Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Homelessness in Germany - What if you can’t afford a home? | DW Documentary" video.

  1. But New Zealand has more homelessness than both of those countries per capita.
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  2. As in furthering their ego since it's much easier to have your way with a pet than another human who can think for him/herself and won't tolerate abuse.
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  3. Bad luck coupled with bad choices. She's not completely wrong.
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  4. No jobs. No amenities. No services or social support. There's a reason why small towns are getting depopulated.
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  5. But higher crime and more unstable politics.
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  6. Not really as New Zealand has the most homelessness per capita in the world.
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  7. Landlords are nowhere nearly as greedy as the government responsible for jacking up the taxes and regulations that make being a landlord costly and undesirable.
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  8. But there is, partly because some people are paying the price for living beyond their means and taking their futures too lightly. High taxes ironically benefit the rich in the form of stifling attempts by the poor to improve their financial situations.
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  9. The man in the video even admitted he didn't plan for his retirement.
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  10. But it was a repressive and stagnant regime.
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  11. It's not happening in North Korea or Cuba. This is a Western thing.
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  12. Far from it. This is the big government social democracy welfare state socialists asked for. Who knew that it wasn't sustainable in the face of high taxes and over-regulation, low productivity, mass immigration, not enough contributors and too many freeloaders?
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  13. The German government owns most of the housing in Germany.
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  14.  @AjitMD  A lot of them didn't save or invest during their working years and are now paying the price for it. Welfare states tend to discourage long-term planning and personal agency.
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  15. Not in North Korea or Cuba.
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  16. Isn't Germany already a social democracy? How can this be? <Socialism is the answer> That's if you don't mind living in crumbling building with barely any functioning utilities, yeah!
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  17. Due to high taxes and restrictions.
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  18. No. Unaccountable governments are.
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  19.  @nmaqsood8980  And rightfully so as pets are a public health hazard and landlords are not going to sacrifice the health of other tenant just for the sake of pet-owners (with the exception of the physically disabled) who feel the need to turn that roof into a glorified zoo.
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  20.  @Dneidbdjrj  That's because they happen to be employed in an industry profitable enough to pay them such salaries. A person working 50 years and still struggling to pay bills? Sorry, that's on him/her and his/her poor budgeting.
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  21. No.
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  22. Including the current ruling Liberal Party.
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  23. Or the East Germans who wanted out.
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  24. With the government owning most of the housing.
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  25. Not nearly as much as socialism is.
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  26. That's because they don't live in the cities.
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  27. Not really.
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  28. Not really. German landlords have public health and sanitation protocols to follow and animals are a liability. Unless one is physically disabled requiring an animal, there is no valid reason for anyone to have a pet on rental property.
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  29. Agreed.
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  30. <This has been tried in the United States and has failed.> Especially with African-Americans.
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  31. LOL. According to who?
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  32. While squalor is a lucrative business in socialism.
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  33. That's because the government are investors themselves. Conflict of interest much?
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  34. <and every country with capitalism has this problem.> Yeah. And?
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  35. <Wouldn't natural human compassion and logic give out these vacant lands to the homeless, so that they can begin to build a more humane living situation> Like in Southside Chicago, South Bronx, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.?
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  36. So do governments as they love easy votes especially from those they gave away freebies to who'll happily vote for more bigger government, more regulations and higher taxes to keep the gravy train going.
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  37. Because politicians are reaping the benefits as most are property-owners themselves.
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  38. Marx was an upper-class virtue-signaling grifter.
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  39. The rich invest while the poor spend.
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  40. Neither do greedy governments who tax almost half of people's earnings.
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  41. Most co-ops are government-subsidized. And their waiting list are every bit as long as that of public housing.
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  42. It's part of the left-wing vote-buying scheme.
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  43. <I hope the German government can provide a long term solution.> How? the German government is the biggest landlord in the country.
