{"id":1480038,"date":"2024-07-28T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1480038"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T19:40:00","slug":"one-man-found-the-infamous-carpet-trails-in-florida-that-lead-to-enormous-homeless-encampments-way-back-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/one-man-found-the-infamous-carpet-trails-in-florida-that-lead-to-enormous-homeless-encampments-way-back-in-the-woods\/1480038\/","title":{"rendered":"One Man Found The Infamous “Carpet Trails” In Florida That Lead To Enormous Homeless Encampments Way Back In The Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Man Found The Infamous “Carpet Trails” In Florida That Lead To Enormous Homeless Encampments Way Back In The Woods<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If you are still able to afford a decent home, you should consider yourself to be incredibly blessed, because vast numbers of Americans do not have a permanent place to live at this point.\u00a0 <\/strong>Homelessness in the United States is\u00a0at the highest level ever recorded<\/a>, and it has been growing at the fastest pace ever recorded.\u00a0 The homeless encampments that have been popping up all over our major cities have been making lots of headlines in recent years, but many of the homeless live and die in very isolated places far from public view.\u00a0 What I am about to share with you should deeply sadden all of us.<\/p>\n

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Way back in the woods in southwest Florida, trails that have been made out of discarded carpets lead to absolutely enormous homeless encampments where hordes of homeless people have made homes for themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One man was able to find these infamous \u201ccarpet trails\u201d, and he posted footage of them\u00a0on his YouTube channel<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Coastal areas of southern Florida are very popular among the homeless because the nights never get too cold even during the winter.<\/p>\n

But there are plenty of other hazards, and just trying to stay alive can be a real struggle.<\/p>\n

Of course the west coast is dealing with an even greater crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Portland, homeless encampments have taken over vast stretches of the city and nobody seems to have any solutions.<\/p>\n

KATU recently visited one of the most notorious homeless encampments, and they discovered\u00a0that it has gotten even bigger<\/a>\u00a0since the last time they visited it\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This is what a collapsing society looks like.<\/p>\n

Poverty and hunger are spreading like wildfire, and the deplorable conditions in many of our core urban areas are being openly mocked all over the globe.<\/p>\n

In fact, in China they are actually\u00a0\u201cproducing documentaries on the collapse of American cities\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

The Chinese are now producing documentaries on the collapse of American cities. What this showcases is the\u00a0grim aftermath of decades of deindustrialization, disastrous progressive policies, and an opioid crisis\u2014ironically fueled by China.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese are making documentaries about ultra-extreme poverty and decaying cities since they don\u2019t exist in China anymore,\u201d X user\u00a0S.L. Kanthan\u00a0<\/em>wrote in a recent post,\u00a0accompanied by a short clip from the documentary highlighting the implosion of Oakland, California.<\/p>\n

Since the video was narrated in Chinese, X user\u00a0TranslateMom<\/em>\u00a0translated some of the captions, which said,\u00a0\u201cEverywhere is garbage \u2026 People don\u2019t live in places. There are wanderers everywhere.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the primary reasons why so many people are forced to live in the streets is because housing has become ridiculously unaffordable.<\/p>\n

If you can believe it, there are now\u00a0237 U.S. cities<\/a>\u00a0where \u201cbuyers will find a price tag of $1 million or more on the typical starter home\u201d\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

A million-dollar price tag no longer means lavish and luxurious living. In more than 200 U.S. cities, buyers will find a price tag of $1 million or more on the typical starter home, a new Zillow\u00ae analysis finds.<\/p>\n

The typical \u201cstarter home\u201d \u2014 defined for this analysis as being among those in the lowest third of home values in a given region \u2014 is worth at least $1 million in 237 cities, the highest number of cities ever. Five years ago, there were only 84 such cities.<\/p>\n

That is nuts!<\/p>\n

Who can afford to pay a million bucks for a \u201cstarter home\u201d?<\/p>\n

This is what rampant inflation has done to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has absolutely eviscerated our standard of living, and ordinary Americans such as you and I are feeling a tremendous amount of pain right now.<\/p>\n

According\u00a0to Zillow<\/a>, California, New York and New Jersey are the states that have the most cities where a typical \u201cstarter home\u201d costs at least a million dollars\u2026<\/p>\n

Exactly half of all states have at least one city with a typical starter home worth $1 million or more. There are 117 such cities in California, well ahead of New York (31) and New Jersey (21), which have the second- and third-highest numbers. Florida and Massachusetts round out the top five with 11 each.<\/p>\n

Among metropolitan areas, the New York City metro, which includes parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has the most cities with million-dollar starter homes at 48. The San Francisco metro has the next highest count at 44, followed by Los Angeles (35), San Jose (15), and Miami and Seattle, each with eight. Irvine, with a population of more than 300,000, is the biggest city with $1 million starter homes.<\/p>\n

Of course California is also being overwhelmed by homeless encampments right now too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Progressive policies have resulted in a chronic shortage of affordable housing, and that isn\u2019t going to change any time soon.<\/p>\n

Sadly, conditions are only going to get worse all over the nation because our economic momentum is rapidly taking us in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

For example, we just learned that credit card delinquency rates have risen\u00a0to the highest level ever recorded<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

A growing number of Americans are falling behind on their monthly credit card payments as they continue to battle high inflation and interest rates.<\/p>\n

New data published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows that credit card delinquency rates in the first quarter of 2024 rose to the highest level since 2012, when the Fed began tracking the data. All stages of credit card delinquency \u2014 30, 60 and 90 days past due \u2014 rose during the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n

And another major retailer\u00a0just went bankrupt<\/a>\u00a0and is closing lots of stores\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Home goods retailer Conn\u2019s HomePlus filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday and announced plans to close at least 70 locations across 13 states.<\/p>\n

On its website, Conn\u2019s says it will close 18 locations in Florida, nine in Texas and seven in Arizona. Other states that will see stores close include Virginia, Colorado, Mississippi and Oklahoma, among others.<\/p>\n

Everywhere you look, there is suffering.<\/p>\n

But for the moment, those at the very top of the economic food chain are still thriving.<\/p>\n

In fact, the wealthiest one percent have actually gotten\u00a042 trillion dollars<\/a>\u00a0wealthier during the past decade\u2026<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, Oxfam said Thursday, ahead of a G20 summit in Brazil where taxing the super-rich tops the agenda.<\/p>\n

Despite this windfall, taxes on the rich had plummeted to \u201chistoric lows\u201d, the NGO added, warning of \u201cobscene levels\u201d of inequality with the rest of the world \u201cleft to scrap for crumbs\u201d.<\/p>\n

A day of reckoning is coming for them too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, a day of reckoning\u00a0is rapidly approaching<\/a>\u00a0for the entire planet.<\/p>\n

Our system is fundamentally flawed, and decades of really bad decisions have brought us to a breaking point.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So please don\u2019t look down on those that have lost their homes and have no place to live, because lots more people will be joining them soon.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n

Michael\u2019s new\u00a0book\u00a0entitled\u00a0\u201cChaos\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is available\u00a0in paperback<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0for the Kindle<\/a>\u00a0on Amazon.com,\u00a0and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at\u00a0michaeltsnyder.substack.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 07\/28\/2024 – 11:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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