Homeless Badly Hurting Los Angeles' Tourism Industry, Experts Say | NBCLA
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- Homeless in Los Angeles are driving away tourists and hurting the industry, experts say. Joel Grover reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Monday, July 27, 2020. 4.nbcla.com/ctK...
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Come to LA and see the world's largest unstaffed outdoor mental hospital.
Also possibly world's largest open toilet now.
@@gavincurtis Got to battle San Fran for that honor.....
Im over here in Seattle we rite there with yeah !! I dont even go downtown anymore 😕 😪 its sad 😞 and dangerous.
The stage production of, "Thousands flew over the Coocoo's nest"!
The best of the year.
It took experts to tell you people craping in the streets would drive away tourism? They must need experts for everything.
Remember the speculater
Typical Democrats. Then they said aren't you glad we didn't step in it.😂🤣😅
Why use common sense when your pal can make money conducting surveys, etc?
Californication
Best way to describe Liberalism is look at logic than turn 180degrees away, You know the opposite direction 😉 that is the best path to failure, Thats the one for the Liberals.
The summer Olympics are going to be interesting to see for sure.
They can't be serious, Summer Olympics in LA start sweeping the crud under the rug now !
Nice land of free USA murica 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@nickhammer6408 they will do what they did in Atlanta, Pass a city ordnance and bus them all out of town.
@@gooser__43 yet homelessness is increasing everywhere and not just in blue areas.
They'll do what Rio did, move them all to a favela and build a wall around them to hid them :)
Los Angeles and San Francisco is the biggest embarrassment to America and humanity as a whole
Democrat much?
You know when someone from Florida says they were grossed out, it’s pretty bad.
Florida is pretty neat. Regards this pfff
😂
@@miciboo9993 especially Miami
Exactly FL is gross so dirty especially Miami
what about fla if rent was not so high there won't be homeless or unicerary evictions
Dear tourist, don’t come to Los Angeles even traffics is a nightmare. Save your money
Yeah sorry we have poor people because life is hella expensive.
A Sherif LA is a shithole
Go to Cancun instead.
@Club Soda yeah but those are mostly young people who can't afford to travel in California.
@Wonderful world Who would go to some suburbs for their holidays? Those are nearly the same everywhere in america.
80% of my European friends said they won’t come to LA again unless it’s job related.
I thought Russia had problem with homeless until I lived in LA
Hard to be homeless in most of Russia because of the weather. LA attracts the homeless from around the country because of the weather.
No one in their right mind would go vacation to L.A. or Frisco.. they are 3rd world places now. It makes me sick !
I had a business meeting in San Francisco 9 years ago. Our client took us to an expensive seafood restaurant around Fisherman's Wharf. Homeless, elderly Chinese lady comes in, reeking of urine, trying to get in the kitchen area. Apparently, the restaurant gives her their recyclable cans. They kindly helped her out of the restaurant, but the entire dining area then reeked of her smell. She attempted coming in several more times while we were there, and was obviously mental. I felt embarrassed for our hosts. Meal for 4 people costing ~$1200 and a dining experience that reeked of urine.
@@okami4683 If you haven't had an mentally disturbed homeless person yelling around you, you haven't been to San Francisco :)
I'm from Europe, my girlfriend wanted to visit LA, when I showed her what is going on there she changed her mind.
its not that bad
..come to New Zealand
It depends on what part of LA, there are still some nice places fortunately but still knowing this sight is there makes me sad
I live in LA and I love it but a LA is not in the best shape to visit right now, specially touristic areas. Before the pandemia it was still decent to visit but right now, way too many homeless, trash, and places closed.
Go to Texas instead
As a tourist, getting lost and accidentally driving down the heart of Skid Row is not pleasant. Speaking from experience 😬
Edgy
as a native southern Californian, Skid Row is never pleasant. ive been there once and it was disgusting, I saw giant rats the size of rabbits
Double ds?
Take a trip to Paris France. If you return message me.
*click*! go the power door locks, and the windows go up!!!
I can remember a few years back a Hollywood star came to Manila and said it's dirty. Well, it seems she didnt have to travel halfway around the world for the experience...
The wealthy don't have homeless camps in Bel Air, or Beverly Hills.
Move them in with all the liberals and celebrities that “care” so much.
You have such a strong opinion, what are you doing to fix the problem oh wise one? That's a rhetorical, the answer is absolutely nothing geniuses! Just call me nostradamus, you're welcome!
@@facetiouslyinsolent8313 it was just a suggestion, and a sarcastic one at that. You cant differentiate the two not my problem. Mr. tough guy internet warrior, go troll someone else pleb.
