i build everything was true because i make a lot of mistakes. and it's easy to back out your mistakes in compton south central l.a. a pint sized idea as well this summer as in a battle with city off already so 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. overseas 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 are 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 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 you know. los angeles authorities have accused his tiny himes of threatening public safety. elvis has seen the tiny house movement go viral online with support coming from right across the world so with the help of internet crowdfunding he's going rogue once completed

they all have a new carbon pad. alarms on the windows i put the vents in these holes in the top you know it's really hot summer here so that way the heater 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 till i'm five hundred years old then that's what i'm gonna do. l. this is building his next house for a woman brave and. so few people that live. ravens living under the top next to a freeway. and fall from say.

the situation much worse than when this last. one this is already on a service. raven's been on and off the streets most of her life. area yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just so. 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.

elvis is worried by the state of this communal camp and he. to buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so i'm going to have a tent and our rendezvous back to you guys in a little while. alone present opens up about his situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks us out from the 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 cue she receives

a visit to. our. boys and we got to. get him about this by saturday's. opening. bell this. raven was given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were ready one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our branch out. to try to get away from downtown they wired by downtown what six downtown skid row . the worst place in history to be homeless downtown. if you're homeless and l.a.

city who is to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on the months 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 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 what you mean can't daedra place 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 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. 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 starts a pretty constant ending yes day and night. the maintaining order here can be struck running with.

commanders running with us through this fast. 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 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 people in treacherous living conditions just as if they're living in it. 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 of 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 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. what's up. 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 a. this happens daily across los angeles to keep the streets clear forcing 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 this is central to the city's. 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 tents and a few positions by pleading that. have thought of something. like. this if you don't this. guy

you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones. when you're asked them to. they like it because the pleading i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk 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 way it's the suburban down on the street. and if you a good side it's not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. germination those

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from the driveway. to tennessee be down sixty nine. and this is rainy. and a seventy two hours to move most o. . christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter she's 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 that christine will be out here even longer. for anything for was matter. can 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. 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 the famous grouse. system that i called my. mother memories here in. so that was her this is home.

this home this. f.l.t. cheering. again. i mean 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. 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. right and with an unexpected update. you know right now from your turn around the country. yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard on governor. else way over a vote on a very sure i have my life together elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm i will listen to 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. when 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 school. 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. was listed as it's even a runaway. bride to have been imprisoned. much worse but the. ravens 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 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 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 so picture a small piece 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. 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 homeless but it will take ten years to build hundred 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 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 have to have some rules in place. so. see. if they are here why put these guys out the 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 show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going to go. almost breaking and christine's belongings are taken by the department of sanitation the ravens' not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know it well i mean do you get. he did not 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 their tree and i am. 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 must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the tiny house delivery and how i'm feeling very good spite i'm. going to drop out of this guy i'm going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house the suburban 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. think. i think. i'm going to think. 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. look at the stars so i was looking up at the entire area and have thirty to see it sit another 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

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