Name: 日本のホームレスの住宅事情（その3 (Housing Japan's Homeless (Part 3))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:47:56.000Z
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Japan's one of the wealthiest countries in the world

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That some of its citizens sleep on the streets

In Japan you'll find the homeless in all sorts of places

They're on the riverbanks or no one much bothers them

At night in the stairwells of train stations

when most have returned back to their homes

On the streets with scores of people passing them by

and in little communities with makeshift wood frames and tarps

In most instances the homeless reside at the edges

So many Japanese citizens may not even realize

that there are even more than a few homeless people amongst them

According to government figures the homeless living on the streets

only make up one out of every twenty thousand citizens or so

Independent researchers say the real rate is two and a half times higher,

It's a small enough percentage that it can be mostly hidden from view

but perhaps what's even more hidden from view

is how and where those who have gotten off the streets are living?

from emergency shelters to independent support centers

to cheap no-questions-asked accommodations

and dorm like rooms set up by poverty businesses

in this video will explore all these places

and how a once homeless person might find themselves in any one of them

let's first talk about emergency shelters and self-reliance support centers

basically the idea is the emergency shelters take people straight off the street

Send you to the doctor if you have some medical

Problems give you three meals a day and a bed

Usually got a maximum length of stay of two months in many cases the idea is

when you finish that the emergency shelter you move on to the

self-reliance Support Center, and these places have a longer length of stay

I mentioned four months in Tokyo in Yokohama and Osaka

It's six months and here they do try to help you get back into mainstream society

Put you on training courses. They will also do things like

help you write your resume lend you a certain time to go to job interviews and

They have well at least in the case of the one in Yokohama

they have people from the local employment exchange you come and visit and

We'll help you look for jobs, so they do try quite hard there.

Now, I'm talking more about Tokyo there are quite big variations between cities

They also give you a certain amount of money to

Buy some furniture for it and that kind of thing they don't

give you the money in Yokohama or Osaka, but instead they've got this longer length of stay six months and

Ideally you'll find yourself a job after one or two months

From the shelter to the job, so you you're not paying any rent

you're still staying for free and getting your meals for free at the shelter, and you're earning money and

The shelter will look after your money because some people have a problem with poor control of their money

but they'll look after it give you a small amount for pocket money each day and

Once your savings have reached a certain point then it may be possible for you to

It turns out that renting an apartment can be an expensive task one of the big kind of

institutional problems with getting out of homelessness in Japan is the high cost of

Actually nowadays rents themselves are not that high compared with other

industrialized countries for example in Yokohama

With a sort of little unit bathroom and a least a couple of gas rings to to cook on for about

So that's not too bad, but what can be a problem is before you move into the apartment you typically have to pay

To the landlord as a deposit and in some parts of Japan. That's three months

To the real estate agent that found the property for you plus the first month's rent upfront

So that's actually can be half a year's rent or more before you even walk through the door, so

one of the things that the shelters do is they try and let you stay there long enough and and

Hopefully get a job and save money for long enough to cross this big a hurdle that

Independent living now. Let's take a tour of a Doya aka a flophouse

So it can be hard for a homeless person to transition into a proper apartment due to the upfront costs required

That's where Doyle's come in as the professor explained in a previous video

There are kind of flophouse keep in mind that this is the Japanese version of a flophouse

Which means while they may not be big or fancy? They can still be organized and tidy a resident was kind enough to give us

Now let's talk about public housing they're fairly easy to spot once you know what you're looking for

The telltale signs are large concrete apartment blocks with numbers on them because they usually come in multiples I asked the professor

Why go for private apartments are accommodations like doors when there's half-decent public housing located around the city?

well, there's a shortage of public housing in Japan it does exist and

There are lotteries you know people get on waiting lists and the top priority is

Single men with no children are very low down the list of priorities. It's difficult for them to

Get on to public housing if you do get on to public housing then the rent is nice and low and the rent is

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