As a former law enforcement officer, I always took the time to know the homeless in the areas I patroled. These are the facts : Homlessness is a spectrum disorder, some are homeless due to financial issues, others drugs. However, many of the ones I evaluated did not get on drugs until they became homeless. Many have mental issues and are not able to hold any kind of job. There is a solution to this problem and that is to hire social workers to evaluate these people on an individual basis. It can only be solved on an individual basis. But since we live in an "All or None" society, its not likely this will ever happen.
Great point easy access to drugs here and no law enforcement will stop them from dealing. Cars come thru at night buying and selling. Shame on my government for turning a blind eye.
The answer is simple ....legalize drugs with medical supervision....provide mental health oversight and services and build housing that is affordable. Train for simple jobs etc. Handing out food,harassing ,arresting and trying to move them can't work. There will always be a percentage that stay on the streets but many can be reintegrated into society.
When the law 'selectively' enforced society collapses. IT IS AGAINST THE LAW to live on a sidewalk in the middle of a city and there are fines and punishments and, following arrests, social services and mental health agencies etc. to intervene but FIRST the LAW must be above all or we will fall apart swiftly.
And I think your approach is exactly the wrong way to go about it. That's what they've been attempting to do is solve the homeless problem on an individual basis and it obviously hasn't worked and never will. It needs a systematic approach that the Federal Government needs to step in and apply, not trying to solve it on a one on one basis or thinking that charities or the private sector can solve it. There needs to be a Department of Homelessness just like the U.S. has a Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense.
First, set up an area of x square miles in the desert (like slab city). Fence it in. Then go on a massive sweep of the cities streets. If people can leave the streets on their own, ok. If not, they are taken to the desert 'cities' where they can manage themselves, just like they do on the streets. Let them govern their own, and police their own. Charities can visit them, food, clothing, medical and such. City provides potties and trash pickup. Done. You can live like that if you want to, just ain't gonna happen in the city. Other options for the non addicts, help with legit housing and jobs and education, and help getting into the Peace Corps, or the Military or Community College. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" Last Call. Clean up the streets, and then zero tolerance after that.
First, set up an area of x square miles in the desert (like slab city). Fence it in. Then go on a massive sweep of the cities streets. If people can leave the streets on their own, ok. If not, they are taken to the desert 'cities' where they can manage themselves, just like they do on the streets. Let them govern their own, and police their own. Charities can visit them, food, clothing, medical and such. City provides potties and trash pickup. Done. You can live like that if you want to, just ain't gonna happen in the city. Other options for the non addicts, help with legit housing and jobs and education, and help getting into the Peace Corps, or the Military or Community College. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" Last Call. Clean up the streets, and then zero tolerance after that.
Not for long. It's only a matter of time before the rich have their homes looted and burned to the ground. I'm not saying I want that to happen; it's the logical conclusion of where this is going. When the majority of America is homeless there will be civil war. And the rich & famous won't be able to hide.
Im fijian and watching this vedio reminds me of how lucky iam and appreciate life and appreciate that im not homeless . Im praying that God give you peace
I live in the real world and KNOW how many abused and abandoned spouses and children there are for each of these 'poor homeless'. How many victims of violence and the many thousands of crimes they have committed, how they ruin the lives and neighborhoods of those who scrupulously obey the rules and laws. Not to mention the entire families who have bankrupted themselves on rehab programs that NEVER EVER really work.
I live in downtown. I describe it as "the wealthy in their ivory towers, the zombie apocalypse of homeless and the rest of us on the knife edge in between." 12 years ago, I moved into an old hotel that was renovated into practical microflats. Due to rent control, I have golden handcuffs and can't afford to move elsewhere.
@@Freethecommons NAH! But at the next war which is inevitable most troops will come from the streets not the towering Condos and Penthouses. Cowards make war,real men fight them. When real men confront cowards Barney Fife COPS call them dangerous and execute them
@@Freethecommons YES IT DOES! stalin made communism ruthless hitler made nationalist socialism ruthless the rich and the republican party MADE CAPITALISM RUTHLESS GOT THAT!
Went out with some friends in DTLA 2 weeks ago was pouring rain that night and I saw a man soaking wet from head to toe,talking to himself with thick mucus dripping from both nostrils. The sight both shocked and saddened me. Even today,I can’t seem to forget the look in that man’s eyes, such despair I cannot describe. I don’t know why he had such a profound effect on me but I still think of him 💔Would just like to thank you for channel bringing awareness
I've been living here in Mexico for years which most Americans think is a really impoverished country and I don't see hardly any homeless people here, let alone homeless encampments.
Because family takes care of family and they live within their means with less stuff and less pressure over being poor. I live in MX now too....and have ex-patted in many dirt poor Asian countries ....little homelessness or drug addiction there either.Communities also police themselves in most places and individual charity is practiced rather than donating to wealthy organizations
Homeless people were all STOLEN by demons and demonic fiends from their LIFE. They use them as STORAGE for stolen souls, as vehicles and as karmic weapons against people. They are possess by demons! Demons use drugs and alcohol to mask their existence. People will blame drugs or mental health, but it’s really demonic creatures that took over the body!
@@mlkljmh I've been living here in Cuernavaca Morelos for many years and there's no homeless encampments here with hundreds of tents everywhere like in S.F. and Portland Oregon for example. Obviously D.F. has some homeless, it's one of the largest cities in the world with over 20 million people. But no huge homeless encampments there and I'm here and if you're there in Mexico City send me some videos of it.
How soon given the escalating cost of food will these charities run out of donations? There's way too many working families struggling to make ends meet.
@@clairefitzpatrick7183 Which cities in the UK are like LA? And please don't say London. I live there, and while we have problems, we don't have huge shanty towns like this. Even with our short supply of housing, there are no cities in the UK with these huge problems.
We don't understand this here in Europe... How is this even possible? And how it continues? There r even Portable WC's...This is pure madness! Just call fireman and police to wash out all this nonsense.
homelessness in the UK is nothing like this. I lived in Birmingham for many years, and you'd see some homeless people on the streets, outside shops etc but I never once saw an encampment or tents being pitched up. I'm sure they go to dedicated shelters at night. its on a different scale in America...
Kensington Phillidelphea is the same...it might actually be worse because of the weather. Our country is failing its people. Being American is embarrassing.
So let me ask y’all this question we all know the effects but what is the cause of this it’s not because people are lazy or because they don’t wanna work or because they just wanna be living outside on the street and I know sone of u mite say o they just lost there homes mmmm probably but it’s really because of the government funding programs food stamps social security financial aid subsidize housing government grants government loans government scholarships all of these government benefits look at them handing out school baggy lunches to them like they still in fucking grade school or high school 🤔🤣i mean what the fuck this government either wants u bussing your buy off at a w2 job paying high taxes to they can apply sanctions to your ass to limit your growth income and success as an individual and don’t worry u get poor out dated services in return and cheap labor with fake materials and weak infrastructure with the houses and apartment buildings or they want u living off of government benefits which u still have to deal with the same poor services no wonder why Denmark is prosperous Singapore Sweden Switzerland do y’all know in Denmark they don’t even have no dam minimum wage why do America do because our government want us to be poor and to stay like that they don’t create prosperity only poverty look at our work force it’s weak as shit filled with nothing but retail in store and cashier stadium house keeper janitorial warehouse jobs all physically demanding doing repetitive tasks the entire day not helping u develop a new nor current skills I mean honestly it doesn’t surprise me that this country is turning into shit bit what really pisses me off is how dumb everyone in America is I’m the only mother fucker who actually states what cause the problem and what’s really going on out of everyone I always hear everyone say the same exact thing i know everyone have there opinion but it’s irrelevant the real problem is what I just said I’ve had it with everyone acting passive about reality pull y’all head from out of yall asses please and wake up it’s 2023
When it's drugs they are reducing themselves. The victims here are the residents and businesses in those neighborhoods that are now ruined. This is what happens when leftists run things. Weak drug and crime laws and acceptance of this shit.
