People Are Living In Sewers Now… Because Rent Is Impossible

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:12]Smells like pee.

[00:00:14]>> Where's the ground?

[00:00:25]>> Well, I just want to see how can I use a flashlight real quick.

[00:00:30]This is like a centur.

[00:00:53]>> Hello.

[00:01:06]Just be careful.

[00:01:09]>> This just goes out to the other area.

[00:01:13]>> All right. So, first off, the trek that they took to get back there is impressive alone. And to still think that they saw all those items from people who live there, wild. Now, I will say this, guys.

[00:01:27]We're coming to a time where homelessness is is getting worse. I mean, even here in the Midwest, I feel like whenever we lived out west, when we lived out east, and when we lived out in Hawaii was actually horrible. The homeless problem population out in Hawaii was was massive. Now, I will say if I was homeless, that's one area I'm going to be living is Hawaii. But it was it was quite shocking how many people were homeless out on the island. Uh we lived out there I mean gosh that was probably 10 years ago or so now and it was uh it it was pretty bad. But I feel like with how things are getting even more and more expensive, I'm seeing the homeless population is I mean where I live here in southern Missouri, southwest Missouri is getting worse.

[00:02:17]Now, I don't know if that's because of, you know, Highway 44 that's driving through our, you know, through our town and that's just an easy drop off spot. I I don't I don't know. But what we're seeing here in today's videos is is the the places that people are staying and just how bad times are getting to where we're literally seeing people live in sewers and underground.

[00:02:40]Crazy.

[00:02:42]>> How are you?

[00:02:44]>> How are you?

[00:02:45]>> You've been good.

[00:02:46]>> Yeah. in.

[00:02:47]>> See, >> you still live here, huh?

[00:02:49]>> Yeah.

[00:02:49]>> Yeah. This is the spot right here.

[00:02:51]>> Can you show me it again?

[00:02:55]>> Uh-huh.

[00:02:58]>> Okay.

[00:03:02]This how people living out here in LA, man.

[00:03:06]>> My boy got the whole bridge to himself.

[00:03:11]>> You got the shower, right?

[00:03:13]>> Yeah.

[00:03:13]>> Shower.

[00:03:14]>> Mhm.

[00:03:14]>> And then what else do you have here? You got your room over here, right?

[00:03:17]>> Yeah, my room.

[00:03:19]>> Oh, you have a bed now?

[00:03:20]>> Yeah.

[00:03:21]>> No way. Wow.

[00:03:26]What? This is sick.

[00:03:30]What? With your bears on there then?

[00:03:32]What? You got your >> What is this? The living room.

[00:03:36]>> Huh?

[00:03:36]>> The living room.

[00:03:37]>> Yeah.

[00:03:38]>> What? Hey, you upgraded since I saw you last.

[00:03:42]>> Yeah.

[00:03:43]>> Everything good?

[00:03:44]>> Yeah.

[00:03:45]>> Yeah. Are you working or anything now?

[00:03:47]>> No.

[00:03:48]>> No, not yet.

[00:03:49]>> Not yet.

[00:03:49]>> Well, good to see you, bro.

[00:03:51]>> Like I try to show people this is how people live, right? We got to make a living out here sometimes.

[00:03:55]>> I I have light, but they barely came and cut the wire over there.

[00:04:00]>> Oh, yeah. So, you have to figure it out again.

[00:04:01]>> Yeah.

[00:04:02]>> Something else.

[00:04:03]>> That's the only thing.

[00:04:05]>> That's the only thing. You have no power.

[00:04:07]>> Yeah.

[00:04:07]>> But hey, at least you got somewhere to sleep.

[00:04:09]>> Yeah.

[00:04:09]>> And you're good from the rain that's coming up.

[00:04:11]>> Yeah.

[00:04:12]>> What's your name again?

[00:04:13]>> Fetty.

[00:04:14]>> Fetty.

[00:04:14]>> Yeah. Nice to meet you, Fetty. Fetty like >> Can you do it?

[00:04:18]>> No.

[00:04:18]>> Can I see you do like this?

[00:04:20]>> No.

[00:04:21]>> No. Like you got to bend over.

[00:04:23]>> There you go. Like you're on Fetty.

[00:04:27]>> Thank you for showing me again, bro.

[00:04:28]This is cool.

[00:04:29]>> Yeah, a little bit. I was clean up.

[00:04:31]>> This is where you cook.

[00:04:32]>> Yeah.

[00:04:33]>> Nice. This is the probably the craziest one that I've saw where people live and you have it set up.

[00:04:40]>> It's crazy, bro. Thank you for showing me again.

[00:04:42]>> Yeah. Yeah, he has a shower and everything right here.

[00:04:45]>> Shower.

[00:04:48]>> My boy got a maid down here.

[00:04:51]>> All right. I'm just saying that's uh that's not a bad setup. I I mean, if I had to live homeless under a bridge, that's the setup I want. I mean, I'd probably make it a little cleaner. They talked about uh you know, getting a job, and that's one thing we've talked a lot about on this channel is being able to find jobs right now in this economy.

