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about. priorities if nobody's making money on it it's not a commodity then it has no value and it shouldn't it isn't a priority of the federal government so housing that was just some people that was not a commodity that was just living up to their responsibilities of the federal government to people have a clean safe and place to live that's not important that's not. george walker bush when he doesn't have his own. water bush. donald donald trump do you solemnly swear. that the wages. were declined since the late seventy's. the numbers of people who need housing and grow because of the growth in
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the population the supply is not up to it to nearly the same extent so somebody is going to get squeezed out and somebody you know most people the momentum people over the country have been squeezed out of the bottom. so now there's a new public housing so the shelter system is like a public housing so because housing is not treated as even right in the title mind which it should be the country has both uses. and order for us to get. and be right back to society
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and company office to try to buy solve this issue scott on. a fundamental right like having food and finish. i think anybody care. take a look at the universal declaration of human rights. as the peoples of the united nations have in the charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights in the dignity and worth of the human person and in equal rights. education that's just like any. one of my kind of money and it's when. it's
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considered. just general right actually the u.s. doesn't accept. universal declaration of it's 6 was most. of that there are 3 parts of this civic and political right. sort of social and economic. and there's cultural. and they're all are. doesn't just dismisses the cultural community. rejects you know. ringback politicians have concluded that there is no answer because the answer requires resources i don't believe that's true i think that housing is the answer homelessness that you have to have supportive housing yet we're not willing to prioritize that as siding in the crazy thing is that we're paying for it anyway we jail a homeless person is san francisco a cost $140.00
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a night and that's about what it costs and some ill fairly nice hotels outside of the city yet we insist on believing that criminalization of almost this is the answer that if we punish people for being homeless and being mentally ill that they're going to cure themselves and be off the streets when in fact it just becomes a cycle. tearing their hair it. seems. like. i have right trish subway. is the best. you can give me. a shilling.
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well i have a place to stay stay with me there were great. the cell phone or on the strip. there you go guys to ensure a more open with your mates and home. as well. as if you know that. you can go to the city or county and get a map. shows all of us all over the you know county. and there's over 400 miles below the law they go all the way down to the freeway and they sit there ideas that are feeling goes away or tropicana somewhere. where they come out. here this is this is someone who. is very warm very rude you're sure you know the music you'll see the known this was
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you were sure. i don't think. i'm tunnels in las vegas in years. this. should. say that my name is guy and we were it. around 10 years ago a strays and she was in the same situation and she didn't know what to do and that's and that. disaster she would. say when's the best place is staying home hotel in brighton and he left me to me go across street kids and we came back he was gone so i was straining he's walked by cosmo. just behind the scene you can read. now as take years ago.
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you know i haven't taken over 30 years. there with that part months we've had you know. i make for 6 to 7 mr security and. just not enough to say. we do better in the summertime because it gets too hot to get to all. the good side. of the really good bad lingo of the charge top dollars to shower. they fly aside a few dollars and. they gives me. he had all of us just a girl. she had big girl. this is. aggressive. and i say now oh and.
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produce the future and you just ask me it's pretty strong mentally healthy person is a better leader but crisis periods when you need creativity and risk taking and a different way of stating those mentally healthy leaders actually were not as good as he spent. time after time called gratian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerating the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stain over man at a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless bondeson the numbers lieblich nothing and luckily i'm glad god got it on because the models and got it done does not apply companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is like an elvis we don't even and i mean what skip this i'm in the news limited on
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you know i found myself today i know i don't look it but i found myself in a homeless state and you know mom homelessness is not just a. the i'm home is within my body because i don't know am i making the right choices and i don't arrive and i don't know saws that amaze us axing us and makes for i need to be still and be alright where i claim i'm a safe model you know i'm not out there doing things it's going to cost me a model that i'm the man you know and i want to stay all calling you one of john and my axe murderer or whatever. i want you have a chance. to when i 1st got out i was actually attacked by a guy from behind in their lane he hit me in the face and gnashing choked me around my neck or survivorman. there they were in december 13th i was hit in the head with
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a rock from a high and they actually caught that guy a couple would airs later to a week i actually in the phone into a seizure due to that in march he was going to his spot was in the told to come back in charge of phone me cuz i was laying out here by they are. it's known as a body know it in in the year and it's it's more dangerous for women the world is more dangerous for women in that. they get lost in their in their. overall tapestry of promises i mean everybody's breaks for their children 1st of all and rightly so then there is the veteran then there is the mentally ill. you were the resist specific population only women that are having there is specific needs to a we are going to do enough so you know we made it a priority and by that we pushed through in it any beds available to them or to
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listen to a year ago there were hardly any beds available for them and it's an unsafe for a place for women to. tell all of gotos to not walk in the street a lot at night in a dark neighborhood that's the sort of imagine that you have no work to go. or know what to do and something. or worse. were. always in the us is being told in the quantity of a good way to figure out which song to beat your on is with your company planes on h.b.o. east of the. nation like bush workers calling for a much higher minimum wage workers at mcdonald's wendy's domino's pizza and more
