Denver's Cannabis Boom and Housing Bust
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Taking away their blankets.. C'mon boys thts straight fucky.
If you can't afford to live there, don't move there. I always wanted to move to Denver, so I worked my ass off trying to get a job there while I lived in a different state. After multiple rejections I landed a minimum wage job as an EMT and moved there. Even on minimum wage, with good budgeting and long hours of work, I lived in a nice apartment with no real financial trouble. It's not impossible and neither Denver nor life owes you anything.
This is what Cali is slowly becoming unfortunately! #FuckTheGovernment #FuckYourCannabisMonopoly #DecriminializeCannabis #GrowYourOwn
There's legal weed, there should be plenty tax money to take car of he homeless
I use to live in that area at 5:53 for many years, 12 years in CO in general and can't believe how fast prices property prices increased.
If they’re not welcome , why do they stay?
Dave Ramsey
I miss denver
I live here in Denver and this is the dumbest piece iv ever seen….it does not talk about the buildings going up before Weed, the oil and gas that brings jobs in, and the great companies moving their business to the area…..it talks about weed……Sorry VICE…you sucked on this one…Rent goes up…deal with it
go get your hustle on home boy with a baby on the way 313
Maybe the dude should get up before noon and go look for a job. "We have way too much determination to be in this situation"…Jesus, there is hope for me yet.
I moved to Denver in 2015. I got kinda lucky but I got there with 350 bucks. I got a job the first week. The jobs in Denver are definitely there if you want one
Don’t move to Colorado please and thank you, we’re good
wutang
straight mall grab
I don't want to be insensitive but why doesn't the guy get up before 12 and look for a job
Why couldn't vice help them??…
At least in Denver there's space for growth which means construction and more jobs being created (in at least the service sector) for the influx of people. In the Bay Area we're pinned between the mountains, no space to grow and people keep filing in.
Well I used to like Viceland, but now I don't. Why should working class people have to pay for pot heads that moved here just to smoke weed, with no means to live? The irony is overwhelming, you want weed, we gave it to you, except an effect of legal weed was an influx of people moving to Colorado, which guess what WILL DRIVE UP THE COST OF HOUSING!
This is the most basic example of supply and demand.
Shocker someone WHO WAKES UP AT NOON to look for a job, doesn't have enough means to live somewhere expensive. MAYBE you should have thought about that before having a second kid when you're homeless and relocating to somewhere you knew nothing about. There are tons of homeless kids here because they came for the weed and now people who work and pay taxes suffer the burden of it. This story is a joke.
People need to start recognizing this issue for what it really is. This isn't a result of Colorado's legalization. This is exposure of the harms of prohibition, magnified by fact that so many people are rushing to the area after Colorado did the right thing and legalized.
It's pretty easy to get away with smoking weed in Missouri and my rent here is $216 a month. Lol
All that money in tax revenue they should help them.
deadbeats…. sleeping till 12. getting pregnant w/no job… c'mon… grow up
America…land of the greedy.
WAMPLER = DUMBASS
I'm not going to bash this couple but they do in fact need to get their shit together. He needs to get up early, go to the library and put in applications non stop, get tattoo makeup to cover up those regrettable penatentry permanent "art" on his neck, sharpen up and get the fucking job done. All the Wife needs to do is to continually keep seeking help from Welfare to help get them on their feet until she is able to work again, they have alot of services that they can utilize like first month rent help, food stamps, pantries, grassroots, vehicles for change etc I mean the list goes on the Government does care and so do Non Profit Organizations. Or move back to where you guys were at least stable and actually have a legit plan plus money to move again.
Maybe he'd have a job if he didn't sleep 'til noon.
I feel bad for the family. Little girl is so cute and innocent. Doesn't fully understand what her family is going through. What a shame for her to have a lazy ass of a father. The wife seems to have no other choice. Idk this sucks, I feel horrible cause i've been in that position when I was a little kid coming from Mexico to the US. But this also makes me feel pretty blessed. Blessed to have a well paying full-time job with lots of ot, no kids and no spouse. Barely 22, 401k, a roof over my head and a 96 tacoma taking me from point A to point B. Best of luck to that family; really hope they make it out of the streets.
Housing has always been expensive in Colorado. I was homeless there for years before and after the cannabis. In 2000 I paid 1300 a month for a room in a house.
What stops all this lowlife from moving out of Denver to more affordable areas and finding ANY kind of job there? I guess they won't be able to leach on generous liberals in that case.
"Denver has become gentrified and homogenized." shows white girl taking picture of her dog. I died lol
Wow that dude is a loser….. no wonder their broke
why do struggle have to involve black people? seriously
as black myself, I'm starting doubting our intellectual facilities to solve our problems.
And hey Indian guy… can u give them a couple hundred bucks to get a hotel? I don’t know if this shit is real or what. This channel needs to go
Where they move from?
G E N T R I F I E D
Black women choose the WORST men regardless of skin color!!!!
Im in the hood every week.. Park Hill and its crazy to see white people walking around with their dogs with no problem.
poverty like this is a decision, fuck them I hope the parents are killed and the child finds a better situation
Wow this sounds like a good ad for a slimey lawyer to come stick his face on…oh wait…too late
bad place to live. all you see in downtown is young kids smoking pot fights. Kids smoking pot at school very bad place to live
This woman’s got real trouble.
What I and THE WORLD wanna know.. where is our weed tax going??!?
Dude dont need to smoke weed.
Basically it’s another San Francisco in Making. Drugs, homelessness, high crime and sky rocketed housing cost..
Its eat or be eaten, every man for himself. Haha it’s mostly white that you see on the street , so fuck them anyway
My family in Denver 75 years. The city is disgusting now. I clean up poop and homeless trash Every Day. These people are disgusting, my patience is gone. They’re scary. I wish they had sweeps every day, then maybe these people would move on or get it together