@@MandieeeeJo No reason to be embarrassed if you voted republican. This is not our doing. Here and the ultra blue west coast are the worst by far and it's because the laws favor this shit. OR possession of hard drugs is legal. CA you don't get arrested for stealing less than $950. There is no 3 strikes law for it so you just keep getting summons. No cash bail if you are arrested. They don't do shit about the homeless, once in a while they'll sweep them out of one underpass but they'll be back. You can literally wake up on Hollywood blvd, shit, steal to buy drugs, shoot up on the street with state provided syringes all day, pass out and repeat again everyday. This doesn't help them and it's ruining CA and other states. If you voted democrat, I'd find a very tall building. YOU have ruined our country.
@@ihatetweakers8785 I was born in 1964 and raised primarily in Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley. As a child I remember orange groves and unpaved sidewalks in SF. We would go to Santa Monica or Venice Beach, San Diego or Big Bear on vacations. We'd play outside from sun up to sun down on bikes or skateboards. It was lovely and idyllic. There were pockets of super bad areas and I also lived in them, where gun shots and police helicopters were my nightly lullabies. I left in '92 after the riots burned down my neighborhood and fled to meth'd out Barstow, later Hesperia and now Victorville. So many people being paroled up here from down below, we are slowly becoming a copy of Compton.
As a non American, I can tell you that most of us probably view the US ( California in particular) as a 90210 kind of place, because that’s what we see on TV. So this shit is SHOCKING!!!
Yeah ain't it great...you think the USA is the land of the free and the home of the brave paradise when in reality has become a human wasteland... literally.
This is AmeriKKKan CAPITALISM on steroids, also the porn industry, Only Fans industry has destroyed a generation of young women+men---CAPITALISM BABY!!! I been in Cali for +20yrs, it was a slum then it is faaar more a slum now, btw Cali was RepubliKKKan back then.
This is NOT new in L.A. I remember arriving there in 1986. I had to live in that area for a week in a hotel. I kept my head down, got a job as quickly as possible and got the hell out of there. Didn't go back there for 30 years. The encampment has grown. So very sad.
Amazing, especially when we ship billions and billions of dollars over seas. These people are trash to the politicians whom are in control of this district and they obviously don't care.
Well, I don‘t think these people don’t get any money or support because - as you put it - it get‘s „shipped over seas“. They wouldn’t get it, if it stayed in the USA. Because that would mean having a social security system, and US-politics (and society?) are not interested in this at all. If history is teaching us something, it‘s that revolutions always happen at some point, when there are too many hopelessly poor people with absolutely nothing to lose, and only a few very rich who benefit from the system.
I remember as a little girl lovingbto go to downtown LA on Sundays Ride the street car It used to be nice and safe Department stores with door men and men in uniform running the ekevator. When entering, would say hat floor we wanted. Arrivng at floor, elevator man would announce the floor Those were the days Something nice to remember
I used to work for Ma Bell in that area as a walking technician 45 years ago. The worst that would happen would be a bum trying to steal your lunch. Look at how much we have regressed. So much for progress.
Such a wonderfully vibrant community. Tirelessly working to better themselves and those around them. Always willing to give to their fellow man in need. Their hard work and devotion to educational achievement are unparalleled and are envied by all. This nation is truly blessed by their presence. Our society would crumble without their guiding hand.
Bronx homeless person here, I live in NY where we have a homeless crisis. It's mostly drugs. Hard drugs these days are cheaper than food. I can get fentanyl and heroin, enough to kill 10 people for ten dollars just by walking down the street and going to the corner. We are all morbidly depressed and stuck in a nasty cycle were we cant function without chemicals, but those very same chemicals are whats holding us back. It's like having severe back pain and the only thing that can fix it is whacking yourself in the back until it doesn't hurt anymore. Happy to answer any questions for those that are curious. I want to spread awareness
I've been homeless in Sacramento for a few years never did drugs my daughter just turned 7 she has down syndrome. You'd think the state would help parents with special needs kids but they don't. They will be the first to take your kids though.
@@janellcrews6108 I would think they would help since being in the U.S. as compared to other countries around the world are poor in certain services since being the most powerful nation in the world. As it's going down hill as the signs are really showing how weak it is when solving certain little problems like that of special needs, homeless, crime, abortion, gun laws, drugs, crime, poverty, education, health care, taxes, services, government help, welfare, disability, retirement, housing crisis, land, jobs, infrastructure, city high rise, laws, regulations, administration's, immigration, race, color, sex, religion, rights, political, financial, and so much more to solve the governments and authorities are weak in these areas to fix any man made problems in the world as it goes world wide scale.
It's really become quite the tourist attraction for foreigners coming to visit the U.S. Right up there with Disneyland and the Hollywood sign and Walk of Fame.
Reminiscent of the Hoovervilles in the Great Depression. But back then there seemed to be a collective will to do something about the situation (from either inside or outside the camps). Now they just seem to grow and grow. It's heartbreaking to see America like this.
What’s interesting to me is the music they’re listening to is both soulful and bittersweet. The clash between a tragic setting, with uplifting sounds all around.
@Robert Anderson definitely do not return. I grew up there in the 80s and the 90s, part of the early 2000s, lived elsewhere and came back in the 2010s. It’s a disaster. I left for good in 2018.
I saw a homeless man in Toronto one day crossing the street, (we are having the same issues up here! I believe all of the West is in decline) and he had no shoes and its was cold. Infact he only had boxers and a tshirt, it was early spring, so still very much winter like without the snow. He looked so hopeless and in DESPAIR, he disappeared and people ignored him. It was horrible. I feel like SOME homeless kind of remind me of war veterans who are mentally scarred they have lost their minds. that they crossed a invisible line & some can't come back. Its kind of evil.
Well said , if a politician cared like you it could be fixed but a politician would step on someone button get ahead, there is no accountability in our local government. California is broken.
I usually watch docu-series about Kensington Philadelphia. The first thing that came to mind was, "what are all of these young white girls doing down there. " then I realized that drug addiction knows no racial or sexual preference. People who are on the street in Kensington are mostly victims of drug abuse. Then when I see the situation in Los Angeles I see a much larger problem but it is mostly a true homeless problem and not mainly drug related.
andrew, i watch kensington also!!! i'm in deep south, close to coast, small town. i'm usually horrified by all that mess. i hate it for those people though. God bless'em.
Skid row looks surprisingly clean, well established and orderly for a typical homeless area of an American city. In Louisville Ky the homeless are a lot more messed up looking.
Seems to me there’s a range of homeless situations. And unfortunately there’s a proportion of people who either can’t or won’t ever escape their situation. Maybe there’s a triage approach needed that focuses on those that can be helped - and yes, this means some would be left behind to addictions and circumstance.
As a young teenager I always wanted to live in Los Angeles or in the stated general, now I am very happy I live in an country like Switzerland. Fr it’s so sickening seeing this
The worse part is that alot of these people do not want help. They want to live like this. I use to go on volunteer groups with my dad to pass out supplies for the homeless and we were always greeted with anger. They wanted to be left alone and didnt want our help. They just wanted cash. So they can fuel their addictions. A few would take our supplies and thank us but alot did not want anything to do with us. Alot of these people work the system to live off ebt and other goverment incomes so they can continue their addiction or just dont want to work. A local homeless man near my job says he just likes living out in the trees near the riverbed he doesnt wanna pay taxes or anything so he chose to live like this though he doesnt agree with the drug abuse other homeless in the area take part in
Once your homeless in L A it's hard to get out, even if a homeless person find a job they never can afford to rent a place. There are people working in silicon Valley living in 5 star camper vans because they can't even afford rent prices. Best thing is help with their problems and then help them set up in another city. Look at all the people moving to TEXAS
All big cities are getting pretty bad. I live in CA and many off ramps and on ramps to major highways and freeways are like mini tent cities, very close to private homes, shopping centers, schools.
