going through leadership development classes and now three years later he's our leader. my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the messes you go in and keep you know exploiting you know the system is doing. the. personal hero in. general. and the reason i admire him so much is the reason i admire so many people . he's really somebody who grew up here. from the rights of over. here. did nine years in state pain six of those nine years in solitary confinement. is the individual that if you listen to the policymakers if you listen to people with money and wealth and power there's no rehabilitating. you know he's a career criminal. i guess you would have said the same thing about malcolm malcolm

x. he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. basically. and even. a smile. came from saul was going on now and that's what really helped me. far did every post must feel today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go work for you but oh yeah that's me. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire is going to north america. back in the mid seventy's the city made a policy that skid row would be a contained preserved area much like an indian reservation. where the

unwashed wanted would be contained literally some of the. it was for humanitarian reasons that it would be easier to. open a certain place and so on but also. to keep people off from. the redevelopment that was. one of the other important things to understand about skid row is that it's not primarily a homeless population and people tend to think it is and it's really critical people understand that because if you think of skid row it's primarily a homeless population that's one set of issues with one set of solutions then you build large shelters and if you do it the way some people at city hall would like it you'd build them out in the desert that's not what skid row is skid row is principally a endangered low income residential community in the fifty blocks of skid row there are sixty five what we call single room occupancy housing without this housing people in the area would have nowhere to go who in the private or the public sector builds housing for a single adult who's total income is

a two hundred twenty three dollars check. the majority of people in this community . service are social security by g all so that's the reason why we call this community our whole we don't use what we can afford. you know we have to go to a community redevelopment agency moratoriums that stopped the. conversion of low income housing units into condos in los. we lost a thousand units and about three or four year period from about two thousand to two thousand and four. it took the city a long time to respond with a moratorium on losing that housing. which. and they have higher income levels and it economically the older people were forced to leave. and all these of towners who want to come and have their sort of disneyland manhattan experience they have other options to other communities they

can go to but the poor skid row really have no other housing anywhere at all almost any one would say if you've got to be crazy why would you save skid row what is the possible value of saving a skid row if you think about it by if thousands of people on main street lose their housing thousands of people for whom the city will have to build a massive and costly shelter system and makes far more sense to preserve the housing the poor live in and let the poor continue to pay their own brand so makes good economic sense not just good social and moral sense for the city to in fact preserve the housing that's in the skid row area. there are a lot of empty lost in the area the city could convert that into housing for me under. twenty four thousand dollars a year for someone. supportive housing and housing with services. for thirty five percent of your return trip. to anywhere from

forty four to one hundred thousand dollars a year people through the emergency room or court system. this is the famous insurer you should read through this fine there's no. i mean no. i get it back up in the tree line evolving to get there they are what were there so i want to hear. that am i really wish i was a little kid thing if they never knew that. this is. the.

every three minutes to feel for. her read. this here is a reasonable thing that they do down here there harass people topple over and yell stop think person maybe all five times in one day and this goes on all day loaded just decided if you wear white t. shirt and shorts you're considered a good don't they are arguing so that's probable cause to be stopped which is. no where in the world in the neighborhood could not stand the street not five all the way nowhere but downtown austin sigg only place to get the best. picture cheap court is neighborhood still quite all there. just isn't a street all day but it could downtown austin black large brown you can still sidewalk can still break can't close the street you can just use

a plantation. for years officials turned a blind eye to skip out in two thousand and six the chaos finally caught the city's attention fifteen new police officers were deployed to an area less than one square mile in size. the safer city soonish it cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. they say for surveys initiative that was launched on september two thousand and six and on the drawing board since two thousand and two it was originally called the homeless reduction strategy that was launched with a vengeance and september. from two thousand and six there was an effort that was really chartered by mayor ever grosser chief bratton knows a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be

two problems there was going to be a serious crackdown on what was called serious crime in skid row and there was to be a big expansion of services. well one of those things happened and the other one didn't the city but zero dollars him to your services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement patients getting the services that are necessary to make this album community it's kind of backwards if you make me get off the sidewalk where am i going to homeless where am i going to go where am i going you know terry commute. solo where do i go are just sit here i can't stand here i can't lay here so no where do i go when you look at the crime occurring here skin and when you see the drug be. like you need prostitution and the train on this we have every right and every responsibility

giver sponsibility to address and i stand behind the scenes ceasing to see people. on the. ticket and. you'd think that the mayor was just you know it's new way to talk about safer cities you would think it was mother teresa. instead of being the most fascist democrat and the most the you know he's always allowed the fascists to take over his city administration the manhattan institute and as far as i'm concerned up from my perspective chief bratton runs his stand city and i don't know why we have a mayor yet rule of the schools. for the poor. quality of life. we and. thirty. three. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial broken windows theory of crime reduction. safer cities how to

implement the same policy in his town. the same tactics it was june and the broken windows theory in new york right where necessary cost to fire you the same way he justified new york is saying well you plan on june the. california address was a really big story for hours of the people here especially people with disabilities the first year there were. areas of otoh where thirteen girls or people were twelve rows sorry to. issue most for starters for littering care workers. who care to burrow under the thirty or for. over a warrant for their arrest. an article at business insider brags for americans who feel insecure about their

country in light of china's impressive achievements it may be reassuring to know that while the chinese would rather move to the united states and stay at home yes rich chinese are getting green cards in record numbers do they love you for your freedom well not exactly for according to the headline china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to the u.s. amid corruption crackdown yes you americans should feel so insecure because apparently america is the best place to flee if you're corrupt. how. creating these sustainable operations focused on making him and follow what you are advocating my term self-interest since the. this has always been the case and i have. businesses for hundreds of. i think what. was this notion that economists brought to it which was the idea of.

