The problem isn't going to get better when the city uses the extra budget to hire additional useless officials and counselors instead of actually putting people into homes. The meals at the shelters come with bed bugs. They are very dangerous places. To be honest, that new head official should be voted out of her office unless she's willing to spend a month of her life in the shelter. Because otherwise she isn't in a position to make change because it doesn't benefit those outside if who's she's employing. I want her to eat those meals for a solid month before she opens her filthy mouth again.
You are correct about highly paid patronage positions. They created a position in Denver government where the employee makes sure the city employs a percentage of "undocumented" workers. How do you hire someone who does not have an identity and SSN like everyone else the city employs is required to have? Waste and corruption at the same time
The average person can't afford rent, how the hell will homeless people with major obstacles like criminal record, brain damage, no skills, education, drug addiction be able to have the responsibility of a apartment??
I agree. The poor are getting poorer. And they are doing away with the middle class. Raising rent/ utilities. Food and taxes. All done by design btw. Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER BEAST SYSTEM. Dont take the snake bites or any RFID CHIP OR Quantum dot tattoo . I would rather die a martyr then be thrown in the lake of fire.
I'm still homeless lost my job to covid an no I don't do drugs or drink life is rough alone no family an yes I'm from Colorado and it's sad to see how things ended up here Colorado is not so good anymore 😭
Get a new job. I worked in low income housing for years and would watch people grind and work two jobs to make ends meet until they could get promoted or save enough for a better place. It is possible. Stop wishing for a handout and making excuses.
James get rid of every single thing you own including the cloths on your back and go live in these streets and watch your self crumble into a piece of sand your a simpleton if this is actually how you think Isaac Ramirez your a better man the the people that look down at you rise and use these incells as a footstool to propell you along you path
@@jamesm8049 I'm glad you keep talking tell us more about your lack of intelligence PS your the type that wears blackness dresses because you don't have the spine for manhood I get it you don't have cloths on your back OK you win your right I'm sorry
The problem is, when you look for housing, 90% of the homes you look for, are unaffordable and expensive, do to luxury apartments and homes getting built at an astonishing rate. Affordable housing is getting reduced everyday. Until we fix that, it will continue.
Yeah had to move. I am in New Mexico now. I feel the housing everywhere is just a terrible problem. But at least I have ac and a dishwasher now. But many programs focuses on homeless getting jobs over their mental health, disabilities, addiction, and even their connection to the community or their. Those who want to change will make the changes they need but those who are just out to cause trouble will continue to do so and continue to look down on others and help.
i disagree. there's plenty of affordable housing, just have to move outside of major metropolitan cities do get it. Additionally, living in red states statistically has far lesser of a tax burden due to blue states punishing work ethic and enabling laziness. In SC for example, we have one of the highest percentages of women that own homes, as well as blacks that own homes. This is bc we have extraordinarily low property taxes. In order to fix homelessness, here's the steps that need to be done. 1. Let it be known that enabling in any way (giving away food, money etc) will be punishable with a $500 fine. Second offense is $1,000. These people are addicts that need to hit bottom and as long as short-sighted tourists are handing them money, they'll never change. 2. Remove all soup kitchens from major metropolitan areas. I volunteered at one in Philly once. These people knew where and when to go to get free handouts. They all had newish cell phones and were perfectly content in their sub par life. Needless to say, I didn't last long. 3. Begging/camping within city limits is an arrestable offense. If I can't sell goods or products on a street corner, and if i also can't live in my house without paying taxes, why do they get a special privildge? When caught, jail them, and bi-weekly bus them 150 miles out of the city to a location in the sticks where food/affordable camps are set up. They will work full time jobs within the encampment in order to be provided food/shelter. Drug test weekly. If failed, remove them from camp, drive them 150 miles into the most remote location you can find with no cell phone, and release them into the wild.
@@majorchutzpah7265 vote for whoever you want but don’t kid yourself that both major parties are in the same club together and you and I are not part of that club and likely never will be
Working homeless should NEVER be a thing. However in the United States it’s at epidemic levels. Why folks (immigrants) from other countries still think of the USA as “The Land Of Opportunity” is completely beyond me. You can have a job and education (also being sober) but can still be annihilated by the crazy cost of EVERYTHING. We won’t even get into the struggles of unmarried people or single mothers, that demographic is exploding in numbers of homelessness now.
@@issahumps Issa as someone considering moving to Denver (I have family there too) I was looking to see when someone would say what you just said. When does personal accountability come into play? Nobody wants anyone to live on the streets, but you have to work. Nothing is free, you hear people are so angry but you have to work as a part of that you get housing. Not you don't work and you just get houses.
@@jakesutton8077 if i'm a rich property owner, why would i stay in Denver where the government has capped my earnings at a certain amount? Furthermore, why would an investor buy my building to rent it out if they can only set their prices at a specific amount? In turn, what you have happen, is the original property owner will 'revamp' their building to be office spaces, or assisted living, or 55+ community, or remodel each floor to be a sellable condominium 'house', anything to be exempt from the short-sighted rent control. This happens 3 dozen times across a city, with 100 units in each location, and magically now you have 3,600 less apartments available. Low supply of apartments = higher costs for existing housing.
Or our Mexican invasion...sending them back and stopping that would help our homeless citizens...we only have a certain amount of low cost housing and it is not enough to help Americans, along with central Americans, Mexican Americans and others coming across illegally! When are we going to seriously address that issue?
@@shirleyjohnson361 Undocumented people don't qualify for housing assistance. Get your facts straight before you start whining about something that isn't happening. Also, if it weren't for undocumented workers, only the top 40% of the wealthiest Americans could afford to live in America. That undocumented work force builds housing, picks crops, cleans hotels all at unlivable wages. Educate your opinion before you open your pie hole!
