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 meant to be on the streets of l.a. . but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them. used to belong to somebody 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. los angeles authorities have accused his tiny himes 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 going to. el this is building his next house for a woman called raven. so a few people that live. ravens living under the top next to a freeway. it's unhygienic and far from safe. the situation much worse than when this last. check of this rare yeoman service. i. could see. ravens being on and off the streets most of her life. in the

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 house i happened to do pretty well you may know a pretty good life but there are times when they. when they do it. like dream the true story of. elvis is worried by the state but 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 it sent and run every back to you guys in a little while. alone. it's up about a situation. it's been a struggle.

the city always keeps us out from the state they tell us they create 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. our. boys said we got to. get him about this by saturday. help us. raven has given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown where body one

section. is 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 skid row. 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.

call it the worst manmade disaster in the us high. 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 him a trip in just a year what you mean can't daedra place to meet you unless you've 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 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 here the increasing numbers of women and children a sleeping alongside drugs crime and the mentally ill. and police are the only source of protection so it's a pretty constant ending yes day and night. the maintaining order here can be struck running with and. commanders running with and through 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 people running in their trance and often people get beaten or assaulted or raped and. that it 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 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. for the seat 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 homelessness 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. up against

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 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 clean once every two weeks so this cycle that's the big effort though we're doing. what i think is essential is essential to the city's . the center of the city's become on the growth and also the city's image this

team will put more than five tonnes 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 go by pleading that nobody. has thought of them for something. like. this if you don't just 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 some unlucky ones. like you're asking to. they like it because repeating i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to see the value of us.

but the city's 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 waits in the suburban and down on the street. so we can we if you're good side it's my sea conditions to live it so we basically the city has been a determination that those should not be on the city streets.

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later that day right. they made a mistake to the phrase they basically did. and find out that getting you belongs to. the state. or property destroyed. i ask you. i know to. take you into a step. you know. tasted it killed me the rules had to be tempe to wave in the driveway. to tennessee be down to sixty nine. at macy's maybe. and that is seventy two to hours. christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter she's 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. laden. street. the city's cleanup means that christine will be out here even longer. before anything for was better. than take into the to. know is they. well. 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 fake and. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something how breaking . this is the famous blouse. festival house that i called my home. now the memories here in. so that was home this is home for me. this home this four walls that. f.l.t. cheering. that i have that again. i mean that my. then he says in mind. this is meant that.

this is tiny homes could help people like christine until they get back on their face 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 the over eight thousand lots of the city controls. but. often stuff more love is not allowed. and while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. you are left in your

turn around the time to do yeah i'm pregnant. this morning that i'm pregnant hard on a grammar and i doubt. i'll pray over about autonomy to 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. with 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 know one of the of. there they're. a little concerned guarding the conditions. living at this time i got a lot of business to take care of. don't know if i'm have enough time to care that's what makes me feel like. like. like getting off the streets. 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. in the streets. i was listed as a juvenile runaway our nine years. my dad. my dad been in prison our life. mama's. seventh grade it would mean. a murder to kill me sliced so. basically i had no choice but to grow up before it was time. raven's had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the edge. like more and more americans take here. 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. 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 of 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 she was a good person and she was my friend. mr. 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 hundred thousand new units which is well below to mt. officials refuse to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house. parking space. it is not a solution we're doing at this service to those individuals who stayed in these tiny homes without the output infrastructure in place the city council. posed

to tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. someone wanted touring 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 have to have some rules and price the. city is you know they are here wiping these guys out that will this and the city is clear intense yet again this time at raven and christine's camp right now that load opened up there was a pristine show. that's considered a bulky item so it's going in the dumpster. almost time and 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're welcome i mean she hit rock

bottom she didn't run fight every year. all that money. you can spend half of that and give 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. i finally found a suitable location for ravens' tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial. 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 tiny house delivery feeling very good by the very i am going to drop out of my i'm going to. march. so this tiny house it's a brick house. 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 with not get any rest. you really fear for the life 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 in life. 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 they want looking up at a tarp you know you have to see it sit not look at the tired 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 you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever. after god's hands. above.

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