Life at the Minneapolis homeless encampment
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Photojournalist Ben Garvin spent two days with the men, women & children at the homeless encampment in Minneapolis to give them a chance to tell their story. kare11.tv/2B4SXQA
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I ended up down there at the end of this fall for five nights. Luckily, I found my aunt Angel Bowen who I haven't seen in 15 years. She runs the exchange and got me a tent. Thank you so much, auntie.
Where is this?
I'm pretty sure this is off of Cedar avenue -- drove by there last summer and the place was crawling with homeless encampments.
With all the opportunity in America, why are you homeless?? I live in California and we have homeless everywhere just work two jobs like many people including myself and you will have a roof over your head!!!
Get a job, show up and actually do it. Stop acting like a useless POS and do your part.
Damn she should have got you a job
Tiny homes are the only IMMEDIATE answer, and it is so cold here now..
Tiny homes and herion? We the people must help. These people need herion. You're tiny house better come with clean needles.
Ahhh Media 😂😂😂 naw they come with Narcotics Anonymous key rings and wall hangings of the 12 steps and traditions.
How are you going to heat them?
What if they catch on fire?
I know people love the idea of tiny homes, but the best and most affordable option to build, to heat, and to maintain is an apartment or condo building. That's the type of housing we really need.
NO, lower taxes and downsize government is the answer. Why in the hell would you want to live in a yard shed? Seriously people, wake up, your government failed you yet you STILL look to them for help.
Most people have something ignorant to say when tax dollars go to helping people. Yet when trillions of tax dollars go to the "military industrial complex", you can hear a pin drop. Humanity is shameless...
Let's bring in thousands of illegal immigrants while our own are homeless..
Thanks Joe
@Angel only 10 million jobs...
They dont pay enough either.
Well, they pay enough for people that actually want to work
The reason I moved out of Minneapolis is because all the money I had went to rent and food light bill gas bill and I was a single parent with four little kids.
I think everyone of us knows someone that has been homeless at some point or ourselves.
That older man, I need a roommate and he shouldn't be there. I live in North central WI, on SS but I have a home. Please let me know if I can help. This breaks my heart...
I'm a homeless 17 year old whom grew out of foster care. I have no problem moving in with you and getting a job at McDonald's to pay half the bills I've worked since 14 and have nothing to show for it.
Dakota Moore
Your a kid you shouldn’t be homeless or have a job you should be in school having the time of your life hanging with friends! How did you end up this way?
@@owlknickerknots2607 life isn’t fair. Even to kids
@@dakotamoore9921 any updates, Dakota?
$500 a week and you can't afford a 2 bedroom apartment in MN....I cry watching this scared to death that this can happen to anyone anytime...
Then stop voting for expanding government. This is why things are so bad, everyone just gives their complete life to the government and this is what they got. Wake up, government has failed us in everyway measureable. Your only hope is to become self sufficient.
I dont own a car but when I walk in the cold I always remember homeless people with no warm home to walk home too. American Politicians need to give Domestic Aid.
It is SO cold.
Poor kids. Poor people.
Too bad, they had every chance in the world. If you feel so bad about them then take your own money and house and help them.
About 70 percent to 83 percent of blind and visually impaired people in the United States are unemployed. About 1 in 4 of us blind or visually impaired folks are currently homeless and living on the streets. If you have secondary disabilities such as a mental health condition, it's worse.
I love you mom I wish I can see you I hope I can see you
Minnesota ......Isn't it about time to drop the "Minnesota Nice " ......maybe the progressive system we've loyalty paid ,paid ,paid and paid into isn't giving the returns that it should be
Are you guys helping people get birth certificates and IDs and social security cards and you guys have work programs set up that are contracted with the temp services
mayor could have a staff member call every owner of an empty old building that looks like it could be fixed a little and be a good shelter and start seeing if some of these owners who own a lot of property want to donate some of these buildings and the land to be turned into shelters. get some grants and volunteers and builders and go in there and make the buildings functional. it could be done all over the country. work out a deal with the city water and the electric companies for donated or super cheap (at cost) water and lights. put in those electric heaters that are shaped like long strips and put them along the baseboards. they are safe and no fire that way. americans have to start helping each cause it is will probably get worse before it gets better.
I don't know why people are turning this into a boarder issue
Or another race issue.
This is a human issue
Politics will always fall short..
It's people collectively working together to help other people,
that's what works.
Home prices skyhigh
Demand sky high
Millions flowing across the boarder that will increase demand for housing
WOW IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME LINK
There are all kinds of shelters they dont want to comply with the shelter rules so you people think we should provide a place with no rules for them no thanks get a job provide for your self if that is what you want.
That is beyond CRUEL LOSER!!!
I bet you've never been homeless b4... Easy for you to run ur ignorant ass mouth!!!
