Here's How Bad The Homeless Problem In Austin, Texas Is
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- What has happened to the Texas capital? This is spreading all over!
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Fentanyl, heroin, coke, opioids, beer, wine, liquor. That’s what happened to some Americans. Btw those vices don’t care if you’re a republican or democrat, live in a blue or red state. Every state has homeless and addicts. You can pretend you don’t but you do.
@@vardekpetrovic9716Houston and Dallas have thousands of homeless too.
I want to see Politicians out and about. Tending to these constituents. Shame on them for neglecting the vulnerable. God is watching. Tee
When people have been arrested 50 + times there is no fear of being arrested again
You get arrested so you have a warm place to sleep and 3 square meals
When your homeless, at least when your in jail you get housing and food. So being in jail is better than being homeless.
Its the soros agenda, taking every DA of major counties to fully paid vacation in Barbados and giving them seminars to be progressive as well as a fully funded campaign fund.
Especially in California
@@altonlynch5464. What A Sad Way To SURVIVE!!
Dude nobody can afford to live anymore my house is paid for but between child support and taxes I'm about to lose it all anyway. this country is falling apart man one human at a time. Being a homeless bum is literally a less stressful life at this point.
Yea I’m thinking to start voting democrat and buy a tent.
@@neighborhood6814You don't have to buy a tent, they hand out free tents to homeless people. 🙄
You'll need to find a safe place where you're surrounded by other homeless people. You will get robbed. You will get assaulted.
With technology bring used by game wardens you can no longer take refuge in the wild either
Funny. Before I divorced my ex I considered if the end result may be barely surviving, homeless, living under a bridge downtown somewhere and if that was a more preferable state of being compared to living with the ex and the answer was, quite emphatically, YES! 🤣
@@neighborhood6814 like it matters how you vote, since there are only two parties anybody wanting one over the other just wants a totalitarian system like China,
What most people don't know, is that 10 years ago, the city cleared several areas of large forest land where thousands of homeless people camped and lived, hidden out of sight , forcing them to be seen now. They have always been here, growth and development have pushed them out of hiding and the city knew of it and has done little to help.
From n j Trinidad Mr nick Johnson I have been following your documentaries on homeless rundown cities in the us a question are your aird information have been gaining any positive response from the government on taking care of business at home before making stimulus package to support foreign countries
Interesting take, can you give some areas this happened? like street names or neighborhoods etc
I ask because I don't know where this would have happened as 10 years ago the only places to clear that I know of were way outside of the downtown Austin area.
If I was one of them, I would NOT want any help from the government. The government has turned communist.
cruel city, every one of them
LMAO, that never happened.
There is no slack left in the system. No low skill manufacturing jobs, or retail work which pay well enough to afford to have housing and food, no state run asylums to shelter persons who cannot take care of themselves, There is nothing that demands a basic level of decency when in public places.
Thanks government!
They gave all our wealth, 80% of it, to the top 1%, and now they blame homeless for being homeless.
@@BajatheChickenMan "Thanks government!"
You can thank the GOP who cuts taxes on billionaires every chance they get. Basically you can thank the people who hate govt and who give our money to rich people while leaving everyone else to go homeless. All those tax cuts since Reagan have added up to the amount of our national debt. If you voted for that, this is your fault.
We have a new Speaker of the House...At least he's trying to help us clean up the Swamp..
@brendawhisenhunt8444
Doesn't Louisiana have a lot of swamps?
20 years ago the Austin city council decide they wanted to be like San Francisco. Well, they got their wish. What made Austin a great place to live has now been completely destroyed.
Crime, poverty, homeless, shootings, unsafe neighborhoods, streets smell like pee. Liberal utopia : )
That is because a lot of people from California came to Texas and decided to take over our state and run it into the ground because they don’t know anything about politics, finances or real estate. That’s why they’re poor, live in the hills instead of the rich. Not very smart. Now we just have Yankees running our southern values into the ground. They just need to go back to Cali, or wherever they came from.
Not true bro we're back bigger than ever, We're the true rock stars of the south no we're doing it🤫
@@christinebuckingham8369dam democrats who's in charge of that state probably a POS democrat governor
@@andrew-gb3qo bigger, yes. But better? How exactly? Gridlock most of the day, downtown so crowded nobody goes there anymore (lmao yes I get the irony). But Austin used to be laid back, you could zip out to the Lake and then head downtown in a couple hours to continue getting plastered. Wild parties always to be found (ok maybe this is an age thing). But I just don’t see the spontaneity anymore. Who really wants to move to TX to live in a highrise in a dense urban area. And on the ‘urban’ subject, yes, a lot more ‘urban’ (if you catch my drift) do these ‘urban’ people add anything? No, they overwhelmingly degrade the quality of life.
Someone is making money off of the chaos in America.
Always been that way. America is being punished for what the government did to the Native Americans and Slavery times.
@@JrueThrondsenit’s hard to understand the real reason why this is happening, could be Mental Illness.
Woke liberals want it that way, this is their progressive plan for our once great country, delusional symps like that one lady saying she's demcRAT,, the woke media have them keep voting for this..
They been making money for years. To think they are supposed to be working for US. We do have a Republican gov, but run by Democrats.
@@judywilson9003 It's simple: GREED. Some people want EVERYTHING, and don't care if others suffer.
As someone who’s not from the US it amazes me how people pick political parties like it’s a sports team. Judge the policies not party. The woman was proud to say she’s a democrat whilst disagreeing with all of their policies? Weird
American here...my mom is the same way...she's an uninformed voter. I only voted once...and I regretted it...both parties are corrupt, although honestly, the left has gone COMPLETELY off the rails! But all govts basically are working towards the Agenda2030 plan which will only make everything worse...this all has been done on purpose!
Didn't you hear what the woman said; George Soros and his money is funneled to District Attorneys that basically let criminals go. It's a power struggle based on money, not politics! Somehow the most evil of people have all of the money that is dictating all of the chaos. Politics is just theater and a way to line pockets. Same with the banking globalists that are pushing immigration across all western countries, they need more people becoming indebted to the system to remain powerful. Don't be confused, it's simply a system to keep people as perpetual slaves.
No person is perfect. Both parties have there own issues. So many of these politicians should be replaced with a average working joe. This country would prosper again.
