The Surprising Way People Become Homeless

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Homelessness is currently a growing problem in the United States. New research shows that many homeless men aren't lazy, but they have suffered serious brain injuries! Join Tara as she reports on this study, and what's being done to help these individuals.
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Study finds almost half of homeless men had traumatic brain injury in their lifetime, vast majority before they lost their homes
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"Almost half of all homeless men who took part in a study by St. Michael's Hospital had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury in their life and 87 per cent of those injuries occurred before the men lost their homes."
Traumatic brain injury among men in an urban homeless shelter: observational study of rates and mechanisms of injury
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"Little empiric research has investigated the interrelationship between homelessness and traumatic brain injury."
The effect of traumatic brain injury on the health of homeless people
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"We sought to determine the lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injury and its association with current health conditions in a representative sample of homeless people in Toronto, Ontario."
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@garnetstone87 10 лет назад

I was homeless for a while(about 3 years). I graduated high school with honors and was making A's in college and was working full time while going to college. So what happened. A terrible chain of events. First my mother came down with cancer and could no longer work. We had no support from our family. So, I had to pay all the bills. Then, I got into a car accident, lost my job, and my car. Did all I could to apply for jobs afterward and used my mom's car(our last car). It died before I could find any work. Mom in and out of hospitals quite often, having to use all of our savings to keep her alive. Then bam. Evicted, in debt up to our eyeballs, no friends, no family, so on the street we lived. Only reason we are not homeless now is thanks to my mom getting disability that didn't go through until 3 years later.

@Klepto84734 10 лет назад

Good to hear that things got better for you. It's always interesting to hear stories like that in countries where the health system basically screws people over like that. I guess we take a lot for granted in Australia.

@garnetstone87 10 лет назад

***** Unfortunately, most people don't end up as lucky as me to end up being able to share their story. Being homeless is a dark place and it nearly killed me many times, literally and figuratively.

@garnetstone87 10 лет назад

blueboi05 It was pure luck my mom got her disability. She only got it thanks to a total stranger who knew how the system worked and fought for her like a dog in court. And he wasn't even a lawyer.

@deluxexwolf3815 2 года назад

That’s crazy your family didn’t support you guys. That’s just unreal

@DiaJasin Год назад

That's horrible, I hope you reassume or you already reassumed studying

@corygunn3 10 лет назад

Currently homeless, older brother kicked me, my mother, pregnant sister, little brother, and her boyfriend from the house because it in his name. Can you trust family anymore?

@dhkatz_ 10 лет назад

How are you messaging?

@DarthScosha 10 лет назад

iLuZiioNz Tutorials Being homeless does not mean you live on the street, it simply means you do not have a permanent residence to call your own.

@corygunn3 10 лет назад

Cloud Strife Nope, we just live in a van parked at a friends house for now.

@corygunn3 10 лет назад

***** Nope there was no argument(Well after of course there were a lot of that), he just did it because he needed a house for his shitty wife he couldn't get a house with anyone(btw got 2 houses and fucked them both up) So now he's taken ours.

@Alphajet101 5 лет назад

Are you still alive??

@MsWannabeGamer 10 лет назад

The idea that people willingly become homeless is just insane and ignores all common sense. People who are about to lose their homes desperately try to keep it. We need shelter, it's a basic human need. It makes sense that most of those who are homeless cannot work for some reason.

@NekoYuki 10 лет назад

My mother's disabled and has been homeless at times, simply because of very bad situations. There's this stigma that people who are homeless are simply vagrants and criminals. I'm disabled myself, and if things went to shit, I to would have the potential danger of being homeless. My mother was recently in a bad situation with a landlord that ran a "ministry" that charged absurd amounts of rent for services that he failed to provide, and he was abusive to all the tenants. Then when busted, he blames the property owner and the tenants. And you know what? PEOPLE SIDED WITH HIM! They said "they obviously did something to become homeless. You should know you're dealing with those kinds of people." FYI, he claimed it to be a homeless shelter and got tax exemptions.

@DarthScosha 10 лет назад

Anyone can work, how do you think we all got here.

@NekoYuki 10 лет назад

Cloud Strife >.> What?.....

@DarthScosha 10 лет назад

Neko Yuki Every single person in this planet is capable of doing something, if you are capable of doing something you can work. Whether it's something small or big. That does not mean we need to work, it's just means we are all capable.