As a Canadian here, only option left is forcing them to move just send them out to a dessert in Cali lol ! I’ve been to LA on Vacation back in 2012 and it was GREAT !!!!!! Literally drag them out of their tents. Clean up LA
How lovely seeing human beings strewn about the sidewalks with the street trash. People don't even know if they're stepping over trash or human beings! Are we human beings or are we trash? Do we even know the difference by now?
This is so sad seeing people living like this,Australia has a housing crisis, with people with families living in tents and cars,cost of living lack of rentals,and it's only going to get worse. 😢
Ну а что вы хотите. Богатые делиться не хотят. А хотят больше зарабатывать. Грабить больше некого. Азия и Африка все....теперь видимо пришли за вами - своими гражданами.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." Anatole France. The Red Lily. 1894. Change muchly?
Awesome intro love the music well done. Seriously how can people live like this and why do so many people in America/California accept this? No offence but i'm so glad and blessed for not living in the Divided States of America the so called land of the free once again no offence. Other than that a great video keep up the great work👍 And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱 Please stay safe over there.
With all the fences and such it really feels like it’s evolving into that Star Trek episode with the “sanctuary districts” where the lock away the “undesireables”
Everything about the homeless people and their situation in America, is just so crazy. I think everyone understands that? So much money spent by government, either wrongly or wastefully, while these poor people suffer.
I'm homeless and drowning in debt with multiple car problems despite working and not doing drugs. Covid destroyed my life and nobody can seem to help me.
@Donnell Okafor I already reached out for help from everyone I know before I became homeless. I don't have any friends or family capable of helping me.
I ended up in the downtown Los Angeles skid row neighborhood for sheet economic reasons. Please help me with a well paying job and a new job outside the downtown Los Angeles skid row neighborhood. Please, please do not label me as a drug addict or mentally ill. PLEASE PLEASE RESPOND ASAP. Thank you. God bless you
It seems like the areas where people have been out there for years and have big tents and portable gazebos are much more organised and cleaner than the streets with small tents and a tonne of trash… I wonder if they have a hierarchy where you can’t go pitch a tent just anywhere…
I bet ewe never said this when millions were coming in during tRump. Or every year for decades before that. The Republican Ronald Reagans fix was the Dream Act where he made millions of illegals, legal with the stroke of a pen.
It's disgusting that this place looks way worse than here in Mexico where poverty is a major theme. People here in Mexico have more or less their priorities in order, sure there's drugs here but homelessness is rarely a thing here.
This is truly insane. On any given day, In any given car, There is prob millionaires, maybe a billlionaire or two who is driving within 10mtrs of this. Its just mind boggling
It is like that because the city of Los Angeles allowed it. It is a way of living. I just wish the missions scrub their sidewalks and pick up the trash. It is bad for the people living in the hotels run by skid row housing trust and SRO. Living in the area is just hard to overcoming drug addiction. It is impossible even though they are so many resources in the area. There are thousands of drug dealers in the area.
@@triggeredeasily6053 Hard to believe that help is unavailable for someone really looking for it. People lounging are probably not seeking it as hard as they should. But I really don't know for sure
I visited Los Angeles as a tourist in 2009. I remember it as a really nice place, and don't recall seeing any homeless people then. What is depicted here looks like a post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare. Can it really have fallen apart in so short a time?
Not in this society. We accommodate the handicapped, but incarcerate the mentally ill. Goes back to Reagan. And homelessness is now a crime in many places.
A year or two ago I called my cousin who stayed in the Park view suburb of Los Angeles ( city of Lost Angels ) in Los Angeles county about a nearby wildfire northwest of him which he could see. But first I searched on my Smartphone and I was directed to the daily skid row fires which many times the helpless hopeless homeless people or the tenement tenants and residents set owners set to collect insurance $$$.😮😮😮
This is the city-- Los Angeles, California. It's a big city and a lot of money can be made here. The great majority spend their time working hard to support themselves and their families. There's a small minority who spend their time thinking up ways to separate these people from their hard-earned pay.
True and big business and corporations as well that say they will do something about it before politicians and governments and votes can do a nothing about and on both sides never gets done about it to clean up the mess. As there is bad sanitation and dirty streets for more increases of diseases and plagues to go around on people and needles and so much more like if the pandemic was never over.
@Donnell0303 yea, you're right, but greed does have a bit to do with it as well- What are there, Approximately 1000+ available homeless housing units that are not available in Los Angeles and surrounding communities, but in order to enter one, you must pass a DRUG TEST?? these IDIOTS would rather stay strung out on their various addictions rather than get clean and turn their lives around
Question: I understand that the homeless situation is extremely tragic. Places like Kensington Ave in PA, skid row downtown Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco and I am sure many others places. No offense or disrespect intended to anyone. Q.. Where are the Children? I am sure some if not most of these People have Children.. where are they living? That is a lot of Children 😢😢 ty
First, set up an area of x square miles in the desert (like slab city). Fence it in. Then go on a massive sweep of the cities streets. If people can leave the streets on their own, ok. If not, they are taken to the desert 'cities' where they can manage themselves, just like they do on the streets. Let them govern their own, and police their own. Charities can visit them, food, clothing, medical and such. City provides potties and trash pickup. Done. You can live like that if you want to, just ain't gonna happen in the city. Other options for the non addicts, help with legit housing and jobs and education, and help getting into the Peace Corps, or the Military or Community College. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" Last Call. Clean up the streets, and then zero tolerance after that.
I'm homeless and drowning in debt with multiple car problems despite working and not doing drugs. Covid destroyed my life and nobody can seem to help me.
@@walkingtourseurope8526 Here's the complete why: ------- Rats & addiction; ------- Best thing I've read in ages ... "Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things not people. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff-in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that." ~ Johann Hari For more ... www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong - ** About the work of Bruce K. Alexander (Include FOX news pic/sign)
They are pretty well covered with tarps and the good news is rain washes the dirty street and the smell. In fact I’ve never seen a street cleaning machine on skid row.
Sadly, street homeless will destroy any housing you put them in because they are fentanyl addicts. Today's synthetic drugs are nasty. Forget heroin and cocaine. Now, they are addicted to cocktail of synthetic chemicals such as fentanyl, sedative benzo, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, rat poison, P2P based meth, wasp dope, etc. Synthetic drugs are now hundreds of times stronger and more destructive than just 10 years ago, and humans are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street homeless steal from local stores. They steal items such as tools, baby and hygiene products, and sell for one or two fentanyl pills. That's how they support their addiction, and they call it boosting.
Society is going to have people fall through the cracks. Not everyone will be accounted for. This is reality. L.A. seems bad with the concentration of homeless but you have to remember that the weather here is more tolerable than anywhere else in the U.S. so they will come here mostly. There’s a lot who use drugs, some with mental issues of course, and then there’s those that don’t want to integrate and work and pay bills
Yep. The Majority out there CHOOSE this lifestyle. The ones that truly have a mental illness are a small minority. Honestly, the truth is, most of these people have a SPIRITUAL problem. There are PLENTY of people and places that will help someone who truly has fallen down and has NO support network because (most of the time, due to the bad choices they make over and over) That's why it's so important in life to cultivate and invest in people and RELANTIONSHIPS throughout your life. Your family, friends, and your local church for instance. Don't get me wrong, I am all for helping people who really need it. I am NOT for enabling people and giving handouts to people who are perfectly capable of working some kind of job, and most of them are. " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold." Proverbs 22:1 KJV I'll take the "loving favor" over sliver or gold any day! by being good my Family and Friends so they will be good to me and pay me back one day if i need it, and if for some reason they don't, well that's OK too, GOD will take care of me! "I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." Psalm 37:25 KJV
@@fundamentalBaptist1711 low paying wages leads to mental health issues which leads to drug addiction and eventually homelessness. I guarantee you that most did not choose this lifestyle.
Why do we have billionaires and politicians who are able to accumulate wealth and others who can not see their way to buy a hotdog? This is a society problem that needs to be fixed.
