Vancouver's Homelessness on East Hastings St - Canada's Worst Living Conditions - Street Life

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  • Опубликовано: 3 июл 2023
  • The incidence of homelessness in Metro Vancouver has increased annually over the past 15 years, and has now reached a state of crisis.
    Homelessness is a symptom of other underlying problems. An estimated 80% of homeless people suffer a chronic health issue. 49% have an addiction and 34% suffer from mental illness.
    Homelessness is a region-wide problem, impacting all communities from downtown Vancouver to suburban and rural areas within Metro Vancouver. Homelessness impacts all residents, regardless of income status, who live and work beside people suffering on the streets, in tent cities, and in temporary shelters.
    This is life in Canada.

Комментарии • 436

  • @yvonne495
    @yvonne495 11 месяцев назад +21

    I live in a small city in northern Ontario and it's here too. I don't think there is a place left that isn't affected. It will get worse. It's already gotten so much worse in such a short time.

  • @doloresalston4409
    @doloresalston4409 Год назад +17

    YOU GOT TO BE MENTALLY STRONG TO LOOK AT THIS IT IS SAD

  • @abdellahzaidi1257
    @abdellahzaidi1257 Год назад +22

    Oh my God. And it's not Canada. What is going on there? What is that dirt in the street and on the sidewalks? And these homeless people, some of them addicted, filled these spaces with household items. Chairs. sleeping beds. bicycles. Baby vehicles. camp.... Garbage containers are dirty and badly stained on the side of buildings and houses. It's a strange thing happening in Canada. Just like what happens in Philadelphia in America. And as if it were the end of the human being!!!

    • @margob6203
      @margob6203 10 месяцев назад +4

      You should have seen it earlier this summer. You literally could not walk on these sidewalks due to the number of tents set up. Massive piles of garbage everywhere, stinking to high heaven, addicts shooting up in the street, a complete horror show. It was finally declared an emergency situation and the VPD shut down the streets and finally forcibly took down the tents, which took a few days. This video here is very tame compared to usual daily goings on.

    • @philippebracq884
      @philippebracq884 5 месяцев назад +1

      Canada 2024 under Trudeau😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @rayjc1539
    @rayjc1539 Год назад +37

    Such an amazing job government and whoever involved in this bs

    • @bob733333
      @bob733333 Год назад +2

      Ya, who is lacing all the dope? How is it possible that all the dope is now tranq?

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz Год назад +1

      Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.

    • @rl5579
      @rl5579 Год назад +5

      It's not the governments fault that these people are addicts. But it is the government's fault that they are in the streets and not in a facility, whether it be a prison or rehab

    • @JamesBond-su7hj
      @JamesBond-su7hj 9 месяцев назад +2

      The government has done all they can do, the homeless have mental problems.

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed 7 месяцев назад

      How in the hell is this the governments fault? People need to take responsibility for their own actions. Did the government make them do drugs ? Idiot !

  • @Carolacan
    @Carolacan 3 месяца назад +4

    I was offered drugs at the height of the hippie counter cultural revolution of the 1960's and said No.
    I was 12. I thought it was stupid to do drugs. All this self degredation is disgusting. And these people blame it on everybody but themselves. That is the real tragedy.

  • @murraycampbell1548
    @murraycampbell1548 11 месяцев назад +19

    You got a relatively “quiet “ day for filming. I live in the neighborhood and there can easily be 3-5 times this many people like this.

    • @leticiacortez6711
      @leticiacortez6711 10 месяцев назад +2

      Hope will not happen to us what's happening in USA ,SPECIALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO ALMOST ALL BUSINESSES ARE CLOSE BECAUSE THE HIGH CRIMES,HOMELESSNESS, AND DRUGS THAT CAUSE OF DOWNFALL OF AMERICA

    • @asullivan4047
      @asullivan4047 Месяц назад

      Ever thought about videoing A remake of " Night of the living Dead ". Using fentanyl schizophrenia zombies-???🤔.. Low cost production giving fentanyl to the actors-!!!😉.. While you're at it. Have a recording of the Beatle's classic song. Elenor Rigby playing in the background-!!!😉.

  • @jakmoan
    @jakmoan 11 месяцев назад +9

    Such an eye opener I never imagined Canada to have such a big homeless problem

    • @jakmoan
      @jakmoan 11 месяцев назад +1

      All I can say is “ oh Canada”😢

    • @jimtalbott2894
      @jimtalbott2894 10 месяцев назад +1

      "Oh Canada" 😃 L.O.L. !

    • @leticiacortez6711
      @leticiacortez6711 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yes one of getting being problem because of free drugs and marijuana

    • @masterofmuppetz9647
      @masterofmuppetz9647 9 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks Trudeau !

    • @MidnightRambler1964
      @MidnightRambler1964 3 месяца назад

      You only see whats infront on this video, the problem is pandemic scale!!