@NekoYuki 10 лет назад

Cloud Strife I happen to have both physical and mental disabilities. Reality isn't as pretty as you wish to see it as.

@CamelFox5291 10 лет назад

The lazyness thing is propaganda from people who have never actually talked to anyone living in these kinds of positions. Anyone who has had a chance to connect personally on a day to day basis would have a better understanding. Maybe rich people are projecting their fear of laziness onto other people? Ever consider that?

@JamesSmith-sw3nk 10 лет назад

As somebody who has volunteered with the homeless this doesn't surprise me at all , I actually had this theory a while ago. At lease 20% of the homeless I dealt with didn't have drug or alcohol problems they just "couldn't function" right.

@Essays4College 8 месяцев назад

Some of them ARE lazy though.

@Pythagoras211 10 лет назад

This is why it's important not to judge people who are on the fringes of society. I'm sick of hearing about how the rich are the height of all human progress and anybody who isn't rich is just lazy.. Oh and not to mention, this also ignores the fact that not everyone can be 'wealthy' at the same time, that's an abuse of the word

@6417893265q784256128 10 лет назад

Truly your own interpretation , nobody says anything like that , but perhaps your own desires and or you consciousness , and i tell you what , dissent of one self in this terms can lead you to become a hippie a kind of 'anarchist' drug-addict who finally ends living on streets , wallah ...

@Cynadyde 10 лет назад

Ed Sm Are you sure you replied to the right comment?

@6417893265q784256128 10 лет назад

Difficult to understand ah ? .

@Pythagoras211 10 лет назад

No actually it's not, you first claim that nobody thinks the rich are the be all and end all and no one thinks all the poor are lazy. Then you accuse me of not being aligned with repressed desire for wealth, and this repression could cause me to be an extremist and I might end up on the street because of it, this is not worth responding to

@6417893265q784256128 10 лет назад

yep difficult to understand ...

@JustAnotherHo 10 лет назад

any study done in Toronto and homeless should note that in the early 90s, we as a province use to have province run metal health institutes, which were shutdown and all the people with metal illness suddenly became homeless. So any study on the homeless are inherently bias to metal illness.

@Linkous12 10 лет назад

While this particular study is recent, the idea that mental health is a huge contributor to the homeless numbers in the United States (and worldwide) is not. The average American is very ignorant and naive about mental health issues. This not only helps maintain homelessness as a problem, but also issues like gun violence (high profile school/military base shootings) and suicide. People are afraid of what they don't understand, so mental illness is usually brushed under the rug, or is misdiagnosed; "He didn't shoot those people because of schizophrenia, he played too many violent video games!", etc.

@noktelfa 10 лет назад

A few years ago, I was homeless because I was laid off, couldn't find a job, couldn't collect unemployment (the offices were closed and the phone line and website were down) and had no friends or family would could help. The problem was resolved when my former employer rehired me at a 33% paycut. No head injuries here, and I know my story isn't unique, because I used to help run a homeless shelter.

@swordofsteel 10 лет назад

This would explain why basically every effort to to get them off the streets permanently has failed.

@Ramiromasters 10 лет назад

Such study would also have the effect of making the population calmer. Because their fear of becoming homeless due to a predatory economy would diminish if they think most homeless people are just brain damaged people. Pff ha ha what am I thinking, nobody would have the hart to lie like that...

@DaveSeavy 10 лет назад

As a TBI survivor, I thank you so much. Great information!

@ninjanerdstudent6937 7 лет назад

My sociology professor did his dissertation in homelessness by interviewing a lot of homeless people. This study basically rips his research apart. I should send it to him.

@Evld 7 лет назад

maybe your professor is right.

@alphacause 10 лет назад

I think it should be obvious that the vast majority of homeless people, who beg on the streets, must have some sort of mental disorder. People who attribute this begging to the homeless being lazy and not wanting to work need to rethink that idea. Standing outside, in the hot sun or cold winter, for 8 hours a day is far more difficult than working almost any job - no matter how menial - when that job is in an indoor air conditioned or heated environment. The only way that someone would choose the former over the latter is if they suffer from sort of mental problem that prevents them from holding down a job.