Address the real estate price gouging!!!!! Stop giving permits/taking bribes from contractors building luxury apartments and homes and give them to the the affordable/starter home builders.
tens of millions and it's getting worse??? that only means the money isn't getting to the intended targets because I've seen miracles made from shoestring budgets for shelters etc Somebody, or somebodies, are lining their pockets and using stories like this to pad them even more. wake up
with all due respect, all seniors had to do was invest $5k a year into a 401k, IRA, over 30 years and they'd be millionaires. It doesn't matter what 30 year timeline you choose. 1960-2020 market averaged about 9% returns. If seniors are homeless, they made a lot of really poor decisions.
I think they should spend the money on building affordable housing and to re purpose existing infrastructure to be used as housing. Once housed then we can work on job retraining and drug abuse prevention and counseling. Homelessness can be ended but I also believe a lot of the money is being misappropriated.
@@JeffC-fq1be Typical conservative: Whining but zero solutions offered. You say snarky things, trying to be insulting, but never add anything of value to the conversation. Help, or kick rocks.
The way government responds to the homeless crisis is undeniably stupid, of which I doubt they even understand the underlying factors as to “WHY” we have this growing issue in the first place: Unemployment, jobs, shelter, of which the winter season tends to be the worst… layoffs, not enough work? But then if we do an online research there appears to be plenty of jobs and opportunities. However, who would hire a homeless person? And there are decent jobs or companies hiring, but we need reliable transportation. I’m sorry but the system is broken and messed up! Which is why the crime rate is rising… intellectuals who are so focused on logic and bureaucracy they can’t see reality outside the box of their idealism.
You can’t just throw money at something and expect it to go away ever heard the saying give a man a fish he’ll be hungry tomorrow teach a Man to Fish and he could feed his family for life
I live at the Denver rescue mission and I have a full time job but i still struggle because of food and transportation and the need for winter clothing shoes I struggle to save money I don't have a drug or an alcohol issue I fight with mental heath so I don't have the capacity to keep a home for very long on the rare occasion I find one can some one help find a place that in can afford I have no evictions and can pass a background
Wait, giving them free food, cell phones, furniture, clothing and a roof over their heads didn't fix the problem? This is crazy! I mean you would think that having every expense paid for by someone else would fix their addiction problems....😆 I used to be a maintenance man for a bunch of the buildings the denver coalition would put folks in and all they would do is ruin the apartment and building for all the other tenants. Invite all their pals over to do drugs in the hallways, rob the tenants that did work and trash the place. Shocked more spending isn't fixing the problem....
Here is something to think about. STOP PUTTING EVERYONE IN THE SAME BOAT WHEN IT COMES TO HOMELESSNESS. Everyone isn’t homeless for the same reason. That is the MOST important thing. Second, for every one homeless person, there are TEN abandoned properties. Third, there aren’t enough low income housing anywhere. Why not rebuild all the abandoned hotels and convert them into low income housing? That way, people have a safe place to live instead of living in a shelter, in their car, or on the street. Don’t fund shelters, they are nothing but a damn scam.
The only solution to homelessness is to put people in houses and get rid of landlords to make sure that people don't become homeless in the first place.
Sounds just like what a communist would say.....why haven't we tried that before? Oh wait......Russia, Chezckslovakia, Ukraine, Georgia, Yugoslavia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, East Germany, etc....
LOL, this is the stupidest, most clueless, self-indulgent, entitled "solution" to this problem I've ever seen. If you're not in college, you really ought to know better that Fully Automated Gay Space Luxury Communism isn't actually possible.
Read different research studies. Each one offers a different conclusion about the percentage of homeless that have mental health problems, drug addiction and alcohol problems, housing affordability issues, loss of job, or divorce. And the problems overlap each other like a Venn diagram of competing percentages. Eg. Mental health problems that are self medicated with opioids or alcohol addiction falls into two categories of causes. With consideration that addiction also leads to job loss, and to mental health problems. Big picture: Loss of union jobs to low paid workers overseas. American workers must complete with $2 per hour employees elsewhere.
@@majorchutzpah7265 it is not just for the homeless but, also for single people who want to be independent but, can't afford a full-size apartment ( i.e. college students, people who don't have much, single mothers bearly getting by).
The homeless crisis throughout the entire Denver area is completely out of control and in addition to that thousands of migrants were bused here from the border compounding the problem even further. I don’t see a solution in sight and know for a fact what this city is going to look like in another 5 years. Far, far worse and irreversible. Look at the mess that was left in Arvada on Sheridan Blvd where I-76 exits on that land that CDOT owns that literally looks like a landfill. CDOT just left it there and so far refuses to clean it up. Directly across the street from Berkeley Shopping Center. Unacceptable 😡
Being homeless in Denver sounds as dumb as being homeless in Ohio...I'd be homeless in Daytona or Miami or Corpus Christi...somewhere at least warm. ...In retrospect it has been "global warming" kind of warm in Ohio for a long time....weird.
@@majorchutzpah7265 showers on the beach sounds welcoming lol. The humidity isn't worth it though. Did see a space shuttle launch from Orlando once..that was incredible.
@@benjomama1 Exactly, how does anyone figure that's what you're entitled too? Nobody is entitled to anything, we all have to earn it. There's only two ways, the entitlement is going to destroy this country!
@@1075Delta so how much are you willing to donate from your salary every month to house the folks that don't work? Real easy to be generous with other people's money.....
@James M the government has more than enough money to do that already. Startup companies can create all these tiny homes but the government can't mass produce them? Please. We have more than enough food to feed everyone as well.
