It realy touched me how some of these people live in wet, crumbling rooms while others have furnished their homes and painted the walls and live like normal highrise apartment residents. The tower is not a slum, it's a city within a city with its own divides.
+Jakub Pec I to was impressed at the overall cleanliness in the areas where people are living and no graffiti on walls outside. Saw some garbage and 'trashed' up pictures sure, but nothing beyond repair. Commies lost their concrete monster build but the free moving enterprising people gained a home. Give them elevators and grocery stores, services - fix it up and let it be what it naturally wants to be inhabited. Pick the ones with the most skin in it and make it work via co-op housing, rent the rest out.
Not a slum? An impoverished building full of drugs, gangs, violence, poverty, broken down appliances,etc. In the US this would be one of the most broken down occupied buildings in the country. So yea it’s basically a slummed out building. What else would you call it. They have no food and no resources.
I find it amusing that they have electricity in a abandoned skyscraper, obviously it's not free I'm curious about the arrangements, what about running water & sewer.
I met residents from there.The government sort of recognized the building as official and they have 2 bombs pumping clean water,as well as another for sewage.As for electricity they have the normal supply and they installed meters,this way most of the residents can have fridges,electric cookers and TV's.They pay for these services.
The only consolation feasible at this point is to ensure that those who created this mess, and those who enabled them, receive their long-overdue retribution. Preferably by the enraged masses of those victimized by this den of vipers for the past three decades.
Mark, I know this building and I know how it operates. It works pretty much the same as a Venezuelan prison, in which there's an inmate that rules the place with his gang and everyone has to pay him. At the Torre de David there's a guy called Alexander Daza, alias El Niño, who runs the place. He gives and takes, allows and forbids, and he's the one charging people to live there. He calls it a contribution, like a condo fee, but it's rent. It's "capitalism" but very primitive.
That's not capitalism. Capitalism is no Governor/Government/Inmate in-between free trade. This allows each to compete against each other. That's the enemy of capitalism posing as capitalism. "Keep government out of my pocket!" "No Big Government!" -Just things American Republicans for a free market and not a black market economy used to say.
OnePhoenix77 How would that be a myth, the fact many people have plastic surgery is a fact and if many people have plastic surgery then its only natural they'd have many beautiful people.
Владимир Ленин The camera crew would be robbed. The actresses rapped. And the corrupt politicians would demand large payments for the permit. This is the norm at David Tower.
I live and was born in London Uploads such as this makes me appreciate more every day the blessed life I was born into and really could not comprehend what I must be like to live this life every day.
I'm seeing a lot of interesting parallels with the old Kowloon Walled City. You could even probably call this a new version. A spiritual successor, you could say.
***** ~ Sorry, I was already taking the assumption that the people living in this tower, who are mainly students and young families with the brains to move out of the favelas, have the intelligence enough to know what a freaking condom does. Since we're talking about countries, i'll tell you about mine. Buying condoms was illegal to minors and anyone under 18 until 3 years ago, abortions are also illegal. We had a baby boom, not from a lack of education from the catholic church which had a fear mongering stance, that sex was the work of the devil, but from the inability to get condoms from anywhere else other than a pub bathroom. Ireland until 20 years ago, I'd argue would have been indistinguishable from any South American country, both socially and economically. Car bombs, drug trafficing, murders, beheadings, corrupt politicians, shitly built houses, everything except the communists.
There's always two side to a story! I been to Venezuela once, back in 2007, for the deaf pan american games in Valencia. Represented Canada soccer team, and had quite the journey. People from all class were good people, and because of that, they made the trip great and worth while! I wish there is something I could do to donate for the people struggling to find their footing with the plumbing, and such. Live strong!
Let's watch the video instead of fighting windmills --ask honest questions on what we learn. My bias: I own my own apartment (100% equity) in No. America; I pay property taxes, insurances, all that; so I have some "conservative" interests regarding residential property ownership. For squatting families in Caracas, Venezuela to move into an ABANDONED UNFINISHED building and live together with some level of decency, like pooling money for maintenance of utilities, is far from Dante's Inferno. I respect the inhabitants and their positive initiative.
Torre de david reminds me of the building in DREDD, all the government needs to do is renovate it a little , charge a set housing fee, and give all residents land/housing titles, do you know how happy and proud these people would be , if they were official owners of their space, and had society's approval. so much potential..
Thanks for the inside look into Torre de David. Amazing the things that happen in my country. I've only heard good things about the place but it's too bad the government didn't take it over earlier, finished it and shared it with the people in a better livable condition.
Perdiste una oportunidad de oro! Poder entrar a grabar a esa torre pudo ser tu oportunidad de hacer un documental excelente! Qué lástima que la perdiste. Felicito al productor que logro el enlace para entrar a este particular lugar.
I lived here for 2 years until we had to move because of the pressure of the policia put on us. but it was a very peaceful an safe experience 😂 I have a lot of happy memories aswwel I missed it😑😑
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This should be mandatory viewing in all US universities. Socialism is a plague.
i find this amazing. never been inclined into socialist beliefs and such, but neither a big fan of consumerist capitalism, therefore the romance of the story itself.. i spent part of my childhood in Caracas.. i was living a comfortable life, but even as a 5 year old child i remember asking myself the question what is happening with that shitload of mountains covered in slum-houses and why, despite of a lot of local premonicious lady's advising my parents to keep me safe cos anyone might kidnap me at any point i never felt no fear in that city. this building to me seems like the symbol of the doom that lingers from past centuries in the 3rd world, but at the same a hope for a better future.. seems extraordinary!
I was thinking the same thing. I doubt they actually filmed there, it'd be way too dangerous, but I'm sure the set designers must have taken some inspiration from this
Don't know if this is wrong for me to say/think but I feel that this is a better solution to office buliding then just demolishing them. If the stucture is strong with running water/air/sewage/elevators. With security/rules those that can't afford appartments/homes/town houses or, are working there way to that goal can have a place to sleep at night.
Actually Detroit, Michigan where I grew up, is very much like Rio. The police are afraid to go in certain areas, drugs, homelessness, and squatting prevails.
John, if you treat drugs and homelessness with police aggression, then you will always have certain area's which will defend themselves against state incursions. But if you defend a drug dealer who had his stash stolen with police intervention to arrest the thieves, then crime overall, including murder and gang brutality, will cease entirely. This is the prohibition era, and you'd think we would of learned our lesson in the 20's, but nope...
It reminds me of those Megacities in "Dredd". Awesome movie but to see it close to real life here is sad. Notice how the poor kids are dark skinned while the rich, upscale women are all white/European.