Corona virus in the making
My thoughts EXACTLY! And send them to every Democrat that allows them do live like this.
@@brittanygriffin6609 yeah ya right there 🇦🇺🐨👍
It's a reality check to see the real Los Angeles. Just appalling.
How it will always be
San Francisco has the same problem and it's been going on for decades.
@@QueenEsther414 It appears you don't understand the context of Acts 2:38 and are you saying the sojourner and downtrodden are the ones needing repenting??? I don't believe that was what the Lord intended...
And, the real hollywood.....
It's like Las Vegas and many other cities around the country!
This is the reality of Los Angeles that a lot of tourists don't realize
Let everyone you know
Reality for California, New York and so many other Democraticly controlled cities and towns. 👎👎👎
I live in LA and we have lots of alleys in every alley is a homeless home and they steal car batteries stereos any thing they can bet there hands on its sad
Glad I got to visit Los Angeles 10 years ago when it was decent.
I moved to LA in 1982 and left to retire in 2018, it was a clean and a fantastic place to live. Things started to change after the KKK Democrats took complete control and now you see the results.
Blame the Los Angeles leaders, they should have done their job and this homelessness wouldn't be such a bad problem and it only going to get worst.
California is a Liberal state - run by democrats - they accept these issues while keeping taxes high. California is a money maker for democrats - so much corruption you haven't seen yet.
Simple solution: Build a manmade island out in the pacific. China did it. Then ship the homeless there.
Homeless make their ways out to l.a. from all over the country
Now,they are feeling the effect!! All late.
@Conbons your ignorant man!! How ?? Explain plz
Don’t worry about tourists, the residents are leaving in droves.
Bravo & Veritas
They are more concerned about the tourism than the citizens. Don't forget the tourist come and go. The citizens are stuck. Yet people who haven't paid into the system are being taken care of.
@@marvinstovall3661 however the tourist especially with kids are skipping LA and dont come back after seeing the trainwreck
The residents will comeback in droves. As soon as the homeless are managed and economy improves.
@Bloginton Blakley It is my home since 1968
Who would of thought that 70k homeless individuals and growing would hurt the Los Angeles economy.
I can remember hearing a couple from the Netherlands or Denmark saying that they have never seen a place with so many homeless people. They were shocked to see it. They said they don't see that in their home country.
Downtown LA is literally is a dump. Idk how people love to live in that area 🤷♂️
And so much pollution
Yea with the best condos money can buy! Ill never understand it
But we are told taxpayers & wage earning taxpayers have a moral duty to pay more taxes & feed & house the homeless junkie. Not gonna happen!
I don’t know what person would be a tourist in Downtown LA is not nice
@Andy Griffith it's funny because Hawaii has accused California of doing the same thing
Visiting Los Angeles is not a vacation, it's a sentence.
Lmao
it always has been.
It sure seems that way. No way would I want to visit the there. Just shocking.
Idk I love LA vacations lol
It surprises me that anybody would intentionally vacation in LA.
its true I haven't been in LA for years because of the homeless
You know you have a problem when Florida (Wo)man refuses to visit CA.
I used to live in NY and Florida is really clean
Plagiarism
This isn’t even the half of it they are not showing all the cars and broke down motor homes people are sleeping in.
Right on.
Its sad💔
@@generalaccount6531 This is exactly how I feel. I have been all over the world and now live in Venice. I have never seen so much misery anywhere.
And thats just LA..what about the rest of california.
Keep electing liberals
Eventually everyone will leave the city and the homeless will inherit it all.
That would be a dope Anime.
Greg OfCanada
We are all mortal and will die
What we need to do is live a good life and also give justice to the oppressed
true
I left. It was too gross
Greg OfCanada God forbid you go homeless these are real humans maybe mentally ill do you ever touch your ❤️, ask them why are you homeless can i help we all just jump to conclusions and judge come on we need to be a light to those in need. Im so grateful I’m blessed and yes I pray that one day we will all love one another and not judge but give because we are blessed to be a blessing. Thank Jesus Christ lord of lords we are blessed!!! Yes I help when I get a chance to but not enough let’s give them hope when ever we can. God is love and the judge not us... God Bless you and all ...
I feel like Im in an alternate reality. Homelessness is the issue. But its only being addressed because it’s effecting tourism?!
Angel Rivera nope. It's yet another facet of this sad fact. People of the world are choosing houseless living in LA.
