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Rejected Bill in LA Would Have Forced Hotels to House the Homeless

#homeless#affordablehousing#unhoused#hotel#washington
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0:00 thank you [Music] so um there's a bill being proposed in la oh ████ why'd you have to say la dude it's some ████ dumbass rule it's gonna be a dumbass rule I bet it's like you can't leave uh if you own this property if somebody wants to lay down in the hallway they get to live there you have to pay them or it's like a sick rule or if like you shoot more than two people then you're free for sure in a robbery yeah uh definitely the people that are going to be affected by this law do not like it at all because they're the law-abiding citizens I bet they're just normal citizens yeah so here's the law um it's not it's not like they're voting on it now they still have to vote on it to be included in the 2024 ballot so

0:51 that it's like still steps away from being you know is this the homeless one yeah so they're um they're proposing that all hotels in La every day by 1 pm or something like that have to report to the city how many rooms are vacant and they have to give them to homeless people whoa is hilarious dude that's crazy wait so it doesn't matter that's wild it is my dream though like to book a hotel like at the DoubleTree or something and then for Taiko to come out and then know that there's like homeless people ████ next door or there's a homeless dookie on the floor that's like yeah it's a dream life you know missed you because you get a little you know knocking he's gonna move back dude you know what though like now that I live in Vegas and I live in Honolulu um look at you yeah I could throw that

1:44 away any other tourist destinations but the point is the point is with my lavish lifestyle I'm still amongst the homeless right like because I'm hanging out at thrift shops even in I'm in these you know International like I forgot you're internationally homeless exactly that's cool man you made it but that's a title right there the way we talk about homeless people right is like if I if I basically any other city I think I'd be more like oh you know what like they need some help like because La homeless is like a special breed yeah like you have the best when you live here you ████ get it and you're just like oh yeah I can't wait to be next to him and hang out and ████ get bit and then ████ come down yeah like but then like but then when you're like like dude when I was in ████ like I was just in Waikiki we're on the beach right and then this

2:35 homeless dude just ████ gets Buck Naked bows to the beach pulls out a conch and goes and I'm like yeah that's cool those are my people I know that's like me right yeah that's literally the reflection in the seafoam just like this homework guys I can't believe he's doing this you have to yeah I'm next to him he's like man this homeless guy is weird it's killing my vibe and this homeless guy's like I can't believe these people have ocarinas now yeah I mean I got blessed by a homeless Shaman this dude pulled up in his ████ Costco cart right he busted out some sage and he started ████ blessing my house and he did like a dance and then he just walked away and I'm like well this is different from L.A oh yeah you know in La this guy's taking a dump on my ████ like doorstep I've had all those instances and you have right so then like I smoke

3:26 crack on my steps multiple times it's about what we can't see but he can see he sees Spirits going ah they're melting and going and and transcending the great beyond he said he's seeing something more beautiful than what that guy said but then if you if you're if you're from these other cities right you feel like La folks are heartless because they're like how can you say that about homeless people because like in homeless people in other cities aren't like La homeless people like homeless people in other cities though they're like hey I'm hungry can you give me some money and then like you make up you give them food or whatever they're like thanks and it's like a normal exchange out here like you give them a sandwich they're like I'm vegan bro I don't eat that ████ you stupid and that's a different kind of homeless person yeah and then they set your house on fire for offering them a meat sandwich dude or if you give them fur they pour paint on themselves man that's not what the point is so a lot of the hotel because there's a ton

4:17 of hotels that are privately owned just by regular people like they run them like small businesses and maybe have like one some of them are Mom and Pop Shop exactly yeah so that you know their opinions are just like how could you expect us to tell our guests who are paying that they're going to be sharing spaces with you know people that are doing stuff that they can't even do anything about it it seems like just a Band-Aid of like the government not trying to have have their own way to deal with it right wait is the government going to subsidize it though are they paying for the rooms yeah they're gonna have to well they they have programs right so well not in L.A that I'm aware of in the same way that like so in um uh Washington they have these uh homeless shelters that they built right like homes like affordable housing but there's a program attached to it they can't seem to get people to stay in these homes because the program attached to it is you can only stay here for one year you have to

5:07 pass a drug test and a sobriety test to stay here and so a lot of the people who are there are like ████ this I don't want to do that I'll leave and so that's kind of part of the problem is that they can you know they can just decide yeah I don't want to go by these rules yeah so even in in Seattle or or yeah Washington I don't know exactly where it is it's in Washington but they can't keep these this affordable housing Place filled so everyone always says like man what are we gonna do about this problem well they're building they're building solutions to the problem but then they can't even fill those places and keep themselves because it's just like what they did for Echo Park when they cleaned it up they had to get all these people out of the park so they offered everybody hotels and some people are like I'll just stay here yeah you know that's what was happening in Venice they had housing in space for all the people there and they're like getting them on a list all this stuff and then some people

