In LA, lax laws and rising rents have created a new class of hidden homeless 

I left LA years ago. I feel bad for many people living on the streets.

It's important to show the homeless are real people. Too often they're depicted as drug addicts and/or mentally ill.

LA rich and politicians are awful people.

This is not just LA, it' s every major city in the US.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles and it’s disgusting to see what this city has turned into. Government has failed its constituents and sold out to big business. Thousands of people left out in the streets. That’s why I left LA cause there was no way that I could afford to pay rent. I worked at a job making 22 dollars an hour and that still wasn’t enough to pay for a decent apartment in LA. I moved to Nebraska and was able to get a two bedroom two bath apartment for 800.

You have got to be kidding me. On a waiting list living in your car in a safe parking lot? What the he'll has happened to america?

Richest state with the most homeless and one of the highest places in the country for rent.

This is heart wrenching. No excuses..So many people have worked all of their lives & now their treated like trash..

Exactly that has happened to me and my friend,we are an nurse and he's a vet and a Lady bought it and raised the rent 350$ we don't have food money as it is but she is making it harder on trying to get us out! She's even said she will get more money from her places . she's looking out for her self and she's in her late 60,s hmh you'd think that an older person would have more compassion and not be so Greedy!!

I just noticed that Walmart used to invite and encourage people to camp out in their parking lot but I just noticed a no camping in car sign today.

This isn't just happening in LA. I could be wrong but I feel like the states allow landlords and property management firms most all of the rights and leave the working folk to just deal with whatever, just like they do with banks and businesses. So, yea, there's no entitlement to renting in one place forever but there's also a very serious problem of income/wage stagnation and a severely broken affordable housing system, in this country. Any bozo can try and tell the masses to "just buy a home." That's not how this works. SMH

For those saying TX, rents have doubled here in the last 10 years as well. 10% a year is the average raise.

We are all . . . a few paychecks, from being homeless !

Amerikkka the beautiful!!! I left Chicago for Puerto Rico and I don't regret it! I live a minimalist life and lo happy! The rich don't care!

It all boils down to greed!

come to Los Angeles they said,land of plenty they said

Nashville Tennessee Rent Has Tripled In The Last 10 Years. Mortages Are Out Of Site. Glad I Purchased 13 Years Ago On A 15 Year Mortage !

I remember buying our tract house in the Valley for $13.5K. I looked online and the same tract houses how cost $750K. I should have gotten into real estate.

It's scary to think in 20 years every large in America is going to follow LA problem with homelessness. Rent is getting out of control everywhere.

Sad 😔 My City 🌃 Destroyed by Years of Mismanagement and Greed! Villagrosis and Garcetti Have Destroyed Los Angeles!

Rent for 16 years? People, stop renting. If you have to move to Tulsa to afford a place, do it. Do not rent.

Real estate is a multi billion dollar a year industry. As long as real estate is allowed to be a big dollar game with forgein investors allowed to buy up land then the crisis continues. Sad thing is no one wants to change it.

This is happening everywhere including in England Uk . Low wages and high rents .

This is the most disgusting thing going on in our current society where your legal income cannot cover your basic living necessities. When i was growing up, no matter what your income was, minimum wage or whatnot, if you worked an honest 40 hr week tax paying job you could always afford to have a roof over your head and your bills paid. What kind of hellified nonsense is this? My father was a menial laborer in a factory and we lived in a nice clean apt, never went without decent food, and even had a little left over at the end of the month to treat us to a movie or some Chinese takeout. Unbelievably, he even put a few dollars away in the bank. If the wealthy have acquired riches beyond their wildest dreams since that time, how is it possible that the lowest earners today are living worse than anyone could imagine back then? This is wrong, wrong, wrong and anyone that thinks that's the way things are you're living on another planet and don't belong in the human race.

isn't this utterly embarrassing everyone? smh!

The California dream... ?? And get ready everyone it's coming to the smaller towns near you..