Sweet Songstress its a culture this society has created. Homeless people know they won’t be bothered much here. The government completely neglects them here. And the general population pretends they don’t exist. I live here in Los Angeles and its a really unfortunate situation.
ruclips.net/video/ZeCaYaG-ZRM/видео.html
What It’s Like Living in California Now
Remember when that guy tried making small houses for the homeless in LA then took it away? Look where LA is now bruhhh
LA is overrated. I live here and it’s not like the movies it’s made up
Ramy H lol you’re sad
Ramy How do you know I’m not upper middle class or rich? I spoke nothing about finances “genius” I said it’s not like the movies. It’s overrated, it’s too many homeless people. You’re such a bright person 🥴
Well which movie? Slum Dog Millionaires; and If you are rich in a gated community it is like the fake movies.
STFU ASAP come to LA and walk down the walk of fame then you’ll see it’s more like the life of the homeless. The new movie they won’t release because it’s not marketable
@@Chris-ti3gq I live here and went to Grade School at Gardner and Selma Elementary Schools. So what is your point exactly?
Escape from L.A. is turning into a documentary.
FACTS 💯
Just don't trust any business by that name, especially a pizza restaurant.
Why don't they tell how other cold states send their homeless to la voz of the warm weather,and they don't come back for them!
Yep, one time I was in LA it was so sketchy. Having to pay a quarter to use a bathroom guarded by some old Latin lady (who knows who else was there with her ) without toilet paper in the facility. Luckily I had to pee. That was in 2011. I will never return to California and I live 7 hours away. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever.
It’s definitely not going to get better in this decade.......
jhonston666 it will never get better until you vote out current Governor and local and state legislators
Katey M what would make it better? Putting the poor in concentration camps or just killing them outright.
jhonston666
We need to raise our voice, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere-Mlk
colleen nelson
We need to raise our voice and let the authorities make low cost houses for the needy.
We are wasting lot of money paying high rents in section 8.
Michael Warzenski ah yes because the homeless weren’t a issue under Obama...or the fact that California is the democrat poster state
When you turn your city into an open air insane asylum this is what happens
Aren't there public toilets (rest rooms) in LA? Shocking to have people relieving themselves in public.
When you allow Chinese in with bags of money to buy homes this is what happens. They drive up the cost of real estate which is great for landlords and the city real estate property taxes.
Like I said before NO CONSEQUENCES! VOTE THESE ASSHOLES OUT PERIOD!!!
@@martybarbeau you will have the same problem. I think you're missing the greater point. The courts have ruled that poverty is not a crime. The city cannot evict people from public places like the streets. Before Ronald Reagan was president I never saw homeless people. After he was elected with his trickle down theory economics giving more tax breaks to the rich so they can pass down to the poor ( a pipe dream) that's when people start losing their homes and homelessness became common.
It will only get worse with the current president who gave big tax cuts to people who don't need them. And now that they decide to cut the $600 bonus with the unemployment check there will be a rash of evictions and increase in homelessness in the run up to the November election. Most likely homeless people will be in no mood to go vote.
@B Donor that''s nonsense. I used to work in a hotel in Manhattan when Reagan was president. Some of the guests who came to our hotel from other states were shocked to see a homeless woman with all her things sleeping on the street. Homelessness got nothing to do with using too much drugs. People were using drugs in the 1960s during Woodstock. Also during the time of Reagan money was cut for mental health and that helped flood the cities with homeless wanderers. People now had to fend for themselves instead of having a place they could be tended too and medicated. Reagan's tax cuts deprived the states of those monies for mental health. Even now most of the homeless people I see on trains got mental problems. So it's a combination. I just saw one man two days ago who was bare back saying he is homeless and needs a place to cook. The truth is NYC has homeless shelters. Some homeless people are even put up in hotels. But there are rules they have to follow. And not everyone will put up with rules. And if I were to tell him go to a homeless shelter he might stab me with a knife so I pretend that he cannot be helped.
"Capitalism Badly Hurting Los Angeles' Tourism Industry"
More like DEM socialist policies.
@@lynnjepson302 really? Most developing countries have the policies a lot of the dem socialists are advocating for.
@Peaceful World2020 another psychopath in the comment section of RUclips.
Fact : capitalism is the reason why most people in this country aren’t starving and are allowed to sig back on the couches, eat McDonald’s, and make comments on this video.
