Listen too ranger Smith don't feed the bears citizens or non citizens they spend their money on what ever and then want hand outs their's a guy from a different state 50 miles away from my town and he comes every weekend and holidays and panhandles and people fall for it every time him and his dog people use children and animals for mercy I don't have a problem helping someone but who is legit it kind of pisses me off cuz I start judging them and I don't want to be that way God bless the less fortunate who really need it
I work at a hospital in Denver, mental illness and drug addiction is the problem. Fentanyl has made things horrific in the streets. Especially at night.
I watched a man take a fat shit in the middle of federal last summer. In the middle of the day. in front of 2 Denver police officers who just took pictures and laughed.
Volunteer for the needy and most of my clients are working, two parent households that can not afford the high rent! Your biases are not needed in this equation when we have data that shows you exactly where the problem rest.
Denver asks Arvada to help by offering new services to homeless. Arvada suddenly gets inundated with homeless. No one could have foreseen that happening right? /facepalm If you go on a picnic and leave food out, you're going to get flies. Anyone who doesn't understand that simple principal has their head in the sand.
Kinda like a bird feeder . At first its just a cpl birds . Suddenly its hundreds of birds ! Poopin all over everything ! Makin a mess . Eventually a cpl bigger birds will take it all over ! Take down the bird feeder !
Well stated. Lakewood is invaded also. Very pleasant landscapes, local and available food, friendly and helpful people there to welcome the homeless. 🤷
I’ve been homeless. It’s a lot easier than the struggle to find good consistent work. Not many want to hire a vet with “ptsd”, even though they say thanks for your service.
Total BS. Every store and company where I live can't find enough people that want to work. They have to modify their hours because of it. Or sometimes close. There are jobs everywhere.
@@badgumby9544 the store i work at is always looking for new hires. key word is looking. we never hire anyone its the same 5 people covering corperates ass every damn week. companies say theyre hiring but only hire 1 or 2 every 6 months, they advertise higjer pay then they offer in an interview..and combined my home brings in $57 an hour and were still scratching by..its hard these days. jobs dont equal housing either. i had 2 and was homeless for 2 years in denver. itll hit you too and if it doesent count your blessings..because no one should be homeless in america, so have empathy
@@badgumby9544do it’s BS because where YOU live is different? You need to pop that bubble that you’re clearly living in. Not everything revolves around you and your surroundings.
What percent of these homeless people do you think are of Mexican descendants or are from south of the US border? Try very few... I work in construction and the trades. These illegal immigrants you're so worried about crossing the border are the very people that do the work these mentally ill, drug addicts will never do. You must have manure for brains and think the election was stolen. That's my assumption.
Went to Red Rocks back in June it was incredible. We went to Denver for a day to get lunch and party. We ate lunch and got the hell out of there. It was nasty and the people weren’t very nice either
I worked at Rose Medical Center and drove through town to get to the hospital. I always had raisins, crackers and cheese and trail mix tubes to offer the panhandlers on the corners. I had no one accept any food. They all did, however, ask for money.
The biggest problem is enabling the homeless, they want you to do everything while they sit on their ass doing nothing, experienced this a lot in Portland Oregon, bunch of lazy young people just wanting a handout!
Really, I've helped people get food & they were grateful for it. Maybe we should stop enabling the union busters, outsourcers of jobs & pay people a living wage.
@@mE-zx7pt Well the living wage is based on the Cost of Living. If the cost of living doubles due to inflation from a corrupt government, is it now the responsibility of the small business to double their payroll budget? That doesn't make sense. Any 12 month cash flow projection shows the impossibility of sustainability. So, please continue to give the food to your grateful takers, but do not say it is because businesses need to bear the responsibility of paying someone 4 times what the job is worth. It really is simple economics.
Most people don't realize just how easy it is to become homeless. I didn't either until it happened to me. If you are living paycheck to paycheck you are right on the cusp. When it happens it's a whole new world, and it's so hard to climb out of. It places you in a catch 22 situation. You need full time employment to get out of the situation, but many employers will not hire homeless people. Even if you do find full time employment, you were most likely evicted from your last place of residence, which means most landlords will not lease to you. It's a cycle that is easy to fall into and insanely difficult to climb out of. Doesn't matter what your level of education is, you're going to be working at McDonalds or somewhere similar until you save up enough to rent an apartment in a crime ridden neighborhood; and that slumlord will be looking for at least 3 months rent as a deposit. You'll need to complete at least a 12 month lease there without being late once before any landlord in a nicer part of town will consider you. Three days grace doesn't apply to you if you want to improve your situation. that rent needs to be paid on or before the 1st of every month or you will be stuck there until you become consistent on the rent. I call my situation at that point in my life "unhomelessness". Yes, I had a home, but I felt like a hostage in my home. You have to get out of the slum before you can truly start rebuilding your life. As brutal as this sounds, it's your reality if you become homeless. You start at homelessness and work toward unhomelessness, and then you go from unhomelessness back to the civilized world; but it takes a lot of time and effort to get there. It took 4 years from the time I hit the streets until I was once again a common member of society, and that was working really hard at it. Homelessness is so hard to recover from, which is why so many sadly never do.