When a totem pole rots it rots at the bottom, But it supports the top. This is society... leg sweep us ..leg sweep you.

Not only in California, is happening everywhere.

its not her home.she is renting.

When that woman cried...shame on those new landlords!!! Rich based on others misfortune; how do you sleep at night?

this is really sad.

At the end of the day it’s all about the mighty dollar

Losing your rental home is hurtful or sad. It's not devastating. There are houses in the Palm Springs area that sell for about $100,000.

In NYC we have all these large storage facilities. I really don’t get why these storage facilities couldn’t be turned into housing. Smh

The city of LA needs to lower the rent ,studios apartments need to be lower rent 1bdrm,2bdrms ,3bdrms apartments need to lower the rent .

Hello, people need to get engaged in public policy when life is good. Too many people sit back and don't get engaged in their communities. Get engaged people.

I live in an "affordable" apartment I cannot afford on social security and a small pension. Lately the landlord has raised the rent in the last 2 years 7.25% and 5.3% respectively. Social security raises were only 2.9% and 1.6% respectively. The rent went up enough over time that I had to sell all the jewelry I inherited from my mom to afford one more year in an " affordable" apartment. I pay well over 50% of my income for this "affordable" apartment and my next home will be my '92 Honda hatchback. I promised my County Supervisor that I would park in her parking lot so she could watch a 78 year old woman with several chronic diseases deteriorate. She did not care. She allowed the landlord to raise rents substantially higher than social security cost of living raises in an apartment that is " affordable" on County Owned land in her district. She is up for reelection in Los Angeles County. She is Janice Hahn. Ask her how she can do this to hundreds of low income people living in "affordable" housing in her district who will, over time, have to vacate because of these rent raises that are higher than the senior community can afford. We have been blessed to have these apartments that we fought for and won on pain of a law suit because the County and landlords were ignoring a law on the books that said new housing in the coastal zone must include affordable housing. Ask Janice Hahn why she did not fight to stabilize the "affordable" apartments, to say nothing about the overpriced full pay apartments. These are supposed to be "affordable" for low income tenants and they were 14 years ago, but our incomes are fixed and the rent outstrips our income over time if we qualify for an apartment. Ask Janice Hahn how she can allow this in her own district? You must qualify and requalify each year. She is aware of this because we have informed her. She is taking the side of the landlords who pay for her reelection campaign. Ask her how she can accept expensive fundraising money from the landlords' association while elders age out of "affordable" apartments as rent increases outstrip our Social Security incomes.

You can sleep on the street and even pitch a tent, but you can't sleep in your car? How does that make any logical sense?

This world is f up. One man making so much money and everyone eles suffer. Smfh rent goes up every year from $50 and up, yet an employee earns minimum of 25 c raised a year. This world is cold

They need to build more low income housing projects like they had in the 40s and 50s

That's one of the reasons I left LA years ago.

ALL THESE SLUM-LORDS NEED TO BE SENT TO PRISON!

In 1971, I moved into an old apartment building which was long paid off. A studio apartment was $125 and a 1 bedroom was $155. The same building now charges $900 for the 1 bedroom. Make a law that limit rents in old buildings that are paid off.

Society left agrarian life looking to leave physical labor behind & now we need to work more than ever just to live! We need to go back to a simpler way of life. Do we even consider that there was a time that people didn’t need money for every little thing? Now we have created a lifestyle in which money is needed for literally everything from food to water.

This is so sad... I mean yes landlords can do whatever they can to their own property, but this happened all of the sudden after the 2008 crash. It’s new to our community and happening too fast. Some develop company bough all of the available properties and raise the rent like 50% without any consideration to the people who lived there for whole life. I get that it’s about the profit but it’s just brutal...

😭😭 I'm showing you my whole room and this sucks I feel you man. Living the same life

Mankind is not kind anymore !

I feel like if you’re living in your car, you might as well pack up and relocate to where it’s cheaper. I only pay $920 for 3 bed 2/1/2 bath in NC. Rent is even better further down south.

