You're Homeless... Now What? | Martha Stone | TEDxPiscataquaRiver
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2015
- What does homelessness look like, and who does it effect? Martha Stone, the executive director of a 96-bed homeless shelter, shares the stories of a few residents of the shelter, and shares how we can all end the cycle of homelessness in our communities.
Martha Stone joined the staff of Cross Roads House, a 96 bed homeless shelter, in 2004 as the Development Director and was promoted to Executive Director in 2013. In her role as the development director she oversaw and executed a successful $5 million capital campaign to design and construct a new shelter facility. As the largest shelter in the NH Seacoast region, Cross Roads House provides emergency and transitional shelter and services for individual adults and families. Martha is responsible for overseeing shelter operations, programming, marketing, fundraising, and financial management of the non-profit organization.
Martha received her BA in Communications from Boston College. In early 2015, she completed eleven years of service as a school board member for the town of Greenland, NH where she resides with her husband and two children, both of whom are currently away at college. She can be contacted at martha@crossroadshouse.org.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
I’m 23 right now I’m homeless and I honestly wouldn’t wish this on anybody 😭😭 but I will triumph from this storm ❗️
Praying you are no longer homeless 🙏🏿💙
Same
Same. 24 soon
Just buy a house. Simple
In los angeles there are programs that house you until ur 25. Called the covenant house California
I became homeless two days ago. I have been sleeping in my car. I was evicted from my apartment dued to the constant increases in rent. I lived at my residence for 18 yrs. I must say honestly that: "evictions lead to homelessness".And many dont have no place to go. I believe our country and its leaders have failed us and simply they dont care, because it is not them who are suffering. Homelessness is lonely, and cold. Within myself, I keep myself inspired, motivated and avoid from being discouraged. I only want to seek low- income housing, or a senior- citizen home.
Hope your doing better, I’m 55 and real close to sleeping in my truck. ✌️
I am sorry to hear this! What about the eviction moratorium? 18 years is a long time!!
Can you challenge any of this in court? Lease expired or m2m?
I left an apt about seven years ago because they served us all with a rent increase (no improvements). I figuratively said screw you and have been on a less than stable road ever since (got evicted twice in this timeframe where I have never been before).
The times now....you one OWNS, we are all vulnerable.....
There are too many people close to retirement age or beyond it that are homeless up where I am. It is mental that we cannot make sure our seniors are housed!
In tears watching this. I’m about to become homeless here in Miami. I’m scared and feeling so hopeless at this point.
“Almighty and ever-living God: We ask to be Thy servant, O’Lord, and to be a vehicle of Divine Love, a channel of Thy Will. We ask for direction and Divine assistance, and we surrender all personal will through devotion to Thy Truth. We dedicate our life to Thy service. Help us to choose love and peace above all other options, and to surrender all of our judgements to Thee, that we might have unconditional love and compassion for all of life in all of its expressions and surrender our very life to Thee at all times in all places.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, now and forever, Amen.” 🙏
Hope ur doing better now ❤️
Same here, please come to Texas. It’s better than there where everything is expensive.
Happening to me now, as the courts ruled for the landlord and facing eviction in Florida. Shelters are full, most programs have stopped financial aid and no one you reach out to calls back. Pray for me and my daughter and our cats.
“Almighty and ever-living God: We ask to be Thy servant, O’Lord, and to be a vehicle of Divine Love, a channel of Thy Will. We ask for direction and Divine assistance, and we surrender all personal will through devotion to Thy Truth. We dedicate our life to Thy service. Help us to choose love and peace above all other options, and to surrender all of our judgements to Thee, that we might have unconditional love and compassion for all of life in all of its expressions and surrender our very life to Thee at all times in all places.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, now and forever, Amen.” 🙏
So sorry to hear praying for you
@@shaniecegullison god not real praying for u not a solution
@@larryhomess8679 god is 1000000% real
This is so true!!
The easiest person to pick-on and criticize are the most vulnerable. Which is why most people choose to believe the falsity most people without an apartment, or home are on drugs or lazy.
It's true though sadly. Was homeless 2 years (with a still uncertain future) and spent most of it in a shelter where I met tons of others. Out of I dunno maybe 1 thousand of them 10 were on the working list and had a job. Most did have some kind of addiction too.
Not only that but the system works so that addicts get more help than those without drug problems. I couldn't qualify for cheaper housing because I wasn't as much "in need of help" as them.
I am on drugs(weed); and, I am lazy😂😂😂
BUT...you're not funny.
@@jessicabellandy5687 Really sad and wrong in a way.
@@qahharmuhammad6230 what your point' there people who work two jobs that live in there car?
