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Homeless in New York: who are these people and how did they end up on the street

Every year with the onset of cold weather in New York, it seems that there are more homeless people. But in fact, they are just moving from the streets to the warm metro. With the increase in the number of homeless people, the number of arrests is also increasing. Human rights activists are confident that the detention of the poor fellows will not solve the problem, so in New York they came up with a new way - they persuade the homeless to go to shelters of their own accord.

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At working noon in Brooklyn, they already have a "party" for three, says Rtvi. One went into hibernation, becoming an art object for his drinking buddies. Although here they call them friends.

David, a resident of New York: “I buy him food. I care about him. Gave him sneakers for 600 dollars. ”

Three comrades say they are not homeless. They have iPhones and rental housing for three. But this is still work at construction sites. As soon as the authorities get tired of such employees, there is nothing to pay for the apartment, and they end up on the streets.

When there is nowhere else to go on the cold New York streets, homeless people bask in the subway. No matter how the police caught them there, there is always a chance to get into the car and stumble upon a homeless person there. Every day, the editors of RTVI observe the same picture.

Regina Fox, Chief Producer of RTVI New York: “This is the man I see about every time I sit in the subway on Springs Street.”

Ekaterina Kotrikadze, Director of RTVI New York: “It smells of him if you knew! The main desire in these cases is just to leave the car, to escape. ”

“At this subway station in Queens lives its own homeless. This settled in comfort. He even has a chair, plastic boxes. Apparently, he is going to stay here for a long time. ”

The police have no legal basis to detain him. Being homeless is not a crime, so according to the instructions of the mayor of New York, Bill De Blasio in the city, special groups were created to help the police.

Photo: RTVI Screenshot

More than 60 thousand people now live in the shelters that are supervised by the city's Department of Homeless Affairs. And about a third of them work, and there is still not enough money to rent an apartment. Mayor De Blasio before his re-election a year ago announced the construction of another 90 overnight shelter. But the homeless do not want to live in them, but are even afraid.

Photo: RTVI Screenshot

Konstantin Musienko, a graduate of the Minsk Polytechnic Institute, came to America in 1996. Things were going well for the young physicist until Hurricane Sandy hit 2012 in New York.

“I lived in the basement. I've got everything sank. I stayed for a couple of years: office work, I wasn’t taken to a computer - I didn’t have the opportunity to renew the certificate. Well, all is lost. ”

In addition, his father died, his wife left. I couldn’t cope with all my troubles and problems. He washed down, lost his job and apartment. Retracted from physicists in the lyrics.

Konstantin Musienko:

“People died for the metal.

People died for the idea.

But die for yourself,

Probably not able to. "

Previously, Vadim Arefyev distributed food to the Brighton homeless at the metro station, but the police drove out from there - they said there was nothing to feed the homeless. Now Arefiev brings hot soup to the gazebo on the oceanfront promenade.

Photo: RTVI Screenshot

So that their fate does not overtake the poet Constantine, Arefyev calls him to a shelter created at the St. John's Foundation. “House of industriousness” - so decided to call this place to do without the terrible word “doss house”. Konstantin says that he is ripe for a new life: he is ready to stop drinking, to undergo detoxification and a four-week rehabilitation at the clinic.

In an unremarkable old house in southern Brooklyn, there is a regular store on the first floor, and on the second, a homeless shelter for 12 people. It compares favorably with the New York social lodgings in that they do not live there according to prison concepts.

Photo: RTVI Screenshot

For a week now they are trying to fix the heating system - a pipe burst through the very cold. Hope only for themselves.

One of the guests or brothers, as they are called here, Vladimir Mechiev from Kazakhstan. In America - 21 year. He arrived on a guest visa, stayed to work on a construction site. Then like everyone else: earned, drank, went into hard drinking.

Vladimir Mechiev, guest: “If it's a romantic, it's easier. I always look at the stars. I had a bottle here. ”

At home there were a wife and two children. Grandchildren, he saw only on Skype. Every month regularly sends 100 dollars. While drinking on the street, I was getting some begging. How he discovered for himself - or rather, uncorked America - the family is aware of.

“They know and call all the time: leave America, leave, it's better here. But something I do not know. America is dragging its feet.

Such trustees as Vadim Arefyev, on all the New York homeless will not get enough. In addition to the lack of such shelters, there is another problem - mental health problems.

Darryn Porcher, former police officer: “Many homeless people have mental problems and other medical problems. And it does not allow them to get a job, and as a result, they have nothing to pay for housing. ”

In some cities, for example, in San Francisco, about half of the homeless are insane. Another category of potential homeless people is low-income people.

Photo: RTVI Screenshot

This risk group today is outside the city homeless program. More than $ 2,5 billions are allocated to it every year. The money goes into the struggle not only with the causes, but with the consequences of the problem, by and large, unsolvable in a multi-million city with high prices. Unresolvable in a free society. Here, after all, they will not resort to the world historical experience with the eviction of homeless people for 101-th kilometer and forced placement in psychiatric hospitals.

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