It is not hopeless blind than who do not want to see. This video is a good job that shows a reality of a country that once was vigorous and full of optimism. Today they just struggled to survive utilizing whatever is available. Who is to blame for it? Everyone who has the opportunity to do something but instead feel his pockets with oil money, and it didn’t start with the actual regimen. This regimen is the consequence of the failure of the previous one and the lack of scruples.
"leftist this, leftist that" Tell me the definition of a leftist? To my knowledge "leftist"are the only ones who are fighting for the povery in the USA. While conservatives owned by billionares are making poor people even more poor. You guys even want to throw off 20 million people off from Obamacare just because that top 1% can get tax breaks in expense of the poor people. Word leftist is a catch phrase coined by CNN, FOX and many other mainstream media owned by billionares. Get educated dumb American. Leftists are not the source of your problem. You and the 50% of uneducated Americans are.
Definition is simple this a person weak and who can't care about himself enough. Imposes it on others with force either phisical or through manipulation to control others. Example that guy on the beginning with red star. Trust me I come from ex communist country where socialist gov was building flats for all. People had to wait for ages to get if they got it was extremely ugly and with many defects. Every single time where communism or socialism is main ideology country sooner or later will collapse.
Haha, that guy is literally standing there in the middle of a monument to the failure of socialism, and still has the audacity to trash-talk capitalism by saying it treats its citizens like commodities. News flash, Pedro: Europeans and Americans aren't living in the giant Mega City One housing blocks from Judge Dredd. Just you guys.
The Venezuelan Government started removing people from this years ago. Oh and that same socialist government started a violent crackdown on its citizens because there are food riots all over the country. Food shortages in a communist country? That cant be. I can only hope the rats taste as good in Caracas as they do in Pyongyang. At least you got a free slum to live in!
"Capitalism" >TFW literally major industries are nationalized (oil, agriculture, petroleum refinement, energy, mining, and medicine) >TFW a country which instituted a mass "worker management initiative" making worker unions of companies act as co-managers >surprised that it becomes the 134th competitive nation in the world >still blames capitalism. Well, if venezuelan's want to suffer ever more just for the altar of socialism, why should we stop them. I'm just saying, there's an easy way to get out of this venezuela. Just do what Chile did, impose martial law, redo everything, and start with sound market principles.
The medical industry is for the most part under private control, actually. For another thing, because oil and petrolium industries are nationalized, and the profits from them directly in government control, it should be no surprise that oil competition with countries like Saudi Arabia end up undercutting the oil industry and bankrupting the country. Pretty much everything else is under private control as well, don't know how you could call that Socialism.
From the reaction of people, I realize that I did not express my ideas adequately when saying "These people need to stop having babies until they are fully capable of feeding them. People shouldn't reproduce like animals." I was simple outraged by the number of women having kid after kid, while they are not even able to feed themselves. These poor women have absolutely no control over their lives: they are condemned to a life of poverty and victimization (yes, having and raising the child of a man who used you and abandoned you is a victimization experience, which will cause, at best, ambiguous feelings towards the child). These issues generally result from the reckless and negligent use of women as sexual objects and from their reckless and negligent impregnation, just as animals use their females and impregnate them "incidentally". Human beings should be in full possession of their reproductive rights and women should be fully protected by the law from being used as sexual objects. Since this is not going to happen in the near future, women should at least protected from unwanted pregnancies and unwanted children that will enslave them in a frustrated life of unfulfilled dreams and poverty.
Rich privileged white Americans have a very low birthrate, particularly educated women. Unfortunately, it is vulnerable, unstable single women who have the highest birth rate, from men who use them sexually. Broken, victimized ill-adjusted women who raise broken, victimized, ill-adjusted children. If we don't rectify this trend, in the very near future, 1/3 persons will live in a slum. (See RUclips video "The Slum - Episode 1)
+John Smith exactly. Some people don't have any other option. Even if you were rich in that country you wouldn't be able to leave it behind so easily. Considering the fact that immigration laws in the U.S are becoming stricter and stricter and the visa quotas are decreasing, the Venezuelans are trapped
Jonathan Polo And soon Americans and Canadians will also be "trapped" if we continue allowing and enabling the dissolution of moral values which is causing our countries to become Third World economies. Soon we will all be trapped and there will be nowhere to immigrate to, as corruption is devastating former "developed countries".
Minute 0:22. Images when appear the blonde and brunette ladies were not taken in Caracas. Also, this is not the authentic or real looking of Venezuelan women. Try to use authentic images, or you will loose your reputation. Be serious!
lo primero que me sorprendió fué la limpieza en las imagenes de los pasillos y las zonas deshabitadas en general las viviendas de proteccion social de los gobiernos estan en muchas peores condiciones se ve muy bien vuestro hogar! vaya piernas tendreis todos! ;) the first thing that surprised me was how clean the hallways and the unhabited spaces are generally governement sustained social housing projects are in much worse shape your house looks nice! you'll all have great legs!
It annoys me when an obvious "Establishment" official tries to tell the camera something is dangerous, when in fact what they really mean is that it does not allow corporations to profit and at this point it would be a human rights disaster to kick this many people and their families out onto the streets where they are in real danger.
If this building is abandoned..and homeless ppl are making a living there. How is it that they still pay a little bit of rent, and to whom?? There's a "manager", who put her/him in charge?
They make some kind of community maintenance to the whole tower. Groups of people that are in charge to distribute the water, in fact, they receive water trough a hose, one hose per floor. They all pay a part of the water service from a water tank (cistern). And well, as you saw in the video, there's a sales price for one 'department' in the tower, but it is really hard to say 'who' receives that money, maybe that money goes to a community fund.
Pochos25 & Barrios T. ... One could also argue that what Chavez did, only hurt the rich oligarchs. Those with money and power, lost money and power. But the people.. all the people.. had better lives. The only narrative that the world heard, was the narrative by the likes of Fox News and other conservative oligarch puppets.
Dominique you are very ignorant to argue about something you have no educated opinion on. "all the people" are worse off. have you seen a picture of a venezuelan supermarket? we can't find toilet paper
Whats so bad about them living in the building,it would just stand there and rot anyway,these people need shelter and there fixing the apartments up,its so easy for people to judge because they dont go threw having to live on the streets,or being dirt poor,these people have the right to find shelter just as much as the next person,why doesnt the Government finish fixing the building and turn it into low income housing,they can figure some way to get the money,It really gets me upset,why do the poor always fall by the wayside,there just as important as everyone else to the economy,just because there poor doesnt mean they dont contribute!
