but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities. used to belong to somebody yeah. being used you know now they've been sitting here for the better part of a year collecting dust. 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. well this 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. 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. 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. from say. a situation much worse than when. this is already on a service. the

sea. ravens been on and off the streets most of her life but over what's also in the area yeah sure after fleeing a violent home when she was just thirteen years old. she once had a time but since the city forced most of the street he's been out here so you do not. tired after getting that time he also happened to do pretty well i think you may know a pretty good life but there is a time when it took you know what it would be. like to bring the true story of. 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 the tent and are running back to you guys in a little while.

alone present tense up about a situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks us now from the state to stay clear of those. who want to costly move their stuff every day. ravens out here because she feels the mission c shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone cue she receives a visit to. our. boys and we've got to. get a move on by saturday. well the.

raven is given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were already one section. it's not going to happen yet or branch out . is going to get away from downtown they wired by downtown 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 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 big emergency shelter in the middle of skid row would you like to he's seen the numbers of women seeking help in a trip in just a year but you me get deborah 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 exist 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. for probably 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 this 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 people running in their trance and often people get beaten or assaulted or raped and that in effect can damage your mental 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 in the 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 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 it's. almost 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 away. 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.

we're doing. i think is essential this essential to the cities. the cities growth and also the cities in which 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 tents and the few positions. that. the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missile. in today or some unlucky ones. you're asking to. they like it

because you're pleading i mean if you want a homeless person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk or decide they see the value of us. but the cities focus on keeping the streets clean things further instability when you're living on them. that's also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band playing tampering operations like this if you know ways that the suburban town on the street. and if you avoid side it's not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been a determination that those should not be on the city streets. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bush for about seven years and this

is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got. time. to get. i mean because it has been their store duty from. the ground up. my stuff is not the same if. i. was to. join me every thursday on the i like simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from

the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat and where i would sleep. i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you look to be honest. i thought the glory like going to school you know the slogan though still give up food for the homeless. but you don't really feel like some human being in that. and then. the guy just came over to me saw me and gave me this book.

later that day right back camp. they made a mess that took the free. basically to the bank. and find out that getting your belongings could get up devastate. our property destroyed it. and if i ask you if. i knows it. take you in the midst of. you know. this it will be the rules if you beat him feet away from the driveway. you didn't ask to be down sixty nine. mrs

rainey. and that is to me too always to move most. christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter just desperately trying to get back . she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. at the recycle does being a. body like. that get to be a bit dull to get a treat. the city's clean up means the christine will be out here even longer. for anything for was matter. and take into the tent. now is a. l l o

. 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 how breaking . this is the famous grouse. test of that called. the memories you think. so that was how this is home. is home. that's all to cheer in.

which is a god i mean 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 their feet back in compton the pressure is on for them to finish ravens tiny house. but he still needs to locate a place we can put it some way the city clean up won't easily find these are just two of over eight thousand watts of the city controls.

are off and stuff boarded up is not allowed. and while searching he gets a. cool from raven with an unexpected update. for you now right after your turn. yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard on governor. oh pray over it our time of great is here 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 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 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 know. where they're. 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 to. also 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. i was listed as a juvenile runaway. my dad. my dad been in prison. life. choice but in. raven's had to learn to be tough ph. like more and more americans take care. she strips deep in the cycle of long term homelessness.

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. any house new year's morning i found dead in somebody else's tent not even our own because the city took that too . 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 the homeless but it will take ten years to build hundred thousand new units which is. officials refuse 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 tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. someone wanted 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 they'll 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 show. that's considered

a faulty item so it's going. almost in christine's belongings to take a. the department of sanitation the ravens not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know you're welcome i mean to hit rock bottom this is my run fight every year. was. all that money spent. you can spend half of that and get 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 a 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 a lot of things as i am going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house it's a person asked. 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 not get any rest. you really feel if. i do. do you think.

i think. i'm going to faint. most things i do in life are out of principle. i was taught them and somebody falls down you pick them back up. that's what we should do in 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 so i want looking up at the entire area have to see it sit another bit tired but 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 helen do you think it's going to last. that was said to

say with us forever i wish it could last forever but it. happened in god's hands. were.

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celebrations on fireworks lighting up the globe as the new year of twenty eighteen makes it into the world russia's capital playing host to shoes numbers of tourists as the holiday season gets into full swing all across the country. when you see the kremlin and it was so. fantastic this is the safest city has ever been and that we've been all over the world there's still a little police so dispirited mikasa getting the ball sceptic. plus donald trump congratulates americans on the new year here on the program we look back at his first twelve months in office. and russian children who have been abandoned in iraq when their parents joined i still get to celebrate the new year with their relatives back at home and our pain saw them reunited with their families.