Homelessness on E Hastings Street - Vancouver DTES on August 09 2023 - Street Life in Canada?
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2023
- The Vancouver's homeless issue did little improve or not much change? Please leave your comments. To my point of view, there are more people laying on the streets than before and the City's crew have done a decent job keep up with all the garbage (the City's streets look nicer and more tidy), but these guys obviously keep littering more. Is Vancouver as “h.e.l.l on earth” as Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre depicted? But don't forget, BC recorded roughly 200 lives lost to toxic d.r.u.g.s per month. Please leave your comments how to solve this complex problem.
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues including disproportionately high levels of d.ru.g use, homelessness, p.o.v.e.r.t.y, c.r.i.me, m.e.n.t.a.l illness and s.e.x work. It is also known for its strong community resilience, history of social activism, and artistic contributions.
#explorevancouvercanada
This is life in Canada.
Not homeless. They are drug addicts with homes in other neighborhoods and cities and provinces and even US states. Many people who work and live in the Eastside can attest to how a lot of the drugs addicts are actually from wealthy neighbourhoods, coming to the Eastside dresses as homeless people just to set up tents or tarps to do drugs, have drug parties, sell stolen/bootleg stuff, etc. And in Vancouver there is a similar situation to what's going on in London, Ontario, which their deputy mayor just spoke out against - other cities in Ontario sending their homeless to London. Same is happening with Vancouver, other cities are shipping their drug addicts to Vancouver. Notable Alberta, which latest stats show over 25% of drug addicts in Vancouver are from Alberta.
First, thanks for visiting and nailing down your comments. We all know what exactly DTES is (drugs, poverty, mental ill, etc) but it is getting worse day by day. Week by week or month after month, there are more and more people suffering/dead laying on the streets. BC has lost in thousand lives due to OD and the number keeps adding. All leaders always promise to make this strip/dtes improving. Do you see any improvement at all?
That makes absolutely no sense. If they have homes, why would they opt to be homeless, as opposed to doing drugs in the comfort of their own home?
Great stuff - I never seen a happy face in the entire video.😟
Ya then Vancouver dumps them on other places in the province.
Bruh if you have a home why you prefer drugging on the street and not on your soft couch?
Same as LA; San Fran; Seattle; Baltimore..Philadelphia..
Portland OR, New York
The Sacklers and their ilk are a disgrace. Oh, and dog-eat-dog neo-liberal economics is way past its sell-by date (it wasn't even legitimate to start with).
This isn't caused by expensive housing. As someone who has, let's just say, had some experience in the world of hard drugs, it wouldn't matter if housing cost $20 a month. When you're an addict $20 can buy you a hit, and your hit comes before anything else. Well meaning do-gooders will provide you with a tent, and a propane tank, and food, leaving you free to panhandle, steal, and rob for money which will all go for drugs before all else. Provide them a free apartment in a complex where others are paying rent, and they'll just make the others miserable with their crime, and hoarding, and squalor. Who would want to pay for housing if their neighbors don't have to work, get their housing free, and can break into your place while you're at work?
Thank you. Exactly. And the government provides with a welfare check every month.
@@jamaicaskybiggest mistake, free money for drugs
Hear, Hear!
@@jamaicaskyand safer supply drug program..let's fix the drug problem by giving out free drugs ...lol
educate yourself please@@ksteele8388
What the heck Canada, you’re starting to look like America.
