Export the tick to China 🇨🇳

The best way to get the homeless to move is to stop the free food and drugs

No doubt

Dude when she said they where part of the spine of Oakland 💀

@@thedude5040 I feel you but idk when u say drugs if u mean street drug or the ones they get from thier doctor, bc if your talkin about street drug then im here to tell u thats wishfull thinkin bc Drug Dealers just care about profit/money & simple math meaning if the come outside with $500 worth of drugs then wanna go in with 0 & thats the Gospel truth!!!

Did you ask what those rules are? You can teach someone to think, but you can't force them to look. Don't wait, sit....

We have states bigger than Germany

@@johnklaus9111 Whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean.

The way I see it, they're bringing the river to the horse

*"You can take the girl out of the street but you can't take the street out of the girl."

Mental illness and delusional thought process

You Can Keep seeing it as a landfill trash. You’ll be scavenging for those parts and resources in a few years just to survive.

I got a place for them that gives them a free 12x8 room and hot meal every single day

Same with illegal migrants

THEY ARE NOT DOGS, AND YOU SOUND EVIL

@gls3849 Do you believe in God?

@@bnaisligh9723 Why do you ask?

The fourth tech boom in the Bay Area (prior to covid), caused greedy landlords and real estate speculators (a lot of them Chinese companies that have no interest in the actual Bay Area communities) to price out anyone that wasn't making a six figure salary. Studio apartments went from $7-800 a month to approaching $2k per month. If you have a family and need a 2bd apartment or something, forget it. It's not just the city of Oakland or SF, it's certain big companies that caused this and have left the Bay a mess after people started moving back to Kansas or wherever they came from. It's also driven out the arts, music, and culture that was here because artists and musicians can't afford to live here anymore.

What have you done about it besides be fat and complain

@@mikenofacego to college and you will be able to live Anywhere you want!

It's the lack of JOBS. The RENT is to Extremely to HIGH!

​@Max Million no. They don't get taught how to cope with life and end up giving up or don't have the capability of working. Most homeless people are disabled.

Then she said they were deeply invested in their neighborhood, but the word is infested...

She can't get off the street but can afford a200dollar weave how nice.

Ticks feed off of the host

​@@SmokeyTreats 😅😅😅😅😅😅

​@@bitkrusher5948 AHH YES PRIORITIES! 😅😅😅

But they get free money that they can spend on drugs…

The problem was, she wanted the city to build pent houses with all the amenities for all the homeless people there, you ask high and the city bargains low, then you meet in the middle somewhere, lol

"inadequate to feed the basic human needs and rights of a person” Beiung feed is not a basic human right, neither is being sheltered. No where is it written that you have a right to food or shelter or even medical care.

She literally won't go to a city shelter because they won't let her sit there and smoke meth or do dope that's why they won't go to City programs because they are not allowed to be drug addict little lives inside of shelters

Translation. The shelters don't let me do my drugs in them.

Exactly 💯

You are a saint and a scholar.

Even if you’re not on drugs it’s still easy to become unhoused.

So you think everyone can afford 2500 plus rent ? You think stress and drug use aren’t connected? You think that a lack of morality and dog eat dog culture and drug use aren’t connected?

@@thepain321 on a scale of 1-10 10 being the most fair, how fair do you think the economic system is and why?

CORRECT! I very much doubt this has anything to do with any political party. One commenter states "Democrat politicians have been failing them for years" and the next commenter states "Liberals are doing their damndest to destroy this state". The laws are NOT being upheld. BLAME THE POLICE FOR LETTING THESE DRUG USERS "SETTLE". We have exactly the same problem in Canada. There are all sorts of laws all across Canada, not much different from the U.S. ....and they are ALL very similarly written. It is related to "loitering" to varying degrees. Someone sets up a tent on a sidewalk in the downtown core of a major city and within minutes a second tent is set up .....MINUTES. That action is planned out by these people ....who turn out to be drug addicts. No surprise there. And a few days later, there are 30, 40, 50, 80 tents all set up, blocking doorways, blocking pedestrians .....ALL VERY MUCH ILLEGAL .....AND THE POLICE DO NOTHING. No different from the video above. In Canada, it is illegal to park ANYWHERE like above ....."OVER NIGHT". This is a POLICING RESPONSIBILITY to force these vehicles to move. It can become a "game" .....which it probably is ......but the police have no choice but to keep these vehicles moving. However, back to the comment ......what do these drug addicts have to do with "politics" or any political party? NOTHING! There are ALWAYS going to be the demographic who choose or don't know any better ....to get into drugs ......no matter which political party is in power. No point in feeling sorry for these people. They make their choices. Usually starts out being "cool" or joining their "friends". .

