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@NKernytskyy
October 23, 2026 at 11:15 am
(I honestly did not watch the video.)
@nuhatalmasum9092
October 23, 2026 at 11:17 am
More academic level
@homewall724
October 23, 2026 at 11:25 am
Sounds like a great voluntary charity. Just don’t make it a “right” or it will be destroyed by bad actors. Like this won’t work for the mentally ill or serious drug addicts.
@daledevernon56
October 23, 2026 at 11:25 am
Homelessness is a business and if it wasn’t profitable it wouldn’t exist.
@lightningrod1063
October 23, 2026 at 12:26 pm
No. Homelessness is the oldest of all problems. It’s definitely not profitable. This is a remarkably stupid comment compared to the average.
@daledevernon56
October 23, 2026 at 12:46 pm
@lightningrod1063spoken like somebody who has never been homeless before and doesn’t understand the concept of financing homelessness based on how many people there are in an area instead of how many people are actually rehabilitated.
@beerasaurus
October 23, 2026 at 11:29 am
If your’re homeless just buy a house
@chilirasbora
October 23, 2026 at 11:32 am
If you’re homeless go to California, they’ll make sure you have everything you need 🤪
@ez043109
October 23, 2026 at 11:40 am
@chilirasbora Yeah, if you consider prison shelter. Homelessness is ILLEGAL here!😂
@onjulraz754
October 23, 2026 at 11:54 am
“If youre going to become homeless, just try to keep your home”
– this speech
@colinellicott9737
October 23, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Clearly you are not shod for this excursion.
@zahatikoff
October 23, 2026 at 12:52 pm
@colinellicott9737ownership is an objectively better way when it comes to housing.
Even if it’s not a house, owning an apartment is way way better than renting it.
Upd: just to make it clear, I’m not saying that preventive action is unnecessary, but affordability and availability of housing is _the_ thing to tend to
@onjulraz754
October 23, 2026 at 2:07 pm
@colinellicott9737ah, yes. “I don’t like that so you’re wrong”. Classic internet defense. Surely it’s not my decades of nonprofit work
@onjulraz754
October 23, 2026 at 6:45 pm
@zahatikoffthat’s like saying we need to up food production to help the hungry, when the us alone throws away enough trash to feed every person on earth.
The problem is deeper than a single solution
@colinellicott9737
October 23, 2026 at 8:07 pm
@onjulraz754 Congrats. Rarely have I seen such a misguided assumption, and response. Do better.
@johnsonanum
October 23, 2026 at 11:58 am
George Carlin already told us the solution: convert all golf courses into housing for homeless people.
@i.a.o.2909
October 23, 2026 at 12:17 pm
False: seatbelt – yes! But you earned(-ing) the car. Make conditions (beloved liberal word “empower”) individuals to buy safe housing. Empower ther dignity of self-ethicacy, self-motivation, and self-control. Don’t give out “affordable” (unsafe) housing. Educate the public. Invest in Universities, Colleges, and Tech. Schools!
@jacquelinejanssen2739
October 23, 2026 at 12:25 pm
This is one of the best speeches, maybe the best one I’ve ever heard about prevention. Thank you so much, Ms. Loving I’m looking up your organization to see where I can make a contribution I also work in the area of prevention among families who lose their kids to homelessness due to untreated mental illness, where mothers are denied the right to help so this is very meaningful to me, and I’m going to see if I can put it on my Wixart as a resource for you and by the way, what a great public speaker you are, and thanks for all your hard work over the years
@FriarTuck81
October 23, 2026 at 12:28 pm
I’ve been chronically homeless for 25 years and this is the very thing that I’ve been complaining about this isn’t Homeless prevention. This is Homeless services. If you’re gonna teach true Homeless prevention you have to teach people to own their income on their shelter and live minimally. I actually teach this on my YouTube channel because I know what real Homeless prevention is. This is just the entry-level into Homeless services with this lady is talking about and does nothing to actually solve the problem. It just covers a gap for a few months until the person is right back in the same situation again years later quit acting like you’re solving something when all you’re doing is putting a different spin on it.
@gmantalk
October 23, 2026 at 1:20 pm
The question of what happens before someone loses their home deserves attention alongside what happens afterward. Hearing the people doing this work broadens the conversation beyond the crisis we can see. Every discussion of solutions should keep the people affected at its center.
@user-wp8yx
October 23, 2026 at 1:22 pm
I’m sick of blatent advert ted talks. Enough already.
