Is the homeless crisis nearing a tipping point? Homelessness in Sacramento is growing, and the most vulnerable community members say they have very little resources.
Yep , society worships money. In this world you can't afford to stay behind on the money system. When some people print money at will, you can only steal the crumbs in the table. Most good paying jobs have been outsourced , factories outsourced. What is left is service jobs and a lot of people give lip service for living.
I remember feeding the homeless at our church, on Broadway. This was in the early 80s. The neighbors didn't want us to serve the homeless. I understand now. It will never end.
How about affordable housing, where can you rent in a decent area that's not over $1700/more and you have to have a 650 or higher credit score. If my score was 650 or higher I wouldnt be renting. But all I see is new homes being built and their prices are 500,00 to 600,000. Why are they building homes that people in my are cant afford to buy. Here come the bay area buyers.
Exactly I agree people from San Fran took advantage of staying at home and prices on houses skyrocketed. The other day I could believe pork was damn near 15 dollars, food inflated, housing, gas. I have a pretty good job make around 80,000 a year and I’m struggling and so are my other workers $2500-3,000 rent for a 3 bed to bath that was built in the 60’s? Or $2000 for a one bedroom apartment? No one can survive this way
I moved out of California a few years ago to Aurora, Illinois. I bought a 100 yr old, restored historic 5 bedroom home for only $147,000 and in a great neighborhood. I never imagined house prices could be reasonable… until I got out of California and saw for myself. Oh and just like in most non-California cities, there are more decent jobs available than people who can take them. I love California, but it was time for me to leave and start enjoying a better life.
@@frankihatch only good about california weather that is not humid but not having a rain in 6 months is bad, bad you your health, bad for nature. Oh and smoke, did you enjoy it? So, nothing it good about california's weather.
The media is a lot like many members of the city council; no mention of active substance abuse and/or mental health issues among a large percentage of homeless.
Funny how tax the rich rhetoric isn’t working in California, the state with the highest gas taxes. Don’t worry I’m sure the mayor is going to come up with a plan to spend millions to build housing for 50 and it will be ready in 5 years
Governor has no control over homelessness! Fool to think another idiot would eliminate homelessness if we just “voted him out “ the current governor. Look at republicans in other states with the same homelessness problem. Not that easy pal!
The vast majority of California homeless are natives of California. Its about red tape and difficulty in building affordable housing. California politicians don't give two shits about the low income working class.
@@Tufarock It has nothing to do with affordable housing. California has some of the highest wages in the US. The issue is California's Welfare policies including it's Section 8 programs incentivise people to have a ton of kids and not work. Make people work for a living. I was homeless at one point in my life and not once did I get on Welfare, I worked my ass off to get better and better jobs.
I lived in Sacramento/Elk Grove from 1983 to 2004, it was always kind of bad in spots but never like this. Everything getting worse in USA every decade going back better than the current one. Imagine what a crash like 2008 would do and how many more homeless there would be
its been like this in San Francisco for the last 3 yrs. Trailers and RVs parked along SF State university. Same as Oakland, Vallejo, Portland, Seattle. This is not new.
This problem has been growing ever since Reagan turned public housing into broken down projects by defunding them to please landlord lobbyists who are now swimming in cash at the mere cost of millions of homeless. We didn't have this problem in the 60s and 70s.
@@dimab8753 You're 100% correct and dead on on your observation. But most Californians or should I say democrats would disagree. Mostly because they are in denial.
@@dimab8753 CA, OR, and WA are more expensive because so many young people fled here in the past from states run by Republicans who scared everyone away with their mantras of hate and threats of violence for the sin of nonconformity.
