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 role but you

know if you want a real hero remains to be horrified as well i mean you have experienced some pretty cold nights i do but the navy's that's one of the tough it's. always out of reach due to the kind of locations that we find people use your resume you know this is a right what is a cold war 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 donor to mourn to me 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 at how ill people were on the street it was like going to a 3rd world country. 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 i purchase. 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 boat when you've been out of the rest of the world this is a strange feeling surreal. as about i'll go there like people who are not a 5 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 homes to go through with. this is my last new i don't know when i'm with you if i don't get my part in the most ethical. people people still have the belief that this is the land 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 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 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 they 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 is necessary. and heads of people 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.

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you go along isn't. this a go i'm going on the. i'm not even a big deal. there do you know. there's a process that you think is the. ha ha ha ha ha. ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. that's. all. guys you know if you all morning that you had a lawful order is families. that does start. to drop all the we're going to take this or we're going to take a bottle of everybody and this is a lot for. a lot a lot of people putting all of your yellow dots well you laid out here a little here where i was it was one hell of a. oh my god i have.

to close to you guys got 5 minutes to get. this or that or that it's your fault i mean absolutely but let's start with 1st order then and stephanie as he. prepares for yes yes yes absolutely much less mixed. in what their cards are you guys love and cooperate i think i've been really smooth i know you are you going to move. into it thank you. people just don't raise. revenue not anderson you know i was in washington over the years and 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 while regular violators until every bad law it's a lawful already pays advance and leaves to. morrow you know because 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 i know you don't try to come down here. ok so you're down so you've been doing so. just because. that's in the out of the plan i don't need to be. alive to go 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. and air is deemed it's all during you know. have everything the city done right now and for the state of colorado how so. if you want the right for how the.

evil making that $1.00 you can either do it decently. i'm sure. i'm not feeling better. so i'm better yog i'm in the journey. 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 will have a go i'm probably not going to eat. so. on found my pen i found these on the sidewalk. because mine are full of bugs what's in my imagine 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 know to have a blanket. ordered my paper to go you gotta have paper paper he got to have paper. plastic he goes out plastic.

bungee cords and. he guarded. 'd all of the years. she's gone all of us we got to have her son's. home make you feel alone make you feel when you got to go to have. a new book commuter from all over. think how to kind of a light. sometimes. it's going to get out 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. i came close once the 1st storm that came through. i woke up under 2.4 inches of snow. was a pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just blind to nationalities. that . has emerged we don't have a theory we don't actually know the whole world needs to be. judged as comedy crisis least christensen's. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing nature on way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been

masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. well suppose spear was mean sure when you read all of those lists nissho to show you just what that also has been. but so far we're short in the months to draw or useful struck a chord of it in that you will quote them listen to us want to quickly sing months alone. when you last and then you think that it's all profit and you must say you're in the right not to call it on but there were all of us well most of them to stay do it and you mustn't those like you want to push the most of them there will still put us behind you with this rule of thumb which i'm doing what all the money . listed says i got it and we. will get that honest i

suppose it is. some of what they did that will be no more than that but it's. the 1st night i was almost. that was jerry. knowledge because. i didn't have to show up with carter thinking kilts right i was like oh ok. there's old kinds of scary people out 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 in. in the middle of the book down there you've got bugs. rog just. where did you get. any worse thing you can. do you. seen it watched it. in a pretty. i was a girl stabbed. it was on the news here i was right there i would like. you know i'd seen it nor. right next to it everything else. needs to get guys of the drunk tank. to see we have parents rights rule no. they're all gone.

past when the free. my mom might well my father killed himself and i was 5 so. then my step dad it was my dad because i didn't even know my dad really has it. 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 hit the ground so he got parallel. he died i was imprisoned he died he. was to. my mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. but. thank you lord for me my friend says he holds near again in love your brother. thank you

for helping me thank you for being one. 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 would you get. my family back. to me and my grandmother. or have. you won you know i just looked. at my grandma but you may be right down the road don't. you. don't. think. i didn't mean it but.

i know you're not dude i know it. might you want to know what you. said that. magic. has owed. me if you want to know what the right. chord beautician over the snow you've moved through says nothing records the affairs of a sad life is a graphic view of the boy in the psychological sense especially to people that have been deprived early. well they create conditions for themselves that will keep the definition going. because the way to cope with emotion that variation for

example might be found maybe to be get very hostile. if you are still 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 bear 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 physiologically psychologically spiritually. so then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addiction of the 1st true that i state that. because cellular is going to deal with an addict the reason of this so it's very difficult and painful to do so but for the addict is you know forces that i'm alone in order 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 dog was like when you 3 years old and your share of english you sick as a kid and your mother wraps you know warm blanket put you in 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 give it up because the only way they found that they can have pain relief and i have pleasure and delight and reward and a sense of connection. so homelessness in the chronically homeless may be seen as a coping mechanism.

thank you sara it's a hell of a charity there is day and. there was. a surprise not coming here we have a lot of that. is the arts facility is what we call a low demand shelter they're very low demand is that we don't ask you to do

anything it's just that they can in order to 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 and there's not going to be a requirement for you to be sober to be in the building you can come in and 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 all salvageable. what we've got right now is welcome to our 3rd floor this is our dormitory floor

here at the arch we were originally constructed on this property is a 100 bed facility and 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 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 beds style we have in 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. 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 has 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 people walking through our doors sometimes during the day and it's just something we've got to get on. so princess 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 really the solution is 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 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 and 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. to demonstrate. to show is sure i shall receive.

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