I’m 23 homeless since 2018 battle depression everyday . Located in Indiana and looking for some where to go . A new state please pray for me
Im praying right now.
Same
I'm homeless now and this is so motivational. I wasn't doing right taking care of my family and my wife decided to separate from me. I'm broke living in my truck in ALABAMA smh but can't move because of my breaks being messed up. I'm looking for a job now so I can get back to Houston and take care of my family! This is a great video of how we can change our lives. I'm only 23 I know I can make it. Thanks for this video
I hope your doing good.
This video really never addresses "what I should do now that Im homeless." She just goes on and on about the services her organization offers.
Thank you.. you just saved me from wasting my time watching the last half of this video. I feel like a dog that keeps chasing his own tail. There is help for homelessness but you pretty much have to know somebody or have a stroke of good luck, to actually get help for being homeless.. especially with a child. 💯😞
I'm still like ok now what??
Typical sales pitch too poor folks to get them hooked, it's f***ing messed up
And trust me they're all useless too
Yea...I’m halfway thru n just realizing this smh
I just recently lost my job and my apartment.
I have car, no money, no food, an only have one pair of jeans and one pair of T-shirt.
I have no family and no friend .
I will be terminated from collage, because I have no money to get a ride to school, I asked the collage staff to help me out with this situation , but they just ignored me and just gave me couple address of shelter, which I could only stay there for one night.
I live in Texas, San Antonio.
I feel I losing my confidence, my self esteem, my hope.
I don't know what to do any more.
I keep praying.
Please pray for me 🙏😢
You going to get thru this bruh n I'm going to join the marine corps to compete in boxing and do mma training
Are you alive
“Almighty and ever-living God: We ask to be Thy servant, O’Lord, and to be a vehicle of Divine Love, a channel of Thy Will. We ask for direction and Divine assistance, and we surrender all personal will through devotion to Thy Truth. We dedicate our life to Thy service. Help us to choose love and peace above all other options, and to surrender all of our judgements to Thee, that we might have unconditional love and compassion for all of life in all of its expressions and surrender our very life to Thee at all times in all places.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, now and forever, Amen.” 🙏
I am stuck in an abusive relationship and am trying so hard to leave but have nowhere else to go.
Staci Osorio god bless you...May you stay strong and be given wisdom and courage to move forward...you are not alone..don’t be afraid to lose everything to gain what you deserve..
sending lots of love your way because you deserve better..blessed be..
Sorry i missed this when it was fresh. I dont know where you live, but here in Alberta, help is available for your situation. Check with local social services for available funding at all levels.
I'm in the exact same situation. There's no help in Florida.
We should help them because we are human beings, not because we are afraid we might become homeless at some point.
Matteo Rivera I'm thinking suicide. Ima be homeless soon and I'm anorexic, I can't survive in this world.
Josiah Rivera is there a place where they help u fine a place i habe a job but no home
I actually found a group home thank gid and I have an interview today
Matteo Rivera You should live by your own words and take a homeless man into your house.
I've lived homeless on and off through the years. Through my experience. Shelters are dangerous and I wouldn't go to them.
I think it depends on area, I tried sleeping on Street and it was simply too cold. Not to mention cops hassling you.
I'm more afraid of shelters than I am a parking lot. At least I can keep my dog with me.
FEMA
PB&J2163 but cant u get help/services in a shelter?
Please tell me why they are dangerous
I would like to comment about mental health. I became homeless withy son, and my sons dad, because we did not get along and mostly because he was not cooperating at all in our home.
I was not at all looking forward to being with strangers in a shelter, and was overwhelmed by everything happening, and had severe anxiety from a very hurtful and unhealthy relationship.
The shelter provided counseling, but only for what services you might need and they offered a therapist to listen to my problems every friday. They sessions were completely unproductive because all the counselor did was nod her head. I had to begin the conversation and make up what to say. She just told me: you got one hour....
I honestly felt so hurt by this experience, like I had no way to ever get anything resolved. All the heaviness in me. To this day I am homeless and my son is aswell
Omg I so relate to this these therapists in them programs should be fired right they don’t care at all about you and they disregard what you’re going through and make you feel less than smh are you still homeless now I hope things are better 🙏🏾
This hit me right in the feels.
I have been made unemployed and I face the prospect of having to live on the streets because I can't pay my bills. This story has given me new hope.
I’m praying for everybody that’s homeless rn god is gonna bless us all 🙏🏾 remain humble gods sees everything
A lot of this is preventable. Our country has failed us. 😥😥😥
The mindset that the government should provide for us is the problem. When people didn't think that way, we had less homelessness.
Im homeless and it aint the governments job to babysit me. Just keep me safe
YES- starting with the LACK of affordable housing. I honestly wonder if it’s a strategy....