"Housing first" is great if you don't have meth use in those living spaces. Remediating a living space that has drug contamination is exceptionally costly. It may be worth it, but I don't hear anyone discussing this additional cost when it comes to housing first.
But they still cost something. If you are demanding completely free housing, then even low income housing is too much. Personally I think people should have to continue something to their housing no matter how much they make.... If they're disabled or elderly, get them on SSDI or SSI and have them pay 30% of their income toward their housing. Free housing is treated so much worse than what you pay for. But yes there are lots of affordable buildings on FP
@@gymdilettante8407 I’m not saying free. Just less than $1700 for a one bedroom. Currently in Denver, it’s nearly impossible to survive while making the median individual income.
No one in the state house or city hall has a single clue how to incentivize affordable housing. They seem to think they can just jawbone developers into making it and then it just sits there and provides affordable rents like magic and doesn't need any maintenance or competent people to manage it over decades. A bunch of self-satisfied, overeducated morons with a lot of degrees and big words, but not much in the way of wisdom or understanding how functioning high-trust societies work.
Are you going to pay their way forever? Why not put them to work ?? They can earn money for a place to live. Otherwise you are just baiting more people to come to Denver.
Of course it is increasing! Stop spending money on it! Homeless people know which cities to invade due to word of mouth. And by giving them free money you are encouraging more homeless to invade your city. Same thing with drug sanctuary zones. It always makes the problem worse. Same with Ukraine, more money equals more problems. Until you raise the minimum wage to $20hr this will continue being a problem.
Everyone cannot live on one place. The cycle goes like this, people sell their mansion in a more expensive place move and displace the locals. Then that makes a big mess, and then people repeat the cycle and move and drive out the locals. All these mansions should not have been built. A house with a big green lawn that takes up 5 times the room. Human greed is a problem. Build small homes, duplexes and condominiums. Stop building mansions. Big giant parking lots for stores are ridiculous. Get rid of all these empty useless commercial spaces.
I found a lot of people out there were willing to "help" me with my struggle when I took the initiative to help myself..so I suspect that you have never been homeless, I was homeless in Denver. Worked a year and a half at the Denver Rescue Mission.. even "they" know that if they made my life too comfortable there, I would become LAZY. It's just human nature..Go get a job and get to work. Everybody is hiring. Especially manual labor jobs, no college degrees required...
Isn't it great that politicians and organizations are becoming wealthier while more and more people can't afford living here and other big cities. Money can't fix homelessness and climate change. The two biggest money makers that will never resolve these situations
A lot of Denver's Homeless have major felony charges and Section 8 usually refuses those felonies ergo in lies part of the problem along with addiction issues.
Colorado and others states should spend this money collectively with the Feds to relocate the homeless to cheap states like Mississippi and provide Free Housing/Food
Shelters are dangerous, cruel, primitive, temporary and not only do they not address or solve the problem of homelessness, they make it worse by causing more trauma which contributes to mental illness, addictions, crime, and health issues or death. Rentals will only disqualify or price people out eventually which creates a constant state of anxiety and distrust resulting in more trauma and homeless, a vicious cycle of poverty. Rentals should only be for vacation property or hotels not someone's permanent home. The purpose of housing is to provide a home not a profit engine for rich investors to take advantage of the disenfranchised. People should only own what they occupy and landlords are an archaic principal that should not exist in a civilized society...The SOLUTION to END HOMELESSNESS is HOME AUTONOMY through HOME OWNERSHIP by making HOUSING A HUMAN RIGHT by way of UNIVERSAL PUBLIC HOUSING for EVERYONE and ALL. Rent to own studios, apartments, and small homes on a sliding scale regardless of income or any other preconditions. ALL INCLUSIVE HOMES FOR ALL.
SPENDING ON THESE PEOPLE IS NOT THE SOLUTION.... Liberal policies making it easier on these people has contributed to this issue. Hickenlooper started this issue.
How. I work full time, I dont do drugs, I dont drink alcohol, I take care of my physical health. I still live in my car because I can't afford a place to stay
@@nomaderic find a cheaper place to live. You have a car, youre saving a shit ton of money on rent, you're telling me that you can't find some shitty apartment with your savings?
@Adam Muncy nope, average rent in denver is around 2000. Throw in utilities and it's basically impossible. I also have other people to take care of beside myself. I dont have "money to blow" as you may think
@@nomaderic sorry, but I don't buy it. Your living expenses are almost nothing if you have a job and are not paying rent to anyone. A minimum wage job working 40 hrs a week would net over $1,500 a month after taxes and retirement is taken out. If you don't have any savings to drop down on an apartment after 5 months, you're doing something seriously wrong
@Adam Muncy 1500 dollars a month, average rent 2000. Make the math make sense. Let's say I got an apartment for only 1000 a month (twice as cheap as the average which is almost unheard of). Add in utilities and food and that job doesn't allow you to survive
We ARE IN " END DAYS" WE NEED OUR LORD. WE NEED TO PRAY. THERE NOTHING GOING TO CHANGE ANY OF THIS. UNTILL WE DO. EVEN THEN. TRUTH IS. WE ALL SHOULD OF BEEN DOING SO. BEFORE ALL OF THIS. . ❤❤❤❤❤
BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING, you don't have to be a scholar to figure that out 1 bedroom 450 month 2 bedroo. 900 month 3 bedroom. 1350month Stop the tax and greed these prices would be in line with wages,
Its ok because we're going to own nothing but be happy. Which is the real reason why this is happening. It's all done by design. Everything is going according to plan.
Homelessness seems to increase proportionately to the funding. Bureaucrats don't want to cure the problem. I think outlawing homelessness is the only way.
