Great job! I was feeding homeless people in queen street nearly every week from 2008 for 6-7 years, and the ones I've talk to are some of the nicest people your ever meet.
I was homeless for two years and I don’t agree with mumsie saying it’s a hierarchy on the street..I always felt like it was not about that it’s tempt an open book everyone’s allowed in and we all stuck together ya know..anyway enjoyed this vid and I hope all these people find there feet again as I finally did after being homeless and addicted to drugs I finally have my own place now so yeah and I was suicidal but there is light at the end of the tunnel..keep ya head up my kiwi brothers and sisters love from Australia 🇦🇺
I was homeless after a relationship breakup.I became quiet and I was smoking Butt's eating at da soup kitchen here in WGTN and I got sick.i had phycosis. I saw and heard things and I got worse.23 years I was Homeless.I was a loner. Then my daughter txts me after all those years and says she wants to meet.God blessed me. I have a house now thanks to DCM.
basant vimal sharma you have no heart a lot of these people you mention from Fiji, China, India come to New Zealand start a business and rip off their fellow countryman through slave labour and sub standard wages, that is unfortunate. Yes there are some selfish homeless people that do skirt the system because they are lazy, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the vulnerable who have been taken advantage of.
@@grizzsbiz Yep. Interesting how most of these people are brown... racist, much? Alain de Botton talks about how society today is a meritocracy... people are judged on their merits/by their achievements. In past generations, people recognised (bad) luck and heredity had a lot to do with one's circumstances, and those without means were called ünfortunates". Now, people call them losers. It should be pretty obvious that society today, and in the past, has never been a level playing field...
@basant vimal sharma Anyone can become homeless regardless of well off they are, how much savings they had or how much planning they engaged in and that arrogant attitude on you puts high on the karma list to experience exactly what the homeless live with. It doesn't matter how they got there, everyone deserves a place to call home with a roof over their head.
As a child of a single parent home, abused and under fed, I left the home at 16, went straight to the big city and lived on the streets for about 12 months. Ponsonby Park, Grafton Bridge and in and around Auckland Hospital was where I slept. First, id like to thank hard working White people for paying taxes so I could get a benifit..without that, im sure I would have had to do crime to feed myself. Also the Auckland City Mission, they have been there for years and did put me up when it was freezing outside. A lot of peeps on the street are in need of civil societies help, not scorn, we have enough of that inside ourselves. I did manage to pull myself out of this lifestyle and am now a tax payer myself. Good luck out there. ACSK forever.
Haven't been on the benefit in over 9 years but what that lady says at 8:30 is exactly how i feel with regards to winz and why they fail. Was on the dole for about a year during the recession so I had my shit experiences with Winz and was pushed by them into work that I and they knew wasn't gonna last long just so they could add another figure to their "employed" numbers. Winz would then have a stand down period because i left on my own terms before i could apply for the benefit again which is where for some people the financial struggles would begin, eventually leading to them being thrown on to the streets
@@tagaEskinita I havnt been on the benefit for over 13+ years. I now make 6 figures working as a project and construction manager and my views about the flaws in the system still stands
Well i useto get pushed off the benefit but yet i know people that that have never had a job in there life but they dont push them into work back to front place everyone should be treated the same if u dont want to take the job they offer then they should cut benefit i think winz is a shit place where i knew i wasnt going to be on dole for long but would kick me off the benefit every week
There’s a difference between becoming homeless & choosing to be homeless. I walk past some of these homeless people most mornings, they get high/drunk and get into fights right outside these buildings all day not bothered to get up and look for help/work.Yes winz is useless at times but they can help you get into work at least if you choose to accept the help &do the long yards , that includes going to all the appointments, job interviews and attending courses. You will eventually get there but YOU HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO STAND UP AND DO SOMETHING.
