True, but not all homeless people are druggies. A few years back, after my landlord raised my rent, I became homeless. While working two jobs I lived in my car for several months. I've never done drugs in my entire life. I've never even had a beer, let alone a drop of any other type of alcohol. The homeless situation exploded when landlords became extra greedy and raised the rent on those who couldn't afford to pay more. While the cost of living has increased, salaries have stagnated. If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone. Today's homeless consist of families, people who have jobs (sometimes more than one job), those like me who had their rent increased ... and such. Since our government doesn't care its' up to all of us to be kinder and more understanding. While I'm no longer homeless, I will never forget the way that people treated me during that time .... as if I was a leper or something. Shameful !!!!!!!
After watching this…I feel so blessed to have a small home and not a lot of money but enough that I don’t have to live on the street. This video shows how blessed so many of us are.
@@mothertruckersparadise3260 Most of us have privilege's that were not aware. One of those privilege's is not being mentally ill as many of those people on skid row are.
@@mothertruckersparadise3260 I'm not talking about hard work and determination being a privilege, I'm talking about not being mentally ill. I think you didn't understand that.
When I see this it makes me so grateful that I have the basics in life. A roof over my head and food to eat. And somewhere to shower and use the toilet. Praise God.
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Watching videos like these makes me straighten up, and get motivated to keep working and keep staying in college. I sometimes get really down and hopeless but these video sbring me back. TY
Well said . I wished i had the opporunity to finish up school and get high degrees .I was living in third world country at the time and I did not have the financial means to do that . In fact, i went thru extreme hardships . Now i am in 47 year old and I truly believe in getting great education but i have responsability so I work but i cant finish what i started because its simply expensive to go to a college here in usa and i got no time for that either. You defenitely dont wanna end up like these people . Remember that doing drugs also can get you in situation like this even if you are highly educated .
Remember that you are a complex, biologically evolved animal. And just like any other creature, FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. Always, ... then work to make "yourself" comfortable. But NEVER QUIT. No matter what. I've experienced much of what you might seek and I can tell you, at 58 years old, the "struggle" for life never ends. Keep living and keep struggling and survive.
I lost everything in a time of a market crash and a mental breakdown. It's funny how fast friends "step back". I just minded my own business and depended on the kindness of strangers. It took me years to "get back on my feet". I've always worked in banking/mortgage and have owned by own businesses and now a legal assistant. I couldn't go to a shelter because I had a dog. She probably saved my life. But I can see how some people could not do what I "happened to do". I don't claim to be strong. I had angels help me and to this day. People that were strangers that came into my life in the last 6 years and treat me like family. NOT everyone is as lucky as me. I am so ever grateful . People NEED to see the videos you post.
Seems you missed out on true friendships, that's sad. If something happened to me, I would have a list of several hundred people I could rely on for giving me a job or just some quick cash or shelter as needed. After immediate family, the top tier of 10 friends or so would likely be all I need because they are true friends who would never allow me to spiral in to nothing.
This picture of a young lady slumped over, the law should be made to pick her up and get her help. Imagine if ones daughter was out there slumped over. What a world we live in.
He’s only showing the downtown area. This stretches to parks (echo park), river beds, bridge underpasses, the space between freeways and homes, between offramp and offramp in EVERY community in Los Angeles County and neighboring counties.
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Not everyone who is homeless is in a mental or physical state which will allow for intervention/ help... these are rough times, and the game has changed in ways that there's no return from. You are doing us a great service by posting this clip, thank you.
Yea so why are they here I wonder? We have tons of jobs, but that those take getting up every morning and having enough self respect not to end up like this.
@@vietnamvet4533 You're assuming that everyone has the capacity to hold down a job? Pay their bills, take care of themselves? You answered your own question. That's not the case with these guys.
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I was on the streets for a long time. Finally got a rotting farm house with shit all over the walls and floors to live in while I tended to animals, saved money, moved to an apartment, moved again, bought a car, found a wife, , , you can do it too. I work 18hrs a day to maintain right now. I study programming whenever I can. Hopefully that study will help me lessen some hours and work a better job than the factory and hotel i am pairing together.
Well done, bro. That's a great achievement. If you're stuck down a very deep hole with no ladder or no rope, it's very hard to get yourself out. That's where I am right now but your post gives me inspiration.
@Awhoo Thunder Well now he has dignity, regular food and a roof over his head. You think homeless people are free? They're manacled to the streets, relying on handouts and the pittance the government gives them.
I left LA making $15 an hour living out of my car. I moved somewhere with a better economy and better cost of living. I have a 3 bedroom house now. LA is for the rich only. It is an unforgiving wasteland for anyone else.
Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on. End farm subsidies. End tax breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops. End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs. People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18. For those who and whos parents cant afford it, chairty (where the donar gets a full non refundable tax credit that carrys over for an unlimited number of years) and or the about 180,000dollars spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
The lack of low income/affordable housing out there is terrible. Its an easy fix they blaintenly choose not to do. When i moved to florida, i found subsidized housing within about 3 months and was able to build my life back from there.
Why? Do you really believe that giving these people money would help them? This looks more like a consequence of closing nearly all psychiatric asylums. It's as bad as downtown Vancouver, and that's saying something.
@@freddexta3363 you don't have to give them the money directly. They have the resources to employ smart people who understand these issues. Let them create the best solutions and than finance those solution and see what happens. Some of these billionaires have to step up and face this issue with zero need to profit. The problem is getting bigger and bigger. It has an impact on the entire society
@@full6330name Looks like the majority of these people are so damaged by years of using illegal and legal drugs that they are not either mentally or physically able to hold down a steady job anymore. And some were probably mentally not competent to look after themselves before they got on the streets. I'm the furthest thing from being an expert on street life, but what else do you do besides just warehousing them someplace away from residential areas? It sounds like just about everything else has been tried and found wanting. All well and good to talk about smart people and financing solutions, but the options seem very limited for rehabilitating most of these people and restoring them to a normal, disciplined, productive worklife.
@@ryansymons8915 And that looks terrible, I agree. The thing is, their problems are on the inside and giving them more goods or cash will not make any difference in the long term. I 'm not one of the billionaires of this world so the idea that you should tax them more so there is more to give to the drug addicted streetperson doesn't cost me anything, but I disagree with it as a long term strategy, because it doesn't fix the man or woman who doesn't want to be fixed or who is not fixable, humanly speaking.
It’s nice to see people from outside of the USA filming these areas. A lot of my foreign friends believe all Americans have nice houses and cars. I have to show them videos like this to give them a real perspective.
as a european i thought that in the 90's...but the last 5-6 years especially, changed drastically. In my country we have free healthcare, pensioners get their medicine for free, women get 1 year paid maternity leave and their job back, if she has twins, she gets 2 years paid, everyone inherits a home from their family so we have no homeless people, no petty crime (like in london where they rob tourists blind on the street) - the crime we have is organized crime (and u know how that goes) I've seen unfortunately many people denying help by emergency services because of the cost of healthcare, if they have no insurance. It's quite a different picture than say, 20 years ago.
Yeah and the first thing people want to do is blame politics but in reality, it's us as a society that has failed them. We want our houses to increase in value year after year (well I would if I owned one haha) but that comes at an expense. Homeless is the reality we get when something that should be a consumable (housing) becomes a wealth-building asset. This actually was not the case when our parents were growing up. Housing costs used to be fairly stable and relative to income.
Notice how this "pandemic" hasn't eradicated this population group. Also, the overcrowded prisons, and the hundreds of millions living in extreme poverty worldwide should have been eradicated months ago by a virus that's supposed to be as contagious and deadly as the propaganda claims. 🤔 We're being lied to (again).
You're showing us what our leaders refuse to show us. They don't want the world to see this because it's a negative reflection of their leadership. Truth hurts
I’ve been to skid row once, very sad and dangerous. They had an issue of homelessness in my town but they cleaned it up. More than 80% were drug users and turned down assistance that was offered. You have to be clean from substance abuse to live in most shelters. Long term drug use can cause mental disorders that can’t be reversed. There should be better programs to help those in need. It’s a very sad reality of life. Great job on this video!
Chris Harris; I didn’t live there, I just visited the location. I know about how the system works, I have had two family members and an ex who had addiction issues and two lived on the streets. It’s a very hard life to live.
@@amberm3193 A relative of mine here in London was homeless for a quite a long while (drugs and alcohol). He managed to live in a very quiet very well hidden wooded area near a railway line accessed via a dreadfully dilapidated old tunnel. I visited him once with some food and other supplies. Remarkably comfortable place. All very dry with lots of awnings and even a double bed (don't ask me how he got that there!) He had to move on eventually because the railway authorities began to notice the smoke from his little firepit. He was very happy there. However I don't think I could ever recommend such a lifestyle for a second, regardless of awnings or double bed!
@@keyboarddancers7751 that's very sad. I hope they eventually turned there life around. I'm in the us not sure how thanks work in London. Hope you have a good day!
I visited LA in 2010 and the homeless back then was nothing like ive seen in this videos 10 years later. I shudder to think what it will look like in 2030.
Yes, me too... I can only urge the homeless, abandoned American men to leave the country. Most homeless men work. It only took me a few thousand dollars to emigrate to a country with better job opportunities. I haven't spent a single night outdoors since... People feel hopeless, and think they're stuck. The fact is, it's the American people who wanted it this way. The working men owe their abusers nothing. It's much easier to be successful when you're in a better environment.
But you keep voting Democrat right? The Democrats that run the state of California to get $750 million a year from the federal government just for LA County and it’s atrocious they make it where you can live there not even be legal in this country be a felon from another country and they don’t care and that’s why the jokes on the people of Los Angeles you keep voting in these idiots and your quality of life keeps going down down down down down that’s what you deserve for voting in the same people
@@richardharris6058 I have been to all 50 states. They ALL have low quality of life, nowhere near enough jobs, they're all overpriced and none of them are really livable for a working man. You guys really need to stop whining about 'liberal cities' and grow up, and get your house in order. You can start by going down to the local Walmart parking lot. Plenty of honest, hard working men are sleeping there tonight... Why not pay grown men a man's wage, rather than the teenager wages which have caused the homeless situation, and actually forced some of your country's best men to move to better countries where they actually have decent jobs, affordable housing and honest women... It's not the liberals or the conservatives, it's you - the American people did this to themselves. Be a man and help your own people get out of the nightmare you ALL chose to create.
You are beautiful, no one knows how bad it is until someone records the problem, and is brave enough to do it like yourself, I commend you for this!! Thank you!! 😸
@@snowchips9596 yeah, people don’t actually visit downtown L.A. unless they are going to the Staples Center, other than that, it’s a mess. Traffic is terrible and lots of one way streets, too.
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These people are fellow humans. To those of us in the US, these are our countrymen and women. Painful to watch. Thank you German in Venice for sharing this story with the world. May God bless you and those who you work to help.
I am in my 60s so I'm getting to an age where I have seen a lot in society and its changes since my childhood. When I was a girl, I didn't see this in cities. They were not called "homeless" then, they were called hobos. They stayed out of the city pretty much. You would see a few sitting here and there on sidewalks with a can for donations. It always made me cry as a kid. By the early 90s, I started noticing them increasing in our downtown area. I realize now that society was starting to see the repurcussions of NAFTA and our industry moving to foreign countries. Not everyone is eligible for college but 50 yrs ago, we had thousands of factories across the nation where our less educated and the rural populations were employed. We are now left as a nation with very little industry and most lower paying jobs that require just a HS diploma are service and retail related. Quite frankly, with these jobs being with the public, they want people who are clean and present well, which excludes this segment of society. Mental illness is another gigantic problem and states used to maintain state . psychiatric hospitals where the general public who had no insurance could be treated. All of those were emptied and closed in the 1980s. It is a shameful thing in America now that our politicians seem to be more concerned about people who are here illegally than Americans who are in trouble. It is not only our homeless. I routinely see parents begging on Facebook for money for their sick child. They have insurance but the hospital wants $20K up front to perform surgery/treatment. Why are we not discussing these things? Thank you for this video...showing people the truth of what is happening.
