solution it will be a free for. safe conditions to live in. biggest opponent the city of los angeles. always good terrorist 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 as in a battle with city author 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 to clear the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. overseas 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 the 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 till i'm five hundred years old then that's what

i'm going to do. well this is building his next house for a woman who brave. people that live. ravens living under the top pole and next to a freeway. and from say. 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 after fleeing home when she was just so. she once had

a time since the city of st she's been out here so you do not. tired after getting. pretty well. pretty good life. but it would be. like. elvis is worried by the state of 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 his 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. 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 they were but one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get or branch out.

is going to get away from downtown they want everybody downtown but six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be home with downtown. if you're homeless and l.a. city low is to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on the monster grow. this is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing belief. but elvis is tiny homes and 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 emergency shelter in the middle of skid row would you like to be seen the numbers of women seeking help in a truck in just a year what you mean. 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. commanders' running with soup 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 tents 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 in people in treacherous living conditions just as if they're in their community 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. what.

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. make sure to watch out watch out for hazardous materials watch out for human waste. industrial operations like the. 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 we're doing. think it's essential it's essential to the cities. the cities become 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 something. like. this that. you're in and ways. 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. they like it because repeated i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to devalue the last.

of the cities focus on keeping the streets clean things 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 we get the suburban down on the street. if you avoid. conditions to live it so we basically the city has. be determination those should not be on the city streets. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but new forced signed up to be free again poisoned by our own people i've seen that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam will 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 to the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay and. cultural to get the middle finger to move used to model is. delayed and i hope you don't. i max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is fun and a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has

flaws are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for god's kaiser. and now in the years net on you know until you tell him to her throws a million of them assumes that his goal is. to go in never going to be. didn't intend to do that than it is. for you just to believe all. the good i don't. like seeing nobody take a look at. my. local i'm not going to be important to you not important who stumble into the room the truth of.

who he is. later that day right back camp. they made a mess they took out of the break they basically took the thing. and find out that

getting your belongings. devastate. our property destroyed it. and if i ask you and. i know that. take you in the midst of. you know. this it will be the rules you have to be tempted away from the driveway. to tennessee be down 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. at the

recycle bin. but i think. 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 matter you. can take into the tent. now is take. a while. for many homeless people in l.a. a lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. this than 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 grouse. festival. called. never memories you. so that was how this is home for me. this home is four walls. that's all to cheer in. again. which is the god's timing that mike. and keep that 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 its feet back in compton the pressure is on for him to finish ravens 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 watts 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. you do all right after you're done. yeah i'm pregnant. now there are no more of them. hard on gov after all the old way over it our time here oh i have my life together

elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm i will listen i gotta run right now but i'll call you back later that's that's great news we have to celebrate. like 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. when the stakes raised tiny else 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 look. you don't want to go. ahead and. 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 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 we were time. raven's had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the pitch. like more and more americans take keer. 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 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.

so. 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 multibillion dollar strategy to help the homeless but it will take ten years to build thousand new units which is. yet officials refused to embrace elvis is 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 added but if a structure in place city council. posed 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 you know. these guys back with elvis and the city is clear and yet again this time at raven and christine's camp right now that load opened up there was a show. that's considered a so it's going to go. almost in 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 to hit 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 this part 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 the very. want to drop out of. 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 being pregnant it's more important now that she gets the house because i don't think she can go much longer if not get any rest. you really feel if. i do. think. i think. i'm going to think. 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 know. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars said one looking up at the tar hey i have to see you sit another bit tired 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 a good night's sleep and you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever but i. have put in god's hands.

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