tv Documentary RT April 24, 2018 8:30am-9:01am EDT
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oh that that's what i'm going to. l. this is building his next house for a woman called raven. so it's a few people that live. ravens living under this top pole and next to a freeway. it's unhygienic and far from safe. the situation much worse than when elvis last saw. his check of this rare yeoman service. that. could see. ravens being on and off the streets most of her life was over what's also in the area yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just thirteen years old. she once had a time but since the city forced them off the street she's been out here so you do
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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's a building where they do it. like a dream come true. good. elvis is worried by the state but 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 it sent and i'll run every back to you guys in a little while. alone . opens up about a situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks us now from worst. they tell us they create those.
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who want to costly move their stuff every day. ravens out here because she feels emergency 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. the right. place at it we've got to. get a move on by saturday. help us. raven has given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown the way a body one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our brands out.
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there to get away from downtown they want everybody downtown but six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown. if you're homeless and l.a. city lewis 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 and 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. and he fails runs
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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 here trip 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. if you get idea you really need to look down that street there's not one open spot of 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 here the increasing numbers of women and children
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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. by. the maintaining order here can be struck running with and. the man 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 your trance and often people get beaten or assaulted or raped and that in effect can damage your health pretty quickly.
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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 in their community. and this is why andy's shelter keeps an open door policy but he's struggling to keep up with demand. to 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. up because with limited access to emergency shelters and low cost housing life on the streets
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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 cleaned once every two weeks so this cycle that's the big effort we're doing. stuff think it's essential it's essential to the cities . the cities the comic growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tons. in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to
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be unsanitary. most of it will be rubbish but some of it will be people's tents and the few positions filled by pleading this tactical fighting. have been fought about for something. 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. lady or ask them to. they like it because they're treating i mean if you want a homeless person living on the street you want to live more if we sidewalk or decide to devalue the loss leader. but the city's focus on keeping the streets clean means further instability when you're
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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 waits at the suburban tent on the street. so we take leave if you're good side 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. seemed wrong. will just don't hold. any gold that is yet to shape out these days comes to educate and it gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.
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i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars fine champion each dish . eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market sock thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per cent get first shot and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one just shows you can afford to miss the one and only film but. all in all. you never know
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what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub even to walk into a nice fat excitement it's that look now and that's when the adrenaline in much comes from. coming in is a move by definition and the extreme so will probably support. the violence he's a part of and it's almost a schizophrenia gang culture where you can do all these things and behave badly. they're going to be all of us qualified all. of us both also focus on the last. punishment and infirmed then one wall will get done all this in the start. of a broader way enough i figure out i really did a poll down down went up a little bit. of meaning in these music at least if you're not on the involves it's constantly evolving and.
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later that day right back camp. they made a mess that took three. basically to the bank. and find out that getting your belongings could get up to a state. or property just 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 you had to be tempted away from the driveway. to tennessee down sixty nine. and this is rainy.
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and seventy two hours to move most of. christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter just despite me 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. i 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 tent. now is they. well.
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so 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 how breaking . this is the famous grouse. test of the house that i called my home. now the memories do you think. so that was home this is home for me yes. i do miss home the four walls that. f.l.t. cheering. again. it's just the god's timing that mike.
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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 won't easily find these are just two of over eight thousand lots of the city controls. are off and stuff boarded up it's not allowed. and while
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searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. for you all right after your son. yeah i'm pregnant. where there is more of their. hard underground ireland our only elsewhere over of our time here 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.
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when 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. you don't want to go. ahead and. 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.
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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. my dad. been in prison. five months pregnant with. murder. basically i had no choice but to. raven's have to learn to be tough. but she's right on the pitch. like more and more americans take care. she strips deep in the cycle of long term homelessness.
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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
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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. 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 multibillion dollar strategy to help the homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is. officials refuse to embrace elvis's tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not
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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 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 would absolutely have to have some rules and. see. if they are here why put these guys back with elvis and the city is clear and yet again this time at raven and christine's camp right now that load opened up there was a show. that's considered
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a faulty item so it's going. almost 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 it well i mean to hit rock bottom. he did not run five every year. was. all that money spent. you could spend half of that and get these people a place to go but instead their tree and i am. 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 it because. i finally found a suitable location for ravens tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial. affect anybody.
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elvis and raven hoped this part of downtown l.a. away from skid row would be safe from the authorities. with already he's a must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the tiny delivery feeling very good by a very. good life drama but it's 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 fragmented it's more important now that she gets the house because i don't think she can go much longer with not getting any rest. he really fifty. i do. think.
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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 a life's. 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 so i want looking up at the entire area have to see it sit another the target 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 wherever i was it could last forever.
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