Here's How Bad The Homeless Problem In Austin, Texas Is
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2023
- 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
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.
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
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
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 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.
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,
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!
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
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@@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.
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?
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
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.
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.
I'm so sorry for your hardship. Here in Slovenia nobody went bancrupt becose of health -care bills. It is such a tragedy what's happening in Usa. I hope you are in a better place now. Hugs!
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.
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.
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.
In any city world over if you let drugs get out of hand you're finished.
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😊
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 !!
@@Gamesso1slO0l Good point. Meth and Crack has ravaged the rural US, and the abc agencies provide it.
YEP!
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.
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.
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.
thank you
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!
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 😊
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.
Plain and simple. This country has gone to shit! And it is so damn sad.
*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
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.
There is a question amongst psychologists: Which came first...mental illness or drug addiction? Many will argue 'mental illness'.
Trauma is a source of mental illness and addiction.
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'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.
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?????
Hi Nick, I noticed you mentioned the shanty towns. So it seems that the USA is going through a behavioral depression. At work I document people's behaviors when they are noteworthy. If I had to document these individuals' behaviors I would document: drug use, unemployment, and self neglect. Oftentimes there is nothing we can do when someone is having a behavioral health crisis. I just notate possible triggers and that is something the municipal government can consider. Like when (X) occurs, (Y) behavior follows. Finding out the people's triggers may help the towns figure out how to end their bad behaviors. I know that mental health is being thrown around as the cause of all of this, but sometimes behavioral health is what is wrong in a person's environment. Is work fulfilling? Are they valued in the community? Are they appreciated in their circles? Are people inclusive? Do people treat them like dirt? Do people gossip about them and trigger their anxiety? Do people bully them online? It's definitely an extensive job understanding all the variables. It's just very bizarre that healthy children and teens suddenly grow up into adulthood and develop self neglectful behaviors. Because I have a cousin that is similar to these people. He hangs out on the street and drinks most of the day. I am trying to understand what triggered this man from adolescence to adulthood to be this way. Because we were all relatively healthy children. What went wayward?
Oh come on, it's so easy to see the problem. THERE IS NO COMMUNITY OR FAMILY LIVING ANYMORE. This is the result...degeneracy
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.
When we visited our son in Austin (just before China virus got going) there were people living under bridges then, I see it's gotten progressively worse. They had a snowstorm a year or so ago, my son was without electricity or water for about a week and a half, there doesn't seem to be any type of organized government in the entire city--don't know how people tolerate it.
I can't believe the people that still go downtown to risk their lives. I can't believe there is still a thriving downtown Austin left.
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"
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! 🤣🤣😂😂
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".
The face on this lady breaks my heart to see the pain you can tell she's been through a lot. I thought this only happened in San Francisco never in Texas. I always heard it was a California problem
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.
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.
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. 😢
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 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.
Homelessness is growing at a fast pace here in Australia because Albanese brings in too many immigrants and housing construction just can't keep up. Too few rentals and what there are are overpriced.
You have free health care to help the homeless with rehab and free university no student loans
@@quartermaster1976 University is free until you start working, then you have to pay it back.
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
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.
Beware going downtown Austin. I had a meeting and a homeless person. try to open up my car door. Thank God I had it locked because I had another friend warned me before going to Austin. I do not travel Austin anymore. Crazy our state capital is a slum.
Hey Nick, the interviews with Police Officers feels like valuable content. I really like hearing how they describe the situation.
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.
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!
Grew up there in the late 80’s and left in 2012 for El Paso. I feel much safer. I could go days without seeing a homeless person here. I still visit Austin to see family and I don’t feel safe going to a suburban Walgreens. So sad; it used to be a great city.
Where are all these homeless people coming from? I'm shocked this is happening in Austin.
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
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!_*
My husband and I refuse to go to Austin! It’s horrible now so sad….. hopefully folks can change it….
1:34 hey, that's the transit center i go to every single day to get to class! the homeless problem is horrific on the metro, especially at the transit centers like this one... so bad that i'm considering driving just to stop seeing it every day. it's depressing.
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.
Very well said.
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.
@@jasonfitzpatrick414 These people can't work. Send them to Slab city.
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.
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.
I thought for a moment this was filmed in Macon GA, until I saw the title to the video... It's pretty sad that Austin is not alone when it comes to being a city with a homeless problem and unfortunately it seems the list of cities is growing 😞
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.
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.
3:37/This person is walking by a small soup kitchen that gives people a bag lunch daily just around 12:00pm!! You will see a long line of homeless people, waiting for the lunch bags!! How sad 😭!!
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 more of these I watch, the more I realize all major cities are faced with the same problems. Something need to change to get us past this hump.
As Thomas Jefferson stated decades ago "When the population of the United States moves from the farms to the cities it will be the end of the United States!"
Vote for Republicans.
Austin was fine back in mid 2010's. Around 2018 California started relocating there and it went to crap. I worked there from 2017 until Covid, but had to move to Maine to get away from the disaster that Texas has become; after living there for over 40 years. This was done by design.