  • @phoenixman8569
    @phoenixman8569 Год назад +14

    I remember back when you were high or drunk your ass was dragged away atleast for an over nighter or longer for a repeat offender, and if you got angry or combative you got a couple good whacks with a good old police baton or even a face full of mace if you were really being a nasty piece of work, AAAhhhhh the good old days...

    • @bob733333
      @bob733333 Год назад +2

      Ya, not long ago this stuff would not be tolerated. Heads would get cracked.

    • @benjamin6492
      @benjamin6492 Год назад

      goverment paid rehanbs so they acn go straight to a rehab and give it a go ,alot of them could probably get clean if they were given one chance at least at a good treatment center livein so they are ther eand off the streets for awhile ,its not jsut the drugs ,it a life style,so ya but if they get clean i hope they can go and help others theyknow give them the one chance too ,i donthtink hittign peope will solve anyhting ,they dont deserved to be hot casue they have fallen to addiction,theres alot of alcoholics still walkign around in total denial they have drinking problems so ,i htink jsut give them all one shot at it and the goverment can pay for it and take it out of the goverment paid advocates paychecks ,i think they really are not helping at all....sadly somethign bigger has to happen ,but give them achance , know some they af good people my brother was there hes dead now but i wished he could have had one chance at it ,everyone deserves a achance at a better healther life with someone to help them stay out of a place that brought them to drugs in the first place or fix other problems that led them there .....sometimes it is simple to fix given one chance

    • @xxllbb55
      @xxllbb55 Год назад +2

      @@bob733333 S O C I A L I S M apparently gives everything BUT LOVE & CARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Meowface.
      @Meowface. Год назад

      I’ve ASKED to be taken to jail for a night
      When you’re cold and hungry, jail is a nice place to rest
      Cops purposely cut people loose or don’t even contact them because they know jail isn’t a punishment
      I mean unless you want to criminalize homelessness and lock people up for more than a night
      Then people would try n avoid it

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz Год назад

      Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.

  • @justmeandmyopinions
    @justmeandmyopinions Год назад +14

    Not sure where you got your numbers from but the addiction rates for homeless people in the DTES is effectively 100%

    • @bryan3409
      @bryan3409 Год назад

      @@xxllbb55 did the boot stuck in your mouth make seeing your screen difficult?

  • @krg038
    @krg038 Год назад +12

    Great videos. Our homeless in California are the same. More have tents. Rows ans rows. Our church feeds as many as possible but the lines are long every day. Few want jobs and many are working but not enough $$ for rent. Its a sad problem. Praying that their situations change. Most are mentally ill.

    • @tinahalim6589
      @tinahalim6589 Год назад +1

      They became mentally ill due to high rent

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  Год назад +2

      Almost the same, our local charities daily feed them

    • @krg038
      @krg038 Год назад +1

      @@tinahalim6589 quite possibly since we are all pretty much one paycheck away from the curb.

    • @ruyan247
      @ruyan247 11 месяцев назад +2

      Rent doesn't cause mental illness, drugs do.

    • @dragonslowroller1541
      @dragonslowroller1541 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@ruyan247actually social and mental degradation can come from living without basic necessities. ( like running water, place to change, shower toilet, safe place to sleep and proper social contact.)

  • @JackRocko
    @JackRocko 11 месяцев назад +8

    this shows Canada for what it is

  • @smokeynewton
    @smokeynewton Год назад +12

    Wow. I thought this was just a thing here in the states. Humanity must be crashin' and burnin'.

    • @apples874
      @apples874 Год назад +1

      It's China. Chinese are the primary source of fentanyl and India 2ndary. Fentanyl can easily be smuggled overseas due to only needing a small amount per dose

    • @Inf7cted
      @Inf7cted 11 месяцев назад

      @@apples874 China also buying up everything causing a housing pandemic.

    • @craigstewart8123
      @craigstewart8123 11 месяцев назад +1

      Downtown east side Vancouver was always bad, long before fentanyl. Back in the day, it was heroin at pigeon park, then meth, then crack, then fentanyl, then tranq. I wasn’t there for the fentanyl and tranq, but the telltale signs show the same. In San Fran, we’ve got the same zombies doubled over, and scabs up there arms and legs. It’s tough to see. They are humans after all. I want to care, but it’s brutal. What can be done? Vancouver has been trying everything long before a lot of American cities ever lifted a finger. But the problem still remains and has become worse.

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for your story @craigstewart8123, dtes was bad but not as today. I live in Van since 86 and sometimes driving by E Hastings to Stanley Park and there was nothing like today.

    • @Inf7cted
      @Inf7cted 11 месяцев назад

      @@ExploreVancouverCanada so where did all the homeless go? its not like they just vanished right?

  • @rcdogmanduh4440
    @rcdogmanduh4440 Год назад +20

    Observations: A very limber people! They seem to all have Cell phones! Someone can afford cans of spray paint, many cans in multiple colors!