+ProBow2000 Roblox, "Funny, the reason they are poor is because of capitalism." oh man, IF ONLY, i wish we were living under capitalism, atleast under capitalism you can find toilet paper
Nice to see how other people around the world live. I don't think there's anywhere in the world that is a paradise for all who live there. But we can all support and love each other and really see how each one lives and the things that we need to work on and make them more equitable life on Earth for everyone not just the wealthy
Your totally right man, certain things do not make any sense.. indeed it is an abandoned building, but those small families, or maybe not even families, maybe a small group of people that got in first and started living there before anyone else, are the ones that are making a profit out of the tower, renting and selling apartments in it.
+piehamcake1 there are other systems we haven't tried. Socialism isn't the only choice we have. While capitalism allows for many freedom, it cannot provide basic needs for many people. Things like access to clean water and housing are held back from the people who need it because of capitalism.
π_Rol Capitalism provides everythng anyone can wish for, water.. private water companies, housing.. non profit low incom housing companies. in capitalism the free market will take care of any need, because there will be investors to build projects that people will pay for the service and everyone benefits, DONT BE A FOOL. the Free maket has been the Quickest route for quality of life increases. because of the diversity of products and services thousand of companies can provide. no goverment buracrate can keep up with peoples changing desires and needs but private bussines wil always innovatel
+piehamcake1 just because you haven't tried other systems it doesn't mean it will always be the same. Wafer access is a human right for instance. Capitalism won't do much there for the billions of people who don't have access to it. I am not a fool, I simply think outside the box. You should too.
π_Rol socialism and its variants have been tried and never last more than 50 years, American style free market has lasted 250 years and nobody is deprived of clean water. even a homeless person can go up to a random hose on the side of a building and get clean drinking water. thats how wealthy and abundant the free market is.
+piehamcake1 no it's not. you aren't the one living in an unfortunate situation and starving because of how bad this system is. it's good until you end up at the very bottom.
what a horrible situation poor homeless woman during pregnancy to fend for herself this clearly creates crimes of survival theft or prostitution for barter are no doubt at an all time high I have no clue as to how to survive in a place with out a place to go I would look to the forest for survival Eve ate from the earth we have removed ourselves from nature and crowded into small cities that have nothing the 1% have many X more than the majority it is genocide in the works
Vanessa White Because its normal life for them. The poor in my country don't know about alternatives, they've never been exposed to a better life, most of them have the equivalent of a middle school education and poor access to healthcare and contraceptives. You can't expect pregnant women to make decisions that will help lift them out of poverty if they lack the know-how. Don't blame them, blame the circumstances they were born into.
To those who generalise that the poor are lazy that's why they are poor, just imagine yourself living in the 20th floor without elevators. Voltaire got it right, the comfort of the rich depends on the abundance of the poor. We can't all be lawyers, doctors, or designers, someone has to look after us like the ones who clean your office trash, but we can all have EMPATHY, you fukkers!
***** Why are you angry? Did you lose your wallet? or your mind? Or did you misplace you sense of belonging to a community? Or are you one of those pricks who only care about yourself? (more like the last one!) FYI, I have a job, own my house, car... in short I'm not a BUM (whatever that means). And also I don't buy into the main stream media, which is own by the powerful, to blame the poor for their plight. While you on the other hand, happily parroting them, demonizing the oppressed and the powerless. So your argument is boring, tired, and most importantly, out of time.
milkmandan77 are you saying that Social Safety Net should be voluntary? coz that doesn't work. That is the same argument that the rich used against taxation, that it should be voluntary.
Thanks for posting this fascinating mini documentary. It clearly shows what wrong with Venezuala with its huge income gap between a small group of rulers and the rest of the population.
+jboydgolfer1 ok. so life hands you a basket of shit. Your job disappears and there are literaly no others unemployment (not counting underemployment and all the ones who have simply given up on looking for work) sits at 30%. You then have to live in a totally legal ramshackle sprawl (like what they showed right at the begining) then that gets washed away in a mudslide from a flood. of course nothing will replace that because you are poor in and Ayn Rand wet dream where the makers live in palaces and the takers live in hell. So you are left with two options go find a nice bridge to sleep under or go to the abandoned tower of failed capitalism.... doesn't sound like much of a fucking choice.
Incredible that this hapens in a country with the largest oil reserves in the PLANET, some of the largest natural gas reserves, huge mineral deposits, tons of potential for toursim and agriculture. A rich land with poor inhabitants.The desperation for an answer to their housing needs they must have been insane in order to make the choice of moving in there. Truly a terrible view on what Venezuela has become. On the other hand, a shame the building will never be finished, it was really a beauty.
I never been to Venezuale nor the USA. I am from Holland. We have also squated building in the Netherlands. I sometimes live in sqauts too. I love this video. People who join forces, to live in an empty building, that might be empty (otherwise) for years to come. Rebuilding it in a chaotic anarchistic way, living with hundreds of families altogether. Using an empty building this way is perfect ! Of course, crime is there. But are some governments not criminial aswell ? Kind Regards, Richard
Their Public Housing department needs to look at it the other way around and convert this building into subsidized residential housing instead of returning it to its former office use. There is obviously a demand for affordable housing in this area, and why not if the office idea already failed. It looks like from the view of the residents that with hard work and a proactive attitude that nice lives have been built in the tower. Why not allow them to stay but make it official.
Before, that was an office building, and the people that live there today mostly lived in housing projects or rural homes outside the city such as those in Guarenas/Guatire or Valles del Tuy, 2 hour commutes. Many traded quality of life for being IN the city, living in ... this. Hugo Chavez has turned Venezuela into one of those post-apocalyptic films, but it's real life.
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but it seems somehow appealing to me. It must be really cheap to pay for rent there and most people look sane. The problem is that the country is so bad in every aspect and there must be so much drug trafficking inside the building, but it is cheap and you may find cheap drugs ;-)
TR4R Actually, you can't rent. by law in Venezuela If you rent a place, they will keep the same rate as the day you moved in for life and they can't ask you to move out. Also, Venezuelan rate of inflation is the highest in the world.
Great and sad video that shows our reality, we can see how a nation is trying to progress but leaving their people behind , when the most important thing for the progress of a country is their people , but IGNORANCE has become a part of us
+Kamtuxutl They do not have running water, they do not have electricity they steal it, they have MASSIVE problems with crime and drugs... I think it is fair to call it a slum. This article over romanticized how those people live.