We have an entire party whose voters brainlessly "vote for the guy with the R next to his name" because they don't care about individual politicians, they just want to make sure they vote for the guy who is owned by the bankster class, the fraudster class, who will punish women and minorities for being women and minorities, and reward silver spoons for being born rich.
Absolutely Sonic. I totally agree with you here. Im not from USA myself but from Canada...very similar to US in some ways...like a milder version of USA😊
Im from Austin and i have never seen the homeless community so bad as it is now. Its horrible. So bad i moved out.
@@simply_the_dev7588 It's actually worse than it's ever been. You just don't see them now as they're back in the woods. There's hundreds of camps all over town. There's even mini homeless camp cities interconnected to each other with trails. Can't hide from the satellites...
Where did you go out of curiosity?
that's the only thing you can do when the crack and meth heads take over.
Yes, I was there for a conference in Feb. and walked around to get to supermarket kind of outside the downtown to grab some food I could eat in my hotel room for breakfast (everywhere else too expensive and crowded). Yup, pretty much like this everywhere as I walked through a couple of parks to get there.
After about 2003- 2004, serious crime, traffic congestion and air pollution got so bad, i also moved out of there.
When I got caught up in Seattle awhile back they had a program there where they pick certain people out of rehab to get a place that was like Oxford first month free to get your shit together and a job then it’s 500$ after 6 months you get your own apartment. You’re required to attend meetings and work the steps and stay sober. It was a great program with oversight exactly how programs like that should be. If I was given a place out of rehab for free with no over sight I would have relapsed. A lot of government funded programs are designed to pocket money for small amount of well connected people. No training programs no random UAs no counselors no building new housing complex’s with NA study groups involved. I’m telling you there was way more that was supposed to go into those programs.
they need to stop paying rehab scouts
So many homeless Americans while the USA house countless number of migrants and send billions to Ukraine. What happened to the USA?
Ukrainians are not guilty in your problems. American billionaires, government and president are guilty. They have geopolitical interests in Ukraine, that's why they give money and weapon.
Well, you can spend a couple of billions now or you can send your kids to fight World War III as for immigrants in the country. I agree with you 100% but disagree about your Ukraine comment two different things,unless you wanna fight World War III.
Vote trump
I agree. We have children going hungry and doing without. It’s hard for people that do work hard to make ends meet.
I think we all know what happened to this country.
I live in Chicago where there is an influxe of immigrant. They have camps outside of police stations while they tear down the camps of people who have been destitute and homeless here for years. Its pathetic.
the homeless wont vote the way like so they are skipped over. the illegals are the next blue voting block!
I am from Chicago live in Huston now it’s depressing I agree. I prefer Chicago over Huston any day.
Prefer Chicago? I fled the city. I'm glad I saw these places in the 90s when they were still awesome.@@irmakalember3709
When you vote Blue .
@@mikedavis2969what has voting done for me or my people??? I don't waste my time anymore..haven't for many years
I had work. I had savings, insurance and i got breast cancer and lost everything. I was in the streets fighting for survival. It was hell. No help for traumatic health care.
There’s always help for the illegals but no help for Americans
*We are a 3rd World County now.*
*It's the same thing going on everywhere if leaders let it happen.*
Our elected officials and the government are to blame for this, not the people. We are pawns in their game, nothing more!
Third world countries people are not homeless
@@xlgnepo You're right. It's very sad.
@@luisgonzalez-os6jv I never thought of that. It makes me sick that we have Vets on the street.
We have so much land .but is private property Al these people could built some hoses. Or at least somewhere to stay
The people during the Great Depression weren’t a bunch of drug addicts. Biggest difference right there.
It seems from looking at pictures from that time everyone was miserable. Everyone was in the same boat, families were stronger, people were used to living with less. We've become so disjointed in America that we don't care anymore. We don't care enough about the mentally ill to get them in asylums. We don't care about the drug supply because if we did we would threaten to stop all trade with Mexico and China. We don't care about the demand for drugs because we lock people up instead of treating them. We tolerate theft, so it continues, make the penalties severe. Many homeless have given up, why not, go stay in a shelter, it sucks. They like to use tough love which many homeless don't sweat. When you don't have a home, reliable food, money, a car, a job or anything, tough love doesn't bother you it's just one more abuse. The experts haven't figured homeless out so don't expect them to fix it now. Make a place for the homeless to live, provide showers, safety, help with work and transportation, the ones that need help will lift themselves up and out, the others will leave, it is simple.
When Gov makes money off dope its imposible to stop it 😢 20 years in Afganistan c i a stole tons of H fyi
They were bunch of stocks and shares addicts. 1929 was stock market crash 😂
But neither are we. Just them
Most people didn't own a home prior to the depression unless they were farmers. And there was definitely a substance abuse problem then too.
I grew up in a suburb of Austin in the early 2000s, and went back to visit in early 2023. It was almost unrecognizable with how grungy the whole place is now. It's easy to blame all the Californians that moved there over the past few years but I don't think they're what caused it. The city leaders made decisions several decades ago that the people are paying for now.
its turning into CA
Texas fucked up Austin……….there is no one else to blame. It USED to be the jewel of the whole state. Sure, it is better than El Paso, Dallas, Fort Worth, or San Antonio. But it is nothing like it used to be. The “keep Austin weird” saying was dead long ago. Sad.
@@rickguerrero2282 exactly austin ruined itself not other people moving in.
Its called
Inflation
If you keep printing money
Spend billions of tax on
Acts that are unrelated to tax payers support
Well
There v r
@@MartinLuna-Torres-tr3gv Yet they are totally allied with what other cities are doing wrong. So they are definitely following national trends, even if they did it by themselves.
The blight of these cities is no accident. It is by design.
this is how the democrats make there money.
and the blight in rural communities?
So true !!
@@Gamesso1slOo0l Good point. Meth and Crack has ravaged the rural US, and the abc agencies provide it.
YEP!