5:58 were just like nah stay yeah the rules man you know but even La I hear that the the waiting list for the housing affordable housing is like two to five years so even if you put your name on the list so you got to survive as a unhoused person for like five years to have a chance at the program no they won't build new developments exactly and then on top of that you also have to qualify for X Y and Z but then again it's like it does seem like it's lost hope I like how they do it I think it's oh man I think it's in Finland right or Norway or something like that where they give you like a hundred dollar allowance a day or some ████ like that you have to give you a house and they give you a certain like stipend or whatever and then like they have access to all these mental health programs over there that's what we really need though because if a dude's out there trying to bite people a work program is not gonna work nah they

6:49 should go into it well aren't there some people that like just feel too far gone like if a dude is dumping his bucket of diarrhea on someone else's eyes early to come back from that yes there is what is it I don't know I'm just being a politician right yes there is this feels like it's the it's like the hotel version of Section 8 housing but but that that's hard though because like realistically um even with the unhoused population in La there are so many types of cases right it's not not everyone's crazy not everyone's biting people not there's for like I even saw like an old like Asian dude you know like a older guy that doesn't even look unhoused or anything like that which is genuinely like we're in a recession probably just lost everything maybe something really really terrible happened and that's just a situation but if everybody kind of gets clumped into this like here's this giant problem of homeless people and they're all wild and crazy and we can't do certain things I think that also

7:40 doesn't exactly like help fix it you don't think we should lean on stereotypes nah I just I just go go I live life based off of anecdotal evidence because that's as good as you know my experience is as good as ████ God's word so like whenever I see if a man tries to bite me that's it after that I'm not helping know how they're all biters they all bite I just go and buy my personal data on my own situational they're always ████ pyrotechnics I'm like okay I know there's a ████ someone out there is Will Smith from pursuit of happiness but the ones I see aren't and I'm defending my business every day in downtown as if I'm playing a ████ uh Plants vs Zombies or some ████ yeah but you gotta interact with like the certain homeless people and you know what kind of homeless they are you know off the Jump yeah just like by like you could tell when some of them are the biters some are like the public defecators you

8:31 see someone else but also I I personally like prefer helping out or like giving money to the ████ uh Taco guy in the corner because he's working and he's probably homeless too you know what I mean but it's just not the same it's not like a crazy rabid guy trying to ████ on my door like yeah that guy I don't feel like I can help him I'm not skilled in that way I like what that congresswoman was saying when people were talking about how gas prices have actually she's like just buy an electric car you ████ idiot I know right like to me it like and I really I thought I was like man okay yeah I need to remember her name because I'm definitely voting for her but then I was like I was like to homeless people I'm like just buy a ████ house like yeah yeah like what's the what's the hold up problem is unhoused then house yourself but I definitely agree that there's they're different in certain like areas in certain circumstances and situations yeah and often they cleaned up their homelessness in like six months though

9:21 they just kicked them out yeah they just kick them out that's like ship them to Washington DC they shipped them all to Honolulu that's like the equivalent of like when when 90s kids in movies put all their ████ in the closet and it's all stacked up is it clean in here hundreds of homeless people fly out so I went through a deep dive of the homelessness because when I was living in downtown L.A I was like why is it like this and it's been like that since I was a child I just remember you go to downtown it's homeless Central right like it's it's been there since I was born Skid Row's been there it's been there yeah and I'm like why like we have so much money in our city how come we can't ████ fix this problem and we even um donated to a campaign to uh our our entertainment lawyer who was he was actually trying to get in and clean up the whole corruption and system in the

10:13 in the homeless um things uh like what do you call it in the in the non-profit and everything that there's a whole racket behind it and and and he wanted to clean it all up he lost obviously but in that process I did my own ████ um research and and I came across this one documentary and the social worker was saying like if you look at the problem in thirds a third of them are just they need mental health like like they need help where they're not gonna be able to like survive on their own yeah another third is they need help like with drug use and ████ like that and they're so far like into that like addiction that they can't come back into the real like world but the other third there's about 33 percent ish where they can come back and those are the transitional ones that everyone works on

11:04 where like you give them some they're temporary right so they might so they might be down on their luck maybe they got their house like repossessed or whatever um so they house them real quick but they're saying like usually women with children immediately they get priority but the hardest is like if you're a young male so if you're a young male they ex they all expect you like you could get a ████ job you get there's no programs for them so then they're like it's easy for that set of homeless dudes to get into the drug because they're so like down and out that they start abusing drugs and alcohol and then they they get to the stage where they're so far gone with the drug use that they're not like you can't help them anymore so it's like what they try to do is the guys that can be saved um and like maybe they can find the job and get back on their feet that's what that that's the population they focus on

11:55 so that means like there's 60 something percent out there that just are really like in ████ conditions yeah I actually give homeless people 100 a month and force them to follow Nancy Pelosi's trades they'd be bothering away okay she's 10x in him yeah she's over and then they can take that money do whatever they want yeah this this hotel this hotel thing feels equivalent to like you know like if if you collected everybody's opinions who are like no you guys should just give these guys houses anywhere okay they live with you now yeah it's the same feeling these Hotel owners get with like whoa what the hell you're throwing someone else's money onto this problem so everyone that votes to do this maybe there there

12:45 should be an address for them to being like you have to house one put them in an extra room in your house have you guys seen a homeless guy in Beverly Hills though and have Beverly Hills oh they don't keep them over there dude no it's just while King in Phoenix he's researching for oh wow yeah foreign

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