difference? no, both are mental states...i wouldnt wish homelessness on anyone even from making bad choices or drug and alcohol addiction or a challenging upbringing that included psychological, or physical abuse....azile freedom...i would wish it on you though, you have no idea how incidents, accidents, child abuse, financial illiteracy, bad decisions affects even the most strongest individuals...you need to go through affliction and financial ruin to understand how the MIND is fragile especially when a child....even in adolescense and every person that ends up homeless was at one time BORN in a hospital but not every person recieved whats needed to survive in this cruel world even for the first five years of life.... this world can be so cruel that it would turn any person into a judgmental, self centred, unkind, unmerciful, ignorant blockhead....the misdistribution of wealth in this world is not only cruel but deliberate....wake up
@@regrangihuna7319 I lived on the streets of Onehunga for 3yrs and raised 2 large dogs also on the streets, I knew most of the homeless there including one who died in the local cemetery above Onehunga countdown, some as you say are like that,many homeless really do have it easy,fed by Sally's, people bringing over food, some would sit outside countdown and make $70 after afew hours then spend it on alcohol, I was working and slept in my vehicle so not once put my hand out, the tenants in one of the apartments use to continuously ring the dog pound ,there was never a good relationship between us and them beneficiaries in the apartments as I think we lived better, I've been amongst homeless and seen some shit , ive been places so dark and climbed out, I dont pity homeless, some are there because for now they're happy being there for now, some need help, for me after 3yrs I needed to find a home for my dogs, living in a home seems highly overrated and if I found myself back on the streets I could easily fit right in, my dogs I brought them into this life and I will care for them until they pass
Even with a job the median house price in Auckland is $1.1million and there is a housing shortage going on. Its alot more common being homeless in this country then you think but most live in their cars waiting for a house.
So true . No one is going to light a fire up under your butt and make you do something. No one is coming to give you a promotion. You have to be willing to do the mahi , stop complaining and grind daily. I was intrigued by the last lines of your comment , that is why I’m writing this. But I’m aware a lot that not everyone is like this. They ( some homeless) may have made wrong decisions or mentally just not equipped which is why there is plenty more that needs to be done for the less fortunate.
Open up the marae's in Auckland for our homeless! Actually all the marae's around the motu should open their doors to our homeless! A majority of marae around the motu have received funding to fix their marae, so it is now time to give back!
fk you on.....open up our church charities, leeching of the comunity, building rest homes, for the elderly's estate's, building and investing in commercial buildings for profits and telling us, ''when an emergency occurrs we will sell them, how did that work out during the lockdown. or the earthquakes, did you sell, or just gave the donations you were given. There's a good chance our marae's would be used for the benefit of scrupulus bastards, maori and pakeha, so nah, its an entity to be protected, what we are experiancing is corporate, political and christian scamduggery against maori!! if this country had a worthy charity, its not fkn churches, it's our childrens hospital, ronald mcdonald house and cancer society, who invest the money they get for what they say! all the rest...depend on homelessness, mental health and that...to make money!!!
That lady whom lost her Husband has ptsd and no one in the Whanau clicked? That truly is sad because it is Grief. Aoteroa the land where butter is gold and so is milk , meat, our OWN vegetables and fruits. Aoteroa the land of to much immigration and our people suffer. Disgusting, heartbreaking and it's rich vrs poor End of.
I stayed with this lady FLOSS. She had a home from HNZ, she let anyone in from the streets. They would argue, fight & drink if they could everyday! Her & a few of the streetys would busk to get their daily habits. She found living on the streets safer than her own home, I spent 2 weeks @ hers & I was glad to have found my own place with freedom, not a feeling of been robbed well paying a ridiculous amount of board to see no food.
Wow i loved this video i did an assignment on social justice an human rights regarding tangata whenua in Auckland that are homelessness alone is 60%-70% now. Not only on the streets but in cars an transit from place to place. it saddens me that the government are only now doing something about this issue. floss korero was amazing i tautoko what she has to say shes very on to it.
What can I do to help? I live in North Canterbury. I have a spare bedroom but there is not much in the way of jobs. I have a car but cannot drive but am close to two country towns . I have help with meals and gardening but it is minimal. Perhaps there is someone that can help,us both ?
The best thing would be to put a limit to the number of immigrants coming to NZ every year. NZ' s economy is not so great, there is no need to hundreds of Asian immigrants.
What can ya do. They are all running from something. Hiding from pain. Avoiding dealing with terrible life events. Hiding from normal society. There is places they can get a bed. But there you can't drink. And there's a bunch of people there. And they would rather live in solitude or with one or 2 street friends most of them.
tubestick00 Depression. We can help if they allow us to.... but they are customed to this lifestyle. the longer they can survive on very little the harder it is to go home.
Manzar Maxx you obviously have never travelled around the world. Compared to other major cities we are not that bad. London. Tokyo. Hong kong. Vancouver. New york. Paris. They are all expensive. They all have expensive real estate and cost of living. And honestly the general quality of life is as good here as anywhere. Most places around the world are absolutely no comparison to anywhere in nz. They would absolutely love to come live here.