Hey there, you're absolutely right. A similar thing happened to me. I had a IT management position and got laid off with many of my colleagues in January. I've never done drugs, I only drank wine occasionally at restaurants and I'm in my early 30's. Fit and educated with a Masters degree in Business. The media doesn't like to talk about people like me...anyway, after months, I had to sell my car and then give up my apartment. It was devastating because I did all the things I was supposed to do. Get an education, go to good schools, get good jobs/make the 'good' career field choice...and I still lost it all. But I left the country after that. I've explained on other video comments that you can get a nice Airbnb for less than $600USD outside of the US - for an entire month. Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, etc etc...The food is organic and life is calmer; away from the drama. Americans should just leave the US because the 'dream' is dead.
B.S....if it was easy to fall into then why do only LOSERS end up homeless? Why in rural America is homelessness almost non existent? I'll tell you why because those people are proud patriots and don't want govt. hand outs to live...pretty simple
@@centerrightpunk I mentioned at the beginning of my comment that I was laid off...you run out of money and/or have to make difficult financial decisions when you are laid off from your job.
You already voted for the politicians that campaigned on raising the minimum wage to $15 bucks and drove inflation thru the roof. Also the same ones that want to give everything away for free and refuse to prosecute criminals. Maybe next time vote differently.
Most of these people are on drugs or mentally ill. It’s not just people who are “down on their luck”. These people are incapable of even working to even pay rent, no matter what it costs.
To constantly refer to this problem, as *'Homelessness,'* implies that putting a roof over the heads of these people will solve the problem. Call it what it is: an invasion of dangerous street rats, drug addicts, and the mentally ill. Some need to go to jail. Some need to go to rehab. Some need to be cared for in institutions. Unless you see it for what it is, you'll never fix it.
@@richardg1426 Not in motels. The last announced place City is moving few dozen homeless people is DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton on Quebec St near Stapleton.
It’s not homelessness. It’s a “street culture”. They may whine about how hard it is to sleep on the street and not know where your next meal is coming from, but in the end they do it so that they can live their lives of drug and alcohol addition and absolute freedom from any kind of rules.
How is she supposed to hold a job when she wont even come out of her tent to go get free stuff? I can tell that she has chosen drugs over sobriety and that is sad.
This is someone’s mom your talking about just be thankful you don’t have these problems I feel for this lady’s son that’s doing great for him self try to be more sympathetic bro!
I’m often surprised anyone is sober these days. If your life will never be good there’s no point to sobriety as u will always have a menial job living on the edge of homelessness.
Yes greed of a government collecting your tax dollars and giving them to agencies that do nothing to resolve the problem. Why would they as the gravy train they have would stop producing. Disgusting that they perpetuate people living in filth as they line their pockets. Poverty porn really.
Its a tough life but is it tougher than having to be disciplined, staying drug and alcohol free, and getting up everyday and giving up control by performing tasks that someone else designates and judges quality. Its hard to be a functioning citizen, many of these people will tell you that, I said all that to say this, don't give up on being a better version of you.
Yeah, it's going to get worse because the idiots running the state house and the Front Range cities these days don't have a single clue how supply and demand works.
I’ve lived in Glendale/Virginia Village for 6 years and there used to be not a single homeless/junkie in the neighborhood until COVID19. Now I actually see 2-3 per night on average here.
Unpopular opinion. You literally have to tranquilize people and get then into rehab with forced psych meds, which take at least 6wks to kick in. Then you need roughly 6 months of rehab counseling. Billions of dollars trying to fix childhood trauma.
All I know is that I've trucked thru' the winters in some of these colder states, seen homelessness personally in more moderate climes that still got very cold, & I wouldn't wish this on anyone. Deadly.
@@cmc5394oparva it's not about feelings, and it seems like you are out of touch. Those who do run rental properties constantly raise rents for years and that is directly contributing to our homelessness problem here in Colorado. But I guess you side with greedy rental owners rather than the homeless who can't afford to live. Many of homeless are Colorado Natives especially in this video and many that I've personally worked with.