Anybody else notice the tree after the cell tower? All the leaves were brown yet the rest of the trees further down we’re still green😮 i definitely wouldn’t be living next to it that’s for sure
It amazes me how first world countries have 3rd world poverty, I'm fully aware that 70 percent of homelessness, is due to mental illness substance abuse either or and many times both, but there are a large growing number of homeless people that are on the streets because of economic issues the lack of affordable housing in many states are driving the numbers growing, those people want and need to be saved
@@walkingtourseurope8526 true, but one of the biggest obstacles is getting the homeless who have mental illness and substance abuse issues is to care about themselves enough to get the help they need and stick to it until they can live well, most have lost their will for a better life sadly, and have become complacent and receiving the government handouts no matter how well intentioned doesn't help the situation in the long run, many homeless no longer view the help they get as a hand up and literally feel entitled to it, we've been creating this issue for decades now
Let ourself perish slowly by not procreate! And we will see globalist elite handle if people revolve and fight back for condition that they already created
I feel sorry for the once beautiful trees. And that little dog at the end. He was walking up to you and asking in his way if you could get him away from that mess. Lots of people sitting around. Waiting for a government check or a food kitchen to open up. This has had a beginning and there will be an end. We can't just ignore it forever.
@@walkingtourseurope8526 The United States has been hobbled by greed and excess. People hate each other and the system of government is a scam. Hanging onto power is more important than hanging onto hope.
@BOCA BEC that's the Taco Bell commercial dog but he let himself go 🤣 JK seriously tho your right 💯 it's like they need something to do and they just sitting there needing someone to push them towards something better
Thanks for posting WTE. In concrete jungles grafitti improves many of the bland and boring places. I wonder what it's like around the bus station these days? Last time I was there was in 1992 I went looking to score and met a very friendly 6' 7'' black guy called Columbus Woods who was also waiting for the Greyhound bus to New York. He scored us some oregano and off we went for the 3 day trip. At this time the coach drivers only told people not to drink on board. After we got caught smoking in the back, the driver kindly let us stay on the bus but at every stop with new passengers his announcement also included a no drugs warning with the booze one. When we got to the big, bad apple he met a girl in Washington Square park and went off with her, he never did say goodbye. I often wondered what became of Columbus, I hope life went well for him and he stayed with is girl he would have made a great dad. There are so many causes for being broke in the US, addiction to substances, no free healthcare and having to pay for expensive medication and any care for elderly family because you have to pay so much for everything. (In England we get taxed twice for stuff) At Guantanamo bay, Cuba, the inmates get free healthcare and in the nearby big town the multiple pharmacies charge very little for healthcare and meds compared with the US. Look at Michael Moore's film Sicko where he compares healthcare around the world and where he took 2 boatloads of 9/11 medical workers to get some of the free health at Guantanamo bay. It's a real eye-opener that's for sure. We need to have a universal basic income, free education and healthcare with a cradle to grave system and paid for by the money gained from prosecuting all those who have evaded taxes by using off-shore tax havens.
i literally became sick watching this. Like i became nauseous and lightheaded. I could not imagine living like this. Bless these people god and watch over them!
As a former law enforcement officer, I always took the time to know the homeless in the areas I patroled. These are the facts : Homlessness is a spectrum disorder, some are homeless due to financial issues, others drugs. However, many of the ones I evaluated did not get on drugs until they became homeless. Many have mental issues and are not able to hold any kind of job. There is a solution to this problem and that is to hire social workers to evaluate these people on an individual basis. It can only be solved on an individual basis. But since we live in an "All or None" society, its not likely this will ever happen.
Great point easy access to drugs here and no law enforcement will stop them from dealing. Cars come thru at night buying and selling. Shame on my government for turning a blind eye.
The answer is simple ....legalize drugs with medical supervision....provide mental health oversight and services and build housing that is affordable. Train for simple jobs etc. Handing out food,harassing ,arresting and trying to move them can't work. There will always be a percentage that stay on the streets but many can be reintegrated into society.
When the law 'selectively' enforced society collapses. IT IS AGAINST THE LAW to live on a sidewalk in the middle of a city and there are fines and punishments and, following arrests, social services and mental health agencies etc. to intervene but FIRST the LAW must be above all or we will fall apart swiftly.
And I think your approach is exactly the wrong way to go about it. That's what they've been attempting to do is solve the homeless problem on an individual basis and it obviously hasn't worked and never will. It needs a systematic approach that the Federal Government needs to step in and apply, not trying to solve it on a one on one basis or thinking that charities or the private sector can solve it. There needs to be a Department of Homelessness just like the U.S. has a Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense.
First, set up an area of x square miles in the desert (like slab city). Fence it in. Then go on a massive sweep of the cities streets. If people can leave the streets on their own, ok. If not, they are taken to the desert 'cities' where they can manage themselves, just like they do on the streets. Let them govern their own, and police their own. Charities can visit them, food, clothing, medical and such. City provides potties and trash pickup. Done. You can live like that if you want to, just ain't gonna happen in the city. Other options for the non addicts, help with legit housing and jobs and education, and help getting into the Peace Corps, or the Military or Community College. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" Last Call. Clean up the streets, and then zero tolerance after that.
Don't worry everyone. The celebrities are ok. That's all that matters to some people unfortunately.
First, set up an area of x square miles in the desert (like slab city). Fence it in. Then go on a massive sweep of the cities streets. If people can leave the streets on their own, ok. If not, they are taken to the desert 'cities' where they can manage themselves, just like they do on the streets. Let them govern their own, and police their own. Charities can visit them, food, clothing, medical and such. City provides potties and trash pickup. Done. You can live like that if you want to, just ain't gonna happen in the city. Other options for the non addicts, help with legit housing and jobs and education, and help getting into the Peace Corps, or the Military or Community College. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" Last Call. Clean up the streets, and then zero tolerance after that.
Exactly
Not for long. It's only a matter of time before the rich have their homes looted and burned to the ground. I'm not saying I want that to happen; it's the logical conclusion of where this is going. When the majority of America is homeless there will be civil war. And the rich & famous won't be able to hide.
@@joeanon5788 love it
Im fijian and watching this vedio reminds me of how lucky iam and appreciate life and appreciate that im not homeless . Im praying that God give you peace
I live in the real world and KNOW how many abused and abandoned spouses and children there are for each of these 'poor homeless'. How many victims of violence and the many thousands of crimes they have committed, how they ruin the lives and neighborhoods of those who scrupulously obey the rules and laws. Not to mention the entire families who have bankrupted themselves on rehab programs that NEVER EVER really work.
The contrast between the high-rise buildings and the tents tells the story.A tale of two cities.
I live in downtown. I describe it as "the wealthy in their ivory towers, the zombie apocalypse of homeless and the rest of us on the knife edge in between." 12 years ago, I moved into an old hotel that was renovated into practical microflats. Due to rent control, I have golden handcuffs and can't afford to move elsewhere.
Ruthless capitalism has nothing to do with it.
@@myoldvhstapes The value of ANY Society is measured best at it's lowest levels.
@@Freethecommons NAH! But at the next war which is inevitable most troops will come from the streets not the towering Condos and Penthouses. Cowards make war,real men fight them.
When real men confront cowards Barney Fife COPS call them dangerous and execute them
@@Freethecommons YES IT DOES! stalin made communism ruthless
hitler made nationalist socialism ruthless the rich and the republican party MADE CAPITALISM RUTHLESS GOT THAT!
Went out with some friends in DTLA 2 weeks ago was pouring rain that night and I saw a man soaking wet from head to toe,talking to himself with thick mucus dripping from both nostrils. The sight both shocked and saddened me. Even today,I can’t seem to forget the look in that man’s eyes, such despair I cannot describe. I don’t know why he had such a profound effect on me but I still think of him 💔Would just like to thank you for channel bringing awareness
Thank You
They bring this on THEMSELVES.
@@kenprice1961 you’re ignorant
I've been living here in Mexico for years which most Americans think is a really impoverished country and I don't see hardly any homeless people here, let alone homeless encampments.
I agree. I've been there. Lots of poverty but no homelessness like here in LA.