I'm homeless and I want to get out of it😭🙏
me too since 2016 october....sucks really
What city are you in?
How are you doing now ??
I can definitely help u
Edwin Ramirez Would you help me if I was homeless..?
my mate and I have been on the streets now for 4 yes. We had a car but that's gone, my very wonderful, strong loving man had a job but that is gone. We both had dogs that were part of our family for 10 and 6 yes respectively they are both gone. This Lady is explaining my life as well ad many many others.
Homeless teens are a major problem in this country. Hard to study when you dont know where next meal wiil come from, or place to sleep
My life rn
And dats where i was at all thru school and now its worst and people don't understand...like u want to be homeless...if i had the resourses i wouldn't be dis way smh
Probably gonna kill myself lol
@@MichaelSmith-qj9wz Its not a joking matter whether you're being positive or negative.
I’m stuck between just giving up on life or keep living idk what to do anymore
I know the feeling. I hope you find help. Please call 211
I'm ending it at the end of the year.
I feel you
Every city across the U.S. should have a homeless advocate like you. Bravo.
👏homeless👏advocates 👏profit👏fromthe👏preservation👏of 👏theInjustices👏they👏claimTo👏prevent👏
No. We do not need 2 well paid white women for every homeless person on the streets. Just give the money to the homeless person directly. This woman is a parasite and a middle man manipulating these peoples emotions to get more donations from which she cuts her own paycheck.
Nonprofits are a scam. The started under Ronald raegan’s deregulation as a way to hide huge sums of money and protect them from taxes. Harming society TWICE! The middle class has to pick up that slack when the actual wealth of the country is stashed in a charitable endowment.
This is never easy. I've been in this situation time and time again for over 20 years now. After staying with a friend over the winter my time is up and I'm trying to get in disability from a bad disc In back. I don't know where my dog of 7 years will go. All my belongings are scattered at various places Ive stayed and its that dreadful time again.
I won't go to a shelter and have my last bit of things stolen or other various things the shelter deprives you of...I will be roaming, hungry,and eventually begging. It's no fun.i don't drink.i don't steal. I feel like I should tho.
Damn why not?
I am homeless and I’ve been gaining weight like crazy. It’s so easy to steal snacks and ready to eat junk food. But without a kitchen I can’t cook anything healthy :/
I just want to say all of these comments are amazing! Currently facing the same issue but I am also blessed in so many ways. Chasing my dreams of freelancing and becoming a world renowned costume designer. I have faith that it is my purpose and this is all apart of the process. In the end, “Faith” is sometimes all you have. Sending love and light to all! Never give up we will make it.
P.S A little phrase to get me through, “No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I am going to make it.”-Les Brown
I’m 26 years old. Have a great degree, from a great university, with great experience. I’m homeless. Have a bill today that I can’t pay. No car. No food for my dog. I don’t know how to fix allllll of the short term issues and inability to survive as I apply for jobs in my career that take months to secure.
I just went homeless chasing my dreams. Sitting at Walgreens watching this at 4am
How are you now
Are you alive Abba
@@redclanwool1590 lol are you alive I’m sorry that got me
“Almighty and ever-living God: We ask to be Thy servant, O’Lord, and to be a vehicle of Divine Love, a channel of Thy Will. We ask for direction and Divine assistance, and we surrender all personal will through devotion to Thy Truth. We dedicate our life to Thy service. Help us to choose love and peace above all other options, and to surrender all of our judgements to Thee, that we might have unconditional love and compassion for all of life in all of its expressions and surrender our very life to Thee at all times in all places.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, now and forever, Amen.” 🙏
Damn
The fact that almost every comment is talking about being homeless is both scary and sad.
I know that I will end up homeless in the future, it's just a matter of time.
clicked here to figure out what im gonna do, since im getting kicked out, didnt really help
Saaaaame
Same 😢
My children and I are homeless right now as we speak.
the solution to homelessness is to provide a bed floor etc.but also needs to be able to provide a locker or place for theses ppl to have personal attires in order to seek jobs or move around.provide give ppl time to be able to live in a environment where they can have a job without breaking their curfew rules.test ppl for drugs and seperate the ones who are trying and the ones who just need a place to sleep but are not giving up drugs
Or how about treating people with substance abuse disorders like people who have the same rights as people do not have substance use disorders.
I'm Homeless, Was thrown out of a Thermal Shelter A Couple Days Before a Blizzard And 3weeks of Sub Zero Temperatures For Fighting a Drunk, I've been Living in My Car Wrapped Up In Blankets In My Reclined Front Seat..... It's Starting to Warm Up So I'll be Giving My Vehicle Up And Moving All My Belongings To a Abandoned Building. I'm Grateful For The Serenity I will Have Soon
I get this cringe feeling about getting homeless but i aint yet.