@@4hasnain LOL, I'm not out of touch with anything. You're completely disconnected from reality and how basic supply and demand works. Bring in more people than the housing supply can handle, and rents and housing costs rise. These increases aren't happening in a vacuum, no matter what your idiot activist friends tell you. That's the consequence of not incentivizing multi-unit housing development for the last 15 years and just expecting all the new people arriving to simply figure things out, which you'd be aware of if you weren't ensconced in a social bubble that simply blames everyone you don't like when things go pear-shaped. Math doesn't care about your feelings, or your dumb resentments about "greed."
We would all be better off if govt was smaller and we kept more of our own money to use or help others with as we see fit. Govt is basically coercion...gimme your money or else...they are NOT looking out for our best interests.
LOL, most of that "wealth" is just a guesstimate. Numbers on a paper. It doesn't exist. It's not real, because it hasn't been turned into actual money. And the "wealthy" mostly borrow against that guesstimate to get real money.
Philly is technically the poorest of the 10 largest cities but there is not the level of visible homelessness you see other places. I believe it's because there is still affordable housing.
Giving sanctuary while costs rise is killing middle America. Deport some of these people renting all the property and get the fent addicts in treatment. Bad policy makes this happen.
That is what I said. Just speculation, but sounds like Kari has a history of drug abuse or alcohol. That is most likely why her family doesn't want her around them. Can't blame them. She has to want to get clean. If she doesn't then she stays where she at. You would think a grandchild would persuade to get clean and avoid drugs/alcohol.
I grew up poor and almost became homeless at age 11 when my dad was terminal and then when I went for a 2nd degree at College my girlfriend and I just didn't have enough to pay the rent of $ 380.00 in 1983.We went to bed and each of us prayed secretely and in the morningI found a check for more student grant.There was $ 400.00 in the mail and I still can't believe that happened.So, now at 64 and 62 we are rich and retired and I will help any homeless that are sincere and honest with me.We have volunteered with dogs for 11 years and that has been excellent.I'm going to leave hundreds of thousands to the SPCA.
I am starting to see a trend of young mothers and divorced older women becoming homeless on the streets and it will get worse. I am blessed in the era to be young and childless.
Older divorced women have a very high poverty rate. Young mothers have plenty of govt programs they can use to stay off the street, provided they are clean.
Yes being childless in this period is a true blessing. Pretending that the world is not in a pile of trouble and bringing HELPLESS children into it is a huge mistake.
If the women are on the streets the men were there long before. Also many immigrants now sit over government aid and they r kicking Americans off to funnel the money to illegal immigrants
I'm disabled. waiting for ssdi, I became homeless when I was forced out of work during covid. I got really sick and was never able to return to work. it cost me everything, and that's not an exaggeration. I now have to move every few months because I'm still waiting on emergency housing nearly one year later. I have spoken to every homeless Liaison in every county that would talk to me . there are not enough social workers, there are not enough processors, and there are not enough advocates. there seems to not be enough people who honestly care. That makes mental health worse. so now, as if I wasn't already working with an impressive mental health file, here is a physical disability. Let's add more damage by taking a Goddamn year or more to help with housing. And good for Denver and their new mayor maybe they'll actually get things done in the promises he madet o get the job, but what about the people who were forced to find (any) housing no matter how questionable the housing even if it puts them hours away from their doctors because really when your sick with 3 autoimmune disorders, your doctors are really at the top of your priorities. The homeless are not just the people you can see on the streets, it's people who are physically disabled who have had to rely on and trust strangers to provide usually free temporary housing with a cot or a couch, trying not to get sick because a cold or rsv can land you in the hospital. it's the guy with a decent job, but rent got too high. It's the single father of 2 who's health tanked, and in order to not drag his children through the stress of shelter after shelter, he loses them too. there's way more homeless sober people out here than you'd think, too, and we need something to change. 3:58
lots of sober homeless is the truth. lots of working homeless too. i didnt relapes until 6 months of homelessness and that was due to street life being no sleep life, espically when you need 2 people working 2 jobs to get off the street..
People link all homeless people with drugs and mental illness to feel protected from whatever happened to THOSE people cannot happened to them. Society needs to face an ugly truth; homelessness is a social class and only then we will find out who we really are if the changes needed bloom or not. I suspect there are far more people on the brink of being homeless than those who already are.
