How Houston Cut HOMELESSNESS By 63% In Just 10 Years
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- President & CEO at Coalition for the Homeless, Mike Nichols, discuss how nonprofit work in Houston is moving unhoused people into homes.
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I love this guy. He is so proud and happy because he made a difference. Thank him for his service and his example of how to get things done!
Being from LA I was just in Houston for the first time and was extremely impressed of how clean their downtown area was.
Please stay in LA do not think about moving to Houston.
@@joseywales1150 why
@@happyguy2k we don’t want you coming here and ruining our state with your horrible voting decisions
Cross the freeway over into 3rd Ward
There’s nothing this gentleman mentioned in this interview that other municipalities haven’t tried in one way or another to failed ends. Ryan tried to bring it up with asking about Nimby folk and he dodged the question; but the key difference has to be that Houston doesn’t have zoning laws (they do have some deed covenants) but land use isn’t regulated by zoning use laws. That helps developers respond to market demands and keep affordable housing available for all socioeconomic levels.
Dodged the question?
He said they get integrated.
Good Insight
Shows that anything can be done provided political differences are set aside.
Lol nice cliche
Well, there’s the corruption thing that makes homelessness a booming industry for administrative leeches. That’s what kills everything California pretends to do.
💯 If we solve poverty, we’ll solve the issues with drug abuse, violence, and many other societal issues. It’s refreshing to see an organization focused on the real issue, and not the symptoms of the issue. Bravo! 👏👏👏
@@enturnetrol7869 it’s been proven that people turn to drugs because tramatic events usually from material conditions but one can still experience traumatic events outside of the lack of money
Not really often times all those things you mentioned stem from drug abuse, not the other way around
@@paulinotou actually that’s incorrect
@@enturnetrol7869 besides the country of portugal and the study that showed people don’t get addicted to drugs when they aren’t miserable in life aka experiencing tramatic events/mental health issues. It’s not very hard to find this information.
@@enturnetrol7869 tell me you haven’t read the study without telling you haven’t read the study lol
Also a gene doesn’t determine if someone will be an alcoholic or not only what are the odds of it similar to trauma and it’s link to drug abuse and mental illness
Beautiful . Thank you to the city of Houston for doing the right thing unlike California .
Unlike just about anywhere else in the USA.
A lot of places are trying these solutions, but they are out of housing or out of funding.
I live in Houston and the homelessness here is astounding. The leadership of houston does zero to combat this problem.
Houston is a blue city engaging in progressive fixes that are working. Yeah California should follow along as should the rest of the nation. California is more likely to do so than a red state though.
The social workers who look after the homeless in California surveyed where all the homeless came from. Over 90% are from out of state. California needs to put them on a bus and ship them back to where they came from. Other states need to take care of their own people and not ship their homeless to the west coast. Same with Portland and Seattle. They were great cities that the poor states shipped their poor to and it became a problem. The other states need to be stop welfare bums.
Look up what states give and take from the federal coffers.
Mike is my kind of hero! I pray this model spreads. Thanks for all involved. EH
This is wonderful! It just shows you what can be done if people work together ❤️
Born and raised here .... homelessness is still bad but I'm happy about the effort
So beautiful. Way to go Houston. Heartfelt joy and gratitude for the people dedicated to this work. And see in the background of Mike Nichols, the sign "Think". This is how compassionate, proactive people think about problem solving.
I watched a show where they were explaining in San Francisco does not allow low cost housing.
We need more positive stories like this. I’m so happy that the hill had this guy on.
This story made me emotional not only because my brief stint of political activism inevitably led me into direct contact with homeless people, many of whom were my age, often college educated, and quite intelligent..but because this story is literally the only positive story of the government doing SOMETHING to help average citizens of a community. I literally cannot recall any other story in at least a decade where I can say can say the government acted to actually help non wealthy people...maybe the affordable healthcare act? I have just been so accustomed to the largest protests in history achieving very little or organizations making 0 gains and eventually being hollowed out by establishment interest mouthpeices. First story in a decade that inspires optimism.
This should be sent to every state governor and every city mayor!!! so amazing!💗
Wow! Look at what we are capable of on a COMMUNITY level.. Bravo Houston!! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 All local communities should take your lead, verbatim! THIS is what America is generally supposed to look like.. Coming together to find local solutions that effect the country as a whole!