100% one does what one will do .

Unless you force them. Perhaps that's the next needed step.

Some of these people seem to have more invested in their nose rings, hairdos, makeup and tattoos than I do in basic necessities like transportation, water, taxes, food, etc.

@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL priorities, priorities, priorities. One must have the look. The look of love🎼🎵🎼🤣

I think as regular Americans we think that everyone wants to always improve their status or climb the ladder. But I've realized over my lifetime that many are actually unmotivated. I knew a homeless guy when I was a college student. He was a really nice man but wasn't interested in having a job or anything. He was happy crashing on someone's sofa for free. Didn't want much out of life. What we would consider survival conditions some folks think are regular accommodations.

@@RR-hb7nj very well put. My father was homeless for a period of time in his life. A very short period. He went from having nothing to having a full time job and his own apartment in a year. He is very liberal. He told me himself “In this country, if you are able bodied and able minded and you don’t have food, or clothes, or shelter, you can’t blame anyone but yourself”. Many people are simply ok with the bare minimum.

look at this bigots privlage and hubris

kind of, but that philosophy means anyone who cant find their feet in this life, gets exterminated. And the rest of us wouldnt miss those folks, but thats not human kind surely...

Meisterly manu,that overlooks the fact that there are dozens and dozens-if not hundreds-of organizations founded specifically to help these people. They mostly have mental health or drug issues, let’s not beat around the bush. I am all for helping every fellow human, but that doesn’t mean we have to give and give and give and give, if what we’ve already tried to give was refused. Some people just don’t want to have to conform to any structure, and if that’s how a person wants to live, nothing will ever satisfy them.

I don’t know why people have the naive mindset that there is enough for everyone. I am no Marxist, but I ain’t a fool neither

Maybe if Cali wasn’t so expensive everyone could afford a home 🏠

@Audios2010 How did you feel when you were homeless? DON’T THINK GOD CAN’T HELP YOU TO REMEMBER!

@@bnaisligh9723 I felt like I had no one else to blame but myself.

​@Audios2010 And, that's what we call "taking responsibility". Something a lot of self induced homeless don't want to do.

Shows how delusional and mentally ill these ppl truly are! Exactly what the democrat politicians want America to be! LOW LIFE CITIZENS THAT LIVE AND DEPEND ON THE GOVERNMENT

🤣

She probably meant rooted like a weed that needs to be pulled up out and given a good flea bath.

Why

These California hippies are on another level

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Ive been asking this for decades

All these advocates should just go buy some land and shelter the homeless if they feel so strongly. I bet they’ll think twice when its coming from their own pockets and not the cities…which is all tax payers money.

House them in your home

Their compassion only goes so far.

Permanent affordable housing. If it is being run by government it will be a slum. Lowest possible quality and the costs will be through the roof, just like everything else the government does

Started 600 years ago by entitled europeans. No one wants to live naturally and well.

God bless your journey. You are correct, most don’t want help if they can’t have the drug addiction at the same time. And so the circle continues.

I agree 100%. But I question the outcome of those with mental illness. It's probably very difficult to trust places like those mentioned when the voices in your head say otherwise. The fact is, I don't think our country knows exactly what to do, or how to help the unfortunate souls who suffer from this. God Bless to all who need or want it.

​@Clayton Bigsby No one can be forced to accept mental health assistance. If they don't want help they can sleep on the streets.

19 years in jail? WOW….Good Luck with your freedom and life….God Bless you Scott🙏🏼🍀👋🏼🇨🇦

@@McChrister Thank you for the response and your sincerity. I do consider myself extremely fortunate to have made it through that sentence, yet many others out there have done the same and longer. I drilled it into my soul that I was going to give it my best after release. Hence, I left Montgomery plus the remaining old surviving crowd. No matter where I moved to, I was determined to get my life back. No more alcohol, clubs, parties, river get-togethers, none of it. There have been setbacks, aortic dissection surgery, but I’m still blessed by God and others.

Forsure. Then when they’re in that situation the best option is to smoke a bunch of heroin and crack

Thank Republicans. Regean had alot to do with this mess.