I'm homeless in Arkansas. I work more than full-time and I don't do drugs. I don't have health insurance and don't qualify for any assistance. I was not breaking any laws and was sleeping in my car in a place I was allowed to sleep in my car at when a cop harassed me and told me to never come back. Now I don't know where to sleep at night. It's hard going to work after being woken up every night by police harassing me. I tried to get an apartment but I would have to make 1/3 more than I do. I have the highest paying job in the area that I qualify for at $20 an hour. Liberals are enabling drug addicts and criminals in places like Austin while conservatives are oppressing working people like me in places like Arkansas. I'm not risking my safety for healthcare in place like Austin, handouts aren't worth getting r@ped or killed. I just wish here people would at least stop harassing me when I'm just trying to sleep for a couple hours. Sometimes I wonder if prison would be better, free bed, food, and healthcare, and wouldnt have to work 12 hrs a day everyday.
You're on my prayer list. I'm asking God to be there for you & lead you to a safe and improved way of living.
did you obtain a record?
Truck stops and camping in state parks let you stay there for 2 weeks. Where I'm at the city has a tourist campground that you can stay 2 weeks at as well. I live in Texas so it might be different where you are.
@@alexisalexander9037 good to know thank you
What the hell kind of job do you have if you work full time and live in your car?You must be a high school drop out or a closet alky or have a gambling problem.
As a sober person with addiction, it seems reasonable to me to threaten to put them in jail or try forced rehab. They don’t want to stop using and causing this chaos? Off to jail you go! Literally for the safety of the community. AGAIN, I am sober for over a year and did it with severe depression and PTSD.
NO solution until JUDGES are not social engineers, and DA'S are sent to jail for years for not enforcing the LAW, not their law.
If Sam Alito wasn't social engineering with his Five Year Plan For Toddler Supply we wouldn't be prepping to quintuple our homeless population in 20 years. Oh, also, when some 65% of babies born are unwanted we're also going to have a massive crime wave in about 20 years. Or, rather, the crime waves that reverberate through all generations except the one who came of age 20 years after Roe (when crime dropped massively in the 90s) will resume as they have always done prior to women having rights.
Blame the voters for the DAs, they get just what they voted for
Exactly. Judges and DAs should have the courage to not be liked. It is ok to do the right thing right!
I salute you for your frankness in conveying the situation, as there are those who do not dare to mention these problems, claiming that they preserve the image of America in the world as a developed country, although preserving the image of America requires mentioning mistakes and problems to fix them, and not to be silent about them and hide them.
The reason why it's during to speak of these issues has to do with leftists championing this crap and threatening those who expose it abd the leftist policies that created it, not "preserving America's image"
Plain and simple. This country has gone to shit! And it is so damn sad.
No elderly person should be homeless in this country if they're not a low down criminal or criminal drug addict.
It shows that not all are drug addicted like some of these hateful trolls are saying.
Sad how many seniors live in their vehicles. I'm one of them. I don't drink, smoke or do drugs. I'm in Michigan and must choose between heating and eating. If I moved south for the winter, I'd not have to spend much on heat but can't afford to get there and can't afford to pay for a camping spot.
No elderly person should be homeless, period.
Do you vote for dem policies such as open boarders and promoted criminal behavior? If so then you agree with this.
Or radical right wing J 6 rioter 😊
It’s sad to see our elderly people homeless.
You cannot isolate people from THEIR BAD decisions!
@@khiem1939so a person with Alzheimer's or some neurology disorder is their fault? Their choice?
Few if any on "the street" are suffering from Alzheimer's but most are suffering from years of drug, alcohol and other substance abuse!@@mrobinson256
Elderly people used to be young people who made bad decisions. They were warned and chose not to listen. I feel no sympathy. And not all have mental issues. Most have mental issues due to the substances they enjoyed doing
@@khiem1939 What bad decision did she make since you know so much about her?
The Austin State Hospital has 375,000 square feet and yet only contains 240 private patient bedrooms. That's over 1500 sq ft per person, bigger than many houses. Money is being spent but not very efficiently.
😮wow!!
When you interviewed the police officer, his answers were exactly what we’ve heard in Portland, Seattle, LA, San Francisco, etc. Same song, same movie. We know how it ends.
I used to go to Portland in the late 90s...Blazers, food, concerts...what a beautiful town...now, it is a cesspool and I will never go back. sad
Same shit different toilet paper
Sold my house last summer and left Austin after living there 48 years. The homeless problem is really, really, bad and crime has spiraled out of control. The city is unrecognizable compared to 15 years ago and especailly 30+ years ago. Wokey woke child-adults that make up most of the population have the city on the way to being San Francisco. Brutal traffic and high taxes/cost of living.
Same story brother but I fled for a rural area, my MAGA 2A neighborhood is perfectly peaceful
@2023AGayOdyssey he's probably trying to find a way to overthrow the country for his vladdy lol
Just so happy that I'm no longer contributing to wokey woke. :) @@2023AGayOdyssey
Dam it..that doesn't sound like Mr Rodgers naborhood
Being allowed to freely move from state to state is causing the problem. State to state migration is out of control and states need to start imposing limits on external population growth. Americans moving nonstop to "greener pastures" causes overpopulation, leading to urban sprawl, traffic congestion, etc.
In any city world over if you let drugs get out of hand you're finished.
not true some countries have taken a different stance you can do drugs but will not supply the narcan
I grew up near Austin in the 90s. It has really gone down hill.
Me too. It's been sad to witness the change
You should have seen it in the 70's
cause it went liberal
I grew up in Austin since the 90s. Seems about the same to me.
Smells like piss.
When I worked downtown 10 years ago, smelled like piss.
When I worked down by campus 20 years ago, smelled like piss.
I asked my mom who worked downtown in the 60s-70s. Yup. Smelled like piss then too.
Reminds me of San Francisco. Same smell, same people.
@@dancox3251 yikes, that’s very Gross 🤮. Thank God, I live in a very nice area super clean, so far so good.
When a city's govt is majority or all liberal, this is what you get....even in the middle of a conservative state.
please dont fall for this left right nonsense. Its ultra rich and all of us. Thats the only divide. Both parties are the SAME. Greed runs this country and runs the world.
There are self avowed communists on the council.
Increasing the already huge gap between the rich and everyone else wont help
Yup. I live next to St Pete Fl and let me tell you all this same stuff is going on here. Crime is up, homeless people everywhere its not even worth going downtown anymore because you have to deal with all the lower class crap.
It's a culture thing. It's centered around white and black people.
