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Summary

The script discusses the housing crisis in America and provides examples of programs and initiatives in different states and counties to help people with housing costs and homelessness. It emphasizes that help is available but people must actively search for it, call organizations directly, and not rely on Google alone. The speaker wants to open people's minds to the range of assistance programs and encourages an attitude of perseverance in continuing to look for help.

Takeaways

• There are many programs to help with housing costs but they are not well advertised so you have to search for them.
• Colorado, New York, Los Angeles, and Oregon have provided millions in rental assistance, grants, and other housing funds recently.
• You can get grants to help buy a house, landlords can get incentives to rent to low-income people, and there are counselors to guide you.
• Use findhelp.org and call organizations directly instead of just Googling to find housing assistance.
• Don't give up if you don't get help right away - be persistent and keep asking around.
• The speaker's organization provides grants, free computers, and member-to-member assistance for housing issues.

Q & A

What is the main problem discussed in the script?

The main problem is the housing crisis and lack of affordable housing in America.

Why can it be difficult to find housing assistance programs?

Housing assistance programs often don't have advertising budgets to market themselves, so you have to search for them proactively.

What are some examples of recent housing assistance provided?

Colorado provided $500,000 in rental assistance grants. New York gave $128 million to help 33,000 renters. Los Angeles gave grants to landlords who lost rental income.

How can you find organizations to call about housing help?

Use the website findhelp.org and search by your ZIP code for utilities, rent, or homeless assistance. Call every organization, even if not directly helpful.

Why is Googling not the best approach to finding housing help?

Google will show sites that want to profit from you. It's better to contact non-profits directly about assistance programs.

What attitude does the speaker recommend when seeking housing help?

The speaker recommends perseverance and not giving up, even if help is difficult to find at first.

What resources does the speaker's organization provide?

The speaker's organization provides grants, free computers, and member-to-member assistance for housing issues.

What is the purpose of the speaker providing all this information?

The purpose is to open people's minds to the range of housing assistance available and encourage them to actively pursue all options.

What tone does the speaker take when presenting the information?

The tone is urgent yet hopeful - conveying the severity of the problem but also the possibility for help if people persist.

What action does the speaker want the audience to take?

The speaker wants the audience to start calling organizations directly to find housing assistance specific to their situation and location.

Outlines

00:00

Overview of Housing Crisis and Potential Solutions

The paragraph provides an overview of the housing crisis in the country, stating that elected officials are supposed to solve community problems like this. It mentions that new reports come out daily about the housing issues, including rising costs and lack of availability. The speaker then explains the goal is to showcase various housing assistance programs across different states and counties to illustrate there are many potential avenues for help that people may not know about.

05:02

Example Programs Highlighting Rental and Housing Assistance

This paragraph highlights some specific examples of rental and housing assistance programs aimed at providing relief to renters, landlords, and those looking to buy homes. It mentions programs in Oregon, a county program to help people buy houses, incentives for landlords to rent to low income individuals, and statewide efforts in Oregon to allocate funding and support affordable housing. The speaker then recommends using the website FindHelp.org to locate assistance programs for utilities, rent, and homelessness based on an individual's ZIP code.

Keywords

💡housing problem

There is a major housing crisis and shortage of affordable housing in the USA, which the video says affects many people's ability to pay rent, mortgages, and utilities. The video urges people to seek out special programs to help with housing costs. It provides examples of initiatives in Colorado, New York, Los Angeles, and Oregon that are giving money to support rental payments or help people buy homes.

💡elected officials

The video says it is the job of elected government officials to solve problems like the housing crisis that impact communities. It implies citizens should pressure officials to address these issues.

💡grants

Grants are a key source of financial assistance mentioned in the video. Various government and nonprofit programs offer grants to help cover housing costs, home repairs, etc. The video encourages finding and applying for relevant grants.

💡landlords

Some government programs provide incentives like grants to landlords to make rents affordable for low income tenants or to compensate when tenants can't pay rent.

💡find help

The video recommends using the website FindHelp.org to search for utility, rent, and homeless assistance programs in your area by entering your zip code. It has databases of various aid programs.

💡free help

The video promotes contacting certain nonprofits for free financial counseling and help identifying sources of grants and assistance for housing without using profit-seeking companies.