@darjluke 10 лет назад

Two reasons why injuries may be causing homelessness: 1. You get expensive medical bills. 2. Injuries that send people to the ER tends to get them prescribed addicting prescription pain meds. When one is on pain meds, it takes lots of will power not to abuse the drug. Even with will power, if insurance stops paying for the pain meds, people will look for pain meds off the street. If you took too many pills and run out before the refill is due, it is probably because of tolerance. You will be cut off from the meds cold turkey since the Dr. won't prescribe more out of risk that you will abuse the drug. You need more to gradually reduce the dose to not risk dependence, but if the Dr. prescribes more, you probably won't gradually reduce the dose but rather increase it making the dependence worst. Catch 22? That is the reason why I would rather die then to live with pain. Even when people say "But pain can be controlled, there are great advances in pain medications" It's not that easy to control pain.

@Showakusai 10 лет назад

Pain meds....right. That would be a pretty weak excuse for a hobo.

@staticak1061 10 лет назад

I'm gonna be homeless because I go brain dead at job interviews.

@friedchicken7439 10 лет назад

@Klepto84734 10 лет назад

Alicia Brady Lol that's not what i implied. I mean that he could work in porn if he just lied there and let others do sexy stuff to him. And i have met and chatted to a couple of sex workers before. That's where i got that joke from. :p

@fbyi2940 4 года назад

Kill the rich or steal their money

@TenguBird 10 лет назад

TIL: Get money. Wear a helmet.

@MorganTaysha 10 лет назад

This is partially true, but living in Phoenix and spending a lot of time in direct contact, hanging out around and with homeless people has shown me that the majority are travelers, intentional homebums and simply lazy people who refuse to apply to jobs they don't want to work at. There are a lot of mentally traumatized people taking up the homeless population in Phoenix, but definitely not the majority.

@Odin50Cal 10 лет назад

I was homeless during a large part of my childhood. My idiot parents made horribly poor decisions leading to horrendous financial situations. As a child I slept in the park, on church lawns, and if I was lucky at a family friends house. There's a lot more that goes into being homeless than people realize.

@SotNist 10 лет назад

Excellent closing line. "Just because someone looks ok on the outside..."

@SapphireNinja14 10 лет назад

I think it would be more effective if we help people before they get homeless instead of after. Some homeless people loose their jobs, get sick, get behind on bills, can't afford housing and then become homeless. Let's help them pay their bills or help them find a job before they even reach the point of homelessness.

@davidgonzalez-ql7cv 10 лет назад

If only we were wealthy enough but wealthy people only think about how to make more money.

@moneymoney7900 5 лет назад

@@davidgonzalez-ql7cv I mean why not go for more money u don't wanna be homeless do u

@ShawnRavenfire 10 лет назад

I still don't see how this works. A person suffers a brain injury, and they seem to be fine. Skip ahead, and now they're homeless. What happened in between?

@mattmun12 10 лет назад

Well, it's pretty obvious. If you have a brain injury, you can't work very well and can't keep up, thus getting fired.

@ShawnRavenfire 10 лет назад

mattmun12 Makes sense.

@DavidFrat123 10 лет назад

mattmun12 or the observed effect is merely correlative and not causative. People who will become homeless may have the type of personality which causes excess drug and alcohol use. And this was responsible for 85% of the head injuries.

@DavidFrat123 10 лет назад

@daggawagga 10 лет назад

DavidFrat123 this ^ Can you even imagine a world where people know that correlation does not imply causation? It would be like a dream.

@Primalxbeast 10 лет назад

I've been living in my car for over 5 years because the government garnishes too much of my income because of default student loans for me to be able to afford rent. Avoid student loans if you can. You're totally screwed if you can't pay them back. Most other types of loans can be delt with by declaring bankruptcy and often have statutes of limitations on how long you can be held accountable for them and can't be garnished from your income, but if you can't pay a student loan back, you're just screwed and the interest increases on them so even though they're garnishing your income, you probably just end up paying the interest without making a dent in the principal.

@8870949 10 лет назад

This was a great video, very helpful. Thank you Tara!

@XopheAdethri 10 лет назад

i suffered severe head trauma from a car accident. My mental state was rewound then frozen. I can not seem to be mentally more than an unstable 18 year old. Pre-injury i was incredibly smart, versed greatly in maths, sciences and technology. the only thing saving me from living on the street is pretty much a well groomed financial instinct, ie not spending any (ANY! like zero) settlement money on anything but future life support.

@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time 10 лет назад

There is something wrong with our world today!

@jpf338 10 лет назад

no shit sherlock :P srry I had to say it

@Kippiwins 10 лет назад

Thanks for the notice, and sharing is caring well done!