@Ahmadsalah2004
October 23, 2026 at 2:24 pm
Wonderful, I really like how you presented that episode and how you expressed your ideas to reach our hearts, I wish you all the best.
@BWW2452
October 23, 2026 at 2:33 pm
Lots of people go to work and live in their car. They don’t make a wage to have housings.
@Scott-w2k
October 23, 2026 at 2:49 pm
Yes to this EXCEPT: doesn’t go far enough upstream. Still addressing symptoms and not the disease. Doesn’t address a pipeline of non stop need for these case managers. To be clear, I have worked in this field for 30+ years and I don’t disagree with her. But how about this instead: people don’t have to ask/beg for help to stay housed and others don’t have to devote their professional lives to case management. How about we make work pay? How about we make housing a basic right and then invest in that instead of the prison industrial complex and a military budget so overstuffed that the word bloated has no more meaning? Oh that’s right, I forgot: the evils of socialism, etc. Never mind. Carry on as you were.
@tajwilliams9693
October 23, 2026 at 3:17 pm
This is a great video!
@AveryBlueRemix
October 23, 2026 at 4:06 pm
This talk was a total waste of time. Nothing actionable was said. Basically just an advertisement for her charity.
@gracetaylor5341
October 23, 2026 at 4:46 pm
Amazing work! Thanks for your service to the world
@Hammeredprawn
October 23, 2026 at 7:28 pm
Been homeless for over 15yrs. I have had an extremely difficult life but I hate it so much when people make it their business to help. . . Mind your own business. It hurts so turn the cheek. Let us get on with it.
@BonnieShadow33
October 25, 2026 at 12:33 pm
Am I understanding you correctly that you *don’t* want anyone helping you? If that’s right, would you be willing to explain why? I’m very curious because I was homeless for 5 months in 2017, and I would’ve given anything to have this level of support. I’d genuinely like to understand your perspective.
@Hammeredprawn
October 23, 2026 at 7:32 pm
None of that stuff helps. It only makes people feel more insecure and a lot more vulnerable especially when your case worker is a psycho nut job.
@BritishRick
October 23, 2026 at 7:58 pm
Life is unpredictable. You cannot predict the unpredictability. You could be fine one day, and on another your world is turns upside down.
@nao_kaka
October 23, 2026 at 8:40 pm
Silicon Valley inventing AI that writes poetry while a new mom sleeps on a 24-hour city bus named “Hotel 22” is the most dystopian sentence I’ve ever heard 😭
What people miss about eviction is that losing your home isn’t just losing a roof… it’s a total system wipe. Think about it like your car engine. Paying $1,500 to cover someone’s back rent after a medical emergency is like buying a $50 quart of oil when the dashboard light blinks. Waiting until they’re actually on the street is like saying, “Nah, let’s wait until the engine catches fire on the highway, tow the burnt wreck, and build a brand-new car from scratch.”
Once that eviction actually hits your record, the math gets brutal. No landlord will touch you for 7 years, you lose your mailing address so you can’t even apply for jobs, your stuff gets tossed, and your brain’s entire mental bandwidth gets hijacked by “where do we sleep in 4 hours?” You literally don’t have the brainpower left to plan next month when you’re surviving tonight. Catching people before they fall off that cliff isn’t even charity, it’s just basic common sense 🙂
@BonnieShadow33
October 25, 2026 at 12:46 pm
💯 I was homeless in 2017, and managed to move out (leaving behind most of my belongings) just before being evicted, thus preventing having that on my record. But yeah, when you’re literally living one day at a time, it’s impossible to plan ahead. Even after getting a home it took months before I could plan a week in advance, and it wasn’t until I was awarded SSDI that I could plan more than a month in advance. Instability is like a brain infection, robbing you of your ability to plan, and it takes a long time to recover and believe that you’re stable.
@nao_kaka
October 25, 2026 at 8:03 pm
@BonnieShadow33 Thank you so much for sharing this, and I’m so glad you made it through to the other side. “Instability is like a brain infection” is such a powerful way to put it—it really takes the nervous system a long time to realize the fire is actually out. Wishing you continued peace and stability 🙂
@StoriesWithEvelynHart
October 23, 2026 at 9:15 pm
The story of that young mother riding the bus for two days with her newborn broke my heart a little. And learning that timely help — like they gave Rose — can pull a family back from the brink… it’s given me real hope. Thank you for this talk, Jen.
