I was homeless in sac for years I left with my dog on a freight train we never looked back 14 years ago..we both alive and been off the streets for 3 years now.
I’ve been homeless as a kid. I would never wanna go back to that living ever again. The reason I wake up every morning thankful for a job that keeps a roof over my head and food in my stomach.
This is how I feel when I meet someone less fortunate than myself; "we pass this way on Earth but once, if there is any kindness we can show or good deed we can do, let us do it now, for we shall never pass this way again."
Took my son 7 years to get off the streets of that town. The bigger the city, the less helps to spread around. I got him out of that stupid state . Drugs weren't the problem. Minimum wage and high rents were the problem.
@@imayhaveadhd you sound jealous. What's the matter? Are you one of them? Just because you lost the competition doesn't mean you get a participation trophy!
@@ChicagoBeaver yeah, I know that feeling. Using as much available resources as possible instead of just wasting it away. Because time is more precious than money.
I was homeless but I didn't set up camp somewhere and call it home. It takes lots of hard work to get off the streets and for me it started with going to rehab and getting clean.
@@teacul I went back in 2000 to rehab, through Central City Concern, a non profit group that's billed 'A Solution for Homelessness." It was free yes, you had to start at a men's shelter then get a counselor who told me exactly what to do and I did it. I got clean and sober housing, rent was based on wages (if you didn't work, you didn't pay), there was AA or NA meeting requirements. I was there 5 yrs and saved up enough to move out into my own apartment.
JR Rosalez First honest statement I read in here. All recovery / desire to get off streets/ starts with the individual . I can give all the help I want, but if the person is not ready it’s not going to happen.🙈
yup true sucks to be around alot of these people that are so dirty and jump ypur fences to come and look for something like a racoon .. and all you have to do is keep looking for jobs .. ive seen alot of these homeless respectful funny and nice and clean but to each is own in this life we cant help everyone ... there should be better help to find good jobs for them to get back on there feet for the ones that arent tweakin..
Living next to so much water..they could wash their hands!!!! I've been homeless..lived in a van for 8 months..got ready for work at a shell gas station...kept clean!!
Yes l would agree...but tbat river is already contaminated by industry and City sewage...l would be 'dirty' (covered in natural microbes) rather than wash my hands in that river. Rainwater ld use for washing my crockery and pots....and drinking water? Mostly you have to buy that now eh? (And lm in lreland!)
@Saharra Quasar I spent 2 1/2 years homeless and I preferred the street to shelters. You don't seem to understand that gov/state/city shelters are run like prisons. Look how the officials even in this video deal with homelessness. Giving fines to people for tying a rope to a tree? And shooting your lifelong animal companion?
@Saharra Quasar That's what the Rajneeshies tried to do in Washington state. It worked great until the homeless just wanted to do drugs and drink alcohol all day instead of working.
@@rkgaustin think about it this way if your growing up being homeless which there are kids with parents growing up in the streets they get influenced by bad stuff anyways then for adults most have better nothing too do like they said they have nothing really so of course too pass time you will use drugs and drink yourself away and to cope with stress , depression and many other mental issues. It’s not just what you think.
@@JK-yd5ro It's not. Drugs & alcohol, mental illness, laziness, and in some cases bad luck are. Financial illiteracy can be the cause of debt, treading water, etc., but let's be honest, the % of homeless people who are employed and just have had bad luck and aren't on drugs is very small.
There's alot of resources, I'm living proof as an ex con,, 30 yr dope fiend, etc... It's the dope, I can tell u from experience, once u put the dope down, then yr priorities right!-!!!
I'm glad you got cleaned up but YOUR experience is not everyone's experience. In fact, LOTS f people fall through the cracks of the resources. An old poem: "O Lord, don't let me judge another until I have walked a mile in their shoes."
@@Laura-Lee I get it , but ppl don't realize the physical harm thenew inflicting on one's self @ the time... It's a long story, but if u ever wanna hear the rest, my # is 323- 743-6690
@@Laura-Lee I know from experience that everybody's experiences r unique!! I've got an extremely unique story myself that needs 2 b shared, I'm gonna try 2 find someone 2 help me push some book ideas, know abybody w/ a spare couple mill? J/ K, but not really
God bless these people,my people. Two years ago i was with them, myself and my girlfriend. In sac trying to hold jobs and homeless at the same time. Cali we have to do better than this. Come om cap city 916 help us
I was homeless in Phoenix Az for two years and it was because I was a drug addict. What saved me was accepting Jesus Christ at a ministry called Church on the Street. God broke the chains of drug addiction and I have been clean many years now and if it weren't for Jesus I might be dead. So I have a lot to be thankful for.