Because family takes care of family and they live within their means with less stuff and less pressure over being poor. I live in MX now too....and have ex-patted in many dirt poor Asian countries ....little homelessness or drug addiction there either.Communities also police themselves in most places and individual charity is practiced rather than donating to wealthy organizations
Homeless people were all STOLEN by demons and demonic fiends from their LIFE. They use them as STORAGE for stolen souls, as vehicles and as karmic weapons against people. They are possess by demons!
Demons use drugs and alcohol to mask their existence. People will blame drugs or mental health, but it’s really demonic creatures that took over the body!
There is rampant homelessness in Mexico, especially in DF. What tf are you talking about?!
@@mlkljmh I've been living here in Cuernavaca Morelos for many years and there's no homeless encampments here with hundreds of tents everywhere like in S.F. and Portland Oregon for example. Obviously D.F. has some homeless, it's one of the largest cities in the world with over 20 million people. But no huge homeless encampments there and I'm here and if you're there in Mexico City send me some videos of it.
How soon given the escalating cost of food will these charities run out of donations? There's way too many working families struggling to make ends meet.
Food banks are running low all ready.
Not soon enough. Feed them and they will come.
That’s a fact. It’s going to be so bad we will look back on these days as good…
Hollywood Elites are only miles away and they do nothing to help!😂
Governments won't do nothing about it neither on this crisis.
I'm glad people from other countries see this, so they can tell their nations it's not all paradise and roses here!
The UK knows about it, we're the same!
@@clairefitzpatrick7183 Which cities in the UK are like LA? And please don't say London. I live there, and while we have problems, we don't have huge shanty towns like this. Even with our short supply of housing, there are no cities in the UK with these huge problems.
Don't keep them out
We don't understand this here in Europe... How is this even possible? And how it continues? There r even Portable WC's...This is pure madness!
Just call fireman and police to wash out all this nonsense.
@@jkoblivion4175 that's so simple, get it done.
I thought homelessness in the UK was bad, this is on another level. So terribly sad that human beings are reduced to this.
homelessness in the UK is nothing like this. I lived in Birmingham for many years, and you'd see some homeless people on the streets, outside shops etc but I never once saw an encampment or tents being pitched up. I'm sure they go to dedicated shelters at night. its on a different scale in America...
Kensington Phillidelphea is the same...it might actually be worse because of the weather. Our country is failing its people. Being American is embarrassing.
So let me ask y’all this question we all know the effects but what is the cause of this it’s not because people are lazy or because they don’t wanna work or because they just wanna be living outside on the street and I know sone of u mite say o they just lost there homes mmmm probably but it’s really because of the government funding programs food stamps social security financial aid subsidize housing government grants government loans government scholarships all of these government benefits look at them handing out school baggy lunches to them like they still in fucking grade school or high school 🤔🤣i mean what the fuck this government either wants u bussing your buy off at a w2 job paying high taxes to they can apply sanctions to your ass to limit your growth income and success as an individual and don’t worry u get poor out dated services in return and cheap labor with fake materials and weak infrastructure with the houses and apartment buildings or they want u living off of government benefits which u still have to deal with the same poor services no wonder why Denmark is prosperous Singapore Sweden Switzerland do y’all know in Denmark they don’t even have no dam minimum wage why do America do because our government want us to be poor and to stay like that they don’t create prosperity only poverty look at our work force it’s weak as shit filled with nothing but retail in store and cashier stadium house keeper janitorial warehouse jobs all physically demanding doing repetitive tasks the entire day not helping u develop a new nor current skills I mean honestly it doesn’t surprise me that this country is turning into shit bit what really pisses me off is how dumb everyone in America is I’m the only mother fucker who actually states what cause the problem and what’s really going on out of everyone I always hear everyone say the same exact thing i know everyone have there opinion but it’s irrelevant the real problem is what I just said I’ve had it with everyone acting passive about reality pull y’all head from out of yall asses please and wake up it’s 2023
When it's drugs they are reducing themselves. The victims here are the residents and businesses in those neighborhoods that are now ruined. This is what happens when leftists run things. Weak drug and crime laws and acceptance of this shit.
@@MandieeeeJo No reason to be embarrassed if you voted republican. This is not our doing. Here and the ultra blue west coast are the worst by far and it's because the laws favor this shit. OR possession of hard drugs is legal. CA you don't get arrested for stealing less than $950. There is no 3 strikes law for it so you just keep getting summons. No cash bail if you are arrested. They don't do shit about the homeless, once in a while they'll sweep them out of one underpass but they'll be back. You can literally wake up on Hollywood blvd, shit, steal to buy drugs, shoot up on the street with state provided syringes all day, pass out and repeat again everyday. This doesn't help them and it's ruining CA and other states. If you voted democrat, I'd find a very tall building. YOU have ruined our country.
I am born and raised in LA and in a thousand years I never would have imagined this beautiful city getting like this. Unbelievable 😪😭
I was there in the 90s. San Fernando valley was okay but I would not get out of my car elsewhere. I believe it.
How long ago were you born because ive know it to be this way since like 90's
@@ihatetweakers8785 I was born in 1964 and raised primarily in Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley. As a child I remember orange groves and unpaved sidewalks in SF. We would go to Santa Monica or Venice Beach, San Diego or Big Bear on vacations. We'd play outside from sun up to sun down on bikes or skateboards. It was lovely and idyllic. There were pockets of super bad areas and I also lived in them, where gun shots and police helicopters were my nightly lullabies. I left in '92 after the riots burned down my neighborhood and fled to meth'd out Barstow, later Hesperia and now Victorville. So many people being paroled up here from down below, we are slowly becoming a copy of Compton.
@@AliciaM5555 yeah, no offense but California is a shit hole nowdays
@@ihatetweakers8785 oh I so know!!!!! 😢
As a non American, I can tell you that most of us probably view the US ( California in particular) as a 90210 kind of place, because that’s what we see on TV. So this shit is SHOCKING!!!
It’s sad it’s come to this!
@@walkingtourseurope8526 capitalism always ends there. it's only matter of time.
@@walkingtourseurope8526 it's the last stage of capitalism, btw. you cannot borrow money out of nothing forever.
Yeah ain't it great...you think the USA is the land of the free and the home of the brave paradise when in reality has become a human wasteland... literally.
This is AmeriKKKan CAPITALISM on steroids, also the porn industry, Only Fans industry has destroyed a generation of young women+men---CAPITALISM BABY!!! I been in Cali for +20yrs, it was a slum then it is faaar more a slum now, btw Cali was RepubliKKKan back then.
This is NOT new in L.A. I remember arriving there in 1986. I had to live in that area for a week in a hotel. I kept my head down, got a job as quickly as possible and got the hell out of there.
Didn't go back there for 30 years. The encampment has grown. So very sad.
Hotel name cecil?
@@VanHalen43 That one or the Roosevelt. Two or three blocks down from the old greyhound. Scary. I was so young and naive.
They are Africans.
We closed down all
the big mental asylums and this is where they went. Crazy.
You are absolutely right on point.
Amazing, especially when we ship billions and billions of dollars over seas. These people are trash to the politicians whom are in control of this district and they obviously don't care.
Where exactly do you so called ship the money? SMH 🙈
@@Kyra_of_Kerkyra Figure of speech but your a BOT so you wouldn't understand therefore I understand. 🤖
Well, I don‘t think these people don’t get any money or support because - as you put it - it get‘s „shipped over seas“. They wouldn’t get it, if it stayed in the USA. Because that would mean having a social security system, and US-politics (and society?) are not interested in this at all.
If history is teaching us something, it‘s that revolutions always happen at some point, when there are too many hopelessly poor people with absolutely nothing to lose, and only a few very rich who benefit from the system.
I remember as a little girl lovingbto go to downtown LA on Sundays
Ride the street car
It used to be nice and safe
Department stores with door men and men in uniform running the ekevator. When entering, would say hat floor we wanted.
