tv Documentary RT January 2, 2018 10:30am-11:00am EST
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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. el this is building his next house for a woman brave and. so few people that live in. raven's living under the top next to a freeway. it's on hygiene and fire from say. the situation much worse than windows this last. check of this is already on a service. the
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sea. ravens been on and off the streets most of her life. area yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just thirteen so. 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 that. pretty well. pretty good light at the time when it's over but it would. bring. good. elvis is worried by the state if 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. be back to you guys in a little while. alone
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. opens up about a 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 the mitchinson shelters are either overbooked or unsafe but city laws are designed to move these camps on. and as a phone cue she receives a visit. our. boys said we got to. get him about this by saturday.
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help us. 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. it was going 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 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. elvis's tiny homes aren't allowed here.
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skid row 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 big emergency shelter in the middle of skid row would you like to be seen the numbers of women seeking help here true in just a year what you mean can't daedra nice to meet you a bless 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
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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 such a pretty constant ending yes day and night. the maintaining order here can be struck running with and. commanders running with handcuffs through this yes. i'll spend one night every once in a while and streets and i can't sleep because it's so dangerous. you just stay
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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 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 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 experiencing almost this and there are about twelve thousand shelter beds or
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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 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. three is clean once every two weeks so this cycle that's the
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big effort we're doing. that think it's essential is essential to the city's livability essential to the city's become a growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tonnes 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 go by pleading that the fighting. has been fought over or something. like. this if you don't this. guy 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 some unlucky ones now the. lady you're asking to.
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they like it it goes repeated i mean if you want a homeless person living on the street you want to live 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 waits in the suburban town on the street. so we can't clean and if you go inside 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.
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make this manufactured to sentenced him to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts only the one percent. nor middle of the room six. the real news is. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you know period. i cut the cord. you know just slowly though still give out food for the over the. earth.
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but you don't really feel an actual human being in that. and then. that guy just came over to me saw me and gave me this book. here's what people have been saying about rejected a knighthood to us it was full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to watch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yeah it is the john oliver of harvey americans do the same we are apparently better than that and see people you never heard of love jack tonight president of the world bank though they. sent us an e-mail.
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later that day right back. they made a mistake to break. basically to. find out if getting your belongings. or property destroyed. and if i ask you. i know that. take you into a step. you know. this is it will be the rules you had to be tempi to wait in the driveway. to tennessee be down from sixty nine. and this is rainy. and seventy two hours to move most o. . christine is new to the streets priced out of the rental she's desperately
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trying to get back. she says many thanks. but the authorities just take an entire week's worth. the recycling does. take i. think it. like it to be a bit dull to get a treat. the city's clean. means that christine will be out here even longer. for i didn't think it was a matter. intake into it. was just a. 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 heartbreaking. this is the famous grouse. test of the house that i called my home. now the memories you think. so that was home this is home for me it was. his home there's four walls that. f.l.t. cheering. that i have that again. this is the god's timing that mike. and he says in mind. this is my back.
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to. 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. song for him to finish ravens tiny house. but he still needs to locate a place we can put it somewhere the city clean up one easily find these are just two of the over eight thousand lots of the city controls. but. often stuff more love is not allowed. and while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. you know right now from your
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turn around the time. yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard on grammar and are all else way over about autonomy 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. 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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with the stakes raised for a tiny house i want to see how ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. despite getting what is to move she's still here at the same campsite. you don't want to know. 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 have enough time to cook that's what makes me. like. like getting off the streets.
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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. on the streets. i was listed as a juvenile runaway. my dad. my dad been in prison all. mama's. side was pregnant with me. put in a murder. case. basically we had no choice but to grow up before we were time. raven's had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the edge. like more and more americans take here. she strips 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 tin 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. elvis knows how important little details like this can be he's watched too many people lose hope in the streets since the city forced me to take houses away from people three people have died mainly due to being stuck out in. not having anywhere to go so it's criminal. picture of smoke in the doorway of her her tiny house one of the people who died was his close friend smokey who received the very first
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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 she 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 homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is. yet officials refuse to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not a solution we are doing at this service to those individuals who stayed in these
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tiny homes without the out of it 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 will absolutely you have to have some rules and. man city is back you know and they are here wiping these guys out that they'll miss and the city is clear intense heat again this time even in christine's camp right now that load opened up there was a pristine show. on saturday. that's considered a bulky items so it's going in the dumpster. almost christine's belongings are
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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. 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. i finally found a suitable location for ravens' tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial. affect anybody.
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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 to live free feeling very good by. a lot of things going through a lot of hardship that's not this tiny house it's a perv. 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 with not get any rest. you really fear for a life i do. think. think. i'm going to faint and.
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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 they are you know. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars they want looking up at the entire area have thirty to see it sit not a bit tired but look at 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 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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