always good terrorists and. 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 has been a battle with city off already so 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. . and they 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 crowd funding he's going rogue once completed they all have new carbon pads. 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 will rise and go out in the city of angels elvis isn't considered one 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 her life. yeah sure after fleeing violent 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 light.

when they. do it. like. 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 to. our. boys and 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 they were but one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our branch out. to try to get away from downtown they wired by downtown but six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown.

if you're homeless in l.a. city who is to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. to 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 . skid row 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 pig 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 triple 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 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 are 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. this happens 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 that's the big effort. 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 brought a. waste . of the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are some unlucky 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 last. of 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

down on the street. and if you go inside it's not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. germination that those should not be on the city streets. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone forced signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people i've seen 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 way he ended decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay and. call for help and get the middle finger to their views to model is. delayed and i hope you don't. need to know more in the long. run though what our. total around. the world not mean we do not want our our. oh you are to go to.

pieces then move for your. you'll see those you. know no. other guys.

later that day right back. they made a mess they did the phrase they basically did. and find out that getting your belongings could. devastate. their property just destroyed it. took. 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 down the system night. and mrs rainy. and it's to me too i wish to move my stove. christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter she's desperately trying to get back. she says many thanks psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's worth. the

recycling does seem. like it. the city's cleanup means that christine will be out here even longer. before i did before was better. than take into it to. know it was 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 fake and. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something breaking. this is the famous blue house. that i called my home. and other memories here in. so that was home this is home for me. this home is four walls that. f.l.t. cheering. that i have that again. this 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. until they get back on its 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 over eight thousand lots of the city controls. but. it's not a lot. and while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. for you all right now from your son. yeah i'm pregnant. never found out this morning that i'm

pregnant hard i'm a governor after all the old way over and over time a great year 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. i want to jump for joy and like cry of 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. but 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. you don't want to go. ahead and for. 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 streets. but getting off the streets it's difficult for even. we took 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. cases we had no choice but to grow up before we were 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 refused 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. opposed to tiny houses in his district because

of concerns from angry residents. someone want to treating 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 but residents not around so only christine is here to see it. they say you know it well i mean do you get rock bottom. he didn't 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 her 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 must continue to keep l.a.

streets clean days finally. for the tiny house delivery and how you feeling very good by. going to drop out of. 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 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. you really feel if. i do. 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 in life. to remember

that day when you know you got. to call me and said. you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars said one looking up at tar no your hats are 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. hopefully the first time in over a year a good night's sleep and do you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever but. i'm putting god's hands.

it is obvious that i'll be here that. much as you.

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