It’s too hot in Houston to leave that housing. Good on everyone who helped this program be successful.
What a fantastic interview. Kudos to Houston. I'm glad other cities are reaching out. Hopefully at least some of them can replicate this success.
I saw an interesting video on the "housing first" principle that is in place in Finland and Mississippi (of all places). There was another city looking to do it, but I cannot remember which (not anywhere in Cali).
What I want to hear more about, is how the Vision centers being set up by HUD are doing.
jimmy dore?
It's in Missouri
Jimmy dore
What a great segment. And great work in Houston! Notice very practical, the government does not take the lead but is providing funding.
This the way it should be
housing the homeless works. these folks are doing amazing work.
Just wow. After returning from Iraq with TBI, I was unable to hold a job. Eventually my savings ran out, and I lost the house I'd been paying on for fifteen years and ended up homeless. To those who haven't been, you just cannot know. Back then, one-third of all homeless in the United States of America were Veterans. President Obama did so much for America's veterans; his detractors deliberately overlook, and his supporters did not think his achievements worthy of notice!
Stay Strong ! Thank you for Serving Military ! Here is Hope more get Help !
David Goodnow I hope you are ok now and living the best life you deserve!
@@g.christelbecker6349 🤣
No, I cannot say that I am.
I am, however, better, and not homeless even if I'm renting.
There is no reason for poverty or homelessness in the West other than corrupted officials and narcissistic committees.
When we in the West stand up against corruption and narcissism, any problem can be resolved.
This man is neither a narcissist nor is he corrupted.
Thank God for men and women like this man!
Untrue. Many homeless have drug problems and spend money on their habits rather than bills.
God Bless Mike Nichols. I wish him many, many blessings. He is a good man.
What a brilliant way to solve a problem like homelessness. How can a person deal with life properly if they have nowhere to live? Well done Mike Nichols and Houston.
Give away free stuff , yeah that's brilliant. When the next generation of homeless appears the old ones won't die off , how much free housing can you handle?
Thank you for this hopeful report and congratulations to the fine peoole in Houston.
Thank you for covering this important topic
Bravo! This is what journalism is all about!
There's going to be a lot more homeless in the future if the economy keeps going this way
In ten years? Homelessness could have been ended with the amount of money that was invested in war. Billions spent on weaponry all to aide those in Congress to be richer as they have shares in those weapons manufacturers companies. It's a crying shame
Great content. This program should be forwarded to every major urban area. It’s uniting not dividing.
To be fair, I live in Houston, and it has skyrocketed within the last two years. Everyone notices. You can't solve homelessness under the current administration's actions no matter how hard local governments try.
Thx for sharing, to clarify: Are you stating homelessness in Houston has gone up over the last 2 years? If so, how does that "mix" with Mike Nichol's assertions during this interview? Are we possibly merely noticing that the COVID-19 pandemic dampened Houston's success against homelessness, but hasn't completely stopped its positive effects?
Especially downtown , giving away free housing isn't a good solution and won't last ! If they really wanted to change their lives around Houston had plenty of places to do that , Star of Hope is a great example, there you go to class , take drug test every month , can work a save your money and rejoin society the right way.
And it’s spreading to areas of the greater Houston area that I have never seen encampments before. I’m sad that so many comments on this video have visited Houston and been impressed compared to the situation in their own cities.
@@brucelee5576 consider though that you cannot begin to rejoin society without being housed. Would you hire someone living in a tent on the side of the road?
@@pepperonish
I'm from Houston , stayed at the Star of Hope Shelter/ men's development center for the last two years , just rejoin society myself recently, let me tell 90% of Houston homeless ppl enjoy being homeless they don't want to bother with responsibilities, it's a care free life , they get fed 3 times a day , the other 10 % they know what's to go where to get help and here in Houston there are plenty of places that will get you on your feet , not only that you become a stronger and smarter person when you finish their programs ,for some of us being homeless was the best thing that ever happened, for me for sure , the rest of the ppl in the streets they having the time of their lives being homeless trust my on this in here downtown Houston at ground zero.
Problem is other cities don’t want to solve the problem. It’s all about the $$$$. NYC and Ca are prime examples. Follow the $ - pols take in cash from the programs funded
It's why government can't do it alone, because the bureaucrats have a conflict of interest
For The Hill: What do other large cities (pick one or two) see in Huston's approach that they don't want to do? Do they say Houston is making claims based on falsified data?
