.
Give the homeless some choices.
Either go to the legal campground,join the Urban Corps or hide somewhere we can't find you. Make it clear hiding is a crime and camps will be cleared and may be cited.
No veteran should be homeless and with this program we can take care of them while they can continue to serve the country.
That's a very good idea !!!
Any homeless, veteran or otherwise, is a societal stain. There’s no excuse for this, period, and we must fix it head on.
so people should die on the street or be forced to serve the government. where is the freedom the military "fights so hard to protect"
@@user-gm2qh1td4c That's why my idea of the draft is non military and puts people to work on a safe place for the homeless and a path out of poverty.
@@jeffarcher400 we should be giving these people proper mental health and addiction treatment first
Why don't the pro homeless invite homeless to camp in their yards? You can offer them to come into your home, use your bathroom, set in your living room in the air conditioner on hot days. Come on where's all that compassion that you have?
I must be an idiot so please explain: where would you actually want homeless people to be?
Not on the street, not on the beach, not in their cars, not in un a house... Outer space? Underground? The Moon? Mars? Should they acquire the ability to "not be in any place at all"? How does logic works?
they can be at work in a town their wage can afford i did it it's not rocket science
Woke Mark seems like a real 🥜 Job, I think I'm going to try to go homeless and see if I can get a free apartment, with free utilities, with a view of the Puget Sound and the Space Needle!
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They are breaking the law, but in California the law only goes for the working class, homeless and illegal's rule.