Xn Kroix I am actually Venezuelan, from Caracas city specifically. I used to pass by that tower everyday on my way to take the bus to the university, less than 3 years ago, and I have at least three friends that still live in the vicinity of that tower. I know what I am talking about! So thank you very much for your playing, try again next time.
***** How can you not know this is/was there? You can see la Torre David from every angle from the Bellas Artes to the west. It was a massive scandal when the invaded the building.
This is an opportunity, not a crisis! If someone's smart enough to slowly introduce sustainable living (off-grid power, urban/indoor farming, potable water system management) as maybe their project, this would be a great case study of how to make the best use of things. It'll uplift not only the community that's been taking up residents there but for the surrounding people as well.
+Memetaskic Denmark has social welfare, but it is as capitalist as it can get. On every corner there is a factory, a farm or some sort of other business activity. The governemnt createt a great business environment, unlike venezuela and other commie shitholes where everything is nationalized by government and all kinds of crazy rules are creted,
For another fascinating and mind-blowing slum story, check out videos of Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong - known to hold the record for having the densest human population anywhere on Earth in history.
the big picture is world wide control over every soul on earth there are so many themes that infiltrate the project at hand that the problems won't fade away all at once perhaps if we could get back to basics and cast away greed and simply be kind to our neighbor get back to a fair bartering system and fire the bankers find your plot of land build your house of dirt for little monies I see the current housing system continuing as it is when in fact it would be better to help a poor man build his own home and garden his own land create strong rural areas not poor cities it will take many changes on the greedy mans part to allow the creation of honorable self respecting works things that will help the environment mans health and spiritual well being
I shall name this city
NEW KOWLOON
Kane Smith i know right
Kane Smith have respect for our country
respect ?? this isssss INTERNET !!!!!!!!
I know this is the internet but woudnt you like if i insulted your country
respect for what exactly ? where did he insult anything ?
People who live there prob have sexy ass legs
Haha you're evil :D
Wtf
yeah
Every day is leg day.
Sad but true
As an outsider I'd be scared as hell walking in there for the first time, but also fascinated.
@FCA1975 you wouldn't visit the tower if your life depended on it lmfao
It realy touched me how some of these people live in wet, crumbling rooms while others have furnished their homes and painted the walls and live like normal highrise apartment residents. The tower is not a slum, it's a city within a city with its own divides.
+Jakub Pec I to was impressed at the overall cleanliness in the areas where people are living and no graffiti on walls outside. Saw some garbage and 'trashed' up pictures sure, but nothing beyond repair.
Commies lost their concrete monster build but the free moving enterprising people gained a home. Give them elevators and grocery stores, services - fix it up and let it be what it naturally wants to be inhabited. Pick the ones with the most skin in it and make it work via co-op housing, rent the rest out.
All the people in the video are now starving to death.
Not a slum? An impoverished building full of drugs, gangs, violence, poverty, broken down appliances,etc. In the US this would be one of the most broken down occupied buildings in the country. So yea it’s basically a slummed out building. What else would you call it. They have no food and no resources.
Dumb comment, it’s a slum
It's like one of those complexes from judge Dredd
The Venezuela's Kowloon?
I find it amusing that they have electricity in a abandoned skyscraper, obviously it's not free I'm curious about the arrangements, what about running water & sewer.
I met residents from there.The government sort of recognized the building as official and they have 2 bombs pumping clean water,as well as another for sewage.As for electricity they have the normal supply and they installed meters,this way most of the residents can have fridges,electric cookers and TV's.They pay for these services.
I believe you were going to say "pumps", not "bombs".
OMG yes sorry,I meant to write pumps.I did a literal translation from my language,spanish.Here we call the water pumps water bombs.
Marty Munna Oh, that's fair enough.
absolutely brakes my heart how my country became an icon of what it is to hit rock bottom
100%
Still, communists all over the world claim they can do it better.
The only consolation feasible at this point is to ensure that those who created this mess, and those who enabled them, receive their long-overdue retribution. Preferably by the enraged masses of those victimized by this den of vipers for the past three decades.
Those apartment views are breathtaking
This comment section is
90% "This reminds me of"
10% "The view is amazing"
It is though.
I mean it is though
Mark, I know this building and I know how it operates. It works pretty much the same as a Venezuelan prison, in which there's an inmate that rules the place with his gang and everyone has to pay him. At the Torre de David there's a guy called Alexander Daza, alias El Niño, who runs the place. He gives and takes, allows and forbids, and he's the one charging people to live there. He calls it a contribution, like a condo fee, but it's rent. It's "capitalism" but very primitive.
That's not capitalism.
Capitalism is no Governor/Government/Inmate in-between free trade. This allows each to compete against each other.
That's the enemy of capitalism posing as capitalism.
"Keep government out of my pocket!"
"No Big Government!"
-Just things American Republicans for a free market and not a black market economy used to say.
Yeah that's what you call a "Slum lord"
"but it's also known for it's beautiful people" then proceeds with "over 40 thousand plastic surgeries are performed each year..." lol oxymoron much?
that was funny !
+Simulacra O'Derry know before u speak careless joker
All the plastic surgery could be the reason it's known for its beautiful people
TechnoNecro isn't that a myth ?
OnePhoenix77 How would that be a myth, the fact many people have plastic surgery is a fact and if many people have plastic surgery then its only natural they'd have many beautiful people.
My beautiful Venezuela, ruined by corruption and communism
I feel for Venezuela, it only got worse. It will take many years to recover from the corruption that hurt it.
...and hyperinflation!!!
Yet people in north America are whining for the same communism to come up here, it's insane how anyone is for communism.
FuRy FTK Yeah communism has always been horrible to every country that practiced it, why should we even have communism here?
@@catcrapinahat as long as Maduro is still on power, this will be difficult to achieve.
This is just like in the newer Judge Dread movie.
+Meyaka B Did you know the newer Judge Dread movie was inspired by a similar slum located in South Africa?
+Meyaka B I was thinking the same.
Владимир Ленин
The camera crew would be robbed.
The actresses rapped.
And the corrupt politicians would demand large payments for the permit.
This is the norm at David Tower.
+AirScholar Didnt know actresses were so good at rapping dayum
kinda
I think this video is inspiring. People who have nothing and no government assistance ban together and survive on their own.
An intriguing documentary, it's amazing to see how people have built their small comfortable homes in the midst of a crumbling slum.
I live and was born in London Uploads such as this makes me appreciate more every day the blessed life I was born into and really could not comprehend what I must be like to live this life every day.
