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blue dares thinks. we dared to ask. when i was told small seemed wrong all right old old just all. the world to get to shape out this day you can't get out of jail and engagement equals betrayal all the once and many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. when you have been listening battle it over the night i'm. believing
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will be our 1st priority usually donnelly's presuppose there will be no compromise . one of the points that we really sell this important to get across when you're talking about cause and effect is 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 a ballet being up to their responsibilities of the federal government agencies or people have a clean d.c. from place to live that's not important anymore that's not i value.
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your term for walker bush william jefferson clinton who saw the water bush dishonest iraq you say obama do solemnly swear i told you on trial do you solemnly swear. the world would make sense for the work of the general wages of living standards of working class and poor people the city customs or declined since the late seventy's. the numbers of people who need housing and grow because of the growth of the population the supply was knocked down to the 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
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a public housing so because housing is not treated as even the writer of the title meant which it should be the country is both is this one. and order for us to get. and be right back to society and company office to try to resolve this issue it's gone on far too long. it's a fundamental right like having food and finish. i can find a break chair it's. 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
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rights in the dignity and worth of the human person and in equal rights. to see each other to be that distinct and. that seems. so it seems to. me and it's one. it's considered. just general right actually the u.s. doesn't accept the universal declaration of its own 6 because it rejects most. of that there are 3 parts to this civic and political rights. there's a social and economic. and there's cultural. and they're all are. the
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u.s. doesn't just dismisses the cultural community in the rejects so as you know. 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 to homelessness that you have to have supportive housing yet we're not willing to prioritize that as siding and the crazy thing is that we're paying for it anyway i mean jail a homeless person is after cisco it cost $140.00 a night and that's about what it costs and some. fairly nice hotels outside of the city yet we insist on believing that criminalization of almost this is the answer that if we're going to. people who are being homeless and being mentally ill they're going to cure themselves and be off the streets when in fact it just becomes a cycle. 30
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a map. shows all of us all over the you know county. and there's over 400 miles along along they go all the way down to the freeway and they sit there there's that a feeling goes away tropicana somewhere. that's where they come out. you know this is this is someone who. is very warm very rude the usual you know in the music room to be known this was using the issue. on the tunnels in las vegas ears. should. say. my name is guy and we were. around 10
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years ago and strays and she was in the same situation and she didn't know what to do and that's and that. i disaster she would. say when's a best place. to stay in home hotel in brighton and he left me to me go across the street and it's and we came back he was gone so i was strange he was bought by cosmo. just behind the scene to read. now is take years ago. you know i haven't drank in over 30 years. that we've had 5 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 as it gets to you. and get you all. the good side. of
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a home state and you know mom homelessness is not just the building i'm home is within my body because i don't know am i making the right choices and i don't live i don't know it's always that amazes us asking us and makes what i did to be still and be all right with claim i'm a slave. no i'm not that they are doing things it's going to cost me my home that i'm this man you know i'm i don't understand all calling you want a jock in my axe murder or whatever. i want you have a chance if. you want to 1st i was actually attacked by a guy from behind and then he hit me in the face and inching choked me around my neck or survivorman. everything then december 13th i was hit in the head with a rock for me high they actually caught that guy couple what is later to a week i actually in the phone into a seizure due to that and my family was going to his thoughtless little bit come
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back and check on me cuz i was laying out here by the hour. it's known as a body of knowledge 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 armistice i mean everybody's heart breaks for their children 1st of all and rightly so then there is the veteran then there is the mentally ill . you were there is a specific population called women that are having very specific needs that are we going to listen to enough so you know we made it a priority and by that we pushed through in it any beds available to them or to listen to a year ago there were hardly any beds available for them and it's an unsafe
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place for women to. tell all our daughters to not walk in the street a lot at night in a dark that's the sort of imagine that you have no work to go. or know what it was something. or were. were. always in the us is being told in the quote to good wages figure out which side of it you're on is with your company planes on h.b.o. to. me shit like bush workers calling for a much higher minimum wage workers at mcdonald's wendy's domino's pizza and more will want not the job. they were looking to federal 'd 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
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the depression congress got together and started to say well we should set a standard that ensures that if somebody puts 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 the brace that but the problem is they never index to do anything so they just keep picking this number out of the year and those halves of congress fight over debate over it 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 started this problem backwards you know we now have $3500000.00 people experiencing homelessness in this 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
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approaches like housing 1st get off the streets and then start dealing with them you know it's one you know we aus omes believes in us and the organization says 989 so you know that's approach we are. and i used to look at this population as. who they are the breakdown the better and. 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 couples we 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
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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. so they keep doing it's like 70 court for everybody so whether you lose 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 that adds pass to $10.00 an hour that's the president is promoting for. something to get one minimum wage homeless worker off the streets of washington. at the same time that $10.00 an hour 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
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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 are. child and family services is going to be involved and they're getting their kids away i mean work 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 the or family instability or health problems. family is run out of resources and they're not able to stay in their apartment anymore stay with family or stay with friends or stay in a hotel i mean. 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 wet child.
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yes so we have this huge playground there is. you know as a ramp for. all of the kids the stuff like that and 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 a burden these people you know because then they have to deal with my kid having his little fits in this that. you know i got another job and i
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was paying for hotel rooms you know 2 weeks out of each page i can i just got really expensive really pricey so you go to you're just like all right well i'm going to keep doing it i'm going to do it i got to get up i got to work. anyway having a kid a child with special abilities you kind of. you don't really get much time expression when you're single parent you don't at all you're constantly on the go on doing this doing that picking up 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 hearing. there are about 150 beds 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
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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 and clients 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
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time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability very important it's accelerating the transition to sustainable tries board sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely harmless. lovely. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something i'll just keep going to. move in this new me didn't. seem any understood. going into.
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