so who's the biggest opponent renna the city of los angeles. toys good terrorists and. 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 elvis some as in a battle with city off 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 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 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 when 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. five hundred years old then that's what i'm going to do.

elvis is building his next house for a woman called raven. so there's a few people that live. ravens living under the top pole 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. to see. ravens being 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 street she's been out here so you do not. tired

after getting that. pretty well. pretty light at the time when they. when they do it. like. 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 it set and run if you back you guys in a little walk. alone present tense up about a situation. it's been a struggle. to get. 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 emergency shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone cue she receives a visit to. our. boys and we got to. get him about this by saturday. elvis. raven has 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 a branch out. to try 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 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 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. andy fails runs

a big emergency 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 daedra 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 aadhaar just a good 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's tiny houses are 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 such a pretty constant ending yes day and night. for maintaining order here can be struck running with. commanders running with handcuffs leave as fast. as 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 in their community. 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 the. 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 center of 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 a few positions by pleading tactical fighting. for something. like . this that. you're in a way. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones now that. you're asking to. they like it because repeated 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 the suburban town on the street. and if you go inside it's not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. it terminations those should not be on the city streets. in july twenty second team on an attempt to freelance journalist watching was on t.v. a militant shelling in syria. on his sacrifice quality has established a hundred all such a memorial awards they will recognize will reporters who often risk their lives with the sake of the truth comes through that peace you can submit to your published works in a video or a written form to a war and on t.v.

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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 keep it up devastate. our property just destroyed it. 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. 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 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. but the recycle does. a. body like. that get to be a bit dull to get a treat. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here longer. for anything for was matter. intake into the tent. now is to say. oh well.

for many homeless people in l.a. a lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. less than three percent of the city's rental market is fake and. we walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something breaking. this is the famous grouse. test it was called. let me raise you in. so that was how this is home for me. i do this. this for. the chair in. which is the god's timing that mike. and keep that 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 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 watts of the city controls. but. often stuff more love is not allowed. and while searching he gets a. even with an unexpected update. you know right after your

turn that on. yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard underground ireland our only elsewhere over it our time of great is here 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 your life go from bad to worse when you're on the street.

with the stakes raised to 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. where they're. 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 talk more and she reveals

the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid. i was listed as it's even a runaway. bride to have been in prison. life. choice but the. ravens had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the edge. like more and more americans take keer. 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 it's criminal. picture smokey said in the doorway of her her tiny house one of the people who died was his close friend smokey. he received the very first tiny house new year's morning they

found her dead in somebody else's tent not even her own because the city took that too. 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 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 a solution we're doing at this service to those individuals who stayed in these

tiny homes without the out of. infrastructure in place city council. opposed to 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 elvis and the city is clear and yet again this time even in christine's camp right now that load open up there was a show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going to go. almost. 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're welcome i mean she hit rock bottom he did not run fight every year. all that money spent. you could spend half of that and give these people a place to go but instead their tree and i had. with ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with a baby on the way elvis must deliver her tiny house before nightfall bush would think. i finally found a suitable location for ravens' tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial. affect anybody. elvis and raven hoped this part of downtown l.a.

away from skid row would be safe from the authorities. both already he's a must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the time he has delivery feeling very good by good very good i want to drop a lot of things i am going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house it's a pretty fast. after the week that she's had and everything she's gone through on top of being pregnant it's more important now that she gets the house because i don't think she can go much longer if not get any rest. you really feel if. i do. think. i think. i'm going to. 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 day when you know you know. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars they want looking up at the tar you know your habits are to see you sit not look at the tire but the stars it's got a magic little bit. so finally raven gets her own private space. and hopefully the first time in over a year a good night's sleep and you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever.

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