The irony of showing dirty people in shaggy clothes sleeping on the ground and going “I wish I had a free hotel and free money!”
Defund the police has got to be one of the stupidest ideas ever thought of.
One of the best. You think they protect good people anymore? No way lmao. If you got into any sort of altercation where you defended yourself you would be tossed in jail immediately.
Yes and no. While the police need the money to have the resources they need, many police departments are spending money becoming the Army, by militarizing themselves. You need the Army, then call the army; not try to become the army. The police are supposed to project a friendly image, in their blue uniforms, use and friendly with community; not to be soldiers driving tanks. All finning to militarize the police should be cut 100%, while funding for training to deal with civilians should be increased.
How so? I never saw a cop do anything for the homeless aside from beat them up. Speaking of which, cops never do anything for anyone other that beat the shit out of black people for the Karen who called the cops on them for doing something normal in public.
Austin was extremly smelly and trashed
Defund the socialist welfare is a much better solution ;) Without welfare the plebs have no means of existing.
This story is so sad for me. I graduated from UT-Austin in 1974. Back then it was one of the coolest places in the country, music, food, culture, the whole vibe. To see progressive politics turn into the dump it is now is so depresssing.
Whaaat, 1974, how old are you, 158, hahaaaa
@@dennynisevic7848 don’t exaggerate, he’s not too old. BTW why do you have against older People, I’m sure your parents are old as well.😮
It’s the tech sector moving there.
Shame USA is sending 100 BILION DOLLARS to Ukraine But US has so many homeless people 🤔🤔
@@dennynisevic7848 if that person has graduated in 1974 he could be born in 1954 so he is 69 years old. My question to you have you been to school?????
Well, Nick, I think you've hit the nail on the head with you filming and your commentary. I've lived in Austin (actually just outside the city limits) for 34 years and I've seen it devolve from a beautiful city to a trash heap. I never go downtown. There are too many miscreants down there who will "help" you park, then damage your car if you don't pay them. If the best doctor practiced downtown, I'd have to settle for 2nd best. I've come to stay in my area because it's much cleaner and safer than in the city. I hope there is hope for Austin, but I don't see it coming anytime soon. Thanks for your detail and candor.
Starting at 16:20, this woman says it all. "...these far left activists..." I just don't get it. The entire Dem Party is run by "these far left activists" yet she says she's [still] a democrat. How you vote matters!
She’s got quite the rig
we aren't "voting" our way out of this.
Unfortunately elections are rigged
Liberalism is a mental disorder. If she's still a Democrat. Then she must love being homeless.
@@stacky512ai love it
Our homeless and addiction situation is heartbreaking
Your comment is only one with a heart also my comment keep being kind
And mental health. And nobody seems to do any more than politicize the issue. The left blames the right, the right blames the left. But one thing that they have in common is that the homeless give them both a sense of superiority and motivation to work whatever job they can get for whatever wage they can get in order to pay whatever rent they have to. The homeless give them a sense that somehow, they've made the right choices so they can slap their own backs and say, "job well done".
The homeless give them something to point at while telling their kids, "If you don't do well in school, go to college and get a good job, you'll end up just like that".
And they're right, they will, but they don't pause to consider that many aren't academically inclined and might have all sorts of incumbrances on the path to academic success. They call it choice, pat themselves on the back again and heil America, "the land of the free".
And they don't pause to consider that the jobs that such people could once do to support themselves barely exist any longer. They've got a job because they're better than the homeless. It's their choice that Dad wasn't an auto worker in Detroit or coal miner in the Appalachians. Actually, they don't stop to consider that for a moment, they're just better.
Who cares if the homeless were born into generational unemployment and poverty. We all have choices. I do.
Who cares that mental asylums across the nation have been abandoned. The homeless are mentally ill by choice. I've got a good job and health insurance, I'm one of one out of six Americans being treated for mental health problems because I made the right choices.
Americans used to fear and hate Communism. It gave them a reason to work hard and prosper. They had to be better. Communism died. At least now we have homelessness
to take it's place. Thank God.
It's the culture. You don't see Asians on the streets. Naw. They are making that money. 🤔
@@erindonofri689 And across all Asian cultures, they have family.
Elect more liberal democrats! 🤣🤣😂😂
This really has me triggered. It's sad. It's disgusting. The people running this city, even the governor should be ashamed of themselves! But i'm not surprised. Those very people running our cities want to destroy America! Thanks Nick for continuing to show what really happening in and to our country! I salute you.
Lol its not the people destroying america. Its the system destroying us.
@@stephenbarabas6286I agree. They get what they've voted for!
Remember, it’s the typical of DemRat cities.
@@FireManTTSOMAre you telling us there are no homeless people in Republican cities, homelessness exist globally.
Don't blame the politicians, they're not giving the people *_anything they have not asked for!_*
Yep, there are homeless people living under bridges downtown. Meanwhile, just 20 miles away in the suburbs of Austin, rich households making $300-700k per year compete with each other for homes in places like Avery Ranch so their kids can get a leg up by being in the best school districts. The rich get richer, the poor are forgotten. It happens EVERYWHERE.
The Rich get "RICHER" because they WORK at being RICH and the POOR DON'T! Many decades ago I worked at stoop labor for 75 cents an hour, I vowed to get out of that situation, I did! Today I am worth more than a million dollars and worth every penny of it since I WORKED for IT!
It's socialism for the rich and fascist capitalism for the poor
The perfect analysis of present day America right there !
U dummy s capitalism is u free market work I get crap these,chose not to work chose to do drug Austin democrat city all there cities are nasty dumps . I never seen this crap in my city like this .
Sending billions of dollars overseas could be used to reopen effective mental institutions, effective drug and alcohol treatment centers effective and creative employment organizations rent and housing reductions might be a good start. Thank you Nick for shining a light on America's shame.😢
iran isreal china hamas always come first. there people are far worse then us.
The problem with your "effective" this and "effective" that is that the U.S. Constitution; federal, state and local laws; plus a huge pile of court decisions prevent any effort to push the homeless into getting help, treatment or institutionalization against their will. That situation is probably a majority of the homeless situation.
The homeless problem has a lot to do with drugs, I’m not saying that all the homeless are Drug attic‘s.
The culture have to be fixed in the white and black communities. That starts at home as a baby.