This has been going on for decades in Vancouver. It's not new. Before the drug addicts it was alcoholics in the streets. Before taking over Hastings and Crab Park, the people in tents were set up across from Science World under the SkyTrain tracks nears Main Street Street Station. The problem is the drug addict enablers at OPS and Vandu who lure all the drug addicts by supplying them with drugs and tools to do the drugs with.
its everywhere theres drug addiction issues but hey like alcohol mos tpeople diditn notice till the drunk drove into your car or the drug addict busts into your home to steal your stuff ,this problems been around a long time ,but the drugs are garabge that they are doing ,i dont get it to sell garbage to your customer ,but the goverment ha sgiven them places to test there drugs oi hope thy all!!!!!use them !,dont risk your life make sure you can take it ,but evn better i hope they can all get to a rehab and livein place where they can have abed to sleep in and help to get clean ,especially my neice who is down there somewhere ,nadine s her name little beauty with blonde hair and sparlky eyes and so harmless and sweet ,miss you nadine ,cal your mum,say hello let her here your voice ,it means alot jsut for her to here your voice ,no pressure just a hello to your mum ,shes not getting any younger and theres a little hidden pain in er eyey when we mention your name ,i try not to i hate to see her feel sad ,so ya we all have this in our famiies and hope to god not in our future kids too
Exactly
I would often visit Portland however drugs and homelessness has absolutely changed that city from what it once was… huge homeless camps in every highway cloverleafs, in spillways, etc… and now I see it happening in Vancouver. This experiment has been a disaster in Portland and now it’s really becoming a sad state here in Vancouver..
@@bradwalker3068so true I grew up in Portland Oregon this place got so dangerous now can’t even walk to store in peace crazy addict throwing rock at cars at nighttime’s smh
Calling my momma to thank her for keeping me on the right track.
God bless your mom.
Its on you to stay on the right track Tucker, nobody else, lots of people come from good homes and still end up alcoholics.
So Canada is going the same way as the US. All the best to you ....
Always has..
No, will send them back to Portland or Seattle where they belong.
Rich country.!oh no!
That's the Canada they not trying to show
And yet people are violently opposed to institutions that could house and treat people. I know they can be poorly run but I think we need to look at how other countries may be handling things more successfully. This has gone on long enough to prove it is not working.
the mental instututions of the past wouldnt be the same today casue people care alt more and people are more willing now to ge thelp for there mental issues ,it use to be you hide anyone in your family that was mentally ill in some way but thats not !!today ,they would be more like group home run rehab housing ,they do it in other countries and ther estreets dont look like this and they have the same problems with addiction issues
remeber htere wa a time they hid unwed mother s!!!!!!!so thing shave changed and people are not judged by some old book of old rules that not even the people who wrote them obey !!!!so they wouldnt be places run by churches but by medical people who know the human body
Most interesting comment yes
You’ll find most homeless people are also “violently opposed” to any kind of institution. They are 97% drug addicts, sadly they have made poor choices and this is the result of it. It’s easy to call for action when it doesn’t personally affect your life in any way, why don’t you start housing and helping these people in your home? Be the change you want to see
@@TinMan445 Because I live in a 1 bedroom condo with bylaws that say marriage partner only can occupy.....
Goes to the theory if there is garbage and graffiti and broken windows people will behave badly
This would not happen on Burrard and Haistings
Tnx4d update of what's happening in East Hastings St Vancouver Canada. Lots of addicts everywhere. They are helpless and in miserable condition. Drugs destroyed their precious lives. Hope they can still recover and start a new life. Watching from DUBAI 👀
Every teen in Junior High School and every parent should see these videos. They just might be a deterrent! They might change their mind about taking that first drug!!
I do weed every so often with my father since high school and I'm now working from home for a software company based in US?????????????????????????????????????????
@@donatematchacookieNot many people are balanced individuals as you think
Hard to believe I worked on W Hastings and walked E Hastings in the 70’s. But for the grace of God there go I. LSD MDA pot hash and some heroin back then and Vancouver had rent controls so not much homelessness. This is heartbreaking! Thankful for my Mamma’s prayers!😢
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you remember the olympics,hotels kicked people out,low income people,city did nothing
@@RichardCockerill I left in 1975. I think the Olympics and Expo were after that. Not sure but when I left I was paying $180 for a one bedroom across from English Bay. I took a promotion to go to Saskatoon and paid more than that for a one bed basement apt. Those Westend are probably $3000 and more now. No wonder there are so many homeless other than those who choose to be
I did have to leave the Y in 1969 when I went from Calgary to Van because a busload of Seniors from England. I think I moved to the Empress until I found an apt.
