Update homeless encampment in Venice Beach new skid Row

welcome to beautiful venice beach california five months ago i was just walking right here on the venice boat walk with my camera filming how it changed over the 30 years i've been living here and i showed the homeless encampment in venice and how it changed and this video got me 1.7 million views i couldn't even believe it i was just doing what i was doing and then people asked me do some more updates about all the encampments all over los angeles and that's what i was been doing and today i just want to give you an update you decide if it got better or not and here's another really sad story there's a homeless lady she was living right here and she passed away a few weeks ago her name was victoria and from what i heard is she had a foot infection and never went to the doctor rest in peace victoria i did a little research online last night and i found a story i put like a little sign right here you can google it the part owner of ben and jerry said they got attacked by the homeless people and two people actually got shot in front of his store before there was to be a lot of homeless encampments right here but the police made the move because they had a lot of problems with some of the people walking in the store stealing their donation box or jumping over the corner the owner said there's a guy one of the meth people jumped over the corner and hit the employees so he had it he said he don't want to be here anymore he's going to close the store from what i heard but you can read the article yourself hollywood made millions and millions of all the movies they made here in venice beach it's really sad to see it's going down rolling action [Music] i wish they had nice seats like this this is all from the movie set they all paid extras right here this is hollywood and this is reality right here [Music] i've been in venice for a long long time i always seen homeless people here and there but it's never been that bad that you actually have like encampments big like this and people living right on the beach [Music] i think because of the pandemic still going on i think the police cannot enforce anything they tried it they gave some people tickets they wanted them to tear down the tents at nine o'clock in the morning and put them back up at night but that didn't work either people got ticket but i don't think the homeless people are going to pay the tickets they don't have any money to pay the tickets so this is the alley where they had all the homeless tents on this side and this side lots of tents here and one of the tents caught on fire right here and burned down the whole building i have a video on my youtube channel you can check it out homer's encampment fire i think is the name but the building is gone already and it seems like the homeless move from this side to the other side here there's more tents they weren't here before [Music] i'm in venice almost every day and from what my experience is the majority of all the homeless people are pretty young i don't think those are people that just lost their job i think those homeless people have been homeless for a while already they also seem like they come from different states here you see the pagoda where the doors had a photo shoot back in the day jim morrison started his career in venice he used to hang out right here on the boardwalk in venice beach california the lizard king i can't really tell if there's more homeless people since the last video i've done five months ago it looks like they're moving around some people move from one side to another side but i think it's still the same amount of homeless people it's just that relocate faster los angeles has the biggest homeless problem in the united states there's currently they say over 60 000 homeless people living on the street even though they try to give them shelters or like vouchers for hotel rooms there's still not enough space to house all the homeless people in l.a it seems like people move from all over the country to los angeles because the weather is so good look at this this is february and still nice ah there's a lot of lapd that's a safe beach right i'm watching here the police watches me on youtube [Music] this is where they shot the promotional picture for white men can't jump there he is woody harrison and wesley snipes see the pier in the background and this is the scene where billy walked up to the basketball courts in the scene from white man can't jump and this is where they filmed it right in this parking lot in the background you see the cadillac hotel and here's the movie white man can jump you see wesley snipes jumping up throwing the ball into the hoop and there's woody harrison aka billy right here and this place is where jim morrison used to drink his coffee all the time [Music] you see the house in the background with the blue wall this has been on the market for a while it's for sale for three million dollars but who wants to buy a house right on the beach and look at the homeless encampment i don't think they're gonna sell this house anytime soon the house has been in a lot of movies as well just a little reminder hit that subscribe button that would help me out a lot for the algorithm he got his mailbox here i wonder if he can get some mail sent to his place here in venice on the boardwalk oceanfront walk [Music] we're in paris friends right now the eiffel tower [Music] all this would not look too bad if they would throw away all the trash around it all the old chairs all the wood and all the old bicycles they don't need anymore [Music] [Music] the building in the bag is a retirement home and a few years ago you've seen a lot of elderly people walk around on the boardwalk which you don't see anymore maybe it's not because the homeless people maybe it's because of the situation with the covert they're not coming out it's definitely not as safe as it used to be people on drugs just walking around on meth just hitting people spitting on people screaming this place the venice air house was open the last time i came by but looks like it's closed the one next to it is closed this is where lou ferrigno aka the hog we're doing a comedy movie i love you man the building in the back was police back then and there's still police here [Music] one thing i can say for sure there's way more stores closed since the last video i've done and soon there's going to be more problems with people have to get rid of their stores because people make no money there's no tourists here no people come from different countries remember the movie cobra with sylvester stallone this is where he came and parked his car right over here here's the scene where he had an argument with the hispanic guy after parking his car he used to live in this building in the movie you see this pole right here this is where charlie chaplin did one of his movies right here on westminster and ocean fun walk he used to hang out in venice a lot i wonder if they had homeless people back then when they filmed the charlie chaplin movies down here in the 20s and 30s there's so much movie history and also music history on this stretch here venice beach tupac shakur the rap legend did an interview on the boardwalk you can watch it on youtube right here in front of the titanic [Music] the building over here and then you see the pagoda this is where the doors walked up and down venice boat walk [Music] [Music] some of the homeless people are just forced to move around because in some areas they're getting kicked out and they're just going to set up somewhere else a couple weeks ago the police made this gentleman move he had this stuff right in front of the entrance and apparently you have to be 10 feet away from the door if you want to put some tents up the buildings you see here those used to be all galleries i think all the artists left they're all empty right now i see him here every day he always picks up trash and this in the background is the world famous skate park all those stores are closed it's hard to believe that venice beach once was the number one tourist attraction in southern california and we all know who worked out here javel de gallo arnold it's right here muscle beach you guys probably recognize this basketball court this is where they filmed american history x with edward norton that was right here and if you walk over here they have the handball courts we got captain america captain america storm trooper mr t there was a fire a couple weeks ago right in here you can see it [Music] they have a workout gym this is actually better gym right now than muscle beach muscle beach is closed they don't have any gym right now at all [Music] and check out this picture this was taken right here the guy on the left is german and venice you know the guy is on the right he's a shoe salesman on television at o'neill ed bundy married with children that was a while ago when i took that picture pretty cool though i remember when i was a little kid i watched venice beach on tv all the time and all the new invention everything came from venice beach breakdance whatever was new everybody wanted it because it comes from venice beach and i was saying to myself one day i'm gonna live in venice beach and i still love it whoa they're flying so low well my friends that was it live here from venice beach california if you like the video give it a thumbs up push the notification bell and hopefully you're going to subscribe to my channel i see you next time [Music] juicing

