first 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. . and they need to fix. but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so they 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. people are 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 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. five hundred years old then that's what i'm going to do. well this is building this next house for a woman who brave. people that live here. living under the top next to a freeway. it's on hygiene and far from safe.

the situation much worse than when elvis last saw. the mr flack jacket this is rare yeoman service. that. i. could see. ravens being on and off the streets most of my life i do for work so so in that 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 the house i happened to do pretty well you may know a pretty good life but there are times when it's a building when they do it. like a dream come. true if. 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 are running 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 your state it'll stay clean those. who want to costly move their stuff every day. ravens out here because she feels image and see shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone q two. receives

a visit. our. boys said we got to. by saturday. help us. raven giving orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were already one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our brands out. there to get away from downtown they want everybody 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 the landscape grow. 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 us why. are you. doing ok. andy 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 but you may 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 ten. yeah 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 hit 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. 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 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 this day and night. the maintaining order here can be struck running with handcuffs.

commanders running with handcuffs lewis 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 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.

right. 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 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. 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 we're doing. think it's essential it's essential to the cities. to the cities become growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tons in the cabbage 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.

you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the clean up but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones not to be laid to rest that's a bit below. they like it because you're kidding me 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 analysis of band playing to hampering operations like this. you know way it's extend the suburban down on the street. so we can clean the area and if you're good side it's my safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been

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is mostly that. alex you speak french. then send them continue. to. 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 mega import bank. later that day right back great camp. made

a mess that took three. basically to the bank. and find out that getting your belongings can get up devastate. our property destroyed it. none of us. i know that. take you in the midst of. you know. it will be the rules you had to be tempted away from the driveway. you didn't ask to be down sixty nine. and this is rainy. and this to me too i wish to move my stove. christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter just despite me trying to get back. she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire

week's worth. the recycled does being a. body like. that get to be dug to get street. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. before anything for was better. than take into the tent. now is they. are 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 breaking. this is the famous grouse. test of the house that i called my home. now the memories do you think. so that was how this is home for me. i do. this for was that. i felt secure in. again. i mean that mike. and he says 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 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 over eight thousand lots of 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. for you all right now from your son. yeah i'm pregnant. now there are no there is more there are.

hard gov after all the old way overdone oh 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 thank 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 how ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. despite getting orders to

move she still hear the same campsite look. you know want to know. her death. 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 ticker 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. bride to have been in prison. five months pregnant with. 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. 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 some of us 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 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 the homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is well below to. get officials refuse to embrace elvis's 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 out of. infrastructure 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 have to have some rules and. see. if they are here why put these guys out back with elvis and the city is clearing 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. i didn't run five every year

i let money spent. you can 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. would think. 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 to live very feeling

very good by a very. good life about it's going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house it's a pretty. good thing i think. most things i do a little bit 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 i could not sleep and how long do you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever. i'm putting god's hands.

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