Greed, period. Not just corporate greed. Treating housing as an appreciating asset is what causes house prices to outgrow wages. It doesn’t matter how high you increase the minimum wage or health benefits. So as long as real estate is a privatized for-profit sector, so as long as we find it acceptable that house price appreciation should be the foundation of household wealth, there will be homelessness.
Where is wealthy Hollywood and the sports franchises in LA? You can sell a sports franchise for BILLIONS yet not see the need around your stadiums? Why aren’t they funding low income builders?
Homelessness is a business. The faster people understand that, the faster they’ll understand that it’s NEVER going away. Happy to finally be out of California.
Housing is artificially limited to keep prices going up. Mobile homes can easily be built for cheap. RVs are available. Lots of options but no one wants them near their house
They're doing what they're doing in my city every time something comes a golf tournament or something like that they pick up the homeless and they throw them in the shelter somewhere until the games are through that's what
Full time college students are low income-where’s the free or low cost housing for them ? They are helping society significantly more than damaged , addicted homeless people on the streets , so why not help them first/also ?
The people who have a home where they have an apartment or being worked like slaves because they can't even afford their monthly bills they're struggling one day at a time one bill at a time and one a paycheck
Losing one paycheck can put people on the street .. addiction , divorce , illness , death of a spouse ,etc . May Jesus lead those in charge to a terrific program . Because of a difficult economy this can't get better .. prayer and doing what you'd want done for you is exactly what leaders should do .
I don’t live in LA, but what i can see, Karen Bass has attacked some of the major obstacles. It took decades to create this problem, so it won't be an overnight fix, but she does seem to be making progress.
@@Shadowgrey5937 I know that you are a probably bot but what would you do to fix a homelessness crisis that took decades to create that is not currently being done by Major Bass
@hankmike3283 I keep seeing this ignorant comment, the homeless we see on the street are only a percentage of the total homeless population. Many people live out of their cars and have full-time jobs and are NOT drug addicts and don't have mental problems.
They don't fight homelessness. They fight the homeless. Treat the cause not the symptom. Dallas min wage 7.25 hr x 40 hrs =290.00 x 4.5 wks= 1305.00 /3= 435.00 Renter require 3 x rent and good credit. $435.00 mo. rent is maximum you qualify for. 4x rent if you have to pay your own bills (electric,water) 700.00 all bills paid requires you to earn 2100.00 which is more than 10.00 hr. Congress gave themselves multiple raises since last wage increase.
That's absolutely a good point. Interestingly though, the local governments are often the root of the problem. Many neighborhoods in Los Angeles haven't allowed the housing stock to increase since about 1970. Some neighborhoods even have less housing today than they did 50 years ago. And this is due to needlessly restrictive zoning laws that have made building homes illegal on almost every parcel of land in the city.
You will never have a 1 size fits all answer to anything California deals with. The solution for California and it's issues is to not add more policies but to remove past policies that have gotten us to this point. Get rid of the red tape.
There is a huge difference between homeless people on drugs and working people who are struggling to pay overpriced rent and are doing all the right things
Yeah what they never mention with a lot of the free housing you can not smoke, do drugs etc...I am not sure about drinking although I know you can not drink in the shelters as well....I know a lot of them when they find out they can not do their vices leave and go back on the streets...
Finland basically created assisted living for people experiencing homelessness. It is transitional for ,any people, but for those who are unable to take care of themselves, they are able to stay and continue to receive services.
glad to know LA & NYC are making good progress. Here is SF, it's really frustrating, and the mayor and sups seems be mostly incompetent hypocrites. so sad.
In the late 1990s, Los Angeles landlords started getting greedy......and it's never ended since then. The average apartment went from $525 to $825 in just two years, now it's over $2,500, with ages not going up to match that increase. The problem isn't the homeless people, the problem is cities that allow greedy pig landlords to keep raising the rent so the landlords can buy themselves bigger and more beautiful homes and cars.
The best way to get back at landlords is to build an abundance of housing. Flood the market with housing until an apartment becomes a dime a dozen. Then landlords will need to compete for tenants. Right now it's sadly the other way around.
We keep ignoring a lot of elephants in the room: drug abuse, bad decisions, just don't care attitude, mental illness. You can't just throw yourself away like that then expect tax payer money to be a safety net. Its ironic too when you see people risking their lives by walking through the Darien Gap to get here then hit the ground running doing odd jobs working under the table. Some of us Americans are too privilege and waste the opportunities we have been blessed with that others can only wish for. We probably need to have some kinda exchange program. When you start messing up, we have a swap program, a migrant at the border ready and willing to work and you take their place.
People CHOOSE to be druggies and they shouldn't get help for it, when bleeding heart do-gooders need to stop feeling sorry for the homeless and close the soup kitchens and shelters and you'll see how quickly these people start taking care of themselves
Yeah what they never mention with a lot of the free housing you can not smoke, do drugs etc...I am not sure about drinking although I know you can not drink in the shelters as well....I know a lot of them when they find out they can not do their vices leave and go back on the streets...
These people aren’t fixing the problem. They’re just encouraging homelessness. What they should do is make it illegal to campout in sidewalks. They should build homeless shelters and mental institutions in the desert and send them there. Make it mandatory to go there if you’re homeless.