Yes, state mental hospitals were closed by Republican Ronald Reagan when he was governor. The police use to have them looked at Social Services then they would transport them to the mental hospital in LA and Santa Barbara. I am sure it was not all that great but they got treatment, food and a cot. Kept the streets clean. I propose a homeless city in the Mojave desert. It would be a walled in complex and they can have their own small house and get all their needs met in a one stop shop. All the cities could contribute and it would clean them all out of the downtown's, Cheaper then throwing random services at them,
Fumble Bunny Sad but true . President Regan '. He new what he was creating ? Now tax could have Drop a little When He shut down the Millions of Dollars Tax payers paid Yearly To keep over 1000s of State Hospitals Running? Funny How it Got ten times worse REGAN ?
And you keep voting Democrat correct? The local government gets $750 million a year for Los Angeles county homeless and they’ve done nothing but increase the amount of homeless by having sanctuary cities. You can run across the border and live in Los Angeles without going to jail. that brings in thousands and thousands of people that cannot afford Los Angeles!! Los Angeles cannot afford them!!! you have full jails letting rapist out!!! you have airborne disease where the city is now being sued by the police !! yet you still reelect all the same people that take this federal money and screw your city
@@richardharris6058 Many of the homeless are American born. Not saying there are not people from south of the border that are homeless. But LA is too expensive for even most Americans...
@@spursnation5422 Yup, and they take in the AMERICAN men who became homeless as a direct result of the Republican decisions to maximize profit by sending the good jobs away. The California streets are awash with insane people who should be in asylums, but the Republican administration decided to save a few bucks and turn the crazies loose. None of the American states have enough good jobs, so why would someone stay in Nebraska and freeze? They're going to be homeless anyway because of the low wages. Not to mention the VETERANS who a Republican administration used for profit and completely abandoned...
Y’all don’t realize Los Angeles isn’t what you think it is. There’s homeless people everywhere and trash everywhere. We can’t afford it here when we grew up here it’s sad
@@buckberthod5007 the idiots outweigh people with a sound state of mind unfortunately. Some real whackos out there that just keep on voting for awfulness
Thank you for filming this because of the diverse circulation that you have for your videos. The number of viewers who comment on this as if they are seeing this for the first time...sigh, well now you know. And it's not just LA, it's on most large American urban areas.
Hey know they get help n food so they stay there..they need a nice farm to live and work on ...possible marijuana farm keep the workers get the rest on ssi ship em on
@@ReadEphesians612 targeted? Care to elaborate a bit more ? Never mind I got a quick gist of it.. crazy stuff to imagine things like that happen but I have heard of similar things as well,, Im very open minded and believe things like that are happening
As a old war veteran this is heartbreaking. Never dreamed I’d live to see my country the shape that it’s in today. I worry about the future of my children and my grandchildren which I have 15. God help us
people need to help their own, God isnt coming to rescue anyone... the elite planned all this, their covid scam is their ultimate objective/agenda that will lead to much much worse.
In the late 70's. as a little teenager, my Dad made me go down and help feed the homeless with the Skid Row Mission CHURCH IN THE HOME. I will never forget the experience as I did it year after year. I was more than happy to do it.
My dad took my family to skid row on vacation just to show why you shouldn’t get into drugs, that stuff hurts man, always be grateful of what you have.
That's a pretty narrow-minded perception of how people ended up on Skid Row. Sure, there are many that battle drug and alcohol abuse, but a lot of them have serious mental health issues. Some lives were destroyed by the market crash in '08. Others may have just not learned how to manage their finances properly. There are definitely a few who have just been given the worst hand and could not find a way to prevent them from getting onto the streets, some of whom I've had the pleasure to get to know.
I was a heroin addict and never ended up on skid row. I lived in my car in San Diego and lived in LA after. I'm glad you experienced something positive from an experience from your childhood, but most people don't choose hard drugs. Typically, from my experience, it's intense trauma.
Subscribed buddy. It’s all I can do to help. Very enlightening clip, and a thousand thank you’s for highlighting this lesser known side of the city. Brisbane - Australia 🇦🇺
Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on. End farm subsidies. End tax breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops. End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs. People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18. For those who and whos parents cant afford it, chairty (where the donar gets a full non refundable tax credit that carrys over for an unlimited number of years) and or the about 180,000dollars spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
@@bvegannow1936 Might be a good idea if they gave inner city kids a good education so they could learn something and get a good job. The schools are sh.. Just look at the schools in Irvine they are great. When the politicians stop stealing LA’s taxes and put it into schools then we might see some change.
@@gr8macaw1 more money into schools rewards the bad behavior just produces more crappy schools and more crappy education. The education system needs to be reformed, it doesnt need more money, it needs to be made more efficent and actually teach useful info that is tailored to the individuals needs for the job they want. Not just teach them one size fits all useless education they forget after the test and will never use. Individuals should get vouchers for private job training. I think that would be a step in the right direction. Tax funded education should focus on individualized job training, not retarded one size fits all info that less than 1% of the students taught it would ever potentially use.
@@bvegannow1936 education can be done online, efficiently 1 site nationwide, k through doctorate degrees. We are wasting 99.9% of our efforts, all for an authoritarian system, designed only for the few at the top. The money & resources are there, and in abundance, to fix EVERY trouble. To solve the homeless issue, simply take some greenhouse plastic, a few clones & cannabis seeds to the river bank. The poor grow much better weed than the wealthy & consumers know it. The black market could not compete either. United Way & 211 are not helping the homeless, but they pretend only to stop anyone else from helping. The wealthy depend on the homeless to keep wages low & prices high. Even this language & all verbal or written languages contribute to the trouble. We are spirits, born with a far, FAR superior language, which is non-verbal. Each & every time a human speaks, their thoughts are broadcast & no longer just inside. I do not speak out of faith, or belief, as I simply remember. I KNOW.
@@jamescarrington5130 there are a lot of things that can be done online and should be done a lot. Would save a shit ton of money, time and is a lot more convenient
right the Demonocrat states are fuked up people are so blind it's like look what the fuk is going on there trying to turn us into 3rd world country and it's fuked up
Thank you for making this. You have a good heart. I live in Sam Diego where the homeless problem just keeps getting worse and worse. It’s mind blowing to see.
@@coolvania My frat brother just died on the street in SD on Father's Day. He had a degree in Hotel Mgmt. I could have gotten him a good job with my brother in Las Vegas, but he wanted to stay in SD . Go figure...
California is an enormous state and an even bigger economy. I live in a rural, federally protected ecological reserve. "California is DONE..." as you say... What a ridiculous statement.
@@oldnikix Hello????? LA County goes back on lockdown Monday. Millions are unemployed, thousands are homeless and priced out, due to Covid 19. Why are people leaving in DROVES if California is such a "bustling economy"? Los Angeles is a trashy, smelly, 3rd world looking city, including San Francisco!!! I left after 33 years in 2017, and know what I'm talking about. You sound goofy. 🤪
Anonymous Girl Your experential account lies in the worst county in the state. Way to make a lumpy assertion. How am I goofy? I'm logical. There is actually hope for California. Did you know San Diego county used to be a Sanctuary City? With diligence, the policy and practice was overturned. Lunacy does not spread as long as the populace remains spiritually sound.
Most are addicted. Drugs are the main problem, I know I was in that situation myself once and got out of it with sobriety. As long as they are using Nothing will change.
@@samryon3615 yea people don't like to hear the truth, they want to blame someone eles for their situation. My situation was 100% my fault. I do feel bad for them its rough out there. But they could get out if they really wanted.
@@otisdriftwood8469 thank you Chris. Altho i have been off the streets for years now, i have stayed in touched with 'my people'. At the end of my homelessness i met a nice guy, we were together for the last year on the streets. When i got off the streets he had an option to clean up and come with me(his thing was crack). He didnt want to back then. The sad part is we remained friends this entire time, and hia choice is still crack and the streets. I wanna give an example of why i think the way i do. My friend is a good man, when we were together on the streets, he would go to work everyday, on friday he would get off of work, we would go to laundrymat to do laundry, the grocery store to get food for the week(we were in tent city and had a coleman stove to cook on, a shower bag to use for bathing,ect), soap, shampoo,conditioner, a bag of dog food for Ginger, couple cartons of smokes. He would buy me 1/2 gallon of vodka and then he would smoke the rest up. To this day that is how he chooses to live. Me? I woke up today, thanked God for my apartment, made a gratitude list(running water, push the coffee pot button) read the 24 hr a day book. I am not a mean person, but if i dont stay honest i will end up drinkin again. Being homeless sucked, i dont ever want to do it again. I got beaten and worse out there. We(ginger and i) have an awesome life today, not being corny but it truly is a life beyond my wildest dreams. I appreciate you speaking the truth on this because i do watch these homeless stories and i try to share my experience, strength and hope so that maybe even just 1 person will see that no matter howbad things are, if they sober up..a wonderful life can be had. Many problems in our society today are a result of people not taking responsibikity for their own actions,i dont choose to play the blame game. I am glad u got out of your situation too! God bless you!
@@samryon3615 thats awsome to hear, its been almost 20 years for me now and I have a amazing life but I never forget where I was. Stay sober and it only gets better! It absolutely can be done if the person truly wants it, we are proof of that. People that have never been in that situation simply do not understand the problem.
Your a 100% correct. This is not some kind of wound that will heal with time, You need law enforcement to get rid of the drug dealers and then send in the social workers to help these lost souls.
So true. Instead of buying a third Porsche, how about slumming it with two and spending the $ on housing people? They would even get tax credits for it.. you'd think it would be a no brainer. But maybe they don't really care at all. 🤔
It's more than money, thy need help to live well and take care of themselves. There are plenty of shelters to help, usually, but the people have to take advantage of it. But this is all the Devil's system, man can't fix the problems. They're getting worse in every way.
@@robertwilliams2720 Yeah, well- they aren't the problem. Most of those people are giving away their money, though some of it is very misguided in my opinion. And honestly, I don't understand how people want to legalize drugs when you see addiction ravage through so many people's lives. Sure let's make it cheaper and easier to get- nothing bad will happen, right? And I'm not talking about weed. But alcohol and opiates are definitely on the top of my eradication list.
@@mcdingus5081 make it cheaper because more people get hooked and more people depend on the government. They making more zombies with no voice to speak out.
@@electrochemical.army. Agree! I lived in Boston 2012-2014 and I didn’t see what I saw in DC. In the end of 2021 I will graduate majoring Criminal justice and law enforcement from Pennsylvania!
German, you've 'touched my soul' with your videos . . . especially this one. Was once homeless, myself . . . some 7+ years ago. My self created phrase, concerning this societal MIASMA - 'We're all a few paychecks, from being homeless' ! 😬 🇺🇸
You are so right ... unbelievable all the self righteous people that think it could never happen to them, that only druggies are homeless & that they deserve it - I’d rather be homeless myself than a hard heart like that. & it wud sure be even harder to deal with all that horror sober !
I think you are doing a great job making people aware of the homeless and their living conditions. The more people who know, the better the chances for a solution. Thank you for the tour!
The only ones who really care are those living outside of the USA, most of who can't believe their eyes because outside of the poorest countries in parts of Africa or Asia or Sth. America these scenes won't be found in developed, civilised, genuine first world countries. And none of them can force either the USA government or it's people to actually do something to help. Because they would mean spending some money and actually helping your fellow countryfolk. Suggest that to many in the USA and you are met with horror and comments like ''why should I pay for someone else to get medical treatment'' ''welfare queens, they don't deserve anything'' ''it's their own fault, they're lazy/addicts/useless, nothing to do with me'' and similar sentiments (and lots of them to my disgust). So other than watching and realising that the USA is in a far worse state than we could possibly have realised there is nothing to be done unless both the government, the super wealthy who actually have most of the money and the citizens themselves get off their backsides and do something, force things to change, ensure there is help - especially medical or financial if you are unlucky enough to either lose your job or become bankrupt after being ill - to help people before they sink this low and get into drugs simply to dull the reality of the horrific life they now face then this will continue and get worse and worse. Your (as in ALL living in the USA) choices, and you have to live with the results of your choices.
the majority of these homeless people are not even from california, they move to this state because it pays the most in welfare. Many are drug addicts who choose to live this way.
A pretty sorry state of affairs. When we lived in L.A., my wife and I used to visit the new public library, which would have been around 1994 or 1995. We didn't see tents. The solution, however, would not be to flood them with money. Give them $5k a month, and they'd find ways to waste it.