GROW UP, shame you don't KNOW that you can take the horse to water....but YOU can't make him DRINK!
I find it funny that Rogan left LA because of the homeless problem only to move to a place that’s no different 😂
yeah I was thinking that too , him and Tom Segura were saying how great it is there in Austin
they are saving millions on taxes.
Rogan is no where near the homeless. He lives in an ultra exclusive area that is a wonderful place to raise your family.
That's standard here now. Nothing but neighborhood s with mansions. If your not well off, don't move to Austin.
Even the rich areas in LA were having homeless show up there. In Austin, it's probably the rich areas are pretty isolated from all this stuff still. People were camping in Beverly Hills, etc lol
@@mmhthree Homeless never go into those areas, they stay in the poorer areas. They are moving into more and more of middle class areas stealing packages, cars, etc. The average person no longer feels safe. Those ring cams are catching so much.
There's parts of Austin which have been dangerous for decades. Around 1972, I used to go with a black co-worker to eat homemade sausage at couple of small black owned BBQ trailers around East 8th,9th,10th Streets and in those areas. My co-worker always told me, "Don't come over here by yourself, they'll kill you".
It is bad! I know I live here, it is awful!! It is a shame this has been allowed to happen. I've seen people buying drugs next to the Austin police department. It's not homelessness, this is Methed up!
people should watch : A no fault eviction left 72 year old woman with few options. She has lived most of her life in the Massachusetts towns of Amesbury and Newburyport, but a shortage of housing has fueled
record-high home prices across the state and she was unable to find an apartment she could afford.
The housing crisis is hitting older women in Massachusetts especially hard.
Ask any homeless person. Their reasons for being on the streets have more to do with family. They grew up as children in the worst possible home lives. They were treated like throwaways as children, and now they live on the streets with that same identity. Being homeless means you have no consequences or personal responsibility. It’s total freedom in their eyes. Meanwhile, everybody suffers. Homelessness isn’t an economic issue as much as it’s a social issue.
You're absolutely right, you can defintely see a pattern @@TVHouseHistorian
People who lived in Austin Texas have have moved to other cities 20 to 50 miles away..
Some people drive to Austin for work, but others got jobs in other places due to be victims of the homeless attacks being mugged or raped, car jacking and home invasion etc, etc.
If you want free stuff from the working people by forced higher taxes from struggling folks just working and trying to make ends meet due to high taxes to pay for users, drugs, criminals etc
It has very little public safety service and a war zone.
The tragic thing is this is EVERY city in the US regardless of size or location.
City run by Democrats .Do a fact-check Google,
It’s almost like they are collapsing America on purpose to rebuild into something else 😂
That’s so true.
Exactly.
yep, and its happened to rural america too, so whats that tell you?
"When is the last time you saw state troopers in your downtown?"
Preface to martial law is getting the herd accustomed to seeing para-military personnel on the streets.
My brother was/is homeless on the streets of Austin. He was homeless for over a year, then this kind lady took him in so he could get himself together and helped him get a job, and he didn't appreciate it at all. All he did was disrespect her, and she took him back to the streets. He got locked up shortly after that. In that time frame, I saw him go downhill. He hung with the wrong people, doing drugs, and he got to shooting up drugs really badly. I tried to help him but he didn't want it. I still don't know how he was getting drugs if he had no job or money. He probably was selling his body for money. I did ask, but he never admitted or denied it. Hopefully, he is okay...
The drug addiction and homelessness was a global issue. The Pandemic could be last for few years but the homelessness crisis could be last forever.
We have the same problems in Australia but less homeless people because smaller population.
I like your clips Nick, and have subscribed to it 👍
It's the damn Globalists and their lackys in local politics, so we'll have to prove Out against them.
You have free health care to help the homeless with rehab and free university no student loans
We have the free hospital coverage called Medicare which was introduced by the Labour gov in the early '80s but the state university was not free anymore. Students will get a free-interest loan and repay it after finishing their studies.@@quartermaster1976
@@Sammy-il1qfBuy you lay back $30 000 not $500 000
The Australian government is working against its people like many others who want to deceive their people and achieve their globalist agenda. At the time of corona, the worst government was Australia, you remember. I am from Europe, but my government is also against its people. I don't know what will happen, but it can be very dangerous. Be prepared, be informed.
As a Texan, I am ashamed of what Democrats have done to Austin. Declare it a lost cause and move the capital back to Washington on the Brazos. I keep expecting Snake Pliscan, to appear in “Escape from Austin.”
I live just outside of Chicago and also spend a good amount of time in Austin. Austin has got much worse than Chicago from a homelessness perspective. It’s sad because Austin was such a great town. Still could be if they can get a handle on things.
I think most of these people have mental health and addiction problems. We need psych wards reopened so people can get the mental health treatment they need. If not, this cycle will get exponentially worse. It’s the same in Canada.
until they address the criminality and the drug addiction, this will only get worse.
I agree.
Living on the streets of Austin, Texas for 4-5 months? You know how hot it was there for most of that time? Above 90 degrees F and 85% humidity. No human should be living like that in the USA. She looks old enough for Social Security. Isn't that enough for shelter? Sadly it often isn't enough. My 90 year old mother cannot survive on Social Security without her children sending her money every month. And we're all retired and struggling too. God Bless America.
I lived in Austin from 2020 - 2023. I worked in social services. What a joke ! You have to be politically correct when talking to them, no police help. Homeless sleep everywhere, store from, under bridges and even in the pool areas of apartment complexes. It stinks to high hell !!! I left and went back to San Antonio, only one hour away and it’s totally different!
Dude, I walked the streets of the riverwalk last October and there were homeless bums and mentally ill people all over the place.
Austin is a Leftist island in the center of a largely Conservative state. The city was awesome in the 1980's, but it can no longer function. Too many Californians moved in. There are a limited number of bridges over the Colorado River, and with the number of bad drivers on the roads they can all get blocked by accidents. There is no real solution for the traffic.
I wish we could take care of our own before throwing away money around the world 🤬
I agree with you 💯%
They can get help. But they don't want it. That's the problem. It's a culture thing. You have to fix the home issues first before it gets this bad. Too many single moms and not two parent homes.