💡navigator program

The video mentions members helping other members through some sort of navigator program to guide people to relevant aid programs. This implies a peer support approach.

💡marketing

The video warns that Google searches will lead to exploitative marketing and companies that won't really help you find housing grants. This critiques profit motives.

💡selfish

Ironically, the video says it is "selfish" to get the good feeling of helping others. This frames assistance as mutually beneficial.

💡community

The video envisions creating a "community" where people help each other solve problems like unaffordable housing costs.

Highlights

The housing problem affects everyone and elected officials should try to solve it.

There are many existing programs to help with housing costs, but they can be hard to find.

Colorado has a new program with $500,000 for rental assistance.

New York is providing $128 million to help pay rent for 33,000 renters.

Los Angeles is giving grants to landlords for unpaid back rent from tenants.

Some counties offer grants to help people buy houses.

Landlords can get grants for renting to low-income tenants.

Oregon allocated $500 million to help keep 8,750 people in permanent housing.

The website FindHelp.org lists utility, rent and homeless assistance programs.

Contact housing counselors, not Google, for help buying a house.

Members are available to help others navigate housing assistance programs.

$75,000 in grants are awarded each month, some for housing.

25 free computers will be given away at the end of the month.

Helping others access housing assistance is beneficial for the whole community.

Housing problems may seem complicated, but can be tackled with persistence.