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  44.  @ht3oldnavy  The tenant is living on someone else's property.
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  45. Only to those with some serious personality issues.
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  46. Yet many from the Eastern Bloc much rather be homeless in the West if it means not having to live in a country with no future.
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  47. Same for tenants who think they're entitled to a living at someone else's expense.
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  48. Yes it is.
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  49. But in Germany, the government owns most of the housing.
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  50. Where exactly?
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  51.  @evangelesong6319  At your own expense, that is. Where in the Bible does it say it's the government's or your neighbors' job to look after them?
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  52.  @evangelesong6319  That's not the government's job either.
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  53. Exactly.
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  54.  @thothheartmaat2833  That's not sustainable. And Venezuela already tried that.
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  55.  @thothheartmaat2833  WTF are YOU talking about?
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  56. Largely because of too many people wanting to live in only the most desirable locales. And government restrictions on housing supply isn't helping matters.
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  57. Exactly.
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  58. It's right and decent. But I say left-wing governments and bleeding heart "humanitarians" are even more worthy of blame as they're enablers, facilitators and profiteers.
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  59. Would that also include not having running water to take a shower?
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  60. Which would be Justin Trudeau and the political class.
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  61.  Fight authority  Socialism stifles and bankrupts.
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  62. And community organizers.
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  63.  @mistersquare7327  <Praying is nice…encouraging people to vote for Politicians with Socialist polices that helps the people is even better.> That's if you don't mind shortages and decades-long waiting lists eventually making affordable housing unaffordable.
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  64. <Times are changing and the safety net doesn't really exist anymore> Due to too many freeloaders and not enough contributors.
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  65.  @richardmossy5540  Who knew that social democracy for all of its good intentions is actually destructive? It figures when social democracy was a communist idea in origin.
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  66. And turn the whole country into a run-down ghetto.
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  67. Not in Germany as the state owns most of the housing and only 44% of German citizens own their homes.
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  68. <Not enough building.> Due to zoning restrictions and rent controls by the city government.
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  69. Same here in Canada.
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  70. Tell that to the elderly there forced to beg in the streets because the CCP stole their pensions to line their own pockets.
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  71. By high taxes, inflation and regulations thanks to the government.
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  72. And rents are not keeping with property taxes, mortgage, insurance premiums, interest rates, etc.
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  73.  @coopsnz1  Pretty much.
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  74. Not allowing so, because the government taxes and regulates any attempt by the poor to improve their financial situations under the guise of taxing the wealthy.
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  75.  @coopsnz1  Plus there's no such thing as a socialist country with a middle class. Socialists throughout history taxed and regulated them out of existence when they haven't jailed, killed or exiled them first.
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  76. Coupled with the working people's own ignorance and stupidity.
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  77. You can have savings while paying the rent. Learn to live within your means. The man in the video by his own admission had a good-paying job but chose to party and BS instead of save for his future.
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  78. Namely those in the Northeast and West Coast.
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  79.  @coopsnz1  And they're usually run by leftists who swear they care about the poor.
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  80.  @DragoonO777  Yes they do. Denmark is #1. The US is #19.
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  81. One oil-rich. The other 2 tax havens.
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  82. Votes. Left-wing votes so the left can stay in power and have a majority government in which they can pass any law they want without that pesky opposition to stand in the way.
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  83. Some of the "real" civilians got what they voted for.
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  84. It's very expensive because that's where most people want to live and some are willing to pay a premium for the privilege of living there.
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  85. Japan is not in the same boat. They weren't stupid enough to adopt mass immigration.
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  86. Not really.
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  87. <where a majority of shops only accept cash,> Which is a good thing.
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  88. No. Society will crumble. And where's the money going to come from for repairs and maintenance? Or even re-building if the property is no longer suitable for inhabitation? <The world would alot more cleaner.> Like Detroit?
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  89. It's the Godless secular humanist society many in the West so clamored for.