Loved seeing this cross-section of California fruits and nuts. I thought that was just a stereotype.

@@americanmade-1 LMAO Reagan was 40 years ago. How come it keeps getting worse under democrats in Cali -- for multiple decades? They don't have any real solutions it seems.

Many are genuine unfortunates, having lost their jobs, price of housing, etc.

It's actually quite funny how I can throw one single piece of trash on the ground be demonized for polluting "mother earth" and they don't even bat an eye at the 3rd world level of disgustingness these "unhoused" people cause.

​@@kennethbia8812if it involves giving away homes or shelters free of any responsibility or cost then it will fail like everything else before it.

@@kennethbia8812 Was Jesus on meth?

@@kennethbia8812I don’t think Jesus was smoking crack and shooting up fentanyl in his arms with every bit of money that he got though

When have you ever seen a well organized/clean homeless person? These people have nothing to put their stuff in. No shelves, closets, drawers, etc so of course things are going to pile up and take up space

Nice assumption

Ariyal speaks the truth.

Ironically California is an entirely colonized state that genocided and displaced millions. This is a full circle historical event we are witnessing.

Yes they seem super entitled, I'm in a small town and they insist on living here despite there being no recycling or anything to rummage through, because almost all the businesses are gone. I see them walking at night with a little grocery bag with 2 or 3 items in it, and the nearest recycling place is 5 miles away. I don't get why they bother. I guess breaking car windows and stealing change gets them by.

@@thelemon5069 they steal bikes and shit from people’s yards all the time.

You can ride the ho thou all the way to Saint Denis

You can lead a liberal to water but u can’t make them think

Chat GPT is gonna magnify this situation by five million... but you can't make it THINK.

You know that saying means ,, because the horse can tell if the water is not good to drink it..😅

That is exactly right.

These are mostly junkies who don't want to live like humans.

Very unhealthy, breeding ground for typhus, cholera. Filthy trash everywhere

Love it keep goin💙😊

Wow couldn’t imagine having to make that decision at 15. God bless ❤

Yesh now big corpos buy all the developmemts and charge outrageous prices...middle class csnt even buy a house now, more less the homeless

Blame your country, this isn't normal in China.

You overcame life's obstacles with courage , determination and intelligence. No one should be homeless. Having said that many in this are there of their own volition. You ovecame your own trials yourself, it's not up to a city or government to provide housing or these people. Homeless shelters are for those who like you were there not of their own doing. My heartfelt congratulations on making a big success of your life!

I absolutely agree I was brought up poor we didn't have a lot but it was clean and taken care of and mom didn't let us have holes in our clothes seems there's no pride in any of those homeless living in dump conditions maybe if it wasn't so dumpy the city wouldn't have to relocate the mess

How did you get rid of your trash? Did you have a dumpster or something?

My Grandmom used to say "there is no shame in having a dirty face, the shame comes when you choose to leave it dirty". Lots of people can match sob stories, myself included but I would never live like this. The problem is drugs. I can't speak for Oakland, but I know for a fact that when municipalities here in SoCal attempt to locate the homeless into shelters, very few are willing to go. Why not? They can't use drugs or alcohol in the shelters. In Anaheim, there was a large group of people living along the Santa Ana river channel by Anaheim Stadium, which is also a popular bike path. After an untold number of complaints about crime, sanitation issues, drug use, the City sent people to help, nothing happened. Finally, the City arranged shelter for them, arranged to move peoples belongings, arranged food, clothing, employment assistance, education assistance, you name it. (with taxpayer money, of course) They went around the camps and delivered notices of when busses would be coming to move them. That morning when the busses arrived, they had all left, apparently because they knew they couldn't use drugs in the new housing. They would rather live like animals than give up the meth, so they moved on to somewhere else. understand how difficult it can be to fight addiction, but you don't fight it with this liberal, permissive, enabling bullshit. At some point you have to regain enough pride to wash your face.

So where are they going to take it? They do not have a for profit waste disposal service. I would like to know what would you do without money and with all your garbage if your waste provider stopped service. You don't have to tell me, I have seen nice neighborhoods full of trash when garbage collection was not available. Don't blame the people, you are one of them, blame the inept system we have in the US.

