There is NO Solution to the Homeless Problem in San Francisco, California Anymore
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2021
- This is nuts! 17,000 people on the streets here without a plan.
If you’ve ever been to San Francisco in the last ten years, there’s no doubt you probably saw a lot of homeless people. But unless you actually go into certain parts of town, you won’t actually see just how bad the homeless problem is in one of the richest cities in the nation.
And what’s terrible about it is that the city’s efforts aren’t addressing the core root of the problem. And it’s getting worse here, too.
Now I drove all around San Francisco on an early morning in late October in 2021. I had just left Oakland, where the homelessness is also a big problem. There’s 5,000 homeless people in Oakland and that number is growing, too. But over here across the bridge, that number is triple.
Unlike Oakland, here in San Francisco there are a lot of homeless people in the downtown area, but it might not be as widespread as you think. In the nice areas on the north end of town, there are homeless stragglers in pockets, and tents on some sidewalks, and if you walk around enough you’ll see a few people sleeping on benches and in doorways.
Almost 100% of the homeless issue in San Francisco is due to two main problems - drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of living. And to really understand the homeless problem in San Francisco, we can look at two examples of this. One is in the Tenderloin, in the heart of the city, where addiction and mental illness is rampant. And another area is a 15-minute drive outside of town in an area called Bayview where the cost of living problem has reared its head.
We’ll begin in the Tenderloin, a 50 square block area where things are really out of control and getting worse every week. There’s no accurate estimate of the number of homeless people here in the Tenderloin, but every day, you see hundreds of people lining the sidewalks here, many of them in tents or laying on the ground. While this is the worst of it, in the surrounding neighborhoods of Haight, Mission, Union Square, the Castro, Golden Gate Park, Buena Vista Park and the Embarcadero are also really bad for homelessness. This whole area here is the worst of it.
But it’s the Tenderloin where things are the worst worst. There’s nothing like it in this country. By last count there were more than 1,000 tents on San Francisco’s sidewalks, and you’ll find a lot of them in this part of town.
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I honestly can't fathom as working middle class living in such city. This summer I left a very good paying job in Baltimore, MD. I just quit the job and moved to GA. Found a job and took 30% salary cut. I and my family couldn't be more happier. I was able to afford a brand new house and I don't even make 6 figures and my wife stays home with kids.
Nice!
That's awsome. It worked out.
7 years ago i bought a little house in a small town in NC. Since then prices have shot up so much i dont know who can afford to live here anymore. Certainly not the working people. Theres just a huge disparity of income here now: half million plus dollar homes going up, and local people who cant even afford to rent a one room apartment.
Blessed and gracious
Yes, it matters where to live.
I’m a native San Franciscan, and this city was so beautiful and fun in the 70’s and 80’s. It’s really depressing and sad how it’s changed.
Yeah, like what happened? I hope it gets solved someday
Let's all take a moment to thank capitalism
That's what liberalism tends to do. I mean, the "red" aren't much better but they definitely at least more strict with crimes and thugs.
Keep voting democrats you'll harvest the rewards.
@@beatalert123 no you should thank the Democrats politicians.
I lived and owned a home in San Francisco for 33 years. It was a wonderful experience that enriched my life. San Francisco was one of the greatest cities in the world and a well run city and not a lot of street crime, though there was always a small, but persistent homelessness problem. It was a city full of culture and where many people prospered. When I retired in 2015, we moved back to the south to nearer to family.
It truly saddens me to see the news of what is going on today.
Everything has got a life....animal race....plant kingdom.... culture....a roce plant may live for 10years Mango may live 20/30 years ...banian tree may live for 100 years.. The way city lsp got some life after that it has got to be destroyed....what is trace of Roman civilization now....Mayan no trace at all this is world truth...sanatana religious concept clearly says this.....
you people voted for this, and keep voting for it.
That's because the Republicans used to run California. Now the Democrats do. See the difference!
One of my mom’s biggest dream is to visit San Francisco because of Princess Diary (our fav mom-daughter movie) and I get so heartbroken thinking we had the chance to visit in mid 2000s and didn’t, now may not have the same feeling anymore (we’re suppose to go this autumn)
Odd. I lived in San Francisco in the late 90's and early 2000's. The homeless problem downtown and South of market was terrible. It actually improved a bit when they built the ballpark and revitalized that neighborhood.
Honesty in the US media has become a rare find. Thank you for your videos.
Solution: stop voting for politicians who create the problems for their own benefit
They'll never happen till the people pull the children out of the schools it's a 36,000 hour indoctrinated fool system that teaches you stateism in a false sense of patriotism that teaches you to be a conformist instead of a moralist,
Only a fool would vote for the chains of his own enslavement, and in the words of Malcolm x only a fool would allow his enemy to teach his children. Amazing how so many people in this country actually think the government's their friend this is an entity that will shoot you in your back kidnap your children take them from you kidnap you cage you torture you molest you the list is endless. But yet we still have these people in this country that support the left or the right not realizing that they both work for each other that it's a demon with two heads. And every year they vote these people in that support people that would shoot them in their back and never get in trouble for it. Half the politicians were on an island with Jeffrey Epstein committing acts of pedophilia that is all you need to know about America
Lol the corrupt politicians voted themselves into office. They cheated in election, like you don't know ?
Both parties are one and the same.
@@jjllama2305 👀 deeper, Follow The Money 💰 The politician is like the whore on the corner. They always answer to the PIMP! Corporations/
A really really really Big Earth Quake might do it ; )
I foolishly wasted about 10 years of my life from the age of 21 to 31 being a drug addict and eventually becoming a homeless, drug addicted shell of who I truly am. Before that I was in the Army for 4 years right out of high school and deployed twice with the 82nd 1st/504th during OIF and OEF. I was on prescription painkillers for my last year of my enlistment due to combat related injuries and 3 years later when the VA stopped prescribing those magic pills I experienced “dope sickness” for the first time. A guy I met at a PTSD program at my local VA told me he could get me what I needed and instead came back with a bundle of heroin. That day was a prelude to the next decade or so where it was more common for me to be either in and out of detox / halfway houses or in jail than actually having stable, safe housing. I can’t speak on being homeless with other issues but in terms of being a drug addict, when that person wants to get sober they will, if they truly don’t want to and are just doing it for a relationship, job or other tangible gain they will fail everytime. Once I got sober I was never without a place to call home again and those two things are directly related as as you become a functioning adult in sobriety, you get the job, than the car, than the apartment or house, etc. I lived in Boston for my first two years of sobriety in Charlestown. The entire city is being gentrified but it’s also enabling the majority of the homeless people you see and indirectly supporting their life choices. You can walk down Mass Ave and on one corner you have Northeastern University and than less than two miles away near the hospital you have entire camps and groups of homeless people generally near the local methadone clinic doing everything from shooting up in plain view to attempting to sell you their latest stolen, iCloud locked blacklisted iPhone. These people are either too scared and filled with self centered fear to leave what they consider “normal” and start the process of change or they’re truly content. The bottom line is that you either get sober or you die. Full stop. I’ve been sober 4 years as of two weeks ago and in that 4 years I’ve buried four times as many friends who died from OD’s than friends I buried during two deployments to a WAR. That’s absolutely insane.
Wow Joseph. Would you ever do a call with me? I'd love to hear your story! Email me NickJohnsonNC18@gmail
So glad you were able to get your life back on track Joseph. Thank you for your story.
Thank you for sharing. That was an inspiring read...
Glad you're still with us ❤️
Thank you for sharing, Joseph. Your message should be heard universally! I don't know when our country became so weak on these issues (I was abroad for 15 yrs), but it's time for the truth will out - thank you!
I visited San Fransisco back in 2018. I remember being in shock walking down the street one morning and seeing all the broken glass on the sidewalk from all the car windows that had been smashed overnight. I guess many people leave their cars unlocked or roll the windows down to prevent this. I have lived in a small town my entire life and had never seen anything like it. I can only imagine it's gotten worse over the past 5 years. Quite sad how quickly a city can go downhill when put under the control of the wrong leadership.
It didn't used to be like that. I lived in SF from 1994 to 2006
Its called Progressivism. Its been sneaking around for quite some time tearing down the U.S. wherever it goes.
What you describe has been part of the poorer neighborhoods in San Francisco for decades - as is the case for other major cities in this country.
Leadership and drug addiction are two separate problems.
I lived half of my life in SF and must admit that since I moved, it has been nice to not just be completely surrounded by insane people and smelling human shit all day every day. It becomes very normal when you live there. It still kills me that I had to leave because I love that city.
There must be quite a bit of money for somebody in that squalor to keep it growing and mutating.
LOL
I lived there for 13 years. It really is heart breaking.
I had some of the best nights of my life in SF. It's despicable what's happened!
I've been visiting since I was young because my grandparents lived there. I love SF so much and wish I could live there but not only could i never afford it but also the homelessness, drug problems, and the poor education. Its sad because SF just feels like home to me
It’s not just San Francisco. It’s Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego and many others.
Sacramento has gotten really bad! Especially in the Del Paso Heights area...