The interviewee did explain what they're doing differently. Other cities don't organize as well, and they focus on emergency housing. Houston is only focusing on the most vulnerable, putting them in permanent housing and working with landlords and communities to win their support instead of foisting problematic residents on landlords and communities who don't want those people there. There is a point he didn't mention. Texas has relatively high real estate tax so they don't have the same real estate bubble as cities in other states, so landlords and communities aren't quite as up in arms about their real estate values as they are in the rest of the country.
I love love love Houston. When they take in homeless in shelters, they provide jobs, and mental Health. They then create a trust where you have to deposit money every paycheck. This helps the homeless learn finances, budgeting and getting back on their feet and stay there. Texas is a pick yourself up by your boot straps state. It doesn’t mean they don’t help you. It means they teach you how to help yourself ❤
UK Government need to check this out!
VERY important segment here! I like this! And also the thing about the Oakland program (expired now?) that reduced gun violence by 50% with a similar idea behind the 5-point approach.
The only tragedy here is that this story is the exception rather than the rule.
Houston homeless is a huge problem. I live here. They do nothing to this. Almost ALL of the low income apartments are condemnable. They have no AC (it’s 100 plus degrees). No running appliances, black mold, etc. Houston is an absolute mess. Don’t believe anything other. I live here and see this everyday.
Rural neglect while promoting Urbanization is the source of homelessness. Outsourcing manufacturing is another issue. It's so expensive to pay for housing in urban environment. The money that would house a person in urban setting is enough to cater for 400 people in rural communities. The number of people becoming homelessness each day, no government can afford it in urban centers. Excessive or regulation is also an issue mentioned by investors.
There's a lot of opportunity to use townships that have long-since reverted to the States, if they wanted to use them for housing. The hard part would be getting the mental health and addiction counseling services.
Great segment! This more stories like this, please!
Excellent and fascinating segment! So good to hear about people working together to help each other be successful. Very well timed reminder of what we can do when we put our minds and resources towards bettering the lives of people in our community. Thank you!
That was a great story. Gives me hope for the future. I’d like to see more inspiring content like that. Awesome job.
If you watch a movie from the 30's-60's single adult men lived in boarding houses and single women often lived together in a boarding room or an apartment. Couples lived in an apartment or a modest house if they had children.
Yes, but they had to pay for it. Through employment.
@@HazeOfWhearyWater It was 3$ a week.
@@thealternative9580 Your logic is unassailable.
@@HazeOfWhearyWater Smarter than you'll ever be.
@@thealternative9580 Next you'll be whipping out a tape measure.
Love this! This gives me a glimmer of hope parts of this country can help its fellow man.
Hero Effort + Champion Results !
Very Impressive ! Congrats !
The world needs to take notice. I’m in northern Alberta Canada, and we have a serious homelessness issue, which means too many people die in winter here. We have lots to learn from you folks in Houston. Kudos!
Great work!
I live in Houston, this is hard to believe this every time i pass by the McDonalds by the greyhound station in downtown it’s filled with homeless ppl..
Good work!
Finally some positive and invigorating story
I think this can be replicated in coastal liberal cities, if we relax zoning restrictions. Zoning law makes property super expensive in these areas, and the most restrictive zoning laws are in coastal liberal cities, like San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle. This makes the real estate needed to actually house the homeless really expensive to lay one's hands on. I think this was kind of addressed in 7:54 .
The thing about Houston, is that it has absolutely no zoning laws. And I think that helps in the procurement of spaces for housing the homeless.
Integration into community, 8:40 , is absolutely essential too. I've actually talked to a few homeless people a couple of months back, and that's one major concern they pointed out.
Of 6 US cities with highest homeless populations, 4 are in California, all are considered "coastal" (San Jose is actually about 30 miles inland). Not certain about liberal/conservative ratios in San Jose and San Diego
Just wonderful!!
We needed this! It seems like the world has gone crazy lately, good news is... good
What we a sweet man! I hope this is replicated in areas suffering from large homelessness populations!
CA needs so badly to do this!! Even our little town in NorCal is infested with homelessness which has led to increased drugs and crime. Not at all like the place it was even 5 years ago.
We relocated to Houston from Seattle this past week. The difference in homelessness is staggering. No encampments (that I have observed). 🤔
how is the ball sweat treating you?