@@waltbroedner4754Huh? You are so single minded . “Where are they going to take it” , it’s called finding a trash can , you know maybe a garbage bin behind almost every commercial store ?? Getting a garbage bag and clean up after yourself ? There are so many ways to get rid of trash you just don’t be lazy . I can go on and on but no point . Just know you can definitely be homeless and clean 😮

the shelters have rules no drugs

There is no incentive to be a functional citizen. You get free food, free needles, and don't pay rent or taxes. They just get high all day and sleep on the street and the state pays for it.

They lack many things to be a decent normal hard working individual. Some lost everything in between especially their dignity and responsibility to earn a living.

Bingo, Bingo, Bingo!!!!!

What you neglect to mention is that many shelters are not safe. Especially for women. They are often disease-ridden places where the noise is constant. Drug dealers and scammers hang around and harass residents. In many areas outside and hidden is definitely safer.

Same in city near me. Nice housing with community dining, job resources, bus route provided for getting to and from work, no drugs, no alcohol, free counseling, and curfew. Still have openings available. There has to be a distinction for the truly homeless through not fault of their own, and the homeless by choice that choose drugs over housing and the accompanying lifestyle that goes along with drugs. There will be the next step coming and the druggies won't be happy as they will miss their squalor lifestyle they themselves created to just be the drug addict tic burden on normal society. Some just want to lose all just to sht on the sidewalks and throw their diseased needles on the street. They will be relocated by forced relocation, they will never be happy again, who cares, stop catering to them under the heading of "homeless"

@@Areawatch that is as it should be, very good rules .However here in Huntsville there's been a worrying trend razing down block of "projects' for the poor then yrs later you see expensive condos come up in their place.

You are preaching to the "choir". Please inform the higher ups and decision makers.

Also, many have dogs.

🥺😔

Totally agree! I hate seeing trash spread out under freeway overpasses and along sidewalks. Pisses me off.

Agree. There are laws against littering--fines and/or jail time. They can live on streets if they choose, but not trash the environment.

That's why I never give them anything. They're all around my neighborhood and they just leave their garbage out everywhere, despite there being trash cans and dumpsters around that anyone can use. Funny thing about this is, they have stolen my trash can once. I even have my address on it. Had to go up the street to circle K where they hang out to get it. Why would they need to steal a trash can when they don't use trash cans anyway?

So you expect people who NO ONE cares about to then in returrn have respect for the people that arent triyng to help them??? You make NO sense.

​​@@derekcarney You make no sense. You being in a bad place doesn't give you the right to ruin a city's visage. It doesn't give you the right to break the law. Both of these things are more important. Either way you shouldn't need a reason to try and tighty up and organize your living space. Any decent self respecting human should want that, but in spite of what you people want to believe; Your sort, who seems to believe that personal responsibility is not a thing and that these people are all somehow victims, never at fault for their own situation; these arent decent human beings. They are mostly drug heads and criminals, and they should be dealt with, less all America's great cities be reduced to the state of Los Angeles.

Ive been homeless as well in my younger years and (at least where Im from) your wrong. Many homeless people have mental health issues or some other form of disability and cant work or live a normal life, never got the help they needed and ended up on the street (this includes drug and alcohol addictions). There are definitely some that have the capacity to better themselves and just dont want to but is that because of the addictions they have or just because they are "lazy"?

@scott vallieres this isn't 1990. In modern America, they have more than enough social programs to help people get back. Especially if your a veteran. So I somewhat understand the mental health aspect. I can only speak on what I saw. Being homeless for 36 months.

@@scottvallieres6173 But so many never received the help they needed? We're talking tens if not hundreds of thousands of people. The more help there is for these people, the more homeless there are....the less help, less homeless....just look at other countries in the world.

@@MrAbrock123 You dont make any sense. Less help for the mentally ill will result in less homelessness? If anything we need more (and more competent) help for the mentally ill.

I just don't understand that mentality. I lived as a student renting a room in basement with 3 other students for about 300 bucks a month (back in 2006) I made around 800$ working half time on minimum wage. I'm sure I could and would go back to that lifestyle if the ONLY other alternative was homelessness. It was hard work but only because of university If I didn't have to study and just aimed to get by it's not a lot of work to put in, and these entry level jobs are everywhere. Just take a shotgun approach and send out your resume or apply in person literally everywhere you can within a 20 mile radius of where you live. You'll have a job within a week.

Most of them don't want low cost housing, they want free.

What did they invest in the community 😂

@@jchen666 What were they asked to? Ongoing Repetitive genocide.

She best not invest in the stock market then.

@@jchen666 their monthly stipend they gifted to their plug, the liquor store and the corner store.

