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The lead in premise is the Stupidest Words ever spoken ( or typed). And the correct term is the cannabis plant. Stop with the government propaganda bs.
I worked in Denver from 2009 - 2013 (before legalization) and then I didn't return until 2017 (after legalization). Prior to legalization I could walk around downtown without being harassed, at any time of day or night. After legalization the situation had significantly changed for the worse, resemibling what's shown in this video. Today there are large parts of downtown that I wouldn't go to or through at any time of the day.
I think you hit the nail on the head, there's a lot of serious hurt within the homelessness epidemic. Assistance has to come with social service. Shoot, some of these folk gotta get re-sold on lifestyle basics like self care. Humans give up on each other and themselves for hundreds of awful reasons. Great vid btw.
I understand that some homeless people don't want help due to drugs or whatever, but there are so many others that do want the help and can't get it. It's very sad when our elected politicians would rather support illegal immigrants than our homeless citizens and veterans. If we used money we're giving other countries for mental help and housing we could make a dent in the problem. Thank you for highlighting some of the problems in big cities Chris.
Money given to other countries is mostly because of the enormous offshore debt, and because through fiscal Year 2022, the United States federal government has spent and obligated $8 trillion dollars on the post 9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And that`s just POST WAR efforts. Does america really need bases and troops on the entire planet? Because 178 countries seems a bit much. Look at the expenditure of the military and tell me several trillion couldn`t be cut without harming national security. Vets and homeless are vets and homeless in large part because of unnecessary conflicts abroad (bomb some civvies and create more terrorists, make more money because the threat level remains high), a bloated military and war profiteering corporations, you know, the people who actually run america. (the money trail is out there) Looking past offshore debt, when american citizens on average has almost a million dollars owed to the Govt. and the debt is still 160 trillion, something is very very wrong, and it`s not because of sending a few billion to other countries after floods or earthquakes. It`s because they control the US population, not other countries, yet. If the US spent 10% of the military`s (let alone the CIA`s) ACTUAL expenditure on healthcare and housing, the problem would be solved, not dented. Btw, the total global debt is more like 300 trillion. (edited for typo)
What gets me is farmers and other businesses cheerlead with you: But, not for long! The reality is that they need massive illegal immigrant labor. This puts your arguments firmly into the vise of hypocrisy. In Fla., the governor stupidly criminalized illegals: Fruits piled up and construction totally shut down....
I used to live in the Ballpark area (between Coors Field and I-25). Denver was a beautiful city that took a wrong turn when they started selling recreational dope in 2014. Suddenly, there was a dispensary on every corner - displacing the shops and businesses that made up our cool eclectic neighborhood. Even worse - every unemployed doper in the country showed up in Denver. Thousands of people moved to Denver with no place to live and no way to support themselves ... they came to get high and live off the system. By 2020, it was such a pit, I sold my place and moved out of my beloved city. RIP, Denver. Liberal polices killed a wonderful place.
The main reason for a portion of the homeless is being evicted during and after Covid. Unlike NYC, if you are evicted, you can't rent for several years. They can't get a place because they aren't allowed to have one. Also a lot of the homeless work, but they can't afford the rents.
Of coarse you didn't mention the history of Five Points. It was started by exslaves and was established before Denver. It was a major black neighborhood before gentrification caused high prices and chased old time residents out.
Legalizing recreational did in fact ruin Denver, it brought an influx of invaders from other states that took advantage of the grow your own allowance, creating a "legal" black market they would smuggle to other states that were at one time and some still being, illegal. My Dearest Friend lives near East Colfax within a few blocks and sees the violence of this nearly every single day.
🎯.. I personally know someone who rents a house in Colorado and another in Missouri, the Colorado house has a large " personal grow" and I'm sure you can imagine what happens at the Missouri house
Wtf it did not, air bnb ruined the whole country's housing market this isn't just a denver issue. There are 15 million unused empty housing units in the country and only 600,000 homeless people. In colorado alone there is 200,000 empty housing units. The inflated prices and artificial scarcity keep us divided and struggling and the owning class's pockets lined. The landlords don't care if they've made us homeless to pad their bottom line
All most people want is a good job, and a home to raise a family. The key to this is JOB's, we as a country need to stop outsourcing all our blue-collar jobs. So much comes from china now, it's unbelievable. Also close the border, all the drugs pouring in is devastating, people tend to turn to drugs when they haven't got a job and feel there is nothing to live for. Think before you vote. Thanks to Chris for all of his time, work and posting.
It helps not having your life ruined by bills because you needed medical treatment as well, doesn`t help having available jobs when people get homeless because they got sick, because nobody is hiring homeless people. Lots of good and kind and resourceful people on the streets, not just hard users and people with mental issues. But if you end up in that situation your life is over.