@@pepperonish taint that bad. We’re from Hawaii originally.
@@olio7523 No way, so am I
Seattle’s homeless problem is TERRIBLE!!! Definitely could learn a lesson from Houston!
Houston had a flood of biblical proportions in 2017 - I promise you that flood had more to do with getting rid of homeless people than anything else. Which is ironic, because most of Houston's homeless problem stemmed from the flooding in New Orleans. Thousands of people migrated to Houston during that flooding.
Good for Houston👍
What a special man
Wow... Wait... So hold on... So you give homeless people permanent places to live, and they're no longer homeless? Mind blown!
I think the keys here are the public/private partnerships, and focusing on a full slate of supportive services. Just building a bunch of apartments for everyone who wants one won’t work, is not cost effective, and doesn’t cover all the issues.
@@greglarson6293 yeah because that's not exactly the opposite of what the guy who made this work said..
Right? I'm glad they are addressing it, don't get me wrong. But they are still folk living on another persons dollar, which will never be guaranteed. They might still have the problems that made them homeless. The solution to this is not simple or quick. Its definitely a long term effort to get these guys on their feet and actually functioning in our economy/society
@@paulinotou yeah... Way to completely miss the point my dude. You and Greg Larson up there should form a band or something. Just stick to music where being tone deaf just leads to bad music instead of bad public policy.
How to reduce homelessness: provide the homeless with housing. Who woulda thought?
Well now we have a video to show people who try to argue against just putting people in housing.
Isn't that easy. Someone has to pay for it.
@@shawnn7502 The alternative is to pay even more to arrest them and put them in prisons, which is of course paid by you, penny wise pound foolish.
@@shawnn7502 it was pretty easy in Houston. We just have to beg the rich and greedy corporations to help out the peasants
@@davidnguyen7891 Did you ask Darth Vader too?
Wow! I love this story. I hope other jurisdictions follow suit. Provide stable and real housing first to the deserving homeless people. There are a lot of homeless people who just only need that small opportunity to start over. They are the ones who should be helped to reduce the homeless and maintain the reduction.
Awesome!!
Mike Nichols has a very noble job.
Homelessness is surely money better spent than world police, no child or female should be homeless at a minimum.
What a great guy. Homelessness should not exist in this century
This made me smile :)
They did through bus tickets.
Houston has a crime problem. If it found a way to take care of their horrible homicide rate I would move back to Houston. I was raised there. I have family there. I am a Houstonian. I did my community service work for a DUI I got in Houston and it was amazing. I got a chance to visit my Mom in that area right before she died. I love Dallas and Austin too. God Bless Texas.
I hate that I’ve become so cynical and untrusting. It’s really nice to think there’s at least one place, one system, that is trying to do good in spite of it all.
Imagine if our politicians could work together this way. Or if people in general could, but more often.
Look at the real rewards that come from genuinely working as a team towards a shared goal, or to prevent a shared disaster. The kind
that isn’t focused on highlighting its MVP at every turn. The kind that’s not interested in making the other team lose as terribly as it can.
Brilliant ideas, I love the work together efforts between government, NGOs and the faith based community. Very intelligent works. Hope this spreads to other cities and states.
"It worked because we are in Texas and not California. Y'all cannot underestimate how important that is."
I didn't catch that. Is that a quote from this video? If so, can you recall when? (If not, where is it from?)
@@JoshWalker1 He's making a joke, chief.
@@JoshWalker1 Just a joke. But one that is also true.
I loved this so much. Surprise surprise the best solutions for homelessness is to give people houses. Go Houston!!
Imagine that the cure for the homeless is giving people homes.
it isn't. they usually lose the home or can't fix their problems and OD in the home
@@007kingifrit Homes have to come first, what can you do with our an address? Homeless was solved if you want to address acts of disparity like drug over use, fix more social problems like poverty health care , drug laws etc. This solves for homelessness!
Wow, actively applying compassion to this issue. Clearly it's possible, so why are so many other states criminalizing people who deserve real sustainable help.
I dunno about this segment. I live in North Houston and see homeless all the time. Pretty much every main intersection has homeless soliciting. If there has been a reduction it hasn't been in our area. They do move the homeless around. When its rodeo season or another big function in the downtown area they will move the homeless out to the surrounding areas.
