I know exactly where this place was. My bro. in law worked in a convenience store near it and addicts and alcoholics came in and stole and robbed the store on a regular basis. Not to say everyone at the camp was an addict or committed crimes, but you could smell this place before seeing it. If they'd kept it clean and kept the addicts out, my guess is that most people would leave them in peace.
When they built "public housing" (AKA Homestead Village) next to Gordon Heights back in the early 70s, that destroyed Gordon Heights and the community I lived in on the other side of Middle Country Rd. behind the 7-Eleven.
god please help them all find their way to a better life and afterlife. i was homeless foe six years o. long island and its no joke if you dont have basic survival skills.
I grew up in this area back in the 70s and 80s. I left Coram/New York State in 1992. WOW! In hindsight I'm so glad I got out of there! I looked up my childhood home on Google Maps Street View and it now has bars on the doors and windows!
Almost all of these people are drug addicts who literally smoked, snorted and shot their lives away and if they asked for help to get clean, there are dozens of sober homes, job help etc. They don't want it. I know. I was one of them 8 yrs ago. Don't listen to the clueless bleeding hearts here.
@@TheMelissahunni I live pretty close to the area and The deal they were given was sweet they just denied it. Housing and someone to help them find jobs and they say no? That’s insane
I can believe the Dept. of Social Services in Long Island did nothing because there were women in a Domestic Violence out there that also had children. These women and children were not homeless they were escaping abuse, they refused to help any of the women. So for this news reporter to simply state they spoke with DOS and they said they offered them housing without showing anything further is arbitrary. Obviously nobody had been to that encampment if they had been something would've been done sooner.
@@peppergomez6905 You know the ones fighting substance abuse and mental illness need a different kind of help first before they can help them with being homeless. They usually end up throwing the mentally ill out of the shelters, they end up right back on the streets.
@@peppergomez6905 "All our homeless need mental health." That's not true. You're just throwing them all in together, there's homeless people that need housing that have jobs and can't afford the rent, or have bad credit or whatever, there's DV, there is substance abusers and there are those with mental illness.
@@EW-uw7dg no they literally do. The reason Long Island has so many homeless people is because a lot of our mental institutions have to close down the past 30 years. I actually speak to the ones that live in Hempstead Lake and they’re from the psych ward that used to be in the hospital nearby. Plus anyone living on the street is going to suffer trauma and definitely needs therapy. Even if you’re mentally well going into it you’re not going to be after a while. Even though your own history? Long Island literally used to have most of the countries mental institutions and the real time we’ve just shut them down and released all the patients onto the street. Many mentally ill people are now at Ruckers Island which has had a lot of deaths lately.
@devrose palmer I know loads about it. Lived there most of my life. Why do you want to move there? I can tell you from first hand experience the area is getting worse, school is terrible, cost of living is increasing.
Yo we need a tree house camp for folks that like to be outside nonconformists like hello that camp got stripped and built up on and we should all plants tree ! Give them jobs to clean up the fucking litter holy shit are you joking me give people a chance and nature nurture
