themselves some are saying i build tiny houses for the homeless. see is back and they are here why put these guys down for me a tiny house is not a solution it will be a free for all. its nice safe conditions to live a. new suit of clothes and the city of los angeles.

always good terrorist. nobody should be homeless anywhere but especially in one of the richest countries in the world. i build everything was true because i make a lot of mistakes. and it's easy to back out your mistakes in compton south central l.a. a pint sized idea. in a battle with city or florida. when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle. the mayor of los angeles has declared the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. is trying to solve it one tiny house at

a time the tiny house idea is very simple it's shelter. food water and shelter are not optional they're required for human survival so it's a. temporary solution and like the first stone a foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. according to elvis these cheap and portable tiny homes are meant to be on the streets of l.a. . but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so they used to belong to somebody yeah yeah. being used you know now they've been sitting here for a better part of a year collecting dust. and people are you know struggling and suffering. so yeah it's really sad i mean it's you know this is human life here you know. los angeles

authorities have accused his tiny himes of threatening public safety. has seen the tiny house movement go viral online with support coming from right across the world so with the help of internet crowdfunding he's going rogue once completed they all have a new carbon pad. alarms on the windows i put the vents these holes in the top you know it's really hot summer here so that way the heat all rise and go out in the city of angels elvis isn't considered by the powers that be. but to the homeless he's one of the few struggling to get them off the streets i don't quit and i don't give up and i definitely don't bow down to bullies people need shelter now if i have to build a tiny house for every last person until i'm five hundred years old then that's what i'm going to do.

well this is building this next house for a woman who braved. a few people that lived. ravens living on the top next to a freeway. and from safe. the situation much worse than when. this is already on a service. raven's been on and off the streets most of your life. yeah sure after fleeing home when she was just thirteen. she once had a time since the city of st she's been out here so you do not. tired after getting that. pretty well. pretty good life.

when they. when they do an. elvis is worried by the state but this communal camp and he. to buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so we're going to have a tent and our rendezvous back to you guys in a little while. alone . opens up about a situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks us out from the state it'll stay clean those. who want to costly move their stuff every day.

ravens out here because she feels emergency shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone queue she receives a visit. all right. ali said we got to. get him about this by saturday. elvis is. brave and he's given notice. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown the way but one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get or branch out. we're going to get away from downtown they want everybody downtown but six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown.

if you're homeless and l.a. city louis to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on the months grow. this is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing belief. but elvis is tiny homes aren't allowed here . skin roy is. unlike anything else in the united states. i call it the worst manmade disaster in the u.s. . are you. doing ok. and he fails runs a big the merchants the shelter in the middle of skid row which i'd like to he's seen the numbers of women seeking help in a truck in just

a year but you me get daedra nice to meet you unless you got pretty eyes. and he's on crutches because last year he lost a leg to the flesh eating bacteria that exists here still every day he's out inviting new arrivals to his shelter because he knows just how bad it gets more than two thousand people on the streets forty nine square blocks of skid row it's the worst that we've ever seen. just a good idea you really need to look down that street there's not one open spot of cement sidewalk. for half a mile down that way. elvis is tiny houses designed as an option to avoid sleeping on skid row. because he is the increasing numbers of women and children a sleeping alongside drugs crime and the mentally ill. and police are the only

source of protection starts a pretty constant ending this day and night. for maintaining order here can be struck running with. a man running with us who is fast. spend one night every once in a while and streets and i can't sleep because it's so dangerous and you just stay alert rats are running around running over people running in their trance and often people get beaten or assaulted or raped and that in effect can damage your health pretty quickly. so i'm all for tiny houses but there has to be restroom facilities and shower

facilities because otherwise we're putting people in treacherous living conditions just as if they're living in a tent. and this is why and the shelter keeps an open door policy but he's struggling to keep up with demand i can see right here right across the city shelters a full up many have to turn people away the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter there are not enough beds forty seven thousand people experiencing almost this and there are about twelve thousand shelter beds or transitional housing beds even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in there's no place to go. with limited access to emergency shelters and low cost housing life on the streets in l.a. is an endless game of cat and mouse. because the city is charged with keeping the streets clean morning everybody this department of sanitation crew is about to move

through the homeless encampments of skid row. watch out watch out for hazardous materials watch out for human waste. industrial operations like a. happened daily across los angeles to keep the streets clear the homeless to be constantly on the move. we are here every day in skid row every street is clean once every two weeks so this cycle. the big effort we're doing. i think is essential is essential to the city's. center of the city's economy growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tons in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to be unsanitary . most of it will be rubbish but some of it will be people's tents and the few

positions. that. have thought of. urine and waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones out of. your ass and to. get it was repeated i mean if you want to. live in the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to devalue the loss. but the city's focus on keeping the streets clean means further instability when you're living on them. it's also one of the main reasons elvis is