I jave a huge respect for all of you out there not having a home. Stay strong ❤
I feel like everyone watching this is homeless or is facing homelessness.
So long as homes are private property without a permanent public alternative, homelessness will never go away. Because no matter how well a person may be doing, a land owner can always refuse to sell. A landlord can refuse to lease. A lodging can always set their prices higher or claim some right to deny patronage.
The only homelessness that can be addressed is for people who have to cooperate to succeed. With compliance comes acceptance. Others following housing trends and greater market rates may not even realize they are perpetuating the attitudes of intentional discrimination.
We need more talk like this! Thanks!
We need more action then talk. I'm 64yr and still Homeless, All that I tried turn to be nothing, sending me from one place to another.
I’d love to see a follow up on this subject being 2020 covid and the world being on fire
She missed the main one...theft by public corruption.
Because she’s one of them.
You know she breathalyzes poor old veterans n doesn’t let them go out on holidays.
While she cuts herself a huge paycheck and gets sloshed on champagne at her charity gala
Non profits are a scam.
Exactly 💯 Los Angeles CA is very corrupt.
Got my bachelor's degree last week and getting kicked out on the street tonight. I was able to apply to 10 places before I have to leave my mom's apartment and I plan to sleep near a Starbucks or McDonalds for wifi.
Olivia Bolivia congratulations on your degree! No one can ever take that away from you. I hope that things are working out for you now. Xo
Hope everything worked out for you! I also have a bachelor's degree. Unfortunately the most useful thing to do with your degree is to use it as toilet paper your first night on the streets. I was making $36k/yr out of college.. now I'm a Lyft driver full time because it pays more! Such a weird time to be alive.
Your mom will reap that. Hope everything has improved for you! ❤
Olivia Bolivia congratulations on your accomplishments..your time to rise is coming
Sounds like your "mom" is a real Cluster B! Individuals "afflicted" with such personality traits/disorders are not pleasant people to be around.
been homeless twice. the last time 77k in debt to the IRS. I fought my way back. I'll give you a hint, stopping drinking and begging for only work is the key.
“Almighty and ever-living God: We ask to be Thy servant, O’Lord, and to be a vehicle of Divine Love, a channel of Thy Will. We ask for direction and Divine assistance, and we surrender all personal will through devotion to Thy Truth. We dedicate our life to Thy service. Help us to choose love and peace above all other options, and to surrender all of our judgements to Thee, that we might have unconditional love and compassion for all of life in all of its expressions and surrender our very life to Thee at all times in all places.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, now and forever, Amen.” 🙏
In Ontario, Canada, I am using foodbanks to eat these days. I have researched places that give meals through out the week in some cities and have happily discovered I can eat if I cannot get to a foodbank! The services available are great if you need them!
sleeping in a shelter right now, working full time. using a storage unit as a makeshift (and expensive) closet. during the day, i walk. i eat at the soup kitchen for lunch and eat out for dinner (which is expensive but i have nowhere to store or refrigerate food). i don't have a car. i am a convicted felon (i was 17 and in possession of enough weed to be slapped with intent) and am working on getting my ged. i have no family to ask for help (they all have shunned me). i am 100% sober, i work out everyday, wake up at 3 am for work, and sleep only about 5 hours as they dont shut the lights off until 10 pm. the ONLY thing i have that keeps me going is my dream of a girlfriend who i get to spend my weekends with (she lives about 50 miles from me and makes the drive twice a weekend to pick me up and drop me off). i must say, that while homelessness is absolutely a problem, and maybe this is just here, but the majority of the men in my shelter do next to nothing to help themselves, and they treat the people who shelter and feed them so poorly it makes me sick. there needs to be some regulation and like intake process, and those things need to be made available everywhere.
That’s so sad.
Not everyone like you has a drive and motivation.
Some of us are severely hopeless and every indignity makes us dissociate further from our body and just feel numb and want to curl up in a fetal position and wait for the world to end.
No child should be homeless in any respectable country.
I’m homeless and tired 😭😭 going house to house sleeping in cars I work n everyone around me want it all I can’t even get chance to get on my feet I’m feeling suicidal I don’t steal or kill I’m so nice at heart
thats what i was doing, where ya at? best wishes to ya man. don't die - if you;re doin that u clearly have will and reason to survive
It's awesome that you have this program. A lot of parts of this country do not have anything like this. People put more money and fundraising for animals than homeless people. It's so scary to be homeless, especially if you have a child/children. I think we need to have more programs like the one you help. Because I see more homeless people, and there are literally no shelters here in Medford, Oregon except a very small shelter and I guess they have to be out of there early and it's not for families. And people have to stand in line for hours just hoping to get in.
