a with paris, paris camps all down there, here. all initial winery over here. there wasn't any in here. this was all grown up . overgrown really up high school. those camps were up a little bit further with your camps are always a little nicer than this, but this is, this is evidence of absolute poverty, despair. people in our city and other cities all across america are living like this in survival mode and struggled

with to give up already for it already is there. so i'm david brown and i am the co founder law, my wife linda of eden village, which is where we are right now. this is in springfield, missouri, and it is a tiny, really tiny home. really, it's that we have created to house chronically homeless, disabled people this is a typical home wherever they're all the same. they're decorated, they're really, they're painted differently. but the floor plans, the same problem. there are about 400 square feet. perfect size for an individual to live comfortably. you can see by looking around. it has all the appliances that

you would have in your home decorated to feel homey, and we want to make sure that they are welcome and feel like they have their own home. i spent 3 years at different camps and places throughout this city. you still used to sit on sooner, blocks just like this around, a burned spot, puddled over a small fire trying not get caught. all talking in discussion about how hungry you are. there was enough food out there that day and all the services and down are just so shocked with everybody and just overwhelmed just too many, too many of them, too many homeless now for them to be able to do anything with and not enough places to be able to put it back in 2010. david. i moved downtown springfield and we begin noticing

a lot of the homeless people on the streets. i've always had a passion, curiosity, basically of wondering why they're homeless. what's their story? what made them have to live on the street? and so group of us that met in our loft, our from our church, met together one evening and said, you know, we have met for years and we talk about ourselves in our own problems. why don't we do something? and so with that in mind, we thought let's open a little place downtown and had the homeless people come in and we can get to know them and find out what's going on with them. and so that's kind of how we started in a group where at the original eden village that opened up in 2018. and right now there's 31 homes on the property. it's a little over 4 acres with 31 homes and a community center. a garret has

a go and go and kind of wendy today. the so this is, this is gary's home. and gary was one of the 1st residents to move in to eat and village. and his home was sponsored by a local bank for gary went one step farther. the people at central bank decided to be a part of his home team. so basically, it's our belief that the cause of homelessness is the loss of family. so it's usually multilayered. there's usually, it's not just one reason that someone becomes homeless. but when a person, when things have happened in a person's life, that leads them to the point where their family is no longer there for them. that's when they end up homeless. and so while we can't replace people's biological families by putting together the small groups, the small support groups, it is kind of a substitute for that type of community. people that say,

i care about you, i care about what you've been through. i want to be there for you and i'm going to walk alongside you. so one of his biggest hopes and dreams is right here. it's called flash and so gary told his home team that he wanted to adopt a dog is the neighborhood dog. he's the mascot there one to was one of the dogs. right? somebody a guard not a guard dog is a really mean it was for him and no very me, 3 years. and i was on the street for like 18 months and i was out doing was, i know now no show at all. you know, if they're wanting, i mean when they did that, when the code is one is we had here probably 3 years later i am, you know,

healthy and happy and mean it's 62. this is the best ever had in my life. you can take any homeless person and throw them into an apartment or house, but unless you give them the right support system in the tools that they need to acclimate back into society, you're just setting them up for failure. and what is going on here and 8 and village is there's just an incredible support system. and all of us residents were homeless for a period of time. so we have a bonds even if you know, even if i don't stop at every neighbor's house every day, there's always that bond of share trauma. so we encourage each other, we'd lift each other up and it's them to be pretty amazing. what i mean is it totally changed. we and i was on housing now. are we using here? you know, was it came with this is like to me is way too bad. seed

out there and we plan it in here. no, i was on obits and methamphetamines. i was addicted for 30 or for 28 years and 9 months sober. coming up in december. so i pretty excited so we wanted to make eat and village a safe neighborhood, not to keep the residents from the outside world. but to keep some people that pray on, people with disabilities and with struggles from being able to come within the gates of the neighbourhood. and so when we're not here, the dr. gates are locked and the way that you access the neighborhood is with your left thumbprint. i have a big horn, but that's also was landed. we were i had, i've got to watch that, so it's hard for me with. so it's a solar power teardrop campground. it's $10.00 a night to stay here. it has

a built in a restroom, showers laundry, things like that in the lot of the population that maybe was sleeping out in the woods or on the streets. we'll take a bus and stay here from 8 pm to 8 am. so anybody you come, anybody can come here. yeah. how? yeah. we do eat and village. do you know what eaten villages? no. so eaten village, we have 2 villages that we've built in springfield, tiny homes, that people that are homeless and may be have an income, $6700.00, amount disability. social security could live there permanently for $300.00 a month. utilities included. okay, my waiting list and january 2020. got over a 130 people and i can't build neighborhoods quick enough. and so we built this out . this is like the future. yep. all right, thanks to have a neighbor or