I know people who ended up on the street and they have jobs some have kids it's because of the high cost of rent and it's just going to get worse it's not going to get better at all the pay doesn't match the cost of living at all and that's for skilled people now with all these people coming here alot of companies are going to take advantage of this and get rid of their high paid employees and hire them at minimum wage
hud and birth certificates are important you need to be in ur state where u were born peroid let officers know .reduces conflict and crime .and school shooting .
I need a job nobody is hiring I'm homeless don't do drugs or drink I can't fined any help nobody wants to help anymore they say they are all booked or full or no more 😞
@@catherinemartinez5542 those are the only subset that should be allowed to get any government assistance. The rest are freeloading tweakers who will never contribute anything to this city. They aren’t even residents here and they pay no taxes, get them outta here
@@majorchutzpah7265 Living above your means, greed and poor spending habits are why a lot of people are homeless. Many aren't grateful or thankful for what they have or had anyways so why bother? Money doesn't solve everything. Some people need more help than just that. It's about the haves and the have nots. That's just the way it goes. Homeless, wandering, transients and vagrants are often violent and angry and resort to criminal activity. Time to call the police, imo.
@Mountain Bike Addict I've been homeless for 3 years and I work two jobs 90 hours a week. When you think homeless you think drug addict. Don't get me wrong, there should be second chance opportunities for everyone. And credit wise for me, that is my fault when I was younger no doubt, but you would think one of these landlords with the for lease sign outside would want to rent out these empty units to those with cash. Being homeless is hard and actually way more expensive than living in a home. You can't exactly drop everything to go find a job when you have nothing to work with. Like, go find a job wearing clothes like you're Rich Garner Pursuit of Happiness and get laughed at. There are a lot of people who hit the streets for no reason other than covid. The laws of this state make it very hard to be homeless. For example, when I purchased my vehicle as a homeless man I didn't have a address to register it to and had to go to South Dakota to register to my SSN rather than a physical address. A lot of people aren't capable of figuring that one out with or without a roof over head.
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The money is lining their pockets and not fully being used for what it's intended for, building housing....😑
Low-income and affordable housing doesn't make more rich people though...
they always seems the politicians favorite constituents.
This is the sad reality.
The problem isn't going to get better when the city uses the extra budget to hire additional useless officials and counselors instead of actually putting people into homes. The meals at the shelters come with bed bugs. They are very dangerous places. To be honest, that new head official should be voted out of her office unless she's willing to spend a month of her life in the shelter. Because otherwise she isn't in a position to make change because it doesn't benefit those outside if who's she's employing.
I want her to eat those meals for a solid month before she opens her filthy mouth again.
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Four months, that's how long I was in there.
You are correct about highly paid patronage positions. They created a position in Denver government where the employee makes sure the city employs a percentage of "undocumented" workers. How do you hire someone who does not have an identity and SSN like everyone else the city employs is required to have? Waste and corruption at the same time
The average person can't afford rent, how the hell will homeless people with major obstacles like criminal record, brain damage, no skills, education, drug addiction be able to have the responsibility of a apartment??
I agree. The poor are getting poorer. And they are doing away with the middle class. Raising rent/ utilities. Food and taxes. All done by design btw. Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER BEAST SYSTEM. Dont take the snake bites or any RFID CHIP OR Quantum dot tattoo
. I would rather die a martyr then be thrown in the lake of fire.
I'm still homeless lost my job to covid an no I don't do drugs or drink life is rough alone no family an yes I'm from Colorado and it's sad to see how things ended up here Colorado is not so good anymore 😭
Get a new job. I worked in low income housing for years and would watch people grind and work two jobs to make ends meet until they could get promoted or save enough for a better place. It is possible. Stop wishing for a handout and making excuses.
James get rid of every single thing you own including the cloths on your back and go live in these streets and watch your self crumble into a piece of sand your a simpleton if this is actually how you think Isaac Ramirez your a better man the the people that look down at you rise and use these incells as a footstool to propell you along you path
@Ryan Alexander good one. I don't have cloths on my back I wear clothes. So inspirational 🙌 👏.
@@jamesm8049 I'm glad you keep talking tell us more about your lack of intelligence
PS your the type that wears blackness dresses because you don't have the spine for manhood I get it you don't have cloths on your back OK you win your right I'm sorry
Isaac Be Inspired your competition doesn't even know where his clothes are at
The problem is, when you look for housing, 90% of the homes you look for, are unaffordable and expensive, do to luxury apartments and homes getting built at an astonishing rate. Affordable housing is getting reduced everyday. Until we fix that, it will continue.
Yeah had to move. I am in New Mexico now. I feel the housing everywhere is just a terrible problem. But at least I have ac and a dishwasher now. But many programs focuses on homeless getting jobs over their mental health, disabilities, addiction, and even their connection to the community or their. Those who want to change will make the changes they need but those who are just out to cause trouble will continue to do so and continue to look down on others and help.
Agreed, we need to tear down parks and forests to make more houses.
Lots of these homeless are drug addicts who contribute nothing to society and pay nothing in taxes. Giving them a house/apartment won’t fix anything.
Denver shouldn't have to adapt to the problem. Ship them somewhere else
i disagree. there's plenty of affordable housing, just have to move outside of major metropolitan cities do get it. Additionally, living in red states statistically has far lesser of a tax burden due to blue states punishing work ethic and enabling laziness.
In SC for example, we have one of the highest percentages of women that own homes, as well as blacks that own homes. This is bc we have extraordinarily low property taxes.
In order to fix homelessness, here's the steps that need to be done.
1. Let it be known that enabling in any way (giving away food, money etc) will be punishable with a $500 fine. Second offense is $1,000. These people are addicts that need to hit bottom and as long as short-sighted tourists are handing them money, they'll never change.