@Jathax 10 лет назад

It's too cold in England, I know.

@kamarisinclair6941 3 года назад

@@Kippiwins 😭😭

@dadeskr 9 лет назад

I nearly became homeless. I was renting an apartment and then the landlady had to fix the bathroom and I had about a week to move out (it would not have been at all possible to stay while the work happened). Where I live it is REALLY hard to find somewhere to live and I could not have afforded to stay in a hostel or anything like that (there is really no cheap 'holiday' accommodation). Even the student housing people had no places for me, and no one had a spare room. Luckily however the landlady and the people who did the bathroom fell out over who should pay for the repairs and decided they would have to go to court, this gave me a bit more time to find somewhere and while it meant washing in the bathroom in a bucket for a few weeks and using public toilets it could have been a lot worse. Sometimes homelessness can simply be the result of unfortunate circumstances.

@vonjd 10 лет назад

I haven't seen the original study but the problem with these kinds of studies is that they often fail to look at a control group. So if you identified a homeless person and asked him/her whether they had fallen on their head some time in their life many would agree - yet if you asked the same question a non-homeless person many would agree too! So it not only matters how you asked the question (falling on one's head is quite common as a child and in many sports) but also how you choose the groups.

@darkrufio 10 лет назад

People take for granted how easily one can find himself homeless. For the most part, we all have a family that is there to support us in times of need. If it wasn't for my parents, i would have found myself in situations where i would of been homeless. Like when i finished college and got kick-out of my first rent, when i went backpacking in Europe and spent all my money and couldn't afford a ticket back home...If is wasn't for my family, i could of been homeless in these situations. So before you start judging people, just take a min a think of what your life would be if you had no one to help you.

@johnwestrookTBI 10 лет назад

This is quite nice to see, Now I know what I must worry about in the way of home-life, for I have suffered a TBI from crashing my car into something.

@daneldridge8655 10 лет назад

I love D news you guys and girls really know your facts. Thank you for contributing your vast amount of excellent information. You are helping the world.

@PaddyCollector 10 лет назад

This study is difficult to relate to the USA because more than 25% of the homeless in the united states are veterans. And obviously a major reason that veterans are homeless is due to traumatic brain injuries and mental illnesses like PTSD. Canada does not have the never ending war problem that the USA has.

@dragonsorcerer285 10 лет назад

I find there to be a serious problem with your point in this video. You seem to be implying, from the title of the video, that the correlation found is the cause of homelessness. Science rule #1: Correlation does not equal causation. Pointing out the correlation and urging further studies would be warranted, as would posing possible reasons for the correlation. Suggesting that "this is the reason why people are homeless" is gross negligence in title writing. It would be better to say "The surprising link between homelessness and head trauma," or something to that effect. It still implies causation to a small degree, but nowhere near as badly as saying it's the "Way People Become Homeless."

@MissPurpur 10 лет назад

I want DNews to read this right now.

@dragonsorcerer285 10 лет назад

MissPurpur I'm not the only person saying it, so hopefully they'll see one of our comments. I truly respect what they do here, and enjoy my daily dose of DNews. I also have profound respect for the way they've handled the issue in the past. Several times Laci at least has mentioned correlation vs. causation, and it has been a welcome relief to most news sources that just assume.

@MissPurpur 10 лет назад

Hmm, I think I remember laci saying something about that too.Yeah, they're great, but this mistake is sometimes hard to even realize, and it's something serious that should not be repeated. Misinformation is far too easy to come by already. :/ So, definitely hoping they at least address these comments about this.

@mitchiemasha 10 лет назад

Ian Knight I'm surprised we don't have a dnews yet titled Correlation vs Causation, it's quite a buzz term right now.

@dragonsorcerer285 10 лет назад

mitchiemasha Well, unless some news comes out on the subject they won't cover it most likely, except for mentioning it in passing. It's just a well-established principle, so I doubt there would be any kind of related news.

@grimmitachi 9 лет назад

I have a scar on the middle-up top frontal lobes area, this makes a lot of sense considering my grades before and after the injury.

@shelbyfisher6801 10 лет назад

I like her new and more professional demeanor. She's less ditzy and irritating. Nice job, lady.

