you know now they've been sitting here for the better part of a year collecting dust. people you know struggle 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 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 the vents these holes in the top you know it's really hot summer here so that way the heat 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. five hundred years old then that's what i'm going to do. elvis is building his next house for a woman. so there's a few people that live. ravens living under the top hole and next to a freeway. from say. a situation much worse than when. this is already on a service. ravens being on and off the streets most of their life. 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 may know a pretty good life but there are times when it took you know what it would be. like to bring the food. to. 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 tent and run to be 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 our 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 funk you she receives a visit to. our. boys and we've got to. get a move on by saturday. help us. raven has given much more to us. 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. is 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 the landscape 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 us hi. how are

you. doing ok. and he fails runs a pig the merchants the shelter in the middle of skid row which i'd like to he's seen the numbers of women seeking help in a truck 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 that we've ever seen are just a good idea you really need to look down that street there's not one open spot or cement 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 cites a pretty constant yes day and night. for maintaining order to campus truck running with hand. commanders running with handcuffs to this. 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 chants 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 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.

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 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 victory every time because it's on. watch out for syringes watch out for hazardous materials watch out for human waste . industrial operations like this happen 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 it's essential to the city's livability the 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's tents and a few positions. that nobody. thought of something. like. this that. you're in a way. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missing. today or some unlucky once. you're asked to. they like it because repeated i mean if you want to. live in 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 houses a band blamed for hampering operations like this. you know way through the suburban and down on the street. so we can clean the area if you avoid side by safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been a determination that goes should not be on the city streets. in july twenty seventh team hull and also to the freelance journalist working with on to militant shelling in syria. so on it has sacrificed quality has established a holiday on such a memorial they will recognize war reporters who often risk the months with the

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to debate it has fought us exchanges out of concern and they are dependent on the because they certainly have to get their people they can to they get into trouble. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but none of us signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people of seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would really literally send

a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the wady in decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay. paul burrell to get the middle finger to the b.s. and viola is. delayed and then i'll be done. later that day i right back break camp. they made a mess they did the break they basically did the same. and find out that getting your belongings can get out of the state. are probably destroyed a. hundred i ask you and. i know that. q did. you know.

this if you obey 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 the seventy two hours to move most. christine is new to the streets priced out of the rental she's discreetly trying to get back. she says money by collecting her psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. but there is that the good reason. i didn't. like it to be able to get up street. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer.

before anything for was better. than taking to the to. know 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 fake and. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something how breaking . this is the famous blouse. this little house that i called my home. no memories here in. so that was home this

is home for me. and i do miss home. that's all to cheer in. that again. i mean that mike. when he 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 on a governor. over a over a vote 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 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 you 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 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 have enough time to. that's what makes me feel like. like. like getting off the streets. 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. been in prison. five months pregnant with. murder. case of choice but to. raven's 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 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 in somebody else's tent not even her own because the city took that to. so. it's pretty simple without shelter people die. 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 homeless but it will take ten years to build ten 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 out of. infrastructure in place the city council. posed 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 will absolutely you have to have some rules and. see. if they are here why put these guys out back with elvis and the city is clear

and yet again this time even in christine's camp right now that loads open up there was a show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going to. almost break 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 know you were climbing to hit rock bottom. didn't i run five every year i was. 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 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 to live free feeling very good by a very. good idea and life drama but it's 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. 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 a bit come 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 said one looking up at the tar hey i have to see you 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 if you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever. happening god's hands. were.

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