2. Remove all soup kitchens from major metropolitan areas. I volunteered at one in Philly once. These people knew where and when to go to get free handouts. They all had newish cell phones and were perfectly content in their sub par life. Needless to say, I didn't last long.
3. Begging/camping within city limits is an arrestable offense. If I can't sell goods or products on a street corner, and if i also can't live in my house without paying taxes, why do they get a special privildge? When caught, jail them, and bi-weekly bus them 150 miles out of the city to a location in the sticks where food/affordable camps are set up. They will work full time jobs within the encampment in order to be provided food/shelter. Drug test weekly. If failed, remove them from camp, drive them 150 miles into the most remote location you can find with no cell phone, and release them into the wild.
It's not just Denver
@FJoe Biden two wings of the same dying bird
@@firstlast8258 so who do you vote for?
@@majorchutzpah7265 vote for whoever you want but don’t kid yourself that both major parties are in the same club together and you and I are not part of that club and likely never will be
@firstlast8258 They are in bed together, but I'm self-sufficient, and the Dems do absolutely nothing for me.
Every state has gotten so expensive
Working homeless should NEVER be a thing. However in the United States it’s at epidemic levels. Why folks (immigrants) from other countries still think of the USA as “The Land Of Opportunity” is completely beyond me. You can have a job and education (also being sober) but can still be annihilated by the crazy cost of EVERYTHING. We won’t even get into the struggles of unmarried people or single mothers, that demographic is exploding in numbers of homelessness now.
Don’t drop out of high school and don’t get pregnant at 16. Avoiding those two things will help you avoid being working poor, learn a skill as well.
@@issahumps Issa as someone considering moving to Denver (I have family there too) I was looking to see when someone would say what you just said. When does personal accountability come into play? Nobody wants anyone to live on the streets, but you have to work. Nothing is free, you hear people are so angry but you have to work as a part of that you get housing. Not you don't work and you just get houses.
The people causing trouble aren't working.
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@@issahumpsI have a degree and no kids and have been homeless
More like: America's Rising Homeless Population Continues to Grow.
Two words, rent control.
@@Koolken44 Explain why, cite your sources, and maybe your opinion will matter to me. Otherwise keep your ignorance to yourself stranger.
@Ken C Sounds like it devalues the property significantly. Good, maybe some of the unfriendly renters can then afford to be unfriendly homeowners.
Stop the government from printing more money
Then we can be like NYC!
@@jakesutton8077 if i'm a rich property owner, why would i stay in Denver where the government has capped my earnings at a certain amount? Furthermore, why would an investor buy my building to rent it out if they can only set their prices at a specific amount?
In turn, what you have happen, is the original property owner will 'revamp' their building to be office spaces, or assisted living, or 55+ community, or remodel each floor to be a sellable condominium 'house', anything to be exempt from the short-sighted rent control.
This happens 3 dozen times across a city, with 100 units in each location, and magically now you have 3,600 less apartments available. Low supply of apartments = higher costs for existing housing.
If only we spent billions here instead of overseas. Oh well, best of luck everyone.
Or our Mexican invasion...sending them back and stopping that would help our homeless citizens...we only have a certain amount of low cost housing and it is not enough to help Americans, along with central Americans, Mexican Americans and others coming across illegally! When are we going to seriously address that issue?
And instead of our bloated military budget for wars
@@shirleyjohnson361 Undocumented people don't qualify for housing assistance. Get your facts straight before you start whining about something that isn't happening. Also, if it weren't for undocumented workers, only the top 40% of the wealthiest Americans could afford to live in America. That undocumented work force builds housing, picks crops, cleans hotels all at unlivable wages. Educate your opinion before you open your pie hole!
Denver's homeless population continues to grow despite skyrocketing rent, hmmmm.
Address the real estate price gouging!!!!! Stop giving permits/taking bribes from contractors building luxury apartments and homes and give them to the the affordable/starter home builders.
Building more homes is only solution
Coloradofornia
Calirado is what I call it.
tens of millions and it's getting worse??? that only means the money isn't getting to the intended targets because I've seen miracles made from shoestring budgets for shelters etc Somebody, or somebodies, are lining their pockets and using stories like this to pad them even more. wake up
Our seniors should not be homeless and dying outside.
This is true. I do agree we are responsible to care for our elders.
with all due respect, all seniors had to do was invest $5k a year into a 401k, IRA, over 30 years and they'd be millionaires. It doesn't matter what 30 year timeline you choose. 1960-2020 market averaged about 9% returns. If seniors are homeless, they made a lot of really poor decisions.
Spending money at it doesn't solve it, that's the California fail model
Exactly 💯 it's what one of their sheriffs said a few months ago.
Look at Oakland...
Spending more=more homeless...
Spending less=less homeless....
That money is going into Politician's pockets. And what the hell is wrong with you people that you can't smile or say "hi" to a human being?
I think they should spend the money on building affordable housing and to re purpose existing infrastructure to be used as housing. Once housed then we can work on job retraining and drug abuse prevention and counseling. Homelessness can be ended but I also believe a lot of the money is being misappropriated.
Typical progressive.
@@JeffC-fq1be Typical conservative: Whining but zero solutions offered. You say snarky things, trying to be insulting, but never add anything of value to the conversation. Help, or kick rocks.
@@eelnoops5200 I am glad that my post has upset you. Thank you for letting me know. Now, Biden voter, remove one of your masks and have a good cry!
There's so many homeless people in Denver for the last few years that just don't meet the criteria for homeless assistance
Throwing money at homeless won't make rent cheaper or more housing available
$32,000 per homeless person can't get them a cheap apartment and everything else?
Help the homeless to sue the city and private owners for whatever happens to them out there. Then it's a liability issue. Then you can move them.