@carlitoxb110 2 месяца назад

Some people become homeless because they’ve gone through difficult times such as the lost of a beloved, a failed Mary or depression, they aren’t able to put their life together and get a job or move to a city with more opportunities, it breaks my hart watching people living on the streets and It’s scary to think someone i know or myself end up like that.

@ParadoxdesignsOrg 10 лет назад

I can believe it, I suffered traumatic brain injury in a jeep accident when I was younger and haven't been able to work proper jobs since. Also injuries to the head can take years to fully manifest themselves. Even if you are a-ok a month past you injury, years down the road things can pop up you'll never fully comprehend. fun times.

@Aryan-ei9wc 10 лет назад

'whatever' made a video who helped a homeless man who got robbed at the station with 1000$ while he was sleeping... he was from Russia and had came to USA (don't know the reason). He was stuck in USA without money to go back to his home. The people at ru-vid.com gave him a hotel room, new clothes, 1000$, a free trip to the barber shop, and a flight back to Russia. He cried while telling the people that he only wanted to see his son and daughter. I was fascinated that such things can happen in a single day. So yeah, not all people become homeless because of brain injuries and financial problems

@radumurzea6112 10 лет назад

Hit "Like" for the simple fact that you linked to the study. keep it up !

@efortune357 10 лет назад

1 out of every 4 homeless people are veterans. This seems to tie into this. It's sad and yet people judge others all the time without knowing why they may have the problems they do.

@gilbertcuevas9944 10 лет назад

this is true

@MattHamiltonFilms 10 лет назад

U serve ur country to come home to this shit

@BitcoinMotorist 10 лет назад

This reminds of a study where they found that people with brain damage made smarter investment choices. Maybe people with TMIs are more likely to become homeless because they don't have all this extra stuff in their brain clouding their judgement. They don't think it is worth it to work a 9 to 5 soul crushing job just so they can barely be able to pay their bills each month. I am reminded of Steve Jobs who said that he was incapable of working for someone else and he either needed to start his own business or become a bum.

@Jacen777 10 лет назад

Back in the 1980's laws were changed or enacted that closed many mental health facilities. This sent tens of thousands of disabled people onto the streets with no support system to help them. The same is true today. Poor bastards.

@DCfan6767 4 года назад

It seems a lot of homeless people are mentally ill. We need to take care of the sick better and with respect and sympathy.

@camodude51 10 лет назад

Keep up the videos love it

@discipleofra4354 10 лет назад

Tara is probably my favorite.

@FantasticRoze6 10 лет назад

Or, you know, a world where dishonest people can lie their way to the top, and the honest people are left behind. Without my bf I would be homeless and it's because I am an honest person. I don't lie to get a job so I don't get one.

@meshakvb6431 10 лет назад

Sometimes you have to lie. Lying is a skill. If you use it correctly, you can make the world a better place for yourself and others. The world is a better place if you have a job. Lying can also be used to harm yourself and others. You shouldn't have a guilty conscience about lying to employers, just don't say stupid lies, because you will not get a job if they catch them.

@daggawagga 10 лет назад

Bigbadd Woofe so much this ^ even for lying there is an optimal point.

@FantasticRoze6 10 лет назад

Bigbadd Woofe I want a world where I don't have to lie. Also, I don't want to get better through lying to myself and others. I think that's wrong, no matter what it's for.

@daggawagga 10 лет назад

FantasticRoze6 if you were in a hypothetical situation where one or more person would die if you didn't lie, would you still think that the lie is wrong (supposing it didn't have harmful effects)?

@meshakvb6431 10 лет назад

FantasticRoze6 Well, we all want to live in a perfect world, but we don't. Lying is part of life, and it helps us to function in the world we live in. Adapt or die.

@kimmygt5938 10 лет назад

holy crap! uh, mtbi and then lost my apt. why? long and short; memory problems, attention issues, loss of work hours and problems handling my own money. not homeless only because I have family/friends to help. but my injury happened at work.

@salmaveth 10 лет назад

you cant conclude anything from this "study" , the sample size is too small

@HitomiAyumu 10 лет назад

No its not? 111 is fine. Especially given the fact that we already know the brain injuries can lead to some very serious, life changing situations.

@TheWheatless 10 лет назад

That's not a bad sample size. However, it's probably not reasonable to assume that homelessness is largely caused by TBI. There are many possible explanations for the association, but it is an interesting one nonetheless.

@HitomiAyumu 10 лет назад

Wheatless Oh of course. This study just adds to the list of reasons people end up homeless.