Arrivng at floor, elevator man would announce the floor
Those were the days
Something nice to remember
I used to work for Ma Bell in that area as a walking technician 45 years ago. The worst that would happen would be a bum trying to steal your lunch.
Look at how much we have regressed. So much for progress.
And having to listen to how people needed gas money
that's what comes when "progressives" have unbridled power
Liberal America built what Skid Row is today. I grew up not far from there. I too, know how much it had changed (for the worse).
Such a wonderfully vibrant community. Tirelessly working to better themselves and those around them. Always willing to give to their fellow man in need. Their hard work and devotion to educational achievement are unparalleled and are envied by all. This nation is truly blessed by their presence. Our society would crumble without their guiding hand.
The cat was like “stranger danger I’m out”… 😂
🤣🤣
😂😂😅
Bronx homeless person here, I live in NY where we have a homeless crisis. It's mostly drugs. Hard drugs these days are cheaper than food. I can get fentanyl and heroin, enough to kill 10 people for ten dollars just by walking down the street and going to the corner. We are all morbidly depressed and stuck in a nasty cycle were we cant function without chemicals, but those very same chemicals are whats holding us back. It's like having severe back pain and the only thing that can fix it is whacking yourself in the back until it doesn't hurt anymore. Happy to answer any questions for those that are curious. I want to spread awareness
You are Very Brave I hope people listen to this. Our drugs are pouring in from Mexico this is our real enemy along with our Government
Wow just like what San Francisco does on letting the homeless hit up on drugs on the streets and the police do nothing about it.
@@walkingtourseurope8526 and they’re jus getting warmed up… its going to keep escalating
I've been homeless in Sacramento for a few years never did drugs my daughter just turned 7 she has down syndrome. You'd think the state would help parents with special needs kids but they don't. They will be the first to take your kids though.
@@janellcrews6108 I would think they would help since being in the U.S. as compared to other countries around the world are poor in certain services since being the most powerful nation in the world. As it's going down hill as the signs are really showing how weak it is when solving certain little problems like that of special needs, homeless, crime, abortion, gun laws, drugs, crime, poverty, education, health care, taxes, services, government help, welfare, disability, retirement, housing crisis, land, jobs, infrastructure, city high rise, laws, regulations, administration's, immigration, race, color, sex, religion, rights, political, financial, and so much more to solve the governments and authorities are weak in these areas to fix any man made problems in the world as it goes world wide scale.
Seing so many people living this way in the 21st century is heart breaking. Tents all over the sidewalk as far as the eye can see.
Mental health workers needed. These people need to find Hope in recovery. So sad to watch.😔
I would go Down Town on the bus 🚌 in the 70 , boy has it changed from a beautiful city to this .. i’m scared 😳 to go any close to it ..
Nightmare!!!!!!👿
It's really become quite the tourist attraction for foreigners coming to visit the U.S. Right up there with Disneyland and the Hollywood sign and Walk of Fame.
Reminiscent of the Hoovervilles in the Great Depression. But back then there seemed to be a collective will to do something about the situation (from either inside or outside the camps). Now they just seem to grow and grow. It's heartbreaking to see America like this.
It’s now expanding faster than they can stop it. Clean one area and it comes right back again only bigger. Very dangerous game Los Angeles is playing.
Smoking heroin is doing something.
Yes you are right this is like a mordern day Great Depression i thought that also.
What’s interesting to me is the music they’re listening to is both soulful and bittersweet. The clash between a tragic setting, with uplifting sounds all around.
I grew up in California in the 60s and 70s it was paradise!
@Robert Anderson definitely do not return. I grew up there in the 80s and the 90s, part of the early 2000s, lived elsewhere and came back in the 2010s. It’s a disaster. I left for good in 2018.
I saw a homeless man in Toronto one day crossing the street, (we are having the same issues up here! I believe all of the West is in decline) and he had no shoes and its was cold. Infact he only had boxers and a tshirt, it was early spring, so still very much winter like without the snow. He looked so hopeless and in DESPAIR, he disappeared and people ignored him. It was horrible. I feel like SOME homeless kind of remind me of war veterans who are mentally scarred they have lost their minds. that they crossed a invisible line & some can't come back. Its kind of evil.
Well said , if a politician cared like you it could be fixed but a politician would step on someone button get ahead, there is no accountability in our local government. California is broken.
Psst wanna know something funny? You didn't do shit either.
The new compassion shown by woke politicians is to rename "the homeless" to "the unsheltered"....that should help !
I usually watch docu-series about Kensington Philadelphia. The first thing that came to mind was, "what are all of these young white girls doing down there. " then I realized that drug addiction knows no racial or sexual preference. People who are on the street in Kensington are mostly victims of drug abuse. Then when I see the situation in Los Angeles I see a much larger problem but it is mostly a true homeless problem and not mainly drug related.
The group of ladies at the beginning of the video are feeding people.
andrew, i watch kensington also!!! i'm in deep south, close to coast, small town. i'm usually horrified by all that mess. i hate it for those people though. God bless'em.
Phoenix and Vegas videos as well
The east coast has always used much harder drugs than LA.
The abandon structures in the mid-west and the south could be homes for the homeless that fill the inner-cities with a little fixing up.
Skid row looks surprisingly clean, well established and orderly for a typical homeless area of an American city. In Louisville Ky the homeless are a lot more messed up looking.
In la and sand Fransisco they pay people to clean the streets. They clean with fire hoses to clean the poop up from the sidewalk
Our homeless are better than your homeless. Neener neener neener.
@@ahuramazda980 feels like a comparison lol
Seems to me there’s a range of homeless situations. And unfortunately there’s a proportion of people who either can’t or won’t ever escape their situation.
Maybe there’s a triage approach needed that focuses on those that can be helped - and yes, this means some would be left behind to addictions and circumstance.
Wonder what kind of food they were giving away...ready to eat meals or things for cooking
Cooked meals simple things sometimes they have pizzas 🍕
As a young teenager I always wanted to live in Los Angeles or in the stated general, now I am very happy I live in an country like Switzerland. Fr it’s so sickening seeing this
Yes that’s great!
Stay in Switzerland. You're not missing out on much.
Me too. US-TV shows gave me wrong ideas about how life was there...
The price of housing is killing the American image. Too bad corporate America and politicians are helping in it's decline.
Yes, I was there. I remember seeing needle park with all the drug addicts.
That poor little dog at the end needs to be rescued, I could not leave it there in that conditioned.
The worse part is that alot of these people do not want help. They want to live like this. I use to go on volunteer groups with my dad to pass out supplies for the homeless and we were always greeted with anger. They wanted to be left alone and didnt want our help. They just wanted cash. So they can fuel their addictions. A few would take our supplies and thank us but alot did not want anything to do with us. Alot of these people work the system to live off ebt and other goverment incomes so they can continue their addiction or just dont want to work. A local homeless man near my job says he just likes living out in the trees near the riverbed he doesnt wanna pay taxes or anything so he chose to live like this though he doesnt agree with the drug abuse other homeless in the area take part in
You’re viewing this entire situation from a privileged stand point.
I serve at The Fred Jordan Mission on the corner of Towne Ave & 5th , should have stopped by
When I was a kid, tents on the sidewalk meant but one thing ...street fair! Oh boy, how times have changed.
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Once your homeless in L A it's hard to get out, even if a homeless person find a job they never can afford to rent a place. There are people working in silicon Valley living in 5 star camper vans because they can't even afford rent prices. Best thing is help with their problems and then help them set up in another city. Look at all the people moving to TEXAS
I would move off grid but they. Any get drugs off grid
All big cities are getting pretty bad. I live in CA and many off ramps and on ramps to major highways and freeways are like mini tent cities, very close to private homes, shopping centers, schools.
As a Canadian here, only option left is forcing them to move just send them out to a dessert in Cali lol ! I’ve been to LA on Vacation back in 2012 and it was GREAT !!!!!! Literally drag them out of their tents. Clean up LA
@nigel thornberry I dif didn’t vote Liberal😂😂😂😂😂
Blaming drugs isn’t cop out….. the real problem isn’t the drugs themselves but what caused people to abuse drugs in the first place….