And whose cars did they steal? Which of the denizens of this sh*thole were the ones stealing cars? And how about the guy who wakes up in the morning to go to work and finds his car gone? Anyone care about that?

Because they are trashy people

They are homeless and live in these disgusting conditions for a reason. As much as they'd like you to believe, it's not because they are sensible people. They are lazy drug addicts in most cases. In other cases, they have mental illness or they are hiding from something terrible they've done. The ones who refuse to go to shelter probably refuse to go because they'll be IDed and caught up on something.

No trash cans are provided by the city….no trash truck comes by to pick up since they are not tax payers 🤷‍♀️

@@joylynch5204 oh the horror

😂😂😂

Amen brother, I used to be very liberal in my views of homelessness but it's changed drastically after dealing with homeless for a while now. Fuck em, seriously. Force them to contribute to society like the rest of us.

Work and pay taxes? You can't be serious?🤣😂😉😇

@@sgtsims512 I know. What on earth was I thinking? I must be some kind of sheep.

@Joe you don’t have a right to live in expensive places peasant. I hear Ohio is nice 👍🏽😂

Same here. I tried my best to be clean and respectful everywhere I went while I was homeless. It's puzzling how so many people make excuses about their nastiness. I have family that was never homeless but kept their home in a permanent state of filth. I counted over 30 piles of cat and dog poop on their kitchen floor.

yeah, youre white though. Hispanics and blacks dont live that way. They dont have decent standards.

I agree. I clean up garbage in my neighborhood every time I go out and so do all my neighbors. There's no excuse for that. They don't have to be nasty. I was homeless once too for 8 months, did everything I could to get myself out of that and I did. I also didn't live like that either. And I can honestly say that about 80% of the people at that time wanted to live like that on drugs or alcohol and not wanting any responsibilities or accountability. And those same people are still homeless 12 years later or dead.

That makes sense! Run for office, we need you!

Same. This new "generation" of homeless is over the top filthy,like disgusting,trashing anywhere they go,and with a sense of entitlement about it too. People really need to work together to push them out if they can't function in civil society,homeless or not,and if the police are going to continue being pretty much useless at doing THEIR job.

Thank you ❤ for your service

I find your career as a social worker as an absolutly usless job and a waste of resources, but im glad you got a taste of reality, you dont read those in your books dont you? 90% of homless are just lazy ass addicts, low life criminals that want to live for free getting high all day

im pretty sure we have the resources to help both the poor and "middle" classes but dont let that stop you from victim-blaming anyone who didnt want to, or simply couldnt, jump thru all the hoops required to receive the barest amount of social services humanly possible. only in america! for some reason

I agree with you 100%! Those people have made a choice to live that way!

@@Wedge7 Right? Who are these scumbag people who think the homeless are LOUNGING COMFY siping expensive champagne at taxpayers expenses!?!?!? Ever shit in a bucket and not have access to running water? It ABSOLUTELY SUCKS. I am actually surprised I survived living in a tent in Oakland for 4.5 years without developing an abuse or drinking problem. I worked FULL TIME when I was homeless. My partner and I got royally a raw deal by the landlord who saw rents going up around Lake Merritt andif she got us out and remodeled the apartment a little she could charge double to new rentors! She had a powerful expensive lawyer and manipulated Berkeley FOOD and HOUSING to help evict us and so much political and legal fuckery went on it was ridiculous. WE NEVER WANTED TO BE OUTSIDE for one night let alone jump through hoops and looops to appease a greedy landlord that was pissed that we called codes and regulations about very serious dangerous health conditions and many building code violations.

they're homeless how the hell are they supposed to have money for housing in the bay area

@Paul Lo I don't know man. How do you do it? They could work like the rest of us. But that probably never crossed your mind.

A lot of these idiots think housing is a so called right when it is just a commodity like anything else

Fuck the homeless ppl. They can all rot

or cleaning up their own trash

she was angry. She hates society all the while dependent on social handouts. She doesnt see the irony. You have to support yourself or your neighbors will tire of you stealing and squatting because you dont want to work.