Just send in Judge Dredd he'll take care of the drug dealers.
Looks kinda like Mega Block from the movie
exactly what I was thinking
As I read your comment , I thought you were going to say 'Send in Judge Judy'
I was looking for a Dredd comment. Thank you.
Inhabitants of Peach Trees, Ma-Ma is not the law. I AM THE LAW.
I'm seeing a lot of interesting parallels with the old Kowloon Walled City. You could even probably call this a new version. A spiritual successor, you could say.
The poorer they are,the more babies they'll make
Allah Turbo sometimes people get more resposbilities to theres always pros and cons
The more access they have to affordable condoms, the less babies they'll make.
shawzie1916 no...they'll only make more balloon
Allah Turbo ~ That's what you and your friends do, but adults don't amuse themselves with childish balloon animals. Sex is a Much better use ;)
***** ~ Sorry, I was already taking the assumption that the people living in this tower, who are mainly students and young families with the brains to move out of the favelas, have the intelligence enough to know what a freaking condom does.
Since we're talking about countries, i'll tell you about mine. Buying condoms was illegal to minors and anyone under 18 until 3 years ago, abortions are also illegal. We had a baby boom, not from a lack of education from the catholic church which had a fear mongering stance, that sex was the work of the devil, but from the inability to get condoms from anywhere else other than a pub bathroom.
Ireland until 20 years ago, I'd argue would have been indistinguishable from any South American country, both socially and economically. Car bombs, drug trafficing, murders, beheadings, corrupt politicians, shitly built houses, everything except the communists.
There's always two side to a story! I been to Venezuela once, back in 2007, for the deaf pan american games in Valencia. Represented Canada soccer team, and had quite the journey. People from all class were good people, and because of that, they made the trip great and worth while! I wish there is something I could do to donate for the people struggling to find their footing with the plumbing, and such. Live strong!
All good people right? All smart educated intelligent people right? Why doesnt their country look like western countries?
Let's watch the video instead of fighting windmills --ask honest questions on what we learn. My bias: I own my own apartment (100% equity) in No. America; I pay property taxes, insurances, all that; so I have some "conservative" interests regarding residential property ownership. For squatting families in Caracas, Venezuela to move into an ABANDONED UNFINISHED building and live together with some level of decency, like pooling money for maintenance of utilities, is far from Dante's Inferno. I respect the inhabitants and their positive initiative.
Torre de david reminds me of the building in DREDD, all the government needs to do is renovate it a little , charge a set housing fee, and give all residents land/housing titles, do you know how happy and proud these people would be , if they were official owners of their space, and had society's approval.
so much potential..
I was thinking the same thing
Thanks for the inside look into Torre de David. Amazing the things that happen in my country. I've only heard good things about the place but it's too bad the government didn't take it over earlier, finished it and shared it with the people in a better livable condition.
Perdiste una oportunidad de oro! Poder entrar a grabar a esa torre pudo ser tu oportunidad de hacer un documental excelente! Qué lástima que la perdiste. Felicito al productor que logro el enlace para entrar a este particular lugar.
I lived here for 2 years until we had to move because of the pressure of the policia put on us. but it was a very peaceful an safe experience 😂 I have a lot of happy memories aswwel I missed it😑😑
This should be mandatory viewing in all US universities. Socialism is a plague.
Reminds me of Kowloon Walled City.
Kowloon wall city videos brought this onto my feed
This
i find this amazing. never been inclined into socialist beliefs and such, but neither a big fan of consumerist capitalism, therefore the romance of the story itself.. i spent part of my childhood in Caracas.. i was living a comfortable life, but even as a 5 year old child i remember asking myself the question what is happening with that shitload of mountains covered in slum-houses and why, despite of a lot of local premonicious lady's advising my parents to keep me safe cos anyone might kidnap me at any point i never felt no fear in that city. this building to me seems like the symbol of the doom that lingers from past centuries in the 3rd world, but at the same a hope for a better future.. seems extraordinary!
Wait, is this where they recorded Dredd (the movie)? If not, it's eerily similar...
I was thinking the same thing. I doubt they actually filmed there, it'd be way too dangerous, but I'm sure the set designers must have taken some inspiration from this
TheOddWorldOfJonas no this was filmed in ponte tower, look it up in youtube
Don't know if this is wrong for me to say/think but I feel that this is a better solution to office buliding then just demolishing them. If the stucture is strong with running water/air/sewage/elevators. With security/rules those that can't afford appartments/homes/town houses or, are working there way to that goal can have a place to sleep at night.
When government fails; take a good look at what's in store for us here in the USA.
The USA isn't even similar to Venezuela right now.
he didn't say that it is. He said it would be if the government failed.
Actually Detroit, Michigan where I grew up, is very much like Rio. The police are afraid to go in certain areas, drugs, homelessness, and squatting prevails.
John, if you treat drugs and homelessness with police aggression, then you will always have certain area's which will defend themselves against state incursions. But if you defend a drug dealer who had his stash stolen with police intervention to arrest the thieves, then crime overall, including murder and gang brutality, will cease entirely.
This is the prohibition era, and you'd think we would of learned our lesson in the 20's, but nope...
It's good to see that these people have made what look like good living with what little they started with.
Just like a block (massively tall building that is it's own neighborhood, has it's own economy, rules, culture, etc) from Judge Dredd.
Absolutely mind blowing story!
Homeland, season three.
I agree and to be honest it did not look so bad and some apartments seemed really decent and even nice. Also the view is amazing
The level of disenfranchisement is literally vertiginous.
There are huge towers like this in Bangkok too, abandoned mid-construction. There are also thousands of homeless people who should take this example
Why live on the streets when you have an abandoned sky scraper to live in I think it's a great idea
it wasn't abandoned it was taken over by rebels
Peach trees. Sector 13. Mega City One.
Exactly what I thought too. That movie seriously needs a sequel.
Thank you for posting the video!
It reminds me of those Megacities in "Dredd". Awesome movie but to see it close to real life here is sad. Notice how the poor kids are dark skinned while the rich, upscale women are all white/European.
It is not hopeless blind than who do not want to see. This video is a good job that shows a reality of a country that once was vigorous and full of optimism. Today they just struggled to survive utilizing whatever is available. Who is to blame for it? Everyone who has the opportunity to do something but instead feel his pockets with oil money, and it didn’t start with the actual regimen. This regimen is the consequence of the failure of the previous one and the lack of scruples.
S O C I A L I S M
Leftist logic: maybe if we get rid of all the guns it'll solve the problem.