Been battling with homelessness for over a year now.
Homelessness is acceptable upon many reasons. Some it might be financial gain, freedom, and stability in reality. For me it was get out from around the people who were holding me down and burdening me to what I would never own (apartment). To escape the delusion of this, of me having my "owning" a place. When in reality I was giving away $600 or more every month. Just to be told months or years later, "get out you're evicted, or I'm moving." Just to go to another apartment and do the same thing for years again.
Not having to pay rent is very profitable especially when you can save money. And if you're not, it's very easy to start over next month in case you become broke.
I've know of alot of people, who cant eat comfortably or have the extra needs for their children or self. Or never own a home due to expensive rent.
$7,000 a year for the next 5 years. Will buy you a house with the accessories of washer, dryer etc.
Homelessness, homeless shelters would be beneficial especially for single individuals.
Just to note. I've seen people sleep on concrete cold floors in prison for 2 years or more. Without complaining and continued to survive. Yet when they are free from prison and find a employment. Then they cant do what they've learn in prison for financial gain. Instead for example, they go to work making $800 a month and pay over half for rent, utilities etc. And they're back to being broke. With giving more of their earnings to the people who never cared for them to be employed in the 1st place.
It's like asking the people (companies) for employment. In my case, they kept denying me. With a college degree (alumni). Yet, when you get some money, they want to now rent to you and consume your wealth. Yet, not hire you into stable employment. That's foolish, and unethical to do.
I dont like renting in a system that doesnt support me to be able to pay their rent and take care of m6self at the same time. One hand washes the other. But if the other hand isnt doing what its suppose to do. Then what?
Its even worse, to see criminals or dope boys follow the same methods, especially after being freed from prison. And understanding what hustling is. Not a good hustle if I'm giving my "illegal" earnings of $800.00. To the landlord that's charging $600. Now I'm hustling (working) for the landlord.
Once I understood that. I always tried ways to cut my rent in half or no more than $250. Even $250.00 is over the top. That's a driveway with a garage and fence around it. After 2 or 3 years of paying.
Rent is slavery. Especially for single individuals.
Homelessness is a great idea to put yourself as priority over everything. Find all year round warm city. And it makes it easier. Homelessness and homeless shelters is advantageous if you know what you're doing. Without getting negatively influenced by other people in society to bankrupt you or worse.
Try buying a mobile camper and live with a family member in their backyard. And pay the difference of what you couldn't pay in housing. And you keep the bulk load of your earnings is smarter.
INTR....
People tend to assume that every homeless person suffers from addiction or mental illness. Sometimes it's just money & the world being a very cruel place.
Never thought I would be homeless and yet here I am sleeping in my car and I try to look at the positive side and that one day the housing situation will change
Giving services is only stalling for time. To solve the problem, we need to change zoning and building codes so that there is some alternative between a $75,000 building code compliant house,and a cardboard box. We need legal, mass produced basic shelter pods that can be paid for by people of extremely limited income, to keep them from slipping into homelessness.
tom jackson--you are the first person on these replys that exibits a thinking brain---you are right on target---we need "permission" from the "powers that be" to live where and how we want--even if it is in a Tepee in sombodys back yard
tomato Wherever they go will become a real drug infested ghetto. Your appreciation of technology is a millennia or two behind. Places like Hong Kong have stacking fiberglass cubicles that provide all immediate necessities and cost far less than an apartment, which at present we can not afford to provide.
But the underlying principle is affordable, user paid shelter. Government giveaways will just promote increased homelessness, as people stop supporting themselves and choose to live on the government dole. Like seagulls, who cease to fish or fly when provided with plentiful free food, many people cease to provide necessities for themselves when the nanny state provides it to them for free.
Your point of view increases the number of public supported homeless people, and does not decrease it.
Bingo. Where Im from (Hawaii) the cheapest empty lots start at $200,000 & a "cheap" house here is $400,000.
75,000 that won’t even cover your down payment on a $350,000 2 bedroom starter home in a hideous unwalkable suburb 16 miles from your job.
As a single unmarried male the favoritism for mothers makes getting housing or welfare assistance in my state means there’s no hope for someone like me.
Given that "mother" implies they are in a guardianship position of a minor, yes, that makes complete sense. Our society has *always* valued children above all else.
My number one tip is that your phone is your top priority. My number 2 tip is that you’ll have to ditch most of your stuff. Number 3 tip is that unfortunately you have to move around a lot and clean up after yourself. Don’t use a tent and keep a low profile so you have plausible deniability if the cops chase you off your squat. Number 4 tip. Pay attention to clean clothes and hygiene cause it will affect the way you are treated.
