you do. you. think. we have the resources. we're out of the end you know already we're out of the current we have the compassion and we've marked. them becky ran aren't these the bad affected directly. or. flarm them squalor.

sure. america. one neighbor of. our. world was coping right now behind us because one of the city's biggest homeless camps gets dredges per blogs on this warehouse district as you can see the government figures more than a 1000000 school aged children are homeless number of homeless families world in suburban us has risen by 60 percent and. one among us that trains are now women about 10 percent according to the v.a.

but most long term housing is designed for that and that's why some volunteers are making a difference helping women veterans and their families. in the current role but you know if you want a real purity to be a last minute warning you have experienced some pretty cold nights i do but the navy's that's one of the tough it's. almost out of reach due to the kind of locations that we find people in these you know received no you know this is a right what is it called you know. what you know about to see is turn rejection just mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills above albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to police bullets i don't know you would be my honor to perform going to almost every day that goes by the media you hear about education. jobs and health care you never hear about affordable housing . are you doing ok medically. when i

started i was actually really shocked how ill you. or on the street it was like going to a 3rd world country. and this is a map that shows you the foreclosures initiated and over the last 2 years every single one has for. the record i do know is pretty well that i do know the name of the person archer hey guys she was assaulted last tuesday she may have some booze or broken ribs. it is estimated the poverty rate for kids in this country will soon hit 25 percent those children would be the largest american generation to be raised in hard times since the great depression. the 1st day. psychologically how hits is you like anyone you know

you have no friends in the world people like. even though they probably don't know you know now they may in aljunied but you yourself know it because you don't have a friend in the world like everybody's walking bears you and your new beau would have been out of the rest of the world this is a strange feeling surreal. as about i'll go there live people who are 95 if you live in lady lady try and think about when my going to see some of them sleep. in the. night as before some of the family's home still filled with. this is my last new i don't know what i'm would do if i don't get my part in the most ethical. 'd people people still have the belief that this is the.

and of opportunity that you can go out get a minimum wage job and then you get another job pays more than minimum wage and screwed yourself up when i when i was growing up there was absolutely you know. you want to be a construction guy. took your dad's hammer. threw through your belt loop walked in the construction site and you told the foreman that you could you could swing a hammer. he looked at you he knew he knew you didn't couldn't do it. but he gave you shot let's do it let's come on their. spot at the y.m.c.a. is pretty cool 10 bucks a night you can go get a little girl get your room stash your stuff. get a good night's sleep good on the hall in the morning. use the shared bathroom and go off and. try to get you know at this age up and you can't do that at

1st all those s.r.o. single room occupancy units they're gone it became condos for sale they became parking lots they y.m.c.a. got out of the business you know when i was growing up there's no such thing as homes there's no sick. needs of people who had problems you know skid row and these types of things out the whole if alms and we didn't have a population was so big that we coined a phrase and named it homelessness you know and now it's become ingrained in our society but we know that if we can get the attention the american people and if they can really understand. this one thing that you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing. if we can get them to understand that and we can bring the solution because everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of it is. we're not.

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admirably they're not. here we were i was wondering how i was earlier or. oh my god. oh you guys got 5 minutes to get. this or that or that it's your fault i know absolutely but let's start with 1st story then and stephanie as he. prepares for yes yes yes absolutely much less mixed up. in hot car and driver guy's life and cooperate i think i've been really smooth i know yeah you're going to move. into it thank you. people just don't raise. revenue not a c.e.o. i was in washington over the years and not all of the takes we're going to idea everybody that's here. because you guys are all in violation of the law for well regular violations until every bad law already pays advance leads to.

all you know which is you know. right you have a right to go wow just wow. that is just what i don't understand really is as a veteran you have more opportunities to get housing does not the point where you know that you know you don't try to come down to. the number to down so you've been doing so. just because. this is the out of the plant i don't need to be. alive to go i don't need to be like oh i will write one is that i choose i have no rights is that right was not given to me by me. and heir esteemed it's all during you know. have everything the studio done right

now and. how. you want the rate for how the. evil making that $1.00 you cannot even get a decent one. i'm sure. i'm not feeling better. so i'm better ya go i'm in the drink. i don't want to die yet this morning. i don't want to die yet this morning.

i don't want to die yet this morning. oh right now ok here we go. what would you wanna know. own just. some pretty nice person give me a break no one who will have a go i'm probably not going to. so here on fill my pen i found these on the sidewalk. because mine are full of bugs woods in my magic court they snot a magic court that is my cadillac baby that's my cadillac do you know if you're old homeless person you gotta have some certain things right . you got to have some booze. you gotta have some booze. yeah i have a blanket. ordered my paper to go you gotta have paper paper

he got to have paper. plastic goes out plastic. bungee cords and. he got it out. 'd all the years. she's gone. all of us we got to have her son. paul make you feel alone make you feel. you got a daughter have. a new look commuter from all over. think how to live kind of a light. sometimes. sky on a good have a light. cloud by a man as kind of like a school you are all blank that's it's all blank it's just my coat.

i mean it's been winter dude it's been when a. freeze to death. i came close once the 1st storm that came through. i woke up under 2 inches allies some 4 inches of snow and. but i. just. see it yes. i was on the floor in my bathroom you know crying praying.

it's time for us to where i was having so many fever i didn't have any sense of c. source now it's been the most you know. what you. recently she you know sunday just yesterday. i mean it's on the ground it's all. i have heard and. push myself how close it is for me in the face i'll go to. the 1st night i was almost. that was gary. firsthand. knowledge because.

