there's nothing that brings people got more than laughter to be donald trump and i don't even get political in the show i mean because if you never know who's out there knowing it's political i mean you don't get political i don't discuss him on that level i mean because then you never know who's in the audience i mean recently in america there was amy schumer and want to sykes about issues with hecklers in the audience because they may trump jokes and they went back and it's like you're really don't know who's out there that might be a gay republican who thinks trump is lovely so i don't want to offend that person you know i'll talk about myself and make fun of that which of course is just sidetracking from what's really going on sometimes you need an hour away from the madness bagatelle rio thank you and you're touring australia in november then the united states then in britain is that it's correct you've got my schedule. and that's it for one of your favorite shows of the season we'll be back with a whole new episode going on the ground on wednesday the seventy the general then keep in touch via social media have a happy. hello

my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through in the time. when you're older i get up yet. let me gusta just punished or do it if i'm going to provide such a guy. my stuff is not his position.

name is elvis summers and i build tiny houses for the homeless. see his back and they are here why do these guys down for me a tiny house is not a solution it will be a free for all. this nice safe conditions to live a. new suit of clothes and run the city of los angeles. always get nervous. nobody should be homeless anywhere but especially in one of the richest countries in the world.

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 some as in a battle with city oath already. 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. is trying to solve it one tiny house at a time the tiny house idea is very simple it's shelter. food water shelter 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 a meant to be on the streets of l.a. . and they need a 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 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 crowdfunding he's going rogue once completed

they all have a new carbon pad. 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 all 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 until i'm 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 a. few people that live. ravens living under the top next to a freeway. and far from safe.

the situation much worse than when this last. check of this is already on a service. that. raven's been on and off the streets most of her life. very yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just thirteen. she once had a time since the city of st 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 but this communal camp and. 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's us to clean those. who want to costly move their stuff every day. not just the. 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 cue she receives

a visit. our. boys said we got to. get him about this by saturday. elvis is. brave and it's given matching 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 brands out. there is going to get away from downtown they wired by downtown but 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 the monster growth. 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. 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 true 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. 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. by. the maintaining order here can be struck running with.

commanders running with handcuffs through this. has been 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 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 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. 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 encampments of skid row. watch out watch out for hazardous materials watch out for human waste. industrial operations

like the. 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. but i think it's essential it's essential to the cities. the cities become on the 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

a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missing. today or some unlucky ones. like you're 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 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 a suburban town on the street. so we take. if you avoid side it's not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. germination those

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later that day right back right camp. they made a mess they did great they basically took the thing. and find out that getting your belongings keep it up devastate. our property just destroyed it. and if i ask you if. i knows it. take you in the midst of. you know. this it will be the rules you had to be tempted away from the driveway. you didn't ask to be down from 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 just despite the trying to get back. she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities

just take an entire week's work. at the recycle bin. but i think. that get to be a bit dull to get a treat. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here any longer. for anything for was matter. intake 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 how breaking . this is the famous grouse. test it was called. never memories do you think. so that was how this is home. i do this. this for. f.l.t. cheering. again. which is the god's timing that mike. and he says in mind. this is my back.

don't be a stranger ok. well this is tiny holmes could help people like christine until they get back on their feet back in compton the pressure is on for him to finish ravens 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. this morning there reitman hard on a governor. over a over a vote on a very sure 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 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 her ravens coping with the

news of her pregnancy. despite getting orders to move she's still here at the same campsite. 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 taker but i was amazed because i. like. getting off the streets. but getting off the streets is difficult for raven. we took 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. life. had no choice but to grow up 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 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 dead in somebody else's tent not even our 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 ten 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 will 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. see. if they are here why put these guys in 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 in the dumpster. almost breaking and christine's belongings are taken by the department of sanitation. not around so only christine

is here to see it they say you know you were climbing to hit rock bottom. didn't i run fight every year. was i all that money spent. you could spend half of that and get these people a place to go but instead they're treated like. with ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with the 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 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 delivery and how i'm feeling very good by good very. good life drama about it i am going through a lot of hardship. so this tiny house the suburban. 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 feel if. i do. a good thing. 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 elias. to remember that they are you know. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch and. look at the stars they want looking up at the entire area have to see it sit another good 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 a good night's sleep and helen do you think it's going to last. that was said to stay with us forever i wish it could last forever. after the gods hands.

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iran. with at least twenty one people killed. and even fake images of protests online fuel for. the u.s. . for a possible deescalation of the crisis now agreeing to talks for the first time in years. on the streets of paris. to find a solution before the end of. the program we hear.