The DOWNTOWN Central Library is filled with Homeless people. Many use the restrooms to bathe in. And they go table to table to steal from you . The Security officers in the Library have to kick out many Homeless people all day long. I once walked into a restroom to see a man naked . Washing himself. One time a Homeless man put a " out of order sign " on the women's restroom. So , he could wash himself in it. Luckily the Security guards found out. The smell of the Library is horrible .
I was homeless for a period of time. My situation was purely down to drug addiction though, I didn't really have a mental health condition to go along with it like I'm sure most of these people do. Therefore once I kicked my addiction I got out of that life. The thing is most of these people dont want help. Or if you do try to help they will end up right back on skid row again. Mental health treatment is the best way to help these people.
I was hesitant to say something but you've hit the nail right on the head. People that WANT to get out can! They have to try and really want to get out of skid row. You had the gumption and succeeded. LA and Calif can pour tons of money into homelessness but until the population really wants to get out.... they are all screwed!
Very true bro a lot don’t want to be helped..I helped a childhood friend by giving him a job at my burger shop and a place to live he ended up robbing me !!!! 😱😱
I watch these videos and reminds me of how good my life is despite whatever problems i have. Im humbled and thankful for what i have. I go to work and try to live a good life. Im not perfect or rich but im happy
Ha.. I think Black people in particular are pretty use to America's ghettos that it has created. But when we wanted the world to know most people respond with Apathy.
I don't live in downtown L.A.... or even in California for that matter, and it doesn't look like this... I just love how you're an idiot who doesn't know how large this country is... and how it's different wherever you go, I already know how much of a shithole Los Angeles is lol.
TRUE American PATRIOTS did not cause this disgusting issue...RICH ELITES WHO SELL OUT TO CCP caused all this horrific BS thru RIGGED ELECTIONS! CALIFORNIANS DO NOT WANT PEOPLE LIKE NEWSOM, PELOSI, SCHIFF, KAMALA in charge...but they have been cheating for decades to bring CALIFORNIANS to their knees and then use AUTHORITARIAN POWER OVER THEM once they took 2/3 SUPER majority of the state that is predominantly CONSERVATIVE! CALIFORNIANS ARE TRYING TO RECALL NEWSOM but they just change laws every day to fit their needs as they own the JUDICIARY AS WELL! This is the model they are trying to creat for the entire country now...which is a SOCIALIST AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP model! #fightbackUSA 🙏🏾🇺🇸🙏🏾
@Ellie5621There is junk in germanys back yard, but not in this dimension. You won't see any of these "tent avenues". There are no trailer parks in the suburbs.
Just came back home to Los Angeles after four years. It was bad when I left but holy hell this city is going to hell now. It’s so bad. Wtf is going on since I left
@@RandomRUclips123 they are. Unfortunately a lot of these non-profits exploit the homeless to get donations. You can look up a good portion of the financials to many non-profits and look at the salaries, advertising costs, overhead costs etc.
Helping the homeless must not be profitable. Pretending to help is evidently VERY profitable. Over 20 years homeless for this disabled veteran, so I am as much an expert as anyone you would choose to meet.
L.A.'s section of Skid Row has a large enough population to have its own "mayor", city hall, police department, fire department, post office, and hospital.
Skid Row is just a previously designated area of homelessness. This condition has spread all across LA and the SFV. Problem covers an area larger than many cities.
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But in a state like California it is barely a dot on a map. Now not to say this is not a serious problem but it is just an area downtown where they are allowing mentally ill people live in boxes under tarps in the streets rather then chase them off or hide them in the woods like other cities and counties do. One solution would be to get them into homes and some kind of care but where.. and who is going to pay? It would probably cost less then what it is now but we have really lousy people in charge both democrat and republican. The mentally ill on this skid row don't vote. Non partisan issue.
while their elected leaders are wining & dining at 5 star venues. In the 90's Venice was the place to be during the day (gangs came out at night) - all the housing was mall but quaint, a walk to the beach - a charming and fun place where the vendors & businesses were thriving. It's heartbreaking and pisses me off.
SAN DIEGO is becoming like this too....i left there to be in my small trailer. i was homless in san diego for a year with my family- i even had 2 +jobs still couldnt make it....im so grateful for you to point out that we need to help out eachother
I live in the "homeless" part of my city and over the years, this downtown area just died. It use to be full of stores and hustle and bustle, but when the homeless shelters opened that attracted the homeless population, one by one almost all the businesses moved or closed for good. Sad but when homeless move in, business owners move out.
@@knightstrykemare Yes, I know. In fact, the whole city started having those "soup kitchens" and free food and clothing giveaways to the public and then we got a drug and alcohol rehab facility and the city has gone down the drain (I think). All this has attracted bad people who won't get a job and there is a "squatter" problem with the empty houses. Last time it was a nice place to live was 25 years ago. Not now.
@@FiveElements00 there has to be a solution because those conditions are in humane. By their choice or not and whatever the circumstance that placed them there, a solution has to be there that is a win for everyone. There just has to be. Thanks for sharing.
@@knightstrykemare Unfortunately, I just think that when you have a rehab facility and many soup kitchens giving free food and clothes away, it attracts a high number of people who are lazy. Many people who were rich and worked moved away long time ago. I have always worked and it is upsetting to me when I see the squatters living for free in houses they did not work for and buy. They are thieves. I know some people are down on their luck, but I think a lot of them are just lazy and freeloaders. Some homeless were camped under the bridge and the police forced them to leave. That was a good thing because I knew a woman who lived right there and she was too scared to go outside her house with all those homeless men camped a few steps away from her.
@@FiveElements00 it is a catch 22. I agree, but when it is in front of you, how can you watch someone starve. Very tough situation there and to it to grow like this for decades is a failure. Where is the media on this issue. Why don't they open the countries eyes on this travesty. It is good to video and portray this since Big media doesn't. Thanks for the insight.
As a cycle tourist, I cycled from downtown LA to the Hollywood sign to get my cheesy pic. Great ride through the hills. The next day I cycled around downtown including skid row. One of the most depressing places I’ve ever been. It put me in a bad mood for a few days. Sad place.
Newsome spent all that money keeping them homeless. Enabling failure, ... It would be better spent building mental health asylum for the disturbed ill, recovery residence for addicted, prison for the criminals, and clean residential living with public works jobs for the able.
Your right. Problem is it’s harder for them to help these people the right way. It’s easier to just keep giving them “free” shit and act like it’s helping. Nobody is more deceitful, and fake then the lefty democrats
I've been homeless in the past. It was the worst part of my life ever! People take the most basic commodities for granted. A toilet, shower, soap, toothpaste and toothbrush. My heart goes out to all still living under those conditions♥
Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on. End farm subsidies. End tax breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops. End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs. People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18. For those who and whos parents cant afford it, chairty (where the donar gets a full non refundable tax credit that carrys over for an unlimited number of years) and or the about 180,000dollars spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
@@bvegannow1936 Where I live, people build shelters on unused land - even on the beach, away from town. Nobody harasses them. They stay safe with their families, do what work they can, and they have a relatively high quality of life. Compare that to AmeriKKKa, where people force their own to sleep in the streets and get constantly abused by cops and junkies. The American people are pathetic. They have had every opportunity to work together and do the right thing. Now it's too late.
@@BennieTarrMusic where do u live. I live in america and i wish that people were able to use some land to live on, have a house on, and grow enuf food to live on, free tax free, but instead many can not afford this. Id also like to see more job training and jobs for those able to work.
@@bvegannow1936 Come to Asia. Asia is the future. I've been to all 50 states and even lived in Alaska for a while (they have a huge homeless population there too, mostly Native Americans. The homesteading was stopped long ago. They leave people in the streets.). I've lived in Laos, Israel, Poland and Thailand. Thailand has the best combination of a growing economy with loads of opportunities + realistic cost of living and simple farmers / fishermen. They build shacks on unused land and even have electricity and wifi... The police don't target them like the American cops do. It's a more civilized country.
I live in Los Angeles and a lot of people down here don’t want help so we can’t force them off the street if they don’t want help. My wife is a social worker and works skid row and they are always on the street reaching out. There is shelters and food access here but most (not all) choose to stay on street. California is always gonna have more homeless then all other states not just because it’s expensive, but it’s much easier living on the street when it’s 80 degrees in January as opposed to 20 degrees. The state will help you if you truly want the help, but you have to want the help.
You talk sense, and sense is sadly lacking in many Californians thinking lately. So many of them spend most of their time running scared from COVID instead of acting like human beings. Meanwhile, civilization just falls apart around them, and they don't even care :--(
I think the place to help the homeless is to protect people from becoming homeless in the first place. If companies aren't able to or willing to pay their workers enough to live and be comfortable, then the homeless population will continue to grow
@@westypoprocks772 California is a expensive state cause every one wants to live here. Minimum wage should be 20 bucks a hour or all housing needs to be rent control to fix the problem, but neither of those things are not gonna happen. But people who can’t afford to live in this state need to start looking elsewhere to live. America is a big beautiful country with lots of space.
I lived on edge of skidrow for 12yrs, 13yrs ago, Madison hotel, 423 E 7th St. I used buses to get to guard job posts. Sometimes when out of a post I needed walk thru actual bad parts of skidrow for necessities. I retired in Northern California, Oroville 2011 initially on ssdi, now I'm 74. Made it out although never any drugs or alcohol. Only had occasional problems with bad people.
when newsom said he spent 100 million dollars on the homeless he really meant he put 99 million dollars in his pocket and spent 1 million on advertising and spreading lies about him helping the homeless...
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$500 million approved last week as covid aid to businesses in CA. Nothing at all for the homeless. Eviction moratorium is the crumb for the remainder of the population. Again, nothing for the homeless.
I have seen Skid Row when I was living there.. Was no where near as bad.. Last I heard,. It was 60 square blocks.. There is deplorable🥺 We can spend billions on death an destruction but can not help our own. It is also getting worse here in Phoenix. Despite the fact that I am fighting to not be homeless again, I try to help out 🥺
Thanks for showing us about the reality. I innocently thought LA is a prestigious city like what the media always shows us. Although I'm coming from a developing country, the homeless problem here isn't as rampant as what has been shown in the video.
Thank you for this. I lived in a skid row housing complex on 5th a Main for the last 5 years I lived in L.A. with rent help ...but my rent was still $600 a month. It was intended to help local artists. The building was dangerous and the constant sirens and stress of skid row being a block away caused me to leave the city I love. This video only scratches the surface of how dangerous and stressful this area is and the fact that city officials act like they can't do anything about any of it other then raise millions for their own pet projects shows the disconnect between the people and the government. This problem could be solved, but the powerful are to busy eating brunch in Brentwood and sitting poolside in Woodland hills to ever do anything about it. DTLA is a warzone.
... and honestly brother all the politicians aside , how you going to help these people ? Some of them are mentally i'll and belong to mental institution permanently . Now they collecting welfare checks and spill bad genetics in to society . Others are drug addicts . If they need help they should get help and if they don't - they on their own and most likely will end up in jail or dead . Others are just very dark , uneducated people with super small intellect - what you are going to do with those ? They don't know or don't want to do anything - how do you help somebody like that ? Social programs ? Maybe , if they interested , but what if they have zero interest for that ? Natural selection , philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche , only the strong survive . You don't see things like this in other countries and like I said before stuff like this only pollutes American genetic pool . Government has little to do with this - all their solutions is take more from somebody that has and give to somebody that doesn't - not fare ...
Don’t you people dare blame these good people for the bad choices they have made!! It’s the goshdarn government’s fault. *And don’t you forget it.* That’s sarcasm, by the way.
Drug addiction is mental health. And for the people putting them down are ridiculous. Everyone tries drink or drugs they don’t know they are going to be addicts or that it would affect them differently. The only way to prevent it is to find out who will be an addict or not and there not going to test everyone are they . So there will always be addicts while there is drink and drugs. Drink is a drug btw but you people probably don’t know that by your barbaric views on addiction.
@Patient Care Associates #1. Unless you have bucks, everything (especially food) we put in our body today is poison and will most definitely make us sick. #2. Devil's suggestion sounds pretty good at this realization. #3. If you can only afford nasty gas for your car, it's going to run shitty...forget the house. GIVE US HEALTHY OPTIONS!