As LONG AS RENT PRICES RISE ITS GOING TO CONTINUE TO PRICE FAMILYS OUT. GROW A BRAIN, BUY A BRAIN. GET IT ?!,
Rent gouging .
Im from here in colorado.. born and raised. But i feel like im living in a different state.. i hate it here now
I would love to be housed.... been going on homelessness for too fucking long...
These cities give money to people that make a living off homeless,they don't want to end homelessness.
The way government responds to the homeless crisis is undeniably stupid, of which I doubt they even understand the underlying factors as to “WHY” we have this growing issue in the first place:
Unemployment, jobs, shelter, of which the winter season tends to be the worst… layoffs, not enough work?
But then if we do an online research there appears to be plenty of jobs and opportunities.
However, who would hire a homeless person? And there are decent jobs or companies hiring, but we need reliable transportation.
I’m sorry but the system is broken and messed up! Which is why the crime rate is rising… intellectuals who are so focused on logic and bureaucracy they can’t see reality outside the box of their idealism.
You can’t just throw money at something and expect it to go away ever heard the saying give a man a fish he’ll be hungry tomorrow teach a Man to Fish and he could feed his family for life
I bet they can fish better than you.
This isn't about food. Or stupid as bible stories.
@Emily Hofland you obviously didn't get the point 😂
@@catherinemartinez5542 I think it's you, not getting the point.
@@emilyhofland8219 it's ok to say you don't understand. Maybe someone will explain it to you.
I live at the Denver rescue mission and I have a full time job but i still struggle because of food and transportation and the need for winter clothing shoes I struggle to save money I don't have a drug or an alcohol issue I fight with mental heath so I don't have the capacity to keep a home for very long on the rare occasion I find one can some one help find a place that in can afford I have no evictions and can pass a background
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Tell uptown welcome to the club . 2 jobs live in van in arvada get nothing. Been paying in since 75. I'm not a breeder or an illegal.
Wait, giving them free food, cell phones, furniture, clothing and a roof over their heads didn't fix the problem? This is crazy! I mean you would think that having every expense paid for by someone else would fix their addiction problems....😆 I used to be a maintenance man for a bunch of the buildings the denver coalition would put folks in and all they would do is ruin the apartment and building for all the other tenants. Invite all their pals over to do drugs in the hallways, rob the tenants that did work and trash the place. Shocked more spending isn't fixing the problem....
You're a
@@DirtyTurtle67He's telling the truth
I blame the cops. They are so weird out here
Here is something to think about. STOP PUTTING EVERYONE IN THE SAME BOAT WHEN IT COMES TO HOMELESSNESS. Everyone isn’t homeless for the same reason. That is the MOST important thing. Second, for every one homeless person, there are TEN abandoned properties. Third, there aren’t enough low income housing anywhere. Why not rebuild all the abandoned hotels and convert them into low income housing? That way, people have a safe place to live instead of living in a shelter, in their car, or on the street. Don’t fund shelters, they are nothing but a damn scam.
The only solution to homelessness is to put people in houses and get rid of landlords to make sure that people don't become homeless in the first place.
Sounds just like what a communist would say.....why haven't we tried that before? Oh wait......Russia, Chezckslovakia, Ukraine, Georgia, Yugoslavia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, East Germany, etc....
Put somebody in your house!
LOL, this is the stupidest, most clueless, self-indulgent, entitled "solution" to this problem I've ever seen. If you're not in college, you really ought to know better that Fully Automated Gay Space Luxury Communism isn't actually possible.
These people are corrupt they don’t spend the money on these citizens who have come upon hard times.
We need better people in charge of our community
Read different research studies. Each one offers a different conclusion about the percentage of homeless that have mental health problems, drug addiction and alcohol problems, housing affordability issues, loss of job, or divorce. And the problems overlap each other like a Venn diagram of competing percentages. Eg. Mental health problems that are self medicated with opioids or alcohol addiction falls into two categories of causes. With consideration that addiction also leads to job loss, and to mental health problems. Big picture: Loss of union jobs to low paid workers overseas. American workers must complete with $2 per hour employees elsewhere.
Tiny Homes
Yeah, but they only want it for the homeless. What about a more affordable option for people who work?
@@majorchutzpah7265 it is not just for the homeless but, also for single people who want to be independent but, can't afford a full-size apartment ( i.e. college students, people who don't have much, single mothers bearly getting by).
It's simple the more money you spend on homeless the more the city attracts from other states.
If you build it, they will come!
Now that there is so much money involved, they are never going to solve it, punish the druggist and shop lifter
The homeless crisis throughout the entire Denver area is completely out of control and in addition to that thousands of migrants were bused here from the border compounding the problem even further. I don’t see a solution in sight and know for a fact what this city is going to look like in another 5 years. Far, far worse and irreversible. Look at the mess that was left in Arvada on Sheridan Blvd where I-76 exits on that land that CDOT owns that literally looks like a landfill. CDOT just left it there and so far refuses to clean it up. Directly across the street from Berkeley Shopping Center. Unacceptable 😡
Vote for a different outcome.
Compassion is the fuel for homelessness.
Being homeless in Denver sounds as dumb as being homeless in Ohio...I'd be homeless in Daytona or Miami or Corpus Christi...somewhere at least warm.
...In retrospect it has been "global warming" kind of warm in Ohio for a long time....weird.
They'll arrest you in Miami
@@majorchutzpah7265 showers on the beach sounds welcoming lol. The humidity isn't worth it though. Did see a space shuttle launch from Orlando once..that was incredible.
ASSISTED LIVING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THAT HEALS WITHOUT PREJUDICE WITHOUT DELAY 🥇🇺🇲
3 things in life every human on the planet should have is food, clean water and safe shelter. Anything else is a luxury you work for.