Stop giving them resources as that is encouraging them to pile up, hence tell your friends that they have garbage pickups and bring you water… meanwhile many of them do work hard, as it is actually pretty hard to scrape up $20 to buy drugs… because a normal person won’t hand it to you and none of their friends have any… Their is a difference between an actual homeless and bums. So Let’s stop beating around the bush and use correct terminology. These are straight up bums piling up…
Y dont the government put the rvs some where with power water .campgrounds they have tents come on just a little help .those rvs tents there homes.power potty shower .T
it is a very rare occurrence to see immigrants(legal) homeless. I,m not referring to this years invasion of illegals, but the vietnamese in the 80's, then Ukrainians and other Eastern Europeans, followed by Iraqi's and Iranians. They became neighbors, friends and co-workers; all wonderful, hardworking people . The influx of eastern Europeans saw the takeover of Half the Senior Independent Housing, Apartment complexes soon became filled with mini Ukraine Communities. Eventually, whole neighborhood became Russian Villages. I lived in one such Apt. complex and it was difficult at first, but soon became a wonderful and rare experience. To live in a village where kids played outside, neighbors bake bread and always made an extra loaf for you. you could leave your front door wide open, walk around the corner to the mom and pop store and come back knowing nobody had go in .i spoke no Ukraniun and few spoke English, yet we communicated quite well using, , hand gestures,, body language and facial expressions.; smiling is the universal language everyone understands. times were different 20 years ago. we Wefare, rent subcidies, finanvial aide fo collage, SS Iand AFDCguarenteed income and the loved to wok there were many reigion in the u.s.
I have teetered on the edge in the past, but luckily I am doing OK. We all have vices and while I do not smoke or drink alcohol, I do enjoy some hot coffee from time to time. I have seen rental prices creeping up which growing up I was told you should not spend more than 20% of your income on housing, either rent or mortgage. I know people who barely earn enough to pay their rent meaning they are spending 80 to 90% of their earnings on housing. What Sacramento needs, what the nation needs, are less expensive housing options with the investment component removed. Take care of families teetering on the edge first, then move down targeting those without jobs next. Give choices. Have few or no rules. Freedom to come and go. Nothing luxurious, just plain simple 4 walls with a roof and some good insulation. Preferably fire resistant. Defensible space. Get volunteers to build, like the habitat people. Once they have a place to wash up, start organizing classes for education with a free dinner. Why is trash accumulation a bad thing? Why should you not pee in the river. Why is turning sensitive habitat into your toilet destructive to others. What is E. coli? What is Covid? Why do people give back to the community with volunteerism? I guess I am just dreaming.
People. Especially christian . Do you know this is a test from your god. People lost there home for all kinds of reasons . And you want to be rude. Remember you have to go before God to be judged.
@@danzig-mfer all cheap housing does is turn into projects. Cheap housing isn't the issue. Incentivising laziness however is. Eliminate welfare, stop closing businesses because of the flu and stop making it so expensive for small businesses to employ anyone. Then people can afford to buy a nice home and appreciate what they earned.
@@DanielA23 if we stoped welfare we would have a much larger problem and would be condemning millions of kids to famine. If we left everything open the hospitals would collapse. The best ideas here.
@@SkepticalZack No, we survived without welfare for decades. Homelessness got worse after it was introduced. Hospitals are all for profit and should fail, they are killing people these days.
@@DanielA23 by your logic we should close all the grocery stores and restaurants to end the obesity epidemic and "cure" cancer with a shotgun to the head. Seriously need to grow up and learn about how these problems have been long solved in other countries that don't profit from and criminalize poverty. The problem isn't the poor, it's the rich people who manipulated the system so they haven't paid taxes since the 80s and gutted public housing funding which caused them to turn into projects.
With the high cost of living, sky high rents/mortgages, & pay checks are not matching the needs of the people...It is going to worse! Time to leave California! It is is ridiculous!!!!
If they park a nice camper on the roadside and live in it, is that considered homeless? Most people who work can only get a two week vacation a year to sleep in a RV or a tent and they call it a vacation.
Many great problems - no simple solutions. I wish, however, that people were taught from school onwards to SAVE rather than SPEND. Not many people want to work (I dont want to work) but money does not grow on trees. Save, invest if possible - every time you go out for a serious shop try to get as much bang for your buck as possible.
It’s not easy being a landlord, all of the financial responsibilities are on the owner of the property. Insurances, mortgages, taxes. Renters, stop complaining..ya all are looking for a free ride. Go out and buy your one home. Find a way.
the never ending plight that has become the new image that should be on the State Flag. oh, and the "advocates" for them should be jailed....billions spent. these squatter camps need to be firehosed.
What do mean? This problem started during the time Trump was president and is carrying over in the Biden administration. Quit trying to rewrite history.
Blame Reagan. He's the one that closed the mental health facilities and started the homeless crisis, then gutted public housing funding turning them into nightmare projects. He also started the bank deregulation that turned the housing market into a casino for rich people.