33 years as a Ranger retired in 2008 and still no change. Sacramento needs to build housing instead of a stupid basketball arena and those who won't go there need to be arrested. The ARP used to be a beautiful place enjoyed by everyone. Now it's a dangerous dump.
It's too cold for that and I've slept in my car in the winter, it is not pleasant. You literally have to keep ur car running to heat up the interior, then you have to get up at 5 when it's cold again.
DON Oh, id live to hear your solution.. Let me guess, the govt will take care of you? Yes, work harder and smarter, pull yourself up. If you cant afford to live someplace, move. People these days dont want to adapt, they want mommy and daddy and everyone else to take care of them....
I can't afford a pet. I can barely pay rent and my phone bill. Most homeless have dogs and cell phones. I wouldn't mind if they didn't completely trash everywhere they set up camp.
Living in Sacramento dealing in property management. It’s rough, I feel for the elderly woman out there. However, it’s really hit or miss with the homeless . Some of the homeless clean up the dumpster areas at my properties better then the people who actually live there. Others are very aggressive (usually the younger men). I try to be empathetic. I don’t chase then off if they are not harassing people, be aggressive or making work for me.
Dealing with greedy landlords who primarily are responsible for the homeless epidemic in this Country. The Guilty among the rich who extort money and have cheated to get ahead.
I think housing should be affordable but I’m sure by your emotional response you believe I’m a rental property owner. No, I just work for them. Honestly my last employer has donated more money in 1 year then in your whole life. Extortion? The way you used that word I’m not 100% you understand the definition
@@User-54631 I don't care how many excuses the rich try to pull out of their hats claiming that they have bent over backwards to help solve this homeless crisis because every year that this problem has increased amounts to a life time of more lies and deceitful promises. This homeless problem has gotten so out of control that it's now beyond any heroic efforts by very few Nobel class of people to fix now. . .
And as l stated at the very beginning to whom the shoe fits, so why would you object and deny that there is a homeless crisis here in America and it is in fact the greedy wealthy landlords who are solely responsible by having astronomically raised the rents Xtremely outrageously and cannot deny that in your life time of privilege and of ample comforts.
Who denied there was a crisis? The debate is how to solve it. Please stop projection your bias onto me. If you want to surrender the outcome of your life to others that is a personal choice that everyone has to make and I support that . I personally won’t give people that kind of power over me. Best of luck to you
Sacramento has changed so much in a short amount of time. People from the bay are moving in, and driving up the cost of living for people already struggling. Homelessness is increasing very visibly, and the only solution seems to be pushing them out of the way. This makes me sad.
First, last, deposit, good credit, screening fee, etc., cost a great deal more but your point is not lost. Keep in mind not everyone has the skills, resources and intelligence you do.
regardless of how you got there, its incredibly hard to get out of. when you have no home, place to store your things, clean water bed transporation you have nothing to work with in terms of sustaining a job. and if youre addicted to any kind of drug youll never be able to get clean or get yourself out of homelessness. its literally impossible to help yourself at that point. instead of blaming the homeless we could be finding tons of different ways to help the ones who do want it
It's hard yes .. but you have to have consequences for your actions. Go get arrested and get a program. Can't have any violence on your records no rapes gun violence. You have to be a hopeless drug addict.. ask for help ..
Turn them in to farmers get them out of the city have them actually camp out on the fields in a humane way. Clean water clean restroom clean bbq etc... plus pay them minimum wage.
Awesome idea ,ev.body would be alot happier if they we're more self sufficient, give them some land to farm. Hard work ,but they could feed their selves better.
At some point (most likely 80s), apartment complexes stopped being built as much. Combine that with the advent of Tech, more foreign investment in real estate, and the fact that older generations live longer than ever before, and, well here we are. I expect that being homeless will not be seen as out of the ordinary by the year 2030.
@@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 God willing, this country as a forcibly- and unnaturally- constituted federal entity, beholden to no one but the obscenely wealthy, will no longer exist by 2030. Whenever that day arrives, it will be the greatest thing for the cause of justice and the lifting of the tyranny of injustice ever to have occurred in the history of humanity.
