Homelessness in London, Ontario 

Guess who caused this real estate "crisis"? The government. By letting everyone borrow "free" money. And what do people do with "free" money? They buy up all the real estate and now they dictate the rental prices/market. The government should have never reduced the interest rate below 12%.

A great doc shedding light on a problem that can no longer be ignored.

Yet politicians use our tax money like an ATM machine

I met Chuck at tent city many years ago and she made a huge difference in my life! I now live in Kelowna B.C and I still help the homeless wherever I can.

Homelessness not seen since the Great Depression

I was very familiar with London in the sixties, and I can agree with today's concerned people that the problem has certainly worsened in the past 20 years, but the roots were obvious in the eighties, when the downtown changed from a pleasant shopping area to a bombed out mess in a very short period of time. You can't blame Ford and Trudeau for that [though they are both poor leaders]; local politicians looked the other way as industry left town and people fled to poorly planned suburbs. Meanwhile, Kitchener-Waterloo [and sometimes, Cambridge] replaced London as southwestern Ontario's main creator of jobs and technology.

I use to Live in London & I enjoyed living there. I always felt it was a safe place to live until a brazen murder took place in braid daylight & no one stopped to intervene. I left London before this event but had plans of returning & since then, there have been more BRAZEN style murders. That put a stop to moving back, now the drug issues & homelessness makes London look unappealing now. However this is not an isolated issue for London, this is happening in almost all parts of Ontario. Since Trudeau's first election victory Ontario & many parts of Canada are now falling apart at the seams. Premier Ford is as bad as our federal leaders for all this. What a mess we are in & people still trust our politicians ? One lie after another & with each election things get worse. When will this end >

As a filmmaker and one who works directly with unhoused people through the church, I can tell you categorically the filmmakers have "spun" parts of the script to suit their own narrative. For example, not only have they omitted the root cause of homelessness they have minimized the devasting effects of addiction which is the number cause of homelessness, and left out the fact that in my 10 years of experience 90%, if not all, who are suffering from homelessness are suffering from addiction to hard drugs - fentanyl, crack, crystal meth. It's rather elementary: drug addiction causes poverty and poverty causes the inability to pay one's rent. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the problem has proceeded to worsen to the point of crisis. It's because the authorities and agencies, for some weird reason have, "misdiagnosed" and misacted that the crisis will continue to worsen. I guarantee it. How do I know? I know because history always repeats itself... simple as that.

Wow that sheds a whole new light for me on the info tech building. Every time I go by it I'm like oh wow it's getting bigger and more off putting and I'm not sure what to think. Seeing inside the building and what's actually happening there completely changed my mind. It's amazing the work these people are doing and it actually makes so much sense. I'm so glad people have somewhere to be to get their basic needs met. It's clearly needed and I'm also really happy to hear about that large donation. I had no idea. Great video.

Grew up in London. There were only a few, literally A FEW homeless in the 90s. Something else is happening here .

I wish they’d stop breaking into my car and smashing my windows in wortley village

Homelessness in almost every case is about addiction. That may change soon but historically 99% of homeless people are wired to something

We really do not need,or want,the background music,please,it belittles what is a serious topic.

P-3's are not working either. Closing the LPH didn't help.Building stupid bus lanes and bike lanes don't help. Priorities out of line. The provincial government made the mistake of down loading housing to municipalities. Now we are paying the price for it.

When schools are closed down ,could they be converted into housing for the poor instead of demolishing them?

They need to get.more subsidized housing available here. The line is extremely long. I am in a 2 bedroom basement apartment that has ant issues and mold issues and I have a 4 year old who is special needs and we have been waiting to get into subsidized housing for years. I'm kn assistance making 1000 a month from social assistance and 700 from child tax. 1000 goes to my rent (and that is considered cheap rent) and I still have to pay for clothing.. food.. internet.. electricity... for myself and my daughter I'd love to have a safe subsidized housing for us here in London. Especially with that 25 million they got. I'd also like to see more job support programs or school support programs as I'd love to go to school to be a 911 dispatcher.

These are scary times because the growth has begun. Once it starts there is no turning back. I grew up in Burlington and never saw a homeless person in this city until my early 40's. I am 50 now and see multiple homeless people and beggars in Burlington.

The problem lies with more immigrants and refugees than we can handle, coupled with housing being treated as a commodity. Both these things can be controlled by the federal government. There is no need for an individual to own several properties to rent out and exploit others.

This was the best place for a hundred years and literally ruined in less than 20 years!! Families and relatives ran out!

By design? you will own nothing and be happy. Bringing in millions of people each year doesn't help. Good video. Thank you for discussing this.

Sad place London has become...

How come there is enough room for all the refugees ? Ask the government why ? Not one refugee is complaining

they cant afford food, but they can afford dye for there hair

We do have a problem with homeless people in london.. I wish I had the answer. I like the idea of building tiny home communities. Could this idea be a reality? More outreach help, more mental health outlets, feeding the poor and contributing towards self accept ion and education .trade work, willingness to work on a farm picking fruits and vegetables.