Shelters spread disease and robbing goes on..not enough beds etc ..a whole slew of things go on..That you or i have no idea
I want legal weed and sum tax rev to go to them plus I'd rather have potheads then heroin addicts anyday, it doesn't have to be this way, to bad people with power wont share
How can i help ?
greetings and support from Apple Valley - where is this camp now? how can we get there to bring supplies?
They are all over in different places , please go help them , bring them food and drinks but not money because they could use it for harmful things .
Steph knows what she is talking about i go to Valhalla Methadone clinic and she has done a Lot for the homeless
What about some of the people that may have been born in Minnesota and all that do you think that the state of Minnesota could help search and find their birth certificates and IDs for them just to kind of help out things
Same old Minneapolis...'Mini' and 'appleless'.
When there's no profit in it that's why they don't do it but if there was profit in it buddy they'd have it built in 2 seconds
She's doesn't look like man. She's look silly.
She sounds cringey and rediculous too
My heart is crying for them😢 Please, help those people in Minessotta, they need your help and love. God bless the Real America.
Oh please spare me the fake drama as you sit in your warm home with money in the bank not doing a DAM thing for them. If you were for real then you would have at least one of them living with you but your WAY to selfish to do something like that. All you want is for others to do your bidding while you sit in comfort feeling good about yourself. YOU, are the problem.
Their is a lot of vacancies space why can people let them go there
People don’t understand, children’s in America needs parents less than ever! Why can government build small cabinet for them
I live in CA. There are loads of people that head West for warmer weather. How on earth do homeless people in MN survive the cold??
A lot of people up here use propane heaters and camp stoves to heat their tents, volunteers give out the fuel sometimes, this results in frequent fires. People also place hot rocks from a fire under their bedroll and boiled water bottles in their sleeping bags. Also, several layers of clothes keep a lot of body warmth in. They ride around the lightrail and buses for the heat too.
Ya I was just thinking they should move out west. May be smarter for winter….
Sad
Why ask people to help when they still have to pay there bill. what about government where the tax we pay where it it.
Is that off Cesar Chavez st?
Hiawatha and franklin
This is so tragic!!! And what sickens me is all the big time celebrities that buy these million dollar homes,million dollar cars,without a care for their FELLOW MAN who is at the lowest of their low!!!!! Shame on them!!!!! Well they WILL be held accountable!!!!!!
Amen to that!!!
The problem is we live in a society that does not care for the people with financial struggles. Many jobs pay insanely low. Nobody could live out of that exploitation. Housing is insanely high. Society and government need to understand there are people with mental illnesses that have no way to work steadily. Yes, these people are an issue, yet the issue is not them, the issue is the diversion of funds to useless projects instead of helping real people. Ashen faces on TV are just hypocrisy. Why is it so difficult to understand there is a low % of people who truly need help and society must help them to live a decent life.
I ABSOLUTELY agree we have to help people who need it. But l am sick to death of the junkies and criminals getting help. Many of them have been to prison many times. And many have failed rehabilitation many times. How long are we supposed to pay for these lowlifes!???
I hear there are many vacant apartments across the city. Overpriced boxes all over the place! So ah, no enabling their addictions. They need to clean up, they need treatment, abstinence, not needles. Let’s be real about addiction drugs/alcohol. If all those homeless who are addicted got pulled off the streets and into treatment, the amount of homeless would fall dramatically. And I’m sorry, but addicts/alcoholics commit crimes. Their minds are not right when addicted and they need to pay for those chemicals. Not good. I get they are human but I know addiction and it’s bad for everyone not just addicts/alcoholics. Let’s not get too codependent too enabling.
They don’t want treatment most times than not though. That’s the problem….
This is all about the choices people make i dont have to go to work tomorrow i get to this is the problem people expect that some one will help them if i seen my job or life falling apart i have to adjust and adapt to keep it on track these are people who made a choice not to do that.
Not always buddy. You have no idea what some people go through. Show some respect.
Wow seriously??!! $hit happens dude sometimes very difficult and it could happen to you. I think you need a wake up call!!!
Mean while our politician in Minnesota are angry we are not taking in the homeless in Tijuana in and take care of. Soon these people with die without help.
Seems like Minnesota has the least videos on the homeless issue, even though there are a whole lot of homeless all over the state! Why is that? Because our people don’t care? It makes me sick! I see all sorts of states being truthful about their homeless, but not ours!
I agree Linda
build it yourself, last i heard, we wouldnt be a socialist state. unless sleepy joe fixes that.
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If only people could actually keep their entire paycheck instead of being force to give a huge percentage to a government that does NOTHING for them. We all know taxes and government spending is the problem yet it gets disguised as an affordable houseing problem. Everytime you vote to raise taxes you are screwing yourself and your community over. This money gets wasted and we all know it.