'SOCIALISM'
Sees the large corporate building from Mercantil (privately owned bank)... Yeah real socialism
I bet you people barely even know the definition of socialism. And yeah, a failed bank sure isn't capitalistic.
"leftist this, leftist that" Tell me the definition of a leftist? To my knowledge "leftist"are the only ones who are fighting for the povery in the USA. While conservatives owned by billionares are making poor people even more poor. You guys even want to throw off 20 million people off from Obamacare just because that top 1% can get tax breaks in expense of the poor people. Word leftist is a catch phrase coined by CNN, FOX and many other mainstream media owned by billionares. Get educated dumb American. Leftists are not the source of your problem. You and the 50% of uneducated Americans are.
Definition is simple this a person weak and who can't care about himself enough. Imposes it on others with force either phisical or through manipulation to control others. Example that guy on the beginning with red star. Trust me I come from ex communist country where socialist gov was building flats for all. People had to wait for ages to get if they got it was extremely ugly and with many defects. Every single time where communism or socialism is main ideology country sooner or later will collapse.
Excellent excellent video!! I had no idea! Thank for you for sharing
Haha, that guy is literally standing there in the middle of a monument to the failure of socialism, and still has the audacity to trash-talk capitalism by saying it treats its citizens like commodities.
News flash, Pedro: Europeans and Americans aren't living in the giant Mega City One housing blocks from Judge Dredd. Just you guys.
Colton Reeves thank you
The Venezuelan Government started removing people from this years ago. Oh and that same socialist government started a violent crackdown on its citizens because there are food riots all over the country. Food shortages in a communist country? That cant be. I can only hope the rats taste as good in Caracas as they do in Pyongyang. At least you got a free slum to live in!
"socialism"
*>tfw literally 90% of all contracted work is done in the private sector and practically all industries are privatized*
"Capitalism"
>TFW literally major industries are nationalized (oil, agriculture, petroleum refinement, energy, mining, and medicine)
>TFW a country which instituted a mass "worker management initiative" making worker unions of companies act as co-managers
>surprised that it becomes the 134th competitive nation in the world
>still blames capitalism.
Well, if venezuelan's want to suffer ever more just for the altar of socialism, why should we stop them.
I'm just saying, there's an easy way to get out of this venezuela. Just do what Chile did, impose martial law, redo everything, and start with sound market principles.
The medical industry is for the most part under private control, actually.
For another thing, because oil and petrolium industries are nationalized, and the profits from them directly in government control, it should be no surprise that oil competition with countries like Saudi Arabia end up undercutting the oil industry and bankrupting the country.
Pretty much everything else is under private control as well, don't know how you could call that Socialism.
From the reaction of people, I realize that I did not express my ideas adequately when saying "These people need to stop having babies until they are fully capable of feeding them. People shouldn't reproduce like animals." I was simple outraged by the number of women having kid after kid, while they are not even able to feed themselves. These poor women have absolutely no control over their lives: they are condemned to a life of poverty and victimization (yes, having and raising the child of a man who used you and abandoned you is a victimization experience, which will cause, at best, ambiguous feelings towards the child). These issues generally result from the reckless and negligent use of women as sexual objects and from their reckless and negligent impregnation, just as animals use their females and impregnate them "incidentally". Human beings should be in full possession of their reproductive rights and women should be fully protected by the law from being used as sexual objects. Since this is not going to happen in the near future, women should at least protected from unwanted pregnancies and unwanted children that will enslave them in a frustrated life of unfulfilled dreams and poverty.
+Laura Arendt yeah only rich privelaged white americans have the right to exist in the future, everyone else should rot right?
Rich privileged white Americans have a very low birthrate, particularly educated women. Unfortunately, it is vulnerable, unstable single women who have the highest birth rate, from men who use them sexually. Broken, victimized ill-adjusted women who raise broken, victimized, ill-adjusted children. If we don't rectify this trend, in the very near future, 1/3 persons will live in a slum. (See RUclips video "The Slum - Episode 1)
*****
lol try living in a third would country and see what their economy is REALLY life, you overpriveleged moron.
+John Smith exactly. Some people don't have any other option. Even if you were rich in that country you wouldn't be able to leave it behind so easily. Considering the fact that immigration laws in the U.S are becoming stricter and stricter and the visa quotas are decreasing, the Venezuelans are trapped
Jonathan Polo And soon Americans and Canadians will also be "trapped" if we continue allowing and enabling the dissolution of moral values which is causing our countries to become Third World economies. Soon we will all be trapped and there will be nowhere to immigrate to, as corruption is devastating former "developed countries".
Great video. Also wanted to ask: does anyone else think the interviewed professor looks like Tom Hanks, or is it just me?
Minute 0:22. Images when appear the blonde and brunette ladies were not taken in Caracas. Also, this is not the authentic or real looking of Venezuelan women. Try to use authentic images, or you will loose your reputation. Be serious!
lo primero que me sorprendió fué la limpieza en las imagenes de los pasillos y las zonas deshabitadas
en general las viviendas de proteccion social de los gobiernos estan en muchas peores condiciones
se ve muy bien vuestro hogar! vaya piernas tendreis todos! ;)
the first thing that surprised me was how clean the hallways and the unhabited spaces are
generally governement sustained social housing projects are in much worse shape
your house looks nice! you'll all have great legs!
It annoys me when an obvious "Establishment" official tries to tell the camera something is dangerous, when in fact what they really mean is that it does not allow corporations to profit and at this point it would be a human rights disaster to kick this many people and their families out onto the streets where they are in real danger.
The view is amazing
If this building is abandoned..and homeless ppl are making a living there. How is it that they still pay a little bit of rent, and to whom?? There's a "manager", who put her/him in charge?
They make some kind of community maintenance to the whole tower. Groups of people that are in charge to distribute the water, in fact, they receive water trough a hose, one hose per floor. They all pay a part of the water service from a water tank (cistern). And well, as you saw in the video, there's a sales price for one 'department' in the tower, but it is really hard to say 'who' receives that money, maybe that money goes to a community fund.
*Chavez and his legacy of minions. He died more than a year ago.
He is having fun in Hell !
Pochos25 & Barrios T. ... One could also argue that what Chavez did, only hurt the rich oligarchs. Those with money and power, lost money and power. But the people.. all the people.. had better lives.
The only narrative that the world heard, was the narrative by the likes of Fox News and other conservative oligarch puppets.
Dominique you are very ignorant to argue about something you have no educated opinion on. "all the people" are worse off. have you seen a picture of a venezuelan supermarket? we can't find toilet paper
Interesting video, thanks for the upload.