@@lynnjepson302 lol if you paid any attention to history, we already have some socialist policies that work like social security and funding the fire department, the entire U.S is socialism for the rich and hyper capitalism for the poor, your partisanship blinds you sheep🐑
As a British women, I know we are not perfect and no one is, but I couldn’t help but cry when I last visited Los Angeles 3 years ago, we are told by the media that it’s a utopia and paradise. When I went there, I saw homeless people living in tents, malnourished, in desperate need for help, I saw rubbish and graffiti everywhere, I sat in the restaurant and I just burst into tears how humanity can just leave mentally ill people like this. I wish I had the money to fund homeless hospitals for them. Heartbreaking.
Don't listen to the media. It lies a lot. Cheers!
LA society violates human right laws...it shows you how americans are particularly los angelenos.
The LA citizens deserve what they elect. Perfect marriage.
Totally agree.
Punk Shark honestly, why not
But I thought Nancy Pelosi cared? I thought everyone said she didn’t just care about getting wealthy.
Stop talking BS. The Republicans are the main reason why homeless people get no help. The homeless just flock to states with good weather and a government that is the lesser of two evils (= Democrats).
@@JohnMoran Certainly citizens deserve what they elect everywhere.... that was the point.
How are people trying to visit los Angeles when Covid 19 should be the biggest concern????
I think they are talking about before COVID
July and August is peak season for visitors. Of course theres tourism still going on. Hope that European viral strain doesn't show up.
Because unlike the sheep you seem to be, THEY know, it's no worse than THE flu
@Keep Rocking! stay home it's not worth the effort to go down to the beaches of Los Angeles County just stay home.
Homelessness is getting really bad, Valley to Griffith. Just today a homeless lady pulled up to my hose and used it to wash her nether region. I told her to stop and it made her mad. She came back and put ear wax and boogers on my wall. I want to be kind hearted but this is just plain nasty...not fair to the people who pay taxes
As someone that works in downtown LA i can tell you the homelessness is absolutely horrible.....blue tarps and tents everywhere....look under any overpass and the sidewalk is covered from the wall to the street....homeless encampment fires are an every day occurrence and the smell is indescribable!
The homeless population has MARKEDLY increased here, in Washington, D.C. I REALLY pity those living in tents and the street because, it's about to get cold, very soon. There are a large number of tent communities that have been established in parks, under bridges and by abandoned buildings. The cost of living in D.C. is sky-rocketing, as well. It's like a carry-over effect from LA, N.Y. and Chicago.
We need to see a story of how the homeless get to LA because most homeless people are not even from CA. It’s sad because many of these people are US Veterans with PTSD and drug addicts. We need to provide better mental health to all Americans.
California has been caught bussing homeless people to other states. We get a lot of them in Florida because of our warm weather.
The state used to have mental institutions where the mentally ill could be committed for long term care. This got them off the streets and allowed the rest of us to live our lives in peace.
Nope tweekers and junkies from East of The State Line. Fully enabled to get high on hard drugs! Veterans have millions aside for them! They only need to be able to ask for the assistance... That is another issue.
encinobalboa that just hid the problem and got state agencies more tax money
@rod speaks its not regulations that keep developers from developing affordable housing, its trickle up economics, so much money laundering in rental housing now, i have a building a few blocks away, they built it with triangle floor plans to make sure nobody moves in, they still make bank money laundering, they don't need renters.
Got harassed today at the beach in Long Beach by a homeless mentally unstable woman. I feel sorry for them but at the same time we cant keep them on the streets. She was threatening to hit me and and others passing by with a stick. Just throws your day off having to deal with a confrontation like that, not to mention its just not safe to let them mingle with the public.
@Taylor mana12345 its a real privilege to work hard and support a family but hey I bet you have all the answeres why not enlighten us.
@@apatheticallylethargic4639 Everyone who comments on RUclips are hard workers all of a sudden😂
Daily news
@Taylor mana12345 Let's hear yours since your so damn passionate!
Maybe... Get them help. Put them in rehab. Give them a roof over their head.
I’m confused as to why tourists are more of a concern than people being homeless?
“A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” Mahatma Ghandi
@Peaceful World2020 you propose just moving the issue to another area? So addressing the root cause of the problem does not even come in to the equation. Why are these people homeless, how have they been left behind? What can be done to provide them with stability, education and opportunity?
To all the people who want to tour Los Angeles here's my suggestion save your money stay home.!!
Gary Quail just walk around the worst party of your city waving a bunch of money around Until you get mugged. Same experience.
@Multiple Offender yeah, LA is not hurting for tourists
@Multiple Offender You're correct, LA doesn't survive off tourism. However every major world city wants to be seen as a thriving, amazing and safe place that people speak well of. The elites living in cities like LA or San Fran love the fact that people around the world dream about their cities and want to visit them. Currently everyone is seeing the gritty s-holes that these cities have become. In the long run the elites and trendies that get off on the knowledge that they're living in a popular city will feel sadder and sadder. It's then when they'll yell: "please middle class, come back! We can't live without you! We miss you!"
