By design in California. A lot of people are making a lot of money off the homeless crisis. There is no incentive for the government to fix it.

Why is everything so expensive...once you're broke it gets harder and harder to get back on your feet...

It is difficult to get a job if you are over 50 and the landlords and large corporations continue to raise prices, and wages cannot keep up with prices due to inflation.

America looking more like India.

All I hear is talk talk talk, This has been going on for years

If I had not bought my house 25 years ago. I would be homeless or renting a room someplace. I could not afford rent these days.

"We took paradise and turned it into hell. It was very hard to destroy California, it's got huge amounts of timber minerals, oil, natural gas. So it was very hard to destroy that inheritance but we did. We have the highest gasoline process in the United States. We have almost half of the nation's homeless people. We have one-third of the nation welfare recipients. We have the highest income tax, it's sad." ~Victor Davis Hanson

this is what happens when you allow, Commodification of housing. Also, stop giving corporate landlords so much power.

Yep, I'm a 55 year old California man who has been living in my car for almost 6 years now. Just trying to pay for my insurance, registration,gas, and gym membership, laundry, phone, and then food. It's still expensive to try to maintain a job while living in my car.

Try and get a job over 50!

I blame homelessness on the US government

There should be more help if your over 50 , how sad

My brother died at 55. He had a head jury.😢

Very hard to get a job after 50, no one to hire you as they have younger people they can hire

This is absolutely ridiculous 😡, why are we letting this happen.

Why are we paying for a war that’s not in the USA? While I my American kinfolk an army veterans or suffering? Beta Biden Is fucking everything up and he’s just gonna let the next president clean up his mess. Puppet head

What happened to the 24 billion that is unaccounted for that was suppose to help the homeless? These people have not worked all their lives and then all of a sudden, I’m 50 and now have nothing… 🙄

It's as though people don't realize CA is way too expensive if you don't have a good income. MOVE BEFORE you run out of money. How is this not obvious?

It get get worse. Because rent mortgage to dam high ect

This is a disgrace, housing is a human right, we are the richest country in the world, everyone deserves housing and healthcare

Talk talk talk talk and talk some more.NOT one agency or politicians has ever solved homelessness.useless mouthpieces.smh

I became homeless at 59 after my Landlord jacked up the rent. I fired my Landlord and bought a brand new RV mobile home. Cheep rent.

But has nothing to do with the state losing $ 24Billion dollars

Inflation has substantially increased. wages are no longer tied to increases in productivity and profit. Housing is unaffordable and is being gobbled up by private equity. Healthcare is unaffordable, astronomical medical debt, and medical bankruptcy uniquely exist in the US.

Driving on the freeways in LA county, all you see are small clusters of homeless tents near almost every other ramp

Thank you, corporate America, for age discrimination in hiring and retention!

Well what did you expect when all these democrats that want $2000 minimum for a studio apartment

Keep sending money to Ukraine. Keep sending money over to everyone else. When are we gonna help our people in our own country and our own state? I don't care about Doctor Margo.She ain't going to do nothing

Thanks to Airbnb and investor landlords.

This is so sad and scary. It could be me or any one of us Gen X ers

Yeah I became homeless when I was 50 and I'm 55 now and I'm still homeless I found a job and I was working but the company found out that I'm homeless and they got rid of me so now I'm still homeless we got a job

That is your Reward After a Lifetime of Hard Work.....

Unfortunately, there is no future for poor, working people.

It’s cuz jobs with liveable wages expect the same amount of exertion and output from a 50 year old as that 22 year old graduate. Or you work 2 minimum wage jobs. Existing is tiring enough. I’d choose homeless in car at 50 if that’s the case

Thank you. I've been homeless for just a bit over a year. I'm 64, college educated, worked from the age of 15. I live in my car with my cat. I was told by Jackson County HUD that they do not prioritize people in my age group. Right now I don't think I'll ever be able to move back inside

Keep voting blue if your not broke enough.

You can tell ALOT about a country by how they treat their veterans and elderly. Animals don’t have to pay thousands a month for shelter, but humans do? You all getting played by the rich so hard. Literally all the solutions to this problem exist and are easily implemented but the rich don’t want to.