I was kicked out at 16 and now im on my own im 18 now and i dont know what to do to the point im looking up "how not to be homeless anymore"
how are you
Lost my apartment to a fire last year
Worked hard to get my new place....Went to the hospital came back a week later locks were changed 🙃
I have family with big houses no help
The apartment complex wants to Tow my car
Pray for me please 🙏
Watching this video I was surprised at how the presentation had me teetering between opposing thoughts and was unable to pin down exactly why. I have been homeless for very extended periods twice in my life, the first was from 14 to 21years old, and the second was 3.5 years that ended just last December, with a 30 year span between them and both were completely different from each other in every way. In this video it was the phrase "end the cycle of homelessness", which was not mentioned until the end of the video, that abruptly brought the tug of war between my thought to an end with a thud, by reminding me of the realities of homelessness as they are in the 21st century as I experienced them firsthand. While this isn't the forum to express my experience in detail, nor would it be fair for me to try to dissuade anyone from supporting this or any other facility program, but I feel it is fair to say that this presentation is virtually identical to those presented by similar facilities across North America. And for reasons that most people would never discover on their own without a great deal of effort and observation.
There are two powerful and distinctly different reasons why, under the current strategy here in North America, the Mission Statement of "ending the cycle of homelessness" can not and will not be achieved. The first is that the root causes of homelessness grow from deep within our society, they are different in almost ever case and therefore impossible to predict or eliminate. The second reason, again, lies deep with in our society. Capitalism. In the last 2 or 3 decade Homelessness has become an industry of its own that employs at least 2 people for every homeless person. In my city, that translates to about 3000 frontline jobs and about 10,000 jobs in total.
With that in mind, I would like to point out that this video, was merely a sales pitch formulated with facts ( yes, their budgets are primarily from private funds) and misrepresentations designed by media professionals to tug at your purse strings. For example, The 3 cases presented here represent around 5 out 100 homeless people in terms of their cause and circumstance. they were chosen for this presentation simple because they were success stories, and they were most likely to be associated in your mind with someone you know or love, a single mother who could be your daughter or sister, The 40 year vet suffering his late and final years, who could be your grandfather, father or brother. Neither were typical cases and were the easiest to reestablish housing for. None were representative of the "cycle of homelessness" referred to here. If they were, a city of a million people would have fewer than 200 cases at any given time depending on housing markets and funding.
I was so disturbed by just how identical this presentation was to others I have endured, participated in and even provided support to, That I've made the decision to document, by way of a blog, my experience with homelessness, the industry that depends on it and release the data I've gathered directly from that industry, and maybe try to offer ideas for more honest and effective strategies born from the streets, not the boardrooms. Most of the infrastructure and resources already exist, they just aren't utilized or distributed in effective, sensible or correct ways.
Homelessness has been around longer than, well, longer than we've had homes obviously. It will never go away, there are just too many variables that combine to create it. So when anyone, whether they depend on homelessness for a paycheck or not, talks about breaking the cycle or ending homelessness you can be sure they are either blindly naive, are being intentionally untruthful, or have never spent a day with out money in their pocket or a place to call home.
If you are truly interested in making a change or want to know why that hasn't happened already despite the obscene amount of money spent on this issue annually across North America, I will ensure my email address is viewable in my profile. I will let you know where and when the Blog is available. I will read each one so if you have specific questions relating to what I wrote here, or homelessness in general I will answer you back, eventually. I say eventually only because I have more than my personal share of medical and financial issues and they are my priority, so it might be an hour or a month. Proof that getting housing simply becomes a matter of exchanging one set of problems for a new and different set of problems, or even just adding them together.
Are you currently homeless?
Thank you for your insight. It seems like you know what you’re talking about from experience and I am looking forward to hearing more.
Didn’t see your email address though.
Our mobile home community was surprised when our landlord sold the property with no warning.(Shepard's Mobile home park reynoldsburg Ohio) Im homeless since January. Forced to leave home of 11 years. Rent is to high anywhere I go. God help us
I'm homeless I'm on drugs I have full time job I don't sleep on the streets I brake in to enmty places it sucks because I been homeless for a really long time an I've developed mental illness from it I got used to the cold an loneliness the shame , I'm feel like a lost person that wants to JUST GO HOME!!! but I dont no ware home is my mind broken, my escape from all this is Graffiti I get a few cans an get my dope an I find a spot get high an try to paint something beautiful
What state do you live in?
Here where I live if you get caught squatting they’ll lock you up in prison and give you a felony. And the problem is the heat. Not the cold. Tonight early January the low is 41 defeees. And I’m panicked for when the 117 degree days come back with whole weeks that never drop below 110 and not even at 4am can you cool down and be comfortable enough to sleep unless you can get underground.