@@electricmessiah3932 I usually don't walk around the worst part of my town or in your town or in anybody else's Town waving money most of the times especially on weekends I would just rather prefer to stay home and enjoy my beautiful backyard.
I travel a ton and Los Angeles is easily the worst city in the US.
L.A. and San Francisco and Philadelphia are worst than NYC and Miami
A dem run city or state ruined it.
Los Angeles is a leftist utopia.
How about Seattle?
@@dmul841 More like a Leftist Dystopia, in a state that is the poster child for '1984'.
I have watched several of these posts and not one of them has addressed the suffering of these poor people forced to live on the street , what I have heard is the word money being used a lot .
****** YOU THINK IT'S HURTING TOURISM??.... NO WAY!! ********
I grew up in LA & when I went to visit family recently my home town has drastically changed. Homeless everywhere and now so dirty
It was pristine before the pilgrims arrived, no trash, no pollution, for example..
Same here!!!! 😢
60,000 homeless people in LA? That's enough people to establish a small town.
had family schedule a road trip from SF to Seattle on Highway 1 in July last year - every beach stop along the way in CA was littered with active drug users and homeless people...to the point that it was very uncomfortable and unsafe for a family of 4 with 2 pre-teen boys to enjoy. If CA can't manage the public areas during the biggest tourists months of the year then they are going to lose all of the conventions and casual tourism. There is a sanitation standard that should be upheld, let alone criminal behaviors that should be curtailed.
Small town? It's bigger than my whole county
@@AB-ol5uz you are totally missing the point. Sorry if peoples homelessness gets in the way of your enjoyment karen
I'm from London, and I agree when I visited LA it was disappointing as the city was dirty and unclean. There are way too many homeless people, especially in the tourist areas who were high on drugs and/or mentally unwell. I thought San diego was much nicer imo.
No one should be visiting LA in the first place.
I’ve lived in LA county for over 30 years and I have never felt safe walking in LA and never will. Its so nasty, something seriously needs to be done.
wasn't that situation from the 70s? I think LA center being always insecure and dodgier
@@kostasveronis5882 The thing is, Skid Row used to be about 5 square blocks south east of downtown ... now it's nearly the entire city.
the traffic is the worst, and dirtiest..
..and you still live there?
@@carnbyarst670 not directly in LA but in LA county .... unfortunately yes. I am here until my current family situation changes. I am the primary caregiver for my elderly grandmother and she refused to move while she was able. Now I’m here until she passes. Sounds horrible I know.
Ya think? The poop and pee smell is super inviting and says “y’all come back now”
Omg...you are so right!!!
0:34 is that a cop or security guard right next to the guy while he is urinating? hahahahaha
Mandatory homeless shelters should be required. They shouldn't be allowed to setup tents on the street, they should be required to stay in a shelter until they have a job.
@KingJustice I don't think that will work, I think it is safe to safe people will take advantage of that and not even try to find a job.
Why blame the homeless? Are you afraid to blame the leaders?
because the homeless ARE to blame. Id say 90% of them are there from their own doings. drug or alcohol abuse. Thats why i dont give them any money, they will spend it on substances.
Put the drugs away 1st step
@Mark Lanton not with addictions they cannot at all.
True
playing the victim isn't the solution, many shelters have rules such as no drugs and alcohol because of that they rather hit the streets
I can smell the stench through my phone
I love the fact they so proudly present the segment of "Streets of Shame". Shame on all those homeless people. Shame on them!
Thank you! Most of them are just too damn lazy to get a job, and they wanna get high or drunk. Only homeless folk I would actually feel bad for are people with physical disabilities, people with a job, or people who want to work, but cannot find a job.
To all these "streets of shame" report series on NBCLA, instead of continue to report how bad and disgusting these homeless people live and make the streets why don't you start narrowing down on the policies and names of city leaders who are responsible for allowing this to happen? That's really worth investigating instead of the fluff. I'm sure you will find things more disgusting happening. Start with Garshitty
Walking down skid row is like a scene from the walking dead. I’ve lived in LA all my life and it’s only getting worst.. not worts
Vote republican
See a dermatologist about those "worts"
Corin Dalton lol my bad, you know what I meant.
LA residents don’t move somewhere else and screw it up by voting Demoncat. Stay there and fix it.
