when else childes seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. any new world to get to shape our disdain comes to educate and in gains from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the. name is our summers and i build timing houses for the homeless. is back and they are here why do these guys now for me a tiny house is not a solution it will be a free for all. is my safe conditions to live

a. new suit of clothes and ran to the city of los angeles. always a good terrorist 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 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. well this 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 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 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 until i'm 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 the top next to a freeway. hygiene and from say. the situation much worse than when this last. check of this is already on its 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. tired after getting. pretty well. a pretty good life. but it would. seem the. elvis is worried by the state of 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 opens up about his situation. it's been a struggle. and.

the city always kicks us out from the state it's us to clean those. who want to costly move their stuff every day. to the. 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. all right. boys said we got to. get him about this by saturday. elvis. raven was given 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 scatter branch out.

is going to get away from downtown they wired by downtown six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown. if you're homeless in l.a. city laws to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. to grow. 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. skin roy is. unlike anything else in the united states. i call it the worst manmade disaster in the us. 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 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 aadhaar 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 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 starts a pretty constant yes day and night. for maintaining order here can be struck running with. commanders' running with handcuffs to 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 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 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 a 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 homelessness 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. 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 the few positions. that. have thought of something. like. this that. you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones. when you're asked them 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 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. and if you a good side it's nice safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been . germination those should not be on the city streets. i'm max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is a fun it's a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to them.

totally destabilize the global economy in a to protect yourself and get in for watched as we've. done is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill so it was dismissed it to me like you know. this isn't my cup of tea is going to go to study hall maybe you know john. the only palestinians who gets the most hope from his jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who are on the vision there's no one who could do this. and no it is all of us not just you have to this lady in the muscle that you have i'm going to continue muslims you know do more commitments also don't put this off. the war hostility you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce offspring to tell you

that it's not because of the public but i fell for the most important day. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all the walking. later that day right back camp. they made a mess that took the phrase. basically to the bank. and find out that getting your belongings could get up to the state. or property just destroyed it.

and if i ask you if. i knows it. take you in the midst of. you know. this it will be the rules you had to be ten feet away from the driveway. to tennessee be down for sixty nine. and this is rainy. and as 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 worth. the recycled does being. this is my body take it. like it to be but just to get a treat. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer.

before anything for was matter. can take inflicted. ellis' take. a while. for many homeless people in l.a. a lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. listing 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. no memories here in. so that was home this is home for me. i miss it i do miss home the four walls that. f.l.t. cheering. that i have that again. this is the god's timing that my. then she says in mind. this is my backyard. don't be a stranger. 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 him 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 it's not a lot. and while searching he gets a call. even with an unexpected update. you know right after your turn it on. yeah i'm pregnant. this morning i'm pregnant hard i'm a governor after all else way over it our time 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 of 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 for 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 don't want to know. good if.

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 take a lesson it's because i. like. getting off the school. 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 a juvenile runaway. in prison.

basically had no choice but to grow. ravens had to learn to be tough. but she's right on the pitch. 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 some of us 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 well below to. get officials refuse to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house on a. parking space is not a solution were are doing that 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 will 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 show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going to miss. most. 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 do you get a bad lot of this is my run fight 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 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 night for worst. 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. with already he's a must continue to keep l.a. streets clean days finally. for the time he has delivery feeling very good by the very. want to drop a lot of things that are going through a lot of hardship. so this tiny house it's a person 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 not get any rest. you really fear for. i do. think. i think. i'm going to faint. 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 lot of. you 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 so i was looking up at the tarp you know you have to see if you sit not a 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 i could not sleep and how long do 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.

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