@Patient Care Associates Ahhh... if things were that simple then we could just blame everything on "drugs and the devil" and then we would at least have an idea where to begin fixing it. Mental health issues often have zero to do with anyone's 'choice', but I agree with your point #1. Mental health or (lack there of) often proves to be the underlying cause for homelessness, and when coupled with drugs, the outcome can not result in anything productive or healthy. Housing costs along with other issues are relevant, but mental health + drug abuse (often to self-medicate) the mental and emotional hardships seem to cause the downward-spiral for many people who end up homeless. It all begins with our childhood, and with what many people go through that leaves them traumatized for the rest of their lives. Of course this is a generalization, and Not some blueprint' to be used in describing every homeless person. More often than not however, The drug-abuse is a coping mechanism for a deeper underlying problem, and the avalanche begins from that particular point of origin.
@@sludge4125 I'm guessing you really aren't as stupid as your statement could lead one to believe. We don't have enough room to go into it on such a limited platform, but I can assure you it's a cacophony of problems, and not just the government's. The government is the only entity involved that routinely pretends that there is no problem. And that in itself is a problem indeed.
Came home from LA last night. The homelessness is what brought me to these videos. I couldn’t believe it. I had no idea it was this bad. Venice beach was a trip! Went there two days ago, walked as far as the basketball courts, and handball courts, turned around and left. This is real. This is how it is. On the other hand, Santa Monica was tent-free.
Yeah I used to live on 2nd and Hill down from the Jane Fonda house you couldn't leave anything on the porch used to be in an old beach house before Northridge finished it off I think it was renovated I remember when I arrive in LA in 85 it was really nice I left in 2017 who can deal with it now
GO to a smaller town 'homeless shelter'. That's what I did! I got off off the train here in Roseville California. I stayed there so long, that they went out of their way to get me housing . I stayed there 3 years. And now I've been my 'studio apartment for 11 years. And still I marvel "How"? Skid-row is heartbreaking. PERIOD o m g
Shout out to roseville my family is from there! Just visited right before covid. It’s very different there up north compared to down south cause I lived in LA too for a while and oh boy.. Although theres a few areas in roseville that can be a little eh ya know.. like near the public health departments methadone clinic out there I always had people harassing me for money and cigarettes😅
So basically your plan was to stay somewhere as long as is needed to get a free house. This is the mindset of bums “do whatever it takes to get something free”. Instead of working and paying decent rent stay in a tent, get free food and do nothing. Tents should be dismantled, free food canceled and folks offered big infrastructure jobs. The ones who refuse to work and still sleeping on the street sent to jail
$100 million spent to help these people? How? What services were given to them? What companies held those contracts? Make the government PROVE where the money went
There is a reason every politician gets filthy rich after being in office for at least 10 years... especially those on the left, they stuff their pockets with taxpayer money!
You are a great narrator, this should be a Documentary. I have only heard about skid row but you brought us there. Just seeing how many tents and people living day to day, I didn't think about how they use the bathroom until you explained it and the smell is overwhelming. That right there is so unsanitary and the mayor needs to do something about these people. This needs to be seen by the right people to help change it.
Its just so sad, why has the City of Los Angeles and state of California allowed this immense human suffering to escalate.
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Oh great name BTW. I live for bikes, beer and beats. I have no solution for the homeless mentally ill people and although I did leave Cali it was not because of this. In 8 years living there I only saw that area twice. I left Cali because it is too damned expensive and my family is all in Florida mostly.
@ California’s annual GDP is greater than the entire GDP of all of Africa. Low cost housing has brought civility to millions of poor africans. They are shocked to see this kind of cruel suffering on the streets of a place so infinitely wealthy. Its not an individuals failing but that of the state, the city and bureaucracy.
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I've been homeless. Ive been on drugs for 15 years. And clean for a year. You can't help someone that won't help them self.
Drug and alcohol addiction are very evil things man... God bless stay safe
But Thank God, it sounds like you did. Peace to you !
True, but not all homeless people are druggies. A few years back, after my landlord raised my rent, I became homeless. While working two jobs I lived in my car for several months. I've never done drugs in my entire life. I've never even had a beer, let alone a drop of any other type of alcohol. The homeless situation exploded when landlords became extra greedy and raised the rent on those who couldn't afford to pay more. While the cost of living has increased, salaries have stagnated. If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone. Today's homeless consist of families, people who have jobs (sometimes more than one job), those like me who had their rent increased ... and such. Since our government doesn't care its' up to all of us to be kinder and more understanding. While I'm no longer homeless, I will never forget the way that people treated me during that time .... as if I was a leper or something. Shameful !!!!!!!
THANK YOU !!!
So true your right 100%
After watching this…I feel so blessed to have a small home and not a lot of money but enough that I don’t have to live on the street. This video shows how blessed so many of us are.
Hard work and determination aren't being blessed, nobody handed you anything
I got a traveling job and get to go home every weekend to small town paradise surrounded by some of the best fishing lakes in the world
@@mothertruckersparadise3260 Most of us have privilege's that were not aware. One of those privilege's is not being mentally ill as many of those people on skid row are.
@@jeanp.5929 that's not a privilege . Your misunderstanding that word.
@@mothertruckersparadise3260 I'm not talking about hard work and determination being a privilege, I'm talking about not being mentally ill. I think you didn't understand that.
When I see this it makes me so grateful that I have the basics in life. A roof over my head and food to eat. And somewhere to shower and use the toilet. Praise God.
amen
"Praise God"
Time for you to change religions
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If you did drugs or was crazy like most of them you would be just like them
@@mtnmaniac8406 their is no such thing as a soul or spirt
Watching videos like these makes me straighten up, and get motivated to keep working and keep staying in college. I sometimes get really down and hopeless but these video sbring me back. TY
Well said . I wished i had the opporunity to finish up school and get high degrees .I was living in third world country at the time and I did not have the financial means to do that . In fact, i went thru extreme hardships . Now i am in 47 year old and I truly believe in getting great education but i have responsability so I work but i cant finish what i started because its simply expensive to go to a college here in usa and i got no time for that either. You defenitely dont wanna end up like these people . Remember that doing drugs also can get you in situation like this even if you are highly educated .
Same here!
Remember that you are a complex, biologically evolved animal. And just like any other creature, FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. Always, ... then work to make "yourself" comfortable. But NEVER QUIT. No matter what. I've experienced much of what you might seek and I can tell you, at 58 years old, the "struggle" for life never ends. Keep living and keep struggling and survive.
Seek God Kingdom & everything will add. !
Thanks i alwaiys your videos thankyou.
I lost everything in a time of a market crash and a mental breakdown. It's funny how fast friends "step back". I just minded my own business and depended on the kindness of strangers. It took me years to "get back on my feet". I've always worked in banking/mortgage and have owned by own businesses and now a legal assistant. I couldn't go to a shelter because I had a dog. She probably saved my life. But I can see how some people could not do what I "happened to do". I don't claim to be strong. I had angels help me and to this day. People that were strangers that came into my life in the last 6 years and treat me like family. NOT everyone is as lucky as me. I am so ever grateful . People NEED to see the videos you post.
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Thank you for sharing Linda. I’m glad you’re doing well now
Seems you missed out on true friendships, that's sad. If something happened to me, I would have a list of several hundred people I could rely on for giving me a job or just some quick cash or shelter as needed. After immediate family, the top tier of 10 friends or so would likely be all I need because they are true friends who would never allow me to spiral in to nothing.
This picture of a young lady slumped over, the law should be made to pick her up and get her help. Imagine if ones daughter was out there slumped over. What a world we live in.
I'm glad you're doing ok Linda
He’s only showing the downtown area. This stretches to parks (echo park), river beds, bridge underpasses, the space between freeways and homes, between offramp and offramp in EVERY community in Los Angeles County and neighboring counties.
yea, you can’t even be proud to be from socal anymore, it was fucking beautiful now look at it :/
@@caseymoore4759 Sunland isn't la County fam
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He said that hotels are empty, why don’t anyone use them?
Yeah lol the encampments he showed were all pretty mild, it’s a lot worse irl here
this is exactly what the media should be showing.
Not everyone who is homeless is in a mental or physical state which will allow for intervention/ help... these are rough times, and the game has changed in ways that there's no return from. You are doing us a great service by posting this clip, thank you.
Yea so why are they here I wonder? We have tons of jobs, but that those take getting up every morning and having enough self respect not to end up like this.
@@vietnamvet4533 You're assuming that everyone has the capacity to hold down a job? Pay their bills, take care of themselves? You answered your own question. That's not the case with these guys.
I was homeless for a year in 2019, it's the most humiliating and disgusting experience. Only prison is a worse hell on earth.
100% agree!
I think being a rich greedy a-hole is way more disgusting and should be humiliated
At least in prison everything is provided for you
@@blankblank7101 I would think the meal plan isn’t debatable in prison
@@jodyguilbeaux8225 I wouldn’t make that assumption
Dude well done for documenting this. The truth must be told.
I can 100 percent assure you that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. He did the ultimate act of love for mankind in being crucified, being buried, and rising again on the third day. God made Jesus to be sin for us, though Jesus knew no sin. Through Jesus we can be saved, he bore our sins on the cross.
100% accurate. I've seen it. It's wrong. The USA gives away so much $$ and we need it here. People need help.
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I was on the streets for a long time. Finally got a rotting farm house with shit all over the walls and floors to live in while I tended to animals, saved money, moved to an apartment, moved again, bought a car, found a wife, , , you can do it too. I work 18hrs a day to maintain right now. I study programming whenever I can. Hopefully that study will help me lessen some hours and work a better job than the factory and hotel i am pairing together.
Programming is an excellent choice!! Good luck my friend❤️
Keep going!
Well done, bro. That's a great achievement. If you're stuck down a very deep hole with no ladder or no rope, it's very hard to get yourself out. That's where I am right now but your post gives me inspiration.
@Awhoo Thunder Well now he has dignity, regular food and a roof over his head. You think homeless people are free? They're manacled to the streets, relying on handouts and the pittance the government gives them.
@Awhoo Thunder if you think so. lol
as a older American your doing a great job we need to see this.....thanks to the german man in America.
Man I love this channel!!! We love you German in Venice!!
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I left LA making $15 an hour living out of my car. I moved somewhere with a better economy and better cost of living. I have a 3 bedroom house now. LA is for the rich only. It is an unforgiving wasteland for anyone else.
Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on.
End farm subsidies. End tax
breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops.
End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs.
People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18.
For those who and whos parents cant afford it, chairty (where the donar gets a full non refundable tax credit that carrys over for an unlimited number of years) and or the about 180,000dollars spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
The lack of low income/affordable housing out there is terrible. Its an easy fix they blaintenly choose not to do. When i moved to florida, i found subsidized housing within about 3 months and was able to build my life back from there.
True. So, to where did you move?
Ok LA has a lot of rich people what's that got to do with you living in a tent on the street.
Those people are being taxed out of existence.
The worst part about all of this is that they are sorrounded by so much wealth and people who ''care'' about ''equality''.
Why? Do you really believe that giving these people money would help them? This looks more like a consequence of closing nearly all psychiatric asylums. It's as bad as downtown Vancouver, and that's saying something.
@@freddexta3363 you don't have to give them the money directly. They have the resources to employ smart people who understand these issues. Let them create the best solutions and than finance those solution and see what happens. Some of these billionaires have to step up and face this issue with zero need to profit. The problem is getting bigger and bigger. It has an impact on the entire society
@@full6330name Looks like the majority of these people are so damaged by years of using illegal and legal drugs that they are not either mentally or physically able to hold down a steady job anymore. And some were probably mentally not competent to look after themselves before they got on the streets. I'm the furthest thing from being an expert on street life, but what else do you do besides just warehousing them someplace away from residential areas? It sounds like just about everything else has been tried and found wanting. All well and good to talk about smart people and financing solutions, but the options seem very limited for rehabilitating most of these people and restoring them to a normal, disciplined, productive worklife.
@@freddexta3363 there are a few with way too much and there are some with barely anything who are just rotting away.. that is why
@@ryansymons8915 And that looks terrible, I agree. The thing is, their problems are on the inside and giving them more goods or cash will not make any difference in the long term. I 'm not one of the billionaires of this world so the idea that you should tax them more so there is more to give to the drug addicted streetperson doesn't cost me anything, but I disagree with it as a long term strategy, because it doesn't fix the man or woman who doesn't want to be fixed or who is not fixable, humanly speaking.