*Tmiranda* Yeah true But also some that got the boot at a young age that and wasn't quite all the way there in the head . Some are like 27 28 with the brain of a 12 year old because they're parents weren't really parents an so on an so fourth. Alot of them it's a choice like 90 percent . Some just dirt bag druggies
Heartbreaking to watch was a boaters paradise when i was young! Ski beach was packed every weekend Now its embarrassing and disturbing! I HATE HOW THEY TRY TO GET you to feel bad for drug addicts that no one will rent to because they have evictions and live like animals!
@@jessegreywolf Move to an affordable city. I'm tired of hearing Californians whine. You've chosen to live on the most expensive real estate on the continent. You don't belong there unless you make 200k per year minimum.
@@roscoe4092 spoken like a true weak person... No children or taxes to speak of. I hope your basket weaving gender studies degree pays off. Have fun at arc degenerate.
During the colonial times this style of living was the norm. Now the world and life has changed so much that we can no longer settle without payment - it is sad ...My hope and prayer 🙏 is that the homeless that do seek help find it, and it stays available to them. Winters are awfully cold, and my heart breaks thinking of these kind people sleeping in the cold . We are all humans in this together 💗 God bless us all 💗🙏 Thank you for this vid - what can we do locally to help ?
Jane Wick, I made it off the streets too, but I don't bash the disabled or mentally ill who can't. Trying to bring yourself up by putting others down is despicable! If you ever were homeless and I'm not saying you were, than you should feel ashamed of yourself for your callous inhumane and frankly pathetic judgement on those going through this! Furthermore if I was your parent I'd be ashamed of you for ever making a comment like this thinking you're somehow better than other human beings that are downtrodden and fighting to survive! Also given your disdain for those less fortunate in there ability or circumstance to achieve a way to get off the streets makes me believe if you ever were homeless with no help that you weren't there long enough to appreciate the gravity of that situation in it's entirety or the desperation of those suffering from homelessness. In short you are a cold hearted person with no love or respect for human life other than your own and as a patriot I'm happy I don't know you as I'm ashamed that you live in my country and that you have the freedoms we enjoy and no matter what your birth certificate says I will NEVER call you an American as it's an insult to all the homeless veterans that fought for this great nation.
I grew up in East Sacramento. Spent much of my childhood on the American River from Sunrise down to Paradise. There were no camps then. Perhaps past Paradise Beach closer to town... 12 years ago, after a personal catastrophe, I was taken to Mary House in Dos Rios. It is a day shelter for women and children. When it closed for the night, I stood outside completely lost and alone. Not even a blanket. In the blink of an eye, there I was, outcast from society. I live like a ghost. I got this...
Yeah it's a shame. Garden highway (north of I5) has turned into a mess, just garbage all down the road. When I have gone I've had homeless dogs chase myself and others
Drinking water turned into a toilet. But worse is when it rains all the hypodermics end up there too. Plus trash. I've seen a camper trailer floating down the river. It's CA. Don't drink the water!
Rents need to go back down to normal Back to $650 a month for 1bdr Apt $795 for 2bdr and for 3bdr $ 1200. Now that sounds fair provided that everyone living there is employed financially stable and responsible. BRING THE RENTS BACK DOWN TO NORMAL And Put An End To The Extortion. . .
I feel sorry for them and wouldn't ever want to be in their shoes. Why do they have to trash everything up?? Leave the trail CLEANER than you found it!! I guess none of them were ever boy scouts.
@@fairfax_fran5109 If you ever drank a glass of tap water, you've drank much worse that just feces. Of course tap water IS treated with lovely preventatives and extra added ingredients. Happy New Year :)
@@WildOutWest1911 Yikes, nothing relevant to say but to correct his grammar. Mind boggling, here take your attention medal. You got first place in the grammar nazi contest, congratulations.
That's not correct. Many many homeless folks in California are from California. I was born and raised in Northern California and was homeless on a couple occasions.
Are we supposed to feel bad for these people? All I see are people unwilling to take control of their own lives, and pushing the consequences of that decision onto other.
He doesn't have a shower? Isn't there a river right there? When I was a wildland firefighter I washed myself in a river with a bar of soap many times. Clean yourself up and get a job. I was also homeless, I used to clean myself up in the bathroom of Taco Bell. If you want to get out you'll do what it takes to get out. This guy sits there and says he can't work because he's dirty with the river right in front of him? He doesn't want to work. If you don't want to work, whatever, But at least be honest. I will say this again, I was homeless and I did what it took to get out, and so can they. They live this way because they choose to. Is that the case for all the homeless? No it's not, but it is the case for a lot of them.