    • @KC-632H
      @KC-632H Год назад

      Exactly

    • @Meowface.
      @Meowface. Год назад +2

      They don’t all have phones… maybe 1/4 do
      N lots just use pay as you go plans n live off free wifi
      I was homeless… a phone was the one and only thing my family paid for
      Because my mom always wanted to be able to know where I was
      Oh… and I never saw other homeless people tagging with spray paint
      Tagging is a hobby… a homeless addict doesn’t have hobbies

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz Год назад

      Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.

    • @animalconsultant7796
      @animalconsultant7796 Год назад +2

      Most of the people doing graffiti there aren’t homeless, they just paint in that area cause it’s sketchy and they’ll blend in easier (a civilian is less likely to be like hey what are you doing), also for the thrill of doing graffiti in a dangerous area. People need to stop writing on businesses though and in Chinatown, just makes the situation worse, stick to the walls and dumpsters.

  • @Jaxxjazzwazzz
    @Jaxxjazzwazzz 11 месяцев назад +6

    I remember when I was with my mom and dad and we were at a parking thing in Vancouver. And this homeless guy said he would pay for it if it goes off. Some homeless people are nice and I bet he has a rich life now.

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад +2

      Some of them are cool and nice. They are not as bad as most people guess.

    • @wishteria234
      @wishteria234 9 месяцев назад

      @@ExploreVancouverCanada no, in addiction they are dangerous

  • @reiniervisser291
    @reiniervisser291 Год назад +5

    Incridible ,and that for a rich country like Canada.

  • @Mervyn001
    @Mervyn001 11 месяцев назад +16

    Can't believe there's so homeless people in these first world countries, now I don't feel so bad, living in a third world country!!!

    • @KP-wt8qr
      @KP-wt8qr 11 месяцев назад

      There is homeless in every country on the planet, don't let anyone tell you different.

    • @Mervyn001
      @Mervyn001 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@KP-wt8qr That's true!!!! But for one of the wealthiest country in the world, that should not happen!!!! There are hundreds of extremely wealthy people in that country & have more money than they know what to do with it, why don't they help???? Maybe there's just too much greed & they don't give a damn. My third world country has its problems but nothing compared to this!!!!

    • @KP-wt8qr
      @KP-wt8qr 11 месяцев назад

      @@Mervyn001 It doesn't really make sense if you're saying you live in a third world country then there are homeless people in your country, third world is just another term for poverty, so there is this in your country.

    • @Mervyn001
      @Mervyn001 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@KP-wt8qr Third world country doesn't necessarily mean poverty & homeless people. My country's problem was due to a system called " apartheid". We don't have hundreds of people sleeping in street corners, the poor people were forced into squatter camps by the regime. So what I said does make sense. I never said, we don't have poverty, every country does but for a third world country, not as much as seen in the video!!!!

    • @KP-wt8qr
      @KP-wt8qr 11 месяцев назад

      @@Mervyn001 What country? South Africa?

  • @TheImaginaryLens
    @TheImaginaryLens Год назад +10

    hey bud great vids the government needs to see more of these. im in victoria and downtown along Pandora is just as bad . id reccomend you getting a small gimble for your cam so you dont get that hop when you walk. amazon has them relatively cheap. keep up the good work mang. i drive truck for a living, i come to the mainland, fill up with produce and go back to the island. i go down to E. hastings and jackson to pick up a pallet .a lot of tents up there now in that block.
    op

    • @jlvjazz
      @jlvjazz Год назад +1

      Good advice.

    • @justmeandmyopinions
      @justmeandmyopinions Год назад +1

      You can't hide a gimble. It's dangerous to openly film them.

    • @Meowface.
      @Meowface. Год назад

      These people are at the lowest point of their lives.. they don’t want their family or people from back home to see them like this
      So people can get pretty angry if they catch you filming them

    • @TheImaginaryLens
      @TheImaginaryLens Год назад +1

      @@Meowface. you honestly think most of these people even care? give me a break. ive known a lot of homeless back east and trust me , they dont care cause most choose to be and most family know they are down here and dont give a shit.

    • @TheImaginaryLens
      @TheImaginaryLens Год назад

      @@justmeandmyopinions they dont care, all they want is their high.

  • @ExposeMainstreamMedia
    @ExposeMainstreamMedia 10 месяцев назад +14

    What a shame. The problem has definitely gotten worse in the past few years. The homeless were at least contained to the E. Hastings area before but it's slowly become an issue across the entire downtown peninsula. It smells like piss everywhere, human feces on the street, garbage littered everywhere, and people shooting up. I would definitely not recommend anyone with children to move anywhere close to the downtown core, or anywhere in Vancouver for that matter. At least until voters wake up and vote out these woke governments and woke policies that are 100% enabling this.

    • @arseface2k934
      @arseface2k934 9 месяцев назад +2

      It isn't quite that bad, as long as you stay west of the Chinatown gate it's still a normal city. But yes half of these people should be forced to go to rehab and the other half should be in a mental asylum. Enough is enough, I don't understand how people just accept seeing people smoke crack on a sidewalk in the middle of the day.