Move out of California.

Buying and paying early off my house was by far the best financial and emotional decision. In my country Åland/Finland foregners cant buy real estate.

You will reap what you sow !

the market dictates rents, and sometimes its not fair.... if you cant afford to stay there, move somewhere you can and set down roots.... stop RENTING and learn from the experience so it doesnt happen again while teaching your children a lesson.... dont put your well being in someone elses hands....

Wow this is devastating 😢

This is madness, the sad thing this is taking rise nation wide.

Be glad you have a car

Greed is destroying America.

"Rent" a bulldozer and remodel for them

the cost people pay for the greed of others.

I should've guessed that LA would create a drive in shelter for homeless people. There's drive-in everything else, why not that?

I was a homeless teen and thankfully for an organization I became familiar with as a young mother; I was able to find a job in the government (admin field) but I've been on the edge but never homeless again. I'm in DC and what is happening in Cali and other areas started very slowly in DC about 20 years ago; my proposal to the government is when investors or builders come to town simply make it mandatory that they allocate a certain precentage of real affordable housing (rental and purchase) for people who are working so this is not a handout situation they'd have to qualify. An incentive to those investors and builders would come from the government and also give the investor/builders some kind of tax benefit; reason being is that the government allowcates a huge precentage of budget funding toward homeless relief efforts in each city and state so this way the money would actually be seen as to where it's going and see the sucess stories instead of just handing out cash to some who are supposed to be giving assistance to those at risk of loosing their current affordable units/housing which allows children and families to have the necessary stability they need to thrive and continue their efforts of upward mobility in society. This Can Work! Trust Me!

There is no safely net in LA. This is beyond a nightmare and very scary for those still living there. Blessings.

I live in Texas and the housing costs and rents are going up here as well. Big time! I’m fortunate that I bought my home twelve years ago at a decent, fixed interest rate. Over the years, many times I thought of selling because I got tired of dealing with maintenance, lawn care, etc. Now I’m so glad I didn’t. Even though the maintenance part sucks, I now consider my home a huge asset and a refuge.

This is happening here in Chicagoland too

This interview is the saddest yet because LA is not only place with homeless problem. Its scary reality it can happen easily with that one check away from being homeless.

We live by paycheck to paycheck this is sad we work and still dont have a house that we can provide for are family:(

It could happen to everyone but it sure seems to be a really big issue in LA. I wonder why?

Same thing happening in SF. City would rather pay developers for fancy luxury housing and charge $2800-3000 for a studio or 1 bedroom. It’s more attractive to develop these to cater to the tech millennial population than create affordable, low income housing. When you see tent encampments on the same block as a new luxury apartment, the contrast hits you quick.

Recall Gavin Newsom

In Boston metro area, $3500+ for 2 bedroom. 4000+ for 3 bedroom.

Rent without right to property needs to be ILLEGAL!!!!

If you go downtown, prepare to see a lot of tents. That's how bad it is.

The folks featured are truly homeless and would do anything to not be. The street folks are a different matter.

I grew up in LA County but left years ago. Since then I've lived all over the country, nowadays I'm about to buy a brand new home in Albuquerque that I could only dream back in LA. There's a world outside of LA and it's just as beautiful as LA use to be.

How can this happen in this day and age

For every tear that is shed by a tenant, that you see in this video, there is a tear that is also shed by a landlord. Landlord’s ALSO has had their life turned upside down by a ruthless tenant.

I moved to chevy express 3 years ago and I really love it , dont want boring apartment anymore and no rent

It is so sad that this is happening to people

Is this " gentrification"?

