Yeah it goes to show that just because you buy your home you don't actually ever really owned it.. these people understand that it doesn't matter where they have to go they will always make a home because home is where you are and what you make it
It’s easier when you don’t have to spend your day panhandling and everything is just given to you. Also because theft is now legal, free materials….and the state funded non-profits will give you free lawyers as well.
@@quercus3290 not jealous at all, I actually do unhoused outreach…. I’d give him credit for what he built but would move him somewhere less visible and with less safety concerns….
@Thats_E Unless you know this person, please don't assume they are addicted to drugs. Many homeless have health issues. Quite a few are actually dying of terminal cancer, unhoused, and that seems like an exceptionally cruel way to go.
@@jennjennsuu When or if they ever relocate these people, they should pay attention to the people who are making livable housing, out of trash. There is obviously a persons talent being put to waste over poverty. Let that person serve society in a better way.
I'm sure they'd be more proud if they had a job and to do that to an actual home and not be homeless. I hope that perspective employers see this and reach out to these people and I think that the city ought to lay off because at least they know right in front of their face they have thrown out so much talent by taking away jobs from people. It may not belong here but what choice did you leave them? They aren't crackheads they're not druggies and not insane they just want to live and be living decently. When you have a city and laws that take away those options and then they lose their job what point are they left to do anything for themselves? Well they will make do with what they have and if not then they fall. These are people who refused to die and take no for an answer. I'm usually against homeless people and encampments because it looks like crap these people are crap and they've been thrown away to the wayside because the system doesn't work for them. your system is broken. This is absolute proof that these people will not let the system break them so I give them kudos thumbs up and all the prayers in the world I hope they are as successful in getting back on their feet because damn it they deserve it that's talent don't be stupid and throw it away
It looks like the people living there may be in the country temporarily, working and sending money home, but with no intention of staying here. They don’t seem like mentally ill/drug addicted folks (their places look too organized), but a majority of LA’s homeless have major problems. Trying to get people who are basically disabled by mental illness and/or addiction to do anything is like herding insane cats.
We all know where it went. Into someone's pocket. Another reason we need less govt. And less taxes. They can't even track what they are soingnwith our money. Disgrace
Don't forget, each billion is 999 Million dollars, plus one more. Sometimes people say "10 billion" and it doesn't sound like a lot, but thats 9,999 times one million. It's an insane amount of money. They could have bought 20,000 houses at 500k
@@infintyplusIt would be for everyone...but that's not the point. These are special interest groups with their hands in local politics. They want to siphon the money to THEMSELVES, nobody else. Or so the story goes.
Leave them people alone. Unless they’re robbing or hurting people let them be. It’s hard in this country now especially. I had a family member that died this year that was homeless. My brother asked me all the time to help him or come get him but I refused. He was in bad health yet I told him get a job or get your life together. Then one night he begged me to come get him and I didn’t . He died alone in the woods that night and wasn’t found for over a month. Now when I see homeless people it hits a little harder than it used to. My guilt overwhelms me often.
You’ve had to learn a very tough lesson on the importance of compassion and helping others. I hope that you use the guilt and shame that you feel for allowing your own brother to die alone in the woods, to change your entire life and personality and become a kind, empathic and loving man. Try reading and/or listening on audio to the book “The Power of Now”. I hope you can change your life around. Being of service and loving others is one of the most beautiful and rewarding gifts of life. I was born into this world knowing that and I help people daily, even many strangers. It gives me great joy. May you know this joy and work to become a new man.
I know that guilt. My mother was an alcoholic, she always wanted to stay at my house. I refused because of her behavior. She died, abandoned and alone.
So sorry that happened to you. I wish you had been able to find a solution that would have worked for both of you. It seems people have lost the art of compromise. I hope you can find a productive, healing, path forward. 🙏
@@landomilknhoney sorry to hear that. It’s hard because I could not bring my brother to my house because my wife and kids and he was the same way. Just didn’t behave in a manner that would be ok around my kids . Yet I still could’ve got my brother a hotel room or found him a place etc . There’s so much I wish I’d done for him.
@@snowygirl131 thank you. I could try to justify it and say he couldn’t come to my house around my kids or wife but I still could have picked him up. Got him a hotel room or find a place for him. Buy him dinner and some snacks. I wish I’d done something.
The numbers are growing. I saw a news report out of Utah recommended to me about a mobile home park where people pay lot rent to keep their mobile homes. May be a rental community. They are being evicted and will be homeless to make way for low income housing that is to be built. In Maryville, TN, a similar situation, but I think the people being evicted there owned their older mobile homes and rented the lot space. They were given 30 days by the new landowner to move their trailers off of the property. They interviewed an older woman for that report. These are people on fixed incomes who've lived there a long time. It would be hard for anyone to up and move without prior notice in 30 days. It's even harder if you're already just trying to make ends meet. Another person commented that some companies won't transport older mobile homes, and some trailer parks won't accept them. These people have to find those who will work with them. I've seen many comments on RU-vid recently from people who have been denied food stamp extensions and are homeless. One person who identified as a Tennessee storage facility manager left a comment about how they are seeing a lot of senior citizens who've lost their housing in whatever form it was and are resorting to putting their belongings in storage while they try to figure it out. I don't know where they are going, but they are trying to hold on to some of their possessions. The person said one woman and her son had nowhere to go. The manager said s/he bought them a tent, foam mattress, and a couple of chairs. A lot of people are struggling right now at the same time our government is paying to bring "newcomers" into the country and provide for their needs with taxpayer $$$$$$.
It's a concern that fire outdoors for cooking close to the structure could burn everything down and possibly kill the residents of the camp in such a closely built area. My city has had fires in camps, luckily no deaths, but they lose everything when their tent goes.
That part gets me when he said he's stealing electricity. If Tesla had won the electricity race, we would all be having FREE ELECTRICITY, but Edison came along & said hey we can charge people for this. Stop being greedy & give to the needy...
yeah he just assumed it. I've seen plenty of homeless people using solar now this guy looks like he works hard wants a home so he is advertising his skills and ingenuity to advertise his proficiency. Landscape mastery? check. Nice siding? Check. Beautiful stone wall? Check. I'm sure this guy works for a living. He has to. But not enough to afford real housing. He definitely takes pride in his lifestyle. Why cant he just have saved up for a solar battery generator setup? Bike NIMBY guy just look at him he's stealing power.
"I can't be sorry for the mistakes they made" He doesn't even know their story, homelessness isn't always a result of bad decisions. People end up on the street for a variety of reasons, some beyond their control.
Facts! A couple months ago i was intentionally going to live the homeless lifestyle because of the alcoholic dramas that go on in my family's household, i just wanted peace and clarity for myself, since than things have gotten allot better at home it's definitely not always drugs n alcohol
@rosemarietolentino3218 I feel you sis! I'm borderline there myself. I have a disability and cannot afford a place. Wait list for low income in always packed or closed for yeaRs. I can't work but folks in comments blame the ones on the streets for being there. Irony is a majority of people are six clicks from this same situation.
I think a lot of us are going to be walking that same route because rents are too damm high and I don't think it's going to get better. So good for that person that built himself a better home 🎉
But if you build an addition on you own yard you need permits and all the necessary fee and requirements or the will red flag your home. Does this make sense?
Just wait until it’s happening in front of your house and then get back to me… someone lived outside my friends apartment and the city couldn’t do anything about it
@@GuyNamedRy People have a right to live if they are decent people with some hiccups in life. We don’t know what these people have been through because it’s not always what you think it is…
@@PassportBrosAndBlondeManWeaves Theres a line when it comes from hiccup and it is a crutch for these people. There are plenty of resources that don’t result in sleeping next to peoples homes. Let’s take the feeling out of this situation and talk about facts. Go to a family members house, try daily to get into a shelter, plenty of programs to help get you off the street. If they arn’t being proactive then they’re just abusing the rules society has.
It's called desperation not a living situation. It's all over L.A. County out into every area of the Antelope Valley. I'm in a smaller population area in the AV and there's tents and people living on the street, you can't go one block without seeing a homeless person walking, sitting, camping.
Right like none of these people actually want to be in this situation. The misconception is that they choose to be out here but the reality is that they have been offered help, or put in a shelter where all of their belongings were stolen and their privacy was invaded. I feel like it's kind of like military veterans. They don't know anything else or they're scared of change so staying as comfortable to them
@@dfirth224 Really? That's interesting. My assumption was that they headed out here to get away from L.A. which is pricer for food, etc. Lot's of homeless from the AV as well. All of this makeshift material to build structures is from illegal dumping by L.A. County residents and businesses. The illegal dumping problem in L.A. is everywhere: sidewalks, alleys, vacant lots, roadsides, etc. From Santa Monica out to the AV, you see it everywhere. And the trash littering the roadsides and hillsides everywhere in L.A. County (bags, wrappers, etc). It's unbelievable to me that people throw trash out their car window, it's a lot of trash.
@@nannerz1994 In Venice they only offered to shelter people with what they could take with them. Bulldozers and refuge bins took the rest. In some cases they offer to store things, in others they don't 🤷. I can see it depending on the item(s). I think these people get stuck in a cycle that's familiar to them and feel threatened by change. I think just about everybody doesn't like change. But change for their own good needs to happen, these are not healthy conditions mentally.
YEP!! They are in fields next to the freeway, camped out in the grassy areas of the freeway on-ramps, over underpasses, on the streets, in vacant properties .. everywhere.
@Zen.Kyokushinkai could you imagine a home owner doing that for and ADU all on his own. They would probably arrest you or fine you 10,000 a day that you have had it.
It might have even had an outlet there already just snip the lock off box with a bolt cutter. Run cords and ground faults so you don't kick out the circuit. Just reset good to go.
'Ah, the ingenuity of human innovation never ceases to amaze! Who needs traditional real estate when you can have a front-row seat to the hustle and bustle of the 110 freeway? This makeshift abode is the epitome of urban living- prime location, minimal commute time, and a constant soundtrack of honking horns and screeching tires. Talk about the ultimate 'tiny house' experience..
Rent is supposed to be $300. a month .For any apartment or house. Everyone has to have a place to live. Greedy landlords property must be seized and returned to normal rent prices. Property tax should be $ 800 a year for any dwelling. Get busy.....
There's probably not a county in the country that if you forced this, they would still even have 1/20th of their budget. Cut the county services first and then you might have an argument
for some reason I thought there were 80,000 homeless in LA. They have 6.38Billion they approved for the homeless, can this guy get some upgrades? Like a swimming pool ........
Reduce rent prices and maybe you can get a lot of people off the street. How are people supposed to come up with $6000 plus just to move into a place . First last and deposit payment is hard for a lot of people to come up with. It’s not all there fault they cannot afford rent.
I live by the 110 freeway & you know what I think. Nothing I mind my own business & you should too.. they don’t want to fix the problem then why look for it
You have zero idea what your talking about. Many landlords are 2nd generation worked their assessment off to buy oneverything income property. After mortgage, home owners insurance and property taxes they don't make much. Work harder like they did and stop complaining.
the fact that the housing market here is cornered and out of reach is nothing new. if it was musical chairs, the uber wealthy already purchased all the spots to suffocate the supply and able to demand ridiculous amounts of money for the location. it's not personal it's business. but yeah, it's market manipulation, just like in the finance sector. manipulating markets takes all the fairness out and makes it a rich man's game. oh well
@@anniebhere2Complete bs. Most property in LA is owned by large corporations that have been raising rent, not doing repairs, making insane profit and using the money to fund politicians that delay or obstruct the construction of new housing thus keeping their monopoly and rents high.
