we have the resources and. the ingenuity. the courage and we have the compassion and we must. bring our the strength to affected. the conscience. sure. maybe. the word west open right now behind us is one of the city's biggest homeless camps

and it stretches 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 b.s.a. but most long term housing is designed for that and that's where some volunteers are making a difference helping women veterans and their families. in the current old time you know if you want a real hero remains to be a glorified as well i mean you have experienced some pretty cold nights out here but the navy used to play one of the toughest low. almost out of reach you through the kind of locations that we find people use your resume to know this is the right what is it called new to. me what you know about to see is turn respected this mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills of albuquerque new

mexico will soon fall victim to police. telling you that he might honor tomorrow i'm going to be you know 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 at how ill be. 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. you 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 kids 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 look like you don't have a friend in the world like everybody's walking bears you you know in the bubble of the united the rest of the world it's a strange feeling that it's a real easy. as that that i would go there like people who are not a 5 as you made in leading lady try and think about when my going to them of them sleep. at night is before some of the family homes those with.

this is my last stop here and i don't know when i'm with you if i don't get my part in the most ethical. 'd people people still in the belief that this is the. and of opportunity that you can go out and 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 you 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 do you know 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 spot go 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 the same job and you can't do that 1st all those s.r.o. single room occupancy units they're gone it became condos for sale it 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 that 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. it's grew out of your.

scope so he's going to rip syrup in downtown it's. oh. yeah we did not work at all that you've already. made a. pretty good movie. but my 6 point you could see. if you could go love is all you know because this is you know i'm going on the. i love you love you know it there do you know. there's a process there are things that i. often. tell ha ha ha ha. ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha ha. that's.

ok. guys you know if you all morning that you have a lawful order families. that does start. to trouble we're going to take this or we're going to take. this a little or. a lot longer be sure to call it lloyd adults will be delayed admirably they're not. here when i left it was one. or 00. 0000000000000000000010. 000 to you guys got 5 minutes to get. this war that. i'm sure all i know but let's start with 1st order then and stephanie as he. prepares for yes yes yes absolutely much less mixed. in lot there. are you guys like and cooperate i think i've been really

smooth i know you are you going to. be able to save the disability most of the people just don't raise. revenue not understand you know what you lost and it's never easy there's not all of the takes we're going to idea everybody that's here ok because you guys are all in violation of a lawful order well because we're violated under tabriz bad law it's a lawful already if you please advance and leave to. morrow you know because you know. right you know i have a right to go i want to go just watch. because it's not what i don't understand really is as a veteran you have more opportunities to get housing there's another point there's no that you know you don't try to come down. to down so you've been born so. just because. this is the out of the front i don't need to be. a lot

of no i don't need to be like oh i will write. i choose i have no rights is that right was not given to me by me. during you know. have their thing. done right now and for you. you know colorado how. he won the race so how is it not. even making that $1.00 you cannot even get a decent clothes. on so i guess i'm not feeling better. so i'm better ya go i'm

in. 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. well right now ok here we go. why would you want to know. oh i'm just in. some pretty nice person give me a break no one who know how to go i'm probably not going to eat a. lot of money so. on found my pen i found these on the sidewalk because mine are full of bugs woods in my magic court based not 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 gotta have some booze. you gotta have some booze. you don't have a blanket. ordered my paper to go you gotta have paper paper he got to have paper. class to go the plastic. bungee cords and. he guarded. all of the years. she's gone. all of us we got to have her son. paul make you feel alone make you feel when you got a daughter how to learn. a new look commuter from

all over. think how the carnival like. sometimes. it's going to get out of the light. cloud by the man as kind of like a school you go blank that's it's all blank as does my coat. i mean it's been winner dude it's been worth a. freeze to death and it. i came close once the 1st storm that came through. i woke up under. 4 inches of snow and.

somebody. just let me see yes. i was on the floor some things in my bathroom you know crying praying. as time progressed through the words i was having chilling fever i didn't have any sense of c. source now i'm in the most young. girls would you. recently she was under the orders you to. that last time he was on the ground is that we know for certain. i have heard and. push myself to do this for me in the 5 i'm going to. go.

is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true. is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallowest.

the 1st night i was almost. that was jerry. first. because. i didn't have a shopping cart or anything kilts right i was like ok. there's all kinds of scary people out here. 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 here is. it on in the middle of the block down there you got bugs. rog just. what do you.