Agreed.. It’s terrible to be homeless and it’s because the balance of society is not being addressed .. almost anyone with brains can see Many solutions .. mine is to bring back the Marae all over.. surround it with organic farms where people can work and create better living solutions than sprawling urban one family houses .. ya na ??
That is exactly right, I'm all for migrants coming in and contributing to important sectors but when they come in and take the low skill low paying jobs that promote growth over time it really affects the availability of key roles to those who are seeking for those jobs! It's not being racist hits hinting immigration to prioritize important sectors! If you're going to come here and take over a kiwis entry job then you better have a good reason! That's the problem.... Cool, doctors, lawyers, fine dining restaurant staff, high important tourism and hospitality rolls, bachelor + students going into these high skill roles above those are the only rolls that should be prioritized to overseas migrants.
I try to understand their situation, I'm not a native English speaker with student Visa who can only work part time and I could find a job and decent home and food also I pay taxes here, I just survive with my weekly pay, I don't understand why this people who can speake English perfectly and have the support from many organizations, no only the government live in the streets ... I know some of them have mental issues but not all of them... where I am from the people who are living in the streets just have a few choices for get out of their situation....
All the bless to nz Aus amirica ny all the bless to people who can't afford the house the food the warmth i will bless everyone even the bad i will make the see evil does not solve everthing
It starts with your mindset. How can a poor migrants from poor country migrate to New Zealand & Australia do so well. Because they see opportunity. How can some disable people I see at some work places aren’t homeless? Because they ignore their disabilities but go to work. I saw a courier driver with one arm turned up to work everyday. I saw a lady on a wheelchair turned up to work at a retirement village everyday. How many disable people do you know they work? There are many successful people who used to be homeless around. Well, there is nothing wrong with you, if you stop blaming others and get up, go and look for opportunity, it will come. I was in your place before, sleep in cars, boarding houses but not giving up on wanted to live in a better life. You can always turn your life around, no matter what. You can always bounce back, if you DECIDE to take action and make a change.
They're all just plain useless, I know I use to be one of them and we all use to smoke synthetic. It was a dumb booring heart wrenching life in which i regret doing. But when I hustled I use to gamble it all and make hundreds in just 30 mins and if i didnt win i use to beg some more and gamble all that until i won heaps. But I had my degree before I went out on the streets and now I'm back in the workforce making heaps of money which I thank God for and I'll never do this stupid s*it anymore and I'm glad I'm off the drugs. I have always loved my designer wear and my fashion and I'm glad that I'm getting back into it again. 😄
Winz gives them about $220 a week, Auckland rent for a studio apartment is about $350 a week and min wage for a 40hr week is about $600 a week after tax then you have to pay for power, water and food. Move to the provincial areas the quality of life is far better than that struggle
I mean I don't wanna sound lile Marie Antoinette, but I'm a backpacker since 3 years I worked more then I travelled couldn't even speak english very well, I do a lot of jobs which are pretty unpleasant, lived in the car for a month in auckland city and I'm pretty happy btw and I'm capable of not just surviving I'm saving 400 to 500 bucks. I watched this video because I try to understand who this people ended up like that but if I hear the reason I feel like this was all more a choice or protest instead of they are forced in this situation. I think I will offend some people here but I'm always listing if someone has a good point.
You say you try to understand but yet all you see is flaw not reality I have been out in the streets in the city so I know the struggle first hand it suck to bee cold it sure is hell not a good feeling to be hungry I was an alcoholic and a thief never a beger it took alot for me to get out of the street life only by luck was I able to escape
Good on you Steve! Hope all is well with you and your family. I think the difference is our culture Us as Maori or Polynesian Living in a western system is like apple and orange to us Jobs, money, all these materialistic things, is something that we are not used to, but had to get used to it and it has changed our people Now, that its 20th century We are living like foreigners but not as own Not all of our people are like this, some are more successful than others But for others Especially up in the Far North It's a bit different
I have been here,, I m really sorry guys,, everyone's on drugs,,I feel really hurt for all human beings here,,I know i5s so cold in auckland...I m sorry,, as a highly educated person,, all I want is to help people...fuck everything
I've seen so many walking around Auckland the sad effects that they suffer people walking passed them with not even a hello they are our people they might not have a house or money but they are to be loved like any normal person my heart goes out to all homeless and just keep believing there is going to be some good that happens we ain't national anymore let's do this jacinda!! She's got the heart for our country a change is coming
Are you serious about Jacinda? Yes, change is coming, we will be overrun by refugees and things will change and get a lot worse for us kiwi's.Jacinda is turning this country into a 3e world shithole.