It’s nice to see people from outside of the USA filming these areas.
A lot of my foreign friends believe all Americans have nice houses and cars. I have to show them videos like this to give them a real perspective.
as a european i thought that in the 90's...but the last 5-6 years especially, changed drastically. In my country we have free healthcare, pensioners get their medicine for free, women get 1 year paid maternity leave and their job back, if she has twins, she gets 2 years paid, everyone inherits a home from their family so we have no homeless people, no petty crime (like in london where they rob tourists blind on the street) - the crime we have is organized crime (and u know how that goes) I've seen unfortunately many people denying help by emergency services because of the cost of healthcare, if they have no insurance. It's quite a different picture than say, 20 years ago.
Thanks German in Venice. A lot of people ignore that Skid Row exist. As an LA native, this has heartbreaking to see. Keep up the cool videos brother!
Yeah and the first thing people want to do is blame politics but in reality, it's us as a society that has failed them. We want our houses to increase in value year after year (well I would if I owned one haha) but that comes at an expense. Homeless is the reality we get when something that should be a consumable (housing) becomes a wealth-building asset. This actually was not the case when our parents were growing up. Housing costs used to be fairly stable and relative to income.
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See Nazi America on RUclips and who really controls the U.S..
@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt I know right but if you had no choice I pray we choose life.
Notice how this "pandemic" hasn't eradicated this population group. Also, the overcrowded prisons, and the hundreds of millions living in extreme poverty worldwide should have been eradicated months ago by a virus that's supposed to be as contagious and deadly as the propaganda claims. 🤔 We're being lied to (again).
You're showing us what our leaders refuse to show us. They don't want the world to see this because it's a negative reflection of their leadership. Truth hurts
Speak for your democrat leaders.
pity, people see whats there, but make up their own stories.
@@bigbaba1111 Republicans if they cared enough would’ve done something too but I could see a lot less over there
@@australium7374 all the money will not help when California has a culture of lawlessness and pro crime mentality.
You don't have leaders.
It's not just in LA or any other big cities in the USA. You started seeing this pattern worldwide. It's sad. Praying for humanity 🙏
Germany also has a huge homeless problem.
Too late for damn prayer's!!!!!! Rich greedy people could help a lot ! I hope they all go to hell !! F........ Hollywood !!!!!
Fiat currencies ruined everything.
Praying you feel better and nobody else because it’s the most useless thing to do
@hcaz revaew it’s people fault who has chosen live there, take drugs and don’t work sucking money from others
Seeing this on Christmas 2022 is an eye-opener. Thanks for your work in helping Angelinos to see their less-fortunate neighbors.
I’ve been to skid row several times. You did a really good job with your footage.
Why don’t you buy real estate on skid row ?
Not a great idea and I couldn’t afford it anyway lol. It’s still Downtown LA even if it ain’t pretty.
@@JJJ_JJ1 the bilderberg group & the great reset is upon us. *2021*
@@bitofwizdomb7266 huh?
@@JJJ_JJ1 ironic isn't it?
I’ve been to skid row once, very sad and dangerous. They had an issue of homelessness in my town but they cleaned it up. More than 80% were drug users and turned down assistance that was offered. You have to be clean from substance abuse to live in most shelters. Long term drug use can cause mental disorders that can’t be reversed. There should be better programs to help those in need. It’s a very sad reality of life. Great job on this video!
That's so helpful .. you must be proud of yourself
Chris Harris; I didn’t live there, I just visited the location. I know about how the system works, I have had two family members and an ex who had addiction issues and two lived on the streets. It’s a very hard life to live.
@@amberm3193 A relative of mine here in London was homeless for a quite a long while (drugs and alcohol). He managed to live in a very quiet very well hidden wooded area near a railway line accessed via a dreadfully dilapidated old tunnel. I visited him once with some food and other supplies. Remarkably comfortable place. All very dry with lots of awnings and even a double bed (don't ask me how he got that there!)
He had to move on eventually because the railway authorities began to notice the smoke from his little firepit. He was very happy there. However I don't think I could ever recommend such a lifestyle for a second, regardless of awnings or double bed!
@@keyboarddancers7751 that's very sad. I hope they eventually turned there life around. I'm in the us not sure how thanks work in London. Hope you have a good day!
@@amberm3193 He's coming up to two years clean, thanks.
Thanks for sharing 😢 I be trucked all over USA and Canada! All the cities have this problem.❤
I visited LA in 2010 and the homeless back then was nothing like ive seen in this videos 10 years later. I shudder to think what it will look like in 2030.
Hopefully by then John Spartan will be frozen for no longer being needed and Taco Bell will win the Fast Food Wars.
LA 2030 will probably look like the movies made in 2010 about "the future" in 2020.
@@frankieb9444 I really think those giant towers will be a thing of the futurep
well not everyone gets handouts
I will be better when Trump gets back into office, he'll send the army and clean it up.
Dude, they’re NOT living. They’re existing in the streets.
Well they are technically doing both
There are people that are just existing in a home.
We've got to brainstorm! What can we do about this? Something must be done because it's getting worse! We've got to do it the politicians don't care!
They are Dying in the Streets...
Somewhere exists an Album of photographs of them as Happy Children...Think about that
The saddest thing is this has become normalized to most Americans, they don't understand how shocking and unacceptable this actually is.
I too used to be homeless,everyday I was sad,worried,ashamed,hungry,all types of emotions an feelings!!
Yes, me too... I can only urge the homeless, abandoned American men to leave the country. Most homeless men work. It only took me a few thousand dollars to emigrate to a country with better job opportunities. I haven't spent a single night outdoors since... People feel hopeless, and think they're stuck. The fact is, it's the American people who wanted it this way. The working men owe their abusers nothing. It's much easier to be successful when you're in a better environment.
How do you think it’s. Best to bel the homeless
It's sad . especially when family and friends you use to know give up on you. And you have nobody..
But you keep voting Democrat right? The Democrats that run the state of California to get $750 million a year from the federal government just for LA County and it’s atrocious they make it where you can live there not even be legal in this country be a felon from another country and they don’t care and that’s why the jokes on the people of Los Angeles you keep voting in these idiots and your quality of life keeps going down down down down down that’s what you deserve for voting in the same people
@@richardharris6058 I have been to all 50 states. They ALL have low quality of life, nowhere near enough jobs, they're all overpriced and none of them are really livable for a working man. You guys really need to stop whining about 'liberal cities' and grow up, and get your house in order. You can start by going down to the local Walmart parking lot. Plenty of honest, hard working men are sleeping there tonight... Why not pay grown men a man's wage, rather than the teenager wages which have caused the homeless situation, and actually forced some of your country's best men to move to better countries where they actually have decent jobs, affordable housing and honest women... It's not the liberals or the conservatives, it's you - the American people did this to themselves. Be a man and help your own people get out of the nightmare you ALL chose to create.
You are beautiful, no one knows how bad it is until someone records the problem, and is brave enough to do it like yourself, I commend you for this!! Thank you!! 😸
Well said.
What people don't want to acknowledge, how dirty Los Angeles has become.
Yeah Ive never understood LA's appeal, every time I go its always dirty and smelly
@@snowchips9596 yeah, people don’t actually visit downtown L.A. unless they are going to the Staples Center, other than that, it’s a mess. Traffic is terrible and lots of one way streets, too.
@@snowchips9596 so tell me why do you go then knowing its dirty and smelly and full off homeless people, you contradict your self
@Richardo Franzie - Rucktardo Fruckie
Dirty economy, dirty politics, dirty city.
Great video!!! It's high time the world saw that the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles is an illusion created to hide the cold, hard truth.
Check out ‘Streets of Philadelphia…’ another horrible eye opener.
Although, Los Angeles has a lot of beautiful places to visit. This is reality. I live in Los Angeles, and I see this every day. It's truly sad.
THIS IS LIKE A COMPLETE HORROR MOVIE😡 SO INHUMAN😱😨😰😫WHILE PELOSI AND HER NEPHEW,. LIVE IN THEIR MANSIONS, THEIR LUXURIOUS LIFE, AND DINNERS THAT COST I,000 A PLATE AND OH!!!, I FORGOT, PELOSI'S 28,0000 FREEZER!!! THESE DEMOCRAT DICTATER'S WILL ANSWER TO 🌟✨GOD🌟ALMIGHTY✨🌟 SOME DAY💥💥💥
Facts
These people are fellow humans. To those of us in the US, these are our countrymen and women. Painful to watch. Thank you German in Venice for sharing this story with the world. May God bless you and those who you work to help.
I am in my 60s so I'm getting to an age where I have seen a lot in society and its changes since my childhood.
When I was a girl, I didn't see this in cities. They were not called "homeless" then, they were called hobos. They stayed out of the city pretty much. You would see a few sitting here and there on sidewalks with a can for donations. It always made me cry as a kid. By the early 90s, I started noticing them increasing in our downtown area. I realize now that society was starting to see the repurcussions of NAFTA and our industry moving to foreign countries. Not everyone is eligible for college but 50 yrs ago, we had thousands of factories across the nation where our less educated and the rural populations were employed.
We are now left as a nation with very little industry and most lower paying jobs that require just a HS diploma are service and retail related. Quite frankly, with these jobs being with the public, they want people who are clean and present well, which excludes this segment of society.
Mental illness is another gigantic problem and states used to maintain state .
psychiatric hospitals where the general public who had no insurance could be treated. All of those were emptied and closed in the 1980s.
It is a shameful thing in America now that our politicians seem to be more concerned about people who are here illegally than Americans who are in trouble. It is not only our homeless. I routinely see parents begging on Facebook for money for their sick child. They have insurance but the hospital wants $20K up front to perform surgery/treatment. Why are we not discussing these things?
Thank you for this video...showing people the truth of what is happening.
great post.
I don't think you know what a "hobo" is.
Yes, state mental hospitals were closed by Republican Ronald Reagan when he was governor. The police use to have them looked at Social Services then they would transport them to the mental hospital in LA and Santa Barbara. I am sure it was not all that great but they got treatment, food and a cot. Kept the streets clean. I propose a homeless city in the Mojave desert. It would be a walled in complex and they can have their own small house and get all their needs met in a one stop shop. All the cities could contribute and it would clean them all out of the downtown's, Cheaper then throwing random services at them,
You summed it up. I had forgotten about the forced closing of mental hospitals. This is a mess.
Fumble Bunny Sad but true . President Regan '. He new what he was creating ? Now tax could have Drop a little When He shut down the Millions of Dollars Tax payers paid Yearly To keep over 1000s of State Hospitals Running? Funny How it Got ten times worse REGAN ?
I'm a lifelong resident of Los Angeles, born and bred. You nailed it, Herr Mack. My home town is a $hitpile! Danke vielmals!
And you keep voting Democrat correct? The local government gets $750 million a year for Los Angeles county homeless and they’ve done nothing but increase the amount of homeless by having sanctuary cities. You can run across the border and live in Los Angeles without going to jail. that brings in thousands and thousands of people that cannot afford Los Angeles!! Los Angeles cannot afford them!!! you have full jails letting rapist out!!! you have airborne disease where the city is now being sued by the police !! yet you still reelect all the same people that take this federal money and screw your city
@@richardharris6058 Many of the homeless are American born. Not saying there are not people from south of the border that are homeless. But LA is too expensive for even most Americans...
It’s a democratic city
@@spursnation5422 Yup, and they take in the AMERICAN men who became homeless as a direct result of the Republican decisions to maximize profit by sending the good jobs away. The California streets are awash with insane people who should be in asylums, but the Republican administration decided to save a few bucks and turn the crazies loose. None of the American states have enough good jobs, so why would someone stay in Nebraska and freeze? They're going to be homeless anyway because of the low wages. Not to mention the VETERANS who a Republican administration used for profit and completely abandoned...
@@richardharris6058 for the past decade southern Cali cities have been red for the most part
Y’all don’t realize Los Angeles isn’t what you think it is. There’s homeless people everywhere and trash everywhere. We can’t afford it here when we grew up here it’s sad
Blame the democrats tax and spending
We do realize because you see it all over RUclips and news.
@@muffintop420 depends on what news. A lot of the news ignores it.