Don't forget LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA also
The new road tax program will make public transit free, so that will boost homelessness even more.
Palo Alto…Santa Cruz County…..
San Francisco is dragging the rest of the bay area and California
I was born and raised in San Francisco and still have the fondest memories of learning how to ride my bike, taking the bus, and going to the beach. I went to private high school about 3 blocks from the Tenderloin and rode the public bus to & from school. I moved shortly after my 1st year of college and although I missed living in SF dearly, it warped into something else altogether - something I could never imagine loving. I won't even drive into SF, let alone try to take the bus or walk through downtown anymore. The secret to preserving my great memories about the city I grew up in? Don't ever go back.
Deep truth dude
* Thanks * to Nancy, Biden.....
Guys Karen has spoken!!
But Trump said that he abolished poverty! Do you mean ... Trump lied? Impossible!!!! 🤣
Ridiculous. I've been here since 1987 - violent crime has plummeted. There are far fewer 'no go' areas now then there were (no way I'd wander alone in parts of the Mission at night back in '87).
Last time I went to the Bay Area was in 2019, including downtown San Francisco. There was a clear homelessness issue in the city, but it definitely wasn't NEARLY as bad as it appears now.
Hello Nick ! How are you? Thanks for the entire California playlist ! Very interesting! Will watch them all!! My best wishes to you and your family!
What you see on the streets of San Francisco and cities all across this country, is no accident. You're witnessing the effects of over six decades of soical, economic, and political decline in this country.
Seems like it is about time to reinstate FDR-style New Deal politics. Fuq green deal, fuq liberalism, globalism and free trading, fuq tax cuts for the happy few, bring back strongly progressing taxes for profits an incomes, also for corporate profits, put this money in a strong industrialized domestic market with good protection against dumping from outside, put a minimum wage into place until all starts to work like the keynesian domestic prosperity already did the first time when FDR put it in place .... when it starts to kick in everybody will be payed way over minimum anyway;
keep away dumping wagers by guarding your borders and actually deporting illegals ...... it wasn't that complicated once You started to really punish and remove the sellout politicians and powerfully destroy the neoliberal financial mafia reigning those sellout polit-clows.
Dude it's from liberal politicians
So the opposite of what China was doing lol. That’s scary as hell
@@manfredschmalbach9023 you need to execute people for corruption
@@conxoraddonahue9956 You may want to blame liberal politics, which is not entirely undeserved, but I think what we are seeing is the effects of the wealth and wage gap over the last 50 years. The middle class has been squeezed now for half a century.
San Francisco's City Council must be held accountable. The city receives federal funding and as long as the homelessness is on display, the city can continue to get paid.
Unfortunately that’s never going to happen because A lot like LA Portland and Seattle they are never going to vote Republican ever
@@Ryguy-lg2xz I live in Portland...I Know 😡
@@Ryguy-lg2xz The weather is nice in those places, therefore everyone is happier and Democrats are just kinder and nicer.
Vote BLUE VOTE DEMOCRATIC = HAPPINESS!
@@kea5763 DEMOCRATS For HOMELESS and CRIMINALS
You can not blame the council, America is destroying by the system they using, this is democracy,
Wow, what a tragic American dream. I just wonder where all the raw sewage is going from all those RV's scattered everywhere.
They have storage tanks but I doubt they're taking the RVs to a camp site to unload it
have been in SF in 2014 - and didn't see the problem be this bad tbh. Did it change much since 2014 or was it just that I was only on specific streets?
I live and work in San Francisco. I'm a Native of the city and was raised here. It's a shame of what is happening. When I walk by a limp body on the street, I don't know if the person is just asleep or a overdosed corspe.
Yes I agree.
So every homeless person is a drug addict in our eyes? Must be a tough world you live in.
@@grumpyveterangamer3207 Most of them are, or mentally ill. What’s your point exactly?
Yes. I am from the bay area. Now, I am retired military. The bay area has priced me out. I have relatives there, but I can't afford to live in the bay area were I was born and raised in. So I live in Arizona. Were I have a house, bought and paid for, and can afford to live in. Also, it is safe here. The taxes in California are insane also. Good luck to the ones who still live there, and stuck it out. Dave In Sierra Vista AZ
THE LEFT HAS CREATED ALL OF THIS MISERY.
…a third generation native San Franciscan that won’t step foot in this SODDAM and Gemorrah cesspool. I’m thankful my parents and grandparents aren’t alive to see this.
As a Brazilian living in San Francisco, where I've lived most of my life practically on the outskirts of São Paulo, I don't really notice the difference between my hometown and San Francisco. I thought that the US was indeed a country that conveyed a dream, where aunts showed up in their cities, but I was wrong. It's really scary to think that extreme poverty is everywhere, the fault of populist politicians and that they get elected at the expense of the hopes of their voters...
Go to a Republican area. You will see the difference.
Hey don't worry, build back better?
Yeah it's a joke
Dunees, I live in Sydney Australia but have been to the San Francisco on 7 occasions between 2004-13 and always stayed in the downtown/Market Street area. I'm a big walker and would go through Chinatown to Fisherman's Wharf and back to the ferry terminal and back to the hotel.
Initially, in three trips until 2007 the down and outs weren't too bad but after that it got dicey. Alas, as you say, it's now got places (kinda) like the favelas - I've been to Rio but not SP. However, I know BA in the Argentine fairly well and there lots of dicey districts in that place like El Congresso that is just 200m from Avende Nine.
But what's happened to big cities in US in the past 5-10 years is gobsmacking. If I ever travel again (I'm 67) I WON'T go through LA or SF but through Vancouver/Montreal then to NYC but only of go to the terminal onto Europe. Which is exactly what many Australians are telling travel agents to do with their travel itineraries.
@@starcityrc3298 Truer words have never been said. Yet no one will acknowledge it. Sad, but true...
@@starcityrc3298 I honestly hate our politicians but the Republican areas in California are garbage as well. Meth capitals like I've never seen.
Unfortunately, the "treatment" for mental health patients, is that they are simply placed on MORE drugs. These drugs also come with many known side effects, patients are basically unmonitored, and when struggling with any of the side effects, they are simply placed on other drugs of similar. Here in Western Canada a doctor in Duncan B.C. has even been implicating husbands and fathers of being the problem when they bring their spouse in, calls family services and targets the husband. I was one of them. He destroyed my life.
Amazing video! Very in-depth! I love the discussion! Unfortunately I see similar patterns in Canada too. This is North-America-wide !!! And is not getting solved. No idea what to do. We moved back to Europe in 2021, but from the videos of Canada I see it is getting there worse too. Sad, as North America is a great land with good people.
In the past, if you shoplifted or defecated in the street , you would do 60 - 90 days in minimum security jail. It would force you to get clean for awhile , eat three meals a day, sleep on a schedule etc. It might take you a couple of "trips" to jail but many would come out clean and turn their life around. There were construction jobs , entry level, in yesterdays paper. I was homeless for a year but I stayed clean and after 18 months found a job and a place to live.
Amen.
Honestly, I am 64 years old in another city and a woman my age, very well dressed, and I would say not homeless, put a turkey in her cart and I was in her way coming in….she just went right out the door with it, didn’t go past the cash registers. By the way she was dressed I would say she is affluent. I don’t know what is going on in this world today.
@@leisure057blank3 people are selfish and self-centered and take advantage of the situation to get benefits.
The Taliban is pulling all addicts off the streets, detoxing them and putting them to work, giving them housing, too.
More drugs in jail then on the streets
I’ve lived in the California Bay Area all my life. 33 years. It’s even unbelievable to me. The most shocking is how the homeless pee, poop, and shoot drugs right in public. Like dogs. Just stop what they’re doing, squat, poop. No wipe. Just pull their pants back up and carry on. I once saw a lady sitting on a concrete divider talking with other homeless. Right there, mid conversation, still sitting, she peed through her pants. Didn’t even acknowledge it. It’s really a wasteland here in many mannny places.
These people need a good Sar'nt Major to discipline them in a camp !
MANNY . . . ?
MANNNY . . . ? 😬
No, even properly raised and socialized dogs will not just relieve themselves, no fucks given where or whom around. Dogs also won't just sleep on on any random sidewalk or lot or be all filthy and constantly around filth no worries.
Vote Democratic you elected the politicians to government your city this is what you got
Hello Nick I am 63 years old and an Afro-American woman from the Bay area. I have since moved within the past year and I know this is an old video because this is 2024. I would like to make a request of you, if I may😌. Your videos all show the worst of the worst. I want to let you know that there are tiny home villages in Oakland as well as Berkeley. From my understanding they been quite successful. People have moved there and since graduated to their own jobs in housing situations. Please vet areas when you go into them because some of my friends have been able to hold on to their homes by the skin of their teeth because the taxes are outrageous.😢 And if you never show any of the better areas of Oakland you take away from why people "want" to live there 🤨🤔.