This situation is leading to the closure of many commercial activities and offices, in a spiral of degradation that produces further poverty and marginalization.
Its way past that time, East Hastings is a Twilight Zone, where most on't want to escape.
Thanks for the footage.
"We don't have a homelessness crisis but a drug addiction crisis" Pon Zinvestor
Tôi không thế tưởng tượng được ở Vancouver - Canada, một thành phố lớn giàu có lại nhiều người homeless đến như vậy! Họ vật vờ, dặt dẹo, siêu vẹo trong nghiện ngập rượu và ma túy.
If people knew what I think in my head I’d be put down.
😂😂😂
Government thinks the same way apparently
More people laying around on the streets only because it is summer. At least the sidewalk is not 100% blocked by tents now. Definitely more work needs to be done, and we should never normalize what is happening there at the DTES, but treat it as a crisis.
No, that's not the case, this is year around. Drug addicts always found collapsed on the sidewalks in close proximity to an OPS location. OPS keeps them on drugs and in this miserable state of addiction. They are intentionally lured to the Eastside by these "consumption sites" who exploit addiction and keep these people addicted in order to push their agenda to get hard drugs legalized and to continue getting government funding to pay themselves with.
It was like this in 1990......don't believe the bs about Canadian superiority ;)
My dream was to go to Canada , not now...
Your next dream will be the same destination
Most of Canada and Vancouver is fine. It’s just one really rough neighborhood in Vancouver this video is showing. You should definitely still visit Canada.
@@jacekgarbowicz616 Windsor Ontario is the same way. I visit there often from the U.S. and it looks just like this.
this will never end,it will get worse in every big city in north america,government can't do anything and the money to be made by non profits is very good,and non profits want to this to keep going....
Yup 100%
Everyone should be a vocal opponent to “Vancouverism”. The type of “urban planning” Vancouver has been using for a couple decades now that favours the wealthy, that favours luxury developments, that cause displacement and property taxes to increase along with rental rate increases. Every single development going up is either a “luxury tower” or a so called “mixed use” building where the majority of units are strata condos that cost millions to own. Vancouverism favours strata and condo ownership as opposed to renting apartments because with condos it puts all responsibility on the owner of it not a landlord or whomever else, it also allows the city to avoid tax laws surrounding rentals.
What the heck are you rambling about? These people need to get off drugs and you are ranting about irrelevant stuff. "Strata condos"? "Vancouverism"? I mean, jeez.
Kota yang indah dan bagus aku kira tidak ada homeless sebanyak itu
Melihatnya sedih sekali
Semoga dengan waktu cepat ada perubahan menjadi kota yang bersih dari homeless
Congratulations. Send your kids there for bright future
Nice view 💯🌹
I'm heading to your city in 3 weeks to visit friends. I have lived in NYC, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Brighton, Las Palmas and Stockholm among other places and have seen a fair amount of poverty and homelessness, but I must confess to being humbled and really disturbed by this film. I'm sure there are many fantastic people in the DTES who are trying to keep a community spirit going, and I have read about attempts to fix this situation but I'm genuinely shocked that a country as wealthy and supposedly socially quite progressive as Canada can't improve the lots of the benighted people you see here. My heart goes out to those on the streets and also to those trying to make a difference. The opioid epidemic is a North American tragedy in particular, in the way that it's just shattered the social fabric.
mightcha be one of them drones who calls mere splash guards masks..?
who must've disinterred boffinhood..fuck..?
30 years ago, Lower Mainlanders there were tellingly comfortably n a s t y towards or about this tiny district in their midst, cursing away in what's come to have all along actually been Corporate-tongue..!
Try going to Kensington in Philadelphia in USA
Thanks for your nice words and understanding what they are. Each of them has different stories/backgrounds but ending up in the sane boat. We all wish that they can escape the hell gate and have decent lives like most of us.
