i build everything with truth 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 authorities when you have nothing and nowhere to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle. the mayor of los angeles has to clear the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. is 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 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. 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. 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 they'll be alarms on the windows i put the vents these whole. in

the top you know it's really hot summer here so that we that he 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 till i'm five hundred years old then that's what i'm going to do. elvis is building his next house for a woman brave and. so you people that live. ravens living under this top hole and next to a freeway. it's on hygiene and fire from say. the situation much worse than when this last. check of this is already on

the service. ravens being on and off the streets most of your life. area yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just thirteen 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 good light at the time. but it would. bring the. 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. if it's an hour run if you back the guys in

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 their stuff every day. ravens out here because she feels the mission c shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone queue she receives a visit. our.

boys said we got to. get him about this by saturday. elvis is. brave and he's given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were but one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get or branch out. is going to get away from downtown they wired by downtown six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown. if you're homeless and l.a. city low is 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 for single leaf. 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. 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 in a trip home in just a year what you mean can't daedra place to meet you unless you've 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 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 are designed as an option to avoid sleeping on skid row. because he is the increasing numbers of women and children asleep in 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 hand. commanders running with handcuffs through the stats. 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 mental 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 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. 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 encampment 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 essential to the city's. essential to 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 the few positions filled by cleaning staff. have thought of something. like. this that. you're in and ways. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not

everyone gets the message today or some unlucky ones. like the are asking to. they like it because repeating i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to value 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 house is a band playing to hampering operations like this. you know ways with the suburban town on the street. 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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a mess they did the great they basically did the thing. and find out that getting your belongings keep it up devastate. our property destroyed it. and if i ask you and. i knows it. take you in the midst of. you know. this it will be the rules if you be tempted away from the driveway. to tennessee be down sixty nine. and this is rainy. and that is 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. but the recycle does.

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. intake inflicted. ellis' take. a while. 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.

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elvis 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. but. often stuff more luck is not allowed. and while searching he gets a. even with an unexpected update. and you are right left in your hand. yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard on governor. else way over about 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 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. with 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 look. you don't want to know. we're there for. 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 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. my dad.

been in prison. life. choice 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 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 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. who 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.

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 thousand new units which is. officials refused to embrace elvis's 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 added but if a structure in place city council. opposed to tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. someone wanted turning 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 back with us and the city is clear and yet again this time at raven and christine's camp right now that load open up there was a show. that's considered a so it's going. 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 don't hit rock bottom do you hit rock bottom this is my run fight every year.

all that money spent. you can spend half of that and give these people a place to go but instead they're treated my hand. 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. both already he's a must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the time he has delivery feeling

very good by the very. want to drop a lot of things that are going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house the suburban house. after the week that she's had and everything she's gone through on top of being pregnant it's more important now that she gets the house because i don't think she can go much longer if not get any rest. if you really feel if. i do. think. i think. i'm going to. most things i do in life are out of principle. i was taught that when 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 said one looking up at the tar oh yeah i have to see it sit another the tired but 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. after god's hands.

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