By the way I must say I loved the sunset 🌇 in the backdrop of the homeless encampment on East 12th in Oakland. But there is also the Montclair area and the skyline area and if you're not even in what you might regard as the hood take a do a first Friday in Jack London square why dontcha??i why do you insist on going to the worst parts like you do!?🤨.…
Please consider my comment and take the edge off some of those videos.😊😌😇 Or at least show some contrast 😏
I was there in 2002 and 2007...it was great and seemed safe then. Wow what can happen in a couple of decades.
As a born Californian it is really depressing to see how the downfall of California has become. And I blame the people who voted for pathetic leadership
So true! I now believe Socrates' reason of not favoring democratic elections.
How about the pathetic leadership the DNC and RNC force us to choose from? Both owned by their greedy corporate " donor" bribes
Blame feminism and the alphabet monsters who wanted to distract us from the real issues.
Most Democrats here are hypocrites, when crime happens they want harsher laws but the reality is that they vote against these laws. There was a proposition that punish repeated offenders. With longer sentences and Californians votes against it even though most criminals repeat the same offenses because they get barely any jail time for it.
Pathetic leadership needs to go
I used to watch this channel jokingly to numb out. I'm increasingly aware that you're highlighting the fall of American civilization. You're more electable and aware than most politicians.
The fall of American civilization 🤔
That sums it up.
@@officespace7777 yes, we're declining in civility, quality of life, two parent households, community, and every measure I can imagine by which you might qualify a civilization.
@@snjspring I agree. 😒
I don't recognize the world we live in now.
@@snjspring Couldn't have said it better. It's pretty scary to see, and live through.
@@officespace7777 It was a lot better back in the 80's / 90's. A solid economy, and plenty of job opportunities + a cost of living that was actually reasonable in comparison.
A lot of the homeless have full blown dementia, we used to have them come in off right off the street when I worked in a psychiatric facility. Often they had addiction issues as well., which should be considered a medical issue according to most doctors. But then that is usually the visible homeless, you don’t see the Uber drivers that sleep in their cars or the people that camp where you can’t see them.
Nick, I've never really been altogether certain of your motives. Your video's are great at forcing the viewers to look at the what many people will attempt to ignore or look away from, that much is certain. The answers to these problems are simple, but they require a commitment from society as a whole, and that's the real problem. As a society we refuse to admit that "WE" are just as much a part of the problem as those who've fallen into the ranks of the homeless, either by fate or life choices. The hard truth is, if all of the homeless in this country just suddenly disappeared without a trace...while it would be a historically recorded event, with lots of immediate outcry from friends, family and the media, the vast majority of the populace would move on without any lasting concern. This isn't because the vast majority of us don't care, it's because the vast majority of us don't have the time to care...were too busy with our own lives, trying to make do and to insure we don't end up like those that disappeared before us. Apathy has taken root in this country, and it has been germinated by the wealthy elite who's own homes and neighborhoods are fast becoming gated and guarded communities. What's required to make change, real change in society is a national will to do so, and until you see that there will be no real change.
Wow a 1/3 of homeless are over 50, can't imagine how bad that must be with all the aches and pains that come after 50.
I'm in my 60's. If I had to live on the streets at age 60+ I'd be dead in a New York minute. I can't imagine being over 50 on the streets with no place to REST. I do not mean SLEEP. Sleep is something you must do when your body is tired. Rest is what happens when you allow yourself to fall deeply asleep (REM SLEEP) in a place you know is safe, secure, climate controlled and yours to enjoy long as its needed. Older people need rest because sleep alone isn't enough. Fancy having type 2 diabetes, infections, chronic conditions, HIV, cancer, flu, arthritis or other adverse health situations of aging while on the streets. Imagine being homeless living exposed to rain, cold, snow, heat and more at age 50+! That constant pained life is deadly!
yes 25% of the us has no retirement. Age discrimination causes joblessness and homelessness.
@@AUTISTICLYCAN homeless shortens the life of a human by 10-20 years. ITs sad!! I live close to Seattle and see tent camps in the region.
You are so right about aches and pains. If I had a do over I would not have ruined my back doing heavy lifting. I would be in better shape physically; I can't blame covid for that, but it sure didn't help any.
Being elderly ( 77 ) and I have to keep moving to find a affordable place to live. I get social security and a small veteran disability and thought it was enough, but now not so sure. With wealthy people moving to where I live now in Arizona my rent keeps getting higher and is about to out run my income. When that happens, what then? I am not alone in this as many elderly are becoming homeless. Because of this have lived where most people don't want to and now the wealthy are moving out of high cost states they helped to create and moving to other states creating the same problem. Hard to stay sane having worked most of my life and now this. Qh well that is the way it goes.
Homeless non-profits will never "solve" the problem. They grift and enable. Without the enabling, there is no grift. But look at the view those RVs have!
Homeless " non- profits" are mostly FOR PROFIT. As in The Homeless Industrial Complex. High rents are mostly to blame for homelessness in itself,outside of the younger drug addicts. The politicians really want to have this CRISIS. The agencies make incredible amounts of money off homeless people,and must be audited and investigated. I watch Louis Rossman's videos. on how agencies and governments make money off homeless suffering. As well as Invisible People, and Tony Vera. Seniors are the fastest growing demographic for becoming homeless !! Apartments have not been getting built since 1980. I'm old enough to remember when there was no homeless people ! Why ?? Because of the high vacancy rates,and abundant,cheap housing most could afford, until that magic year,1980 ! Now,only luxury apartments ever get built. How can anyone say that S.F caters to their homeless population,when they don't build affordable housing,but they overlook/ encourage drug use ??
Cost of living, drug , mental illness, homeless shelter surprisely 💯
Nobody enables them in my town, and they're everywhere. War on drugs does not work. It has never worked for over 50 years now. What we're seeing is the final results of the war on drugs in real time
If you enable homeless people or anyone else they won't change or get on their feet. You just keep them in a state of dependence.
@Bo Henry Oops ! I probably would have gotten around to that. Yeah, this Homeless Industrial Complex racket is getting people killed every day !! Both overtly and covertly.💀
Great footage provided in this video
The Tenderloin used to be WAY worse. The deals clear out in the morning when people are on their way to work and school and most don’t come back until dark
Being the sister of two addicts , they DO not want help until they want it. Period. They like to live like this.
No wonder why Nancy moved to Florida.
Exactly. Their addiction is #1.
I had an ex-friend with an MBA who became an alcoholic over 20 yrs. ago. One time he was making 100K outside SF no less. 3 yrs. ago I picked him up at bus station in Houston, total train wreck now, so sad. He owes me 900 bucks, he went back to CA on the bus and was in a shelter, but lost contact with him. He is over 70! We were friends for over 30 yrs -- doesn't want help.
Yup I know someone who had a brother that was like this.all they could do is watch him live his life on the street.
Sorry about that.
Homeless Complex such as NGOs, non profits, even politicians reap huge benefits by keeping homeless on streets. There is literally jobs that would be ended if homelessness was actually addressed. Its scary.
That's a great point.
it’s their own faults. It’s just part of humanity, you’re going to have some SUCKERS who just are gonna be homeless. Either you house the suckers for free or they go to the streets. Everyone’s ego is too big to house the losers and bums so they’ll remain on the streets. It’s simple, give low IQ ppl stuff to do.
Exactly... it's a business model for many; makes one wonder who the Parasites really are.
They set up NGO all over the world, to disintegrate other countries government
Profiting on Human suffering, its disgusting and I hope everyone employed and profiteering off this inhumanity to be next on the streets, they are no better than drug dealers and makers as they keep the drug dealers customer addicted and living in such a manner you would need to be high all the time just to deal.
This is so eye opening.
I think an issue youre glossing over, is the effectiveness of the treatment programs. I struggled with alcoholism for years and went to 2 outpatient rehabs and 2 inpatient. I don't feel like any of them helped the issue. Ive been sober for 5 years now, and aside from a couple quotes i clung to (because i was so desperate to get better), i dont feel they helped at all. This was in utah and alabama, where they dont have head hunters who tell people if they spend a few weeks in rehab, they'll give them a couple thousand after theyre done, which just perpetuates the cycle. It seems that so many rehabs are so exploitative to families and addicts who are desperate.
I also think that it is very difficult for an addict to stay sober when they have the stress of homelessness and are surrounded by drugs. I understand housing them without treatment wont solve the problem, but i think shelter and effective treatment need to be co-occuring. Like maybe if the affordable housing came with sober living requirements, and having shelter was contingent upon passing on-site drug testing?
As more and more people fall into this category, the nation's well-being is facing a security threat.
I'm 60+ years old and I was born and raised in San Francisco and my family moved to the suburbs, South San Francisco. It's getting worst ever year
That's an American attitude.
Don't help them, call them a security problem
Yeah that's what Jesus would want
@@julianshepherd2038 the Bible also says " you are lazy, you must love hunger."
The government should taker of the homeless people and should have a universal health care for all kinds of people. If you don't have a health you wouldn't last long. If your rich and wealthy you don't have a problem with your hospitalization. Our government are spending too much on armaments. They don't care about us especially, the poor. All they want is our tax money were the ones who are suffering.The rich people hardly ever pay taxes in these country. America is a rich country but, they don't use the money the right way. They should also, take care of our disabled persons and our social security. This is just my own comment and opinion. Take Care, Be Careful, Be Safe, And Stay Healthy Everybody. May God Bless All Of Us And Have A Blessed Great Lovely Wonderful Whole Weekdays Everyone!
