richest country 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 off already. 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. like the first stone a foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. according to these cheap and portable tiny homes meant to be on the streets of l.a. . do need to fix. but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so they used to belong to somebody yeah yeah. and now they're being used no 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. elvis is building his next house for a woman who brave. people that live. 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. tired after getting. pretty well. pretty light. when they. do and.

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 to the cleeve 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 orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown the way body one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our 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 in l.a. city lewis 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 details runs a big the merchants the shelter in the middle of skid row which i'd like to see seen the numbers of women seeking help in a trip home 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 or summat 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 yes day and night. for

maintaining order here can be struck running with. a man running with handcuffs 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. 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 become a 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 bought a. year

and waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missing. today or some unlucky ones out of. your ass and to. get it was repeated i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to value a 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 way it's the suburban town on the street. if you avoid.

conditions to live it so we basically. the determination that those should not be on the city streets. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night with the six just full on awesome well the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch oh please yap is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than food and things that i see people you've never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank though they are going to write me seriously send us an e-mail.

and it always gives yeah you know until you telling the truth hurts those are also the you know mr milosevic told you. to go in neither of those are good in the permit the that the little you have. to go to for fear will you be reduced to believe all these blows the glad i wish to god but not the number the ones who nobody can take on that. i feel this way or got up out of the line down because you know often enough when the state of the impulse yeah to be not a stumbling around the truth in the least. you become worthless.

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that getting your belongings could get up devastate. our property destroyed it. took the. money i ask you and. i knows it. take you in the midst of. you know. this it killed me the rules you had to be tempted away from the driveway. to tennessee be down from sixty nine. and this is rainy. and this to me too i wish to move most. christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter she's desperately trying to get back. she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. but the

recycling does. a. body like. that get to be a bit dull to get a treat. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. for anything for was better. than taking to the tent. ellis' take. a while. for many homeless people in l.a. a lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. listing three percent of the city's rental market is vacant.

we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something breaking. this is the famous. this little house that i called my home. now the memories you in. so that was this is home. this home is four walls. that's all to cheer in. which is the god's timing that mike. and he says in mind. this is my back. don't be a stranger ok. well

this is tiny homes could help people like christine until they get back on the feet back in compton the pressure is on for them to finish raven's tiny house. but he still needs to locate a place we can put it some way the city clean up one 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. even with an unexpected update. you know right after your turn around that i did yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard on the ground right now and after all the old way

over it our time here 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. with the stakes raised to her tiny house i want to see how ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. despite getting orders to

move she's still here at the same campsite looking. you know want to know. 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 i was amazed because i. like. getting off the school. but getting off the streets is difficult for raven. we talk more and she reveals the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid. i was listed as a juvenile runaway. my dad. my

dad been in prison. life. basically had no choice but to grow up before we. even had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the edge. like more and more americans take care. she strips 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 not having anywhere to go so it's criminal. picture smokey said in the doorway of her her tiny house one of the people who died was his close friend smokey. he received the very first tiny house new year's morning they found her dead in somebody else's tent not even her own because the city took that too. so. it's pretty simple without shelter people die.

so. it's been a few months but she 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 multibillion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is. officials refused to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not a solution. we're doing that this service to those individuals who stayed in these tiny homes without the out of. infrastructure in place city council you know posed tiny houses in his district because of consumed 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 i think they would absolutely you have to have some rules and price the. city is you know they are here why do these guys out back with elvis and the city is clear intense yet again this time even in christine's camp right now that load opened up there was a pristine show. that's considered a bulky items so it's going in the dumpster. almost christine's belongings are taken by the department of sanitation residents not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know hit rock bottom to hit rock bottom he didn't fight every year. all that money.

you can spend half of that and get these people a place to go but instead they're treated. with ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with a baby on the way elvis must deliver her tiny house before nightfall. with. i finally found a suitable location for ravens' tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial. affect anybody. elvis and raven hoped this part of downtown l.a. away from skid row would be safe from the authorities. with already sick must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the tiny delivery feeling

very good by very. good drop out it's going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house it's. after the week that she's had and everything she's gone through on top of the in fragments 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. if 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 when somebody falls down you pick them back up. that's what we should do a lot. to remember that you know you got things. you called me and said.

you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars that was looking up a tarp you know you have to see it sit not look at the tar but look at the stars it's got a magic. so finally raven gets her own private space. and hopefully the first time in over a year you 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. the operating gods hands. the a book.

i need to know more in the long. run though what are. your total. or not he did not know. oh you ought to go to the post pizza to move for your.

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