Nashville is Democrat and doing quite well. At any rate, the country is falling apart because of so much division. How can a country divided stand?
Screw it up by voting Democrat? Trump said the virus he just got was a hoax, then spread it at a rally and bothered to fill people in a week later. Call it ignorance, being a sociopath or just plain stupidity but he makes his old party for 9 years seem like the only sane way to go. If he's not grabbing your mom or sister by the ..... he's not wearing a mask and coughing on you and you still follow along. Sheep, Baa!
@@facetiouslyinsolent8313 oh that mild flu that everyone is surviving. Including Trump, Boris Johnson and just about everyone without health problems. You're a scared sheep ! If you actually took the time you'd realize Trump is against globalization. Which means all your jobs sourced to china etc. He made alot of jobs and taxed china.
@Eric Sirias you do realise universal healthcare aint free here in europe we have big taxes.33% gone out of my wages before i even get them and the lazy and feckless dont pay a penny but entitled to it aswell.no doubt you think lazy fuckers should be treated equally
Dont wana work shouldnt expect the benefits that us who do work get
@Brad Smith You guys keep invading Texas though. Why?
Why doesn’t Bill Gates solve the homeless crisis in LA?
What does Bill Gates have to do with this?
Bill gates is drama queen
Looks like a real heart warming sweetie pie time there!
The sad part is that other cities are about to turn like that 30 million people unemployed. No job no money no place to live. We have not seen the worst
I'm worried you might be right
Worse than the dust bowl?
And arresting people for not having a home just costs tax payers more money.
@@a.s.3567 I think unnecessary arrests also create unhealthy attitudes in society, the cost of criminalizing an economic class.
Oh cr@p that means they will be ahead of the game since they know how to live on the streets
80% of the homeless in los angeles are not native from los angeles. They are sent to los angeles from other states.
In California, they provide more services. Places like Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana and other places have minimum or no services.
If I were homeless, I'd want a warm climate too! I hear Hawaii is even worse!
@@autobug2 extremely humid. Tropical type climate.
@@frankdenardo8684 So how many do you have in YOUR house? How many are you cooking dinner for, and letting crash on your couch? Since the are dumping on the sidewalk, I must presume you leave your door open for them?
@@Jonascord I don't have anyone and I live in a gated community. I have read that California is more generous than other states. All the other states have little or no services available.
I live in Houston and a coworker recently came back from visiting her son in LA. The first thing she talked about was the homeless Population and because she wasn't used to it, admitted that she got caught staring and some of the homeless became irate. She was quite literally afraid of them.
You might live here, but you obviously don't drive here. Go under any overpass and open your eyes... Good old Mayor Turner, and Sheila Jackson Lee at work for us all. Keep voting Democratic like the last election and we will soon be LA East.
I was in Downtown Houston not that long ago and it has the same problem homeless people everywhere.
No one should go to Venice beach!!
because it’s not safe! Saw a video on a young woman who was assaulted and raped and left to die!
She was visiting family just simply walking on the beach and was attacked!
Used to be the staple of LA now a danger zone!! Don’t go there alone especially if your a woman!!
It's not just L.A. its the whole state of California.
Nah just the metro areas and within 30miles of all the metro areas
@John S Yes I live in Fresno Ca and its pretty bad here and getting worse.
Oakland/Berkley was really bad before Covid. SF has always been bad. Lived in LA and San Diego and back then LA downtown was horrible but it's spread all over since then. San Diego got bad once Horton Plaza changed. California housing could fall 70-90% if things keep heading this way. I won't vote DEM at all in 2020 but here in Cali sometimes it's DEM vs DEM and then I vote out incumbent because obviously they have no clue and don't deserve a job again.
@John S I lived there in 2000-02 during the Raiders Super Bowl loss to their coach. The Gaslamp had a yearly block party, Pacific Beach had a yearly block party. Mission Beach allowed drinks just not in bottles on the beach to consume. This was all possible because people took care of the trash and each other. All of that has changed. The Gaslamp is starting to revert to what it was before Horton Plaza was built. Before it was where people strolled to find hookers and drugs of less quality than blow. San Diego is still fun and I go 1-2 times a year but it's on a downward spiral. Haven't been since Covid but doubt that made it better. You re new and see things for the first time and that's great. It is NOT what it was and I've experienced it for decades.
Rural California is not this bad, once you get close to the cities though its just filth.
Combine mental illness, drug addiction, rising cost of living, a global pandemic
and a government who doesn't care to address these problems and this is what you'll
see all across America. The reason these areas are a hot spot is because of the warm weather.
