The UK has a serious homeless issue

Families are finding it harder and harder, and one of the biggest things, and I know I don't even like talking about this, but there is a clear, clear cost of living crisis.

And when I say that, essentially what's happening is our typical things are getting more and more expensive.

There was a video I watched the other day about how even little things like a chocolate bar, they're essentially making the chocolate smaller, but they're actually charging us more.

These things, like my 50 pound weekly shop that I would spend in an Aldi or a Lidl isn't going as further as it used to, especially not five years ago, and especially not 10 years ago.

This continued rise in cost and inflation is also affecting everyone because what's happening is, well, jobs are not rising at the same rate.

[laughs] If they were, then everything would kinda be okay.

But the government ain't really doing much to solve it, and me and you, all we can do is just try and make as much money as humanly possible, and we end up stuck in this rat race.

But sometimes these people that are facing homelessness, it's not for the lack of trying.

Now, if you live in London, and I grew up in London, I've only moved out of London a year ago, so, um, I see this all the time.

We-- You see homeless people on the train, on the streets, and you speak to them and you'll know they al- they always have these crazy stories, these life stories.

But those are not the only type of people that end up homeless.

It's not just drug abusers.

Like, legit families that are working typical jobs, they can also end up homeless because they can't afford the rent.

They default on their mortgage.

They get evicted, so on and so forth, and these situations are happening.

And in a country that is supposed to be one of the, you know, most advanced countries in the world, these statistics are absolutely abhorrent, shocking, pretty bad.

So we, we have to think to ourselves what's going on.

On top of that, w- we're seeing food banks being used now more than ever.

Like, the line for food banks are the highest they've ever been.

That is a sign and a symptom of the society that, you know, we have built.

My next real question is, like, when we f- when we think about this, who is affected the most? Now, there's two main people in our society that are the most vulnerable, the elderly and children.

Now, essentially, when it comes to these type of people, we know that they are the most vulnerable.

We've actually seen that there's a growing number of young people that are getting turned away from homeless shelters, um, centers for help because firstly, they're already overloaded, and they, they, they, they can only handle so many people.

And the people that are working in these centers and homeless shelters, they're only getting paid so much, and essentially they don't have the funding.

And wherever there's poverty, we see crime, and then we notice that we blame a lot of these homeless people and stuff for crime, but you know, it's kind of like a vicious cycle.