Transcripts

okay

well I mean it's no news that we have a

housing problem in this country and when

we have a problem I mean that's what

elected officials are supposed to do is

try to solve problems that we have as a

community so everybody's uh affected by

the housing problem you know we can't

pay our rent can't pay our mortgage

can't pay our utilities we don't have

enough places to live um it's getting

too expensive to live and new reports

are coming out every day so here's a

sample of the kind of programs what I

want to do here is really teach you that

there's more than one place to get

housing help it's in a whole bunch of

places you have to uh make a whole bunch

of calls to you know to find help you

know because the tougher the problem is

the tougher that you have to work at it

uh to get problem solved now there's so

many programs out there to solve your

problem but they're not easily available

and a lot of people don't know about

them so you have to be smarter than the

average

smarter than the average beer I think

that was some cartoon I used to walk oh

Yogi beer right smarter than the average

bear or something like that okay and

it's all around the country now now look

at Colorado they have something called

the golden awards

$500,000 and they just started this in

January 11th and they're getting that's

money for rental okay that's rental

problem so if you're in Colorado you

know these

organizations uh they call it thriving

communities now how would it fun yeah

you don't know what to ask for whatever

and see none of these places have

advertising money to advertise to find

you so that's what's Google see who will

find you if you go to Google to look for

this you're just going to find people

want to get your money not give your

money because of give you money because

the people want to give you money don't

have advertising money to find you in

Google so just stay away from Google

okay and I'll show you sources at the

end and by the way another place to look

for like rent money or something is

really Ai and if you go there they'll

show you the kinds of organizations

where you live to do that so that's one

that's $500,000 $500,000 they have um

for rental here now New York is having

uh enough money $128

million they're going to give for PE

33,000 renters to help pay rent 33,000

renters wow now that's a big chunk of

people right and that's just in New York

33,000 if you're in New York you want

know about I'll have this link you know

again in the bottom so you have to

follow up it takes work on your part

it's not going to just sit in your lap

uh that's why I just hope this uh

incentivizes you that the stuff is out

there so that you keep looking the

people who don't get stuff or the people

quit so you don't want to be a quitter

you want to keep knocking on doors and

find out what's there uh okay here's

another one Los Angeles now they're

giving rent to landlords okay and

actually what what this program does is

give landlords if you were renting to

somebody and they couldn't pay the rent

and you couldn't get the money they'll

give you the money and actually so if

you were landlord and have back in like

uh

2022 they're going back that far if

somebody screwed you out of rent back to

April 2022 they'll give you up to

$30,000 in that okay now unfortunately

that closed already that just closed

like 3 4 days ago so uh you have to be

clever now and find things like that

that may be where you live see that's

the kind of thing I'm trying to open

your mind to see the kinds of things

that may be out there now here's

something I found they said this is a

county program to help you buy a house

$155,000 and they call this keys to the

to B because they want people to own buy

a house so what they've done is they

give a grant now the the county gives a

grant the state gives a grant and the

employ lawyer gives a grant so they all

give you grants and you get up to like

uh 10 you $15,000 of Grants to help buy

a house because they want you to be

housed because if you can't you can't

come to work right if you don't have a

place to live so that's right they're

trying to help people buy houses so how

would you know that you don't you know I

don't know any of this stuff until I

find

it okay and so that's a county now

here's where landlords they're trying to

get more landlords to uh to uh rent to

lowincome people so here in this County

they're giving grants to the landlords

to incentivize them to make their rent

low for lowincome people now that's for

people who get like uh vouchers and

things like that nobody rent no well the

government's going to give them now

$7,500 if they rent to you now that's

cool so you got a voucher pay part of

the rent and then the government will

give him another

$7,500 wow who would have know to to

talk ask about that now in Oregon

they're really working on this thing I

me because they got so many homeless

there in Oregon they just signed an

executive order this is the state so

it's the the the governor of the state

the whole thing there's uh you know just

executive order for $500 more million

doar for uh housing for people and now

it's going to keep

8,750 people are now going to be able to

afford to pay rent okay $

8,750 P because they're doing $500

million man and they want people in

permanent housing you can't be flitting

around and you know build a career build

anything or employers you know can't

can't get good labor because they're

they don't have a place to live live or

they lose their see this is why laborers

I mean businesses are involved you uh

because they need good employees that

have steady lives so they can come come

to work every day so okay how do you

find stuff like this where you are well

my favorite one is find help and there's

three things you you need help with the

utilities you put your ZIP code in there

see utilities you need help for rent put

your ZIP code in there and you see the

pr for it you may be help for homeless

put your ZIP code in there and you see

all the sources for homeless now there

going to be a bunch of sources or even

if there's a handful I mean the way you

use this is to call everyone even if

they're helpful or not because they'll

tell you somebody else who's helpful

this is going to take you know if you if

you haven't had any luck yet and you've

been trying so-called then you're going

to have to roll up your sleeves and call

as many people as you can and you have

to get people who are in the business of

solving your problem okay that's what's

need about find help everybody you're

going to find there are people who get

grants to help solve your problem so if

they can't do it personally they may

know somebody else who will do it

because they work in people you know

circles like that then I'm also going to

put a listing of uh the 75 there's

there's really like 89 places where you

could get free help to buy a house and

these are all counselors don't go to

Google you're just going to get real

estate agents and stuff like that you

don't want that you want somebody who

knows the landscape for getting free

grants and helps you get uh housing

because of that and doesn't make any

money off of

you so they don't force you to buy

something and go and that you can't

afford and all this kind of crap so you

want to talk to people who are in the

business of giving you money for free

and helping you find uh other sources of

free money and help to get housed okay

all these organizations are free but

don't go to Google to look for them

please because you just get caught up in

something that you marketing is too good

in this

country you know you and I going to

Google is like bringing a peashooter to

a gunfight you know you don't send a

chance get out of that okay and what we

do also is give grants every every month

$75,000 and and there's grants you could

use for anything you want are $500,000

some are just for rent some are for home

repair and stuff like that and we also

give out free computers and we have a

deadline soon at the end of the month

the 30th we'll give out 25 free

computers so apply for that if you're a

member if you're not a member it's letoh

help.com and actually what we're doing

now is having members help members MERS

so you'll see uh certain times of the

day they'll click on and you'll see them

pop up as free help hey I'm here to help

you the question so these are like

Navigators to help you through the

system because it's a little complicated

okay I know and I've been it's still

complicate for me and I've been doing

this 48 years so that's why I'm trying

to break it down to how the average

person can use it you can you can learn

anything I mean you learn how to ride a

bike right you learn how to drive a car

right learn how to you know use a

computer right you didn't think you

would you did so you could use this too

but just take a minute or two and let me

help you please because it's very

selfish for me to help you because it

feels so good and that's why I have

memories helping members now too and

they see oh how good that feel so it's

good to help so we're a community of

just helping each other so let us try to

help you

too