​​@@geraldbennett7035 this was most ignorant comment. Majority of these people do want to work. You need a home to get most jobs Einstein, but it's not your fault. (I hope). We've been propagandized so hard. People against helping the poor vs the rich are so ignorant. Every financial issue this country has is because of the rich. We fund Ukraine 100b no questions or complaints, while Ukrainians oligarchs jus raking in our money. You're ok with that, but mad at homeless camp for a 8million dollar project that won't help because it's 8million with a M, but Ukraine gets 100Billion with a B. So point is, this country is doomed, unless we course correct. Help people vs killing them. So get your priorities straight. Idk how true it is, but Dr. Drew said it's California laws and a federal law that ended a lot of mental health facilities is reason for this rise in homeless. But what i do know, news doesn't complain when my tax dollars are used to kill people, only when it's to help people.

It's not really that odd. If you listen to enough people who are perpetually living on the streets, they're very honest, unlike the people who are always making excuses for them. We all know what needs to be done to an animal that's infected with ticks to save it. You get rid of the ticks permanently.

Ticks can be burnt and ripped out..make sure not to leave the head..it burrows under the skin if removed from the body..

@@AnAbortiveRomance or you put the dog down...this dog just needs a bath and tlc.

We can’t expect ppl bring out their best like you did. Many are not equipped with abilities

God bless you and your son for making something good of your life. ✌️🗽🇺🇸

But many have bad addictions like drugs, alcohol and gambling. If they don’t have the desire to quit those, they won’t change.

@@cjhoward409 yepp that’s on them to seek help and fix. It really all begins with good decision making and making the right friends to avoid ending in such a deep rabbit hole of addiction in the first place

Many, if not most, of those on the streets are mentally ill and will not accept treatment even if it’s available. That truth is why America used to have psychiatric hospitals , taxpayer funded, and laws that allowed law enforcement to remove such people from the streets. It is a public safety issue, always has been.

Nobody wants to hire the homeless though. And nimbys have made it impossible to build new housing.

sounds easy. why waste your wisdom here on KZfaq. get involved. or shut your ample pie hole.

if you where paying for homeless and what ever ealse there would not be homelessness.your paying for UKCARINE/the border jumpers etc not the American.

Y’all faceles mofos with fake names talk the most junk online and probably still live at home with mom and daddy 👶

How does one "get a job" reliably? Begging isn't reliable. Work or die is slavery btw.

Well, that is one way to improve the neighborhood.

They should have let them start this in first place. They got use to it, there is no jobs, high price housing. The family is broken, family use to help and neighbors? NO1 we let all these migrants come and they putting them in hotels. American people should be able to have place to live and have work. I believe we all will becoming, homeless before it’s over with. Even if Trump got in, he cannot clean this mess up? Trump is in for his family, he is for self. If you do not believe me you will see.

Full of shot. How do you even get a pay check with no address? Once your homeless ....your finished forever.

Why are you lying?

I was homeless in Arizona and many others didn't ask for alms that I noticed. They just chilled in the library, park until meal times in soup kitchens. Some were thieves. Others were homeless minimum wage workers, even security guards. Others were people who were kicked out or left home.

LMAO the cope in the comments. Like they never heard of direct deposit. Keep your head up, you're right, they don't want help, because they've resigned, too far gone mentally or they just don't want to quit the shit because the programs don't accept the junkies that won't even put in the effort to get off the shit.

@@caleb7674 Cope.

Careful Michelle. Ur making a bit too much sense. They'll come for you.

Agreed

eugenics

Even if we lose some people?!?! Disgusting and inhuman.

No matter how much you wanna say everyone it’s not gonna happen. Not discussing. It’s reality. Not everyone wants to be saved.

A rare moment of candor....they know they are parasites.

Good Catch! Better Comment...

San Franshithole

Deeply toxic. She looks like a clown. Sick of the dirty unsanitary drug hangouts

Or infected.

A loving family is a blessing that sadly many of the homeless were not blessed with.

Until I got my own home, I found myself with 'no home' two times. Both times, I swallowed my pride, kept my thoughts to myself, and made sure I caused no trouble so that not just one but multiple family members were willing to take me in and let me stay until I got back up again. People cannot act like demons and expect their families and friends to let them stay.

now go out there and pay your good fortune forward. youre not immune to it happening again.

Why were you homeless? Explain? But you were able to have a cell phone and get on KZfaq

@@DanielLeeJones homeless for that person = living outside for a night.

Thank God! What a great story!

God doesn't provide miracles for people. He helps those who help themselves.

You're one of the lucky one. Congratulations.

@frederickhaaken456 No luck involved. I was born again by the grace of God. Alive and Activated to the word of God. Brought into a relationship with him by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I'm glad god helped you. Wish he would do something about all the school shootings and the 20 million slaves in india.