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  90. But England and the US have far higher home-ownership rates than Germany.
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  91. Not really. Landlord's property, landlord's rules. Plus he has health and sanitation rules to follow. And pets are a liability.
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  92. Exactly.
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  93. Homelessness = being without a fixed address.
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  94. Germany already did socialism with Hitler and the GDR.
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  95. Easy votes.
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  96.  Fight authority  Because the majority of citizens including politicians are property-owners.
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  97. Exactly.
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  98. Cuba doesn't have homelessness.
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  99.  @michaelbassett5990  The average Cuban doesn't live in tents or tin roofs but decrepit abandoned buildings.
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  100.  @evangelesong6319  The poster is no less correct. Some are indeed unmotivated and lazy. Welfare states have a way of doing that.
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  101.  @evangelesong6319  You mean Toronto and Vancouver. Nowhere else in Canada have rents that high including where I live, Montreal.
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  102. Exactly.
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  103. Exactly.
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  104. <drugs should be legal so they can work and not have to dedicate all their time to finding cash or stealing for drugs.> How can they work when on drugs? In order for them to be able to work, they have to be sober and aware. And what company allows its workers to be intoxicated threatening the safety of themselves and others?
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  105. LOL. California and New York are run by Liberal left-wing governments. And the homelessness far exceeds even the poorest of states run by Conservatives.
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  106. The downside of being a welfare state social democracy.
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  107. Not really. Most politicians are money and power-hungry and have little problem doing anything for them. Maduro of Venezuela is not beholden to any corporation.
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  108. And also the needy. <decent people dont make millions do they> Like common thieves?
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  109. The homeless were jailed or banished to the countryside where they couldn't embarrass the regime.
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  110. Shelter. Pet-owners are narcissistic weirdoes.
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  111. But they don't out of fear of being labeled xenophobic and far-right nationalist.
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  112. A by-product of zoning restrictions and rent controls that made rental units too costly and not worth owning for landlords opting for condos instead.
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  113. This is the God and religion-free secular humanist society your grandparents voted for.
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  114. Nope. Social democracy where helping the poor ironically hurts the poor in the long run.
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  115. Bleeding hearts and humanitarians = traitors.
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  116. And replace it with what? What the USSR had?
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  117.  @zdzisawk5198  LOL. You'll get something human, but nothing godly as humans are hopelessly corrupt. Be it politicians or homeless crackheads.
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  118. Socialists hate capitalism, but they sure have no problem reaping its benefits for themselves.
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  119. But better that than the more impoverished the country bigger the squalor and destitution.
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  120. Health and sanitation reasons. Nothing ridiculous.
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  121.  @coopsnz1  Because you'll never have enough people to tax to fund the social programs to feed the poor.
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  122.  @harukrentz435  Most of the population just want to live in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
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  123. Per capita-wise in the developed world is not among the top 10 in homelessness. Yet Germany is.
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  124. Too bad that all came at the expense of the Jews. And that experiment didn't last very long.
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  125. Affordable housing does exist. Just in less-desirable parts of town.
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  126. <THEY have solutions to affordable housing but they don’t want to assume ANY financial responsibility, even though THEY created the problems.> They created nothing. The government created the problem with its bureaucracy and high taxes/fees/restrictions.
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  127. <permanent homeless shelters.> That will be trashed in a couple of months because many of the homeless are irresponsible and destructive.
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  128. Wrong. Germany's low home-ownership rates are due to government policy of high taxes and restrictions. The German government controls most of the housing.
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  129. Germany is not that capitalistic.
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  130.  @AjitMD  <I have a few Germans and they seem to favor spending on travel, car, etc. Instead of penny pinching and buying an apartment, even if it is a tinny one... that will house them in old age.> Exactly.
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  131. So are the poor. Ignorant, envious and entitled.
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  132. Governmental greed is even more so.