Where I live there are large encampments in many areas of the cities. The majority of people in these camps are drug addicted, alcoholics and some are mentally ill while not being med compliant and/or under psychiatric care. Sadly these people cannot or will not keep a subsidized apartment even when collecting monthly payments of SSI or county economic assistance payments. This is because they want the money to support the drug addiction and/or alcohol addiction. Therefore being homeless becomes a personal choice, no responsibilities, no paying rent and utilities, all government free monthly
income goes for supporting drug addiction & alcohol addiction. These people have a dual diagnosis of being mentality ill & substance abuse addiction.
The encampments are health hazards, unsafe and crime ridden. An encampment recently had 2 people killed by being shot. Another person was burned to death because he stole something from another group of homeless people in the camp. In addition, there are assaults and rapes reported to the police every week from these encampments. If people think this way of life is bad now just give it another 5 to 10 years. It will only increase because it has become an acceptable way of existing in the world.
My wife and me both working full time and barely we are surviving We live in San Antonio we can not afford to buy a house.
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!
word
She’s got quite the rig
Voting...lol ok.
we aren't "voting" our way out of this.
Unfortunately elections are rigged
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
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?
@@swisschalet1658 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.
Homelessness isn't what makes Austin weird, this is newer policies for sure, it's absolutely insane how it's evolved. When I arrived back in 2007, the panhandling and camping wasn't even half as bad. It's become exponentially worse in the past 15 years of living here.
It’s so sad. Up here in Seattle is worse then this.
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.
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😂
I decided many years ago not to be a victim of a system that’s against us. Florida was the first state to abolish permanent alimony, Tennessee mandated paternal testing prior to signing a child’s birth certificate & then no-fault divorce is becoming a thing. No amount of changes will get men to come back to the plantation". Yeap. This right here. There are so many guys dropping out of education, work, military(mostly white men due to DEI & LGBTQ in military); the government knows the nation is at risk of collapsing under its own weight. Over half the women in the US/UK are on some type of head med (for Anxiety, depression, BPD, bipolar, etc.) and seem genuinely pissed that more and more men are choosing to live a life of peace and fulfillment without them! 1 in 4 women have more than $50k in Student Loan debts.
Let's Go Biden, Rachael Maddows, Joy Reid, Alex Soros, AIPAC, the DNC, and Hunter Biden too.
I believe what people mean when they say "homeless problem" is already a defined word - crime. It's a good word. Combining the definition of these two words is perilous for us all. Simply having no home doesn't equal crime.
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.
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
Thank you for sharing, I live 30 minutes south and I avoid going there. I used to love it but the condition for everyone there is devistating.
I visited Austin in 2018 and 19. I dont remember it being this bad. It looked so great downtown. They need to fix this.
"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.
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’m from Dallas and used to go to Austin for fun before the pandemic….i won’t go anymore
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.
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.
@@asianamericanadvice6016no plan whatsoever 😕
Think many people are missing the point here: most of these people want to be out on the streets like this.
Many years ago, when I arrived at this country, while waiting for my immigration papers to allow me to work legally, I volunteered for a large non-profit in Houston, TX which provided homeless aid. Somebody told me then that you can roughly break down the American homelessness issue in three thirds: one third are folks that are enduring hard times and with a helping hand, they will turn their lives around. Another third has adapted to living on the streets and do not want to change. And the last third are folks that due to drugs abuse, mental disorders or combination of those, cannot get out unless professional help is given to them.
I will let you think about what approach we are to use to solve the issue, besides making videos about it.
What Cleo is talking about happening to Austin is the same thing that happened to Portland. Don't let it happen to your city, folks. Pay attention.
It's sad but how do you combat drugs? I worked at a homeless shelter in Minneapolis quite a long time ago and even then, in the winter, people wouldn't come because they couldn't do drugs and stay there.
It was terrifyingly bad when I left at the end of 2016. This video breaks my heart
We would go there at least once every year for the Capitol 10,000 run .. enjoy Sixth Street , eat at Kerbey Lane or Katz's Deli .
We would often stay at the Omni Hotel Downtown .. in the morning you could look down from your room to see the bums sleeping on the roofs of the buildings...we stopped going around 2015-16 or so
Austin has lost its allure/appeal in so many ways ..no more South Park Meadows concerts etc...Epic Bummer
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This police officer nailed it. In my opinion , enforcing the laws should be a bipartisan platform! What is the matter with these politicians who are soft on crime?? Why would anyone believe that stance would work in any way??
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.
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.
This is so sad. These people are somebody's child, somebody's parents, brother, sister, etc. They need help.😢
Wah...wah...I had been downside /fired 4 it took me each time about 90 days to find a new job...I'm no genius but work is out there...
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
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.
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..
Visited Austin during 2021. It was pretty bad then. Moved to Texas in 2022. Got hired with a company in the Trades and all my coworkers agree, "we hate any job that brings us in downtown Austin."
There was a time when a single-earner household could buy a house, car, and groceries. We never saw homelessness unless they had untreated mental illness or were too far gone on alcohol. Fast forward a few generations, and it looks like a drug-fueled great depression in most major cities. It costs at least $31,000 per person to house them in corporately run prisons. I would imagine not all of the unsheltered started out with a drug problem, but living on the street would undoubtedly contribute to wanting to use them to escape this reality. After living rough, they certainly are not ready for a job interview. There are 6 vacant properties for every homeless person in this country. There has to be a solution, but those non-profit dollars are probably just making those who run most of the programs wealthier. It all comes down to corporate greed. It's not even political.
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.