Searching for Solutions as the Homelessness Crisis Deepens
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2024
- In Real Life: Overcoming Homelessness
With rising rates of homelessness in America, “In Real Life” correspondent Sam Eaton follows up on 2022's “Homeless Hero” documentary and reports on how the crisis is evolving.
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Affordable housing shouldn't have to be a "Christmas present."
There are wrongful evictions going on worsening even if one paying rent and on time not behind in these land lords still throwing people out
I was homeless in California for 2 years 2021-2023. I have never been addicted to drugs. I have ptsd from childhood abuse and neglect and trauma into adulthood. I would love to talk to someone about my experience in the system.
I was one of the only few people that had a job and was going to therapy consistently.
The shelters are ran by people who perpetuate abuse and make is nearly impossible for people to “be better.” I was told I was difficult and I was transferred to 2 different shelters.
As soon as I got out of the shelters I enrolled into college, and I just graduated, 2 days ago, with an AA for transfer in Studio Art.
The system keeps people addicted, helpless and homeless. The Volunteers of America are EXTREMELY toxic!
I would like hear story, Maybe some other people want to hear as well. People always blaming drugs, Alcohols , and Mental Illness is source of why people is Homeless. My family always kept our neat and clean, people couldn't believe we were unhoused. Is all about controlled with these people. They need shutdown all the shelter, and put people into apartment with it with conquence .
Stack your Sats and XRP folks .
For one thing they have to be "real homes." As tiny homes will never legally fly. I was thinking of using garbage - clean Styrofoam destined for the land fill crumbling it up mixing it with cement and a chemical that creates foam bubbles to create aircrete homes. This aircrete would be in between two thin layers of concrete board or similar hard shells. So, an ice cream sandwich that's mainly air and styrofoam. You could pre lay out the plumbing/ water/drainpipes and electrical so that when you poured your airecrete then simply had to cut in your electrical outlets, receptacles, plumbing bathroom fixtures etc. To make it simple fast and cheap, but mainly a real house on real land.
I wonder how many need an expungement so they can get a job.
Probably quite a few. I know a couple myself. Can't get a job because of their record. Vicious cycle they can't get out of.
Quite a few ppl
Whats wrong with you all. Mabe they should of thougt of the consequences before they started being criminals!!!
@@galegrazutis964 Young people sometimes make mistakes.
Glad your perfect 👌 👍
Meanwhile we have apartments that were built for low income sitting vacant. Why because they can use the building as collateral to build more wealth while never havin* to pay for maintenance since no one is living in them.
Affordable housing will cut into rental profits can’t have that
Homelessness won't be solved because the people who own America don't want it to be solved.
We do more for animals than ourselfs
The shelter system gets millions of dollars yearly but none of the money gets into the pockets of the homeless clients they are used as a tool to keep the money flowing from the federal government 😊
Many landlords arent taking vouchers anymore because theyre subsidized government housing problems come with and they want much more money
Pretend ya not aware .. The 5 W''S and HOW............ RESEARCH +. KNOWLEDGE.........
Short term many make housing first a lifetime deal entitlement
Many dont like affordable housing mental heath drugs alcohol want to be dealt with first before housing
The problem is that people got too snobby. They didn't want affordable homes and the people who live in them near their own fancier homes. SRO hotels and rooming houses were run out of town. Housing projects were blown to pieces. Ghettos and poor run down areas were torn down and rebuilt by developers for the rich. It is a greed and arrogance problem from the town management who want to seem upscale and maybe get kickbacks.
These people are so traumatized that by the time they get some sort of housing, it is hard for them to adjust to it. The art major hasn't tried to decorate her new place. She has it like a flop house like she could be leaving any minute. Then there is an actual problem where landlords mistreat section 8 tenants because they are less desirable. It doesn't matter how nice and responsible you are, they think you don't deserve what they have to give you by law.
Theres no human rights to housing none
Boycott the fast food restaurants and the apartments 😊
The solution is to tax the super rich.
Bucz the 400 yrs r up.
Root cause. Why do we need all of this public housing? There is so much that needs to be done in our country, let them do something and pay them and get them OUT of "the system" so that we can get rid of the system.
It's called being used by the government!
Create jobs for lower income realistic people
Accounting/finance should have been mandatory in high schools since Sputnik.
But we do not hear economists or educators advocating for that.
We need ivestment. If I was a billionair. I would build CUBES. You work there, your educated there, you live there,vacation there. Every single thing you need or want is there. I would build hundreds of them. UTOPIA !!!! O discrimination to the working poor. Mental heath UTOPIA for you also. No greed allowed!!!!
Men used to build houses for their families. They were shacks and there weren't so many law codes back then.
How to overcome homelessness become a illegal walk across the border. You have everything you need😊
Go watch soft white underbelly.
Unemployment ticked up. Easy, Get a job
You MUST be Whyte
Get a job.
Another Pilgrim
Pay a living wage
PLEASE! Stop trying to frame the US Housing disaster as a homelessness problem. More than 50% of all towns in the US are *literally* bankrupt and the rest aren't doing hot either. This is because the MOST costly and least productive housing zones are just about the only ones we use. The ONLY sustainable and consistently profitable housing zones (from a local gov perspective they're like building money trees) are high-density mixed commercial, or as many Americans would say "Like the old downtown". Apartments with shops underneath them, wide streets designed explicitly for foot traffic and street vendors... Coincidentally these are almost invariably the most dense housing areas in any given town.
**SO FRANCHISE IT!** We already have HUD and Section 8 creating HUGE swaths of "Projects" to provide affordable housing pegged to a percentage of your income (this includes for the disabled and homeless) that almost anyone can apply for--literally a sweeping solution for homelessness... and it doesn't matter. Because the paperwork is obscene and in many cases the waiting list *to get ON the waiting list* can take YEARS; and that's *after* they had to make it so income tested that you have to be well below the poverty line to ever see the "real" waiting list.
Why? Why would we allow this completely farcical system to exist? Zoning.
IMO anyone who cares the least bit about the environment, their town, their rent, not living in a food desert, or even "the homeless" should immediately be calling their congressmen and asking them to demand that HUD both be allowed to follow their OWN zoning standards within the confines of their property and to immediately start funding massive-scale construction of high-density mixed commercial housing on their already existing properties. All across the country. Until the very idea of "not being able to find an affordable apartment" in America becomes a punchline.
For everyone (even the homeless).
mixed commercial/residential housing funded by HUD is an interesting idea. Could be a HUD/investor project. Right now, affordable housing investors get huge tax breaks/credits that make it profitable to build, but little to no incentives to keep up maintenance; also very little enforcement that they are really balancing between those subsidized and those that aren't.