I’m so sorry to hear how you had to move because your new landlord can’t understand the value of good people are good tenants

the owners of the rental properties know they can rent the units for more money. and since they own the property they can evict you within 60 days. I see no way that the renter has any rights at all. It is the private property laws of the US granted to the oweners by our constitution

People are coming to Nashville TN. with dreams of a better life and finding out it full of 10 hr. jobs with 1,000 mo for one bedroom apt. Good luck horrible

My LA rental kept me too happy too long. They had on site live in managers and repairman on site all day. So of anything went wrong they were right there to fix it; immediate service. It was a nice unit when I moved in, with a huge park across the street that you could also bike around. It was great until rent increases drove out all the working renters, then it became noisy, filled with partying, inconsiderate subsidized students and problem kids parents paid to live away from them. This is when I realized the acoustics were horrible. Then the park filled up with homeless. The park was why I was there, so I bought a place outside of the valley. I didn’t do it sooner for a lot of reasons and I did get the best lot when I did. The only best time for me to have bought in the valley is when I got there or soon after because it’s cyclical and rents and homes tanked in 2008, I got there in 2009 but had to learn the area. Now forget it, you just can’t get enough for the money but it is cyclical in socal and can drop again. Even in expensive areas I was shocked to see that plenty of apartments don’t have dishwashers or laundry, same thing with condos. I will never live without a dishwasher, and in a purchase will not live without laundry in the unit. At this point in life I won’t live without laundry in a rental again. In other areas this is considered way behind the times by many decades.

How does a tenant not know what a month to month lease is.

How do rent prices double in

If you want affordable housing the government needs to relax the cost of building. To build anything in San Francisco the permits cost more than the actual building. The government of California doesn't want anything to change. The government cut off the supply so the price goes up. If you make permits so expensive, you can't make money building small apartments, you have to build luxury complexes because only the rich can afford to shoulder the permit costs. If you dont want someone to come in and tell you this isn't your house then buy, don't rent.

Don't live inner city. Go rural, totally affordable

Get the feeling that leaving California is not an option, it is a necessity.

What happened to the Mom and her daughter?? Where are they now??

THIS IS ALL BY DESIGN THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT

It's due to a lack of housing supply, not due to "relaxed laws". Stricter laws have been found to increase homelessness because landlords are more reluctant to rent out to higher risk tenants.

This problem is directly related to flat wages in this country.The 2 bedroom house that I rented in (St Pete FL) back in 1994 was $450 a month today it rents for around $2600. That is a 570% increase in 26 years. Adjusted for inflation and other economic factors wages in this state have remained flat.I don't need in depth reports from the govt or major universities. These are the facts derived from basic math and living in this city for 30 years. Corporate profits continued to increase,taxes are at record lows for the top ten percent and income for the working and poor class has remained flat of increased in the low single digits at best.

The biggest problem that these people have is that they have a sense of entitlement the second is that they haven't learned to defer from gratification.

I was speaking to a girl friend of mine her mother-in-law is going to Denmark to clean out her deceased mother's apartment in Denmark when you're born you are given an apartment that you will occupy appropriate age. Therefore you will be able to live in said place until the day you die the United States " should consider something like this for their US citizens

They state they won't profit if they build affordable housing.

Nobody thinks about all the wildlife and trees that got killed clearing for apt and houses ect.

I been through it. All

This is happening In Toronto Canada... And getting worse

It's dealt with on a local level but: if such a problem endangers the well-being of masses of people state-wide is not dealt with by using emergency state funds, the problem will spread to a national level. Greedy politicians need to acknowledge their own faults and swiftly make appropriate corrections! They were voted into office for THAT reason!!!

News flash folks this has been going on for over 25 years or more. It's just that it has gotten worse now. Back in the 1980's in Georgia, Doctor's, Lawyers and all kinds of businesses were buying up rental housing and turning them into offices making affordable housing obsolete. I had roommates but finding one that was responsible was hard. Now corporations are buying up apartment complexes and jumping up the rent so high that the average person or poor person cannot afford it. It is a shame that the government is allowing this to happen here in this so called great country.

well it´s a tricky issue because if the people own the building, they should also be able to change it etc, invest, it ´s a legal balancing act