    • @Noworries-PU7ye
      @Noworries-PU7ye 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@arseface2k934a lot of this stuff is brought among themselves they have addictions there is help out there for them they don't have to be on the streets so they don't want to be

    • @asullivan4047
      @asullivan4047 Месяц назад

      You're living in a euphoric fentanyl schizophrenia day dream-!!!.

  • @jeffreyharnden7523
    @jeffreyharnden7523 Год назад +6

    There all over the U.S and Canada but do politicians even care um no

  • @vincegedeon6583
    @vincegedeon6583 5 месяцев назад +3

    I was homeless years ago i passed out under a bridge drunk it was 22 degrees out i had hardly anything on luckily a complete stranger had walked by and put a blanket on me or i prob wouldn't be here right now!

  • @glenngarvey7283
    @glenngarvey7283 11 месяцев назад +5

    I lived in the downtown eastside in 1982..i was 19yrs old and it was skid row back then...more alcoholics than drug addicts ...im lucky to have gotten out..im now 60..there were lots of places to live back then...i had a room on Main and Georgia...i think its multi level parking lot now...i should of died a couple of times back then...i guess god had a different plan

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for sharing your story, bud. Back then there were more drinking problem, sometimes people drank Sake cooking wine.

  • @ratso4443
    @ratso4443 11 месяцев назад +5

    It doesn’t look like a homeless problem so much as a zombie apocalypse drug problem. Homelessness is the byproduct.

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад

      That's right, either byproduct or consequence.

    • @asullivan4047
      @asullivan4047 Месяц назад

      Both diabolically devastating room mates go hand in hand-!!!😉.

  • @janbanan7768
    @janbanan7768 10 месяцев назад +7

    So Canada is going the same way as the US. All the best to you.....

    • @Yohahn
      @Yohahn 2 месяца назад

      because of the US..

    • @asullivan4047
      @asullivan4047 Месяц назад

      Unfortunately along with sectors of Europe-!!! 😭.

  • @johnwatson-hg3nb
    @johnwatson-hg3nb 11 месяцев назад +2

    The great and peaceful people of the great country of Canada. How peaceful is every street in Canada and how peacefully people are living here. They are very peaceful people. No fighting and no looting of any kind. This is Vancouver and the rest of Canada will be the same in years to come.

  • @Zeonoid
    @Zeonoid 11 месяцев назад +7

    How can such a great country as Canada tolerate such a pandemic drug problem ?

    • @Inf7cted
      @Inf7cted 11 месяцев назад +3

      Canada fell ages ago.

    • @chimraly
      @chimraly 11 месяцев назад +3

      They have made drugs legal here..

    • @Inf7cted
      @Inf7cted 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@chimraly Jun 16, 2023 - An estimated 21% of Canadians, about 6 million people, will meet the criteria for addiction in their lifetime.

    • @chimraly
      @chimraly 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Inf7cted And what are these criterias, do you support legalization of drugs and safe supplies? 50 PC Canadians suffer mental health problems of various kinds and will grow in future...

    • @Inf7cted
      @Inf7cted 11 месяцев назад +6

      @@chimraly
      Homelessness stems from various factors. Social causes, including the scarcity of affordable housing, poverty, and unemployment, contribute to homelessness. Additionally, life events can push individuals into a state of homelessness.
      The combination of inadequate income stability and unaffordable housing leads to what is known as "hidden" homelessness. These individuals may oscillate between being homeless and having temporary housing, making the homelessness issue more extensive than what is typically reflected in street or shelter counts.
      A study conducted in 2022 revealed that the differences in homelessness rates across the country are not primarily attributed to mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty, but rather to variations in housing costs.
      For many homeless individuals, accessing drugs or alcohol is easier than finding stable employment and secure housing. On the streets, drugs are more readily available than opportunities for homeless individuals to improve their circumstances. When coupled with the stress and anxiety that accompany life as a homeless person, it is understandable why someone in such a situation might turn to substances as a means of coping. Moreover, if someone was already battling drug addiction before becoming homeless, their situation is further compounded by the difficulty of receiving essential medical treatment.

  • @tsangdennis1953
    @tsangdennis1953 Год назад +7

    A 90 degree forward bending is their standard posture. Is there a particular reason why ? Energy saving mode ?

    • @bob733333
      @bob733333 Год назад

      It definitely seems to cause muscular problems.

    • @tomdillon3143
      @tomdillon3143 Год назад +3

      Tranq

    • @bethjohnson8414
      @bethjohnson8414 Год назад

      They dont want to lay down because they will fall asleep and miss the "high". But it makes their body so relaxed so they bend over instead. They get really hot so some of them pull down their pants too. Called the fenty fold

    • @Meowface.
      @Meowface. Год назад +1

      Mixing meth and fentanyl
      You’re sedated but pumped full of stimulants so you’re asleep while standing
      Or unable to control your movements

    • @tomrogers9467
      @tomrogers9467 Год назад +3

      It’s a result of using what these animals call “tranq”. Livestock tranquilizer .