coming up on it. we hang out, especially on the away or the summer time. is it keep us mad? we stayed full there fountains, fountain? no wider setting in the said we think will be all right, leave it open. okay . so this plan was by now terry forest for wanted always for rod and shed. yeah, he slept here under the rain end of the bridge right up here. yeah, they got it all been stuff now. but. busy we spent many nights on either side of this whenever it rained, especially, it's safer to be if there's 2 of you, or if you're, you have a group of people, then there is, if there's fire, sell it because it's dangerous out there and people will jump you and i feel like

we got lucky, really for the most part, cuz we never really experienced anything like that together. he had a little incident when he was by yourself. i was locked up in jail and he had an experience with somebody. and it was because he was a lot for nothing to say people are just doing it for kids going through their college kids that would, that would go around and jumped into homeless people because they probably grew up as boys. going to say i grew up maley and foster care growing up and eventually a south foster care system. i went home and my brother had overdosed and passed away. and so i didn't have a place to be. and so i ended up homeless for the 1st time,

2017 june in june. and i was 6 months pregnant. i was walking across chestnut and mean when i was struck by a dodge ram 2500. i spent 5 months my hospital after i lost my child. okay. so what just happened was one of our campers was coming in to the camp. ground crossing traffic and just got hit by a car. he's over there, he's still breathing. is that the car? the head of where are they? they're in the vehicle. are they okay? yeah. but yes. couple of days ago they were yesterday they're just not been. yeah, jacksonville. yeah, there was a hit and run. so anyway, just to let you guys know, i have 12341566 campers lab

so oh or it does thing. so this is re, bob, 66. it's a kind of a hybrid camp ground shelter opportunity almost every night is that way. people taking advantage of being in a safe place where they have access to showers and bathrooms and laundry. we continue to get more trailers ordered in. and this property will come at 86065 trailers when it's comfortable. okay. yep. be careful. you know, when i was out on the streets, everybody called me obama. jenny, because i tend to kind of mother hand everybody, but also i'm very protective. mom has got clause yes, but you know is my problem what i'm doing some time so, so and my problem sometimes i do drink not cold, but i won't drink all the time. well, i only worked one night a week here,

but i feel really good about what i'm doing. and i truly feel that i'm making a difference. whether it's just carrying or listening to somebody talk, remembering you know, something that they told me about 3 weeks ago. or some hardships that they've gone through. i think i really i have the advantage of having spent 5 years out on the streets. so i can relate to our homeless population much better than anybody else because i was one of them. and if i can get off the streets, i want each and every person here to know that they can to harkins deal, you know, make something positive about a nephew. right? you know, this how strong dale armstrong and no club. and i'm a state it way and now we're never change. well, thank you for being strong for me. with

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in kelly. okay. yeah. good to meet you man. i was. yeah. tell me what. how do you end up every 5? $66.00. well, i was a guitar player for norman jackson and the norman jackson band for 25 years. you know, i oh, so at the height of your norman jackson ban, blues, festivals, concerts, all that kind of stuff. and being a popular local band, i never would never in my life and i came from a very good family from oakland park, kansas. yeah. i have, there's absolutely no reason why poor planning broke. you know, lack of like i said, getting complaisant. maybe a little bit too much ego and not being frugal and not not thinking about the

future. what could happen with, but you're not the only person like to know how to deny one little thing. right? one little unexpected thing. i read a statistic that i'm about 31 percent of the united states population is a paycheck away from home. so that means over a quarter of the country is one paycheck away from not having a place to live. at the one thing i have learned, there are a lot of people that are homeless that are not trying to big away out. what they're trying to do is find a better way to be home with a i spend my day on campus, i have some connections there with people that hook me up with students to teach privately. i do to ring. i have just recently had a heart attack literally 5 days ago, and at my age, you know,

i'm 63 years old at my age. it's hard. so anyway, this whole spot here is where i 1st pitched my tent, a little one man bubble. and it was kemo so nobody can see it. right. and this place has been so good and i've felt so comfortable and secure here. this has been my dresser. and i haven't been here for a week in my backpack is right here. i love where i know that just about any other place that people are at squatting and i hate she's at work because i this is like my, my, i don't know, it's like my, my monastery. right. kind of in a sense, you know what i'm saying, but i know that this would probably be long gone. and this is got, you know, my personal stuff in it, hiding stuff to brush and that kind of stuff. but also in here you'll see this is