i didn't have a shopping cart or hanging kilts right i was like ok. there's all kinds of scary people you know or. care you know i mean there's all kinds of scary people right and i'm from the mountains i'm from up in the mountains and then i get dropped down out here and. it all me in the middle of the block down there you got. rugs. any worse thing you can imagine. you'd. seen it watched it. in 830. i was a girl stabbed. it was on the news here. i was

right there i would like. you know i'd seen it norton. and right next to it everything else now needs to get guys of the drunk tank of. tuesday we have heard right through you know. they're all gone. past when the screen. my mom my father killed the cell phones 5 story. there my step dad it was my dad because i didn't even know my dad really was. here he was a lumberjack up there and careless of them can set a tree fall on. him cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground. so you got parallel. he died i was in prison and he died.

my mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. but 2. thank you lord for be my friend says he holds near again and run love your brother. thank you for helping me. and i will get by another day i will get by another day because i will. if you had a magic wand waving giving everyone. my family back. my family. my grandmother. he was here you know i just looked. for my grandma back in maybe or i just

don't. you. don't. because i have to have like. i didn't mean it but that. i know you think i know if. you wanted to know. so i said. i bought. her and my family has. and i don't want to. talk like you want to know what the right.

i call it the jewish and all of this now you must who says nothing before the effects of a sad life as aggressive. in the psychological sense as i say to people that are before deprived early voting create conditions for themselves. keep the declaration going. because the way to cope with emotion that relation for example might be might be to begin very hostile. you can be rejected. and that's going to reinforce your sense of being rejected in the 1st place. or you might to deal with the pain that some very will turn to addictions. and all the additions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addition but why that pain and making sure that put us through physiologically psychologically spiritually. so then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addition of their 1st true that i state

that. because failure is going to be with an addict the reason of the soul is very difficult and painful to do so but for the addict it reinforces that i'm all alone in the reader for me and which makes them further. inclined to engage in addictive behavior to suit that theme of a sex trade worker a 27 year old said to me when i asked her what heroin did for she said the 1st and i did heroin it felt like a war start. and what she's saying is she experienced a sense of love and connection which is what the endorphins do in the brain. and they die and detox a few years ago 6 was something muscles tattoo scars earring everything but it was walking towards me in an alley i'd run the other way when i asked him whether they're into for you and he said i don't tell you this dog was like when you 3 years old and you're shaving because you're sick as a kid and your mother rational one blanket puts you in her lap and you just don't want chicken soup that's what their own feeling. is that we would love. to know

then you ask why can't people give it up they can give it up because the only way they found that they can have pain relief and i pleasure and delight and reward and that sense of connection. so homelessness in the chronically homeless may be seen as a coping mechanism. thank you sir now you say all of the charity there is day i. am really.

surprised not coming here we have a lot of that. the arts facility is what we call a low demand shelter their. demand is that we don't ask you to do anything it's just that they can and it will walk through the door other than their security behavior guidelines for us the definition of loaded been sheltering pleads that we're not requiring any partizan ation in a program or service in order to be in the building there's not going to be a requirement for you to be sober to be in the building you can come in under the influence of drugs or alcohol we just can't have you bringing it in with you so it's an opportunity to work with our clientele on sobriety issues and we'd much rather have them inside the building and under the influence than in the safety

concern on the other than. what we've got right now is welcome to our 3rd for this is our dormitory for here at the arch we were originally constructed on this property as a 100 bed facility they knew when they built that it was under built probably didn't know that it was in the under built as it actually is today we sleep 230 min in this facility every night i was the 100 beds that we were created with take a look at the dormitories. themselves during the night sleep we're going to sleep 100 minutes here there are paste management clients they're in a plan they're in a program they're working on some goals that they've set through their program it may be incomes to build the may be sobriety there's

a lot of different kinds of things that case management will address but overnight they get to sleep in our dormitories. which are bunk bed style we have some storage and underneath each bed they love being able to store their own stuff and because they're in our shelter program in our case management program each bed is assigned overnight to a specific individual so we'll have on this floor there are 100 beds and then overnight the way we get to the 230 is we also have some mats that go down the floors and we're sleeping in places in this building that we were never really intended to sleep including our lobby our 2 conference rooms as well as our dining room. in our overall population profile is a 35 to 45 year old caucasian male struggling with mental health drug and alcohol

addiction we see a lot of veterans in that mix too and then we've got a lot of women and children although this is a men's over night shelter the demographic for homelessness across the nation is changed in austin so different and i think that's one of the things that we as a community have got to address is the systemic generalization of homelessness and the regenerations of homeless people walking through our doors sometimes during the day and it's just kind of something we've got to get on. so prince this is a shelter provider but we're also a housing provider we recognize the necessity of shelter but we do. shelter is a band aid to the issue of really the solution is. if you've got limited housing opportunities you've got limited opportunities to house the homeless so it's really been a push in our community to get more housing stock on the ground so that we can solve

homelessness and not just band-aid it was shelter. without housing report was we put it out in 2006 we formed rat. in 2005 and immediately started. funding trends and affordable housing and both were all through the u.s.d.a. u.s. department of agriculture and urban through housing and urban development because we wanted to look at we know the shelter system started in the late eighty's early 83 and by mid 1983 was across the country in 1907 the federal government had passed almost as a major program of their. what happened right before that. business

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greetings and sal you take us on a previous episode of watching the hawks we covered how the united states was running a wild west style smash and grab when it came to securing valuable medical supplies during this pandemic germany brazil and other countries around the world were claiming that the united states government was either swooping in and out bidding them after sales were already finalized or the us was just playing down right stealing or as we like to call it here compas.