@salmaveth 10 лет назад

HitomiAyumu there are close to 650,000 homeless people in the U.S. alone. A sample size of 100 is too small to conclude anything on a group of people that large.

@HitomiAyumu 10 лет назад

Maveth Depends on the method you used to collect the data.

@Christuserloeser 10 лет назад

This is ridiculous. I demand further studies on the subject.

@nefariouscrook2807 7 лет назад

I hit a bridge pillar at 70mph head on and got a TBI along with many other things and I'm nothing like I was before, I can't sleep good even though I'm tired all the time, I hate being around people, I can't focus on conversations because my mind's always thinking about crap, I have mood swings, and I'm kinda lazy and don't give a shit about alot and if I didn't have a family I honestly believe I would live in the woods because it's quit and I don't have to deal with people.

@YUniverseVideos 10 лет назад

All these comments makes me think that the title for this video was abruptly changed... It would be nice if you youtube had an indicator for every time someone changes the title of their videos. A "video title history" in the "about" section would be quite the kicker.

@YUniverseVideos 10 лет назад

By the way, a title that would provoke less harsh criticism for this video would be "'A' Surprising Way People 'May' Become Homeless."

@alexanderryzhov7046 5 лет назад

Correlation does not mean causation. In this case, a causal diagram would have a mediator between brain injury and homelessness, and there would be many other factors involved. I can presume that people who have sustained head injuries are more prone to irrational life choices which contributed to them ending up homeless.

@Exegerxi 10 лет назад

I'm liking this new host, it seems Dnews cleaned up its act. There's hardly any bias anymore and it's objective. There's no feel of some agenda being pushed down my throat.

@hektorlinko 9 лет назад

Something happened to me a while back and it changed me..long story short my step son was homeless. Dropout, lazy, knocked up his girl you name it and we didn't allow him into our home and he burned bridges in all family and friends. Fast forward he was on the streets and of course the Crystal Meth yeah!!! Fast forward again after jail he's in family jail helping him out. Overall, I've been asking homeless people why they are homeless before I give them a lunch and not cash. Some stories are sad with legit reasons and others are pretty much drug and crackheads stealing. I'm sick of homeless people...not the ones that have bud luck but I'm sick of the stupid lazy homeless folks that are healthy and have no reason not to work and pay taxes that we all pay for. Get off drugs and work like the rest of us Americans!!!!!

@DarthScosha 10 лет назад

I always assumed the main cause would be losing a job or getting kicked out by the owner. Extremely surprised at this, i'm glad i don't drink.

@HiddenPalm 10 лет назад

DNews is expected to do better. So what if half of homeless people had a disability related to head injuries. How many non homeless people have head injuries? Probably the same amount. And how many homeless people have socks? The study doesnt logically correlate with the conclusion. Fact is, Bush brought us to illegal wars raised the war budget to unimaginable levels and then Obama comes in, raises the war budget even unimaginably more and bombs 12 countries. As a result everything is more expensive and everyone's social safety nets have been gutted. The best we can do is to physically stop everyone we know from voting, especially if they watch corporate television and are going to go vote for a corporate campaign financed politician. You have to physically stop them on voting day, unless they are voting for a politician who hasn't taken any corporate contributions and is seen in the streets working for the interests of the homeless, which is a sign that they know of the best solutions because they work directly with the people who suffer the most. No one on Earth understands what is broken and how to fix what is broken than the people who suffer the most. What gets in the way of that is corporate media covering corporate approved politicians, who work for corporate interests not community interests, so the masses never get to hear about authentic politicians and only about the corporate approved politicians.

@ThatGuyThai 10 лет назад

Very well said.

@seleciaa 10 лет назад

Everyone needs to see this

@seleciaa 10 лет назад

Everyone needs to see this

@MattHamiltonFilms 10 лет назад

Oh i see it and I think lots others know too

@kotoroshinoto 10 лет назад

"How many non homeless people have head injuries? Probably the same amount." If this were true, there wouldn't be a correlation.

@artakisthebest 10 лет назад

I sustained a brick to the head when I was like 9 it fractured my skull. Does this qualify as a Traumatic Brain Injury? Am I more aggressive, impulsive or lazy than I otherwise would have been?

@DonRuFioDaKid 10 лет назад

How to avoid being homeless: Step 1: Get money Step 2: Repeat step 1

@Groaznic 10 лет назад

And remember kids, stay in home!