So you can just steal a building...
Joey Mas No is not stealing, it is squatters rights in practice.
Kinda looks like stealing... Just sayin.
Joey Mas you're completely right. it IS stealing a building, and a beautiful one at that, it's so saddening and it happens a lot.
Sqatters rights
howsthat? whatnow? not sqatters right, they simply invade the buildings, it's illegal, and since most people there are dangerous no one does anything.
Yeah sounds great until you realize in order to get simple items you may have to pay up to 1500% mark up.
Just like Chicago’s Cabrini Green when it was still standing!
Whats so bad about them living in the building,it would just stand there and rot anyway,these people need shelter and there fixing the apartments up,its so easy for people to judge because they dont go threw having to live on the streets,or being dirt poor,these people have the right to find shelter just as much as the next person,why doesnt the Government finish fixing the building and turn it into low income housing,they can figure some way to get the money,It really gets me upset,why do the poor always fall by the wayside,there just as important as everyone else to the economy,just because there poor doesnt mean they dont contribute!
You shouldn't have to pay rent to secure your rights to have a shelter. Only the cost for maintaining the structure and it's community. KANE.
I would love to visit Venezuela one day...when things settle down a little.
I love socialism. Everyone is equal as everyone lives in poverty.
Not true. The reason for poverty is low average intelligence.
Funny, the reason they are poor is because of capitalism.
Perhaps you missed that giant fucking bank sitting right next to the building
+Communist Troll, funny how "low average intelligence" wasnt an issue when this country was capitalist
+ProBow2000 Roblox, "Funny, the reason they are poor is because of capitalism."
oh man, IF ONLY, i wish we were living under capitalism, atleast under capitalism you can find toilet paper
Nice to see how other people around the world live. I don't think there's anywhere in the world that is a paradise for all who live there. But we can all support and love each other and really see how each one lives and the things that we need to work on and make them more equitable life on Earth for everyone not just the wealthy
The only crime is leaving that building sitting empty when so many people desperately need homes.
Wow just amazing
They could use a starbucks there!
I am so glad I live in a rich, developed, western nation.
Its like the real life new judge dredd movie!
John Spry ahem, apparently the movie was built based on this..
+John Spry lol i was thinking of the same theme
That's really sad breaks my heart.
I find it funny how people see one building and judge the whole country. You could do the same with the US.
"Nigel" is a British name.
How's that "universal healthcare" treating ya, it being a "socialist policy", and all. Do you just not pay taxes?
i live in that country, its all bad
im leaving this dump as soon as i can
Yugoslavia was far more prosperous as a socialist country then any of the free former countries...
Risto Mladich the one country that can be argued socialism "worked"
the only one, the rest are failures
Well Cuba ended up better than it started; however, I do agree with you that extreme-leftism did to hurt a lot of countries.
Your totally right man, certain things do not make any sense.. indeed it is an abandoned building, but those small families, or maybe not even families, maybe a small group of people that got in first and started living there before anyone else, are the ones that are making a profit out of the tower, renting and selling apartments in it.
Dredd in real life
Very surreal and cool.
for those who say capitalism doesnt work, lol try socialism
+piehamcake1 there are other systems we haven't tried. Socialism isn't the only choice we have.
While capitalism allows for many freedom, it cannot provide basic needs for many people. Things like access to clean water and housing are held back from the people who need it because of capitalism.
π_Rol Capitalism provides everythng anyone can wish for, water.. private water companies, housing.. non profit low incom housing companies. in capitalism the free market will take care of any need, because there will be investors to build projects that people will pay for the service and everyone benefits, DONT BE A FOOL. the Free maket has been the Quickest route for quality of life increases. because of the diversity of products and services thousand of companies can provide. no goverment buracrate can keep up with peoples changing desires and needs but private bussines wil always innovatel
+piehamcake1 just because you haven't tried other systems it doesn't mean it will always be the same. Wafer access is a human right for instance. Capitalism won't do much there for the billions of people who don't have access to it.
I am not a fool, I simply think outside the box. You should too.
π_Rol socialism and its variants have been tried and never last more than 50 years, American style free market has lasted 250 years and nobody is deprived of clean water. even a homeless person can go up to a random hose on the side of a building and get clean drinking water. thats how wealthy and abundant the free market is.
+piehamcake1 no it's not. you aren't the one living in an unfortunate situation and starving because of how bad this system is. it's good until you end up at the very bottom.
This can be the place for the next horror movie
2:10 -- I have a problem with that. You are poor, homeless and pregnant. You know that you will raise your child in a slum. How can you do that?
what a horrible situation poor homeless woman during pregnancy to fend for herself this clearly creates crimes of survival theft or prostitution for barter are no doubt at an all time high I have no clue as to how to survive in a place with out a place to go I would look to the forest for survival Eve ate from the earth we have removed ourselves from nature and crowded into small cities that have nothing the 1% have many X more than the majority it is genocide in the works
Sharon Miller or you know, people could use birth control if they can't afford to raise a kid
Vanessa White By having sex! Fucking hell don't you know life's basic's?
Vanessa White Because its normal life for them. The poor in my country don't know about alternatives, they've never been exposed to a better life, most of them have the equivalent of a middle school education and poor access to healthcare and contraceptives. You can't expect pregnant women to make decisions that will help lift them out of poverty if they lack the know-how. Don't blame them, blame the circumstances they were born into.
Jelyphish86 typical liberal. "it's never their fault" (for making stupid decisions)
Damn. Imagine carrying construction materials up 20 plus floors. Bloody hell.
To those who generalise that the poor are lazy that's why they are poor, just imagine yourself living in the 20th floor without elevators. Voltaire got it right, the comfort of the rich depends on the abundance of the poor. We can't all be lawyers, doctors, or designers, someone has to look after us like the ones who clean your office trash, but we can all have EMPATHY, you fukkers!
jutubaeh huh?
***** Why are you angry? Did you lose your wallet? or your mind? Or did you misplace you sense of belonging to a community? Or are you one of those pricks who only care about yourself? (more like the last one!) FYI, I have a job, own my house, car... in short I'm not a BUM (whatever that means). And also I don't buy into the main stream media, which is own by the powerful, to blame the poor for their plight. While you on the other hand, happily parroting them, demonizing the oppressed and the powerless. So your argument is boring, tired, and most importantly, out of time.