[00:05:10]See, the the the problem is is we're seeing all these layoffs, right? I have a layoff video coming out here pretty soon talking about that. We're talking about updated unemployment numbers and whatnot. But the crazy part is the amount of people that don't have jobs that are currently looking for jobs and are unsuccessful at finding jobs. And when you don't have a job, you can't pay your bills, you're falling behind, you're losing your place you're living, either your home that you're buying or that you bought or your place that you're renting, you just can't pay.

[00:05:42]This is where you end up and it's picking up every day. It's the the homeless population is getting larger by the day and nothing's being done about it. I feel bad for these people and they look like good people. They do. They just may have found uh some hard times, but if this isn't a wakeup call of how bad times are right now, I I I don't know what is.

[00:06:05]>> Did I make it through?

[00:06:08]Thank you, bro.

[00:06:11]Oh my god, bro.

[00:06:14]I don't know why I ride through some of the stuff I ride through, man. There is a part of the ground kind of like this.

[00:06:19]Like this right here. So, as you can see, uh, in LA, if you've never been to LA, we have a gutter system where under here, uh, if you go like down in this manhole right here, there's some space, four or 5t of, uh, a vertical space in there where you could stand. Obviously, city workers and stuff need to go down there and, you know, physically exist down there. So, there's enough space for someone to reasonably stand, exist, etc. The sewer like this. So, as you can see, there's some space. I mean, it's full of trash. It's disgusting. I don't know if I can punch in and show you, but someone was living down there. Maybe multiple people, honestly. I want to take the helmet off and give you a better shot.

[00:06:48]It smells really bad. I can't stay here for long, but I don't know if you can see down there, but that's where someone was living. I'm sure most people around here have seen or heard the news story.

[00:06:58]This news I haven't seen news spread like wildfire in a while. Like this story did. It was It really went viral quickly. A lot of people used it. It's like, "Oh, look at the state of Los Angeles. People are living in the sewers." I mean, it's crazy when you think about it. You know, it's just one person. But the fact that I don't know, I've shown you the entire surrounding area, too. It's not much better. But the idea that someone would be living in the sewer is kind of preposterous. But apparently it was reality. You know, >> you know what makes you think? Like, is there going to come a time where our country just comes together and we're like, "This needs to stop." What I don't like is how our currency system is set up today. I don't like the amount of money that gets flooded into the system.

[00:07:36]That's just imaginary. One of the reasons why inflation happens is because the amount of supply of currency that gets dumped into our economy every single year. We are seeing prices getting higher and higher by the day.

[00:07:47]going to the grocery store. My god, it's it's absolutely insane. Rents are increasing, insurance is increasing, everything under the sun. If you have to go out and buy something, it is increasing in dollars. And it's it's it's a wild time. And I think I think the only way that we're going to be able to get some sort of reset is we are going to have a actual just complete massive disaster of an economy for some point in time that's going to last a duration of could be three months, it could be a multiple years, but we are going to have to see some sort of re I don't know what's going to bring prices down. The problem is, we've talked about this in previous videos, is you know, inflation just means prices are getting higher, right? So, so if inflation drops to 1%.

[00:08:37]Oh, whoopde-doo. Guess what? Prices increased still by 1%. They haven't come down, right? So, when people say, "Oh, inflation's dropped." Sweet. Prices are still expensive. It's just gone up a little less than what average amount is.

[00:08:56]And when you think about that, it's crazy. And the only time in recent history when deflation periods have happened in our economy, which mean prices become cheaper, become less, is during a recession. And right now, guess what's at an all-time low?

[00:09:12]Consumer sentiment. It's going to be an interesting next 12 months. I'll just say that.

[00:09:16]>> You see how nasty it is down there?

[00:09:18]>> Homeless people living in sewers across LA for shelter. Hard to imagine someone >> living in there.

[00:09:24]>> Living in there >> and people coming in and going in there.

[00:09:28]>> I got I got to get back. The smell is so bad. Unbearable. But you can see what it's like underneath. Just trash, human waste, and more.

[00:09:36]>> A person living like a rat. Worse than a rat. Why are we accepting this?

[00:09:41]>> So, what she does is she puts this dog house on top of the hole and then just goes right in. Here's a look at our video. You can see someone climbing out of the storm drain. Water and food.

[00:09:53]>> We tried speaking with the woman that came out of there, but it was really hard to understand her.

[00:09:59]>> Why did everybody have to accept this one that when they are paying taxes?

[00:10:02]>> And Juan says this isn't the first time he stumbled on something like this. He also found another person living in a storm drain just a couple of weeks ago.

[00:10:10]>> And then I offered for help. You know, I said, "Do you need anything?"

[00:10:13]>> And you're from Ecuador. Do you see this in Ecuador?

[00:10:16]>> No. This is worse than the country. We don't see these things in Ecuador.

[00:10:20]>> This is worse than a third world country.

[00:10:24]Think about that for a second.

[00:10:26]>> Roy, how long you been down here?

[00:10:27]>> About 6 years.

[00:10:28]>> And what's this little guy's name?

[00:10:29]>> This is heathen.