Yes I lived near the museum district before the Super Bowl, they worked on keeping that area camera ready for many months. Once the tv crews were gone, it was like a snap of the fingers, encampments and trash were back. Im also skeptical of the one sided source in this video. Having worked for one of them, non-profits are just as ready to spin for the sake of donations as corporations are for profit.
I’m conservative but fully support getting our people housing. Understanding long term financial, societal and generational costs, it is way more effective to get people the services they need. It’s BS that our govt, no matter what side you are on milks the homeless industry and people just get paid to spin their wheels and get burned out.
The guardian article “bused out how America moves the homeless” it’s worth checking out.
What’s amazing is that Texas is a pro-landlord state, and they have 6,800 housed in apartments where landlords are accepting hud vouchers. Amazing they can house the homeless and still be pro-landlord. It seems like some states think the way to help the most vulnerable is to make laws that are pro-tenant. This example makes one think a little about those assumptions.
Very progressive policy and it should be the standard across the country. This is a MUCH more difficult problem to solve in california because property is so expensive there and there's just enough housing.
Start exporting people who moved _to_ California to _be_ homeless bums?
@@davidgoodnow269 no idea what you mean
They bussed them to California where the weather is nicer and the benefits are bigger?
Yes, they do. But we have to restructure benefits to help completely and not do this half assed. Then we should sue the states that practice bussing to help pay. Meanwhile though it’s costing more to do it the way it is than just do housing first with services.
COSTS were the best part of this discussion, wish it'd been the main part instead of the tail end.
Example of saying nothing in a calm, confident, and articulate way.
Because Houston doesn't have methadone clinics all over
Hooray for incrementalism
The cost of living in Houston is way lower than LV or LA. A one bedroom apartment in LV right now is averaging about $2000 a month. In Houston the same place is less than $1500. LA is worse and NY is about $4000 for a one bedroom. If you are a single mom making minimum wage you cannot afford to live in Houston unless you have a roommate. It is a sad state of affairs.
If Las Vegas is having bad CoL thats on them
@@paulinotou The CoL in Vegas could be worse. It costs about 20% more to live in LV than Houston. Maybe a little less.
@@paulinotou Houston is Sin City more than Vegas. Everything is cheaper and more available in Houston if you know how to find it.
We need Homeless Campuses with the Facilities that they need. If you put Drug and Alcohol dependent people in Apartments complexes with responsible working Citizens it will cause problems !!!. Build housing Campuses out side of family Neighborhoods !!!. The ones that are successful can eventually integrate !!!.
Want to solve the problems of your country? Get rid of your politicians! The 'how' is up to you.
we need better terms than 'homeless' because many street people have apartments. I have no problem with functional people who don't want a location thing them down. The problem is self destructive people who expand their destructiveness beyond themselves.
Finland also, has put housing first ,with good results!!
WOW!!! In Texas!! Who'da thunk it??? If TEXAS can do it, the rest of the states ought to be able to accomplish the same.
If the government provides you with housing why bother working? It's not surprising we have a labor shortage.
Conservatives in Houston have no problems at all with this method. They do look at Austin which has a terrible encampment problem wondering why Austin isn't implementing the same policy.
Encouraging!
85 percent still housed so are we going to support that for the rest of their lives?
They talk of sustainable housing, which means people getting shelter, a place to set up to get mail to get an ID, to be able to find a job, and those lease subsidies taper off over time
Why not move them out into RV parks and send more funding for services in outlying areas? It would be cheaper to put them in travel trailers or share a single wide with locked bedroom doors for security of property, outside the city limits. Many cities are very expensive to build housing in. It's very bad to have concentrations of these people.
Yes but by passing anti landlord laws, will backfire to city.
Maybe LV can learn from Houston? We have a horrible homeless problem in Las Vegas. Maybe I can run for City Counselman and enlist the help of Houston to solve our homeless problem here? Do I need to be a politician to solve this?
Homess shelter built in my neighborhood. I lost $40,000 in my condo value overnight.
I live in Houston, Texas.
Aaaaaaaand I call BS on some of what he is saying. Anecdotally I see homeless all over the city of Houston and even in the city of Katy as well. Once again, it's all about trying to appear like you are solving an issue by not really solving the main issues. Drug addiction, minimum wage is $7.50 in Texas, and basically little social safety nets.
You should check out the guardian report on homelessness it has some great graphics and charts.