@bdogg38128 10 лет назад

Maybe a statistician watching this can conclude if the sample size of this study is too small ?

@lucasmeira98 10 лет назад

woow i went to SF and there are so freaking many homeless there

@sitharhero 10 лет назад

im sure this does happen. Im a traumatic brain injury sufferer. there were times where I felt too sad to take care of my self. luckily I have a wonderful support system. Iv faced problem after problem. with the help of my mom my dad and baby sis (im sure she is supporting me lol).

@Mohamed-jn4yr 7 лет назад

im surprised that none of the researches shows that the rise of greedy new rich ppl is the cose of this prob

@waterdose2768 3 года назад

hey do you have any links where i can find that kind of information?

@Mohamed-jn4yr 3 года назад

@@waterdose2768 no i don't sorry

@Macphile2 10 лет назад

A number of homeless people have schizophrenia, too, which tragically kicks in for most people around the time when they have the least supervision from others to prevent it reaching that point.

@michalchik 9 лет назад

TBI makes people vulnerable to other problems such as being victims of exploitation, addiction and the legal system. It also impairs judgement and impulse control.

@lisaelliott7211 6 лет назад

How About stating the Truth Rents are too dam high..Houses for sale forget about it. The greed of these elites along with the greed in the State Government will never care about us.. Praying for all of us to find a way to help everyone.....

@amandaegeskovhald8222 10 лет назад

So basicly they're people with serious problems who can't get help because they live in the US. Gotcha.

@TOMANDJERRYRAN2GETHE 10 лет назад

theres many factos someone can become homeless. Lose your job, home, kicked out of their homes, etc. Sad that many of these people die on the street. You never know someone's story just because theyre homeless.

@ramseygavin2925 7 лет назад

Veterans are sadly amongst those...

@johnhempstead3074 3 года назад

You can't help someone that refuses help, let the rough side drag.

@Jinouga502 6 лет назад

Shes not saying "half of all brain injured people become homeless", she is saying that "Half of all homeless have brain injuries". The % of brain injured people who become homeless out of all brain injured people could be like 10% of something... CHILL PEOPLE.

@amirakram3989 10 лет назад

I LEAVE FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS, AND ANTHONY IS GONE. WHAT THE HELL :'(

@JamalGleeson 10 лет назад

There is no such thing as laziness! I know she most likely meant that OTHER people think that to be one of the causes but that is a hateful word not to be used as a blanket statement.

@Essays4College 8 месяцев назад

Some homeless people are lazy though. Others have burned their bridges and they are now paying for their poor choices earlier in life.

@mustasheolll2020 2 месяца назад

Some lazy people are extremely successful. We all know someone who gets straight A’s without trying

@theprops 10 лет назад

any cure for traumatic brain injury or remedy? info is incomplete,

@Scpcghost 6 лет назад

I explore abandoned places and I'm sick of people commenting about the homless, blaming everyone but the actual homless. I wish people would do the research before trolling and making I'll informed comments. My channel isn't even about the homless WTF??

@GermanFootballPlayer 10 лет назад

Alcohol and drugs are so overrated.

@1971mav 10 лет назад

I read somewhere that there are more empty houses than there are homeless people. I'm not saying we should just give them all a house.

@kevindunne367 10 лет назад

I hate how lots of these are based on singular studies, not reviews which produce much more accurate data.

@naren8951 6 лет назад

Most homeless people are depressed like me i trying hard to get out of my depression but I cannot I'm afraid to become a homeless in future God please help me

@ripplechips5391 2 года назад

Same

@Hatefulwasted2 10 лет назад

You guys should do a video on why our Ears ring. :P

@MGC-XIII 10 лет назад

We need more Trace!

@haman7227 Год назад

We need EBT Card for rent for people at or below poverty level - like food, medicine, shelter is a necessity not luxury - European and Singapore, the government helps the people with shelter cost

@WadeSmith19 10 лет назад

Tara, I love you.

@rosecityremona 6 лет назад

A correlation does not indicate causation. I'd want to see more research on more people. It could well be that a huge proportion of people with drinking and drug addiction issues have brain injuries and also become homeless - making this correlation likely non-causal.