Not really. The threat gets eradicated with free "vaccines." 😐
I work with the homeless in Napa CA,
most of the people that "help" them are the biggest issue.
They want to look like heroes instead of doing what works.
What works is hospitalization and rehabilitation not money and let them do what they want.
Some people do need just money. Not everyone is an addict and will run out and buy drugs with it. I myself want to move out of this state so I can move where there are good jobs but I don’t have money to move. It takes thousands of dollars to relocate. That’s the only thing that will save me is a relocation to a state or city that has decent jobs. Where I am…I am going to die in the streets here. Sure, I could get one of those many low paying jobs out there but it’s not going to pay me enough to make a move. I’d rather be dead in the street than work as a cashier, cleaning person or shopping cart chaser…..I’d rather die.
@@penelopelopez8296 rather be dead in the streets than work a low paying job. Very telling.
@@yasperrose3341 Do you think people should work slave labor jobs forever? $7 an hour is not survival.
“The homeless in Napa CA”. I cannot get passed the phrase. Can’t do it. I spent 2 weeks in Napa in March 1968. It was literally heaven on earth. Literally.
@@ginawhiteley8834 no one makes 7 dollars an hour stop lying. Argue the federal minimum wage but no one works for it and you are lying and lying to yourself. So stop
How much do RV parks charge over there? I paid 300 with water and electric included when I was full-timing for 4 years. It was a nice time for my family and I. I can only guess they must charge a fortune on the West Coast
I live in very small European country with a lot of problems. We were mostly agricultural until the end of ww2, then, when we started developing we had another war (neighbor country attacked us) and we're still recovering. We have a lot of economical problems, extremely complicated political sutuation and a lot of people are poor. 20 years ago we were dreaming about America and glorifying it, thinking how developed it is, having an American dream. Most of people (I'm going to be bold and say more than half) from my country went to live in other European countries (mostly Germany). Why am i saying this? I would never ever lived in America! We don't have these problems at all. In my town i have seen maybe 3 homeless persons in my entire life (33 years), most of us have health insurance and drug addicts are frawn upon. I cherish this video because it helped me love my country even more. This what i'm seeing in America is how i used to think about 3rd world countries.
Why is this happening, when is the point in time when everything started collapsing? Who benefits from it? I'm sad for you. Something needs to be done.
When something reaches its peak, things will start declining. The best period is when the economy is growing rapidly and there are tons of opportunities. What's why Japan and Korea looks so promising from 70s to 90s, then China from 90s to recent years.
The next could be south east Asia, India, or Africa.
I grew up living in London and NYC so homelessness wasn't something I was unfamiliar with, but visiting San Francisco in 2017 was jarring. How this city allows so many to suffer is wild.
Do you think the city has the resources to solve this problem? The resources are owned by the super elite. The feds have some access, but the central bank owners don't see a homeless problem, they don't see workers, nor families, nor humanity. They see themselves only, everyone else is either to be their slave or are useless eaters.
It's definitely a 2-way street ... but I hear you!
@@MikeSmith-tm3zq very true unfortunately. We are witnrssing the destruction of the fabric of society and the soul of humanity by design. This is a spiritual battle that people need to wake up to. I hope people find salvation in christ as he is our rock to cling to in the coming storm...
@@MikeSmith-tm3zq They have plenty of resources; they just don't have the will or guts to discipline the wasters. Tough love is what is needed. Who will give it ?
@@amandawright5773 So much BS The Romans nixed him 2K years ago and he's not coming back.!
The city admin needs to own the problem and force them into a rehab camp with strict, but fair, discipline!
As an addict (in recovery), few things scare me more personally than seeing an explosion of homelessness. I knew when I was at rock bottom that I was close to that, and if there weren’t people that loved and cared for me (more than I deserved) then that would’ve certainly been my fate until I turned up dead.
And remember, Jesus loves and died for you.
I'm firmly sure that the "problem" IS. ARE. DRUGS. that push people to the ground. I'm glad that you are working your way out of that world. Baruch Hashem
Def not safe. Nervous ALL the time?
@@andya2665 keep your religion to yourself
@@carpelunam I'm glad Jesus and the Apostles didn't keep their religion to themselves. The US is still a free country.
One thing that happens when someone doesn't have a home is that it becomes hard to plan for the future because your mind is so occupied by trying to survive. I've experienced this, even though I'm educated and not unintelligent. This is something that is important to understand when trying to help someone in this situation. It's disorienting to be out on the streets. It's hard to think when you're tired and hungry. It's hard to plan when you don't know where you'll be sleeping.
There's a chronic sleep deprivation problem too, and that can make one very very sick after a while.
@@fightingtosurvive6527 Yes, so true!
Hey Nick I really enjoy your videos. You really brought to light the harsh reality of America and the sad situation of the homeless population in my opinion I feel the government does not want to waste their resources money and time on these individuals I feel they're going to do a mass extinction and the homeless population will be the first to go. This is why they're not helping to control this situation they plan to just get rid of all of them.
The only way to help these persons is when somebody starts to do auditing in all those organizers and agency's that said they want to help the homeless
It is evident that these organizations are not doing their job, because precisely those homeless people avoid the shelters and camps run by these agencies.
@@zarach9459 not a job but a ponzi scheme. Check out their six figure salaries!
@@zarach9459 and that's not the only problem so let's put everything in the hands of God ~!
@@Lumpia_In_Texas Absolutely correct what you said. The people on top get big big salaries they don't care about helping homeless or anybody else . Typical corrupt left-wing Democrats.
@Alyce Boon yap plus California is a sanctuary state so how is all this is caos gone end ~? !
Letting addicts just do what they want with their bodies seems like letting kids just eat junk food indefinitely. I think most of these people need the guidance and structure their parents didn’t provide.
We are talking about a country where an 18 year old can buy assault rifles in order to mow down children. I think the SF body policy is the least of the american problems.
"letting addicts just do what they want"
you literally have no clue what youre talking about. one is a disease and one is junk food. please never type anything again.
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But it would take away their “civil rights” to force the addicted into treatment. For the working poor, they have been vehicle dwelling for years. It’s about survival.
@@fortbarrera8925 There is a saying about America that sums everything up quite nicely: "The Americans always do the right thing. After they tried everything else."
Turk street 3 blocks west of Market in July/December 1985!!! It was rough but not close to the devastation now!
Do you have any videos about Indianapolis?
It seems a lot of these so-called "charities" are a massive grift... $60k for a tent? They might call themselves non-profit, but I'm sure the people running them are getting big salaries.
Charities are like that
@@kolacao8134 like political organizations....they’re ALL a grift...and cater to the simpletons
Those who run the charities are college grads who wish to become millionaires. Administration is too expensive.
Many wish to be billionaires like their God. Trump.
I highly doubt these charity organizations in San Francisco are Trump supporters.
Great job on this video 👍🏾
There truly is a solution to all homelessness. I have been a director in Arizona. Oregon and Washington I could tell you stories about the incompetence.
Ayyy ABL
Pretty random to see my man ABL. *two up two down*
I’m in the Bay Area so I really appreciate Nick’s spotlight on this problem. I can’t move because I refuse to pay $3500 for a decent 2 bedroom, so I’m humbled lately.
ABL big fan here!
Some people ruin the apartments given to them,and the landlords have to pay for the repairs and upkeep.😭
While that may be true I don't think we can feel bad for a group of people who think it's reasonable to charge such huge rents that causes this problem...its the gap between those who have and have not widening ever further
The first step is to do something. Remove them from public and privately owned property.
When I lived in the bay area, there was a time where I was homeless for a couple weeks. The thing that sucked was the cold at night and the mosquitoes. I managed to move into a garage for a while. Then I finally got the chance move out of California and now today life is great. I will never miss California. Cost of living was outrageous. I understand the living costs in places like Beverly Hills or the Hollywood Hills, but why in the world is everywhere still just as expensive as the luxurious places? There's no demand whatsoever. Crime, politics, drought, hot weather. Cost of living shouldn't be as expensive as it is in the subpar places. Your oakland video just proves this point.
IKR! Even in small towns and rural areas, it's tough to find a place to move into and then motels are so pricey. $2000 to $3000 a month in anytown USA. There is no affordable housing left and what exists is being lived in. I'm not willing to go to a place like St. Louis or Gary, Indiana or Detroit or Milwaukie. No no no. I need out of the USA, my country is not my country for there's nowhere to live in it. It's so horrible...
@@TUBESPECIFIC1 capitalism, am I right? All the investors have bought all the homes, and are renting or selling it out double or higher then the original price. Its the case everywhere. There is a worldwide housing crisis.
@Gary Allen I was going to say the same thing. I lived in the Bay Area for almost 20 years and there were no mosquitos in San Francisco.
America opened the borders in 1965, it drove the value of labor down and increased housing.
@@yurichtube1162
The developers and politicians would lose a lot of money if they fixed the homeless problem.