@@afrog2666wasn't ObamaCare supposed to fix this?.. rates are still pretty cheap, damn near free if you're poverty level.. enrollments have stagnated over the years
People need faith more than anything, I know plenty poor people who live good lives and consider everything they have as a blessing, their faith is their motivation.. Seek 1st the kingdom and his righteous way and all things will be added unto you: Matthew 6:33
For the ones who aren't on the streets due to addiction, the "housing first" models seem to work the best at getting them back into society. Free housing and access to social services, without having to jump through a bunch of hoops to prove that they are truly poor, or even to prove that they are sober. It gets the addicts off the street temporarily as well because they also don't have to prove that they are sober. And even though the social services offered to them include addiction treatment services, the studies show that most of the addicts end up back on the street. It's possible that the treatment programs available in these situations are not long enough to get the job done and don't have enough follow up to keep people out of trouble. And the lack of mental health services available to everyone - homeless or not - started back in the 1960s with Reagan in California shutting down the mental hospitals for budgetary reasons, and continued on through the 70s with well-meaning liberal types assuming that all mental hospitals were horrific places like bedlam, and the closures got even worse in the 80s and 90s with various presidents and governors also closing State mental institutions claiming it was necessary for budget reasons. So we have lost 90% of the inpatient beds available for psychiatric and substance abuse patients since 1970. That means these days even people with houses and jobs and good health insurance can't always access the inpatient care they need for psychiatric disorders, including pediatric psych patients. So you can imagine that it's that much more difficult to get homeless indigent patients into those treatment settings. I think another part of the problem is that as soon as people do get back on their feet and earn a little bit of money, they suddenly become ineligible for certain government programs that have been helping them pay for housing, and become an eligible for the Medicaid insurance that might be paying for their mental health care. I get that we can't pay for everybody all the time for free, but I think some people on the borderline need to have that ongoing help for a number of years after they finally have just enough to get by, to decrease the chances of them falling back through the cracks.
You SHOULD prove that you are sober, so you can show that you are able to live with normal people. Besides, half the reason people end up on the street is because america is run by banks and corporations, so for instance when property values crash due to crime and businesses leaving, buy property, give it some time, clean up and rebuild the area using companies you have shares in, make it nice and shiny and sell the properties for giant profit. It`s the same model as war profiteering, destroy, rebuild, profit.
@@afrog2666 -- Although that sounds good from an intellectual standpoint, the real-life studies show that approach doesn't work. It's based more in the desire to punish people for their addictions, than based on a system that recognizes that some addicts are never going to get clean if all they do is end up right back on the streets with all of their scummy fellow drug users. I agree with you that corporate profits, and the current attitude that investors are more important than society as a whole, are a big part of why housing is not affordable for some people, and why even some sober, hard-working, gainfully employed people end up homeless. And I agree that some people who are drunk or using drugs, aren't going to be fixed the matter how many times we try to help them. And that includes with the programs that give them some place to live before addressing the addiction issues. But the sober, hard-working people will absolutely do better if you give them housing first, and are likely to continue to get their lives back on track and be able to graduate into their own separate housing situations. And at least some of the drunks and drug addicts will be able to do the same. You can look it up in the medical literature in various social science journals. In parts of the world that use the housing first method, they have a greater success rate of keeping people from ending up back on the streets
sobriety is key and employment is key. Giving them money when they refuse to take responsibility or to TAKE MEDICATIONS FOR MENTAL ILLNESS doesn't solve the problem
I truly enjoy the presentation you produce for these cities you explore and document. However based on my current knowledge of events in this country, Denver should take a good hard look real close at San Francisco and see what ignoring the homeless issue to that once proud city. While I would love to see every major city in this country from behind the wheel of my own car, so far Denver doesn’t “wow” me, for lack of a better term coming to mind.
Justina Ford's house being made of red brick must have been quite a feat to move it 13 blocks. A wood frame house will flex while it's being moved, but a brick house seems it would crack and weaken while being moved, and it weighs more.......
LOL. marijuana did not ruin Denver. Get a grip, it's marijuana, not crack. How one would think smoking marijuana equals homelessness or worse is beyond me unless one lives in a bubble, and an echo chamber of misinformation.
Wow. Did you just smoke a large bowl before writing your post? I ask because that is not what I said. I never said that was the reason. I said that some people believe that is the reason because of the crowd that it attracted for being the first state to legalize pot.
Most of the area you covered wasn't even part of Five Points until gentrification took over. You incorporated five different neighborhoods into it. Any Denver native knows this. DA
I lived in commierado for 47 years. I've seen nothing but decline since the legalization of pot and the influx of people from commiefornia. I finally had to flee due to the light on crime policies and the cost of living. The rents are out of control and the taxes are astronomical.
Why are you so obsessed with Denver's homeless my freckled friend? Besides, Denver is quite a high elevation for someone of such fair skin to be spending time. I've heard one has to put on sunscreen every day there, no matter what time of year.
We've been a sanctuary city for decades, legalizing marijuana is what ruined Denver, it brought people from across the country bringing their $hitty ideals and voting habits, which caused rents to triple, an explosion of the homeless population and turned Colorado into California.
It's not a crime to be homeless. Lot's of hard working tax payers have been pushed to the streets in Denver since the pandemic, and with ever rising cost of living.
@@DanielGarcia1980 homelessness is not a crime but possession of fentanyl, heroine, meth, etc. is. not sure if you live here in Denver or not but it’s not uncommon to see junkies with needles in their arms or smoking from a pipe. The majority of those on the streets are addicts, throw em behind bars or get them actual help. Giving them money and distributing them into neighborhoods throughout the city isn’t helping anyone.
There was a joke on South Park from an episode in the early 2000s where the boys are walking in Afghanistan and Cartman says “Woah what a crap hole dude! This is like East Denver.” I always found it funny because growing up in Denver five points was definitely infamous for being the worst neighborhood in the city. All things considered it’s improved a lot albeit with a lot of problems still.