This problem will only multiply and get worse as the years go on. God help us.
Pretty much sums it up.
Also take into account that the homeless from other parts of the country are gravitating here..
Just like a fungus on the skin
This is in most countries. In fact America is the last country to get this way. The world isn’t thinking about America.
The people running la should be locked up and put in prison for life for what they're doing to human beings they say they care they don't give two s**** about nobody but themselves
It's not just homeless people who have no jobs but!
The everyday worker and student live in their cars
This is not new
They're not homeless, they're urban outdoorsman
FarhanAxiq
Than the law enforcement authorities should take care of the lawlessness
Alphonzoe Elrich
It is not easy to camp on sidewalk, it is challenging.
May Almighty God save us all from calamities that lead people homeless and deprived of our belongings
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But they are human being so out of humanity people feed them, we all know it is their fault they have ruined it by making bad choices.
May God make it easy for them.
God knows what they are going threw and what were the circumstances that lead them to this destruction
What is wrong with you 😂🤣😂 stop it
FarhanAxiq 😂😂😂😂
Keep voting democrat. This is what you get.
Grow a brain and then come back and comment!
I’m a pilot from northern Europe. I was so excited for my first flight to LAX and for the three days I had to spend in LA. For the past five years until Covid hit I just stayed at the hotel whenever I was scheduled to fly to LA 🙄
My stay was also 3 days...felt like I got licked by a molded camel whenever I got back to the hotel...I just stayed inside after day 1...disgusting place...ans so expensive...they need to use that tourist money to keep a sidewalk cleaner that sprays soap and water and scrub brushes the concrete...homeless woman standing in the restaurant window...SMH...the Gov needs to take action...
The problem is not “homelessness.” The problems are drugs and mental health problems. Move them anywhere you want and it will just be the same story with a new location.
And high rent. There are people with full time jobs sleeping on the streets.
There is currently a policy of "deinstitutionalizing" people with addictions and mental health problems. Where do these people go if they are not living in an institution? On the streets of LA and other liberal run cities. I don't blame the people themselves, they actually need help. But they need a place to live where they can get the treatment they need.
The problem is unchecked Democrat rule it simply doesn't work!
yep, and 40% of homeless are our veterans. We need to do better.
Some of them become addicts after the fact, most issues are univariate
Moved out of California four years ago and I realize more every day what a good decision that was.
Me too.
@@thebossman60 Next spring for me.
Everyone talk bad about the homeless problem, but what did they do to help 😏end it for good?!
Last November for us. Best decision ever.
Exactly I left to best move ever
No doubt this is true. I take a one month vacation every year to recharge and California was on my list for 2020, I switched to Florida, saw some homeless in Miami, no doubt, but nothing like the tent villages of California. Until California fixes it's safety issues, I have no reason to spend my tens of thousands of dollars in that state. I know they can afford to not have my piddle money, but I am ONE family, when you add us all up who aren't coming, it matters. Vote with your $$$$ it is more powerful than any other vote!
Stop politicians pay until they fix the problem! That's why they are in that position correct? Or is it for the easy taxpayer money
LA County implemented a tax bill in 2017 they've collected over 500 million dollars and have done nothing to the problem where's the money Garcetti and mr. Newsome
That's peanuts compared to the Train to Nowhere scam/fiasco which has cost billions!
Recall Gavin Newsome is on !!
Way back when I was unfortunate enough to be stuck in California, I remember a multi-million dollar modern art statue being installed. You know, because that's WAAAY more important than building homeless shelters, rehabs and mental health clinics.
I really hope mental institutions will be brought back but with a positive reform.
What? Wall of the entire city at the LA city limits?
The tents are not just by the beaches, but all over Los Angeles. Even in neighborhoods that never had that before
Way to go Californians! Keep voting those Democrats back into office.
The problem began with Reagan...
@@uncletony6210 the largest spikes in homelessness occurred within the last decade
@@ajitkirpekar4251 probably. the issue still began with Ronald though. but don't take my word; you can google, "Creating a Science of Homelessness During the Reagan Era," or "Reagan's Shameful Legacy of Homelessness in America," or "The Rise of Homelessness in the 1980s," etc...