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. right there i would like. you know i've seen it nor. right next to it everything else. needs to get guys in the drunk tank of. tuesday we have heard right through you know. they're all gone. past when the. 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 see out of tree fall. is cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground so he got parallel . he died i was imprisoned he died. to. my mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. but thank you lord for women friend says he holds near again and i love you brother. thank you for helping me thank you for being months ahead. you know i will get by another day i will get by another day because i will. if you had a magic wand waving you would ever you would let me get. my

family back. to my grandma's. or have that. he wanted you know i just looked. back you may be right death row don't. you. think. i didn't mean it but. i know you know i did i know it. might you wanted to know. so i said that.

magic word. and we've done has 0 and. you want to know what the right. course the addition of this no human fus says nothing because the affairs of a sad life is a graphic view of the human body in the psychological sense especially to people that are before deprived early will then create conditions for themselves that will keep the definition going. because the way to cope with emotion the variation for reason. might recount maybe to get very hostile. or if you are going to be rejected. and that's going to reinforce your sense of being rejected in the

1st place. for you my to deal with the pain that some very will turn to addictions and all the addictions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain and i'm sure that that's true physiology psychologically spiritually. so then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addiction with the 1st true that i state that. because cellular is going to deal with an addict the reason of these so it's 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 her she said the 1st and i did heroin it felt like a war so. i was just saying 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 earing everything but

if i 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 doc was like when you 3 years old and you're shaving because you're sick as a kid and your mother wraps you know one blanket put you in her lap and you just don't want chicken soup that's what their own feeling. is that i would love. you know then you ask why can't people give it up they can't give it up because the only way they found that they can have pain relief and know i have 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. it's a hell of a charity there is data. there right is it. surprising not coming here we have a lot of that. is the arts facility is what we call a low demand shelter their very low demand is that we don't ask you to do anything it's just that they've been ordered to walk through the door other than there's security in behavior guidelines for us the definition of loaded been sheltering fluids that we're not requiring any for to 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 offical. what we've got right now is welcome to our 3rd for this is our dormitory for here at the arch we were originally. instructed on this property is a 100 bed facility they knew when they built that it was under built probably didn't know that it was in those under built as it actually is today we sleep 230

min in this facility every night versus the 100 beds that we were created with we're going to take a look at the dormitories themselves during the nicely we're going to sleep 100 minutes here there are case management clients there in a plan they're in a program they're working on some goals that they step through their program it may be in comes to build the it may be sobriety there's a lot of different kinds of things that case management will address but over night they get to sleep in our dormitories. which are bunk bed style we have 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 the mats that go down the floors and we're sleeping in places in this building that we were never really

intended sleep including our lobby our 2 conference rooms as well as our dining rooms. 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 i'm in the overnight shelter the demographic for homelessness across the nation is changed in often just different and i think that's one of the things that we as a community have got to address is. the systemic generalization. homelessness and 3 generations of people walking through our doors sometimes during the day and it's just kind of something we've got to get. so prince this is

a shelter provider but we're also a housing provider we recognize the necessity of shelter but we do look at shelter as a band aid to the issue of almost not really the solution for almost his house 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 bandaid it was shelter. without housing report was we put it out in 2006 we formed rat. and made 2005 and immediately started. funding trends and affordable housing and both were all through the u.s.d.a. us department of agriculture and urban through housing and urban development and

because we wanted to look at it we know the shelter system started in the late 82 early 83 and by mid 1983 was across the country by 1987 the federal government had passed almost funding as a major program of their. what the hell happened right before that. these. were who we can prove. shit out. walking into the word we not know what we're talking. march.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. and. there's 2 kinds of leadership crisis leadership and non crisis leadership in the. non-crisis leadership when things are stable and there's peace and prosperity in the past produce the future and you just asked me to the trains run on time a mentally healthy person is a better. crisis periods when you need creativity and risk taking and a different way of saving those mentally healthy meters as you're not as good as

the. time. when you have been listening but only. one of the many. that are rocked out of. it is take them initiate it. and at last we're getting a down for life when. you must put one i'll be your wife hounding on. this is not anything. but 100 housing growing. on grid power. just one of many don't.