@tanyatressler3132 6 лет назад

Helllllooo! Rents are too damn high! That's why alot are homeless! And rents keep going UP! I may be one of the homeless soon and I am 67...I am not a druggie, I don't drink, don't smoke..just a sweet ol' lady who worked her ass off for 40 years and now dealing with high cost of rent on Social Security..SEE YOU ON THE STREETS

@ripplechips5391 2 года назад

Exactly fucked up world

@Wowsers101 7 лет назад

how about everything's so fucking expensive in general don't forget you have to eat and pay insurance for everything mean while working for 8.00 and hour and you have to pay taxes... wow that's just the first of many more reasons

@levan8935 10 лет назад

That sux I more then one bad head injuries, *I am F--*

@covali69 10 лет назад

question :) why do we feel itchiness?

@AcabJef 10 лет назад

dont scare me women! i have a traumatic brain injury and look fine, so i have a bigger chance to become homeless in the future?

@user-oq5ei4qd8r Месяц назад

I would take it as a grain of salt.

@EdgyFuckwad 10 лет назад

I'd be homeless right now if not for other people providing me a place to stay. I'm fucking damaged. Used to be really intelligent and capable but not anymore.

@Riiw9 10 лет назад

And pretty sick medical bills after those injuries doesn't really help either

@josephatnip2398 6 лет назад

Divorce did it for me she worked for a bank so she handled the bills but she was making a nest egg and not paying bills that where in my name even though I gave her my whole check I worked we both made about the same and boom she kicked me out hit me up for child support and I found out I owed everybody and their brother my bank account got frozen and boom homeless I was working living in my car then car problems so after that my work had layoffs now with no car now job and no place to stay its hard to find work if you don't have clean clothes and don't shower everyday js

@arnoldchristian9501 5 лет назад

Tara looks like that kid from the goosebumps episode ‘the werewolf of fever swamp’

@user-wp3or9zh3w 10 лет назад

really? that is so stupid ! ramiel said exactly what i thought

@Ramiromasters 10 лет назад

200 MILLION dollars trying to fight homelessness? People in so called 3d world countries who have a house, a car, internet, cable and plenty of food only make about $10,000 per year. Basically you could send 20,000 people to try luck on another country for a year all expenses pay for and if they decide to go maybe they will find something for them, or comeback here all with in the 200 million budget... Or you could send 5,000 people to college right here in USA with that kind of budget. I think some people there must be just stealing the money or paying crazy salaries to old friends...

@Showakusai 10 лет назад

"Almost half", what about the rest?

@Eyeslayer 10 лет назад

as long as there are people there will be endless problems. I can't say brain trauma doesn't lead some to become homeless but i will say that between medical care... err lack there of, and the piss poor laws to help people yes we do have a very real major homeless problem in a country that produces enough food to feed nearly half the world if not more by itself. yet people starve here due to lack of funds and the lack of good people in the world. If i get a bit off subject please forgive me but the fact that there are so many homeless in this country is cause for both concern over corruption and greed. people who go homeless due to drug abuse is absurd instead of prosecuting people help them with the right help you can reduce the number of drug addicts by more than half. with the right help you can reduce the number of drunks and drinking accidents. By doing this we remove a lot of the reasons people do go homeless. and then look at mental illness a vast majority of people who have mental illnesses HAVE to go untreated. the cost of therapy alone is over 125 dollars an hour this is rediculas to an extreme. not to mention dangerous. and for years we have had to fight hard to show mental illness even exists as the states and government have shut down mental hospitals all over the united states causing major problems. as an example look at California when they shut down one of there hospitals they released some very dangerous people crime went up drastically several people where killed and some burned alive by pyrobugs that where proven to be so unstable to release them would be a danger to themselves and the community. and that is just the tip of the iceberg . look at how the number of homeless went up in the time period after the closing of that hospital. so i think mental illness is a major factor I would imagine nearly half of the homeless suffer from some mental illness.

@abinjoseph9808 4 года назад

Being homeless is not a descion, but a consequence of other descion

@KimJongUnIsSupreme 10 лет назад

Ok.

@hektorlinko 9 лет назад

After all that..GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Seriously. : ) Then Pray because that always helps. No joke. : ) PRAY!!

@weylin6 7 лет назад

Is there an area of the brain that's dedicated to the drive to seek and maintain shelter? If it is an actual area that can be damaged or fail to develop, then I can definitely see how brain injury or genetic defect could be responsible. There seem to be a lot of people as well who have a home but its absolutely trashed all the time with rancid dishes laying around and trash on the floor, and I wonder if this is related?