Most of these people live like this because they want it that way. Additionally, drugs are a huge part of the problem. That could be addressed in a much more aggressive way.
Well thank you Ms expert. We weren't aware there was such a simple explanation that fits millions of individuals out of doors. We appreciate your wise enlightenment😂
Shame on u , would u like to live like that?. America is the land of the oppressed, the land of the poor and the disadvantaged, how can the richest country in the world spend its wealth building Empire while , its own poor live lives of devastation. Face reality and invest in the human capital wasting away in the tent cities all over the USA, the land of freedom and democracy.
Get a gold pan your sitting on top of your food and shelter daily. That's coming from someone that left Boston mass with a van a dog and enough gas to make it to the promise land. California is a beautiful place with worlds of opportunity if you try. Where theres a will theres always a way.
their are rules in the park and they get harassed daily. didn't change their living situations, did it? more rules more laws less freedom that'll fix homelessness maybe if we make a law that requires people to have a home, they'll just start growing out of the ground.
people have a right to dignity whether or not if we want to participate in this capitalist man made forced evolution experiment. You're indoctrinated into believing you have to work for them 8 hours everyday to live.
Raising the cost of living so only rich people can afford homes is what's causing this. But the cops want to kick the poor while they're down. It's sick!
Speak the right numbers, there are thousands. And what they have built so far doesn’t even come close. Homelessness is an epidemic. People out there are not all drug addicts and alcoholics. Wake up people, where else are there so many unhorsed people. Our country needs to recognize it only takes a moment and anyone could be next.
You dont need an office job. Landscaping, fire trail cutting, oil changers, garbage clean up at stadiums concert areas. Wash off in the river and your giong to have to get food if your working or not. How are you getting cigarettes i quite when it got too costly and i realized it was interfering with breathing. Farm camps is the answer agriculter camps not voluntary enforced locked in until a daily routine is habituated and their brains are retrained to repetative behavior that is more sustainable. Unfortunately it wont be one involving all their rights it will be a form of forced labor. NO MORE NO RULES MAN there is a place for that its called haiti.
It sickens me to see how our state leaders miss use funds that could be utilized to help those in need. With all the empty buildings I am sure they could bring these people in to help renovate a place for them to be by way of donations and give them hope instead of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I personally know hippie Chris he is an amazing person you got to get to know these people I've known that man a long time through his ups and downs he's even live with me on the streets and off the streets keep your head up Chris
I'm one minutes in and I notice that a lot of these people that have very little money are wasting it on cigarettes.... The women say "I'm completely without resources", to which I would respond no one owes you anything, stop feeling entitled and work for what you want instead of laying around and doing nothing with your life. I work 2 jobs, 7 days a week, I make good money, and I shop at the dollar store, my goal to spend on food everyday is $3, because of how cheaply I live, I'm able to save and invest 60-70% of my income, I started saving late but if I stay on track I can semi retire in 5 years, meaning I can vacation 6 months out of the years, work 6 months out of the year and live off passive income from my investments but nothing is going to be given to me, I have to sacrifice upfront by living cheaply and living well below my means for at least 6 years.
That’s what’s so hard to grasp. Spending money on tobacco. But I suppose for most of these poor folks it’s just part of a chain of unfortunate decisions.
Capitalism needs people like you, keep slavin away, maybe if u live long enough, u might be able to relax for a couple of years before u die. Long live the system, of exploitation, that benefits none but the rich.
@@alexanderlawson1649 I'll be semi retired by 45 (working only 6 months out of the year), fully retired by 50, and that's only because I didn't start investing and changing my habits until 37, lol the average life expectancy for men is 75 I believe.... I have good genetics, my grandparents lived well into their 80s and 90s.
Alot of these people.their only mistake is that their mentally ill and its our mistake for thinking that their capable of pulling themselves out of this situation alone.
Basically yes! Most Americans aren't lazy...but they should do a study on why there's no homeless Asians. Probably boil down to the desire to work. HELLO!!!
It has to do more with poverty than race. Native Americans were run off their lands and turned into a poverty class dependent on government handouts--deliberate creation of generational poverty.