You know it!
@@IIII...... You can be guaranteed that the money is 'well spent', though. It's just not going to the homeless. Probably quite a few crooks inside and outside of government on that skim, and the taxpayer is paying for it all.
You nailed it, Fat Mic ! A big scandal in Los Angeles, by a City Council member, Jose'Huizar, who was paid by December to ignore them not building affordable housing,but luxury apartments instead. He went to.jail for that. Very smug, and unrepentant during trial. If one Googles " profiting off the homeless," you'll see for yourself what I mean. And YES, the politicians NEED homeless people to stay that way ! Some evil agenda going on, to promote a permanent under- class.
@@IIII...... Money doesn't actually reach the homeless who need it - it goes to overhead. Shocking the AM the shelters and agencies make off homeless Americans ! Many are veterans and disabled, or seniors- it's not ALL drug addicts and crazies,or alcoholic types alone, who are homeless.
@Blood Here's a fact. I'm not about to stick my neck out for a society, that would be happy to grind me into the dirt, just like all the rest. Besides, neither party is interested in fixing the problem, so your vote is worthless, anyway. THEY are the ones that control the narrative. Not us. This is a lost cause.
Terrific show Insight excellent narration the woman is just fantastic
I lived in Cali from 1978 - 1980 -1...??? I graduated HS there. I say that to qualify my next statement: THERE IS NOWHERE IN THE MIDWEST OR THE SOUTH WHERE YOU PAY $600 RENT!
We moved to Cali from Texas via NOLa in 1978... In 1978-1989, You COULD find a studio apartment in someplace like Austin for $600. NOT SINCE THE CALIFORNIANS CAME!!!
In 2004, I moved back to the Austin area with my daughter for a better high school, and I was paying $1500 for an efficiency. That didn't include electricity for the AC which is a matter of life or death there in the summer literally ( another $800/mo., or more for a bigger space). I am a Nurse with an Associate Degree (R.N. with special certificates) and even WITH my education, it was still challenging to make bank every month. Plus with Texas being a "right to work" state, meaning they can request overtime and if you don't comply then pretty soon you just don't have any hours scheduled - that meant I worked a lot of holidays, and birthdays, and football games, and baseball games, etc.There was no Life/Work balance. There was a NOTICEABLE increase in the cost of living from housing right down to food after Dell and others set up shop. There was also a noticeable increase in crime, jes' sayin': that could be because of the relationship to the border, or that it is a college town, or because of Austin's "keep Austin weird' attitude; but we noticed a BIG shift in the area from the very neighborhood-y, go get ice cream at midnight kind of vibe to just ...yuk.
I volunteered at the local homeless shelter, and I have to say - they were doing it right: they converted an old Post Office into a place where you could rent a PO Box, get a shower, get some clothes, relax out of the heat, take a phone call, receive messages, and get back on your feet. They gave away MUCH nicer camping equipment from REI there than I could afford!!! But because of Austin's relationship to I-35, there were a lot of transients who just lived all along I-35 all year, south in the Winter, and north in the Summer subsisting on day labor. This maybe different to the Bay areas problem where people aren't transient, but I was watching another doc about homelessness in Vegas, and they said the biggest sticking factor about not being able to get out of Vegas or out of the drainage holes ( they were literally living in the drainage waterways) was ID.
TEXAS NOR ANYWHERE IN THE MIDWEST OR THE SOUTH IS GOING TO REWARD SOMEONE FOR REFUSING TO WORK. Even in Rhode Island where I now live and is very liberal, unless you are completely physically disabled - in which case you qualify for SSDI after a period of time - they only get $200 SSI and medicaid and $200 SNAP (food stamps). AND the state requires you to register with the DLT and perform a job search 5 days a week to keep your benefits. Another caveat, I was also homeless in Rhode Island due to poor choices on my part unrelated to drugs. The first thing I did was GTFO of the city and away from the homeless who could bring attention to my situation and get me busted. I found another homeless man living on the beach on Aquidneck Island. He was a government contractor. He had a nice truck ($60k+). He found himself homeless at one point due to divorce, and found his spot on the beach and just stayed!!! He went to work everyday, racked up retirement, and enjoyed the disposable income. That is to say that I now live in subsidized housing (very nice in the trees on a pond by the beach in the high tax district) due to my former military background. As of 2023, other people in my complex are now paying close to $2000/mo. for a 450 sq/ft. apartment.
So, "moving to the Midwest or somewhere" is NOT the solution, and frankly - when they do come, they just bring their high prices of living and problems with them. And then b*tch about the culture.
So, no thank you.
There are plenty of places in the Midwest where you can rent for under 600
Also consider the effect of generational wealth here. I’m a black man in my 40s. In my family, we now own properties as sanctuaries for family members who fall on hard times. It helps people get stabilized. This way they stay in the community and we can check in on them and support them while they get their mental and physical health in order. We also use the family resources to help them get re-employed.
The most intelligent comment I’ve read so far and I’m not including race right now in generational wealth although I understand there are factual differences in this area between the races… What prompted me to reply to your comment is not only the fact of the first sentence but the kindness , generosity and compassion of your family .. for those who have to help those who do not because they are family … This must be so hard in every way but especially mentally .. Positivity , strength , healing and peace to you..
Good going. Too many people own properties that are sitting vacant for no good reason.
Wow! Thank you! You are actually helping.
Thankyou for being a part of a solution at least. Too many of us on here do nothing but complain, and show disgust, but could care less about trying to find or assist in finding a solution. Things will never get solved by looking the other way and blaming someone else.
Generational wealth has no impact on this situation. At all. Many of those white gals and guys out there come from solid stable homes. You wouldn’t believe the number of people I’ve seen succumb to addiction. They must want a life. A clean life. More than they want dope. Very tough situation. Remember Jungle Fever when the father shot Samuel? That scenario is common. I’m open for ideas
Homelessness in Seattle has grown exponentially each year since around 2016. It is now sad, dirty, violent, sad, sad, ugly, destructive, sad.
It's also....sad. ;)
In September of 2015 we moved out of that 💩hole to Florida. I traveled to the area several times before Covid hit and I noticed how bad it was getting. The city pulls in a ridiculous amount of money, there is no reason a city as wealthy as Seattle should have the problems it does!!
@@kossy2855 That's what I always said about California while driving down a road that would rattle your teeth out. I said that if Californians really knew how much they were being ripped off there would be angry, torch carrying, mobs marching on Sacramento.
A lot of work outside Seattle. You just have to have the will to pick fruit. Hey, immigrants do it to feed their love ones back home.
@@luisgarcia373 I hear you Luis but a lot of homeless are mentally ill. They can't help themselves and need to be looked after by a compassionate nation. That's you and me. They should not be allowed to live on the streets....that's inhumane. America should have different levels of care for homeless people depending on their needs. Everything from just a helping hand for those who need temporary help to a locked institution for those who are a harm to themselves or others.
Are San Fran and Portland similar if anyone would say?
My Exhusband I were there the last week of July 2014, it was a dream trip...had to been just before this devastation...it was so beautiful.. I don't recall this nor are there homeless ppl in my pictures and we scoured the entire city, including the Tenderloin and it wasnt this bad. SO VERY SAD what happened to this beautiful city 💔
We’re getting to a point where you’re either doing well in life and don’t have to worry about struggling or you’re simply broke and don’t make enough money to survive in your own city so you’re forced to other things.. like sleep in your car or on the streets 😕
Getting?
@@Mraquanetchris overpopulation will get us there in an ease! Lol
As a small landlord I’ll be closing my business soon. Soon they’ll be forcing us to house and support bums with no compensation. They’re already doing it indirectly.
@@zwpqmsodhebdiskwbfixuwjdjexi overpopulation is a myth perpetuated by the ruling psychopaths. Cities are the CONcentration camps. THEY ( the hierarchy enslaving you) got the masses to move out of rural areas into the cities where we became dependent on the system. Next time you fly notice how much empty land there is.
Naw, drugs are a choice. Ive been an addict my whole life, weed alcohol , sometimes a bump of coke, but what decisions i made and accepting responsibility to be a good husband and father became more important. My friends were lazy , theyre either dead or struggling now. When youre a drug addict you will go into mental issues if you never get punished. I did alot of time in my youth, once i learned to work , i never went back. If these people keep living lawlessly they will eventually kill an innocent person or be killed themselves. Those are facts. They need to be held accountable. When i did my last stretch i saw homeless people with mental issues become normal after months of being sober. Thats facts
I was at the last Google NEXT conference before COVID and we walked back and forth to the Moscone Center every day. The walk was terrible, dodging homeless, human feces, and urinating homeless people. As you walked the stench on the street flip flopped between human waste and marijuana, enough to make you gag.
What a pit. They should have held it elsewhere, not a toxic dump. Sorry for your experience man.
@@wyattearpswoman838 - the trade conventions have moved out of San Francisco to Las Vegas largely because of safety concerns
Yikes. The situation in Seattle is also bad, but not that bad. It seems that L.A. and SF have the most severe homelessness situations.
