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 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. being used no now they've been sitting here for a 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 new carbon pads. alarms on the windows i put events of these holes in the top you know it's really hot this summer here so that way the heat will rise and go out in the city of angels elvis isn't considered 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. this top next to

a freeway. it's unhygienic and far from safe. the situation much worse than when elvis last saw. the missing check of this rare yeoman service. i. could see. ravens being on and off the streets most of her life but if it was so so 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 that house i happened to do pretty well you know a pretty good life right at the time 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 leaves

to buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so i'm going to have a tent and run every back to guys in a little while. alone . things up about his situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks us now former state it'll stay clear of those. who want to costly their stuff every day. ravens out here because she feels emergency shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city laws that. designed to move these camps on. and as a phone queue she receives

a visit. well he said we've got to. get a move on by saturday. to. help us out. raven has given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were already one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our branch out. there to get away from downtown they want everybody downtown 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. 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. hi. how are you. doing ok. andy fails runs a big agency shelter in the middle of skid row which i'd like to he's seen the numbers of women seeking help here trip in just a year but you me get deborah nice 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 hit 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. 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 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 this day and night. by.

the maintaining order here can be struck running with handcuffs. commanders running with handcuffs lewis yes. 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 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. policy but he's struggling to keep up with demand. for the

seat 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. 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 street is clean once every two weeks so this cycle that's the big effort we're doing. think it's essential it's essential to the city's livability the city's 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. that.

to get us a decision on 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 not a peep when you're asked them to. they like it because you're kidding i mean if you want a homeless person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk or people decide to devalue a loss leader. but the city's focus on keeping the streets clean things 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 through the suburban and 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. the. sky. it's the cradle of jazz. america is the america we. know all of this jazz feel. a city of climatic contest trophies of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the at least twelve members a mob family close most. of street racing in the huge shift. knights

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and if i ask you and. i know that. take you in the midst of. you know. this is 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 a seventy two hours to move most. christine is new to the streets priced out of the rental she's desperately trying to get back to. she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. at the recycle bin. but do you think. that get to be a bit tough to get a treat. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer.

for anything for was matter. to take into the tent. now is they. are well. 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 of the house that i

called my home. now the memories here in. so that was home this is home for me. i do this home there's four walls. that's all to cheer in. that i have that 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.

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. but. often stuff more love 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. now there are no there is more there are. hard gov all the 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 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 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 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 go.

ahead if. 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 street. but getting off the streets is difficult for even. we talk 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 imprisoned.

basically i had no choice but to grow up before it was time. 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 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 and not having anywhere to go so it's 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 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. 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 the homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is well below to. get officials refuse 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 out of but if a structure 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 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 faulty item so it's going in the dumpster. almost breaking and christine's belongings are taken by the department of sanitation but reagan is not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know it well i mean she hit rock bottom. i didn't run five every year. was. all that money spent. you can spend half of that and give these people a place to go but instead they're treating my ham.

with ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with a baby on the way elvis must deliver her tiny house before nightfall. with. 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 feeling very good spite good very. good data and life drama but it's going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house it's

a person. 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 that. 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 in 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 they want looking up at the tar oh your

habits are to see you sit another good 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 helen do you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish you could last forever. after god's hands.

were. 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 going to get. the money because you just published or do it if the pilot's. license is not sufficient.

power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and the bell of the match is over their heads up saudi arabia these days is as corrupt as the day is long and he's just stealing money from folks and with us trying to be had it but america is like that's reform meanwhile ok already there actually are in the process of reform but that somehow evil. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would be some where i would speak. but i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. will you love to be able to. cut the love the glory like i'm going to you know to simulate it to still give up food for the homeless.

which you don't really feel like human being you know. and then. the guy just came over to me sumi and gave me a change of this book. i . know. that.

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