I wonder how you get clothing for a shelter? I would love to see a ted talk on resourcing a shelter. I've been looking for clothing for the shelter I work at and no one seems to be able to help.
Any donation places near you? Various types of non profits and religious organizations usually have a store where people drop off clothes donations and they partner with homeless shelters.
I’m going through this right now. I have no one, no support but soon I’ll join the 21 Club.
I am in a domestic violence situation with pets. I need to get far away from where I am.but since I don't have kids and I have dogs no help. I posted on Facebook sites but my ad was deleted because people didn't want to deal with a homeless DV survivor with dogs.
I love you. Thank you for helping!
35, 6 dogs, no kids, this or die under a roof. 😢 left every irreplaceable item I had left. Not hungry can't feel anything besides adrenaline or panicked, but looking at me I am physically calm. This isn't my first time, but it is for being alone.
Great presentation! I work with homeless people all the time and can relate to everything you said. I have families living in cars, single moms with kids in foster care, divorced men - you name it. I only work with people without mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction, but it's tough. I also help the working poor and working homeless. What I do not do though, is give them a bunch of money. I buy them food, clothes and them get jobs, etc. I am working on a getting a 30 year old guy his ID's again so he can work. He is clean and sober, too. Just met him yesterday when I was making my rounds. Thanks for this video. it's inspirational!
Sometimes is just because we think that the place we're we are renting/living is stable.
*+And than next day owners can pass away or loose the house or sell the house+*.
The house we rent got sold and we end up with 2weeks notice to move out. The new owner doesn't want us to rent : saying we have 2dogs and she didn't want dogs or kids in her property 😭.
We still looking for a place we won't want to put our dogs in a shelter.
My husband get paid cash and that one obsticle we can't get a house for rent they want a pay stub and banck account and taxes and we don't have that. We do everything in cash 😞now is hard to rent.....
houses in California are so hard with so many paper work that they ask. 🤞Cross my fingers that before this Sunday we get a house.
i dont have paystubs either cuz i freelance lol this is utter bs we should be allwoed to provide other payment proofs.
My home recently burglarized and vandalized they got everything I own. Landlord mad at damages. Gave us forced eviction no court order at all. Contacted sherrif not getting any help trying legal aide no help yet. No food money or blankets and had to get rid of 1 of my dogs got dogs 2 left I can't part with. Don't know what else to do. Now out of work and spent all my savings moving into my new home just to be forced out 3 months later. Anyone that can offer help would be greatly appreciated. I couldn't be more humble. All my hard work for so many years down the drain. It's very depressing.
First thing any homeless person should ask "What am I doing to improve my situation?". It is everyone's own personal responsibility to improve their own situation and do so by focusing on self improvement with Physical, Financial, & Intellectual goals, they all pay off.
Other causes what make someone homeless is the toxic family that was my experience
211 is a great resource for anyone facing a variety of issues including homelessness
Doesn't help a bit.
The cause of homelessness for me was abusive mother or just terrible landlords
I'm going thru this at 16🤦with parents that don't care
Homless with covid-19 around sucks
I'm going thru it to bruh u going to get thru it n I'm joining the marine corps to compete in boxing and do mma training
@@demetriusarmstrong5154 bro good luck.
@@hmmmmn6770 thanks bro
I was living with an aunt being a caretaker and one day she said I didn’t do enough for her, so my home is now my car. I have fatal asthma and can no longer work, never know when Ill eat next. I have no friends or family. I was in foster care until I was 18. Then I started working full time. One day, my manager was having a bad day, terminated my employment, and moved in with an aunt who has COPD to help her. She’s bipolar and one day she said I was worthless and lazy. Now here I am living in a car, hungry all of the time, always thinking about the easiest ways to kill myself everyday. Yet people always say “nothing is worth killing yourself over.” Life is one big cosmic joke. Yes, one day you can have everything you need and the next day it’s all gone.
Are things better now
Ima be homeless soon and im scared
Simona Mona Same here, with two kids
work is the way out believe manifest achieve shelters are a death center
@@shadowmoses5347 Work is only viable if you earn a living wage. If not you won't be able to sustain yourself. If you can't afford the roof above your head, or other human basic needs. Plus able to save something every week, what good will work do you? None, except toiling in the elites fields.
The biggest insult is just at the 15 min mark when she explains "when you go home tonight"
Our family had to sell our property for our college education and now we are broke and homeless.
Looking for a job
But nothing happens.
Getting close to thirty 😔😔😔
And became nothing.
Feel like a dead end.
Don't know what to do.
Everyone needs to see this
Addiction, mental health, and generational trauma go under the public’s radar, and even if they aren’t homeless, victims of those conditions are ignored.
thank you!