John Key got to go hahahahaha. Well, how's jacinda and labour working out for you lady? Maybe you can ask a somalie refugee for a job cleaning their house. Jacida just told us that her priority will be somalie refugees and not us kiwis.
Bullshit, its because of National that our homeless are where they are! Labour is trying to rectify what fuckn National did 9 years in government, all they did was make the rich richer and the poor poorer!
thats a very shallow response, and not the issue at hand at all. If a kids sitting on a bench freezing, and they ask for a jacket cos they're cold, You don't look back at them and say they're wrong, and it's colder in Canada, harden up. lol, for fucksakes, open ya brain bud. comparing shit like this doesnt fix the problem, so where do ya get off.
Thanks to previous governments that caused the housing crisis. The problems only going to get worse unless we fix this once and for all. Do it for our next generation. It's not this generations fault at all!! they're like this, yet they blame themselves when the government put them in these depressing states they can't coupe with and recover from, homelessness is all they know what to do. Give people jobs and fix the housing problem!
Regardless of where you come from, what childhood you grew up in, its YOU who CHOOSES what LIFE you WANT! Want to be a millionaire? GO AND WORK HARD FOR THAT BUISNESS! People have little dreams that DONT make them MOTIVATED! HARD WORK BEATS TALENT! - You got this my Whaanau. Arohamai stay strong.
Easy to say when you have a roof over your head, 3 square meals, people who care about you. It's hard for these people to move forward in life while worrying about how to feed themselves. But that obviously you know nothing about
8 kids with a roof, clothes and 4 round meals a muthafckn day. I didn't get here by wading in my depression. I put my hand out and started reaching for opportunities to get my family and I outta the shit I had put us in. This BS " we need the jobs that we want" type fckn attitude isnt fckn helping. How's about, take that shit job till you can get what you really want. We can only help those who want to be helped.
Your not kiwi, chap wait unitl your families been here a few generations. Winter isn't hard there compare to Central Otago or Southland. The ambient temperature is so much higher. They need to get out of town. Get away from the BS, no money but a few seeds and a set place makes a big difference
to azilefreedom...difference? no, both are mental states...i wouldnt wish homelessness on anyone even from making bad choices or drug and alcohol addiction or a challenging upbringing that included psychological, or physical abuse....azile freedom...i would wish it on you though, you have no idea how incidents, accidents, child abuse, financial illiteracy, bad decisions affects even the most strongest individuals...you need to go through affliction and financial ruin to understand how the MIND is fragile especially when a child....even in adolescense and every person that ends up homeless was at one time BORN in a hospital but not every person recieved whats needed to survive in this cruel world even for the first five years of life.... this world can be so cruel that it would turn any person into a judgmental, self centred, unkind, unmerciful, ignorant blockhead....the misdistribution of wealth in this world is not only cruel but deliberate....wake up
Ask yourself why you are sleeping on the street while somali refugees are given nice new homes? You have to beg for food while somali refugees load up 2 shopping trolleys and use our tax money to pay for it? You walk everywhere while somali's are given a brand new car on arrival.Thank you jacinda and peter for putting somali's first and Kiwi's second. 715 million dollar in aid for afrika while our people sleep on the street! We should not give one dollar of our tax money to any other country as long as there is one Kiwi in need!
the reason ahh am homeless and living outside is cause ahh fighting too destroy the 1992 compulsory mental health act. these cunts force folk too take deadly drugs and injections which kill most maoris. iff you want too help me with this total war ahh am doing then contact - Prophet/seer sean O'Dwyer. 140 hobson street. Auckland city. 1010. new Zealand. South pacific. N.B. iff ah can noy destroy the dogs in this life then ahh will get them in the next.
N.B. Every-one in new Zealand is under this evil german Act @@@ 1992. A.D. and other Acts that are Totalilirian are comeing in too New Zealand./ Aotearoa too make more evil burdens on folks here. I will not tolerate this on my Watch. nor should you dear reader.
There is work in New Zealand for people that want to work..fruit pickers are in big demand..come to a smaller town...work here in the King Country @ meatworks...bus drivers ( they will train you)..resthomes desperately need caregivers..get off your arse & stop bludging off taxpayers.
