Florida Homeless Starting To Hide In Mangroves Swamps! Uninhabitable Mosquito Infested Woods!

I don't mind the camps, but this is trashy. There's no reason to have all that crap every where. Place looks like it should be burned. It's ridiculous to be in nature but not care about the nature. Humans have lived in the wild for thousands of years, but this is criminal to destroy mother nature in this manner.

Native Americans lived in the mangroves and wasn't this trashy

You can be homeless and not destroy the surrounding environment. That's just plain laziness.

Our country is going to turn feral.

WILD LIFE HABITAT??? This is disgusting.... CLEAN IT UP!!!!!🤬

You always know when you're getting close to a homeless camp because the trash starts 100 yds out.

I saw a man in Key West living in the mangroves, he kayaked up to the street and had a bike chained on the street. He looked about 75

I was homeless in Keystone Heights, FL for about 6 months, in the woods. Gotta have mosquito netting, there’s not enough bug spray in the world to protect you 24/7. I never understood the garbage thing. I always carried mine out or burned it. Garbage attracts flies & mosquitoes, as if they’re not bad enough already. I’ve seen some nasty homeless camps, met some nasty people. They say misery loves company. And nobody asks you more questions than someone trying to size you up and rip you off. I couldn’t stay in those places, I’d walk an extra mile to avoid them. There are some good people in homeless camps but they are few and far between. Came across this one woman living in the woods. She was hooked up with some guy she clearly didn’t want to be with. The expressions on her face, her demeanor around me, it was as if she was begging me to rescue her from the situation she was in. But what could I do, I was homeless too. I caught the guy gone one day, I told her I was headed to Kentucky and she could tag along. But she didn’t want to leave Florida. Once a person gets comfortable in a situation, no matter how bad it is, they cling to it. I kept in touch with her via text messages for about a year. Not every day, just when she’d message me. Even when I got my own place she couldn’t leave. She was terrified of the unknown, terrified of riding a bus 800 miles to where I live, terrified it wouldn’t work out. So she stayed there in the misery she was in. Haven’t heard from her in 2 years. I hope she got out of her situation. But I doubt it.

I wonder why the people who can haul all that stuff into the woods will not haul their trash back out of the camp. There would be far less opposition to camps if they were not endlessly spreading trash dumps on public property. To many, the willingness to live in such squalor indicated drug use.

What a mess, clearly not on drugs? C'mon man. I have lived in Florida for 58 years. I have no pity for drug addicts and alcoholics, they choose to live like this.

Just because youre homeless doesnt mean you trash up a place. They brought all that crap in they could take it out. Thats how they were before they got there. No excuse for being trashy. Even fire could do away with most trash. These are the ones that cause gov to shut down access to those that would not treat the land this way.

You were being watched, you're lucky they were friendly and knew you were a tourist.

I was briefly homeless and sleeping in a tent in Asheville NC. Unlike all the other homeless I encountered, my partner and I carried all of our trash out of the woods we were in each time we left. We even picked up trash that was already there before us. People who work nearby checked out our site and had a lot more understanding of our situation

Looks like a health hazard.

Great reporting

I find it easier to just do the full time work thing. My worst fear is having to be homeless.

Great coverage! You needed a bee keepers net hat for that one. Looked like whoever lived there could have been a military man at one time, that was a great set up & clean. Sadly many of our Veterans are homeless too 😭

I was homeless.fo4 a.year amd you would have never known it. I always stayed clean( washed myself and clothes with natural soap and my living area in the woods was clean. Any garbage I had I threw it away in local dumpsters. Yes being homeless sucks but leaving your trash like this speaks alot on these people's demeanor.

Every man is the architect of his own life.

You are SO courageous going into those camps! Keep yourself safe!