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  133. No. Just greedy governments. It's the high taxes and punitive regulations that drive up business costs. Coupled with greedy people who vote for them thinking they're going get something for free if not subsidized with money stolen from their well-off neighbors only to end up paying for it on the back end.
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  134. And are not scared to do their own thing.
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  135. And who should be forced against his/her will to provide it?
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  136.  @橡皮圖騰  A fundamental need is not a right. Let me ask you again: Who should be forced against his/her will to provide this flat you think you have the right to?
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  137. Agreed.
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  138. @Dera Kioandria Williams Should have done your own rebuilding.
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  139. Communism is every bit as hierarchical and destructive. How are you going to eliminate a hierarchy with a hierarchy? <Anarchist communism or Barbarism .> Like what Somalia had after its socialism and Siad Barre's rule came to an end?
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  140. In the case of the man in the video, personal greed. He even said it himself. He cared more about living for the moment than his future
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  141. No. We need to continue it as not everyone has the same interests. And collectivism is down-right repressive and regressive.
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  142. But few ever do.
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  143. He led Germany to ruin.
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  144.  @Dneidbdjrj  Whatever, apologist!
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  145. Better than government-imposed equality.
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  146. There actually is rent control.
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  147. Social democracy. Stifling any attempt by the poor to improve their financial situations with high taxes and punitive regulations while the rich prosper and are protected by the government.
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  148. Better than the failures of socialism which anyone who wasn't part of the political elite was poor.
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  149.  @coopsnz1  And New Zealand has the most homeless people per capita among developed countries. It's also a social democracy.
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  150. Louisiana and Mississippi are 2 of the poorest states in the US.
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  151. China is a regime. And when the homeless are not being banished to the outskirts, they're being harvested for organs.
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  152. Because they save and invest while the poor send all they have on BS.
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  153.  @coopsnz1  I thought it was California. It does have the highest homeless rat in the country.
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  154.  @gunnerbob1855  How are developers greedy when government restrictions and high building costs make building affordable housing a non-viable option?
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  155. Um. No. We need to elect politicians that will put people to work and allow people to keep most of what they earned.
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  156.  @christinechandler1662  Some had a falling out with their families.
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  157. <But "developers" are a powerful bunch with a massive lobby (the expenses for which are deductable of course) why they gain ground (literally) in every urban area.> Where high building and land costs and bureaucracy abound making affordable housing unfeasible.
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  158. And watch those homeless turn the homes into Detroit 2.0.
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  159.  @rstevewarmorycom  Nice anecdote.
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  160. Here's one of the reasons why socialism is destructive.
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  161. But they do because of greedy governments with their high property taxes .
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  162. <I don't understand why people choose to live in cities, when the cost of living is so much cheaper in smaller communities.> Cities are where the jobs, amenities and support at. Smaller communities have none on top of being remote.
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  163.  @burntearth85  <that's what cars are for,> Which all but completely negate the financial benefits of living in a smaller community.
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  164.  @burntearth85  And maintenance.
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  165. And the only affordable housing found in the cities are usually run-down, plagued with crime and underachievement.
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  166. Because they're unprofitable. And most affordable housing become slums and ghettoes known for decay and crime.
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  167. That was the price Germany paid to have the US fund their post-WW2 rebuilding. Ditto for Japan.
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  168.  @Dneidbdjrj  By their own leadership.
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  169. <A roof over our heads is a human right.> Says who?
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  170. LOL. The government is the reason for this.
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  171. How about end the greed of governments first? Lower property taxes and abolish income tax.
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  172. What about high taxes and regulations?
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  173. Exactly.
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  174. You know the government is part of the problem, right? How are they going to solve a problem that they have a hand creating, enabling and facilitating?
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  175. Inequality is natural.
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  176.  @fuckfannyfiddlefart  Yes it is unlike socialism.
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  177. Who needs that when local women and men are choosing career and lifestyle over family and future anyway?