We dont have a 'housing' issue, we have a mass imigration issue!

Ill chime in as someone who lived here 20 years ago and just recently moved back. Overall London is a beautiful city. Great parks, beautiful trails, great and abundant food. However, the homeless just smoking meth and feynt in the middle of the street is mental. Variety stores selling spoons and tin foil and I suspect some of selling the actualy drugs.. Markus Mini Mark comes to mind.. I know it happens in every major city. Here it happens across the street from the Police station. They need to clean this up. Downtown and Dundas the middle half atleast needs to be dealt with. Just going to keep loosing businesses and people. If they clean it up it will thrive. Sure you can move to a less homeless part of the city but out of sight does not mean its not happening. Im not going to leave the city. We need to clean this up

London looks like tent city everywhere too bad use to be a nice place to visit and shop forget it now.

Housing first. Housing should be a right. We have the resources to do it but too many people don't view these people as human like the young man said. This program only happened through a private donation.

Trudeaus version of Canada is appalling.

Bring in MORE immigrants. That's the answer!

This is the age of growing homelessness.

Welcome to the USA. This reminds me of Vancouver. Homeless all over the streets same in Toronto. Everything was all right in America until Greed got in the way.

Praying for us all Hoping the best for us all Hope Unifor gets good contracts for my union Brothers and Sisters

So u said we dont have enough housing spaces... wrong... we have tons of housing . Problem is no one can afford to buy a house here tons of houses being built and no one living there because a 200 000 dollar home is over a million dollars. So dont lie. Greed is the issue.

Well done video

Shelters have become unsafe for them what can the city and social workers do to make them safe again.

another day in trudeaus canada

what did the city really do with that $25 million dollars ??? they were supposed to have these hubs, and cancelled, they need to build tiny homes and give back their dignity and self respect to the homeless, its a damn shame that the city of london doesnt care, there is absolutely nothing down town to see or to shop, nothing, not even a decent grociery store, put people where it is close to shopping .

Please don’t paint everyone as judgemental toward homeless,we don’t all judge, some like to be able to help

I just quit working for a resto where my smoking colleagues made me furious and sick everyday for 2 yrs. I have applied to 3,500 jobs, if I can't get an income, I will be homeless out in the snow in 4-5 mos. Autistics like me should be able to get MAID! Easy, quick, permanent!

Average house prices are around $650k.

Rent went up because they keep raising property taxes no matter how you look at it people how own property want to make a profit

one huge problem is that municipal government, while crucibles of legislation are also the most poorly funded, decades of cuts from the province and federal government have forced municipalities to make desperate decisions.

You Can Never Really understand Until the Day it hits and you are there.The Us & Them Attitude in entrenched .This Homeless Crisis has been imposed/and All the Reasons Why...Ain't Rocket Science.Citizens All☆❤☆Civics 101

These ppl have worsened the homeless problem. They have made it so easy to be homeless that everyone flocks here. 4 square meals a day and free drugs

So sadly for the homeless it’s everywhere in Canada. I’m not sure what the answer is but I believe it started at the top by the Liberal government. He does not care about Canadians. Trudeau is in government for himself and no one else. The Liberals have destroyed this once amazing country that I am no longer proud of to call home. We have to get him out of his power trip and bring Canada back to the once prosperous beautiful country it once again was.

The pofferty of one is the capital of the other

You say there's not enough housing spaces for people that need it yet there's a number of churches that have got church halls there's no reason why the church halls could not be used at night for the homeless people a couple of blankets and the pillow the churches have got a kitchen and toilets that's all you need for someone to sleep in the church a truth is the churches refuse to help...

“ a human having an experience”

What is it about drugs that make you lose your self respect, your ambitions, your existence?

Londoner all my life

The system is broken 😔 in that relates to the people being broken 💔 government doesn't care, just as long as they look good in the international scale 😉 that's all that matters inside they don't care 😒

Kalergi Plan

I am grateful to our London Mayor who takes this issue seriously and is "acting in ways" that recognize the emergency that homelessness is in this city.

People don't you understand already, 2001,2008,2020, those years show it to you every 10, 11 years you are going down, and people who create pandemics and wars going straight UP that is all

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Everyone everywhere nowadays

Normal country.

It takes over 3.5 years now to evict a bad tenant in Ontario. That is the true nub of the problem of homelessness. Too many landlords have been driven out of business by the inferior Court of Ontario. Tenants need landlords, not communism.

Bunghole Bungalow!!

Politically You can expect nuthing but the same from the Ontario Government...Doug Ford will protect the status quo between rich and poor till the day he dies...hopefully soon, the P.C. government has no heart for the disadvantaged, they are only interested in their rich business, developer friends.....WE NEED AN N.D.P. PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NOW !!!! HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN THE NAME OF THE ECONOMY DOUG....??

This video is dimly a narrative . No problem solving no explanation of cause .

Whoops you misspelled homelessness.... It's actually spelled like this: "liberal drug addicts"

Yep drug addicts and the homelessness are what we attract