the european union likes to think of itself as one of the provider in parts of the world or european commission report on corruption the first of its kind betrays a very different picture in every single member country there is corruption in some cases on a massive scale so what can the e.u. teach the world. we will. almost entirely. if they are not to. tell the i.o.c. where the. location

of. the river. to the dwellers of the high tech said you would stop this storm we might think you know my people. this way to get to check it. every time it is trying. to get it. right up the street here i've had guns put to my head are. several times for. medical marijuana that i realized i got as marijuana and a marijuana pipe and i got the medical marijuana card to let you go but that's

after you sit there with your hairs and you had these guys are all shaky and they got their guns to your head you're on your knees with guns you had five guns on your door look like i got some place to hide a weapon. i remember just the sight of the ruthie officers walking down the street why. they walked up to a camera and it to everybody you know you know in a line folds up against a wall to they threw coffee on our street. six policemen said that the plain sight more tellingly i can. tell it put everything on the street civil liberties or something that belonged to people who live west of main street or east of alameda and beyond little tokyo or in the south park area there are no civil liberties honored at all in the skid row area and it's known by the city attorney's office it's known by the mayor it's known by everybody at city hall but nobody cares.

we say we go places but some of these people stuff i went through a whole bunch of stuff in the street because the police kept blinding me to and they're going to clean it and i think those people stop in the street because they were going to clean that sidewalk i thought linking it back and right up and that was all of blankets over people's heads and they'd been killed in my fish and means stolen they lost and blankets and on no telling what helps those places down their line i mean scent is going to clean sidewalk and they were. skid row's full of contradictions. it can be filing chaotic frighten me. but it can also be a refuge. a place to get well. defined acceptance. to be free. one of the first people that i met and that was robert. he

became my soul mate he became my lover he became my guy. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down our will when we listen without. you know that the knees issue and that's one of my greatest seems to take people pull off the sidewalk and take a bagel with. fetal next to a shooting some time when i started to. rest just get off the sidewalk because my days homeless people to me. and let me bait and let me lay up and sleep and eat in their house and i have to give back. so i want to feel loved to have some time when i. do things when i hope people don't know tonight you know could be called because you got a call to a photo. in a real way. now i'm not on skid

row anymore or place it's insane and i got my section eight i'm off the street i'm sober and i made comply or. if i take a country. pull your part fresh out the gotta love. fire start it's stuff you know you forget things you would never think about that you need you need the dish soap and. you just wrote for a cooking oil with salt and toilet paper a clearness of parise and a broom and this is my lovely walk of fame this got a letter to my certificates accomplish and this one there was a stiff a gift from the class foundation this is a thirty day primary detox this one here have. to say don't change gendered which was a tough one to get and this was and i was very completion for homeless court i got total like one hundred fifty tickets and what i do is go and check myself and to get at least to me this by getting into a program so for as long as i was in

a program the courts were cool about all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad and it was my step mom i like to feel the ocean and i would tell but i don't really like their faces so i just kind of stuck a typewriter i had a little picture of my cable you know my baby when she was a role trying to write how she's my youngest are that's found with two or three this is that because you condos this is the main house and over here would be the guest house you know i was from skid row with this tent was on skid row with me and now it's in my living room and the cops can't come and tell me to pack up my tent because can't check to see if i got a pop i've been at your feel like not a pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch and i added in a chair and all that but then i have to sleep on the couch constantly and there i think this is just fits me more you know me because i've been in a tent for so long so it's like i don't want to forget how i got here and large this is a constant symbol of what i was what i could be and what i could have been and what i was this is my house my house inside my house which is the best house in the

world my home oh it's not about what i did what i've done is what the hell i believe. i love and that. i'm still trying to become the best mom and i still can it doesn't matter. what age they preached you know i'm still their mother now the toughest job that i have now is the chair me. i can't come full circle because i never. had a full circle the beginning. i want to keep getting better and i want to do things . so i'm getting therapy is the first time in my life that there will be does blur i know that. there is an illness growing. boiled over at this point i'm going to realize but i'm scared to death to find out really that

a lot sicker than that. all that scary people always say you know what you know just go to therapy maybe talk to somebody and you hear that so much and you think it but who wants to just go and you know because that's all i did all my life was just how. to see maybe the web person wasn't listening if skid row is a step away from the pits of pale thank god i'm not in here because that one little step makes a damn big difference because this help this i have been my. i . really. this sharing it here for now. they're going on camera. is a part of my life she's a very special person she's very special and dear my heart ok when you come to my

home liers pitches on wall. might more for his courtesy to go who is a little. your business. and we'll leave. this really more i think about the long time. for a person. to become rich. maybe sixty acres of. house catches me. he she can have it all to share she will. there ever be fenced off from mary by you know for a foreigner move there go bombing de. calais to. stores you so she can store food for the garbage. because that makes her happy

continually makes me contain what i see she have. g.'s of me this. fall overboard. us do here. very big bird here. year. me year. to. danny harris's maintaining a surprise he began on skid row today he's an assistant coach at iowa state university and he recently got married. bam-bam still lives in section eight

housing. she recently reconnected with his daughter and is living with hiv. linda is singing with a gospel band she remains hopeful about her health and plans one day to marry rather. gentle doak on continues to advocate for the homeless through his community work with ellie can. detroit finally got her own apartment until things supportive services. she's still a member of plan. nan was homeless for twenty four years in two thousand and eight she moved into lamp larch she continues to feed the cats and birds of skip around every night.

early on easter morning two thousand and nine. k.k.k. and another man named tommy. were shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. k.k. was forty nine years old.

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