Its really bad and it goes fast 😢
Omg, they were occupied the city, it's so sad to see this.
No religion, hope, faith, or anyone including: the worst of the worst-goverrnent will help you when you have succombed to this level of existence! SO sad.
Religion never fixed anything.
@matzrat5006 Absolute nonsense. When people turn their back on faith, which many in our time are doing, it leaves a void. You have to fill that void with something. So people fill it with drugs, alcoholism, hook-up culture, identity politics ect. These perverse activities have become their new "religion".
There are a bunch of videos like this. If you watch closely they are the same couple of blocks endlessly looped making the area look huge
Oallah nibake jare negri kaya raya rakyate akeh sng kleleran gk dwe o.ah..alhmdulillah cilik2 l punya....
God bless 🙏🙏🙏🙏😢
The American dream ???🤔
The Canadian nightmare!
This is future America and future Canada! 👏
Watching from Brampton, Ontario, Canada ❤❤❤❤❤
Watching from Lynnwood Washington U.S.A
What city has the better Ranking
Canadian govt must do something to solve this problem, This is heartbreaking watching humans like this 💔
They are trying hard to help , but there is no magic answer .
Youd think with all these people buying drugs daily, youd find the people who sell it illegally, perhaps supplier
Where are you
Palestine @@Inquisitor2024
How many people die every night because I should imagine there are quite a few but saying that half of them look dead anyway
I am 52 year male 'never married', living in a rented house (rent covered by mother's pension) unemployed for over 10 years, living on the fd interest (amount received by selling father's house)> I think I should also starts living on the streets as it will reduce the expense of rented house !!!
Vancouver shelters are crazily expensive.
very nice
You should go to Tenderloin San Francisco and Kensington Philadelphia.
Enough doing Kensington already.
🙏🙏🙏
Keep supporting democratic philosphy
And you get THIS change your thinking golks
Vancouver needs a new mayor and police chief.
Its time to end this.
Other provinces action is to give the a one way ticket to BC
the way Canada is heading they will need bigger streets to hold more Canadians who can't afford housing.
@@lingli314 no, they go on their own, free to party in BC
Вот это утопия свободы, до чего превратили людей .😢😢
This is a tiny fraction of society, the rest are enjoying the utopia.. you know like the ones who work and spend time with family and friends.
yea sure@@bid84
@@PredatorPeyami it’s literally less than 1% of the population living like this 🤷♂️
@bid84 china has bigger population and why they are not facing same problem like western?
@@privacyhelp Western? Very lazy to to label everyone “western” literally over 50 different countries and cultures. Maybe be more specific? If you mean the USA and Canada, you can blame Perdue for flooding the place with OxyContin. Also a lot of drugs are sourced in China and “eastern” countries
Eres.valiente.te mesclas bien.
I may recommend to look at short movies presenting Moscow streets how people live in the country under regime branded oppressive.
Солнечно и никто не нападает! По-моему всё хорошо :)
Sad to see all those lost soul`s :( thnx for the video
It is possible to mix with homeless women and learn the English language quickly and easily, but beware of infection
How the mighty have fallen
Regards from Africa 😘
I'd still rather be in the worst Canadian neighbourhood than the best hole in Africa.
Whatever the cause, whatever the reaons, this is appaling to me as someone watching from Sweden and working as a mental health counsellor/psychotherapist.
I’m wondering if the feds are giving out tent to the immigrants?
Life's all about choices
I agree!
Какое счастье,что я живу в РОССИИ
With such beautiful homeless women, any tourist man could be homeless with them
welcome to Expensive city Vancouver
Интересно, а вот когда весь этот город полностью займут наркоманы? Правительство что будет делать, а вообще что и кого спрашивать, если у бидона у самого сын наркоман и развратник. Песец америке приходит, так ей и надо, весь мир ей желает добра и такого процветания.