There is a question amongst psychologists: Which came first...mental illness or drug addiction? Many will argue 'mental illness'.
Vaccines laced with neurotoxins and fluoride in the water came first. Then the mental illnesses then the drug addictions.
Uuuummmm @@4eyefoxbodyfanclub625
I live just outside of Austin. The worst thing Austin did was revoke the public camping ban (even though now it is revoked). Austin has a real homeless problem that is affecting it's quality of life. Under highway overpasses by South Lamar & 71 historically been bad for the past few years -- As well as the camps by I-35 and 7TH - A few of the branch libraries, such as near César Chávez were bad -- We heard many parents wouldn't let their kids use the library unescorted because of concerns. Periodically they clean up a camp. The camps just come back elsewhere.
I see a lot of homeless in the library. It just means we really aren't helping them move on with their lives. They have nowhere else to go.
We desperately needed the ban on encampments. Austin was starting to look like a third world country! With Austin being the capital of Texas they need to clean this shit up and give them places to stay. We have so many abandoned buildings that they could do something with those.
🎉 this was all Steve Adler's doing...worst mayor in Austin history !! 😊
@@johncox9461 Austin mayors, like TX governors really have no power. Blame the city council for this mess.
I thought they reinstated the ban. Abbott made it so it was illegal for people to publicly camp. I think you have to call 311 and then the. city comes and cleans up.
Love your videos Nick, but you left out the (very important) fact that Reagan de-institutionalized a great number of mentally ill people. Which was the start of this process, nationwide.
I say that often in other videos
Deinstitutionalization was praised by left and right wing professionals and academics, but it turned out bad.
@@NickJohnson So what? Christ, consistently right-wing takes are your bread and butter.
Think many people are missing the point here: most of these people want to be out on the streets like this.
As a Liberal YOU are continuing the FALLACY that Reagan "deinstitutionalized the mentally ill", the Law was already on the books when he took office, he had nothing to do with it other than to enforce it BY LAW!
Terrible. Keeping it 'weird' isn't a good idea. Might as well be Kensington Philadelphia. Very sad. Allow it, and this is what you get. We all have hearts, but this is unacceptable all over the US. Thank you Nick.
Depression will make you curl up like that and not want to do anything!
Been there, Done that. But I was lucky to have a roof over my head paid for until I got better.
I'm scratching Austin, TX, off my bucket list of cities to visit. It's a mighty long list.
The time to visit Austin was 20+ years ago. The soul of the city is mostly gone. Aside from a night out on 6th street and the live music scene, there's nothing special there anymore.
Want same feel go to nashville...
Too many are moving there at once, causing friction between newcomers and natives. The dream of finding "greener pastures" elsewhere needs to die in America. There's simply too many people for it to occur for everyone at once.
Hi Nick. I love your show. I've lived in Austin 13.5 years now. Prior to living here I lived in Houston. Both have homeless problems. It's terrible. 😔 I moved from Houston to Austin in June 2010. It was great back then. But not now. Housing is too expensive. And illegal immigrants are hoarding all the State funding, leaving the most vulnerable Americans to fend for themselves. 😢
That's pretty sad. I have had first hand experience with the homeless encampments and people living in vans in Hawaii, but at least an encampment and/or living in a van gives people some privacy and at least a shred of dignity. Seeing random people just laying around out in the open on the sidewalks and or just mulling around is sad and a bit scary. I mean even the encampments seen in videos from the west coast don't seem as sad and scary as these scenes. I honestly think I would rather see shanty towns over people literally sleeping out in the open on the sidewalks.
Unhoused people just lying on the shoulder of the road or behind a dumpster, or camping on the highway median is beyond what I saw growing up. I don't know if it is the loss of the manufacturing jobs or rising costs leading to the explosion of homeless. Maybe we should ask the homeless how to fix the problem.
Where in Hawaii? They sleep on the sidewalks in Kona. Yeah, there are encampments but right on the main roads and they are literal crime-infested trash dumps. Some landowners have hired the goat guy to bring his herd of goats in to clear their lots. They do a great job. I go to surf dawn patrol and every morning it's how many crackheads can I encounter before sunrise. You have to have your head on a swivel. It's only a 3-mile drive and I have to watch for them passed out in the road. The working homeless live out of vehicles and storage units. I spent 8+ years working in Detroit back in the 70s and 80s and it wasn't this bad.
@@lavapix it's been forever since I've been to the Big Island. I was mainly talking about the homeless I've encountered on Oahu. Given your description it sounds like there are a lot more working homeless on Oahu, which would make sense given the housing prices.
The problem over here is town is small so they easily stick out. It's worse in other parts of the island. Usually the working homeless over here are in between rentals. There are known safe parking areas for them that differentiate them from the crackheads. The cops know these areas too so the people are left alone.@@AJSHOPE
Be careful what you wish for..
I’m convinced that people with money and no quality of life standards from other areas move in and pay to play, murky up policies and politics, mess up the area and move to the next. In their wake( no pun intended) they create nothing but disarray for natives and locals of that area.
Californian transplants are more conservative than native Texans. Your problem is the University of Texas, not anything to do with CA.
@@OtisFlintI agree that “education” is also a component of this. There’s many different ingredients that have contributed to the current woes. But there’s a common element in all of them: entitlement.
It was a liberal city before Californians moved here... Just saying. Actually noticing the policies changing to more centrist/conservative stances as of late. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Californians actually did learn their lesson upon moving to a new place. It seems to me the local natives are more liberal (mostly) than these tech bros moving in.
Immigrants in Chicago getting $9,000 each to pay for 6 months of expenses - housing, furniture, clothes. Plus food stamps
My dad lived in Minneapolis in the 80s and 90s. I saw this a lot, it's nothing new. It just happens in more or less places at any given time. Politicians can't make a community great, but they can quickly destroy a community no matter how great it was.
I lived in Minneapolis in early 70's much built new Nicolett Square. I worked at Cargill entry out of H.S. i enjoyed the City.
I live in Minneapolis currently, this is everywhere,
Dem politicians ruin every cities.
The problem started when USA moved manufacturing to China , even here in South Africa poverty is increasing everyday because of greedy leaders
Plenty of work here IF you aint lazy,just gota stay clean 😊
12:16 - "This guy didn't like being recorded". That's because he looks like a 'professional' bum. Notice the nice shoes. He's probably got a new BMW parked just a block or so away.