@@colico14 homelessness and drug addiction is starting to rise alot here in Vancouver too. But thankfully the city tries to gentrify the worst parts of town so the homeless won't have a place to stay.
It seems that this is a recurring problem on the West Coast...
@@colingallagher1443 Which is hilarious because Vegas isn’t that safe either around the convention area.
Addiction and Mental health is not the reason, Start with the cost of living not with addiction and mental health, because I see the cost of living as the driver of what people think is addiction, and then the hopelessness of it all brings on mental health.
For all the people that think it's addiction and Mental health, imagine living on the streets without a private bathroom and SSDI can't help you pay for one, you can't save money, you can't partner with someone to create a joint bank account to pay the current rent amounts, because the rent amount is more than the limit created by SSDI which is $2000.00 and if you have to save the rent in your bank SSDI will turn off your income which that alone can give you Mental Health problems.
At some point the people give in and submit to the condition, and by then it's a bit too late and they won't let other people help because it's now a way of life for them, which is Fucked up because at that point you can see the mental health issue.
When I lived in Texas (Dallas area) we were always shocked by the number of cars from California that were pouring in there. California license plates EVERYWHERE. People are running away from California. A non stop exodus.
I was on the way to Market st and drove pass Tenderloin, man that was the worst decision i have ever made. Homeless everywhere and I felt like I was living in a 3rd world country. 💀
You were definetly passing through a third world neighborhood. You didn’t see Nancy, DiFi, Gavin , or London down there…🙄.
It's bad.
You R get use to it, it's only going to get worse. You can thank the international banking cartels,
So much lack of compassion in the comment, your country is great indeed so please don't complain I'm sure something can be done.
You are living in Fourth world country, worst than third world man,
Bro you should come out to Sacramento, our cost of living is relatively low compared to the rest of California but yet we have a very large homeless population where families live on bike trails, overpasses, the streets, ect. It really has gotten much worse since 2020.
Put all your faith in 81 million Americans and biden to remedy your problems.
I know Sacramento is bad now with so may homeless. I remember back in the 90s it was not that bad.
well Covid is proof that big money'd interests will get theirs but the government wants nothing to do with working to help the needy or protecting our health. The government is in the continuous cycle of campaigning and seeking money. Rather than we managing them government manages us!
@@rustyfolts3298 ....81 million?....how many were living & breathing?....Yeah! there is the ROOT OF THE PROBLEM!
I moved out of SF and was able to buy an affordable condo in Sacramento when the real estate market tanked. It was for the most part a good place to live, I really enjoyed it. The weather was warm and the people were friendlier. Some neighborhoods were bad but every city has those. Sacramento started to decline about 3 years ago. So many homeless were coming in, they were even living in the cemetery.
Does that city discourage the construction of single-room rental apartments?
Where do they get the nice Tents
Probably steal them or get them from donations
Why do we have to get to the point of desperation to solve a problem. If the situation continues at this rate in SF, 20 years from now, the area will be 100% abandoned, worthless and fenced off until all those people die off. If I had said this 20 years ago about SF and had been anywhere close to describing what we see there today, everyone would have called me crazy.
They won't just stay in an abandoned place, they will follow the drugs and resources.
Right! Sf is beautiful place. I was raised there and I went to visit in May and i heartbroken. It's so thilthy and unsafe tents everywhere. My car got.broken into and that appears to be the norm now. I just can't believe there letting the city go like that and the police is just not doing anything.
American people shouldn't have to go through this. We spent billions helping other countries and do little for our own.smh
I lived in San Jose for about four years (1976-1980) and would drive up to SF regularly to hang out with friends. Watching this video-I have no words. I’m aghast at what had happened to San Francisco.
They won't die off 20 years from now. There will just be many more of them.
I'm so thankful that my landlords are renting me a place to live in at a reasonable rate . Inflation is uncomfortable but i'm thankful that my job pays for my life.
You are lucky because rents are going up everywhere . Rent prices rose by 0.8% in june from a month earlier, according to the labor department it is the largest monthly gain since 1986.
How can the typical family with average income afford a higher rate+ more expensive home? in my area multi generational home is becoming the norm . Don’t forget to add the inflation which just this week was 9.1 on the CPI , producers index 11.3, it’s going to be a rough ride for sure.
@@instinctively_awesome8283 Time will tell how this period will treat people that never save, invest, lived beyond means, paycheck to paycheck, too many kids, too big of home, keeping up with the joneses with FOMO,YOLO, paying alimony, child support, etc
@@marianparker7502 I raised all my rents at least 30% in the past year. You better hope your landlord doesn't catch on to reality.
Lol no matter how much money you make if you live in San Francisco your life sucks get out while you can.
IF YOU FIRED EVERYBODY WHO ISN'T DOING THERE JOB
IN SOCIAL SERVICES, THE HOMELESS NUMBER WOULD
QUADRUPLE.
I was at a Walgreens on the corner of Taylor and Geary and even the mixed nuts are behind lock and key! 😮
We relocated from the South Bay to the Eugene-Springfield area 20 years ago due to politics and un-affordability. We had full-time jobs and owned our home but were still not making it financially. I’ve been an inpatient behavioral health nurse for the last decade and will say the homeless population has exploded here as well. I believe our revolving-door policy and access to limitless social services has only exacerbated the problems. Many of my patients from out of state have validated being counseled by case workers to come to Oregon for better benefits. There is no incentive for change or personal accountability, just endless handouts and encouragement to remain dependent on a failing system.
You should move to Mississippi.
@@bigdickblack1505 Is it bad?
@@wellsayd Mississippi is known as the "last in everything" state.
You summed it up well. Handouts only created dependence, enabling people doesn't teach them independence or responsibility.
The solution people would be to stop the Administrators, Directors, Supervisors, Managers, Government officials, Program Coordinators, employees of the programs from stealing the funds, donations, gif cards and actually use those things that are meant for homeless people for the homeless people and the problem would be solved. Unless and until the embezzeling and stealing in that level stops then the problem will persist and continue to grow because the resources are not being used for the intended purposes and are in a nutshell being STOLEN from the homeless!!! For instance, upwards of 900 pre-paid motel rooms remained vacant during the shelter in place and continue t remain unused, and actually were NEVER used for it's intended purpose. Possibly the people working and running these programs are jealous and want the stuff for themselves, thus denying the homeless what is rightfully theirs and intended to solve and reduce the problem. Furthermore, not only do the employees of HOT team, Urban Alchemy and other housing programs discriminate, they steal gift cards, money, donations and never hand them out like they are supposed to. They embezzle food, money, clothing, shoes and act as if it is their call robot give these tings out because n their heart they think the homeless do not deserve these things, but it is not their job to judge whether or not to give the stuff out, their job is to give it out, if they are unable or unwilling to do their jobs, and only want to steal, EMBEZZLE, discriminate, bully and otherwise keep te homeless from getting their donations, maybe they should find another job!!! To try to feed people using mostly the worst donations, not us the money meant for buying food, and then even steal the donations, food, clothing, shoes, chocolate, towels, tents, blankets, gift cards and everything else, only to hand out the worst and least desirable clothing and food available is a crime in itself!!! Many of the employees go through everything taking what they want for themselves, friends and family, they SELL WHATEVER they can for extra money! Bottom line is; a. The homeless and the por are PAYING EVERYBODYS BILLS, b. The homeless and the poor are being STOLEN FROM in a most horrifying way, then being judged and taken advantage of. Then used for numbers and not given their intended support, and c.being discriminated against, belittled and looked down upon. Meanwhile absolutely NONE of these programs would exhist without them and basically none of these jobs would exist without them. So why don't the investigators investigate the theft on that level and actually use the funding, gift cards, food, clothing and other such resources for it's intended purpose, to house, feed, clothe and otherwise support the homeless! Stop the stealing!!! Audit and allow these programs to actually work; by holding the employees, volunteers and upper management to some standard of ethics and not let them just live off of, steal, embezzle, bully, discriminate from, regarding each and every program and solution. And then only will the problems be solved and begin to go away!!!
San Fran used to be a beautiful city in the 90s and early 2000s. There was so many movies filmed in San Fran that kept the city clean and prosperous. So sad!
Agree. I could buy a turkey sandwich at 60 cents in 1978.
I had a beautiful studio apartment in a listed historical building in a great neighborhood for $525 a month (started renting it 1994). When I left in 2003 it was still only $575. Before that 1989-1993 I shared a beautiful 3-4 bedroom Victorian flat with views. Total rent on that when I moved in was $900 a month. (So $300 a month each with 3 of us sharing). Wow.
Yeah, if it's so expensive just to survive it's impossible to save enough money for a move. Moving costs money and usually you need a deposit, money for the journey, and maybe a job in order to rent in most other states. And then you have to re-register everything with a new local government, etc. So if you are broke and your life is in chaos that can seem insurmountable. I can see how people get stuck.
Until liberal came and this happen
I loved living in San Francisco between 1985-2000. Things got creepy around 2000 when rents started to skyrocket. I'm sad for all major cities. Low income, affordable housing has only become more and more an issue.