  • @heatherholyland157
    @heatherholyland157 Год назад +5

    You should have checked on that young guy on the corner ! Jeez 😡

  • @jimtalbott2894
    @jimtalbott2894 10 месяцев назад +5

    Free coffee and food van! I was surprised to see that. I believe Vancouver is more organized then other zombie areas in the world 🌎

  • @xxllbb55
    @xxllbb55 Год назад +5

    S O C I A L I S M apparently gives everything BUT LOVE & CARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @10percent4DaBigGuy
      @10percent4DaBigGuy 11 месяцев назад +1

      But they tell me Socialism is the future!
      This is Proof Socialism works!

  • @dougsmith1968
    @dougsmith1968 15 дней назад +1

    You can see, but how do they feel.. unreal 😢

  • @bluyt4947
    @bluyt4947 Год назад +15

    If a new generation of Drug and alcohol users doesn’t come along this problem will take care of it self ! These druggies can’t live much longer ! Suicide by drugs and alcohol !The Mayor must be so pride of the city he loves ?

    • @terrimead1003
      @terrimead1003 Год назад

      Of course there are more comming!! Junkies can find their shit and USE it right where they are!! They live this way by CHOICE! Don't feel sorry for them and NONE are going to rehab!! Let them OD!

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz Год назад +2

      Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.

    • @joobn8r
      @joobn8r 3 месяца назад

      It ain't the mayor's fault

  • @Carolacan
    @Carolacan 3 месяца назад +3

    Has nobody ever told these people this is what happens when you use drugs?

  • @shunnydunn
    @shunnydunn 11 месяцев назад +2

    ***WOW*** 🥺 Why is "NOTHING" being done about this???🤔😥

  • @user-tv5hg4zh3p
    @user-tv5hg4zh3p 9 месяцев назад +3

    The government needs to want to put these people to work building shelters for the homeless.

    • @joobn8r
      @joobn8r 3 месяца назад

      Like that would work. I doubt most of these people could build a snowman without help!

  • @boris8787
    @boris8787 Год назад +3

    For obvious reasons I wish Vancouver was like the town of Chillingbourne. 💔💔💔

  • @ianhowes8141
    @ianhowes8141 10 месяцев назад +4

    East Hastings has been this way for 50+ years - Vancouverites would sooner it stayed that way than move the problem elsewhere , or do anything about it!

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  9 месяцев назад

      I do not agree. 4 decade ago, there was one or two wandering or sleeping on the bus bench

    • @richardb.3808
      @richardb.3808 Месяц назад

      ​@@ExploreVancouverCanadaFalse. There is a documentary made by the National Film Board in the 1970s and the situation was the same. The only difference I see is those people folded in two after using fentanyl.

  • @10percent4DaBigGuy
    @10percent4DaBigGuy 11 месяцев назад +2

    Vancouver's soooo privileged! this is one of the reasons i won't return!

  • @jeremyvarin3637
    @jeremyvarin3637 8 месяцев назад +1

    The cold winter save Montreal from this mess

  • @marianfrances4959
    @marianfrances4959 6 месяцев назад

    What do you get out of waking through that smell and mysery?

  • @petercraig1853
    @petercraig1853 9 месяцев назад +1

    Well this is better than other vids I've seen

  • @elzaaltmann
    @elzaaltmann 8 месяцев назад +1

    Strange how we don't see foreigners on the streets ad homeless

  • @blackman8125
    @blackman8125 Год назад +3

    Kensington II

  • @dr.detroit2877
    @dr.detroit2877 Год назад +3

    For Canada Day, I want to give everyone a pillow--and call it no dipping Day. (just chillax)

  • @fccpfccp8189
    @fccpfccp8189 11 месяцев назад +2

    Governments, members of provincial legislation and Charities have no real intentions to solve the root problem. Perpetuating the problem is best for their continual interest.

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад

      But how? please leave out the Charities, giving FOOD and CLOTHING daily.

  • @omismaeel8350
    @omismaeel8350 Год назад +3

    أين الاهل والاسر ؟ يا الله رحمتك

  • @nwo6541
    @nwo6541 10 месяцев назад +2

    Some people know how to have fun and enjoy life! Lets not be jelous!

    • @dfuk66
      @dfuk66 4 месяца назад

      Lol

  • @user-lr5jr9jt5o
    @user-lr5jr9jt5o 11 месяцев назад +1

    It’s been like this 4-5 years already

  • @HIAHomelessInAmerica
    @HIAHomelessInAmerica Год назад +3

    🙏🙏🙏

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 Год назад +1

      These lowlives need to be charged for EVERYTHING to the ABSOLUTE fullest extent of the law!

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz Год назад

      Prayers help. Street homeless need warm hugs and a full bowl of love soup.