How DARE the city take away their trash and dieses ridden "homes". How dare they!! :)

Low income will control them. No, they prefer freedom even if it is in the streets.

In fact, one lady described public housing for homeless as “prisons”. Our society in North America is screwed. People have such an insane sense of entitlement now, without giving squat in return to society. Take, take, take and what are you going to do for me? While most other citizens are stressed and absolutely stretched beyond their limits as a human being just trying to feed and house their families and selves with the basics of life.

You need money to get an address and an address to get a job. Where are people supposed to go? Do you think people live like this because they like it?

@@puppyresidue Yes, I think they do. That camp is not a group of down-on-their-luck people trying to get back on their feet. If it were, this would be a very different story. But when a group utterly destroys an area to the point it looks like a tornado went through; where you cannot even see the ground for all the trash and garbage strewn around; when they refuse to use offered shelters because they don't get free electricity and running water 24/7 (as if they did there unless they were somehow steeling that as well?); then no - they are indeed CHOOSING do live this way and that is not acceptable in any functioning society. High cost of living is indeed a problem in Oakland, the greater bay area, and much of the country. However that is not give a person the right to simply take over and destroy somebody else's property because they aren't willing to make the effort to become a functioning part of society. Americans in general are more than willing to help those who are willing to help themselves. But even in the most liberal areas we're finally beginning to see crackdowns on this extreme abuse of the system. All I can say is about time.

The city needs to get a tick collar.

Interesting way to avoid saying PARASITE by using tick instead.

ticks sucking the blood of tax payers.

Yes, it's a more eloquent way of saying we suck the teat of society.

I understand that. Most people treated us like a parasite...even though I worked full time and went around and picked up litter and made friends with the people that lived in the area so an old man AL who lives a few blocks from highland Hispital said as long as we put it right back, we could fill up water from his hose anytime we needed it. I did some yardwork for him to show him sone gratitude. his neighbor Brenda then hired me to paint the interior of her apartment. She is the COOLEST most badass woman in Oakland. And I appreciate her trusting me and believing in me. Then another neighbor who had a broken down vehicle said that she would run an extension cord and power strip out of her garage and into the unlocked trunk of the car that isnt drivable. So we then could charge our phones and our backup batteries in the trunk and said we could either sit in the car so no one would steal our phones and stuff...or make sure no one is around when you aer coming or going and she doubted abyone would notice the cord. But then someone also set our tent on fire with me and the 3 dogs inside... so there;s that!

The way you describe it kind of sounds like a Purge situation.

@@77jaycube69 more like reality...

Well they still have a point and that is, you should be able to sleep and live anywhere you want but government keeps society enslaved to expenses and bills.

The government didn't make you homeless if they would stop giving you food stamps living expenses maybe you could look for a job

Bullshit

YEP!!!

Yeah, who do they think they are, Pfizer?

that's exactly right... and they are entitlled... they want free housing, so they can convert them in free legal crack houses...

I'm all for cutting them off from all government assistance if they don't want help.

The thing is they have to DO SOMETHING with these people, because no one wants them around but they continue to exist. You can't help them. You can't leave them as they are. You can't just put them in prison for life and you can't kill all either. You can't ship them to another country. So what do you do with them? You gotta do SOMETHING eventually, but you're stuck in a catch 22.

@@RedZ1900 They will all say they want "help". But their actions prove otherwise. What they really want is something for nothing.

@@BologneyT Stop paying them to not work and they will get a job at McDonalds or die. It is the only way to save future generations. You keep giving people "assistance", and that is what our future children will know they can count on. Even a squirrel knows to store nuts in a log for the winter.

And they do not pay taxes towards the workings of a city either. They are only there for the state's social services-FREE everything except housing. Free food vouchers, free medical, free dental

​@LifeOfReilly ABSOLUTELY 💯 ists disgraceful. Nobody owes them a dam thing!

​@@lifeofreilly9943 looked like nooby was taking that free dental!!

​@@johnstaton5524 You can't fix Meth Mouth with or without Free Dental.

A country built on forced servitude where every inch of land is "claimed" there is nowhere you can go to escape being harassed by the hands of greed that demand payment.

You are a sick dirtbag with no soul.

Well think of it you need a address for a W2 and such for even getting a check or anything

@@edeny6560 Oh BS, there are plenty of workaround for people who actually try. I know that for a facts as I have been without housing myself more than once in my adult life.