So someone just magically provides food water and shelter?
@@benjomama1 Exactly, how does anyone figure that's what you're entitled too? Nobody is entitled to anything, we all have to earn it. There's only two ways, the entitlement is going to destroy this country!
@@benjomama1 when you were born, your parents gave you food and shelter... Unless you were born into work boots.
@@1075Delta so how much are you willing to donate from your salary every month to house the folks that don't work? Real easy to be generous with other people's money.....
@James M the government has more than enough money to do that already. Startup companies can create all these tiny homes but the government can't mass produce them? Please. We have more than enough food to feed everyone as well.
"Housing first" is great if you don't have meth use in those living spaces. Remediating a living space that has drug contamination is exceptionally costly. It may be worth it, but I don't hear anyone discussing this additional cost when it comes to housing first.
I would hope that at least SOME of these new buildings popping up around Five Points would be affordable housing.
They are
But they still cost something. If you are demanding completely free housing, then even low income housing is too much. Personally I think people should have to continue something to their housing no matter how much they make.... If they're disabled or elderly, get them on SSDI or SSI and have them pay 30% of their income toward their housing. Free housing is treated so much worse than what you pay for. But yes there are lots of affordable buildings on FP
@@gymdilettante8407 I’m not saying free. Just less than $1700 for a one bedroom. Currently in Denver, it’s nearly impossible to survive while making the median individual income.
No one in the state house or city hall has a single clue how to incentivize affordable housing. They seem to think they can just jawbone developers into making it and then it just sits there and provides affordable rents like magic and doesn't need any maintenance or competent people to manage it over decades. A bunch of self-satisfied, overeducated morons with a lot of degrees and big words, but not much in the way of wisdom or understanding how functioning high-trust societies work.
But Houston housing is a lot cheaper, not fair to compare to Houston.
You're not supposed to throw more money at the problem. It only makes it worse.
Are you going to pay their way forever? Why not put them to work ?? They can earn money for a place to live. Otherwise you are just baiting more people to come to Denver.
HIRE ME I WILL FIX IT
Give me 152 million and I will fix it.
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What community has fixed the homeless problem as she stated?
Of course it is increasing! Stop spending money on it! Homeless people know which cities to invade due to word of mouth. And by giving them free money you are encouraging more homeless to invade your city.
Same thing with drug sanctuary zones. It always makes the problem worse.
Same with Ukraine, more money equals more problems.
Until you raise the minimum wage to $20hr this will continue being a problem.
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Mcds is paying 18
If you build it, they will come!😅. Everyone is taking advantage of federal government grant money.
How tf u get free money there's no way 🤣 I'm homeless and fix cars when I get the chance 🤣
Everyone cannot live on one place. The cycle goes like this, people sell their mansion in a more expensive place move and displace the locals. Then that makes a big mess, and then people repeat the cycle and move and drive out the locals. All these mansions should not have been built. A house with a big green lawn that takes up 5 times the room. Human greed is a problem. Build small homes, duplexes and condominiums. Stop building mansions. Big giant parking lots for stores are ridiculous. Get rid of all these empty useless commercial spaces.
I like the freedom to choose.
More useless overpaid Bureaucracy and Politicians should Solve Homelessness.😂 Homelessness is a Politicians Dream Business.
I found a lot of people out there were willing to "help" me with my struggle when I took the initiative to help myself..so I suspect that you have never been homeless,
I was homeless in Denver. Worked a year and a half at the Denver Rescue Mission.. even "they" know that if they made my life too comfortable there, I would become LAZY. It's just human nature..Go get a job and get to work. Everybody is hiring. Especially manual labor jobs, no college degrees required...
Isn't it great that politicians and organizations are becoming wealthier while more and more people can't afford living here and other big cities. Money can't fix homelessness and climate change. The two biggest money makers that will never resolve these situations
A lot of Denver's Homeless have major felony charges and Section 8 usually refuses those felonies ergo in lies part of the problem along with addiction issues.
Section 8 does not refuse felons.
@@eelnoops5200 they do it you're a registered sex offender or convicted for methamphetamine charges
intresting .
Colorado and others states should spend this money collectively with the Feds to relocate the homeless to cheap states like Mississippi and provide Free Housing/Food
Homes for people. Duh. It's part of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Well, I'm not helping anyone now, my suitcase is gone!
Get me an RV. Really? I had to buy my own RV. How about getting a job and getting your own.
The politicians did that to Denver.
Shelters are dangerous, cruel, primitive, temporary and not only do they not address or solve the problem of homelessness, they make it worse by causing more trauma which contributes to mental illness, addictions, crime, and health issues or death. Rentals will only disqualify or price people out eventually which creates a constant state of anxiety and distrust resulting in more trauma and homeless, a vicious cycle of poverty. Rentals should only be for vacation property or hotels not someone's permanent home. The purpose of housing is to provide a home not a profit engine for rich investors to take advantage of the disenfranchised. People should only own what they occupy and landlords are an archaic principal that should not exist in a civilized society...The SOLUTION to END HOMELESSNESS is HOME AUTONOMY through HOME OWNERSHIP by making HOUSING A HUMAN RIGHT by way of UNIVERSAL PUBLIC HOUSING for EVERYONE and ALL. Rent to own studios, apartments, and small homes on a sliding scale regardless of income or any other preconditions. ALL INCLUSIVE HOMES FOR ALL.
I don't want live in the projects
4:05 how the hell did she think this in any way answered the question? What a clown.
SPENDING ON THESE PEOPLE IS NOT THE SOLUTION.... Liberal policies making it easier on these people has contributed to this issue. Hickenlooper started this issue.
Handouts attract freeloaders.