Breda Jake
No one is saying that? you wish.
milkmandan77 are you saying that Social Safety Net should be voluntary? coz that doesn't work. That is the same argument that the rich used against taxation, that it should be voluntary.
milkmandan77
Oh God. If the individual taxation doesn;t work, what makes you think individual safety net will?
Thanks for posting this fascinating mini documentary. It clearly shows what wrong with Venezuala with its huge income gap between a small group of rulers and the rest of the population.
he says "endure" living there...but theyre NOT intended to live there, they are there illegally, by choice.
+jboydgolfer1 ok. so life hands you a basket of shit. Your job disappears and there are literaly no others unemployment (not counting underemployment and all the ones who have simply given up on looking for work) sits at 30%. You then have to live in a totally legal ramshackle sprawl (like what they showed right at the begining) then that gets washed away in a mudslide from a flood. of course nothing will replace that because you are poor in and Ayn Rand wet dream where the makers live in palaces and the takers live in hell. So you are left with two options go find a nice bridge to sleep under or go to the abandoned tower of failed capitalism.... doesn't sound like much of a fucking choice.
Incredible that this hapens in a country with the largest oil reserves in the PLANET, some of the largest natural gas reserves, huge mineral deposits, tons of potential for toursim and agriculture. A rich land with poor inhabitants.The desperation for an answer to their housing needs they must have been insane in order to make the choice of moving in there. Truly a terrible view on what Venezuela has become.
On the other hand, a shame the building will never be finished, it was really a beauty.
Socialism sounds so great until you actually have to live through it.
This is more of the shitty government's fault than socialism, but I see where you're coming from.
+DarthRevanWoad A shitty government, doing shitty socialist policies.
Honestly, a Venezuelan.
So European countries like denmark, norway, sweden are shit holes. This has more to do with government corruption
They why is Mexico just like this yet they are very capitalist? What ruins an economy is a low average intelligence.
I never been to Venezuale nor the USA. I am from Holland. We have also squated building in the Netherlands. I sometimes live in sqauts too. I love this video. People who join forces, to live in an empty building, that might be empty (otherwise) for years to come. Rebuilding it in a chaotic anarchistic way, living with hundreds of families altogether. Using an empty building this way is perfect ! Of course, crime is there. But are some governments not criminial aswell ? Kind Regards, Richard
Their Public Housing department needs to look at it the other way around and convert this building into subsidized residential housing instead of returning it to its former office use. There is obviously a demand for affordable housing in this area, and why not if the office idea already failed. It looks like from the view of the residents that with hard work and a proactive attitude that nice lives have been built in the tower. Why not allow them to stay but make it official.
Before, that was an office building, and the people that live there today mostly lived in housing projects or rural homes outside the city such as those in Guarenas/Guatire or Valles del Tuy, 2 hour commutes. Many traded quality of life for being IN the city, living in ... this. Hugo Chavez has turned Venezuela into one of those post-apocalyptic films, but it's real life.
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but it seems somehow appealing to me. It must be really cheap to pay for rent there and most people look sane. The problem is that the country is so bad in every aspect and there must be so much drug trafficking inside the building, but it is cheap and you may find cheap drugs ;-)
TR4R Actually, you can't rent. by law in Venezuela If you rent a place, they will keep the same rate as the day you moved in for life and they can't ask you to move out. Also, Venezuelan rate of inflation is the highest in the world.
Danger... drugs... violence... cheap rent... Sounds like an adventure when can I start :D
it would be better then sleeping outside in the street_and it would be like having a little apartment
Great and sad video that shows our reality, we can see how a nation is trying to progress but leaving their people behind , when the most important thing for the progress of a country is their people , but IGNORANCE has become a part of us
Not too bad for a "slum"... can that be considered a slum?
+Kamtuxutl They do not have running water, they do not have electricity they steal it, they have MASSIVE problems with crime and drugs... I think it is fair to call it a slum. This article over romanticized how those people live.
I suppose you're absolutely right.
+Luis Lozano do you live there? no.
Xn Kroix I am actually Venezuelan, from Caracas city specifically. I used to pass by that tower everyday on my way to take the bus to the university, less than 3 years ago, and I have at least three friends that still live in the vicinity of that tower. I know what I am talking about! So thank you very much for your playing, try again next time.
***** How can you not know this is/was there? You can see la Torre David from every angle from the Bellas Artes to the west. It was a massive scandal when the invaded the building.
This is an opportunity, not a crisis! If someone's smart enough to slowly introduce sustainable living (off-grid power, urban/indoor farming, potable water system management) as maybe their project, this would be a great case study of how to make the best use of things. It'll uplift not only the community that's been taking up residents there but for the surrounding people as well.
Lol snooty architecture professor is snooty :P
All places are temporary places. Good for them, the residents, for making something out of what their society/government couldn't.
socialism is truly wonderful.....
+Cibbe Dixon Bernie would love this for America.
I know, Denmark is such a shitty place
It would be if their defense wasn't subsidized by the USA. That's the only reason the European welfare states survive.
+OldWestGunslinger bollocks
+Memetaskic Denmark has social welfare, but it is as capitalist as it can get. On every corner there is a factory, a farm or some sort of other business activity. The governemnt createt a great business environment, unlike venezuela and other commie shitholes where everything is nationalized by government and all kinds of crazy rules are creted,
they need to call judge dredd to protect the tower
this isnt really a slum, its a thriving community to me at least
Clayton Poon thriving lol
I thought Brody from Homeland was gonna show up and this would turn into MTV Cribz.
At least they're pretty enough to marry rich Americans for papers. #Optimistic
And then get deported after they've been passed around the country club.
For another fascinating and mind-blowing slum story, check out videos of Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong - known to hold the record for having the densest human population anywhere on Earth in history.
we have them here to in America, they're called housing projects. Mostly filled by black people.
the big picture is world wide control over every soul on earth there are so many themes that infiltrate the project at hand that the problems won't fade away all at once perhaps if we could get back to basics and cast away greed and simply be kind to our neighbor get back to a fair bartering system and fire the bankers find your plot of land build your house of dirt for little monies I see the current housing system continuing as it is when in fact it would be better to help a poor man build his own home and garden his own land create strong rural areas not poor cities it will take many changes on the greedy mans part to allow the creation of honorable self respecting works things that will help the environment mans health and spiritual well being
ken swift Housing projects were made to house people. This was suppose to be an office building.
Right, what it was "suppose to be", but it houses people. By hook or by crook.
Dude! This is what that movie Dredd was based on!
Waw! Sad and interesting to follow. I wish them well !
Totally made me think of Dredd !!
Reminds me a lot of Ponte Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa...