Covering up a problem won't solve it, the lady is right, this is probably the biggest issue in the US. My mom has a college degree works in a lab at MAYO hospital and the second they raise rent or sell her home she won't have any options where to live its terrifying.
Sounds like some budgeting is needed because she probably makes pretty good money. might need to get a smaller place or something that way you don't have to go paycheck to paycheck cuz that's a terrible way to live
@@self3459 Billions to give to illegals crossing the border and their anchor babies. Billions to educate and feed the children of illegals. Nothing for the American people except more taxes and stagnant wages.
Being homeless not only means no adequate shelter. Being addicted, having untreated mental illness, no money for transportation etc. factors into their situation. On the other hand, you have folks working two, three jobs and they still can't afford the skyrocketing rents. It's still a wintery climate especially in the North. It's so cruel to take away the necessities they need to stay warm.😰
If only you looked at facts and not feelings. Those people with 2 or 3 jobs don't have skills for 1 good/great one. And addiction is one's own fault, and being homeless means that 99% of them gave up and didn't want to be part of society anymore. That's on them
this is unfair totally unfair considering that the the first inhabitants to ever inhabit NY lived in tents yes they were homeless...... where does this governor want all those people to go..... is this governor getting his orders from Putin because what he is doing is undemocratic...... it's time for Americans to unite and defend the right of the underprivileged
They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly.
@@MADOUT_VPS how and why the hell would anyone choose to be homeless? Sometimes unfortunate circumstances happen that may or may not be in their control. That's like saying a cancer patient chose to get cancer.
@@Squee_666_9 I have dealt with being on the verge of homelessness my entire adult life. I was for 4 months and lived in my car. I am autistic (it's called Asperger's outside of the US). People don't understand me. I am bullied and mocked by relatives, coworkers, and complete strangers. I say that to say the issue is so much deeper and complex than anyone wants to acknowledge. It's more than just building housing for people to live in. And the people who want to get upset the most about homelessness don't offer any solutions. We could have free housing and some people would still be homeless.
Throwing out their tents is so cruel. That's their only comfort and shield from the weather and a sense of security. Why not let them move? So incredibly wasteful too, they're just going to have to have someone donate them another or steal it (which I don't blame them), thus costing tax payers even more. They need to set aside a piece of land or build something like a parking garage where people can set up tents that won't "bother" people or be a "eye sore".
Democrat ran state and city. They always preach about helping those in need but take a close look because in reality, this is how they take care of them...
@@fuchkyouhtubhe2936 yeah.. they want to be on streets cold at night, chances of dying, no food or clothes or anything. it’s not like ppl ask to be in those situations. they can’t even help! “ there is no plans for suitable housing for the homeless”
Sometimes I used to forget that I'm so lucky that I 've a home, nice parents and I could eat thrice a day. And many people can't even afford these basic needs.
This is so heartbreaking. They’re already dealing with so much and shelters fill up quickly and it can be hard to find a place to stay when there’s no plan to help these people 😕
I used to go to college and seen people with amputations, and people with no vision, going to college. There should be no excuse to get up, and change your life for the better.
@@HK-ve1wg They can’t really go to college. Imagine tripping like trippy red. That wouldn’t work out to good. I found that out after doing some quick maths.
Escaping poverty among the physical barriers is difficult, but with the added emotional toll, it’s almost impossible. It’s not as simple as we’d like to think. - Terence Lester
New York city has the highest freaking rent I've ever heard of people paying in my entire life! People spend more and more on rent for smaller and smaller Apartments. It's absolutely disgusting how the city has treated the people that need the help the most
@@rochester3 ye bro there's totally not other things to worry about in the country,that take up more money,the $500 mil shld be totally used to treat poverty,FK the other things n war that's going
Let's throw away the little shelter and things they have with no plan to get them any help. Now they're still on the streets, still homeless but even worse off then before. Good job NY😒
They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly. They don’t want the help they’re offered they wanna get high in a tent in a major urban center
For everyone complaining about this, you're more than welcome to invite homeless people into your OWN home. Since you care so much and dont want to see them in the streets.
Letting strangers into your home is dangerous and only a short term solution. They need to have affordable housing and a job that can put food in their mouth & a roof over their head. This is the GOVERNMENTS responsibility to provide this
I mean I was nearly attacked twice when I lived in NYC because of mentally unstable homeless camped outside, then I heard someone got stabbed by one 2 blocks away from me on the A train. It's sad but the city needs to crackdown on these issues, and yes - provide an avenue for the ones that want to get help... but not a lot do.
@@DY-td3ku well you know a lot of homeless people weren't born in nyc. They migrated there. And then they can't afford the rent but don't leave. What do you expect when you move to a city where rent is 2k a month? I want to live in nyc but I know I can't afford it... so I don't move there.
They’re getting arrested not going to jail lol they’ll go to the precinct where the arresting officer is from for a couple of hours and then to central bookings. Not jail lol 😂
@@kickrocks7216 even worse! At least jail is roof & housing. Gonna fine them? How about a bus ticket to someplace warm? All they own could prob be carried. This is an atrocity.
They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly.
This makes me so sad bc no one knows how most of these people ended up on the street in the first place. No one but them know their story. The fact that the mayor is like "they can't be living in these unsuitable circumstances" makes me so angry. First of all I can almost bet ever $ I have that most of these people didn't wake up one day and choose to be homeless. Secondly by taking the only thing they have as far as a home and throwing it away or into a dump truck and expecting them to live any better just blows my mind. Last but not least how dare the city take away the only shelter these people have and basically in a nut shell say "figure it out bc we're not going to do s*** to help you in any kind of way". Makes me sick to my stomach that other human beings can treat fellow human beings like literal garbage. The mayor surely wouldn't like it if all the homeless came to his home and started taking things out and throwing them in the trash/dump truck. Praying for you all in this time of need. Please be safe out there.
I know! They move to NYC hoping the city will solve all their problems. They can't afford the rent they already knew was high. Some struggled and gave up and others just hoped the city would give them what they needed. Newsflash: don't move to a city you can't afford. Especially when you KNOW rent is 2k$+ month. Just bc you're homeless doesn't mean you shouldn't follow the laws like the rest of the world. Want to live in a tent? Go move to a campground
As a teenager I had a car with a blown engine, for that I didn't plan to renew the tag until I could afford to fix it. It wasn't even beat up looking, but after 3 months of sitting on the lawn, somebody complained and they put a lien on my parent's house so I had to end up junking the car. It felt so unfair (especially at that age) that I lost my possession because it was "uncomfortable" to someone's vanity. And that was just a car. I can't imagine how it would feel to be in these people's position. They barely have anything as it is, and even that little bit gets stripped away from them. I do understand the situation has grown out of control and I don't have the solution, but this route just seems like too much, too abruptly. I at least hope there's some accountability to where they can get their stuff back from storage. Sadly though, I'm doubtful of that.
It's a fact...what they're not telling you is that most homeless people don't want to live in a homeless shelter because shelters have a strict no drugs policy and they rather do their drugs.
Yes and no. A lot of horrid things go on in those shelters aside from drugs. Besides, they know they can go so them somewhere else and come back. It really is unsafe for a lot of people at shelters......and for the people who work them, too. Rape is a HUGE concern in many shelters that isn't talked about a much as it should be.
@@debibarrington4697 this better be satirical 😂😂😂. First off isn’t an apocalypse where there’s a city and then there no man’s land. Everywhere in the United started is owned by some city or town etc. Not to mention how dangerous that would be, having junkies right outside a city? It like have a prison without any guards, just letting the prisoners do whatever they want. You know what’s gonna happen? People will get desperate and all hell will break lose.
@@eritreasunshine You don’t think the world would be a better place if the world had empathy, unlike someone like you? Why make people’s lives WORSE? It doesn’t stop people from being homeless!
They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly. They’ve tried to work with them but they feel entitled to be living in the biggest most expensive city in the US
The mayors idea of clearing up homelessness is by throwing away people's belongings. As a mayor of a city, you're suppose to make it better, not make it worse.
Then tell employers to stop asking for experience and not training people to work to build homes or else home prices and rents will keep rising to fast out of control cause not enough housing is being built
Take matter into your hand and have them move into your own house or maybe you could create a schedule like an appointment you could give them or let have a bath to prepare them for interviews but you'll need money to recover there birth and ssc# good luck over 30 dollar for one Action speak louder then words
As a an Ex New Yorker who left the country, I’m heartbroken watching this from a far, what’s going on in New York and in the states overall. I miss the days where we cared for eachother as New Yorkers. Even New Yorkers in power who truly cared for the city and the people. This is disgusting. How dare they toss their belongings. All they have, and not offer these people an alternative. Heartbroken.
They had to do this behind where I work it was a field full of garbage and tents and people overdosed back there almost everyday.. So nice to be able to go out for a smoke without being harassed for spare change or a "extra"ciggerette.. They got straight up hostile when you said no and I couldn't cuz I would get fired losing my job ain't worth helping them 🤷♂️
He needs to first have a plan on where these people will go before he orders this clean up. It’s not right to do these cleanups if the homeless people have nowhere to go.
They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly. There’s a plan, they just don’t wanna get sober
i work as city maintenance in a different state and I can say, from both aspects it’s a on going problem, these people need places to stay that don’t affect the city as far as having needles, biohazard waste, rotten food, bed bugs, etc. festering amongst popular streets and communities.
@@happyguy801 Or help them with a shelter Or by giving them a place to work Or help with mental illness Or help with drug addiction But no, the only possible thing we could do is let them move in with us. How about you move in with them?
@@Ii-vr1gj They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly.
They need to stop bothering these people, especially the ones with serious mental issues. All this does is send them scattering agitated and with nowhere to go. A guy tried to punch me in the face on the street the other day as I was out on my lunch break. Nothing said, just swinging out of nowhere. Disrupting them does nothing but put them and everyone else in danger.
Anyone have any ideas on how to improve this situation? Im just reading a lot of complaints on how cruel of an action it is. Anyone willing to step up in your own city or town if you're not from NYC to be of assistance on some level? Or do you all just want to complain from your $1000 phones? Lots of places out there that could use volunteers and or donations.
@@Grant-co5ef I donate to my local homeless shelter and my phone is old and used. Got it for $50 from a Dr I worked with. I'm not into high tech items but that's beside the point. I'm just observing that too many people want to complain about the the state of our society while simultaneously never doing anything to help improve anything. Affordable housing would be a good start. But then we have the mental health issues that come with many homeless individuals. Do we just add more taxes to working people to house them? Lots of things that need to be figured out. But simply put, help your own community the best you can then branch out more if able. Whatever is dear to your heart, help in that area. Sitting comfortably and typing "that's so wrong and sad" isn't going to help anyone.
... this needs to stop, people can't be fighting to stay on the street, fight for housing, fight for a better life. You can't stay on earth and let this be the life you lived, leave NY, go to better and cheaper states...
Clearly you've never had to struggle to survive in your life the cost of living and housing is much more expensive nowadays and not even minimum wage enough to cover it there's a lot more issues at play moving to another state won't solve anything because they will still be homeless and jobless
Theres is social help programs miss, they just don't want the run around to look for their necessary paperwork and attend hearings. They just don't want to do "work" to get the help
? You can’t help people who’s aren’t willing to change. Not to mention that the threat of all our nuclear war is much more important t then a homeless problem. You wanna know why América spend so much on their military? Because Russia and China spend more. If we don’t have equal manpower to them. There’s no doubt they will begin attacking and doing things. They slowly have already.
Taking and throwing away there only shelter/tents is so wrong in many ways. And they need to pay the homeless back with money or get a big tent for them since they damaged there’s. This breaks my heart.
@@boobalooqwe4687 your ignorant and yes some homeless people do by those tents by saving what money is given to them. And if you don’t like what I put don’t be putting stuff on peoples comments lol
Damn. I didn't know there was a big difference between cleaning up homeless encampments in LA and NY. People really care about the homeless in NY I guess, not here...🤷🏽♂️
@@Phiery Shouldn't have been homeless people like that in the first place. USA is the most powerful first world country or so I'm told, should help them not have to be homeless in the first place.
Homeless and poverty could be solved tomorrow if the government would take responsibility for it. They arguably cause it by allowing discriminating employers to just ignore them and not hire them while hiding behind freedom to hire who you want that gives too much room for discrimination and the poverty it causes. Not to mention the lack of transportation that contributes as well when there could be a program that partners with buses and cab companies to provide transportation through the exchange of vouchers or electronic benefits no different than food stamps. A person's productivity is pretty limited without transportation.
If they were suitable, they would be hired. Private businesses have the right to decide who to hire. People should take responsibility for themselves and their community, rather than expecting the government to do som
THENN YOU GO HIRER THEM YOU GO LET THEM LIVE AT YOUR HOUSE SINCE ITS SUCH A BIG ISSUE. YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT AND OFFER NO SOLUTIONS BUT SOME RACE BAITING TIRED AS HELL RHETORIC. YEAH THAS A GOOD ONE OFFER A PROGRAM SO TAXPAYERS BE PAYING MORE WHILE YOUR PROBABLY ONLY 20YRS OLD AND LIVING WITH MOM STILL
@@jonathanmccain8646 that's the point. If the people aren't taking responsibility for the community and the impoverished in it then the government has to step in. People complain about things like affirmative action and how it's not fair but what led to it? The "freedom to hire" probably led to it. Time and time and time must have went by to where the government had to step in I guess. Or not. I'm no history major but I'm willing to bet that was it.
This is disgusting disgraceful cruel that’s the only home they have SHAME on the city who have done this it’s your duty to protect and help vulnerable people 🤦🏼♀️👎🏻
I feel bad for them but at the same time these people need help and not to be on curbs doing drugs and laying around , for the people who's saying this is disgusting, your right it is because walking down the streets seeing people just laying around attacking people and doing drugs in a tent is tragic and disturbing. If the people don't like it , let one of them come stay with you
@@daniboy4153 They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly.
Problem is, they won't take it. We had a motel here taken over by 96 homeless people. When they broke it up all were offered housing. You know how many took it? 1. Just one person said they would go. You can't do drugs and be in those homes. So they really don't want the homes.
The city was clean and beautiful back in 2012. Then they let it become a 💩hole. It sad to me and mind blowing that the people that live in the city aren’t upset about what is happening there.
It was my dream when I was 18 years old to move to US I'm Saudi Arabian guy now I'm scared to move there it's totally scary to live in the street 💔 we don't have that kind situation in Saudi Arabia
What if instead of arguing with police, the "homeless advocates" opened their doors? Or helped transport the individuals to shelters that have the space for them?
They have to offer them shelter, they have plenty of room, but you can’t use in the shelter. These people would rather be on the street than get sober sadly.
ITS HARD OUUTT HERREEE THE STRUGGLE IS REAL AF I honestly feel so sorry for these people like renting and housing have gone up so much its so depressing and overwhelming it makes me very depressed because I'm currently trying to find a apartment and it's very hard plus gas has gone up
these two mfs have just been repeating these over and over. I'll have you know that most homeless people don't want to go to a shelter since the shelters forbid them from doing drugs so they'd rather do drugs then have an actual roof over their heads. besides ain't like I want a dangerous drug addict around
this is unfair totally unfair considering that the the first inhabitants to ever inhabit NY lived in tents yes they were homeless...... where does this governor want all those people to go..... is this governor getting his orders from Putin because what he is doing is undemocratic...... it's time for Americans to unite and defend the right of the underprivileged
This is so sick and twisted America is a developing nation in my eyes, we can’t even adequately provide housing to our citizens instead we choose to sweep them under the rug as if they don’t exist, the fact that they threw their tents away makes me want to cry, for what?! To make life more aesthetically pleasing for the upper class?!?!? This is vile
A developed nation isn't allowed to have homeless problems? get real and stop living in a fantasy land. These people probably eat and live better then most "middle class" of actual developing nations
taking their only possessions won’t fix this. as someone who has lived in Venice, CA, I can testify to how difficult it can be for residents living amongst unhoused, mentally ill addicts. it can definitely be frightening. that being said, i have also met some wonderful unhoused people who want nothing more than to become functioning members of society again. an encampment near me in Westchester, CA, recently was removed. I thought they had all been displaced and was horrified, as my university often being feminine hygiene products and other necessities there to offer some form of help. turns out the city actually, FINALLY, moved them all to permanent housing- in the form of tiny homes, as in trailers within a community of their own with internal resources and food available. AMAZING, incredible work, and major props to whoever made this happen. New York, take notes.
You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped. There is no wining to this problem. I just know I’m tired of homeless breaking into stuff and stealing things that aren’t theirs