Having a job don't get u a roof over your head sacramento is pricing the janitors, and cashiers lower skilled employees out of the housing market so you say get a better education Ok so how do u live in a town were everyone is a desk jockey and there no one to help u at the walmart or fix your flat tire. Because they can't afford to live were they work. Just think about it. Do you see walmart paying emplyees 15$hr to say welcome to walmart and when a studio apt in sac is 1100 month check rentals if you do t believe me what's next for the employees at dollar tree or service industry workers
@Saharra Quasar Are you suggesting these people would rather be or would be somehow better off if they were incarcerated? You have to be mad to suggest that! Did you even watch the video?
The Farmers Daughter they cost $7 a pk in California. 1 pack per day $217 per month they could use for something they need. I’m sure they aren’t taking their last dime for them. They could rent a small room for that. Bad priorities.
You can make all that easily panhandling. Its so bad in FL we had to make it illegal because we started having flocks of people coming down from Ohio in groups. Lots of young women and men that were not homeless they were coming down panhandleing as a job. They would get picked up at the end of the day in a mercedes. They were making $150-$200 per day.
I work with this population and I'll tell you right now that the resources are there. A lot of them are comfortable there despite their protests. Attempts from the county to address their needs and DRIVE them to appointments for housing, medications, and other needs are futile. They dont want help. They just dont. Dont paint this picture where the homeless are completely innocent. Look at the homeless people you interviewed. They're clearly on something. A lot of them like to get their monthly payments, buy drugs and get high. They dont like living in a space where they cant make rules. It's not about what they dont have. It's about what the homeless population dont want to do.
I commend that lady that actually cleaned up after other people We need more people in the world Like that lady in the video Now there is a Person I would Give money to
These poor homeless people are not criminals, drug addicts, alcoholics. Something happened to them that drove them to that state of mind that A lot of them are in, but of course the privileged who never in their lives ever been acquainted with loneliness in such a rough and unforgiving world where most are just out for themselves.
There are never enough beds at the shelters, especially for men. And you don't stay there all day...it's not like staying with family or friends. After breakfast you have to leave the property the whole day even if you are disabled or it's sub zero and snowy. You won't be out looking for a job, but you still have to leave with the employable people. You are allowed back on the property in the afternoon shortly before dinner so you can shower and lock your stuff up. Eat, sleep, do it again. Act like a "Normal" person and wander around town all day. If it's not your town, no friends or family there...you take the bus to the library like everybody else or if you don't have bus fair you walk. It will take a few hours to walk to the soup kitchen anyway so you can get a hot meal while you are away. And there is a bathroom there you can use without buying something.
I agree but we really never know what others are thinking. But I really believe we want the same basic things in or out of life. I feel like if you ask some of these people they are simply making the best out of the situation they are in, like most of us. Really breaks my heart because we are all human and we all need some help in some form or fashion.
Then don't be, there are many programs available, you have to be persistent with getting the help if you want it - seek & shall find, knock & the door will be open to you.
@@TheDieselbutterfly well...they're right. They can fuel their addictions, gather piles of trash and live in it, but cant find a job. They dont want a job. They live on the periphery of society by choice and make excuses like " I'm living like Jesus."
The solution is tax them for the land they are sleeping on like they do everybody else, and when they can’t pay tax send them packing without any remorse. It’s not hard to pay taxes, I’m sure the city park and rec dept needs someone to collect trash from the bins or clean bathrooms. But that’s when the disability card pops out. I’ve offered many homeless people simple jobs to their refusal. Never ending bums, society as a whole is tired of giving into their bottomless pit. There’s not enough help on this earth for these beings.
They live their whole lives in a state of delusion. It's what got them there in the first place. People who have exhausted every resource, and whose friends and family want nothing to do with them end up here.
As a Sacramento native, I am surprised that the e.coli and rise in other viruses in the water wasn't mentioned in this report. To my understanding the increase in homeless camping along the river bank has contributed to the rise in water contaminates down river. Otherwise, I thought this was a great piece.
“I go to work and then when I get off work , I’ve gotta go searching for food, searching for water , searching for shelter” I hate it when I have to search the store for food to buy with the money I earn from WORK, then go home which is payed for with the money I earn from WORK, after I eat I wash up because I have running water that I pay for with the money I earn from WORK. Homeless are always full of excuses
I'm sorry but most (not all ) Homeless people have mental illness. I had a brother that walked away from a appt and was homeless he had mental issues. He finally died on the streets