Channel: German in Venice

Views: 1,690,685

Rating: 4.9418917 out of 5

Keywords: german in venice, homeless update, venice beach, muscle beach, venice skatepark, homeless, homeless encampment, boarwalk, los angeles, california, tent city, skid row, streets of shame, pendemic, shelter, shelter for homeless, camping in venice, dogtown, clean up la project, movie locations, the doors, film location, white man cant jump, i love venice, hollywood, hollywood movie shoot, bodybuilding, jim morrison, lapd, cobra, 2pac, help the homeless, exodus, stallone, urban camping

Id: rF-5hVfrqSY

Length: 15min 52sec (952 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 25 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Pickle-cannon]

Video is months old. Here is a more recent update: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/mtl24b/the_reality_of_venice_boardwalk_these_days/

[u/HoneyShaft]

I mean 2K+ for a shit studio in a shit part of town or free-for-all beachside encampment

[u/climb-it-ographer]

It's such a shame. I was in the area last week and my family and I rode bikes from Santa Monica down to the marina. It never felt dangerous in any way, but there was no way we were going to stop and do anything around Venice. The place is 100% trashed.

[u/Thegordian]

can anyone tell me when the first encampments started here? was it like 95, 2005, any idea?

[u/vaguehead]

What a nightmare.

[u/ItchyLifeguard]

The answer to the homeless situation is not what California is doing. Check any sub affiliated with a major city in California and you'll see people complaining about it. I live in Sacramento and homelessness here is so bad that the homeless have successfully taken over one of our nicest parks and continue to do this to other parks in the area, effectively ruining them for use. I pay almost 8k a year in property taxes and HOA fees (unavoidable if you live anywhere decent in this town, and the fees cover the cost of sewer, water, and garbage/recycling as well as your neighborhood grounds maintenance, which would be a tax called Mella Roos if it wasn't through the HOA) for most of the parks in this city, especially our biggest nicest one, to be homeless encampments. To me I feel like California made these laws to accommodate the homeless without thinking of how much they would cost, and the fact that there are many homeless that are homeless because they need help and refuse it, or have done things in their lifetime to put themselves in that situation (certain crimes, or drugs).

The only solution I see is the housing they are offering for the homeless with the caveat that they have to accept the help their local municipality is offering or they are not given such a comfortable opportunity to just live on city property. In many towns in California, they actively block any policy or laws that make homelessness illegal. Which I completely agree with.

But the truth is many people who are homeless living in these situations aren't the type who just need a few months to a year to get back on their feet. They are addicts who flat out do not want help for their addictions. In Sacramento its meth addicts. The cities have offered them a place to stay and free drug treatment. Some of these people don't want it. Why should we suffer as tax payers so these people can ruin our town so they can continue to do dangerous activities like using meth? Many times they are responsible for awful crimes like breaking and entering, assault, and violence/arson.

Its so bad here that they have shown statistics that 80% of the population injured in automobile vs. pedestrian accidents are either meth addicts, homeless people with serious untreated psychiatric issues, or both.

This is the problem with passing laws that make things like homelessness legal. Yes, it is meant to help, but it ends up hurting more than it helps. I agree we should help our homeless by offering them resources but think about it, most people who end up homeless do so because they have burned so many bridges that absolutely no one will take them in. I understand that there are people out there who just have awful situations where they are poor who come from poor family and have only poor friends who can't help them. But the lion's share are people who don't want help and refuse help. We shouldn't make it easy for them.

I don't know what the solution is. It's not going to be easy. But its not letting public areas become a blight by people who don't want to get better. And creating an environment that is comfortable for them isn't going to give them any motivation to change. "Here, just be homeless and continue to do meth, we won't bother you." Is not the solution to our homeless problem in this state.

[u/slappychappy04]

The state of California should be absolutely embarrassed. This is such a shame to let such a nice place become garbage.

[u/yaosio]

It's a video of America's perfect economy.

[u/bob-sacamano1]

what a shithole