Sorry for you, there is no solution for homeless Americans. Americans pay plenty of taxes. The government mismanages them. Biden just announced high speed internet for everyone at a cost of 42 billion dollars. Guess you won't get ssdi. 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥 Keep your faith in God. ❤❤
There will likely never be enough affordable housing and even those residents are being evicted or forced to move given the increase of rent. The best option might be to live with family members, and everyone owns a share of the cost.
@@thebastardgift There's enough vacant houses that sit empty for real estate specualtion in the US to house every homeless person several times over. Maybe its time to take Vancouver, BCs approach and expropriate any homes intentionally left vacant to jack up housing prices.
@@mrvwbug4423, the new building of houses has not kept up with the population for decades and affordable housing is far worse, thus severely limited. Canada too has homeless people and renters protesting, and mass evictions, and not enough affordable housing and...😑
There is really cheap housing all over America...just not in trendy cities like denver. You could move to a little town in Kansas and buy a nice little rancher for $50-100k or rent for wayyy cheaper. Since you are applying for SSDI, you don't need to worry about being in an expensive city because you work a job. You can live somewhere more affordable.
Housing does nothing for people that aren't willing to work for what they want. That is why there is no emergency housing now. There are people that have made it a generational thing and never got off of housing. There has to be a limit to how long you can stay on section 8 so resources are freed up for others. Right now the system is built to keep people living this way.
Bidenomics and staring into a cell phone most of the day will not get you on your feet. Getting high first thing in the morning is not gonna do it unless its day labor job. Good luck and work is the way out.
We need policies that are compassionate to the homeless who are trying to get back on their feet, and beds for those who are mentally ill. We also need polices that are brutal, cold, and ruthless to the bums and druggies who are perfectly capable of functioning in society but simply choose not to. Get rid of the dregs camping out and defecating in the streets, and I bet you would see a lot more public compassion and personal charity towards those who truly need help.
Key word is those who are trying to get back on their feet. The woman that was originally from Florida essentially said she does not know that she wants to go back into regular housing. Bingo
@@TG-fq6vyThat’s where the punishment comes in. We ought to make it so we have lots of free, tax-funded options for unhoused people to choose from, excluding the choice to be on the street. You either have to live with family, go to rehab, a group home, a mental health hospital, a nursing home, or a transitionary shelter with job training and occupational therapy, or you get arrested and forced into one of those programs. But you can’t just spend your life roaming the streets.
look up how much in income taxes immigrants contribute. and how much we use their working power, every time we have a boom but when bust comes we always blame immigrants..so dumb.
Homeless men numbers will only increase. If you can't work due to permanent injury or chronic illness or do not appeal to employers you will be homeless PERMANENTLY until you become a senior citizen.
Homelessness is a mental illness. America should provide compassionate care to the homeless by housing them in, clean, safe housing with access to mental health care. No one should be allowed to live on the streets. Living on the streets should be prohibited. There should not be anyone living on the streets. They should be institutionalized (away from drugs and alcohol). They would be free to leave any time they could prove they had a job and an apartment lined up.
I was homeless and no, mental illness wasn't the cause of it. Excessive rent with nothing but minimum wage that is offered for employment coupled with an unsupportive family were the reasons. I worked 2 jobs while renting a bed for $70 a week in a shelter. I was surrounded by mentally ill people I can attest; however, I consider myself of sound mind and found that the greatest obstacle to climbing out of homelessness was greed and the lack of traditional values.
Your wrong, homeless is not a mental illness, some people want to live on the streets, one is they don’t want to follow rules, many homeless people have had housing and got kicked out, I know, I lived right in the middle of it, they made life miserable for the rest of us, when all you do is have a hand out then people have no incentive to Work! It’s the elderly that need taken care of first! Their ISNT a one fix for all!
Complaining about President Biden , writing bogus impeachment articles , probably drinking and driving 1.5x the circumference of the globe , fighting with MToiletGangrene in the middle of the house floor , berating witnesses , talking about urination , playing with her new boy toy , trying to look smart with phony glasses on , grifting, etc. . You know all those important things. 🤪
Denver is not her district. She covers southern Colorado in the rural areas. You NEED to talk to those dems you all love to vote for up in the metro area...they are the ones that tolerate this.
Colorado is run almost entirely by your team, doofy, especially on the Front Range where most of this problem is centered. If you don't like what your seeing, maybe look in a mirror.
This is a world wide problem. and it is not going to get better.the people in power don't see the small people. the sick and the mentally, ill people it is so sad, to see them out there in all kind of weather. they are humans.