Blame yourself for electing the ones in charge who have destroyed CA
@@buckberthod5007 the idiots outweigh people with a sound state of mind unfortunately. Some real whackos out there that just keep on voting for awfulness
Thank you for filming this because of the diverse circulation that you have for your videos. The number of viewers who comment on this as if they are seeing this for the first time...sigh, well now you know. And it's not just LA, it's on most large American urban areas.
American should start looking at their government and say stop meddling on other countries and focus on us.
As if the government will listen
@@masondeitrick oh no thats worse.
weve been trying for literal years. its sad.
YES
Majority of countries come begging for our help.
This is not skid row anymore, its more like skid city.
Hey know they get help n food so they stay there..they need a nice farm to live and work on ...possible marijuana farm keep the workers get the rest on ssi ship em on
@@187lynne yeah right... put em on a marijuana farm that makes sense( to someone with a low IQ) none of that made sense btw.
@@7hundredd840 🙂 Hi! What percentage of these people are 🎯 targeted?
@@ReadEphesians612 targeted? Care to elaborate a bit more ? Never mind I got a quick gist of it.. crazy stuff to imagine things like that happen but I have heard of similar things as well,, Im very open minded and believe things like that are happening
And soon to be skid country.
As a old war veteran this is heartbreaking. Never dreamed I’d live to see my country the shape that it’s in today. I worry about the future of my children and my grandchildren which I have 15. God help us
people need to help their own, God isnt coming to rescue anyone... the elite planned all
this, their covid scam is their ultimate objective/agenda that will lead to much much worse.
Exactly I wonder how the old WW2 veterans feel about this country
Thank you for your service💖🙏🏻
Damn dude. You got 15 grandkids? You look like you're 46.
Congrats though. 😁
Thank your democrat, republicans, & globalist corporations. NWO coming (one world technocrat communism) agenda 21 (2021) hyperinflation.
Thank you for caring.
In the late 70's. as a little teenager, my Dad made me go down and help feed the homeless with the Skid Row Mission CHURCH IN THE HOME. I will never forget the experience as I did it year after year. I was more than happy to do it.
This shit still going on 30 years later!!! Goodness. God bless you.
I really appreciate these videos honesty. My hometown, Portland, is extremely similar and the government just keep encouraging the behavior.
the entire west coast has gotten so bad over the last 20-30 years, and it keeps getting worse
And you keep voting for them! The easiest way to change someone else is to change your self!
@@user-el4ii7zq6l you don’t know what you’re talking about.
@@bradlymacy4108 you vote red or blue?
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My dad took my family to skid row on vacation just to show why you shouldn’t get into drugs, that stuff hurts man, always be grateful of what you have.
That's a pretty narrow-minded perception of how people ended up on Skid Row. Sure, there are many that battle drug and alcohol abuse, but a lot of them have serious mental health issues. Some lives were destroyed by the market crash in '08. Others may have just not learned how to manage their finances properly. There are definitely a few who have just been given the worst hand and could not find a way to prevent them from getting onto the streets, some of whom I've had the pleasure to get to know.
I was a heroin addict and never ended up on skid row. I lived in my car in San Diego and lived in LA after.
I'm glad you experienced something positive from an experience from your childhood, but most people don't choose hard drugs. Typically, from my experience, it's intense trauma.
@@Ezekiel666 And a lot of them turn to drugs AFTER ending up homeless. It's not always the cause, just a consequence.
Drugs are not the cause if skid row...wake up.
@@edwardpeterson1634 i know, old people, bankrupt people, etc.
Subscribed buddy. It’s all I can do to help.
Very enlightening clip, and a thousand thank you’s for highlighting this lesser known side of the city.
Brisbane - Australia 🇦🇺
Looks more like Death Row how they’re all just waiting for the moment to die, exhausted from fighting a losing war
Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on.
End farm subsidies. End tax
breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops.
End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs.
People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18.
For those who and whos parents cant afford it, chairty (where the donar gets a full non refundable tax credit that carrys over for an unlimited number of years) and or the about 180,000dollars spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
@@bvegannow1936 Might be a good idea if they gave inner city kids a good education so they could learn something and get a good job. The schools are sh.. Just look at the schools in Irvine they are great. When the politicians stop stealing LA’s taxes and put it into schools then we might see some change.
@@gr8macaw1 more money into schools rewards the bad behavior just produces more crappy schools and more crappy education. The education system needs to be reformed, it doesnt need more money, it needs to be made more efficent and actually teach useful info that is tailored to the individuals needs for the job they want. Not just teach them one size fits all useless education they forget after the test and will never use.
Individuals should get vouchers for private job training. I think that would be a step in the right direction.
Tax funded education should focus on individualized job training, not retarded one size fits all info that less than 1% of the students taught it would ever potentially use.
@@bvegannow1936 education can be done online, efficiently
1 site nationwide, k through doctorate degrees. We are wasting 99.9% of our efforts, all for an authoritarian system, designed only for the few at the top.
The money & resources are there, and in abundance, to fix EVERY trouble.
To solve the homeless issue, simply take some greenhouse plastic, a few clones & cannabis seeds to the river bank. The poor grow much better weed than the wealthy & consumers know it.
The black market could not compete either.
United Way & 211 are not helping the homeless, but they pretend only to stop anyone else from helping. The wealthy depend on the homeless to keep wages low & prices high.
Even this language & all verbal or written languages contribute to the trouble.
We are spirits, born with a far, FAR superior language, which is non-verbal.
Each & every time a human speaks, their thoughts are broadcast & no longer just inside. I do not speak out of faith, or belief, as I simply remember.
I KNOW.
@@jamescarrington5130 there are a lot of things that can be done online and should be done a lot. Would save a shit ton of money, time and is a lot more convenient
Portland Oregon is becoming like this , sad side of America that many parts of the world don’t see ..
Because liberals run it
Very true , it’s not the Portland I grew up in , happy I’ve moved away from the city .. it’s much better living in the middle of nowhere
So true I moved from L.A to Portland for the better quality of life but I see Portland on a fast track to LA
Austin is too 😐
right the Demonocrat states are fuked up people are so blind it's like look what the fuk is going on there trying to turn us into 3rd world country and it's fuked up
As a former homeless person, thank you!
Nice to know you care. Wish I knew what to do 🙏
Thank you for making this. You have a good heart.
I live in Sam Diego where the homeless problem just keeps getting worse and worse. It’s mind blowing to see.
How bad is the homeless situation in San Diego? It seems like SD is in a lot better of a position than LA
@@coolvania My frat brother just died on the street in SD on Father's Day. He had a degree in Hotel Mgmt. I could have gotten him a good job with my brother in Las Vegas, but he wanted to stay in SD . Go figure...
He used to give me shit for going to work for 30 years, now I'm retired and he's dead. You make your own decisions and outcomes.
@@ralphstewart4025 well you bit heartless
I worked in the Fashion District in the late 80's. It was nowhere NEAR this bad. Haven't been downtown in years. California is DONE. So tragic 💔.
California is an enormous state and an even bigger economy. I live in a rural, federally protected ecological reserve. "California is DONE..." as you say... What a ridiculous statement.
@@oldnikix
Hello????? LA County goes back on lockdown Monday. Millions are unemployed, thousands are homeless and priced out, due to Covid 19. Why are people leaving in DROVES if California is such a "bustling economy"? Los Angeles is a trashy, smelly, 3rd world looking city, including San Francisco!!! I left after 33 years in 2017, and know what I'm talking about. You sound goofy. 🤪
No ,: 0
Anonymous Girl Your experential account lies in the worst county in the state. Way to make a lumpy assertion. How am I goofy? I'm logical. There is actually hope for California. Did you know San Diego county used to be a Sanctuary City? With diligence, the policy and practice was overturned. Lunacy does not spread as long as the populace remains spiritually sound.
Got 2 be a spiritual sound ,: 0
Most are addicted. Drugs are the main problem, I know I was in that situation myself once and got out of it with sobriety. As long as they are using Nothing will change.
Well said and true! I was homeless 5 yrs cuz of my alcoholism. But ppl get mad if u talk about this(the truth).
@@samryon3615 yea people don't like to hear the truth, they want to blame someone eles for their situation. My situation was 100% my fault. I do feel bad for them its rough out there. But they could get out if they really wanted.
@@otisdriftwood8469 thank you Chris. Altho i have been off the streets for years now, i have stayed in touched with 'my people'. At the end of my homelessness i met a nice guy, we were together for the last year on the streets. When i got off the streets he had an option to clean up and come with me(his thing was crack). He didnt want to back then. The sad part is we remained friends this entire time, and hia choice is still crack and the streets. I wanna give an example of why i think the way i do. My friend is a good man, when we were together on the streets, he would go to work everyday, on friday he would get off of work, we would go to laundrymat to do laundry, the grocery store to get food for the week(we were in tent city and had a coleman stove to cook on, a shower bag to use for bathing,ect), soap, shampoo,conditioner, a bag of dog food for Ginger, couple cartons of smokes. He would buy me 1/2 gallon of vodka and then he would smoke the rest up. To this day that is how he chooses to live. Me? I woke up today, thanked God for my apartment, made a gratitude list(running water, push the coffee pot button) read the 24 hr a day book.
I am not a mean person, but if i dont stay honest i will end up drinkin again. Being homeless sucked, i dont ever want to do it again. I got beaten and worse out there. We(ginger and i) have an awesome life today, not being corny but it truly is a life beyond my wildest dreams. I appreciate you speaking the truth on this because i do watch these homeless stories and i try to share my experience, strength and hope so that maybe even just 1 person will see that no matter howbad things are, if they sober up..a wonderful life can be had. Many problems in our society today are a result of people not taking responsibikity for their own actions,i dont choose to play the blame game. I am glad u got out of your situation too! God bless you!
@@samryon3615 thats awsome to hear, its been almost 20 years for me now and I have a amazing life but I never forget where I was. Stay sober and it only gets better! It absolutely can be done if the person truly wants it, we are proof of that. People that have never been in that situation simply do not understand the problem.
Your a 100% correct. This is not some kind of wound that will heal with time, You need law enforcement to get rid of the drug dealers and then send in the social workers to help these lost souls.
Thanks for showing us this. I appreciate and am thankful what I have even more now.
If only the caring celebrities in their city would do more than hype themselves on social media as being humanitarians.
So true. Instead of buying a third Porsche, how about slumming it with two and spending the $ on housing people?
They would even get tax credits for it.. you'd think it would be a no brainer.
But maybe they don't really care at all. 🤔
It's more than money, thy need help to live well and take care of themselves. There are plenty of shelters to help, usually, but the people have to take advantage of it. But this is all the Devil's system, man can't fix the problems. They're getting worse in every way.
12 people make up 16% of our nation's wealth 😤
@@robertwilliams2720 Yeah, well- they aren't the problem. Most of those people are giving away their money, though some of it is very misguided in my opinion. And honestly, I don't understand how people want to legalize drugs when you see addiction ravage through so many people's lives. Sure let's make it cheaper and easier to get- nothing bad will happen, right? And I'm not talking about weed. But alcohol and opiates are definitely on the top of my eradication list.
@@mcdingus5081 make it cheaper because more people get hooked and more people depend on the government. They making more zombies with no voice to speak out.
Watching this made me sick of remembering the worst days in my entire life when I was a homeless in Washington DC in 2019 ........ god help everyone
Amen!🙏🏻
@@electrochemical.army. Agree! I lived in Boston 2012-2014 and I didn’t see what I saw in DC. In the end of 2021 I will graduate majoring Criminal justice and law enforcement from Pennsylvania!
German, you've 'touched my soul' with your videos . . . especially this one. Was once homeless, myself . . . some 7+ years ago. My self created phrase, concerning this societal MIASMA - 'We're all a few paychecks, from being homeless' ! 😬 🇺🇸
Not me ...I work, not make excuses...
You are so right ... unbelievable all the self righteous people that think it could never happen to them, that only druggies are homeless & that they deserve it - I’d rather be homeless myself than a hard heart like that. & it wud sure be even harder to deal with all that horror sober !
@@davidfasano7210
okay my idiotic, arrogant friend... 🙄
your documentary about skid row is so detailed.. thank you.. from The Philippines.
I think you are doing a great job making people aware of the homeless and their living conditions. The more people who know, the better the chances for a solution. Thank you for the tour!