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little log on the job. you really think the federal minimum wage is one created $938.00 under the fair labor standards act ok which was in response to a 1000000 people wandering our nation looking for jobs it was the same and after the depression congress got together and started to say well we should set a standard that ensures that if somebody puts in their 40 hours in a week they can afford the basics so. it makes sense and makes sense to me it makes sense to you so we take that in a brace that good the problem is they never index it didn't think so they just keep picking this number out of the year and those halves of congress fight over debate over and go do that and that and it and it back and forth and so. you know maybe get raised a dollar maybe it's $0.75 whatever so we sort of this started this problem backwards you know we now have $3500000.00 people experiencing homelessness in this
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nation and what we could tell that house the homeless. there's tremendous efforts to try and deal with the fallout you know some more successful than others some different approaches like housing 1st get off the streets and then start dealing with them you know it's one. believes in us and the organization says $989.00 so you know that's approach we are. and i used to look at this population as. who they are the breakdown the veterans. recently released people out of the penal system single women single women with children substance abusers alcoholics. really really all the different factions but now we stood back and looked at the folly of that approach and realize that in order to really deal with it in this society which is. we
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view them as. this whole this group falls 'd into 2 factions those who can work and those who can't work so we walk away with this way it's $77.00 in the quarter and 'd but i i live in america and anybody who's lived in america has traveled anybody who's traveled is travel to some place which is more expensive than where they came from and they travel someplace with less expense right now the government uses the concept of one size fits all. they keep doing it's like 70 court for everybody so whether you live in washington d.c. or whether you live in a harley engine texas they're going to set it to 7 decor right now there's talk of raising it to $10.00 an hour well the day ringback that adds pass to $10.00 an hour that's the president's promoting for. something to get one minimum wage homeless worker off the streets of washington. at the same time that $10.00 an hour
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wage is going to hurt small business and will america and make no mistake most of america is rule they're trying to push a round. peg in a square hole and they've been doing it over and over again and what happens is it's a very soft mork approach to our nation is made of a 1000. because it's so nice you know we devised. a single national formula based busy on existing government guidelines.
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here. we. are more. so here their own home we have a family show for women shelter in them and shelter so one of the big fears that our families have when they come down from the shelter is that all of us i've known the child and family services is going to be involved in their getting their kids away i mean working very closely with. the c.p.s. . we work very hard to reassure families that that that's not how it works their families are also subject to the whims of whether it's economic instability or family instability or health problems. families run out of resources and they're not able to stay in apartment in the more stay with family or stay with friends or
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save the hotel. but a lot of times by the time the families that walk through those doors they've exhausted all of those resources. how are you getting so child i mean yes so we have this huge playground there's. you know they have the ramp for all of the kids the stuff like that and they still are still. they have this grassy area over here we try to keep the kids away from the gate just because of the semen on because this is the men's side of the shelter we are slide in the playground for the kids and stuff like that. i've been on and off homelessness since having for the 1st 6 months of his life were stable and then i lost my job which intel lost my burman. but for you know for after that 6 months we did pretty well you know we stayed with friends here and there we stayed with family but it sank i kind of started to feel like i was
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a burden these people you know because then they have to deal with my kid having his little fits and less than the others so you know i got another job and i was paying for hotel rooms you know 2 weeks out of each paycheck and i just got really expensive really pricey so you got it you're just like all right well i'm going to keep doing it i'm going to do and i got to get up i going to work. anyway having a kid a child with special abilities you kind of you don't really get much scout time expression when you're a single parent you don't at all you're constantly on the go on doing this doing that picking up this picking up that. so you resort to of course a drug that makes you stay awake. there isn't that surprisingly i got off it by myself i didn't go to rehab or anything i just kind of kicked it i've been clean for 3 months. and we've been in. there are about 150 beds
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in this large storm area. for families who have small children it will be like if it's a single mom in a small one or 2 year old will share one of these small little bunks. and each family is allowed one of these tow it's per person so this has to be able to fit basically all of your earthly belongings in it. and that's not a lot of space as you can tell. it's tough for families. and one of the great frustrations here in salt lake is that there's a substantial lack of affordable housing and so that's one of the barriers that clients have is finding a place that they can continue to afford after our assistance ends clients
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a lot of times face other barriers to getting housing whether it's on their criminal background or they have evictions from prior apartments and so it can sometimes be really difficult for clients to find a place to live that will accept them with their background or with the funding from the road home. to help them get out of the rut that they're him. use to do most of this sort of imagery push the sneakers have succumbed to meeting with google who are people bird. migration. well you. should
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thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision to change lives every song came to a complete change the day that i was right to be instructed here you hold the shot up for the kill me and i see how destroyed low life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me with his birthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than the offender by hand and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even going to just as well. but on the registry this is
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simply an issue in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there whether that's when. i don't welcome to worlds apart most of us desperate times call for desperate measures but do they call for desperate my guest today argues that while the same exact. times. mind made the. country they were rainy day. well to discuss it on.
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