[00:10:30]>> A So, how did you end up here in these tunnels?

[00:10:33]>> My mom died. I wound up in foster care.

[00:10:36]I came out of prison November 17th 17.

[00:10:40]So, I hopped on the bus and I stopped at the bus stop across from Jack in the Box.

[00:10:47]>> Yeah. And here we are. And is it safe down here to live?

[00:10:50]>> Uh, except during rainy season.

[00:10:52]>> So when the rainy season comes, the floodgates open, you get drowned out here. And do you want to get out of this tunnel?

[00:10:58]>> Honestly, I'm not really a fan of society's way of doing things. I choose being an outsider.

[00:11:04]>> How many other outsiders are down here with you?

[00:11:06]>> None.

[00:11:07]>> Do you get along pretty well with everyone in here?

[00:11:09]>> Absolutely.

[00:11:09]>> Yeah.

[00:11:10]>> This is my family.

[00:11:11]>> Okay. We were walking along the left side here and the guy said they would kill us. Is it actually dangerous for people that aren't from here to come down here?

[00:11:18]>> It depends. If you were to come down here on some predator type or >> violent might not work out too well.

[00:11:28]>> Okay. So, you've had pretty crazy people come down here and try to harass you guys. Can you tell me a few?

[00:11:33]>> Up top throw.

[00:11:35]>> Okay.

[00:11:36]>> We had one dude that actually tried to set the tunnel on fire.

[00:11:39]>> And is there anything you want the city to do for you guys or you pretty content that the >> Yeah. Is uh the drug use play a role down here? You think >> the drugs?

[00:11:47]>> You know what though? I think that guy what he has is he has community as as as wild as that is when even if you're living in the sewers, but you have community around you. That's what that tells me and what that shows is the power of human relationships. It's the power of making a connection with another human and feeling the grace of their presence and the friendship and the sense of having a relationship with someone. That is ultimately what we strive for as humans and with social media being locked in on our phones, doom scrolling, how we should be living our lives being fed to us every single day is I think what is actually ruining our society. Yes, there is a much deeper problem with people living in sewers. I get that. But what I'm getting at right now is the fact of just going back to normal. Like the man looks content.

[00:12:48]You know, he's he's got uh he's got his his dog.

[00:12:53]He said there's nine people living down there that are probably, you know, is good friends. It's not the lifestyle I would choose, but you know, he's probably hopefully happier than most.

[00:13:05]I don't know. I think the biggest part here and like the biggest point I want to make in this video is just what our country has come from come to. I saw a real the other day, another video idea I have is looking at uh a different country. I'll name it here in a second. It is a different country's society, the way that their culture is, how they keep their cities clean. And we're talking dense dense cities. Uh how they handle each other, respect to one another, how they keep their, you know, their their food quality. And I will also mention that I'm like 1/8. So it keeps a special place in my heart, but uh it's Japan.

[00:13:51]I don't know if you guys have seen any videos from Japan, but their society over there, how their their culture, how they keep things clean, how they respect one another.

[00:14:02]We need some of that here in America.

[00:14:04]>> Here's why living in a sewer is a superpower.

[00:14:09]You're spending all this money. You're spending all this rent. You're spending all this property tax for what? just to live in a box.

[00:14:22]Wow, you're so smart giving the government your money. Whereas you could just take a little stroll onto the middle of your street, pop open that manhole, and get on down where you can let your manhole run free without having to pay for water, without having to pay for electricity. Because the heat of the gases down there keep you at the perfect temperature, 72 degrees to 69 degrees, if you know what I'm talking about. You can put it down to six and nine if you're feeling real cool by adding extra poopy down there. Yeah, I said poopy.

[00:15:06]And you should be able to deal with it.

[00:15:08]It's not like it's poisonous to smell poopy. There's a reason why you can fart and inhale. It's because it's natural and healthy. When you're in a portaotti, you're actually gaining air gut bacteria that you will then improve your immune system with. You think I'm losing my mind, but living in the sewer is cool.

[00:15:33]It's not only just coste effective. The Ninja Turtles are culturally found in the sewer, which by the way, they're real. Just ask AI.

[00:15:47]Ninja Turtles are real and they live in the sewer and eat pizza and they love it and they fight crime. And you should live in the sewer as well because living in a house or an apartment complex is what they want you to do so you spend money. What about eating pizza down underneath with turtles? What about swimming in fecy water that stings your cuts? What about going on a surfboard and wakeboarding on the poopy diarrhea?

[00:16:26]Real fun, real freedom, real life.

[00:16:30]You'll never be smart living in a house or in a state.

[00:16:37]Live in the sewer. Done.

[00:16:39]>> We have a problem here. Like, we can't be having our citizens, our people living in sewers. We live in a wild society right now. There are so many things that need to be changed. But the problem is that we are so set in our ways that it's it's never going to change unless if we look at history, a brand new party comes up with our new generation and we set our own rules.

[00:17:06]We say no, we're not doing this. We are not going to do XYZ. We're going to do ABC.

[00:17:13]Boom.

[00:17:15]And hopefully it fixes society.