i build everything with stories 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 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 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 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 way 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 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. it's on hygiene and from say. the situation much worse than when this last. is. this is already on a service. to the sea. 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 of st she's been out here so you do not. tired after getting that. pretty well. pretty light. 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 sent and run every back to you guys in a little while. alone present opens up about a situation. it's been a struggle. and. the city always kicks us now 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. the right. place and we got to. get him about this by saturday. elvis the. raven has 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 get our branch out. to try to get away from downtown they wired by downtown but six downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown.

if you're homeless in l.a. city louis to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on the months grow. this is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing the belief. that 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. 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 in a trip home 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. if you get 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 are pretty constant yes day and night. the 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 trance 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 in the community 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. 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 away. 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. 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. that. have thought of something. like.

this that. you're in and ways. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message today or some unlucky once the. lady 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 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 my safe

conditions to live it so we basically the city has been. germination those should not be on the city streets. and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill fiddlesticks mission to do it looking for you like a million pieces and my compass is going up the study hall maybe a bit. old john showed up tell nobody should move the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think this is of those who in the world under the oak vision good not only could get it. and know it fizzle off

enough that it's got to this lady in the muscle that you had i not going to compete in the customs you know do more of the most also don't piss off. later that day right back camp. they made a mess that took the great. basically to the bank. and find out that getting your belongings could get up devastate. our property 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 if you be tempted away from the driveway. to tennessee be down from sixty nine. and mrs rainey. and that is to me too always to move most o. . christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter just desperately trying to get back. she says money by collecting psychosis. but the authorities just take an entire week's work. at the recycle bin. this is not. like it to be done to get a treat. the city's clean up means that christine will be out here even longer.

for anything for was matter. can take into the ten. now 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. listing 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 fame is the house. best of the house that i called

my home. now the memories you in. so that was home this is home for me. i do this home there's four walls. f.l.t. cheering. again. which is the god's timing that my. then she says in mind. this is my back. i'll 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 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 after your son. yeah i'm pregnant. now there are no there is more there i'm very 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 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. 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. when the stakes raised 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 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 having the time taker but i was amazed because i. 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. 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 here. she strips 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 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. 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 multi-billion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build hundred thousand new units which is. officials refused to embrace elvis is 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 added but if a structure 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 will absolutely you 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 t.v. show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going in the dumpster. almost breaking in 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 mad but i'm. didn't 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 their tree and i had.

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 you feeling very good by good very. good idea and life drama but it's going through a lot of hardship that's not this tiny house it's a bird. 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 if not get any rest. you really feel if. i do. think. i think. i'm going to think. 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 day when you're on drugs. you called me and said. you know people sit on the back porch. look at the stars they want looking up at the entire area have to see you sit another good tired but the stars it's

got a magic little bit. so finally raven gets her own private space. hopefully the first time in over a year a good night's sleep and helen do you think it's going to last. that was said to say with us wherever i was it could last forever. happening god's hands.

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