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  178. But capitalism's failures still pale in comparison to socialism's failures.
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  179.  @martymontano7493  But China's GDP per capita is just barely greater than India's.
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  180. Which includes governments as they're very much in the real-estate business.
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  181. But decay and blight are even more inhumane.
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  182. Not really. This is a government-created problem with over-regulation causing supply shortages.
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  183. Yet the places with the most homeless people are run by Democrat Mayors and Governors.
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  184. But the poor are every bit as greedy and they'll eventually eat each other just like every other revolution.
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  185. No. That's socialism at work as the middle class = bourgeoisie that must be destroyed.
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  186.  @fightingtosurvive6527  Liberals are compassionate and empathetic alright. Only when it comes to foreigners and someone else's money.
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  187. They did, but some of them never bothered to save during that time and found themselves in a bad spot once they reached retirement age.
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  188. What about Nancy Pelosi?
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  189. Is Finland a mass immigration magnet?
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  190. Living off the land isn't all that sustainable. There's a reason why people used to move around a lot.
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  191. Austerity programs are a result of government fiscal mismanagement and irresponsibility.
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  192. Better than socialism which is an oxymoron as even that has rich and poor. Namely that of governments and everyone else.
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  193. <Building low cost units,> How is that possible in the face of increasing costs of materials required to build said units, alongside labor, land value and property taxes?
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  194.  @Kayja-bc7br  <Maybe, if the owner took pride in his development and provided good service the building would not turn into a ghetto slum.> That would be the city government.
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  195. <Slum lords don't want to spend the money to maintain apartment building or if they do they raise the rent.> Especially if they're not legally allowed to raise the rent accordingly to cover repair/maintenance/renovation expenses or evict problematic tenants who are bringing about said expenses. <Rent controlled apartments and government built housing is the only way to help these people.> Only to devolve into a ghetto slum over time. The US has plenty of those.
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  196. Exactly.
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  197. The main problem is power-hungry governments.
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  198. Capitalism is not responsible for the zoning restrictions and rent controls that caused the housing shortages.
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  199. The same rich corporations that can afford the high ownership costs as ordinary owners are priced and regulated out of the market.
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  200. But neo-Marxism has done nothing except set countries back.
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  201. What capitalism? Doesn't a socialist run the show there?
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  202. With barely functioning basic utilities and frequent blackouts.
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  203. Livable wages? Get some better job skills. Or be ready to pay higher prices for your goods to support it.
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  204.  @nzbidzel  You have high taxes to thank for that.
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  205. Because the German government taxed them to death.
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  206. Me neither.
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  207. While socialism works for no one expect family and friends of the government.
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  208.  @ts109  A by-product of socialism.
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  209. Including personal greed.
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  210. No. It's caused by money and power-hungry governments.
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  211. How can landlords keep rent affordable in the face of rising land costs, insurance costs, mortgage and interest costs, repair/maintenance/renovation costs, utility costs and property taxes?
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  212.  @cozycomfy589  What 90%? Only 11.4% of Americans are poor.
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  213. Germany is barely capitalist.
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  214. Germany barely has any capitalism at all.
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  215. No. They coddled the poor for far too long rendering them useless once faced with a situation which they have to do something for themselves.
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  216. But seniors don't have the right to demand special accommodation for their pets, public health and sanitation be damned!
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  217. <Rents are way beyond reach especially when the landlords raise the rent by $400-$600 a month in one year so they can live off the money they receive while their tenants are working 3 jobs to pay the rent.> In response to the raising of insurance, maintenance and repairs, mortgages and interest rates, land values and property taxes. <Homelessness is in every country.> Not Cuba, North Korea or any oil-rich Gulf state.
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  218. No. Most public housing are mismanaged neglected dumps.
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  219.  @brianmacpherson4913  <The housing market here, like many other places around the world is being manipulated by wealthy owners and investment groups> Not really. The government is the one doing the manipulating.
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