@Ready2Shoot_309
October 23, 2026 at 11:20 pm
When I lived in Seattle (2022-2024) I saw a fentanyl crisis, not a homeless crisis. (This was my experience)
@elijahcassidy
October 24, 2026 at 2:07 am
I really hope I’m wrong here, but this speech has a lot of the hallmarks of ChatGPT’s writing skill. The structure of sentences being based in a “Not ___, but ___” rhythm feels unnatural here, and it’s one of the telltale signs something has been writing by AI. Hopefully I’m misjudging it, and her way of writing a speech just happens to align with the trends of large language models, but this particular speech does feel suspicious.
@AbdulwhabAaa
October 24, 2026 at 5:23 am
Thank you, good job
@internationalrescuefoundat9070
October 24, 2026 at 7:06 am
great work
@JuventasAlexander
October 24, 2026 at 9:42 am
Unbelievable
@marcellaspizzetta9689
October 24, 2026 at 12:37 pm
I have a solution to decrease homelessness: first force the cost or rent down to where it is less than 1 minimum wage paycheck per month so that anyone with a job can get a place. Second, help people get jobs. I have met so many people who are motivated and determined that do not get a chance in the first place. Unfortunately some people would still be homeless if you did both of those things due to bad circumstances… That is where helping people who already have a place to live prevent homelessness comes in.
Also, I know what it is like to live in a car for a little while, but I thank GOD for that car. Some people don’t even have that.
Thank you very much for your talk.
@sadiqgiyasuddin6600
October 24, 2026 at 11:07 pm
She gives a ted talk abt homelessness but ignores all the homeless when walking past em. 😔 I seen it w my own eyes 👀
@GoalZone-k1s
October 24, 2026 at 11:50 pm
God bless you so much forever
@GiovanniDeMaioLangella
October 25, 2026 at 3:28 am
It is interesting to see a lot of people clapping their hands and talking about homelessness without having any experience with it.
Enjoy your homes, your cars, your goods and your fake lives.
@BonnieShadow33
October 25, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I was homeless for 5 months in 2017 and I applaud her.
@HearbeatsZAcademy
October 25, 2026 at 6:32 am
Stopping homelessness before it starts reframes the whole conversation from crisis response to prevention – an upstream approach centred on dignity and early support rather than emergency response. Prevention-first thinking like this deserves a much bigger audience. An important talk on a topic that touches every single community, whatever the postcode.
@dear-future-ai
October 25, 2026 at 11:37 am
Liquidate Chase Banks’s property portfolio?
@eddenz1356
October 25, 2026 at 1:32 pm
I grew up in the South Bay Area. I solved homelessness for myself. I moved
@dudeonbike800
October 26, 2026 at 11:52 am
Good for you. I grew up there too. So did my mother. And grandmother.
But what about the worker who replaced you? Or the thousands of other workers needed in SV to do the service jobs?
NPR interviewed a Palo Alto fast food worker who was finally forced to leave Palo Alto. Big surprise, right? Duh! This worker moved to Tracy where they could find more affordable housing. Did they find a job in Tracy?
Nope! They commuted to PA! Total insanity! To drive an hour plus (drive time 9am Monday: 1.5 hr. THREE hours every day) each way to a fast food job? Horrible for the worker. Horrible for traffic. Horrible for their car. Horrible for the roads. Horrible for petroleum addiction. Horrible for their health! Horrible on so many levels!
So moving isn’t the solution. There is still a low-wage worker working that job. They are either doing a stupid commute or living in substandard housing and facing endless financial struggle.
We need higher wages & more rewarding jobs with benefits & all the rest.
Basic Minimum Income and universal single-payer healthcare are desperately needed to help restore financial security to Americans.
Stop settling for less and accepting the abuse capitalism dishes out!
@eddenz1356
October 25, 2026 at 1:33 pm
Prevention
No drugs
No babies out of wedlock
Get a skill
Done!
@eddenz1356
October 25, 2026 at 1:35 pm
How not to solve homelessness: tax the working population; spend a few billion on homelessness; give to political cronies. Watch homelessness grow. Tax more. Good job California. I retired in a different state with no state income tax.
@dudeonbike800
October 26, 2026 at 12:22 pm
Well said.
But don’t fall for the “tax cut” ruse!
Tax cuts are a thinly-veiled regressive taxation program. Please don’t fall for it!!!
Your no state income tax state places more of a tax burden on the poor. Bummer.
