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sure. america. one neighbor of. our. word was 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 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 old time you know if you want a real purity to be

a war fighter or any you have experienced some pretty cold nights out here but the navy used to play one of the toughest to blow. almost out of reach due to the kind of locations that we find people in these you know resume you know this is a right what is a gold medal and. what you know about to see is turn rejected because 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 mourn to you know almost every day that goes by in 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 people were 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 kids is you like and you don't know you have no friends in the world people like. even though they probably don't know

you know now they've been 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 eat in there and it's as though 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. in the. night as before some of the family homes to go through with. this is my last stop here and i don't know what i would do if i don't get my bottom of a. yeah people people still of the belief that this is the land 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 2. 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 do you know you didn't couldn't do it. but he gave you shot let's do it let's come on their. most spot at the y.m.c.a. is pretty cool 10 bucks a night you can go get a little girl gets 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 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 it's necessary. and it's of people who had problems you know skid row and these types of things alcoholic farms 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. grew out of your. car. or. truck so he's going to stir up and down tenants. oh. yeah we did not work at all that you've already. made it. pretty good. but my 6 plank you did say. that if you go loans and you know. this and go i'm going on. i'm

not even if you get there do you know. it's a process that you're thinking that i. often. tell ha ha ha. ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha ha. that's. ok. guys you know all the all morning that you got a lawful order to handle these. guys start. trouble we're going to take this or we're going to take. this a little or. putting all this. boy well you laid out here a little here when i was one of the earlier.

oh my god. oh my you guys got 5 minutes to get. this or that or that is your all i know absolutely but let's start 1st or you need to get stephanie as he. has for yes or yes absolutely much less mixed up. in a lot there are a guy you guys like and cooperate i think i've been really smooth i know you are you going to. thank you. yes going right maybe. not exactly are what you lost and it's never easy there's not all that takes we're going to idea everybody that's here ok because you guys are all in violation of the law for well because we're violating some cabarets bad law already if you didn't have

a dance leaves to refuse on. all you know which is you know. right you know i have a right to go where i want to go just walk. around and it's not what i don't see nobody is as a veteran you have more opportunities to get housing does not the point there is no that you know you don't try to come down to. the number to down so you've been born so. just because. that's in the out of the plant i don't need to be. a lot though 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 you. being the good serial killer how it done right now and for the state of colorado how to stop if you want the right the holiday. even make an island although 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. let my so. on found my pen i found these on the sidewalk. because mine are full of bugs woods in my magic court case not a magic court that is my cadillac baby that's my cattle. you know if you're all homeless person you gotta have some certain things right. you got to have some booze you gotta have some booze. you know have a blanket. ordered my paper to go you gotta have paper paper he got to have paper. class to go to have plastic. bungee cords and. he

guarded. all of the years. she's gone. all of us we go to have her son. paul make you feel alone make you feel. you've got to go to. a new book commuter from all over. being there you have a kind of a light. sometimes. it's going to good to have a light. close to the. cloud by the man as kind of like a school you go blank that's it's all blank is just my coat. i mean it's been winner dude it's been we're a. freeze to death and. i came close once the 1st storm that came

through. i woke up under. 4 inches of snow and. there's 2 kinds of leadership crisis leadership and non crisis leadership that i'm talking about you non-crisis leadership when things are stable and there's peace and prosperity in the past produce the future and you just ask makes the trains run on time a mentally healthy person is a better leader. in crisis periods when you need creativity and risk taking and a different way of stating those mentally healthy meters as you're not as good as

he spent less. time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man not be more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely harmless followed this lead the. league. has the models and not it does not apply on companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is something else this must be going to anyone and i mean look. this is the moon i mean listen we don't want anyone and i'm stunned seemed to be best understood look to what is going in. the 1st

night i was almost. told. that was gary. no because. i didn't have to show up with carter he didn't kill that's right i was like oh ok. there's all kinds of scary people out here. 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 is. in the middle of the book down there you got bugs. rog just. what do you do. any worse thing you can. do you. seen it watched it. in a pretty. i was

a girl stabbed. it was on the news there i was right there i would like. you know i've seen it nor. right next to it everything else. needs to get guys of the drunk tank. to see me after its parts will know. they're all gone. past when the free. my mom my father killed himself when i was 5 so. then 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 when the tree hit the ground. so you got parallel. he died i was in prison and he died. my mom she died 6 a double pneumonia in 2005. but 2. thank you lord for been 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. in the 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 tell you everything i'm like. i didn't mean it but. i know you know if. you wanted to know. so i said. oh magically. my family has

followed and i don't want to. talk like you want to know what the right. i call it the jewish and all this no you must who says nothing because the offense of a sad life is aggressive. in the psychological sense as i say to people that are before deprived early voting create conditions for themselves. keep a decoration going. because the way to cope with emotion that parish and for example might be might be to be get very hostile. and be rejected. and that's going to reinforce your sense of being rejected in the 1st place. for you might to deal with the pain that some terrible turn to addictions. and all the additions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain and i'm sure that put us through physiology psychologically spiritually so

then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addition of the 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 her she said the 1st time 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 in detox a few years ago 6 was something muscles tattoo scars earring 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 on your 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 or no 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 chair when there is day i. am. surprised not coming here we have a lot of that. the arch 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 for just a short 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 4 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 1st 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 case 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 over night 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 bit is assigned overnight to a specific individual so we'll have on this floor there are 100 bunk 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 crow pile is a 35 to 45 year old caucasian male struggling with mental health the 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 almost is really the solution for almost as house if you've got limited housing opportunities you've got limited hoffert unities 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. and made 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 82 early 83 and by mid 1983 was across the country by 1987 the federal government had passed almost as

a major program of their. what the hell happened right before that. we can prove. going to. clear it definitely walking into the word and we no longer know what we're walking into. march. what she needs to break she. is. so. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very high time to sit down and talk. it's time. we have been learning that only one of the many. believe that our housing rocked out of. it is taken initiated. at last we're getting a jump ball flight live. you know most particularly one i'll be your wife pounding on. this is i think represents the 100 housing blowing deal 9. 100 pound

bomb. just don't want it to. you know if there's one homeless person and. it's a bit. you shouldn't have a civil. society you know which people have to sleep on the street