Dont blame the government. Its people who should have brought kids up with integrity and stamina to make something out of themselves. It is the same everywhere. Kids are given things and think that this will continue all their life.
This is appalling. Where is the Mayor and Premier? This is outrageous and completely unacceptable.
OPS opened a site in Yaletown a while back, since it opened, it has been attracted exactly what you see here in the Eastside to Yaletown - drug addicts loitering and using drugs outside, drug dealing, thefts and assaults, drug addicts collapsed on the sidewalks, drug addicts urinated and pooping on sidewalks and in alleys, etc. Yaletown however is a rich neighbourhood, an owner and a developer is suing the city for allowing it to happen there, the city has chosen not to renew OPS’s lease in the Yaletown location. It’s exactly what should be done in the Eastside. OPS has a dozen locations in the Eastside, one on every block plus additional tents with drug addict “staff” giving more drugs and tools to do them with to addicts on the sidewalks. OPS needs to be completely shut down, as does VANDU, another place that enables addicts.
Also, has anyone ever wondering why all the shelters and places to help homeless people are in the Eastside? It’s quite ridiculous isn’t it how a city the size of Vancouver chose to put all these locations in the Eastside?
It is a completely wrong strategy, OPS and injection sites are formed to SAVE hospital overwhelming. Health Care for these guys needs to be revised.
who does it better vancouver or kensington?
@@mio_pet who cares about the nicer buildings with zombies outside it
Looks like there's more zombies on Kensington Street area of Philadelphia. 4 o.d.'s a day on Kensington Street.
😢as drogas estão fazendo ó ser humano virar zumbis muito triste ver essa cena dê milhares dê jovens se entregando para as drogas 😢
Yea those who where first will be last .
Мне нравиться что вы делаете с своими городами.
.. .💞
Little Kensington
That's right
All the homeless in North America head west, simply because they can’t survive the cold winters of the east coast and plains.
West Coast climate is the KEY
Ужас, как такое допустили😮
The best anti drug ad
Just like parts of Australia
What parts? I’m from Sydney, I’ve never seen anything like this
Why isn't Canada doing something about their drug and homeless problem...
How about the churches with tax free temples do something, they have billions and only a few help. How about the people that are addicts help themselves also. The Govt is not your babysitter.
Good
Looks like most shops r closed,sad...
That used to be our downtown many years ago.
@matzrat5006 Yeah it's really outrageous,wonder if drugs could hav come fr border-crossings,just saying(assuming cos allegedly it used 2b somewhere u want 2b(my daughter went 2)NYC with her colleaguess abt:3yrs.ago;)*She had nothing but good things,she would say hey mom(these r the steps)they filmed such as a show*God bless u*
Trudeau should watch this video and realize that even the hard working person will end up here if Canada keeps going the way it is!!
Yes he came to Vancouver, walking just one block away from this site.
Heard loads of ppl retire in:Canada(wht happened)2them???!!!
Somebody is living in big mansion making their luxury through this drug trade
Every where in USA have homelessness
We are heading in the wrong direction
The city is crowded with a lot of homeless people
It’s like 10years ago. Nothings changed. OMG
It's worse than a decade ago, dude
@@ExploreVancouverCanada Its been like this for decades. years ago they were drinking aftershave made with rubbing alcohol and sniffing glue.
Looks dangerous even 2walk down the streets!!!Wht abt the children,yeh!
America😢😢😢😢
Kensington alike
The useless dregs of society.
When did this start happening? So sad.
When crack came to town.
It started when Trudeau legalised drugs.
It started in the 70s initially when institutions were de-institutionalized, but then it was alcoholics and looney people, in the 80s the city chose to evict around 1000 people, leading them to become homeless, in favour of tourism for Expo 86, them it worsened in the 90s when crack came to Vancouver, then in the early 2000s InSite opened provides "safe spaces" for addicts to do drugs, then in early 2010s, OPS opened handing out drugs and tools to do them and this is what happened. Now with fentanyl and xylazine on the streets it's even worse. And even worse with city councillors for the past 5-6 years that only favour luxury developments rather than affordable apartment complexes minimum wage people can live in and investing in mental health care. There is also a huge misunderstanding of how Portugal handled drug addiction. So much of what's been happening with decriminalization is based heavily on a misunderstanding of Portugal's plan.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689
@d.courteau3397 , thank you for your details.