How lovely seeing human beings strewn about the sidewalks with the street trash. People don't even know if they're stepping over trash or human beings! Are we human beings or are we trash? Do we even know the difference by now?
This is so sad seeing people living like this,Australia has a housing crisis, with people with families living in tents and cars,cost of living lack of rentals,and it's only going to get worse. 😢
Ну а что вы хотите. Богатые делиться не хотят. А хотят больше зарабатывать. Грабить больше некого. Азия и Африка все....теперь видимо пришли за вами - своими гражданами.
Yes Australia not the place it was..
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." Anatole France. The Red Lily. 1894. Change muchly?
Awesome intro love the music well done.
Seriously how can people live like this and why do so many people in America/California accept this?
No offence but i'm so glad and blessed for not living in the Divided States of America the so called land of the free once again no offence.
Other than that a great video keep up the great work👍
And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
Please stay safe over there.
Thank You 😊
You are absolutely right!!!!
Greetings from the Ruhr area, Germany 🇩🇪 😀🙋🏻♀️
With all the fences and such it really feels like it’s evolving into that Star Trek episode with the “sanctuary districts” where the lock away the “undesireables”
Yes indeed!
Everything about the homeless people and their situation in America, is just so crazy. I think everyone understands that? So much money spent by government, either wrongly or wastefully, while these poor people suffer.
We try and give all our tax money to other countries Government tries so hard to waste what’s not theirs to waste.
What countries are you giving money? Not truth.
Simply unbelievable how the people live. Very very sad.
I'm homeless and drowning in debt with multiple car problems despite working and not doing drugs. Covid destroyed my life and nobody can seem to help me.
@Donnell Okafor I already reached out for help from everyone I know before I became homeless. I don't have any friends or family capable of helping me.
@Donnell Okafor I'm stuck in Los Angeles. I've been here in California my entire life and have nowhere else to go.
@Donnell Okafor How so? And thank you so much.
I ended up in the downtown Los Angeles skid row neighborhood for sheet economic reasons. Please help me with a well paying job and a new job outside the downtown Los Angeles skid row neighborhood. Please, please do not label me as a drug addict or mentally ill. PLEASE PLEASE RESPOND ASAP. Thank you. God bless you
Can't wait to take my family there on vacation. How beautiful.............
If you take them not at night it’s creepy
😂😂😂!
If you see a bunch of Zombies run for your life. 😃
I'd have to walk to the Freeway and step out in front of an 18 wheeler before I'd live like that..
I here you there. What a life.
Awesome Video. Another of many good reasons to b wary of Gavin!!!
Yes and he’s related to Pelosi! Let these videos be a record if he runs for higher office!!
The American dream in full effect.
It seems like the areas where people have been out there for years and have big tents and portable gazebos are much more organised and cleaner than the streets with small tents and a tonne of trash…
I wonder if they have a hierarchy where you can’t go pitch a tent just anywhere…
Where are we putting the 2,000,000 border crossers this year ???
They should be shown videos of all places like this in America.
It’s probably more like 10-15 million!
youre gonna give up what you thought was yours and move along. simple.
I bet ewe never said this when millions were coming in during tRump. Or every year for decades before that. The Republican
Ronald Reagans fix was the Dream Act where he made millions of illegals, legal with the stroke of a pen.
It's disgusting that this place looks way worse than here in Mexico where poverty is a major theme. People here in Mexico have more or less their priorities in order, sure there's drugs here but homelessness is rarely a thing here.
This is truly insane. On any given day, In any given car, There is prob millionaires, maybe a billlionaire or two who is driving within 10mtrs of this. Its just mind boggling
It is like that because the city of Los Angeles allowed it. It is a way of living. I just wish the missions scrub their sidewalks and pick up the trash. It is bad for the people living in the hotels run by skid row housing trust and SRO. Living in the area is just hard to overcoming drug addiction. It is impossible even though they are so many resources in the area. There are thousands of drug dealers in the area.
A good Society reflects on how they treat the people,!
This is certainly the opposite. Run by greed and apathy.
There should be treatment centers at every corner,seriously.
There has to be some help avalible...
Fucking hard times
Jails make great treatment centers
do they want help?
@@triggeredeasily6053 Hard to believe that help is unavailable for someone really looking for it. People lounging are probably not seeking it as hard as they should. But I really don't know for sure
@@ghostofreagan3181 lies
@@payableondeath9091 lies? How So? Can't get your drugs and alcohol in jail. Jails make great rehabs
I visited Los Angeles as a tourist in 2009. I remember it as a really nice place, and don't recall seeing any homeless people then. What is depicted here looks like a post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare. Can it really have fallen apart in so short a time?
Not surprising, factories closed, no jobs, drugs, homelessness, as result
It's Skid Row. It's a very tiny area.
It’s spread throughout la and west all cities have tent cities now.
@@BabyOlegis it like Kensington with the drugs? Not seeing as much obviously faded people. But someone has to be supplying these people with drugs
Depends in with area of the city you are in. But in the meantime, this can hardly be overlooked.
Hi again kenz. I see project home provided housing units that's great néws pam
Mega cities. Mega problems. Really sad to see LA degrade like that.
Bless that women who was offering you food ❤
I mean come on they’ve got to do something people that have mental health problems need help. And everyone needs a place to live.
Not in this society. We accommodate the handicapped, but incarcerate the mentally ill. Goes back to Reagan. And homelessness is now a crime in many places.
Thank You.
Thanks for watching!
I pray for all these people ❤
Looks good we’re on the right track
It's sad but I refuse to go to California any more.....
It's uncomfortable perhaps?
If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
~ Aristotle
Rockstar Games needs to update the GTA game to include the homeless peeps
A year or two ago I called my cousin who stayed in the Park view suburb of Los Angeles ( city of Lost Angels ) in Los Angeles county about a nearby wildfire northwest of him which he could see. But first I searched on my Smartphone and I was directed to the daily skid row fires which many times the helpless hopeless homeless people or the tenement tenants and residents set owners set to collect insurance $$$.😮😮😮
I believe that !
wildfire northeast ( not northwest ) of him...set or owners set..
This is the city-- Los Angeles, California. It's a big city and a lot of money can be made here. The great majority spend their time working hard to support themselves and their families. There's a small minority who spend their time thinking up ways to separate these people from their hard-earned pay.
mapping??! good one
U can THANK all the GREEDY LANDLORDS for what's happened with the homeless situation-
True and big business and corporations as well that say they will do something about it before politicians and governments and votes can do a nothing about and on both sides never gets done about it to clean up the mess. As there is bad sanitation and dirty streets for more increases of diseases and plagues to go around on people and needles and so much more like if the pandemic was never over.
Excuse making fool
@Donnell0303 yea, you're right, but greed does have a bit to do with it as well- What are there, Approximately 1000+ available homeless housing units that are not available in Los Angeles and surrounding communities, but in order to enter one, you must pass a DRUG TEST?? these IDIOTS would rather stay strung out on their various addictions rather than get clean and turn their lives around
NOW available, sorry
@@stevebigansky9372seemingly reasonable.
Damn almost every fence got spikes and barbed wire on it
and a few miles away, people live in $100 Million Mansions! L.A. is crazy 😩
Even closer like 1 mile away
Question: I understand that the homeless situation is extremely tragic. Places like Kensington Ave in PA, skid row downtown Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco and I am sure many others places. No offense or disrespect intended to anyone. Q.. Where are the Children? I am sure some if not most of these People have Children.. where are they living? That is a lot of Children 😢😢 ty
No one should have to live like this. Politicians, please help these poor people.
Who do you think is stealing the money? NEWSOM!!
There were other governors before Newsom. There was homelessness before Newsom.