The average cost of an apartment is now what? 3500 ? 2500? 1500 if you are lucky. Then there is first ,last and security deposit so 5500 bucks to move in with proof of income and employment.

Every time a developer is trying to build housing, some boomers (that have houses) get together and block it by demanding endless environmental and traffic studies etc until the developer gives up. This is how 50 year old shacks get to be worth 800k and apartments go for $2k. But don't worry, you can always ask for the manager, give him a firm handshake, and get a job like they did.

Never mind Dante’s inferno, come to California to experience the 7 deadly sins with your own eyes.

Social Security hasn't kept up with inflation. Minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation Corporation taxes haven't kept up with very unique reverse inflation problem. The corporations need to be tax subsidies need to stop and the defense budget needs to go down.

I am homeless, since graduating from UCLA

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Don't worry about us we're Gen x we can handle it.. always have...

Over 50 and White - Jun 2, 2023 - In 2022, there were an estimated 291,395 white homeless people in the United States, the most out of any ethnicity. The Median home price is $900,000. There is no property in California that you can build low-income housing without the California taxpayer subsidizing it forever.

Not gonna lie, i work and drive, make about 45k a year. i had chosen to be homeless for like 1 year, stay mostly at work in a spare room and on the beach away from everyone usally on some cliffside during the weekend so i could surf in the morning. Long story short. I saved up like 32k🤗. Could of been more, but i payed 9k off a credit card which had about 10 grand on it and offcoarse i paid for storage(20 years worth of stuff), gasoline, food, phone, and weed, lol. Was a adjustment i made in about 2 weeks, overall really glad i did it. Two things made it possible. A good solid car, and the shower at my work, in that respect i was very lucky. I was 42 at the time. I saw tons of old folks on the street. Was kinda heartbreaking to realize how little this country does for it's citizens. But it will bend over backwards for corporations. Rather shamefull for the richest country on earth.

That’s so sad.

Fast food minimum wage is $20/ hour. If they work two jobs, that’s $80K/year. They could rent an apartment with an other person or rent a room. There are a ton of ppl that rent a room out. This is more of a mental health problem where one could not hold down a job.

The longer I live in the USA, the more I realize how I love my hometown Hong Kong and how I used to take the gov't in Hong Kong for granted. People in Hong Kong always complain about how our gov't failed at doing this and that for us and how they wasted our tax $ on this and that. But compared with America, our gov't in Hong Kong should be given an A+ for effectiveness and efficiency.

I’m curious what percentage of these people are married couples. I am 72 and during my lifetime saw women go to work in large numbers and it gradually become necessary to have two incomes to manage a household. Then…divorce rates skyrocketed and now marriage rates are plummeting but the system now requires two incomes to make it. How can single individuals afford a household when the system changed to one where two incomes became necessary? And where are their families? Their children? Our sons would never let us be homeless. When I was young, nobody had their own apartment. I had roommates until I got married. I see many young adults complaining that they can’t afford their own apartment. We couldn’t either…but we didn’t expect to. We didn’t even contemplate buying a house until we were married. I’m not placing blame here but I think there are multiple factors that have led up to this. It isn’t just outside forces like less jobs and rising costs…but also includes inside forces like fracturing family structures.

ITS LEGAL !!!! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ?????😂😂😂😂😂😂

I used to design and build low cost apartments in the 90's only to have the cities change the zoning so that I could no longer do that. Furthermore, the state has mandated so many building code requirements for green buildings that the cost of building anything has skyrocketed. And finally, much of the homelessness is a result of drug addiction, not the high cost of housing. These "experts" will never talk about these issues; they only want more funding for their programs.

The homeless that sign for vouchers are also signing their voting rights. We'll vote for you..

If you feel sad dont jave to fight your battles

We need to start talking about the piece of crp gov and the piece of crp “adults” that didn’t get an education from 1994 to 2004.

I lived in California most of my life but struggled financially. I moved out of state, sold my home and bought a smaller place otherwise I might of been part of the statistic.

Yes we do !thank you❤

A new report that came out today shows that the homeless population is going down in Sacramento.

Is 50 the magic age? Families, disabled and students should be prioritized.