With all the things happening around the world. Y'all choose to bring attention to this man and possibly get his home removed. It's a million news stories, and y'all choose this 😳😑
@@inboxnews yes! We send millions/billions to fight wars. While the people in this country live in places such as in this news story. His electric bill is probably less than $2,000 in a whole year.... 🤦🏽♂️ Try making a news story on how we could end homelessness in America for around 24 billion. Meanwhile we've sent Ukraine & other countries more than 100 billion over the past year or so....
@specialkbgrindin it is futile arguing with these types of people. Imagine being sore about fast food workers earning $20 an hour 😮💨. I'm sure this bozo is one of them. Why aren't they more concerned with gasoline companies hiking gas a few years ago and never bringing them back down to $3 and change? Nah, much much easier to hate on our fellow man. Ridiculous and sad
@@inboxnewsi put together hospital equipment and i can tell you right now,I dont get paid nearly enough. Are you suggesting people work 16 out of 24 hours a day just to survive?
Home is what you make it and where you make it and people understand it and people should understand just because you can afford a mortgage doesn't mean you actually ever own ur home
When cost of living is too high and minimums wages aren’t enough to even rent a studio apartment and immigrants get houses easier than the homeless especially if you Don’t meet the family median of 4, then people have to fend for themselves . California is a mess , Been here my whole life and it’s getting worse and worse by the day with the costs of food and homes increasing and the pay rate not matching the increases , Thus, the struggle that follows makes individuals result to measures that wouldn’t normally be taken . Hardworking people can’t afford to live on their own if they aren’t making six figures , it’s just too much here and it’s affecting everyone .
This world is sick, at least art intentionally placed or not always shines through. Change the world. End homelessness. It's 2024 and we still haven't fixed anything..? What is this?
A lot of people's livelyhood depends on the homeless industry of taking billions in homeless spending and putting it in their own bank accounts instead of planning and creating a solution.
That city should hire that guy to build a bunch of those little homes....I am sure they will only cost about 10-20k if even that much!!! Better than the 600+k the city had set for the construction of each home for the 'homeless'!
@@JimmeShelter I mean they are already 'living' on the streets, why worry about 'safety codes' at this point, plus that guys home seems to be better than some dwellings that have 'passed' safety codes!
@@sonnycusa because when they use a blowtorch to cook their heroin and the structure burns down, they will sue the city for millions because it wasn't up to code. And probably win.
And the crazy part is that people just have this in their mind that just because you don't have a mortgage or at least that you're somehow on drugs making bad decisions or don't want to work and that's not the case look at this home somebody clearly knew what they were doing. Somebody had some skills and people shouldn't be hating the other people found a way to survive in this world
@ac61900 . .and because of the pandemic, people are not making much or nothing, and prices increase everywhere afterwards, especially peps to live.... peps are homeless, including our retirees on set income....
If the person who built that house has enough skill to do that then they have enough skills to get a job and pull themselves out of what ever is holding them down!
That's assuming there are jobs, and that there are people who will hire them. You don't know their entire background. Also, for all you know, they actually do have a job, but the rent is so ridiculously high, they can't afford a place.
@@arvurebantra7639 You don't know either. The point is it's taxpayer, public property and he is stealing electricity. His personal story doesn't concern us but he is trespassing.
@@David53D Is he stealing electricity or does he have a generator? Again, you're assuming things. That piece of land wasn't being used much so why not?
Be ashamed to run a country where the people have to live this way. People have to do what they have to do..because there is no government to look after them.
Precisely. People are quick to talk but this is a government aided problem. All good to help big business buy up all the real estate and drive up rents. People do stuff like this to compensate.
@@Turk_2023 7 to 10 million people crossing the southern border in the last 4 years, all of them need a place to live, of course housing prices are going up.
@TheMillicentgray We all know it is part of a larger problem. God Bless him for bringing light to the greater issue. Millions of people are coming in the border messing it up not for some, but Everyone, themselves included !!!!!! He did not choose that lifestyle. He was forced into it. But, he's doing a great job making the best of it !!!!!!!!!!!!