Austin is the California dream exported to Texas. I’d change my Cali license plates before ever moving to Texas. that’s how embarrassing this State is
Hahahaaaa, good one😂
My heart really goes out to these people😔🙏
It's scary how the entire world is lifeless... This is straight out of Stranger Things
We have a front row seat to the end of an empire. Buckle up
Very True@@MP-MTB
I have no sympathy for them. I worked hard all my life, some times from paycheck to paycheck. It paid off in the end. I am now retired very comfortably. I feel if i could do it then anyone should be able. I do not personally know anyone who has become homeless. Most people i know who are my age are comfortably retired, some retired and not so comfortable, but none are homeless.
I truly understand where you're coming from, believe me, I do! I was born and raised in Baltimore, MD and I've been here my entire 40 years living. I have seen so much in terms of working with the public and having family who never had their own while I was always striving to either work, go to school, or start businesses just to stay afloat but one thing I can't say is that I did it all alone. I've been homeless and now I am very comfortable but I feel compassion goes a very long way. Not enabling in any way just genuinely having a heart for those less fortunate. I still have people trying to use me for their own selfish gains and those are the ones I keep at arms bay@@rondodson5736
"You will own nothing, and be happy!" Remember what they told you: "You will own nothing and be happy!" That's when rents shoot across the sky! As AI lays you off from all work. You will forfeit everything because you can't afford it! And you'll be happy because you and your family (TBD-TBA) will be camping out all year probably right downtown. Be careful picking your spot not too close to the potties and somewhat near a burn barrel! Good luck to you all! For a fun read of your future, read Agenda 21. By G. B. It pretty much nails it!
Nick, Great job. Love the commentary from Jeff, the Austin police officer. It's all, still getting worse, the question is the rate of the descent...Increasing? Hell is here, but how deep is it?
I say make Jeff mayor...the man understands the situation.
Jeff for mayor!!!
It is the law that needs to be changed. There are too many looking-good laws but actually hurting.
There is basically almost no safety net in the US. All that $ needs to go to Ukraine, Israel, name the current war, so rather than help the people who fall between the cracks of society, we spend it on that instead. So then the people who are in dire need end up going to the few places that attempt to do anything at all (often by the time its waaaaaay tooo late to make a change), so then we pretend like those places are the problem, not the entire society.
Why does Joke Bribeum send all of our money to Ukraine and China? I get china, he gets a 10% kickback. Vote better.
BINGO! how long does it take to figure out that deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill did not work?
I’m sure she meant to say the OD of Saint George Floyd, not the murder she just misspoke
Cleo is a good example of what America should be. I find the video disturbing and upsetting. It also made me appreciate and be thankful for everything that I have.
Cleo is a good example of milking the system. She did not say how many she saved from homelessness. But she mentioned her childhood twice. Somehow she doesn't look impoverished.
Exactly, every day I thank the Lord for my family and what we have. We are not rich but we live very comfortable.🙏
Cleo is part of the problem, she complains about the Democrats, while she remains a Democrat, so since she IS a Democrat she continues to vote Democrat...what an oxymoron she is.
Oh brother!!! She's just another bullshitter. She's voting them in. Most Austinites are getting exactly what they deserve too. They just better thank their lucky stars, they are in TX. That's the only reason it's not a lot worse there. They are lucky they have time to get out.
Cleo blames the Republican majority running Texas Government for Austin's problems but fails to mention the true failure of Austin which is Democratic Mayor Kirk Watson.
Really sick and tired of this bullsh^^^ going on in this country.
What do you suggest we do about all of this bs??
I suggest we trash everyone (except a few patriots) in DC & start over with consitutional representatives. Send all the traitors/Swamp Creatures to Gitmo. Replace local Soros/Commie installed politicians like Newsome. Throw out Commie judges. Shut down the Fed & go back to gold-based currency. Reorganize FBI, NSA & other 3-letter agencies so they work for Americans. Release all political prisoners. Close the borders & throw out illegals. No more welfare for anyone that can work. Create federal work programs like during the Depression to improve infrastructure.
No more $ to foreign wars or other nations. Pull out from all off-shore wars, bring troops home. Lave the WHO, the UN, the CDC, etc. & arrest the criminals responsible for the bioweapon that has killed 100s of 1000s in America so far. Revamp healthcare so it's really about health & not fake depopulation plandemics,. Declare war on the Globalists & take them down. Build reasonably priced housing across the country. Create programs for homeless & mental that work better from a federal level. Start by giving veterans homes & jobs. Easy, right?@@sadiewagstaff890
At the rate its going the US is gonna be Venezuela in no time. We'll be paying 200 bucks for a big mac soon enough!
Should have been done in early 1900s at the latest and there are not enough balls left to do what needs done now.@@sadiewagstaff890
Open your home to them. I thought so. Shut up and sit down.
What’s really wild is that you didn’t even scratch the surface. You didn’t go out into the various green belts to see what’s living out in the woods. Holy shit dude
0:35 It seems someone ripped her off by taking rent money for a place they didn’t own.
traveler scam. common. dont care about the elderly.
Very sad to see the state of most big cities in the great US of A😞 Can we as a country come together to turn this around??? It looks out of control at this point.
its not. Where there is a will there is a way, especially a collective will. People are waking up. By nature we will respond at least once. We of all countries can certainly turn this around. It is simply a wake up call that what we thought might work does in fact not work. White pills for everyone! Good luck to you my friend. We can never lose hope.
Big cities have big populations. Big populations = higher cost of living. Lower populations = lower cost of living. The Great Migration is damaging many parts of the US. Overpopulation is NEVER a good thing, especially for major cities.
@@Woketard whats your solution
I live an hour from Austin. Use to love going there…now it’s unbearable with traffic, panhandling, and just continuous noise and crowds. Too much growth and high prices
Hell in Fall 2020 it was completely crazy. City shutdown and river area was homeless all over. I don't recall in 94' it being remotely like that. It's super expensive too.
I live in a relatively small college town with z growing homeless crisis. The city has made some effort to address the issue, however these efforts seem more for show tan effect. I.have given some thought as to why the city government in a well-educated town can't or won't do better. My conclusion is this: the homeless don't vote. Nor do they make campaign contributions. Therefore, in the eyed of petty politicians, the homeless don't matter.