First, set up an area of x square miles in the desert (like slab city). Fence it in. Then go on a massive sweep of the cities streets. If people can leave the streets on their own, ok. If not, they are taken to the desert 'cities' where they can manage themselves, just like they do on the streets. Let them govern their own, and police their own. Charities can visit them, food, clothing, medical and such. City provides potties and trash pickup. Done. You can live like that if you want to, just ain't gonna happen in the city. Other options for the non addicts, help with legit housing and jobs and education, and help getting into the Peace Corps, or the Military or Community College. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" Last Call. Clean up the streets, and then zero tolerance after that.
I'm homeless and drowning in debt with multiple car problems despite working and not doing drugs. Covid destroyed my life and nobody can seem to help me.
I pray that everything works out well for you Sir. COVID19 destroyed a lot of lives.
Yea, lived 423 E 7th St Madison hotel a dozen years, left 13yrs ago. Now I hear skid row has engulfed even that area.
Yes it’s unreal too many homeless now and too many drugs
@@walkingtourseurope8526 Here's the complete why:
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Rats & addiction;
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Best thing I've read in ages ... "Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction.
Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment.
We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need.
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things not people. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff-in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that."
~ Johann Hari
For more ...
www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong -
** About the work of Bruce K. Alexander
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I can only imagine the misery when they get another 3 to 8 inches of rain!
They are pretty well covered with tarps and the good news is rain washes the dirty street and the smell. In fact I’ve never seen a street cleaning machine on skid row.
Sadly, street homeless will destroy any housing you put them in because they are fentanyl addicts. Today's synthetic drugs are nasty. Forget heroin and cocaine. Now, they are addicted to cocktail of synthetic chemicals such as fentanyl, sedative benzo, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, rat poison, P2P based meth, wasp dope, etc. Synthetic drugs are now hundreds of times stronger and more destructive than just 10 years ago, and humans are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. Street homeless steal from local stores. They steal items such as tools, baby and hygiene products, and sell for one or two fentanyl pills. That's how they support their addiction, and they call it boosting.
True in which is so sad for them to be out their like animals.
Soon this will be the norm for people making 50,000 a year
All this poverty in a world of riches and abundance. Heartbreaking.
Society is going to have people fall through the cracks. Not everyone will be accounted for. This is reality. L.A. seems bad with the concentration of homeless but you have to remember that the weather here is more tolerable than anywhere else in the U.S. so they will come here mostly. There’s a lot who use drugs, some with mental issues of course, and then there’s those that don’t want to integrate and work and pay bills
Yep. The Majority out there CHOOSE this lifestyle. The ones that truly have a mental illness are a small minority. Honestly, the truth is, most of these people have a SPIRITUAL problem. There are PLENTY of people and places that will help someone who truly has fallen down and has NO support network because (most of the time, due to the bad choices they make over and over) That's why it's so important in life to cultivate and invest in people and RELANTIONSHIPS throughout your life. Your family, friends, and your local church for instance. Don't get me wrong, I am all for helping people who really need it. I am NOT for enabling people and giving handouts to people who are perfectly capable of working some kind of job, and most of them are.
" A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold." Proverbs 22:1 KJV
I'll take the "loving favor" over sliver or gold any day! by being good my Family and Friends so they will be good to me and pay me back one day if i need it, and if for some reason they don't, well that's OK too, GOD will take care of me!
"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." Psalm 37:25 KJV
@@fundamentalBaptist1711 low paying wages leads to mental health issues which leads to drug addiction and eventually homelessness. I guarantee you that most did not choose this lifestyle.
There is a noticeable difference between this area and Kensington Rd in Philadelphia, far less litter and garbage in the streets shown in this video.
Shame on you America
Why do we have billionaires and politicians who are able to accumulate wealth and others who can not see their way to buy a hotdog? This is a society problem that needs to be fixed.
The masses buy what they sell for one. System is designed for failure for 99 percent.
Bet those porta pottys are rank inside!!
If they work
Anybody else notice the tree after the cell tower? All the leaves were brown yet the rest of the trees further down we’re still green😮 i definitely wouldn’t be living next to it that’s for sure
10:41 is the time
Man if you took someone from the 1940s and showed them the way LA looks now they'd be horrified.
Yes Indeed they would and now people from other countries are shocked and saddened. Thanks to a few greedy politicians!
It's insane to think that in the most powerful nation in the world we have people that have to live like this. Bring back the CCC.
This is no joke guys, check out the documentary " South Park Homeless Zombies".
GREAT job mayor!!!!!!!!
It amazes me how first world countries have 3rd world poverty, I'm fully aware that 70 percent of homelessness, is due to mental illness substance abuse either or and many times both, but there are a large growing number of homeless people that are on the streets because of economic issues the lack of affordable housing in many states are driving the numbers growing, those people want and need to be saved
There’s still hope but we need long term solutions not temp hotels to hide the underlying issues.
@@walkingtourseurope8526 true, but one of the biggest obstacles is getting the homeless who have mental illness and substance abuse issues is to care about themselves enough to get the help they need and stick to it until they can live well, most have lost their will for a better life sadly, and have become complacent and receiving the government handouts no matter how well intentioned doesn't help the situation in the long run, many homeless no longer view the help they get as a hand up and literally feel entitled to it, we've been creating this issue for decades now
Let ourself perish slowly by not procreate! And we will see globalist elite handle if people revolve and fight back for condition that they already created
do they commandeer the porta potties as homes, too? Didnt see anyone going in or out of them.
I really hope my area never gets like this. Lots of Californians moving here
I feel sorry for the once beautiful trees. And that little dog at the end. He was walking up to you and asking in his way if you could get him away from that mess. Lots of people sitting around. Waiting for a government check or a food kitchen to open up. This has had a beginning and there will be an end. We can't just ignore it forever.
Good points to bad no government workers downtown read these comments maybe they could learn from real viewers like you!
@@walkingtourseurope8526 The United States has been hobbled by greed and excess. People hate each other and the system of government is a scam. Hanging onto power is more important than hanging onto hope.
@@bocabec6744 yes True Statement
@BOCA BEC that's the Taco Bell commercial dog but he let himself go 🤣 JK seriously tho your right 💯 it's like they need something to do and they just sitting there needing someone to push them towards something better
@@payableondeath9091 The push you speak of should be a push off the wall of the Grand Canyon! Until the “free” stuff stops, nothing will change.
Foundation within Cali, keeps state functioning, effort is tremendous. Modernization any day now.
Thanks for posting WTE. In concrete jungles grafitti improves many of the bland and boring places.
I wonder what it's like around the bus station these days? Last time I was there was in 1992 I went looking to score and met a very friendly 6' 7'' black guy called Columbus Woods who was also waiting for the Greyhound bus to New York. He scored us some oregano and off we went for the 3 day trip.
At this time the coach drivers only told people not to drink on board. After we got caught smoking in the back, the driver kindly let us stay on the bus but at every stop with new passengers his announcement also included a no drugs warning with the booze one.
When we got to the big, bad apple he met a girl in Washington Square park and went off with her, he never did say goodbye. I often wondered what became of Columbus, I hope life went well for him and he stayed with is girl he would have made a great dad.
There are so many causes for being broke in the US, addiction to substances, no free healthcare and having to pay for expensive medication and any care for elderly family because you have to pay so much for everything. (In England we get taxed twice for stuff) At Guantanamo bay, Cuba, the inmates get free healthcare and in the nearby big town the multiple pharmacies charge very little for healthcare and meds compared with the US. Look at Michael Moore's film Sicko where he compares healthcare around the world and where he took 2 boatloads of 9/11 medical workers to get some of the free health at Guantanamo bay. It's a real eye-opener that's for sure.
We need to have a universal basic income, free education and healthcare with a cradle to grave system and paid for by the money gained from prosecuting all those who have evaded taxes by using off-shore tax havens.
Keep dreaming my friend.
@@mattr.1887::: Maybe you’r a TAX EVADER thats why you dont give a shit!
What an existence.
Can't really call it a life, but it's better than the alternative, I guess.
i literally became sick watching this. Like i became nauseous and lightheaded. I could not imagine living like this. Bless these people god and watch over them!
I feel the same when I tape walking thru here.