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meant to be on the streets of l.a. . but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so used to belong to somebody. and now being used no now they've been sitting here for the 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 a new carbon pad. alarms on the windows i put the events of these holes in the top you know it's really hot summer here so that we the heat all rise and go out in the
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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 under the stopover next to a freeway. and from safe. the situation much worse than when. he. this is rare
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yeoman service. that. the sea. ravens been on and off the streets most of your life but if you walk so slow 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 she'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 took you know what it would be. like dream to. do it. elvis is worried by the state of this communal camp and he needs to buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so i'm going to have a tent and run a back to guys in a little while.
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alone present tense up about his situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks out 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 see shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone q she receives a visit to. our. lawyer. we got to. get
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a move on by saturday. raven is giving orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were already one section. not going to happen yet or branch out. is going to get away from downtown they want everybody downtown six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless down. 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
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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. and he fails runs a big emergency shelter in the middle of skid row which i'd like to he's seen the numbers of women seeking help in a truck in just a year or two me get daedra nice 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 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 nights. there are blocks of skid row
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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 summit 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 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 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
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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. 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. shelters there are not enough beds forty seven thousand
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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. watch out for hazardous materials watch out for human waste. industrial operations like this happen daily across los angeles to keep the streets clear forcing the homeless to be constantly on the move. we are
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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. says think it's essential it's essential to the city's. center of the city's 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. that. have thought of. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missile . into. day or so men lucky ones not
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a pretty lady you're asking to. they like it because you're kidding 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 we could spend 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 a determination that those should not be on the city streets.
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later that day right back great camp. they made a mess they did of the three. basically did the thing. and find out that getting your belongings could get up to the state. property just destroyed it. and if i ask you if. i knows it. take you in the midst
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of. you know. this it will be the rules you had to be tempted away from the driveway. to tennessee down from sixty nine. and this is rainy. and as seventy two hours to move most. christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter just discreetly trying to get back. she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. but the recycle does. 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.
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for anything for was better. than take into the tent. ellis 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. liston three percent of the city's rental market is vacant. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something breaking. this is the famous blouse. that i called my home. no memories do you think. so that was her this is home.
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i do this home this for. f.l.t. cheering. again. which is the god's timing that my. then she 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.
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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. even with an unexpected update. you know right after you're done that i did yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard on a governor after all else railfreight out 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 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.
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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 to have tiny house i want to see how ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. despite getting orders to move she's still here at the same campsite looking. you know want to know. good if.
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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 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. bride to have been in prison. life. had no choice but to grow up.
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raven's had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the pitch. 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 ravens 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
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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 it's criminal. picture smokey said in the doorway of her her tiny house one of the people who died was his close friend smokey. he received the very first tiny house new year's morning they found her dead in somebody else's tent not even her 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
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a multibillion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build thousand new units which is. yet officials refused to embrace elvis is 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 it infrastructure in place city council. posed tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. someone want to treating the site otherwise it'll 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.
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see. if they are here why put these guys back they'll this and the city is clear and yet again this time even in christine's camp right now that load open up there with the show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going to go. almost. 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 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 my hand. with ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with
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a baby on the way elvis must deliver her tiny house before nightfall to close with . 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 and how i'm feeling very good by good very. good data and life drama a lot of things that are going through a lot of hardship. so this tiny house it's a pretty fast. 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
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don't think she can go much longer with not get any rest. you really feel if. i do. a good thing. i think. i'm going to. 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 and. look at the stars said one looking up at the tar oh yeah i have to see it sit another good tired but the stars it's got a magic little bit. so i finally raven gets her own
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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 wherever i was it could last forever. happening god's hands. were.
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