tv Documentary RT January 1, 2018 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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the vents these holes in the top you know it's really hot in the summer here so that way the heat all rises 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. well this is building his next house for a woman brave and. people that live. ravens living under this top pole and next to a freeway. and five from say.
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the situation much worse than when this last. check of this is already on a service. the sea. 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 street she's been out here so you do not. tired after getting that. pretty well. pretty light. when they. when they do it. like. this worried by the state but this communal camp and he leased by raven tent until he can build her a new tiny house so i'm going to have it set. our rendezvous back to you guys in
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a little while. alone present opens up about a situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks us out from the state it's us to clean those. who want to costly move this stuff every day. this. ravens out here because she feels the missions he shelters are either overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone queue she receives a visit. to. our.
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boys and we got to. get him about this by saturday. evening. elvis at. raven has given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown the way but one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to scatter branch out. the door to get away from downtown they wired by downtown but six in downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown. if you're homeless in l.a. city lewis to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on skid row. this is the only place that you can sit up
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a tent without the city forcing the belief. but elvis is tiny homes aren't allowed here. skin roy is. unlike anything else in the united states. i call it the worst manmade disaster in the us. are you. doing ok. and he fails runs a pig the mergence 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 get 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
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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 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 so it's a pretty constant ending yes day and night. for maintaining order here catastrophic running with. commanders running with handcuffs through this fast. i'll spend one night every
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once in awhile in 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 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 could see right here right across the city shelters a full up many have to turn people away the simple fact in l.a.
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is there's just not enough shelters 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. 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
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day in skid row every street is clean once every two weeks so this cycle that's the big effort we're doing. stuff think it's essential it's essential to the city's livability the 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 if you positions by cleaning tactical fighting. have thought of something. like. this that. you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets
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the message today or some a lucky once. you're asked them to. they like it because repeated i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk beside the sea the value of us. but 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 waits in the suburban and then on the street. so we can clean and if you're good side it's nice safe 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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striking there were no more americans to go specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. global war hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle for food still. to do socks for to tell you that every gossip and tabloid myself. off and tell me you are not old enough and let's invite. the oval office for me along with all the one. it's the cradle of jazz. is that. we are.
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told this jazz feel. the city of climatic testify is alligators on the loose of poverty and crime. by the least members of my family close. of street racing in the heat of the night this is. the best place in the word. only one day to go before the ninth birthday because i just think about that in nine years and went from absolutely unknown piece of software to world shaking wall street transforming society busting. import bank.
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later that day right. it made a mess they did great they basically did nothing. and find out that getting you belong. to the state. or property destroyed. i ask you. i know that. they can't even get a step. you know. pasted it killed me the rules they had to be tempe to wave in the driveway. to tennessee be down from sixty nine. at macy's maybe. and this to me too i wish to move most. christine
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is new to the streets priced out of the winter she discreetly trying to get back. she says money by collecting cycles. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. at the recycle bin. i didn't. like it to be. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. before i did before was better. than take into the to. know is they. are well.
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for many homeless people in l.a. a lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. list and 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 a famous blouse. there's two houses that i called my home. no memories here in. so that was home this is home for me. is home there's four walls. that's all to cheer in. that i have that again. i mean that mike. and he says in mind.
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this is meant. to. be a stranger ok. this is tiny holmes could help people like christine until they get back on their 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 lots of the city controls. but. often stuff it's not allowed. and while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. for you all right after your
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son. yeah i'm pregnant. now there are no there is more there are. hard gov after all the old way over a vote on a great year and i have my life together elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm i will listen to i gotta 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.
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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. 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 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
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the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid we did she live. i was listed as a juvenile runaway. my dad. had been in prison. basically had no choice but to grow up before we. even 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.
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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
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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. a good person and she is 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 ten thousand new units which is well below to. get officials refuse to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not a solution were are doing that this service to those individuals who stayed in
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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 monitoring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all it'll be sex drugs and rock'n'roll and. they would absolutely you have to have some rules in place to. see. if they are here why put these guys out back with elvis 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 faulty item so it's going in the dumpster. almost breaking and christine's
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belongings are taken by the department of sanitation but residents not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know hit well i mean to hit rock bottom. i didn't 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 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.
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away from skid row would be safe from the authorities. both already he's a must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the time he has delivery and how you feeling very good spite i'm. going to drop out of this i am going through a lot of hardship to sell this tiny house the suburban house. 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. think. i think. i'm going to think that.
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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's. to remember that you know you know. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch and. look at the stars so i want looking up at the entire area have thirty to see it sit another good tired but good 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 do you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever.
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