Look like these people were receive a one way ticket to BC
lt used 2b beautiful/clean n scenic;)*
I have a cuestion where is this at in the estates or in Canada i live in Tijuana Mexico.?
Vancouver
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Gods Children. We are all Children of God. For the Love of God get these people off the streets. Close our Borders NOW
Lets not be jelaous on people who know to have fun and enjoy life
What a devolpmet cantree nice......
А где они берут наркотики если ни работы ни денег у них нет?
The government gives them a welfare check every month about $1000 for a single person. And then they steal things and sell them or rob people
They must be rich to support a $250.00 a day habbit. Rich zombies.
@@jimtalbott2894 they don't Support a $250 a day habit the drug these days are cheaper than s***
I always wonder how these people take care of their personal and bodily necessities.
Arrange scheme for buying home 1 room ownership house colony for people in poverty,provide them work,provide loan schemes by government run banks,this bad condition will definitely get overcome by arranging schemes
Someone somewhere is ways paying the price for the glittering building, half a million supercar, gold and diamond jewellery, 20k outfit ........ As one fine politician said in the UK ,sure if you are looking for work you can always get a job as a food delivery driver. Difficult when you have no transport. This Video would not been out of place in the 1800\1900s London, 1930s the world, 1970s the world,
1987 the world 2008, the world, 2019 the world, 2023 the world . NB: this is not a new thing. It is just now we have access to Social Media so it easier to see.
Wow some life yuk!!
The way to solve the homeless problem and to get the communities back to prosperity
Many Canadian communities have been affected by the homeless people with serious security, health, destructions of businesses and lost investments values problems. As the taxpayers and equal rights citizens their lives and properties have been destroyed by the each level governments not being helpful.
These communities need looking for legal solutions to have their class action lawsuits against the each level governments, for their lives and properties damages.
It will cost an arm and a leg to sue the government. Should ask your lawyers.
The way to stop homeless problem is for leftists to stop promoting and demanding free for all drugs
Homeless is by choice for these people.
Oh my ghost, life really hard
Canada is another Los Angeles!!! So sad....
His is real which state
Disappointed what Canada’s become. Truthfully east Hastings was real bad 30 years ago but this is beyond horrible.
there was not many 30 yrs ago
@@ExploreVancouverCanada They were around, they hung out in the alleys . now they are in plain site. If you go to Vancouver then, they have pictures of the bums hanging in the alleys back in the 30's.
The way to help the homeless people
Canadian people every year welcomed thousand refugees from abroad, and supported them with generous resources to settle down their lives in Canada. There’s no doubt Canadian would do same things to the homeless people in our society, but the same things are not needed by our homeless people.
As most us know, most our homeless people with mental illnesses and hard bad addictions. They are not capable to make right choices for themselves. But it’s not safe and right for making choices for our homeless people even with our good intentions. As in the past happened so many governments and metal health institutions abused their power over the venerable people.
The key is the whole country specially the federal government should determined with provincial and municipal governments and many social groups to solve the problems together. To provide the nice, attractive, safe environment places for the homeless people. It would cost more than supporting the refugees and without returning, the refugees after settling would pay back as tax payers. But it would cost much less than mental health institutions, prisons and the damages they cost to the communities. And providing better environment for the people, businesses and communities where the homeless people live now. Most importantly it is our responsibility for the homeless people and the communities where they live.
Thank you for your beautiful words and hoping all levels of government will work together coming up with the good strategy.
People are walking on the streets like Cyberpunk's night city. Only cyber implants are missing.
Why am I seeing so many homelessness videos when I looked up Vancouver like wtf