The only ones who really care are those living outside of the USA, most of who can't believe their eyes because outside of the poorest countries in parts of Africa or Asia or Sth. America these scenes won't be found in developed, civilised, genuine first world countries. And none of them can force either the USA government or it's people to actually do something to help. Because they would mean spending some money and actually helping your fellow countryfolk. Suggest that to many in the USA and you are met with horror and comments like ''why should I pay for someone else to get medical treatment'' ''welfare queens, they don't deserve anything'' ''it's their own fault, they're lazy/addicts/useless, nothing to do with me'' and similar sentiments (and lots of them to my disgust). So other than watching and realising that the USA is in a far worse state than we could possibly have realised there is nothing to be done unless both the government, the super wealthy who actually have most of the money and the citizens themselves get off their backsides and do something, force things to change, ensure there is help - especially medical or financial if you are unlucky enough to either lose your job or become bankrupt after being ill - to help people before they sink this low and get into drugs simply to dull the reality of the horrific life they now face then this will continue and get worse and worse.
Your (as in ALL living in the USA) choices, and you have to live with the results of your choices.
Aware of how people are lazy to make something of themself, why work or succeed if you get free stuff without working.
@@eddav8089 you sound ignorant.
@@eddav8089 Yep, not sure how all of these people feeding them is helping the problem.
the majority of these homeless people are not even from california, they move to this state because it pays the most in welfare. Many are drug addicts who choose to live this way.
As you document the homeless plight in Los Angeles, your words are ao kind..I appreciate your sensitive commentary...
Imagine how many of those people who came to CA to chase their dreams.
Fact: some of these ppl got here by fair choice
HOW DID THEY ALL AFFORD A EXPENSIVE TENT ??????
More like to chase the white pony....ever since they legalized weed this has gotten even worse!
@@cathytrujillo6842 sometimes people donate them in bulk so it is not uncommon to see a bunch of the same tents in an area
Im guessing absolutely 0.
I do enjoy your videos from your home country as well! Thank you very much!!😊
A lot of people are getting out of Los Angeles right now, it’s a sinking ship. I left California 7 years ago and live in Germany now.
@DAAA BEARS Vermont is liberal. How are they doing?
MakeshiftMemorial, how did you make the move to Germany? Did you need a visa? I'm looking to get out of LA for Europe myself.
@DAAA BEARS I live south of Seattle and I’m moving to Mexico
@ So I guess you'll be waiting another 4 years to go then?
@@PNWOlygurl66 Really? What part? Just curious due to all the unrest there.
A pretty sorry state of affairs. When we lived in L.A., my wife and I used to visit the new public library, which would have been around 1994 or 1995. We didn't see tents. The solution, however, would not be to flood them with money. Give them $5k a month, and they'd find ways to waste it.
The DOWNTOWN Central Library is filled with Homeless people. Many use the restrooms to bathe in. And they go table to table to steal from you .
The Security officers in the Library have to kick out many Homeless people all day long.
I once walked into a restroom to see a man naked . Washing himself. One time a Homeless man put a " out of order sign " on the women's restroom. So , he could wash himself in it. Luckily the Security guards found out.
The smell of the Library is horrible .
that's america? who likes war very much?
I was homeless for a period of time. My situation was purely down to drug addiction though, I didn't really have a mental health condition to go along with it like I'm sure most of these people do. Therefore once I kicked my addiction I got out of that life. The thing is most of these people dont want help. Or if you do try to help they will end up right back on skid row again. Mental health treatment is the best way to help these people.
I was hesitant to say something but you've hit the nail right on the head. People that WANT to get out can! They have to try and really want to get out of skid row. You had the
gumption and succeeded. LA and Calif can pour tons of money into homelessness but until the population really wants to get out.... they are all screwed!
Same here!
Finally some common sense
That is very true!! I am glad u r doing better!! Much love, you have all of us here rooting for you!!!
Very true bro a lot don’t want to be helped..I helped a childhood friend by giving him a job at my burger shop and a place to live he ended up robbing me !!!! 😱😱
I watch these videos and reminds me of how good my life is despite whatever problems i have. Im humbled and thankful for what i have. I go to work and try to live a good life. Im not perfect or rich but im happy
😢 stay safe out there German in Venice 💕
I just love how it takes a realistic German man to show Americans their own backyard and all the junk in it. Thank you.
Ha.. I think Black people in particular are pretty use to America's ghettos that it has created. But when we wanted the world to know most people respond with Apathy.
I don't live in downtown L.A.... or even in California for that matter, and it doesn't look like this... I just love how you're an idiot who doesn't know how large this country is... and how it's different wherever you go, I already know how much of a shithole Los Angeles is lol.
TRUE American PATRIOTS did not cause this disgusting issue...RICH ELITES WHO SELL OUT TO CCP caused all this horrific BS thru RIGGED ELECTIONS! CALIFORNIANS DO NOT WANT PEOPLE LIKE NEWSOM, PELOSI, SCHIFF, KAMALA in charge...but they have been cheating for decades to bring CALIFORNIANS to their knees and then use AUTHORITARIAN POWER OVER THEM once they took 2/3 SUPER majority of the state that is predominantly CONSERVATIVE! CALIFORNIANS ARE TRYING TO RECALL NEWSOM but they just change laws every day to fit their needs as they own the JUDICIARY AS WELL! This is the model they are trying to creat for the entire country now...which is a SOCIALIST AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP model! #fightbackUSA 🙏🏾🇺🇸🙏🏾
@Ellie5621There is junk in germanys back yard, but not in this dimension. You won't see any of these "tent avenues". There are no trailer parks in the suburbs.
Los Angeles is just 1 city lol
Thank you for bringing us the truth, I think everyone is getting annoyed with the MSM and their lying, keep up the good work, love from the UK ☺
Thank you for caring. I have to keep hoping we can do better for these people.
Not sure why the US gov still has time to meddle in other countries' affairs...
Oil
Drugs
@@ChurlzVA Don't be silly, the US is an oil exporter now.
@@zerosugarmatcha7348 under trump yes but not since biden shut off the pipeline and the ability to dig for oil on federal land.
The real question
The whole country will be like this if America doesn't wake up.
If Bejing Biden and his Communist rats succeed with their steal and fraud, yes the USA under Communism will look like this.
China Joe will see to that...stop the steal.
@@FrancisJoa 👍
End the Fed. The world’s central banks are to blame for this. End fiat currencies.
That place has been like that since regan so yeah no politician is fixing it at all they don't care about the drug addicted mentally ill poor
Just came back home to Los Angeles after four years. It was bad when I left but holy hell this city is going to hell now. It’s so bad. Wtf is going on since I left
Politics. Plain and simple
America going down under
@@UsernameVincent I only came to visit. I didn’t move back.
As a driver, I have seen the slow downward, spiral over the years...2014-2020 HUGE change...😔
County is probably broke, looking to cut costs by denying services?
Hey bro, thank you so much for sharing. What an eye-opener!!
Helping homeless people has become a business, a profitable business.
@@RandomRUclips123 they are. Unfortunately a lot of these non-profits exploit the homeless to get donations. You can look up a good portion of the financials to many non-profits and look at the salaries, advertising costs, overhead costs etc.
@@RandomRUclips123 typically only 30% or less of donations make their way to actual homeless..
Capitalism
Helping the homeless must not be profitable. Pretending to help is evidently VERY profitable.
Over 20 years homeless for this disabled veteran, so I am as much an expert as anyone you would choose to meet.
Funny you say that as I watch ads on this video itself.
It's ironic that there are so many homeless but at the same time all the buildings seem to be empty.
@@Surfwtw No, but they can pay to them for it.
@@Surfwtw yes
That is why there was a squatting culture in Amsterdam in the 80s
What's up with the building owners? R they abandoned buildings? My grandparents are rolling in there grave.
Jesus, 54 blocks of homeless is bigger than my entire city.
L.A.'s section of Skid Row has a large enough population to have its own "mayor", city hall, police department, fire department, post office, and hospital.
@@Scorch1028 great point
Skid Row is just a previously designated area of homelessness. This condition has spread all across LA and the SFV. Problem covers an area larger than many cities.
But in a state like California it is barely a dot on a map. Now not to say this is not a serious problem but it is just an area downtown where they are allowing mentally ill people live in boxes under tarps in the streets rather then chase them off or hide them in the woods like other cities and counties do. One solution would be to get them into homes and some kind of care but where.. and who is going to pay? It would probably cost less then what it is now but we have really lousy people in charge both democrat and republican. The mentally ill on this skid row don't vote. Non partisan issue.
while their elected leaders are wining & dining at 5 star venues. In the 90's Venice was the place to be during the day (gangs came out at night) - all the housing was mall but quaint, a walk to the beach - a charming and fun place where the vendors & businesses were thriving. It's heartbreaking and pisses me off.
SAN DIEGO is becoming like this too....i left there to be in my small trailer. i was homless in san diego for a year with my family- i even had 2 +jobs still couldnt make it....im so grateful for you to point out that we need to help out eachother
I live in the "homeless" part of my city and over the years, this downtown area just died. It use to be full of stores and hustle and bustle, but when the homeless shelters opened that attracted the homeless population, one by one almost all the businesses moved or closed for good. Sad but when homeless move in, business owners move out.
how can you have a business with issues like that literally on your door step
@@knightstrykemare Yes, I know. In fact, the whole city started having those "soup kitchens" and free food and clothing giveaways to the public and then we got a drug and alcohol rehab facility and the city has gone down the drain (I think). All this has attracted bad people who won't get a job and there is a "squatter" problem with the empty houses. Last time it was a nice place to live was 25 years ago. Not now.
@@FiveElements00 there has to be a solution because those conditions are in humane. By their choice or not and whatever the circumstance that placed them there, a solution has to be there that is a win for everyone. There just has to be. Thanks for sharing.
@@knightstrykemare Unfortunately, I just think that when you have a rehab facility and many soup kitchens giving free food and clothes away, it attracts a high number of people who are lazy. Many people who were rich and worked moved away long time ago. I have always worked and it is upsetting to me when I see the squatters living for free in houses they did not work for and buy. They are thieves. I know some people are down on their luck, but I think a lot of them are just lazy and freeloaders. Some homeless were camped under the bridge and the police forced them to leave. That was a good thing because I knew a woman who lived right there and she was too scared to go outside her house with all those homeless men camped a few steps away from her.
@@FiveElements00 it is a catch 22. I agree, but when it is in front of you, how can you watch someone starve. Very tough situation there and to it to grow like this for decades is a failure. Where is the media on this issue. Why don't they open the countries eyes on this travesty. It is good to video and portray this since Big media doesn't. Thanks for the insight.
As a cycle tourist, I cycled from downtown LA to the Hollywood sign to get my cheesy pic. Great ride through the hills. The next day I cycled around downtown including skid row. One of the most depressing places I’ve ever been. It put me in a bad mood for a few days. Sad place.
This video alone is putting me in a mood! Sooooo sad 😓
I want to thank you for educating everyone on what's really going on
We love German in Venice!! Thank you for sharing
Newsome spent all that money keeping them homeless. Enabling failure, ... It would be better spent building mental health asylum for the disturbed ill, recovery residence for addicted, prison for the criminals, and clean residential living with public works jobs for the able.
Your right. Problem is it’s harder for them to help these people the right way. It’s easier to just keep giving them “free” shit and act like it’s helping. Nobody is more deceitful, and fake then the lefty democrats
ABSOLUTELY
That's too much common sense for corrupt politicians
That what I
told the movers and shakers 30 years ago....
Evict Newsome.
I've been homeless in the past. It was the worst part of my life ever! People take the most basic commodities for granted. A toilet, shower, soap, toothpaste and toothbrush. My heart goes out to all still living under those conditions♥
Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on.
End farm subsidies. End tax
breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops.
End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs.
People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18.
For those who and whos parents cant afford it, chairty (where the donar gets a full non refundable tax credit that carrys over for an unlimited number of years) and or the about 180,000dollars spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
Fükkkkkkk AmeriKKKa.
@@bvegannow1936 Where I live, people build shelters on unused land - even on the beach, away from town. Nobody harasses them. They stay safe with their families, do what work they can, and they have a relatively high quality of life. Compare that to AmeriKKKa, where people force their own to sleep in the streets and get constantly abused by cops and junkies. The American people are pathetic. They have had every opportunity to work together and do the right thing. Now it's too late.