a bill set of b realty d v d a good, a good friend of mine gave me and i don't know where she thought i was going to watch it out here of the eat and village and revive $66.00 are programs of the gathering tree, which is the name of our non profit. and so we have eaten village, which builds neighborhoods and permanent housing for people that were homeless. and then we have 3 by 66 that meets people, right, where they're out on the streets and provides a safe night sleep. so our vision for the city where no one sleeps outside, so jeans at the camp ground tonight. and this will be her last night being homeless . so she's staying here tonight, so she'll be safe and will know where she's at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. she's moving into her forever home at eton village to, you know, the good thing about, eat and villages. there's a lot of neighbors and people you can meet in front porches and, you know, there's a lot of community activities. so that's a, there's

a good group of people over there. probably make some really great friends. i i my need with, if you ever need and i think i write down the street. thank you. you're welcome. welcome. all week or. oh, god bless your home. your home. yeah. it's a with

dad you with me. i made it. i mean,

i can tell you the indoor plumbing is a glorious and i don't ever want to go without it again. now there's so many different things that we take for granted. like, walking in and put in the light switch, or turning on the water faucet or setting the heat or the air conditioning. you know, there's so many things that as human beings, we really take for granted. unless you've lost everything numerous times and you truly treasure all these wonderful things, like i love doing laundry. i mean i spent 5 years where once in a while i could actually use a wash machine. but i hung up close lines across the creek bed, and i would screw about my clothes, which was kind of hard in the winter time. you know, but sometimes you just have to do it. you have to decide, right? and now i don't have to think about surviving now. i'm in a position where i can think about living. so to live at eaton village,

you need to follow the 3 basic rules that you and i have to live by in america and nothing else. and so rule number one in america above all other things. if you want to live in a home permanently, everyone must pay something. the residence here, pay $300.00 a month. utilities included, no deposit to liberty to a village. and then rule number 2 is you need to live in a crime and drug free community. some people can't quit use and after they get a house and if you bring math on the property or if you do math on the property that you will get evicted. and that's what happened with this individual. he had been warned, i think 2 or 3 times, some people they can't,

they can't get to where they're used to live in inside. so they literally lived inside, like they are outside his. and the floor had like that much rhyme on the floor. so yeah, i mean it's literally black, and that's the 2nd time of it being empty. so would you like to be ways like didn't village, for example, if that was opportunity. i lived there for 9 months and i got myself kicked out. so but you're a great candidate said yeah, but you're but you do great here. yeah. right. i love change a little bit. yeah. bob. kind of learn from experience spell. yeah. why don't like it better than the shelf? why didn't this is like, oh cuz you got freedom. yeah. freedoms out like being in jail to bring to shelters like being in jail. not much different and being in jail. in the most common, probably out here on the streets,

i would say would be deaf people and average humans. you know, that has a normal life to have a house and stuff like that. may lose a handful of people to handful of people in their life time. i've lost more people than i can count on my hands and my feet. so yeah, we learn more people on because you become attached to people i hear you get to know and everybody was drawing a we lost a lot. we've lost a lot. we had we had in the last 12 years, we've lost over 100 people. just a 2 of us that we've known. so it's hard. oh, we're going into or memorial garden, so face a place of reflection. but what's unique about it is we have a column barrier here,

there are 96 cubicles in this column bur. and what we do is if any of our residents die, then they get interred here. they're on the street. if they have no family, they are actually really just get buried in a proper cemetery. are strewn somewhere. here they know they're going to be remember physical look at some of them down here. we actually add their name into the granite doors and it's got their name and their dates and there's room for $96.00 in here. we've lost about 10 so far. the other thing that we're doing is we are, we're, we have an agreement with the corner or city of springfield. if somebody dies industry and has no family, will enter them here also, so that the homeless population be, understand, they will be remembered. and this project is so spatial to my wife and i that we have reserved to the cubicles for us. so when we die, we will be entered here forever,

and which is what we wish and what we dream of doing it. surely that doesn't make sense. you know, for oh my gosh, this is awesome. they're already below or so how are you prefer they're like oh really? oh my ok. oh you hear a phenomenal so thank you for all you have done for everyone. you meet layer linda, jim, and you make 75 look hello, good. oh, a law in these people are now like our face them, like we're saying to our friends,

we would live here if you would get to know a homeless person in here their story. it makes a difference because they've all lost something. my mom passed away in a house fire whenever i was 14. i went into the house and i was looked all over and i couldn't find her nowhere. zahn come to find out. she was literally 2 feet where i was looking at. i just couldn't see because it was so for smoke in the house. but whenever they pulled my mother from the house fire, they didn't tell me that they was doing now. so i got to see my mother after she was in the house fire men, her look a lot alike and it kind of left a lot of scars and i'm not using that is the reason why i chose the path that i have, but they had a big hand in on me using drugs and doing the things i did trying to cover up the stars from the house fire.

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