Drugs and alcohol will take you places you don’t want to go and leave you there longer than you want
I miss you jerry! ~Mitakuye Owasin ~
Idk how I’d make it without my section 8 voucher as a single mom. It is overwhelming paying for housing these days especially if you have no roommate or partner! It took 3 and 1/2 years to get on that voucher btw. How does that help homeless?! And the projects take about a year. Better off moving into rural mn and getting on a waiting list…
The money made on the 2022 Superbowl could end world hunger. California made a cleanup sweep of all the homeless encampments between the airport and stadium. They are making a new pro ball stadium costing 5.5 billion dollars. That could end poverty and hunger in the entire US
That is not even remotely close to enough to end poverty and hunger. In that same year the US spent more than $100B on the SNAP program, and that is just one program aimed at combatting poverty and hunger in one country. To think 5.5B can end hunger and poverty for USA or to think super bowl revenue could end world hunger is absurd.
Are you sure that less than $20 per person can end all hunger and poverty? Seems like you didn't give this much thought.
Views like that aren't going to help solve hunger or any other problems. Believing that the massive problems of hunger and poverty can be solved by such a tiny effort as making just one less shiny stadium trivializes the issue. The problems of hunger and poverty are massive and require a big change in priorities and/or an almost total restructure of our economy and society. Those amounts of money couldn't even fix the problems for a single day, much less be a permanent solution. Sure that $5.5B could have been spent on better things, but it is barely a drop in the bucket compared to the problems like poverty, hunger, and homelessness.
@@derp7738 do the math…100b divided by 50 states is 2 billion a state.
@@derp7738 also, how many people fit in a stadium?
Here we built the “people’s stadium” so why not let the homeless sleep there?
Why are taxpayers funding building for private companies?
And while I’m at it, why is the NFL a nonprofit?
Seems to me our values and spending is upside down in this country.
There are all kinds of jobs this is a choice these people have made you decide what is next for them i dont think another government program will fix it.
About 1/3 of Mn's homeless HAVE jobs. There are many, many jobs that do not pay a living wage.
People cannot afford to live there with I do understand that I know I could not so I chose to go more North where I can afford to live
Donations are cool but it’s just a bandaid! Changing state & city laws to construct tiny homes for these people! The best donations would be for cities to allow land to be used for a tiny home habitat & lots of volunteers to help build it, financial donations towards this cause etc... and keep track of not just the funds but everything, because we all know how greedy some people can get when they see an opportunity! Keep it straight & simple!
No Tony L I believe every little bit helps. Small changes may lead to bigger changes. These people are individuals and every life counts,therefore every little bit of effort counts!!
why no tiny home here. could really help
Heroin addiction at its finest...refusing to hit rock bottom. Go to treatment then get help with life. Otherwise, its enabling.
There are not enough rehab space to help these people..And you just do t go for one month and your not addicted to drugs anymore.These people need extensive rehabilitation ..More like a year..That usually brings us back to what I said originally..not enough places to assist these peoples’ issues..so much easier said then done..These people have low education..Where do you work at McDonald’s? Your lucky you could pay your rent
@@chixbleau7321 no, I retired at 35 cause I have an IQ of 143. Enjoy your struggle dumb dumb.
If the Gov is serious, ..this tragedy can be drastically reduced within one year by using the Federal Reserves!! They just don't care a damn!!
Being Homeless sucks, but I had a friend who was getting $900.00 per month on a disability. He lived in Serra Vista where it was only $500.00 per month for +500 square foot apartments. He chose to become a hobo and spend his nights at a North Mpls homeless shelter.
News “girl” is almost a caricature of a hip Lesbian……..😂
That's just built well-built some tiny homes for everybody
The states have a lot money to do all this stuff for no reason but help their owned people
These people dont wanna help themselves, why should we just hand them everything. What a joke
It's the government fault for not building affordable housing
AGREE
I agree
Move the homeless to a warm climate !
And donations to RS Eden.
we all go camping for fun why not live this way
Its a shameless society bill boards soon.naming .
So helpful. Try to make people feel sorry... with no accountability.
Step 1. Sober up.
Step 2. Get a job.
step 3. Find a like minded person to pool $ together and get a 1 bedroom apartment.
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migrants took all the warm hotel rooms
Minneosta nice?
Its 365million plus in the U.S someone will be homeless someone will be poor etc jus be gald its not you right now don't be sooo high and mighty 😂
Oh please, when are we going to stop dancing around the white elephant. These are the people that refuse to show up to work and do a GOOD job. They are the flunkies we all work with that can't show up on time and when they do show up all they do is everything but their job and end up getting fired. We all work with these people and we all have to deal with them as a customer and its very frustrating. Now they're homeless and we all stand around wondering why, give me a break. It really is as simple as just do your job.
Bidens America
I've changed my mind. Herion is great. Let's supply the camp with premium herion and needles. That lady from Valhalla place get to work on it.
Bitch what's herion
My baby daddy dies from heroin OD this year leaving behind his 14 year old whom he never built a relationship with. Tragic and the worst part is it happened in a halfway house that the country forced him into even tho he was having the time of his life with his gf of seven years after being released from prison.