It's not even temporary or anything it's not going to happen it doesn't happen it's only maybe one out of 100 that has a luck of some kind and ends up in a little apartment or something cuz of somebody else not because of the cities all the those plans
Provide them training to support themselves. This is not a solution, but encourages more homeless. NYC is a perfect example. Look at the migrants pouring in.
Yes but also continuous assistance for those who are DISABLED in a WHEEL CHAIR like myself. I do not want to participate in society, I deserve to stay home. I have SEVERE mental health problems that make me go raging and crying in public. If it werent for Section 8, I'd be panhandling right now.
The most important first step for any sort of human relief is getting them food and shelter. So yes, of course there should be job training programs, healthcare, rehab, and mental aid for those who need it. But you can't rehabilitate someone who doesn't have a place to live. Housing is the first step.
THAT PART!!! Finland has proven time & time again that Homelessness is a POLICY choice. Even the far right over there supports universal housing for those that lack it.@@mariusfacktor3597
Look at the untaxed wealth hoarders pouring into NYC, The planet cannot survive their insatiable greed and their supporting, corrupted law makers. Tax the rich. Save the planet.
@@middleagedjabroni people are lazy regardless of having a job or not. I'll bet you work with someone who's lazy on the job. We need Ubi because there's not enough work to go around. AI and automation makes more and more jobs disappear daily. So yes we need Ubi, regardless of your opinion of peoples efforts or lack there of.
The problem is like your title, the fight against homelessness, people using that exact phrases from leadership positions, and those who have supporting roles, when you should be using language, fighting with or alongside…. then we change the dynamics.
Here are the real facts. It's not a homeless problem, it's a drug problem. Most of these ppl are addicts trying to do their substance of choice at taxpayers expense. And they are from other states, so that no one they know can bear witness to their behavior. All the money that goes to homeless service agency needs to be forensic audit b/c we hear from homeless ppl, in L.A all the time, how that money doesn't get to them or most facilities. Those encampments under the freeways are under the jurisdiction of DOT, that's whay I was told when I called the police department.
Lot of misinformation in there. 72% of homeless people in LA County have lived in LA County for more than 20 years. Less than half are drug addicts. Many are elderly, disabled, or mentally unstable. America has a drug problem and unhealthy drug habits often make people poor. Rural Wisconsin just as much as Los Angeles. The difference is that poor people in Wisconsin have access to housing, but in Los Angeles they don't. There simply isn't enough housing in Los Angeles for everybody that's here. Even if everyone was clean, there would still be homelessness.
@@mariusfacktor3597 Great where did you get those facts b/c I spoke to a homeless women who said the exact opposite. She was speaking from her personal experience dealing with other homeless ppl; they are from other states & countries, sell their prescription narcotics, most are in California b/c of the nice weather eventhough they have full families back how is Iowa.
@@peni1641 I got those statistics from two independent reports. LAHSA and CASPEH. I didn't mean to call you out. These are common misconceptions because the homeless people who are most noticeable tend to be on drugs, but there is a much larger set of homeless people that fly under the radar. I pulled up the reports and are some stats: 72% of homeless adults have lived in LA County for MORE than 20 years. 23% of homeless are substance abusers, 30% have mental illness, 17% have physical disability, 7% have a traumatic brain injury, 3% have a developmental disability. (These are not mutually exclusive). 21% first became homeless due to a loss of income. 19% entered homelessness after release from prison. 89% self reported that high housing costs prevented them from finding housing. 86% self reported that a monthly stipend of $300-$500 would help them re-enter housing.
So open boaders does not play a factor for the homeless? I heard that that homeless people get paid more money to be homeless, than to live in shelter, or housing? Is that true? Ive heard that from resudence that live in L A.
P name people from all over the country and what they did was took the homeless people that can afford them out and put movie stars and everybody else inside of those when they
America has a drug problem, no doubt. Drug habits often make someone really poor. But that doesn't necessarily make them homeless. Rural Wisconsin has as drug problem, but drug addicts there still have access to housing. That's the difference. In Los Angeles the poorest 1% or so of people have no access to housing. I don't know how to solve everybody's drug problem. I'm not sure you even can. But solving homelessness is not that complicated. You build enough homes and then everybody can live in one.
🏠 @3:20 ~ When homeless people live in houses that are way bigger and nicer than many people, that’s a problem. So unless there are a lot of people living in that place, that’s a problem to me. I think making tiny homes or tiny apartments is perfect. I feel like a lot of this is about embezzlement or people that are emotional and not logical. First, embezzlement. When you’re building everybody a big house I wonder if you save it off a little bit of money from every square foot to pay the leader of the “nonprofit“. And it would be more difficult to siphon off money if you were just making cheap and tiny places that they could call their own. Second, maybe it’s just these people are emotional. They feel it’s not right to treat somebody who is homeless any different than anybody else, so they want to give them houses in apartments that are equal to an average person. The problem is the longer you take to build nicer places means everybody else has to wait longer. If you just build cheap and simple housing you could make three in the time that you can make one nice big place. There’s nothing wrong with studio apartments. My mom was a traveling nurse that made very good money and she lived in a studio apartment for many years. But now studio apartments not good enough for homeless people?
