in compton south central l.a. a pint sized idea. 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 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 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. . and they need to fix. but right now they're not moving anywhere because city

authorities banned them. used to belong to somebody yeah. and now being used no now they've been sitting here for 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. los angeles authorities have accused his tiny homes of threatening public safety but elvis 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 a new carbon pad they'll be alarms on the windows i put the vents these holes in the top you know it's really hot this 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 gonna do. elvis is building his next house for a woman called raven. so there's a few people that live. ravens living under the stopover next to a freeway. it's on hygiene and far from safe. the situation much worse than when this last. check of this rare yeoman service. i.

see. ravens been on and off the streets most of her life. area yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just thirteen. she once had a time since the city forced most of the street he's been out here so you do not. tired after getting that. pretty well you know a pretty good life but. no one is. going to do it. like. the. good. elvis is worried by the state of this communal camp and he leaves to buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so i'm going to have a tent and be back to you guys in a little while. alone. up about. situation. it's been

a struggle. and. the city always kicks us out for state they tell us they clean those. who want to costly move their stuff every day. to the. 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. a. boy said we got to. get him about this by saturday. to. help us. raven has given notice.

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. there 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 laws to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on the landscape grow. this is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing relief. 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. hi. how are you. doing ok. andy fails runs a pig the mergence the shelter in the middle of skid row which would like to be seen the numbers of women seeking help in a truck in just a year what you mean can't daedra place 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 aadhaar just a good idea you really need to look down that street there's not one open spot or

summat sidewalk. or i'll be a 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 such a pretty constant ending yes day and night. by. the maintaining order here can be struck running with hand. commanders running with handcuffs to this yes. i'll 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 pee. 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. and this is why and the shelter keeps an open door policy but he's struggling to keep up with demand. to 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. what's up again 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 the skid row. it's on tape watch out for syringes watch out for hazardous materials watch out for human waste. industrial operations like this happen 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 cleaned once every two weeks so this cycle. that's the big effort we're doing. stuff think it's essential this is

central to the city's livability the center of the city's become on the 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 filled by pleading this tactical fighting. have brought about for something. like. give us a decision on this that. you're in a 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. when you're asked them to. they like it it goes repeated i mean if you want

a homeless person living on the street you want to live more if we sidewalk or decide to devalue a loss leader. 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 it down on the street. so we can't leave and if you go inside it's my safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been a determination that those should not be on the city streets. everybody i'm stephen ball. task hollywood guy tells us. next every proud

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later that day right back. it made a mistake to the great thing basically to. find out that getting your belongings. devastate. our property destroyed. if. i knows it. takes you to a step. you know. they still give me the rules they had to be tempe to wave in the driveway. fifteen has to be down to sixty nine. mrs brady. and a seventy two hours to move most. pressing is new to the streets. priced out of the

winter just discreetly trying to get back. she says money by collecting recyclables . but the authorities just take an entire week's work. at the recycle bin. i didn't. like it to be a. street. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. leap. for anything for was better. than taking to the to. know is a. hell of a well. for

many homeless people in l.a. a lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. liston three percent of the city's rental market is fake and. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something heartbreaking. this is a famously house. guest of the house that i called my home. no memories here in. so that was home this is home for me it was. his home the four walls that. f.l.t. cheering. that i have that again. to say god's timing that my.

then she says in mind. is. thank you. well this is tiny homes could help people like christine until they get back on their 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. are often stuff boarded up. and while

searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. for you all right now from your. yeah i'm pregnant. now there are no there is more there right hard gov all else 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. like i want to trick you 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 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 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 street.

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. bride to have been in prison. five months pregnant with. murder. case of choice but to. raven's had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the pitch. 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 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 multi-billion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is well below to. get officials refused to embrace elvis is tiny i'm 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. opposed to tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all it'll be sex drugs and rock'n'roll and. they will absolutely you 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 a faulty item so it's going in the dumpster. almost breaking in 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 you were climbing to hit rock bottom. didn't i run five every year. was. all that money spent. you could spend half of that and give these people a place to go but instead their tree and i am. with ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with the 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 it's not going to affect anybody.

elvis and raven hope this part of downtown l.a. away from skid row will be safe from the authorities. with already he's must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the time he has delivered feeling very good by good very. good data and life drama but it's going through a lot of hardship. so this tiny house the suburban asked. after the week that she's had and everything she's gone through on top of being fragmented it's more important now that she gets the house because i don't think she can go much longer not get any rest. you really feel. 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 life. to remember that you know you know. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars they want looking up at the entire area have to see it sit another good tired but 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 helen you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever it.

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