You can't get sence from these people, or the moronic advocates in their corner!

Most of these people are severely mentally ill and/or drug addicted. You and I wouldn't be in this situation for very long, we'd couch surf, get a job, and very quickly find a new apartment or room with roommates. That's why it's so hard to deal with, we aren't dealing with rational adults here. It's a balance between giving these people the right to live as they see fit, and recognizing that the way they choose to live is decreasing the quality of life for everyone else, and endangering their own health and safety. Here in NYC they just gave cops the right to remove mentally ill homeless off the street against their will again, but we can't lock them up in an institution indefinitely without violating their human rights, so they just end up back out there again. Some can hopefully get treated and choose a better path while institutionalized, but there really isn't a way to permanently solve it for all of them.

@@hoppingrabbit9849 Looky here, another silly lefty with no argument to make.

When I first got my apartment after 4.5 yrs...my partner and I would let some of the locfal homeless stop by to shower once in a while and EVERYTIME they saw us as weak instead of kind and they weasled off with our phones or stole tools or wouldnt leave. nightmare idea to invite strangers into your home. But i still open my couch to two homeless friends that I was friends with before during and after living outside. THEY dont want to be a burden so only on very rare rainy or supercold occasions do they take me up on the offer.

Instead I'll live in a prison of trash, drugs, urine and poop I have built in the streets.

It’s usually autonomy

It speaks volumes if they rather live on streets than shelters. I’ve heard shelters are very bad don’t judge people if you don’t know what they are going through. All homeless people aren’t drug addicts

@KingAce TheBull not all shelters are bad either. I'm sorry, it's not sanitary to live in that dump. I'm not making fun of them, but I am pointing out that stupid comment she made

​@KingAce TheBull the only thing it tells me is that they'd rather live like this than follow any sort of rules. No not all homeless ppl are addicts but MOST are....that's is fact.

LOL

Oh no😢 they’re gonna be forced to get jobs and work for a proper house . How sad

On top of which, you can not be "evicted" from a place that you pay no rent or mortgage on. These are squatters, the media needs to stop calling these "evictions" since it is not required that the city notify each person and get court processed eviction proceedings. By calling them "residents" and these "evictions" it is just another way to make us feel sympathy for these people. Example: If I am at the beach past 10pm (official closing time, very clearly stated on signage) and the police tell me I have to leave, that ain't an eviction!

​@@patrickplayspokerbadly6230 very very well said..but sadly people vote people in that allow THIS. I never have understood why they have to hoard and live in trash and squalor..I'm very poor myself, but i still pay for garbage pickup..and keep my living quarters clean. ( I'm not trying to judge) just trying understand why they have to be so gross? If I were homeless I would be traveling very light.

This situation will only get worse, as Biden is letting in tens of thousands of illegals, who will take priority over America's homeless. I'd bet large sums that the illegals coming across our borders get more benefits by far than any of these homeless people.

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I've all ways said I hope I got enough gas to not stop around hear. Or ok 10 is enough let's get to the next station and stop thare. 😅

Same😂😂😂😂

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Except their own.

Explain each one of those people's path to that site. I know how I got sent there when I was out there from 2013 to 2018. And when we actually listened to the OPD nd moved us and our three dogs to WOOD st. it was a week or two when these four dudes that terrorized everyone down there waited til i went to do our laundry for an afternoon to stab my partner in the face, untie out three dogs and chased them down the street, slashed up our tent, and stole most of our camping stuff, food, electronics, gas stoe, gas heater... bike, htich...wagon... car charger.... backup batteries... phones.... nearly everything. I got there and the four guys flashed a knife at me and said keep walking down the street. So i found John bleeding and got the dogs safely rounded up and called an ambulance. The polikce showed up not in any hurry and we were just far enough away where if we walked for a minute down the street wed be able to see them. So all these cops show up and they start asking me about these guys in a slow ridiculous manner. I'm like they are literally a half a block away why dont we all head down the block? WTF? Oh... ok. Well do they have any weapons??? Yeah... liekly besides the large knife...ah. hmmm...mmm. hmmm. ok. well we sent your friend to the hospital and we bet its safe to go back down to oyur tent have a nice night. WOW! Go fuck yourselves. Thanks for NOTHING. And now I probably have been or will be many of those cops kid's substitute teacher. SMH.