@eddenz1356
October 25, 2026 at 1:37 pm
Solution
Give drug addicts more money.
@MrGringoenCR
October 25, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Great work!
@dudeonbike800
October 26, 2026 at 10:01 am
Very important talk. I do appreciate her efforts and ability to actually keep people off the street. Unfortunately her work still misses the point. Her “fixes”are nothing of the sort; they are band aids.
I grew up in Silicon Valley. My Mom did too and before it existed. Today I see the homeless in San Jose. My very expensive childhood SJ home is just blocks from the homeless living on the banks of the Guadalupe River. 10 new homes built on the river’s banks are FEET from the homeless.
Too bad these $2M new homes have done NOTHING to stave off homelessness.
I’m so glad the speaker quoted the “771,000 US homeless.” Why? Because the US had 1,200,000 empty housing units in 2024. Almost 2 empty homes per homeless person!
There is no housing shortage!
THERES A MONEY SHORTAGE!
And a “good jobs shortage!”
And a “benefits shortage!”
And a “worker’s rightsshortage!”
And a “health care shortage!”
And a “union jobs shortage!”
And a “retirement plan shortage!”
And a “at-will jobs problem!”
And a “corporate power problem!”
And a “LACK OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY SHORTAGE‼️‼️‼️
Which exemplifies just how FAR OFF THE MARK this talk is! Her “solutions”are only addressing the SYMPTOMS!
Low pay & prosperity jobs simply perpetuate the problem AND the need for “homelessness solutions!”
It frustrates me to MO END to see her reach the same old wrong conclusions, just like everyone else.
Case in point: the impending massive AI job loss on the horizon. Is there ANY actual, meaningful talk of a Basic Minimum Income? Because this, plus other fundamental steps like universal single-payer health care in the US, are a NECESSITY to solve the TRUE CAUSES of homelessness: evaporating American prosperity for all.
I cannot believe I still have to repeat this – even to the so-called “homelessness experts!”
@dudeonbike800
October 26, 2026 at 10:31 am
How is the worker she uses as an example helped by returning to that crappy low-wage, no benefit job? She isn’t! It’s a guarantee loser! She’s back on the treadmill going BACKWARDS financially!
Her labor and time are enriching OTHERS as she continues her life of toil. Her wealth declines while the wealth of her employer grows! And public services are doomed to subsidize her for the rest of her life.
All while Corporate America get more tax cuts & subsidies to exploit and impoverish their workers! (Notice how I didn’t say “employees? That was intentional because workers aren’t even employees anymore! Even THAT is too “costly” for the bean counters! Jettison those benefits, rights & security in favor of “ shareholder vslue!”)
Taxpayer subsidy of a massive wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy!
(And don’t get me started on the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets!” OMG, yet another scheme to impoverish the many!)
See the point yet????
@dudeonbike800
October 26, 2026 at 10:58 am
From Right At Home USA’s website:
“As the housing affordability crisis deepens, more families are teetering on the edge of homelessness. Acting early is critical; without this, the historically high levels of homelessness we see today will continue to rise.”
Ah, the “affordability” ruse too!
Americans NEED MORE MONEY, not 10% off eggs!!!
Dems & progressives have latched onto this like it will be our savior.
WRONG!
We will never achieve economic prosperity chasing some mythical promise of “lower prices!” Sorry, but we live in a growth economy. No way around that. So asking for the impossible is a fool’s errand. (Deflation would be totally destructive to the US economy. It’s a non-starter.)
Why aren’t the main stream & vast majority of progressives pointing at the true problems? Jobs pay too little, they suck, offer no benefits or financial security or true economic prosperity. Why aren’t they trying to fix THIS???
Instead it’s “affordability” and “ housing shortage!” Building more $1.5M+ homes in CA won’t help the homeless. These new homes will be gobbled up by investors to bolster their portfolios, not “bring down prices” and put homeless in them!
I’m beginning to believe progressives are happy stuffing us into high-density, subsidized rental housing while THEY see their paychecks grow exponentially, their homes double in size and their wealth reach stratospheric proportions!
@dudeonbike800
October 26, 2026 at 12:34 pm
Anyone truly interested in this issue and underlying causes needs to read Nicholas Kristoph’s “Tightrope.”
US economic policy has created oligarchy. Oligarchy creates homelessness, dysfunction, drug addiction, domestic abuse, alcoholism, crime, you name it!
Keep denying Americans economic prosperity and see the cycle continue and accelerate.