I'm really sad to see San Francisco in Is such deplorable conditions. I will say, however, this is a little miss nating as some of you are footage was filmed in Fresno California where I live. You went by Pavarello house and I could see the old JC Penney building. Shame on you for not disclosing that.
I am from Germany and only know San Francisco from movies like Bullitt and tv series. That is why i always wanted to visit this wonderful fascinating city. But after seeing this i am not sure if i ever want to visit America.
The average rent for an apartment (average 740sq ft) in San Francisco is $3,230. There is no where to live in the city for those who work in the city.
The average home sold for $1,649,000.
The average income is only $54,549.
Drug use is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. It clearly does not help, but you cannot just "solve" the drug problem. Drugs are different for every single individual.
I think you hit it exactly! The same thing happened to New York City and the surrounding borroughs. They actually call it the "Billionaires Playground". So where does the bartendar live? Where does the waitor/waitresses live? Those people who worked those jobs were the heart and soul of the city back in the 80s. They gave it the energy. Now, you get people walking their Poodle's at 3am, rather than a group of young suburbanite's buying "40's" at the local deli, and having a blast seeing the sights and sounds of the big city for the first time! Our elected officials must find that balance again, or the gap is just going to continue to widen between the rich and the poor. The middleclass is all but gone in America now. Corporate America can help solve this problem too by not buying politicians to only work in their favor. This is all of our problem, and we must work together to solve it.
I mean, if there's no drugs to sell on the streets..... how would people use them?
Think harder, bud. That was really easy to come up with on my end.
@@boofert.washington2499 you know the opioid crisis began in the doctor's office, right?
@@spdepew And Big Pharma and the government were well aware that this was going to manifests in to the crisis it did. The studies were already done on how addictive those drugs were. They knew. That's why they initiated "test" programs in small towns in West Virginia. Cause it would take a while before it'd be recognized and believed by the general public. The fines that some of the pharma companies had to pay were peanuts as compared to how much profit they made already from selling those drugs.
Lost my job due to Covid a few months after a divorce, so I'm converting my van into a small motorhome bit by bit (As I can afford to, so slow going). I feel very, very lucky that I'm in Texas and not California with how bad it's gotten there. Living in a van I can deal with, but if I had to worry about getting robbed constantly, just don't understand how they manage. Kudos to those who are strong enough to do it, safe spots seem to be in very short supply.
Personally, I prefer my van, though it'll be much better once it's more like a small house. If I don't like where I am, I can drive the hell away.
Still looking for a job (Or for disability to kick in, which involves so much red tape I'm going to die of paper cuts), but I can type just fine, and real fast, and would really rather work. What's nuts are data entry jobs wanting a bachelors degree.
What sucks for getting disability in this country you can't even be working a little bit, or they deny application all together claiming you CAN work and to work full-time. Fact, yes maybe I can work few hrs but NO I can't work more than couple hr a day and I can't live on that. Of course, I rather work to afford on my on if I can, I'm sick of all the red tape 😑😐😑
It's all about money!! The universities are behind it. Data entry should not require a degree!
Also, they want people to multitask. No longer just data entry. This started a decade ago. Especially in medical business settings.
So get an apartment, who difficult is that? With jobs paying of 35k a year for no education or skill here in Florida I would think getting out of you van would be easy.
@Miracle Motivates Anyone who is homeless, and tells me that they just can't find a job, just can't find an apartment you know the drill. And millions and millions keep coming here and I bet no or very few are homeless. Ever ask why? Bet not.
"without a plan"
Hard disagree. There are many plans.
These typically involve involve novel ideas like "Don't spend your rent money on drugs", and that's how it goes nowhere.
Excellent video but the idea being rent controls and spending MORE money from your colleague is absolutely insane. Rent controls will hollow out the local economy even quicker and just lead to people with money leaving while investors and property owners are less inclined to provide clean, healthy and well kept living spaces. Also saying Seattle is getting better is.... not my experience and I've lived there for 31 years.
I once spent 2 months temporarily homeless (it was a complex situation)
I can say firsthand that you could start perfectly sane, have friends with couches and even your car as a last resort, even have steady employment/income, and you'll still lose your sanity in a matter of weeks (so imagine months or years) at which point you do get stuck in "survival mode", and even when it's over it can take months if not years for the paranoia to deprogram, and while I didn't fall down that hole I could totally see how many would turn to hard drugs just to help them get through the next hour
I don't mean to sound unsympathetic but even if dsome drug users were offered treatment doesn't mean they will work the program. Some people don't won't help.
@@sherryryczek4811 unfortunately most people have an addiction that they can’t function without, they truly believe they need something to survive even though there’s no need for their drug of choice, caffeine, sex, cigarettes, sugar, reliant on a machine to regulate temperatures for them, medications to regulate emotions, just overall slaves to their comfort and pleasure. They are very weak and couldn’t handle being on the street for a night let alone a week. It’s funny how those people are always the ones to say that others should be stronger than they could ever hope to be.
I was homeless for almost a year in Sacramento living in my car. You're right on point, so easy to lose your sanity and stay gone.
@@sherryryczek4811 That's a sociological problem. America needs to fix it.
Here on Vacation from the UK, I couldn't believe how bad it is, I've done a huge roadtrip around CA, and San Francisco is the only city I've felt genuinely unsafe in.
This is not a roadtrip in cisco, rather 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' lol
@@sid18208 "Escape from L.A."
We just went to London and it’s a fair call on your part. SF is nasty
Lol. SF is not nearly the most unsafe city in the country. I was born and raised in the US and while i have been robbed here, I’ve been assaulted WAY more in foreign nations (including the UK).
UK : then leave.
We need to make laws that criminalize encampments, so they have nowhere to go, and if they failed to cooperate, then they will be sent to a strong rehab center or go to jail for many years, it's either jail for many years or the rehab, and reduce the apartment and home pricing, as well as make more apartments and homes,
I think the real problem is people are not getting married no more and that’s causing more housing if that makes sense
Property owners have all the money to buy all the politicians and will never allow the supply of property to increase and hurt the value of their properties. The problem is unfixable.
@@credmanthe problem is unfixable in capitalism.
Best ending dude, thnx for asking us the people to chip in, it is up to us to fix the problem, again thnx.
Homelessness is so bad in SF, did it for 4 years from 2011-2015, and it was bad back then, only imagine how much worse it is now. Lost a car and about a dozen instruments and more.
How did you vote during your time there?
I really love this channel, but I must admit that this is getting scary. As a person from a developing country who always dreamed in travel to the US, see that this country is having this problems is kinda depressing. A country who used to be known as the most powerful in the world looks to be destroying itself. We should always be optimistical and try to look to solutions but also to accept that all the Empires have an end.
This is more of a local government issue. Where I live there is a zero tolerance and tough on crime approach for homeless encampments, begging, pan handling.
Life is very good for a majority of the people in this country, just gotta look in the right places and ignore the loud minority.
Stay in your developing country and enjoy its progress. On an international stage, America is a lost cause. It's no longer a shiny beacon to the rest of the world, if it ever was.
"Life is very good for a majority of the people in this country."
While that may be true, the true measure of a society is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable.
In that respect the US is doing a miserable job.
@@PropagandasaurusRex Unfortunately, once a country’s population pyramid begins to invert, it becomes a lot less sympathetic to those of misfortune. A first-world country will do its best to cover up the second and third-world parts.
What is sad is that we are all just one medical tragedy from being on the streets. We work our asses off, and for what? We are all so stressed and depressed its really sad
@@bunsenn5064 That is because in many countries the young need to uphold the earned rights of the old. Look at how pensions are funded. With fewer and fewer young people in the workforce that will quickly become unsustainable, leading to the ironic fact that the old are trying to dismantle the benefits they themselves enjoyed when they were young.
This is not necessarily a result of less empathy but rather the result of a failing system of wealth redistribution (i.e. taxes).
People need to sweep the streets before they get anything free. Especially if they are taking drugs.
And they need to clean up after their poop !
It makes perfect sense that it's mainly 50 years old and because once you get even passed 45 if you have any kind of disabilities physically you cannot work the same way as you used to work and it puts you at such a disadvantage and on the other hand age discrimination God bless all of these people❤
I have worked in the addiction field for 30 years and know for a fact, only about 10% of drug addicts will ever get clean. The 2 reasons people stop drugs are either motivation, they want it bad enough, or pain; it becomes too uncomfortable to keep doing it. SF encourages drug addicts and keeps them from ever getting bad enough to want to stop.
Their policies enable them. Basically allowing shoplifting and being able to shoot up in public is absolutely ridiculous.
@Gsm who do you think are supplying the drugs to these people and are swimming in cash?
@@ozone3750 the white man of course
@@206remyboyz7 there's many white men
I'm a recovering opiate addict and I've been clean for 6.5 years. I lost nearly everything, but by the grace of God I didn't end up on the street. I was fast approaching it though. It's true many addicts don't sincerely want help. Being a part of the recovery community showed me this. Many addicts are in meetings and other recovery programs due to court order. I can only think of a handful out of the many who cleaned up and remain cleaned up. We have a drug court program in my area and while it helps a few, the rest usually flunk it and have to go do time. I've seen graduates of the program, who do really well while in it, but they typically are back using within a matter of months. One of them point blank told me "When the cat is away, the mice will play ".