  • @jaimealbertomelendez263
    @jaimealbertomelendez263 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is Honcouver??,

  • @gordonmohr2268
    @gordonmohr2268 11 месяцев назад

    all drugs are legal now in BC right? you think this will get better or worse ?

    • @margob6203
      @margob6203 10 месяцев назад

      Untrue. Only marijuana is legal. Small amounts of other drugs for personal consumption have been decriminalized, not legalized.

  • @helenellis6706
    @helenellis6706 11 месяцев назад +2

    This is like ķensington in philly 😢

  • @petercraig1853
    @petercraig1853 9 месяцев назад +1

    The street looks clean

  • @CalvinMorris-cf8jk
    @CalvinMorris-cf8jk Год назад +4

    wow it looks just like s.f.calif

    • @Jestersage
      @Jestersage Год назад +1

      It's base on the same line of policy. Except you throw in Indigenous rights and thus is even worse.

  • @robertcolford2970
    @robertcolford2970 10 месяцев назад +1

    Looks just like Oakland Cal 😢

  • @artomarto679
    @artomarto679 Год назад

    At least it's quite.. Give me this over spring break any time

  • @georgeroskilly7524
    @georgeroskilly7524 11 месяцев назад

    I can only assume you are using a concealed camera?

  • @Yourunclestoenail
    @Yourunclestoenail Год назад +2

    This makes me wonder where they y’all at in the winter

    • @canadianjester6118
      @canadianjester6118 Год назад +1

      Just there, on Hastings. The homeless winter in a field out here in Salmon Arm. Vancouver must be a dream temperature wise.

  • @davidapps255
    @davidapps255 Год назад +3

    Turn 'em into fertiliser!

  • @bill...9566
    @bill...9566 11 месяцев назад

    Hey we got that on pandora in Victoria.

  • @tested123
    @tested123 Год назад +4

    how and where are these hundreds of people getting the drugs? they all have them all the time. how?

    • @frar.841
      @frar.841 Год назад +8

      Curtesy of Trudolf at the expenses of Canadians

    • @mustardbackpack
      @mustardbackpack Год назад

      They'll steal anything they get their hands on and sell it

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 Год назад

      ​@@lv2keepfit493And most of the VAST majority are criminals. Stealing anything they can!

    • @KC-632H
      @KC-632H Год назад +1

      Glad my tax dollars are going to good use 🤦‍♂️

    • @justmeandmyopinions
      @justmeandmyopinions Год назад

      Drugs are cheap here and they will smash a car window just to get the change from the ashtray. They beg or steal all day long and spend all the money they get on drugs. The churches and shelters provide everything else, food, a bed, clothing.

  • @user-lp5lc5rv5k
    @user-lp5lc5rv5k 11 месяцев назад +4

    Hard to believe is this real

  • @robertdobie8680
    @robertdobie8680 Год назад +13

    Vancouverites must be happy to be residing in one of the most “livable” cities in the world, no?

    • @10percent4DaBigGuy
      @10percent4DaBigGuy 11 месяцев назад +4

      the sane ones leave

    • @robertdobie8680
      @robertdobie8680 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@10percent4DaBigGuy I left two years ago.

    • @10percent4DaBigGuy
      @10percent4DaBigGuy 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@robertdobie8680 vancouver physically stole over 250K from me in physical possessions from me this included things like the only time my parents house was BnE happened during the day while i was at school feb 28 1996 on my 8th birthday(my actual 8th birthday) nearly 30 BMX bikes i literally physically built with money i earned(nearly 30 grand) most of them where stolen from people i once knew but no way to prove it and once you ask them to do you a simply favour a person literally broke in and cleaned out my mothers life savings Well!!!! over! 150K in precious metals! in my 35 years of life has left me with a physical bad taste in my mouth of not vancouver but its people(all of them) and that's not even half of it but some of the most rememberable stuff! this is why i will Never! Return to vancouver

  • @bachandass9927
    @bachandass9927 8 месяцев назад +1

    Once they were beautiful new born babies, it shows there are some reasons in education system.

  • @user-ch3pv6xi1z
    @user-ch3pv6xi1z 11 месяцев назад +7

    Что происходит с этим заподным миром 😮

  • @christopherhogg3227
    @christopherhogg3227 11 месяцев назад +1

    Reminds me of early Granville. And damn, Van graffiti 'artists' suuuck

  • @TheWolfsnack
    @TheWolfsnack Год назад +8

    I see that affording those high priced cigarettes isn;t a problem.

  • @kristyhawes
    @kristyhawes 11 месяцев назад

    Isnt it like snow in Canada how do they do it in the cold, they mustn't shower for days, where do they go to eat, and wait till it eats sway at their flesh a girl in one of the other videos in Kensington arm got amputated due to fentanyl and tranq use

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад

      It's similar to Kensington Philly

    • @universalconquest4447
      @universalconquest4447 2 месяца назад

      Vancouver specifically is unique because it's in a rainforest, so it does now snow in Vancouver or get below 0 but it just rains a lot. The rest of Canada all snow.