tiny houses a band playing to hampering operations like this. you know waits in the suburban and then on the street. if you avoid my safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. germination those should not be on the city streets. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but none of us signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people of seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene these batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate

every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the berm pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the wady in decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay and. called relevant to the middle finger the movie a smile is. delayed and i hope you die. later that day i write back. they made a mess they did the break they basically did the same. and find out that getting you belong in skin. devastate. our property destroyed

a. hundred. i know that. they can't even get that. you know. it will be the rules you have to be tempted away from the driveway. you didn't ask to be down sixty nine. this is rainy. and this to me too i wish to move most. christine is new to the streets priced out of the rental she's desperately trying to get back to. she says money by collecting her psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. at the recycle bin. but i didn't. like it to be able to get. the city's clean up

means that christine will be out here even longer. before i did before was matter. can take into the to. know is they. are well. for many homeless people in l.a. a lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. list and three percent of the city's rental market is fake and. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something breaking.

this is a famously house. testable house that i called my home. no memories here in. so that was home this is home for me yet. this home is for. f.l.t. cheering. which is the god's timing that mike. says in mind. this is my back. don't be a stranger ok. this is tiny holmes could help people like christine until they get back on their feet

back in compton the pressure is on for him to finish raven's tiny house. but he still needs to locate a place we can put it some way the city clean up won't easily find these are just two of over eight thousand lots of the city controls. are off and stuff boarded up is not allowed. and while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. for you all right after your son. yeah i'm pregnant. why are there more of them right hard on gov after all the old way over of our time great here and i have my life together elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm

i will listen i got to run right now but i'll call you back later that's that's great news we have to celebrate. and i want to trick you i want to jump for joy and like cry this and on like. this is how quickly a change in circumstance can see your life go from bad to worse when you're on the street. when the stakes raised for her tiny house i want to see her ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. despite getting orders to move she's still here at the same campsite look. you don't want to go.

ahead if. a little concerned regarding the conditions. living at this time i got a lot of business to take care of. don't know if i'm having the time taker but that's what makes me feel like. like. like getting off the streets. but getting off the streets is difficult for even. we talk more and she reveals the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid we did she live. i was listed as a juvenile runaway. my dad. my dad been in prison. five months pregnant with.

murder. basically i had no choice but to grow up before it was really time. raven's had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the edge. like more and more americans take here. she's trips deep in the cycle of long term homelessness. with no immediate way of getting out. when your life is the size of a teen can be a powerful tool. it's almost delivery day and with the news that raven's pregnant elvis is adding a special finishing touch to her tiny house. so i'm ok with just

a little something to help her feel better and you know help her feel like she's got a nice guy to look at elvis knows how important little details like this can be he's watched too many people lose hope on the streets since the city forced me to take houses away from people three people have died mainly due to being stuck out in the elements and not having anywhere to go so it's criminal. picture smokey sitting in the doorway of her her tiny house one of the people who died was his close friend smokey who received the very first tiny house new year's morning i found her dead in somebody else's tent not even her own because the city took that to. so. it's pretty simple without shelter people die. it's been a few months but. was a good person and she was my friend. inside

city hall the pressure is on to create more housing the city has approved a multi-billion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build thousand new units which is. officials refuse to embrace elvis's tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not a solution we're doing at this service to those individuals who stayed in these tiny homes without the out of but if a structure in place city council. posed tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. someone wanted turning the site otherwise it'll be a free for all it'll be sex drugs and rock'n'roll and. they would absolutely have

to have some rules and. see. if they are here why put these guys back with elvis and the city is clear and yet again this time even in christine's camp right now that load opened up there was a show. that's considered so it's going. almost christine's belongings are taken by the department of sanitation. not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know it well i mean do you hit rock bottom. he did not run five every year. all that money spent. you could spend half of that and give these people a place to go but instead they're treated like.

with ravens camp demolished most of the positions gone and with a baby on the way elvis must deliver her tiny house before nightfall to close with him. i finally found a suitable location for ravens tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial. affect anybody. elvis and raven hoped the spot of downtown l.a. away from skid row would be safe from the authorities. with already he's a must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the tiny delivery and how you feeling very good by good very. good drama but it's going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house the suburban. after

the week that she's had and everything she's gone through on top of the in pregnant it's more important now that she gets the house because i don't think she can go much longer with not getting any rest. you really feel if. i do. think. i think. i'm going to think that. most things i do in life are out of principle. i was taught that somebody falls down you pick them back up. that's what we should do a lot less. to remember that day when you know you know. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars so i was looking up at the

entire area have to see it sit not look at the tire but look at the stars it's got a magic little bit. so finally raven gets her own private space. hopefully the first time in over a year it could not sleep and you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever. happening god's hands.

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