I’m going through this now and hopefully this video calms my anxiety
Ru safe
@@SidneyWatson I bounced back❤️❤️
Currently facing this but with kids. I have no clue how to get out of this
Staying at a friends paying rent. But my boss hasn’t given me any hours in a few weeks and I haven’t got called back about a job yet. So I’m about to have to live in my car in a Walmart parking lot I guess.
“Almighty and ever-living God: We ask to be Thy servant, O’Lord, and to be a vehicle of Divine Love, a channel of Thy Will. We ask for direction and Divine assistance, and we surrender all personal will through devotion to Thy Truth. We dedicate our life to Thy service. Help us to choose love and peace above all other options, and to surrender all of our judgements to Thee, that we might have unconditional love and compassion for all of life in all of its expressions and surrender our very life to Thee at all times in all places.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, now and forever, Amen.” 🙏
This woman never act like she been homeless a day in her life!!! Get someone up here who’s actually BEEN homeless.
FACTS
agreed. i was about to ask her if she wants a cookie
great video. I am thankfully not homeless anymore.
I used my little money, for back pack, skills, and ways to live in a forest.
I have been collecting gear ever since I was last homeless and now 20 plus years later i am using it all unfortunately. Being able to survive is something I have thankfully developed, and now I hope to get a miracle situation by using my head and by being resourceful. Its not easy out there nowadays!
MaddLagger well, im about to do the same thing in near future. Į hope you handled your situation well
Wow! that's amazing i'm dealing with the exact same situation myself (Y)
No forests or trees where I live, it's a desert. Only coyotes, snakes and dirt here... Wild horses but it's illegal to do anything with them like riding or eating em lol.
Maybe I should look through the comments because the only way she described I can help is by serving in the kitchen & donating money. What if I want to do more?
All she says is true, i have for 10 years sleep in my car. It is illegal in my town to be caught will be arrested. Add exposed to the climate cold below temps 14 below twice 16 below once, i collect cans to pay for hotel stays. Jobs run out, th company downsizes or closed, the next do to instable employment makes it hard for the next job. Even the VA will not help.
I do not do drugs,. I use music to keep me going.
Going to be homeless in 20 days. Moving from a different State. I’m looking forward to the growth.
I am going to be homeless very soon but no one to help me. Arizona is very bad about helping
Also homeless in AZ but on my part people has been a big help towards me..well I can feel the good ones vibe even before approach
@@Ebejii_Scribes some people are very good at helping. CBI is a good place for help.
@@leahleeG I never dealt with them but there's a church I attend and they help greatly.,gotten me weekly rooms,food and other resources..today I start a new job..I'm thankful
@@Ebejii_Scribes YAY!! Congratulations 🎊🎉
@@leahleeG thank you
We homeless, need to band together and keep each other safe and warm.
And then get robbed
Yeah. I'm at rock bottom and so need help. I'm homeless temporarily but I will fix my situation just need help.
*GOD SAYS YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT* A Little Faith can go along way...
Homelessness is one thing blinds eyes
mann ive been homeless for a year now...sleeping in car, its now winter time here in jersey and im totally screwed, 6 degree weather
Adan Arbizu Damn you're really helpful, asking him how he's holding up and all.
...maybe drive to someplace like Florida if you absolutely have to live in your car. At least it's a way to stay warm during the winter months.
There are people who honestly deserve to be homeless but SO many people I just don't get how this country can let this happen. It should be illegal for the amount of tax payer money goes into the military when we are not at war. It's a total nightmare and I have PTSD over my experience. I have thankfully made it through but knowing all the people and parents and children who are still in that system or just starting... I just don't understand it. Most people can't get out of it. It will break the toughest of us
I'm already in this situation edit: minus the children.
what about seniors? especially older women
I got sober in a shelter in Keene,N.H.. 23 years as of the 8 of feb... Never looked back that Corp is dead to me...
this is me tonight
Josiah Rivera how are you now?
Me to.😑
19 living with a guy who mistreats me and I’m sick of it. No jobs are hiring at the moment and I have nowhere else to go and nobody to reach out to 😩
Same but with a woman I sold my car got sent to jail she isolated me from family n friends and I have nothing now but half the money from the car I’m sorry you have to put up with narcissistic abuse as well. 🙏
@@redclanwool1590 I literally gave up everything for him. I hope your situation gets better 💯we got this💕
Oh my goodness ... I been there before
Am also going through the same. But the things is I have a job .in the country I live is very spiteful that they don't want to rent to u
23 soon
About to be Homeless.
I have a mom overseas to care for her and send her money. Besides me dealing with severe depression and anxiety.
I don't know what to do. Have no friends to rely on, nothing at all.