I too live in a small college town but we have no homelessness even though the cost of living is higher than average.Go figure .I think it's because the folks who live here won't tolerate this nonsense
You have a good point, Then it's up to the people that Do vote and contribute to Hold the politicians accountable, less talk, More action.
I would like to know why you think politicians have anything to do with whether or not a person is homeless?
@@TheSwissChalet because the More they say they are working on it, the Worse it gets, But they're friends start NGOs and get Rich off it. And then they Truly have no incentive to truly fix it. IT gets worse in Perpetuity.
@@matildesantos4215 and they send them to Austin! Seriously, what does 'not tolerate' mean? Put them in jail? That's pretty effin' expensive, and pretty un- American.
It was terrifyingly bad when I left at the end of 2016. This video breaks my heart
The last time I was in Austin, TX was in 1978. Sleepy little where I stayed overnight & found a wonderful cafe & had an awesome steak dinner. I was going home to CA after military service ended for me. Now look at Austin TX. Like every big huge city in America (Not the Beautiful anymore). How sad America has become. A giant slum.
interesting channel that gives real information, i can't imagine how things are getting worse there, it is really shocking
If this is Glabalism, I don't want it. I live in the UK and things are bad here especially in the capital London, but also in my home town of Bolton were half the shops are shuttered and migrants frequent the streets. I can't believe how things have changed in the last 20 years, it's crazy.
Honestly this is the only city in texas like this. There's homeless people in every city of course. Just not on this level. I believe it has to do with all the Californian people moving here. They effectively turned that city into another California. That's a joke all of Texas has about Austin. We call it little California.
All those countless hours sitting and smoking and drinking can be utilized at a job like the rest of us. I'm Native American and I don't feel anyone owes me a thing. It's pathetic how we glorify being a lazy deadbeat.
ya not the fact that the cost of rent and goods/services has gone up trifold. Meanwhile the minimum wage has barely gone up or not at all. How tf do you expect everyone on this planet to afford a home. You lack any empathy.
Enjoy your abundance & highmindedness while you can.
The main state mental hospital is 10 minutes from where you're at. Patients come from all over the state. Some get released into Austin once medicated and the bus stop is right outside the gate.
I was homeless in Austin last year for 6 months. It's a very difficult city to live in.
HALF OF Y'ALL ON HERE ARE JUDGING PEOPLE LIVING ALL THE STREET THERE NOT ALL BAD ASSUMING THAT IS SO JUDGEMENTAL ON Y'ALL'S PART 1:41
You should go to Albuquerque, NM. The homeless population is out of control! And housing is waaaaaaay overpriced and completely unaffordable.
and the governor wanted to ban guns from law abiding citizens so criminals would be free to assault everyone in town!
Wow, I thought Albuquerque ,nm, was a nice town .
There is a murder a day now in Albuquerque. I used to like to go to ABQ a couple times a year. Now I don't go b/c I don't know where I can park my car without getting broken into. One of my favorite hotels is now just a couple block away from a large homeless encampment. The police have orders from the democrat mayor to not enforce the law except for felonies. Businesses throughout ABQ have to have their own security to run the homeless off their property b/c the police won't do it. Imagine paying for business licenses and huge property taxes and the city allows graffiti and pooping on the sidewalks. Dystopian and getting worse.
@@redarrow7088 Some businesses have closed because of crime and homeless people. I've worked in the same office since 2009, and the past few years we've had a security guard. Things get worse all the time.
NICK, Thank you for showing us what is going on in our country. Appreciate your hard work. It has to be heart breaking to see it in person.
Your vote can change things
No it doesn't. You have not learned what is really going on yet but will experience it very soon.@@zacsdiyguns
@@zacsdiygunsnothing will change a declining empire who’s borders are wide open , and central banks in full control..
@@MrNick615 and democrats hand money out like candy
TOO BAD, 18 YEARS AGO AUSTIN WAS A ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL CITY, THE HOMELESS AND DRUGS AND ADDICTION RUINED THIS ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY
I agree. You can't help the homeless unless they take initiative to help themselves to make better decisions in their own lives.
@dap8619 A lot of the people that i see on the streets are suffering from serious mental health problems and sometimes mixed with substance abuse as well. I don’t have the answers but I think you’re trivializing the situation a bit..
If you have not been there don't comment.!!!
and you have!!??@@billgibson2418
Any halfwit understands that 'better decisions' often AREN'T available. Presumably you're a Quarter-whit?!
@@stricknice5260 how do you help a mentally ill addict that refuses to change and is probably violent
Austin reminds me of why I left California
It’s so sad. Up here in Seattle is worse then this.
I have lived in south Austin since I was born and I’ve lived in central Austin for over a few years now. It’s bad but Dallas and Fort Worth are just as bad… I would still choose Austin easily (if I could afford a house here but oh well. That’s why I’m moving). Nick, you’re wrong about the population supporting homeless. people voted to reverse the hotel thing, people also voted to no longer allow public camping. YES they enforce it… I’ve seen police move homeless camps countless times near my apartment. This is not San Francisco. That guy you interviewed is right though, the attitude is “let them exist but we don’t want to see them.” There are pockets of wilderness within the city where many of them live now. It’s not a real solution.
I see several people trying to blame one political party or the other. Do you really think either party cares?? They only care wtf ever benefits them. They aren’t doing without anything.
bingo, its really sad how many fall for this right left nonsense.
@@Gamesso1slOo0l Exactly!!!
Well one side banned abortion, and the other side didn't. On homelessness, they are the same though. Republican cities like Fort Worth still have a homeless problem.
@@painkiller66 Yeah, it’s whatever works out best for the politicians at the time. Regardless of their party.
I did not see a DPS with a "machine gun" and it is not 3rd world. Austin just plain sucks. If you are going to be a video journalist learn the items you point out unless you are taking a page from the CNN terms glossary. Go to JFK and you will see Army Soldiers with M4's. The authorities are just using tools on hand but even the motorcycle officers in LA have carbines on their bikes you just are not looking at them or for them. The DPS in 5:54 is just handling the carbine without authority and acting like he is walking on the ranch to the bench.