  • @ceroandone
    @ceroandone Год назад +3

    9:39 protein shake

  • @2nostromo
    @2nostromo 7 месяцев назад +2

    the coming world-wide depression will only make it worse

  • @julierafael2864
    @julierafael2864 Год назад +3

    Canada's only possible solution to Homelessness is to gather all the homeless people across Canada grouped in one place, for example, in Toronto or Vancouver Don't let them wander into every other location and stay on the sidewalks. If you see homeless people, dump them all in Vancouver or anywhere with a good climate. There needs to be a place to accept those homeless people to be put and be allowed to live. Similarly, the garbage that has landfills to dump enough rubbish and segregate combustible from non-combustible waste so you can recycle usable items by type, likewise to people, cautiousness if the people are contagious, separate the bad from the good people and ordinary people. Separate the sheep from the goats. Matthew 25:31-46

    • @ivanstarkov4053
      @ivanstarkov4053 11 месяцев назад

      And after that build a wall around and fill it with comcrete

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад

      No kidding. nobody has right to relocating them.

    • @mjamesk2499
      @mjamesk2499 2 месяца назад

      每個政府都不想有這樣情況出現 世界各國都有這樣的貧民區 貧民佔大多數 所以加拿大政府要抽富人稅 世界各地都有貧富懸殊 這問題很難解決 看看北韓不會有這情況的 這是正式共產國家o

  • @ilenetyrrell4484
    @ilenetyrrell4484 6 месяцев назад +1

    What do they live off in Canada? How do most get cash?

    • @freebarbecue622
      @freebarbecue622 2 месяца назад

      Welfare system and free drugs apparently with "safe injection sites" . Also the influx of other homeless people from other provinces .

  • @lucstpierre6401
    @lucstpierre6401 10 месяцев назад +1

    courtesy of Justin Trudo

  • @mcwakefield
    @mcwakefield 11 месяцев назад +1

    Ppl change, get clean or die or go in and out of jail. Addiction isn’t a crime and no one will change until they r ready, doesn’t look like it’s any better since it was me down there, it’s me who’s changed.

  • @Coffee240
    @Coffee240 11 месяцев назад +1

    Looks like USA, 😢

  • @amazingrhod1119
    @amazingrhod1119 11 месяцев назад

    I think this is better than Los Angeles CA.

    • @2magma.command
      @2magma.command 11 месяцев назад +1

      right. but los angeles is better than chicago.

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад +2

      We are in the same boat. Nothing can be done.

  • @totoytayoto5160
    @totoytayoto5160 11 месяцев назад

    Oh my god..All sorounding in d city is very bad..how come d peaple leaving in that place🤔😲😭

  • @KYurk
    @KYurk 11 месяцев назад

    Looks like a good place for new fire fighters to get some training with their fire hoses.

  • @Ahahahhaaah
    @Ahahahhaaah 9 месяцев назад +1

    The fact that people just walk pass and don’t even bat an eye speaks volumes.

  • @Tiffy552
    @Tiffy552 11 месяцев назад

    Tragic no other word for it.

  • @zuvin3161
    @zuvin3161 11 месяцев назад +1

    And BC is legalizing the SMALL amount of DRUGS. Interesting!

    • @margob6203
      @margob6203 10 месяцев назад

      Not legalizing, decriminalizing. There is a difference.

  • @cyrene7784
    @cyrene7784 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'll be honest, I don't really give a crap about these people (as a whole, individually they can make me sad). It was their choice to get started down this path. No one put a needle in their arm the first time. But a lot of commenters don't seem to understand that after a while it's not about getting high anymore. It's about avoiding the pure hell of withdrawals.
    These drugs destroy your body's ability to make natural endorphins. Most people have no idea how much our bodies use endorphins. Without them, even walking is absolute agony. And there's the nausea. Imagine vomiting with no endorphins to stop you from feeling the violence of even just dry heaves?
    Point is it's really nearly impossible once you're in that stage to ever get clean. They just can't take withdrawals. They are in no shape to just "get a job."

  • @rudolfrittmeier9654
    @rudolfrittmeier9654 11 месяцев назад +1

    Zombieland !
    Memento Mori.

  • @johnalver
    @johnalver 10 месяцев назад

    The work cells of revolution ☝️

  • @carolinesousa3747
    @carolinesousa3747 10 месяцев назад

    Oh I know that's Benjamin Dover, yup that's Bend Over

  • @petercraig1853
    @petercraig1853 9 месяцев назад

    Everything looks clean 😢there's a ally way with my name on it

  • @user-op2kk3oi9s
    @user-op2kk3oi9s 10 месяцев назад

    عندما تتغير الاداره الامريكيه بالصدفه. سيصبح كل شيء بخير😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @cyrene7784
    @cyrene7784 10 месяцев назад +2

    I've always heard how bad Vancouver's slum is but this doesn't seem that bad. I mean at least there are still regular people going about their business unlike some of these places where I assume normal people are afraid to go.