@@uncletony6210 I like Ronald Reagan as a president. I can also be honest and say I wish the mental health issue had been handled completely differently than it was and that is a negative on him. But I think it's wrong to claim the current situation as a byproduct of Reagan. The first thing we need to do is be honest with ourselves and say most of the homeless are drug addicts. This isn't just me speculating, this comes from former reformed homeless. Worthy of our sympathy sure, but the policies we have in place are not good ones to solve this
It's a USA problem. While not American I've used to travel extensively in the US. It's everywhere,but more prevelant in areas with a warmer climate. Why freeze to death in Chicago?If you want an eye opener travel I5 from the Canadian border to Mexico. Every rest stop, every overpass has a tent city. Male,female,young,old, and every colour of human being . You are a society in decline and because you live in it you don't see it.
@Martin Barbeau, I was in downtown Cleveland, OH on 7/30/20 while standing I saw a man with matted hair and dirty clothes, homeless, walk to the city garbage can and pull out a bag open it and used the fork in the bag to eat a few french fries leftover. I looked around saw people looking at him but no one bothered to do anything. A young white male on a walker gave him $10 to get him something to eat. I gave the young guy a thumbs up and as the man passed I too gave him the few dollars I had left in my purse.
When he walked away he stopped looked back to say something, I gave him a thumbs up and dropped my head in my hand and openly cried and sobbed out loud. The young white male asked some by standers what was wrong with me they said she just started crying after she gave him some money. I could not stop for a while everytime I tried I would start crying again, it hurt so bad to see his mental condition. It reminded me of our conversation just earlier that day. All people homeless are not addicts people, some are just plain old hungry. Thank you to everyone who has a heart enough to feed someone and to excuse their color. 😥😥😢
@maiden why didn't you take him home with you and let him mooch of you?
@@royharper2003 Smh,, not worth a comment
Major erick garcetti destroyed the city he is the lapid of the city los angeles bad..bad..bad 2020 now.
This story is disgusting. The attitudes toward people experiencing homelessness is horrible. The tragedy is the suffering of the unhoused. Not the dollars lost from tourism.
Thank you 🙏
Kids in the car say," look dad that man is crapping on the sidewalk."
No. The City's response to homelessness badly hurt tourism.
With covid and the new crime wave yes correct.
@Safe Dog not me at all
@@ChihuahuaChappie this has been happening a hell of a lot earlier than covid
@@Mr.Thermistor7228 Yes, agreed but the level has magnified. Venice Boulevard has expanded & spiraled so fast.
As a native Los Angelino, I am ashamed to say that I am from LA. I'm also ashamed we keep voting for these do nothing local politicians every year.
My Family is from there...
Liberal democrats...you keep voting for liberal democrats. You can't solve the problem until you name it.
Don't be ashamed. You can not controll how other peep. Vote.
Democrats.
@@nickhammer6408 your profile picture just perfectly explains your mentality
More like its: "Homeless badly hurting" then dying outside for lack or excess of services.
Except that’s not remotely accurate. There’s a full 1/3 who refuse housing and treatment. It’s well documented too. They refuse to follow any rules that come with free housing and treatment and choose to remain where they are. Meanwhile those of us working full time and paying taxes don’t get offered free housing and medical care. And we have to deal with these people and their filth, violence and insanity everywhere we go, on public and private property. I feel zero empathy for those offered housing and services who choose to live like leeches on society.
When you care about tourism and property values more than human life.
Tourism feeds a lot of people so yeah, you should care about it
Los Angeles gets what it deserves, look who runs this city !
Stop talking BS. The Republicans are the main reason why homeless people get no help. The homeless just flock to states with good weather and a government that is the lesser of two evils (= Democrats).
@@dagda3000 Moron. Low IQ idiot.
I was there in 2016 and I’ll never go back. Saw several people shitting on the side walks downtown.
Well LA is a Democratic city that’s what the Democrat like seeing
The local government wants to help them by giving them free apartment! Just throw em in asylums
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My dad lived in LA briefly in the 80s and he always said how you never want to hang out in downtown LA. When we went for vacation in 2019, we stayed in West Hollywood which was mostly nice. Some homeless, but not like downtown. We were there to visit famous old Hollywood places (Musso and Franks restaurant and famous cemeteries) We had a good time doing that. I think most people don't do their research before going to LA - downtown is not where you want to be - they assume all of LA is puppies and rainbows? Venice Beach was bad, but if you head down to Santa Monica Pier it's pretty fun. If you're going to LA, you have to spend the money and stay in a better area, or else vacation elsewhere if you don't want to spend much.
I remember when LA was cool. Not anymore
Still cool. You're just wrong. No need to respond.
honestly we need to open more mental institutions and rehab centers . Then we need to do what new york does and house the homeless
My wife used to go to the garment district to buy materials. The last time she went was her last, she did not say why, but something must have happened.
LOCAL LEADERS : LOL they're not going to do anything.