World wide? Lol you only been as far as Arvada Colorado. South American are entrepreneurs we don’t have drug addicts smoking legal pot that’s Colorado and your governor Jared polis demonrats running the worse states
How is it these illegal aliens all seem to find employment and don't live on the streets? Do they change their life style to better suit their income? Todays homeless are that way because they want to live beyond their means..you know..cell phones, computers, the biggest t.v. they can find, steak and eggs everyday for breakfast, they don't want to sacrifice anything to make things work! Good luck living in the elements in a Colorado winter....it won't be fun!
Two questions: Is it a crime to litter in the state of Colorado? If an illegal alien moves to Colorado and is homeless, are they considered a "new homeless" since they had a home south of the border?
President Ronald Reagan closed down all the facilities that helped these people and kept them from being homeless. Two Generations Later, Homelessness is as present as it was when the Homeless first appeared on the streets. It's up to our elected officials to step up and open facilities that can help them cope, give them hope and a home.
You hardly find homeless people living on the streets in China. And you hardly find on the streets of Denver homeless immigrants from India, China, Russia, even Mexico. I can hardly be mistaken if I say that 99% homeless people in the tents on the streets are US born people. Could you explain this.
WOW. China's population is almost a billion and a half and yet you state one can hardly find homeless people? You've not read about coffin houses? I do believe there are more Americans homeless than any other group by default there are, clearly, more Americans in America.
When you feed the bears they keep coming back for more and forget how to take care of themselves. We are enabling bad behavior largely. The rest of these folks are seriously mentally ill and need to be put in long term insane asylums like they used to have that they closed down in the 70s-80s...we need those asylums back.
most homes now are owned by investors. For example its impossible for a normal family to go find a decent starter home or fixer upper because those are the homes flippers and investors are most attracted to. That's the issue.
The perfect way of life ,AMERICAN DREAM ! Wake every morning in a home and go to a job that pays a living OR prevailing wage so you can be productive in society . We can all look at the person and blame or label RIGHT ! But no one will open their eyes to the true failures of American government in its globalization of trade and outsourcing of American jobs! Losing money to our federal,state,counties, municipalities, to cutting Social and civil services for the people. I understand Colorado legalized the use of marijuana and now is getting MUCH needed tax relief for the state . Where are these monies allocated ,not doing enough it seems for common and basic needs for the people? Go back to 1992 presidential race, educate yourself about a business man named Ross Perot . We Americans are now living in the country he described ,TO WE THE PEOPLE ! This by no means is a accident this was clearly intentional and needs to be stopped.
Happy I voluntarily removed my family and my tax dollars from Denver. It’s a shame what lax policy has done to the place we called home for almost a quarter century. Still the most beautiful state in the Union…
when i ran for governor i had plans to fix the homelessness issue in colorado. too bad jared didnt copy that part when he ran against me to help his cousins dispensaries. good luck colorado. there are way more issues than ppl trying to solve them in that state.
@@debra6513 Drugs and mental issues mostly. Then there are those who don't want structure and rules and choose this lifestyle. Others say they can't find work, but right now there are more jobs in the USA than there are unemployed. They might have to move around if they have limited skills. Some are willing to work but can't work an 8-hr. day. I wouldn't mind a WPA type of organization. Here in CA they could clear some forest deadwood/brush to prevent forest fires.
They've had 10 open for the past 3 years and plus the coliseum was full of men. But they're literally kicking em out as we speak to house all the illegal immigrants that are flooding into the state.
I worked in Denver for 1.5 years, the rent kept going up and was $1,300 dollars plus utilities for a 400 sg. ft. apartment. I'd love to area, but I was not going to pay that amount of money for a space you have to back out of to turn around in. Can't imagine what it costs now.
@@daryllect6659 oh, a grammar comment? Try this one: Capitalisation? Oh, now that's spelling! A ver, que mas? Foreign language? oh incorrect missing andaccent. And missing puncuation? Or was it just spell check? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Austin TX is the same. Groups of people are at every corner downtown. Shirts off, sleeping, shoeless, rambling to themselves. Gee I wonder if drugs are available nearby.
Colorado should increase tax rate to 50%. People vote for reckless politician and reforms so you get what you deserve. Legalizing pot and soft on crime lead to a majority of these homeless situations. Sure not all homeless are for these reason some are also job loss and higher cost of living.
The State needs to reopened closed schools, hotels, build tent city on the outskirts of the city or state, seniors can live in senior housing. Be Live in caregivers for seniors. Alot of homeless are mentally ill they need to live in medical facility. Move out of the state.