    • @kylec9590
      @kylec9590 10 месяцев назад

      It's incredibly scary if you think this is not bad or in any way unacceptable. Please, for the greater good, do not vote in elections.

  • @MyPancho1
    @MyPancho1 Год назад +4

    WTH is that incessant whistle or squeal noise??? Can't believe the city could allow that kind of noise pollution...

    • @tomrogers9467
      @tomrogers9467 Год назад +5

      It’s a high frequency vermin repellent. Unfortunately it’s not working, apparently.

  • @valeriagabrielli1308
    @valeriagabrielli1308 Год назад +1

    Il 🍁 era una mia metà ora schifata.. adios

  • @johnjennings2672
    @johnjennings2672 11 месяцев назад

    But at least their Heath Care is totally free!

  • @illiahapak501
    @illiahapak501 Год назад +1

    At first I thought "where do they take money for food ?" but I noticed a truck with free food. However what about drugs, where do they take it from ? Are there such kind of trucks with label "free drugs" ? I doubt that sh$t is cheap.

    • @Meowface.
      @Meowface. Год назад +1

      The drugs are cheaper in Vancouver compared to other cities in BC
      To be comfortable I needed around $200-$300 a day at the height of my addiction
      N that’s not a high number compared to others I knew on the street

    • @rl5579
      @rl5579 Год назад +2

      The city of Vancouver actually supplies some of the drugs. "Safe Supply" they call it. Gee, I wonder why they have an addiction problem.

    • @Meowface.
      @Meowface. Год назад

      @@rl5579 there’s prescription heroin
      People on that program aren’t the ones out committing crime
      They get their lives back

    • @bigdog8820
      @bigdog8820 Год назад

      @@Meowface.fantasy world.

    • @Meowface.
      @Meowface. Год назад

      @@bigdog8820 the prescription heroin program is pretty strict and difficult to get on
      if you go to jail, you’re off the program
      If you don’t show up when you’re suppose to
      You’re off the program
      If you test positive for other drugs
      You’re off the program
      Also the program isn’t for just anyone
      You have to have tried other means to stop your opiate addiction
      Such as methadone, suboxone, etc
      Multiple tries and failures
      Heroin lasts much longer in the body… it gives people stability
      Plus the program has very limited space
      Only a few get in compared to the thousands addicted to fentanyl

  • @georgeroskilly7524
    @georgeroskilly7524 11 месяцев назад +1

    All disused army camps should be reopened as drug treatment facilities and these people are rounded up and treated

  • @lisahunter2965
    @lisahunter2965 Год назад +7

    How come homeless people afford a cellphone we have house that's payed for but no cellphones we are frugal

    • @rominava7835
      @rominava7835 Год назад +3

      Government pays for them......I can't afford one either

    • @steve7015
      @steve7015 Год назад +6

      Why suffer in your home? Get out on the streets. Then you can have a cell phone and everything else these people have.

    • @TheImaginaryLens
      @TheImaginaryLens Год назад +2

      govenrment pays for them or should i say the tax payer. most dont even have plans and use wifi around the area to use chat apps and also use them for music etc.

    • @marble4533
      @marble4533 Год назад +2

      U can get pretty shitty phones for like $50

    • @sgt.nickel
      @sgt.nickel Год назад +2

      Drugs..

  • @iwantanewhead2976
    @iwantanewhead2976 6 месяцев назад

    0:04
    Would

  • @MidnightRambler1964
    @MidnightRambler1964 3 месяца назад

    This is what legalized safe drugs gets you! Since doing that the situation is way beyond fixing. I know I worked down there behind what you see on the streets!!!

  • @moviemaker159
    @moviemaker159 Год назад +2

    Shame on the leader of your country for not helping these people. I've no time for drug users they make their choice, but nobody should be living like this.

    • @bob733333
      @bob733333 Год назад

      They think they are being helpful by murdering or enabling suicide of all the junkies.

    • @adaptercrash
      @adaptercrash Год назад

      Rightfully earned problems, you know how your province works lol, homeless people here more homeless people there

  • @joobn8r
    @joobn8r 3 месяца назад +2

    What can you expect when a piece of shit house in the area is at least 2 million to buy!

  • @chrislevisen1010
    @chrislevisen1010 9 месяцев назад

    Looks like the NDP got into power in Vancouver, with some brilliant policies.

  • @manonlaviggne1085
    @manonlaviggne1085 11 месяцев назад

    Why are they bent over like that?

    • @ExploreVancouverCanada
      @ExploreVancouverCanada  11 месяцев назад

      Nodding Out” is a common term for heroin or opioid-induced state that causes overdose-related

    • @mikeolsen2466
      @mikeolsen2466 25 дней назад

      It's the methadone it messes up the skeleton

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 Месяц назад

    Interesting/informative/entertaining. Professional looking👀 graffiti/fentanyl schizophrenia zombies/store front encampments. All the diabolically devastating things A city shouldn't have-!!!😉. Welcome