always good terrorist and. nobody should be homeless anywhere 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 well this summer as in a battle with city author 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 to clear the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. overseas 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 a 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 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 homes 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. 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 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 and. so few people that live. ravens living under this top hole and next to a freeway. and five from say. the situation much worse than when this last. check of this is already on a service. the sea. ravens been on and off the streets most of her life. area 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 good light.

when they. when they do a. good. elvis is worried by the state but this communal camp and he. 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 tense up a better 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 image and see shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone queue she receives a visit to. our. boys and we got to. get him about this by saturday. elvis. raven has given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown the way 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 want everybody downtown what six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown.

if you're homeless in l.a. city lewis 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 the belief. that elvis is tiny homes and allowed here. skid row use. unlike anything else in the united states. i call it the worst. disaster in the us. are you. doing ok. and details 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 place 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. 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 designed as an option to avoid sleeping on skid row. because here the increasing numbers of women and children a sleeping alongside drugs crime and the mentally ill. and police are the only source of protection starts

a pretty constant yes day and night. for maintaining order here can be struck running with. 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 and you just stay alert rats are running around running over people running in their tents 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 of 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. 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 waste. industrial operations like this. 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. stuff think is essential is 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. tactical

fighting. has brought about for something. like. this that. you're in and ways. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones now the. lady 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 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 playing to hampering operations like this. you know way it's the suburban town on the street. so we take. if you go inside it's not safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been into. the nation. should not be on the city streets. most definitely wasn't a victim. of any kind of a federation or at that from the russian side because that would destroy russian could be true as far as exchanges are concerned and they are dependent on it because they certainly have to get their people think if they get into trouble.

you never know what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub even to walk into excitement in fact not knowing that's where the adrenaline in much comes from. and you can easily play definition and extremes will probably support. the violence in the pot and it's almost a schizophrenia. where you can do all these things and behave badly. important people of course colorful all. the more so full of the last. punishment and infirmed. role. in the fall. i would roll the window if i figure out

a really good uphold i don't want to get. the meaning in reason is that if you don't involve these constant involvement. later that day i write back a great camp. they made a mess they did of the great thing basically to do this. and find out that getting your belongings cleared up devastate. our property just destroyed it. and if i ask you and. i knows it to. 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 the system night. and this is rainy. and a seventy two hours to move most o. . christine is new to the streets priced out of the rental market just despite me trying to get back in time. she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. with the result that does being a. body like. that get to be a bit tough to get up street. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. before anything for was matter. can take into the ten.

no 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. this than three percent of the city's rental market is vacant. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something breaking. this is the famous grouse. test of the house that i called my home. now the memories you in. so that was how this is home for me.

this home there's four walls. that's all to cheer in. that again. i mean that mike. and he doesn't 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 watts 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. where there is more of their. hard on a governor. over a 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 i want to jump for joy and like cry it just 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 her tiny house i want to see how ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. despite getting orders to move she's still here at the same campsite look. you know i want to know. where they're. a little concerned regarding the conditions. living at this time i've 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 street. but getting off the streets it's 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 in prison. five months pregnant with. murder. mason had no choice but to grow up before we. even had to learn to be tough.

but she's right on the pitch. like more and more americans take here. she's trips deep and 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. 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 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'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 back they'll this and the city is clear and yet again this time even in christine's camp right now that load open up there

was a t.v. show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going to go. almost in christine's belongings are taken by the department of sanitation but raven's not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know it well i mean to hit rock bottom. didn't i run five every year. 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 delivery and how i'm feeling very good by good very good i want to drop a lot of this guy i'm going through a lot of hardship to sell this tiny house the suburban asked. 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 you pick them back up. that's what we should do elias. 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 entire area have to see it sit another bit 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

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