@@BennieTarrMusic where do u live. I live in america and i wish that people were able to use some land to live on, have a house on, and grow enuf food to live on, free tax free, but instead many can not afford this. Id also like to see more job training and jobs for those able to work.
@@bvegannow1936 Come to Asia. Asia is the future. I've been to all 50 states and even lived in Alaska for a while (they have a huge homeless population there too, mostly Native Americans. The homesteading was stopped long ago. They leave people in the streets.). I've lived in Laos, Israel, Poland and Thailand. Thailand has the best combination of a growing economy with loads of opportunities + realistic cost of living and simple farmers / fishermen. They build shacks on unused land and even have electricity and wifi... The police don't target them like the American cops do. It's a more civilized country.
I live in Los Angeles and a lot of people down here don’t want help so we can’t force them off the street if they don’t want help. My wife is a social worker and works skid row and they are always on the street reaching out. There is shelters and food access here but most (not all) choose to stay on street. California is always gonna have more homeless then all other states not just because it’s expensive, but it’s much easier living on the street when it’s 80 degrees in January as opposed to 20 degrees. The state will help you if you truly want the help, but you have to want the help.
You talk sense, and sense is sadly lacking in many Californians thinking lately. So many of them spend most of their time running scared from COVID instead of acting like human beings. Meanwhile, civilization just falls apart around them, and they don't even care :--(
Thanks
I think the place to help the homeless is to protect people from becoming homeless in the first place.
If companies aren't able to or willing to pay their workers enough to live and be comfortable, then the homeless population will continue to grow
@@westypoprocks772 California is a expensive state cause every one wants to live here. Minimum wage should be 20 bucks a hour or all housing needs to be rent control to fix the problem, but neither of those things are not gonna happen. But people who can’t afford to live in this state need to start looking elsewhere to live. America is a big beautiful country with lots of space.
@UC-FuLetCKFMXyliU7zHaAtg come to Cali they pay well here
I lived on edge of skidrow for 12yrs, 13yrs ago, Madison hotel, 423 E 7th St. I used buses to get to guard job posts. Sometimes when out of a post I needed walk thru actual bad parts of skidrow for necessities. I retired in Northern California, Oroville 2011 initially on ssdi, now I'm 74. Made it out although never any drugs or alcohol. Only had occasional problems with bad people.
when newsom said he spent 100 million dollars on the homeless he really meant he put 99 million dollars in his pocket and spent 1 million on advertising and spreading lies about him helping the homeless...
You are absolutely 100% right
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It's obvious the thief and puppet head gruesome has done zip for homeless community.
$500 million approved last week as covid aid to businesses in CA.
Nothing at all for the homeless.
Eviction moratorium is the crumb for the remainder of the population.
Again, nothing for the homeless.
Recall newsome .
An eye openeer especially for people outside the US like me.
Yeah, I knew it's bad but I expected less tents and more shelters
Its an absolute disgrace
Socialism + multi-culturalism =
Sad and pathetic to say the list this is not acceptable the government have failed their people. 😭
@eqgfl wersghdlknwegflkbn as if the same thing isn't happening there...
I have seen Skid Row when I was living there.. Was no where near as bad.. Last I heard,. It was 60 square blocks.. There is deplorable🥺 We can spend billions on death an destruction but can not help our own. It is also getting worse here in Phoenix. Despite the fact that I am fighting to not be homeless again, I try to help out 🥺
Hang in there, buddy.
Don’t lose hope
I moved from phx a year ago and I went downtown and lost it. My city has gotten so bad. My heart was shattered. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
The government is the problem
it is better to rent a crappy room, at least you can shower and sleep in a bed than just camp
It’s the entire county of LA really. Just the majority in this area.
Thanks for showing us about the reality. I innocently thought LA is a prestigious city like what the media always shows us. Although I'm coming from a developing country, the homeless problem here isn't as rampant as what has been shown in the video.
More Homeless will come in 2021.
I pray it ain't me!
Nope! Agenda 21 and the vaccines will kill them off
@@sanchezs7614
"You will own nothing and you will be happy, or else." -World Economic Forum
Many more, sadly.
That's why FEMA got them Millions of portable caskets 🤔
Thank you for this. I lived in a skid row housing complex on 5th a Main for the last 5 years I lived in L.A. with rent help ...but my rent was still $600 a month. It was intended to help local artists. The building was dangerous and the constant sirens and stress of skid row being a block away caused me to leave the city I love. This video only scratches the surface of how dangerous and stressful this area is and the fact that city officials act like they can't do anything about any of it other then raise millions for their own pet projects shows the disconnect between the people and the government. This problem could be solved, but the powerful are to busy eating brunch in Brentwood and sitting poolside in Woodland hills to ever do anything about it. DTLA is a warzone.
The people of California elected the bureaucrats that you are railing against.
... and honestly brother all the politicians aside , how you going to help these people ? Some of them are mentally i'll and belong to mental institution permanently . Now they collecting welfare checks and spill bad genetics in to society . Others are drug addicts . If they need help they should get help and if they don't - they on their own and most likely will end up in jail or dead . Others are just very dark , uneducated people with super small intellect - what you are going to do with those ? They don't know or don't want to do anything - how do you help somebody like that ? Social programs ? Maybe , if they interested , but what if they have zero interest for that ? Natural selection , philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche , only the strong survive . You don't see things like this in other countries and like I said before stuff like this only pollutes American genetic pool . Government has little to do with this - all their solutions is take more from somebody that has and give to somebody that doesn't - not fare ...
Drug addiction
Mental heath issues
High housing costs
Don’t you people dare blame these good people for the bad choices they have made!! It’s the goshdarn government’s fault. *And don’t you forget it.*
That’s sarcasm, by the way.
Drug addiction is mental health. And for the people putting them down are ridiculous. Everyone tries drink or drugs they don’t know they are going to be addicts or that it would affect them differently. The only way to prevent it is to find out who will be an addict or not and there not going to test everyone are they . So there will always be addicts while there is drink and drugs. Drink is a drug btw but you people probably don’t know that by your barbaric views on addiction.
@Patient Care Associates
#1. Unless you have bucks, everything (especially food) we put in our body today is poison and will most definitely make us sick.
#2. Devil's suggestion sounds pretty good at this realization.
#3. If you can only afford nasty gas for your car, it's going to run shitty...forget the house.
GIVE US HEALTHY OPTIONS!
@Patient Care Associates Ahhh... if things were that simple then we could just blame everything on "drugs and the devil" and then we would at least have an idea where to begin fixing it. Mental health issues often have zero to do with anyone's 'choice', but I agree with your point #1. Mental health or (lack there of) often proves to be the underlying cause for homelessness, and when coupled with drugs, the outcome can not result in anything productive or healthy. Housing costs along with other issues are relevant, but mental health + drug abuse (often to self-medicate) the mental and emotional hardships seem to cause the downward-spiral for many people who end up homeless. It all begins with our childhood, and with what many people go through that leaves them traumatized for the rest of their lives. Of course this is a generalization, and Not some blueprint' to be used in describing every homeless person. More often than not however, The drug-abuse is a coping mechanism for a deeper underlying problem, and the avalanche begins from that particular point of origin.
@@sludge4125 I'm guessing you really aren't as stupid as your statement could lead one to believe. We don't have enough room to go into it on such a limited platform, but I can assure you it's a cacophony of problems, and not just the government's. The government is the only entity involved that routinely pretends that there is no problem. And that in itself is a problem indeed.
The guy making the video has heart man... Something good in his soul...
@Ed Kelly ~ u wrong man
Yeah, but I did not like the showing of Skid Row and the pinning its situation as ALL OF America.
That is lopsided.
Deserving of a documentary award. Honest, raw, and very well put together. 👍
14:42 OZZY!
You don't have to go to Skid Row to see this anymore it's everywhere
Came home from LA last night. The homelessness is what brought me to these videos. I couldn’t believe it. I had no idea it was this bad. Venice beach was a trip! Went there two days ago, walked as far as the basketball courts, and handball courts, turned around and left. This is real. This is how it is. On the other hand, Santa Monica was tent-free.
Yeah I used to live on 2nd and Hill down from the Jane Fonda house you couldn't leave anything on the porch used to be in an old beach house before Northridge finished it off I think it was renovated I remember when I arrive in LA in 85 it was really nice I left in 2017 who can deal with it now
Tears down for the poor people and the poor management of the country.
Yes! I just got back from LA and I was so shocked how bad it was. And I visited 2 years ago and it wasn’t that bad.
All over Denver as we speak and it's only getting worse. The eviction moratorium if going to end this month.
This what happens when less than 2% of our elected officials come from working class homes.
It’s when you vote progressive Democrats.
No. This is what happens when you mindless drones vote democrat for 50 years
@@youreokayboah2128 I love how they try and place blame elsewhere
working class? thats communist talk!
@@BrunoSa96
He probably voted for Biden.
GO to a smaller town 'homeless shelter'. That's what I did! I got off off the train here in Roseville California. I stayed there so long, that they went out of their way to get me housing . I stayed there 3 years. And now I've been my 'studio apartment for 11 years. And still I marvel "How"? Skid-row is heartbreaking. PERIOD o m g
Shout out to roseville my family is from there! Just visited right before covid. It’s very different there up north compared to down south cause I lived in LA too for a while and oh boy..
Although theres a few areas in roseville that can be a little eh ya know.. like near the public health departments methadone clinic out there I always had people harassing me for money and cigarettes😅
Good I'm glad to read this...I hope your still living well?? Big congrats from Sweden 🌻💙💛
So basically your plan was to stay somewhere as long as is needed to get a free house. This is the mindset of bums “do whatever it takes to get something free”. Instead of working and paying decent rent stay in a tent, get free food and do nothing. Tents should be dismantled, free food canceled and folks offered big infrastructure jobs. The ones who refuse to work and still sleeping on the street sent to jail
$100 million spent to help these people? How? What services were given to them? What companies held those contracts? Make the government PROVE where the money went
There is a reason every politician gets filthy rich after being in office for at least 10 years... especially those on the left, they stuff their pockets with taxpayer money!
@@jerrythompson5967 there are no left-wing politicians though
@@IceCreamCake96 There are way too many!
@@jerrythompson5967
No dude there are literally none. Except maybe Bernie but he’s only one person
@@jerrythompson5967
If American politics were left-wing then we’d be much better off as a nation
Thanks Joe and Hunter ! Thanks for your help!
You are a great narrator, this should be a Documentary. I have only heard about skid row but you brought us there. Just seeing how many tents and people living day to day, I didn't think about how they use the bathroom until you explained it and the smell is overwhelming. That right there is so unsanitary and the mayor needs to do something about these people. This needs to be seen by the right people to help change it.
They do NOT care. Get it through your head and see the obvious TRUTH AND REALITY. Only the corrupt are allowed in those positions
It is going to get even worse. Gavin Newsom out eating $300. A plate meals. RECALL. GAVIN NEWSOM.
Apply for the job and you’ll eat a $300 plate of food he deserves that plate dealing with nuts and bolts from other states living in California
@@RewskOnTV he isn’t dealing with the problem, but creating the problem.
@@RewskOnTV he deserves it? Lmao
John Regan. My understanding is at the restaurant French Laundry patrons are lucky to make it out paying $1,000.00 per plate/drinks.
Just cause there is homeless people on the street we can't enjoy a fancy meal? Dude makes enough to eat that type of meal let him be.
Its just so sad, why has the City of Los Angeles and state of California allowed this immense human suffering to escalate.
Oh great name BTW. I live for bikes, beer and beats. I have no solution for the homeless mentally ill people and although I did leave Cali it was not because of this. In 8 years living there I only saw that area twice. I left Cali because it is too damned expensive and my family is all in Florida mostly.
@ California’s annual GDP is greater than the entire GDP of all of Africa. Low cost housing has brought civility to millions of poor africans. They are shocked to see this kind of cruel suffering on the streets of a place so infinitely wealthy. Its not an individuals failing but that of the state, the city and bureaucracy.
Well I mean drugs are illegal, & the state can’t force people who are mentally ill to get help or who are addicted...
Liberalism at its finest!!!
@ I think the bleeding heart liberals should pay.....put your money where your filthy mouth is!