Regular income earners don’t have enough time, energy, money or resources to put a dent in this problem. They teeter on the edge of homelessness themselves. The ones who have the means to help usually have their heads in the sand. If you don’t look, you’ll never see and if you’ve never had to worry about being homeless, you can’t empathize.
I can’t believe that this is okay because of a political ideology!! And I can’t believe voters continue to vote for the same party that supports this, because if YOU do then you believe it’s okay and can’t complain about it !! 🙄🤷🏻♂️
Stop drugs and benefits. Let them go to work. They are not babies. They need to take care themselves. It is tough love!
"The ones who have the means to help usually have their heads in the sand." The homeless in SF have been given free hotels that they have destroyed, free drugs and free alcohol they continue to abuse all over the streets, free access to healthcare while hard working citizens like myself don't even get the option... The reality is there is PLENTY of help for the homeless. But if you give a mouse a cookie...
If you're teetering on the edge of homelessness, then you're living beyond your means. IE: I have a $1200 phone but can't put food on the table. It's all horseshit.
the wealthiest people actually have strong incentives to make the situation worse, and they're so insulated and narcissistic that they never feel any responsibility for the suffering they inflict on others.
Wow, how much has changed! When I was a young man in the 90’s, San Francisco was seen as a haven for gays and a place of culture and fun. No worries about the cost of living back then. It was higher than most of the U.S., but people could adjust. Nowadays it’s just a bad place. The well-off people don’t live in San Francisco, they live in places like San Mateo, Walnut Creek, San Ramon, Livermore, and the like.
Owned a house in Bernal Heights neighborhood, Real Estate tax was unbelievable 24 years ago. Must be much worse today. Moved to Phoenix to escape the insanity. 3rd generation born in San Francisco, will not return.
I am confused about the comments here. I am coming from being homeless myself once. First, it's not a San Francisco problem but a national problem that ended up in SF. If they didn't live there, they'd live somewhere else, and still be homeless. How I got off the streets was through being helped by kind people who let me stay with them until I worked something out. I'm older so the jobs I could find were low paying, and I could not live on them. People want to hire the young. I applied for and got SSI but it took the better part of a year and I get the grand total of 935 dollars a month. Not only can you not live on that in SF you can't live on it anywhere. I applied for subsidized housing, and am still waiting. It takes years where I am. Without having a free place to stay I'd still be on the street. Politicians there may be foolish or self serving, but that's a separate issue from how hard it is to get off the streets once you land there. It's two separate issues. Until it happens to you you have no idea what it's like.
But we have enough money to support democracy in Afghanistan for 20 years and now give Ukraine millions of dollars in the form of weapons to support their non-existent democracy.
It is two separate issues: it’s a YOU issue and a who you vote for issue. Considering the social safety nets that are available it sounds pretty damn hard to wind up homeless. The free this free that that you are awarded and yet so few ppl go to rehab, so few people are willing to work the jobs (no matter how shitty they are).
And you have the audacity to trivialize you getting $935 a month for free and subsidized housing is taking so long. At whos expense are you getting these programs? Everyone else’s. What did YOU did to fix your situation? What did YOU sacrifice? A needle and a fix probably.
God bless you
I'm glad it work out for you
I don't know if you can still get this $935 to move to another country like the Philippines? The rent will cost $100 + $100 for food. Job? - English teacher. + If you 50+ or 60+ you can merry 25+ woman there.
People in office are making money out of the homeless problem. So there's no incentive to solve it. As long as they sound like they care, that's enough for them.
Yeah they take the donations and tax money and claim they are spending Sixty-eight thousand dollars per homeless tent. Who's pocketing that money?
Who is making money? Bet you can't back up that ridiculous statement.
Bureaucrats of course. Yeah it's ridiculous
II don't believe that politicians don't want to solve the homeless problem. If they could, their jobs would be much easier. The problem is there are no easy solutions.
@@HowardRoark-jo7ik
Does it cost sixty thousand per year per tent on a plot of land?
Where does all the money go?
I don’t get America. Can’t cities build emergency accommodation? SF/Bay Area is one of - if not the wealthiest - the richest regions on the planet yet a basic thing like this eludes them. Demountables, containers, trailers, tiny homes, warehouse conversions, don’t tell me it isn’t possible. I bet there’s plenty of sites like empty lots, car parks, old warehouses and factories, etc.
it would be better for residents to pay for that than to live in fear.
Where are they getting the tents?
There will never be a solution for when there is so much deceit, greed, and corruption going on. But there is a solution for every problem
Cali residence need to get rid of EVERY SINGLE politician if the problem isn't fixed by the next election. Hold them accountable.
We were paying over $3k a month for a two bedroom apartment in Bellevue, WA. We moved to Tennessee and pay a third of that on a mortgage on a house that's 7 times the size sitting on an acre property. We looked at Mississippi, too, which had even more affordable, amazing homes. I wax liberal, but the liberal city councils out west are criminally incompetent with the enormous taxes they have to spend. They are ridiculous and spend City monies in some of the most wasteful ways imaginable. You also need to have some rules and enforce those rules. If someone can't afford to live in Seattle or SF them they can't afford to live there. Society isn't obligated to enable them to be wherever they want regardless of the location.
Well Bellevue and other places in east King county are expensive period but rent and housing in state of Washington altogether is ridiculously high
So are going to move to Tennessee and vote dem? That is the definition of insanity if you answered yes.
@@canicksmith6629 lol I was wondering the same thing
@@canicksmith6629 you really think voting republican is going to be any different? Look at Anchorage AK or most places in Louisiana and Mississippi:/ both political parties are run by corporate greed and until we acknowledge that nothing is going to get done
@@chrispf5090 Anchorage is hardly a republican city, they've been voting Democrat for a long time up until recently.
They're just like the big cities of any other state.
On the other hand, look at the valley. They don't have homeless people on every corner with tent city in every ditch. The housing is more affordable and better than what's available in Anchorage, they're also more right leaning than Anchorage ever was.
So yes voting republican is very much different. You can see it from city to city.
The situation you described is called government detachment. It happens when the government becomes increasingly out of touch with the people it is supposed to represent. This can happen for a number of reasons, such as:
- The government becomes more bureaucratic and less responsive to public input.
- The government becomes more focused on the interests of special groups, such as wealthy donors or powerful corporations.
- The government becomes more polarized, with elected officials more concerned with winning elections than with serving the public good.
- The government is corrupt
Government detachment can have a number of negative consequences, such as:
- The government becomes less effective at solving problems.
- The government becomes less accountable to the people.
- The government becomes more likely to make decisions that are harmful to the public interest.
There are a number of things that can be done to address government detachment, such as:
- Making it easier for people to participate in government.
- Reducing the influence of special interests in government.
- Promoting civic engagement and public awareness of government issues.
It is important to address government detachment because it can lead to a number of problems, including ineffective government, lack of accountability, and decisions that are harmful to the public interest.
Growing up in San Francisco during the 50’s and 60’s was a wonderful place.
The city had little or no homeless, low crime, and lots of things to see and do, all with the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Todays Woke politicians have destroyed San Francisco, by not addressing the homeless problem and giving criminals a free pass to do pretty much whatever they want without fear of arrest or prosecution. As a kid we never even locked our front door. My brothers and I would travel downtown, by ourselves, to go to the movies when we were 8-10 years old. San Francisco used to be a very Safe city. Those days are long gone and today SF is a cesspool with human poop all over the street and property crimes the highest in the nation. The voters of San Francisco need to wake up and stop voting for these Woke Left Democrat politicians who value criminals and illegals more then tax paying citizens. The Democrat party has completely lost its focus, President Kennedy and former Mayor Joe Alioto would today be considered conservative Republicans. Wake up San Francisco before this beautiful city is completely destroyed.
Dude? San Francisco is already destroyed
Check out the poverty and homelessness in Republican states as well. Red states are some of the POOREST in the country. No my friend, this is NOT a political problem, this is a humanitarian crisis, an over-policed state that focuses on punishment with no solution over rehabilitation. And as many have mentioned, especially through this video, it’s NORMAL people, non-addicts being caught in bad situations which catalyze their spiral to this level. To top it all off, you most likely have dirty politicians from BOTH camps and non-profits pocketing money somewhere down the line. The sooner we remove politics from this situation, shed our tribalism and rise to solve these problems TOGETHER, the sooner we get back to that beautiful image you painted of this city from its hayday 💯👏🏻
when democrat take over... the last Republican to win San Francisco was Dwight Eisenhower in 1956
@@coolkid13243 wow. I guess we each look at “reality” differently. The picture you paint of republicans is one I’ve never seen before. I am republican, living in a rural clean red state, have a college degree, and have never needed to receive public assistance. But I have vacationed to blue states and the homelessness was terrifying, not to mention it smells like urine on your sidewalks. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. I’ll keep my red state residence.
@@jk-474 the top 6 states with the worst homelessness are democrat states?