Congrats..... the State has turned into a 3rd world dump

So very sad.

What about drug and alcohol abuse and mental illness?

Homelessness is a very lucrative business

bad planning by adults.

She didn't say anything new. She's just explaining how homelessness works. What a joke. It's 2024, and the homelessness continues to rise.

Property tax is too damn high

Happy birthday unhoused. 🎉🎉

Homeless Shelter Funding Bill. No funding for dead beats.

Greed and corruption at the top

Ive known for decades California would be 1st to have huge amount of homeless. Real estate greed was born there an has spread everywhere except for the few perennial poor states.

You are supposed to move back in with either your parents or siblings, or a relatives house. Uncle, aunt, cousin, in-laws. Grandparents, etc. or if applies, your Foster Parents, Adoptive parents or legal guardian .... Just go home.

A lot of comments about no employers hiring people over 50. Lot of my friends and relatives are over 60 and can retire with their saving still working since their employers beg them to stay. The reason is they could not find quality people to replace them. Also there are severe shortage of home healthcare providers in CA. The state pays $20.00/hour plus full benefit and the job mostly involved helping the agings prepare meals, some shopping... I saw job advert. for elderly care or child care which pay upward to $4000/month with free room and board. I know rent is high but you can do room sharing for about $500-$700/month and save up the money. CA is on the path of self-destruction but to get a job and not be homeless is not hard. A youtuber interviewed real homeless people got the same answer that 90-95% of homeless people have mental issues or drug addition. The state ignore these facts and throwing money at building affordable housing which cost almost a million each unit since this would fatten the wallets of those officials and developers. CA politicians have no incentive to solve homelessness since it is their cash cow and they have job security since no matter what the stupid herds would keep voting for them until they die.

Is this a California homeless problem or a U. S. homeless population problem, Where do all these people come from ?

The homeless industrial complex in CA is larger than the prison industrial complex which is huge also. Lots of money to be made with large homeless population, ie the unaccounted for Billions of $$$$$$....where did all that money go???!!

I can grasp living in a tent on the side walk or wherever because your homeless, but why all the huge piles of shit and junk next to them?

My parents are not perfect ….but at least they left me a house ( so I don’t have to suffer paying astronomical rent , so I’m grateful)

Medical doctors and engineers are good careers.

Good Job America 👏🏼

We did a survey. That means you spent 2 million to find out nothing and the CHAOS CONTINUES 😂😂😂

Pls post the faces of all government officials and staffers who took this project and delivered jack shit

Just the way they planned it. Big money in homeless and incarcerated people 👍🏿

I've made all the money in the world and have to give it back, stupid little game- Charles Manson

Forced alcohol and drug rehab. Work for services. This idea that they can live like slobs and do their drugs and turn away services. They don't want jobs and they don't want to pay rent. Your solutions always revolve around the fact that we think all people want to be part of the machine and have a 40hour work week job and have a family and a car etc. Most of these people prefer to live drug addicted and don't want to work 40 hours a week. Your solutions don't appeal to them.

Wars are more important than people dont you get it?

In the valley it's only like 5% homeless downtown LA 40%😅

they do have housing... We call them tents. They are American Bedouins it looks to me.

She has no idea where she was born 😂

Homeless spending is a growth industry. Lots of money being made.

And these are the number of people that they know of, actually there are hundreds more undocumented.

Nothing new. You guys just don't care enough to notice.

A lot of ppl of that age have no computer skills and we’re stuck in low wage jobs. Theyd been getting by on grace that the rents never increased until now.

New normal of American dream: Tent on street🎉

And the Dems think they are going to run Gavin in place of Sleepy Joe at the last minute......

America's solution: dont live longer than 50 years.

The older you are, less likely you are going through something

They dont love their customers everything on this modern society is treated like a consumable your Pc,car,phone only tomes lifes good is when none of those three got payments or are expencive

must have done a lot of stupid stuff in your life to be homeless at 50.. wow

Calif. policies want this. This is personal responsibility. Why don't Hispanics have these problems, they have families and share resoucres and hey work,

Immagration is the problem

Sad, it will get worse people! Local leaders love their big houses 😆 🏘️ why not👹