Who knew that free handouts would attract the lowest of society. I’m shocked I tell you, shocked
Houston doesn’t have snow and inclement weather
The problem is using our tax dollars to pay for this. It’s not getting any better, just enabling this behavior. They need to get rid of the homeless.
That’s bs. The personal choices of people have a HUGE part to do with whether or not they are homeless.
How. I work full time, I dont do drugs, I dont drink alcohol, I take care of my physical health. I still live in my car because I can't afford a place to stay
@@nomaderic find a cheaper place to live. You have a car, youre saving a shit ton of money on rent, you're telling me that you can't find some shitty apartment with your savings?
@Adam Muncy nope, average rent in denver is around 2000. Throw in utilities and it's basically impossible. I also have other people to take care of beside myself. I dont have "money to blow" as you may think
@@nomaderic sorry, but I don't buy it. Your living expenses are almost nothing if you have a job and are not paying rent to anyone. A minimum wage job working 40 hrs a week would net over $1,500 a month after taxes and retirement is taken out. If you don't have any savings to drop down on an apartment after 5 months, you're doing something seriously wrong
@Adam Muncy 1500 dollars a month, average rent 2000. Make the math make sense. Let's say I got an apartment for only 1000 a month (twice as cheap as the average which is almost unheard of). Add in utilities and food and that job doesn't allow you to survive
Of course it is.
Envy is why greed exists.
We ARE IN " END DAYS" WE NEED OUR LORD. WE NEED TO PRAY. THERE NOTHING GOING TO CHANGE ANY OF THIS. UNTILL WE DO. EVEN THEN.
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BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING, you don't have to be a scholar to figure that out
1 bedroom 450 month
2 bedroo. 900 month
3 bedroom. 1350month
Stop the tax and greed these prices would be in line with wages,
Get yourself an rv. Why should people expect freebies
BIDEN is the tired old man, he probably thinks it is the birthday balloon.
He probably wants some ice cream 🍦
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Hahah that's hilarious
Thank you liberals for this
"A billion dollar problem"?
Reward the lazy.
Its ok because we're going to own nothing but be happy. Which is the real reason why this is happening. It's all done by design. Everything is going according to plan.
How long Lord Jesus before you bring judgement on America.✝️🥲
Homelessness seems to increase proportionately to the funding. Bureaucrats don't want to cure the problem. I think outlawing homelessness is the only way.
So the FEMA camps at the Walmarts are supposed to be the new concentration camp for homeless but it's not for what u think things will get bad
Idiot or Nazi? Have you ever gone outside?
Im sure i could fix it with 152 million in 2022 and 180 million in 2023. I could probably fix it for 100 million if you want me to be honest.
I know people who ended up on the street and they have jobs some have kids it's because of the high cost of rent and it's just going to get worse it's not going to get better at all the pay doesn't match the cost of living at all and that's for skilled people now with all these people coming here alot of companies are going to take advantage of this and get rid of their high paid employees and hire them at minimum wage
The solution to homelessness is working so fix the reasons why the homeless have a hard time working.
Not everyone can work 🤓🖕
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Not all are homeless becasue they can't work, you're not very bright or well informed.
They're on drugs
More common sense! You'd think someone would figure this out.
hud and birth certificates are important you need to be in ur state where u were born peroid let officers know .reduces conflict and crime .and school shooting .
God just build more god damn housing
Let the bums build it!
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Well go figure. The sweeter you make the deal for em the more are gonna want that same sweet deal.
I need a job nobody is hiring I'm homeless don't do drugs or drink I can't fined any help nobody wants to help anymore they say they are all booked or full or no more 😞
Lots of hiring. Just read the jobs report was much better than expected.
Mcds 18 an hour green valley ranch
@@majorchutzpah7265 yeah and they cut your hours, no benefits and fire you for no reason to keep you from getting vacation time accrued. try again.
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Why don't they go to work?! Why are they mooching on the system and others?!
Not everyone can work 🤓🖕
Some are working homeless. They work but can't afford rent.
@@catherinemartinez5542 those are the only subset that should be allowed to get any government assistance. The rest are freeloading tweakers who will never contribute anything to this city. They aren’t even residents here and they pay no taxes, get them outta here
@@catherinemartinez5542Either make more money or move.
@@majorchutzpah7265 Living above your means, greed and poor spending habits are why a lot of people are homeless. Many aren't grateful or thankful for what they have or had anyways so why bother? Money doesn't solve everything. Some people need more help than just that. It's about the haves and the have nots. That's just the way it goes. Homeless, wandering, transients and vagrants are often violent and angry and resort to criminal activity. Time to call the police, imo.
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No wonder shelter not all but their not good thats why i sleep on my car more . But if the weather is bad ill go to shelters.
Make the Homeless go to work
You wanna give them a job? If you can't then you're part of the problem.
@@kirkjordan8718 They have to help themselves
@Mountain Bike Addict I've been homeless for 3 years and I work two jobs 90 hours a week. When you think homeless you think drug addict. Don't get me wrong, there should be second chance opportunities for everyone. And credit wise for me, that is my fault when I was younger no doubt, but you would think one of these landlords with the for lease sign outside would want to rent out these empty units to those with cash.
Being homeless is hard and actually way more expensive than living in a home. You can't exactly drop everything to go find a job when you have nothing to work with. Like, go find a job wearing clothes like you're Rich Garner Pursuit of Happiness and get laughed at.
There are a lot of people who hit the streets for no reason other than covid. The laws of this state make it very hard to be homeless. For example, when I purchased my vehicle as a homeless man I didn't have a address to register it to and had to go to South Dakota to register to my SSN rather than a physical address. A lot of people aren't capable of figuring that one out with or without a roof over head.
I worked 2 jobs and was STILL homeless thanks to these crazy rent prices!
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