then they, they know that the aim is to, to exit survey caves and have in the country, and we can be in the front of, of lebanon. so this is politically up to you to department and 11 on the people are handling all these issues and invented response to the way. yes, it's thank you so much yourself as well for finding the time to come on and speak to us today. mr. says are becoming a member of the lebanese parliament and former minister for energy and water. we appreciate your time. thank you. thank. you know, los angeles has long been the homeless capital of america, city leader after leaders badge to fix the problem. but old, how blessed office with tens of thousands still on the street. so what's the solution? a documentary team attempted to find on see what they discovered that the,

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that was the most popular person in the world. no body the world doing the same damn thing. it's like watching the high school all over again . i believe in creating awareness about homeless because if we don't pay attention to it, it's gonna overwhelm the population. and when that happens, where's the money going to come from? seriously, we're, we're, we're, we're ready is what? 70000000000 or something like that. missing money. are democracies falling apart and we're worried about small things and what you should be worried about, the bigger problems that are right in front of our faces. instead of turning a blind item,

the love was somewhere around $80000.00 people that are an house. here's the problem that be now house me coming different forms be goes, there are some people that aren't even here. cars, there are some people that are pretty much going from one living room to another living room wherever they people are allowed. you know, friends, we allow them to come in and, and have a roof over their heads on a temporary basis. but then you also have people that live on the streets, sharing los angeles right now there's, there's a, as we speak, we have a homeless out being done right now. the counting, how many on house before leaving on the streets. so we don't have the exact numbers yet, but it's going to be high. the numbers have increased from last year, even though that more is being done. or at least that's what being told to the

point that the numbers chest last year alone. the amount of all homeless rose by 12 percent in california right is the rent is to get the rent is damn high, the rent is too damn high the the, the, the, the rent, the, the. 8 we turned in over a $115000.00 signatures to get it the initiative on the ballot to expand rent controlled that to be on the california ballot in november of 2024. and the apartment association is trying to its opposing that issue and trying to stop in trying to stop us. we also delivered over 732000 signatures to the governor of california,

governor newsome asking him not to oppose this measure. how are they trying to help you? so what they're, what the california apartment association is doing is they're trying to put in initiative. i'm with valley, which it says that a childcare foundation cannot put their own initiative on the ballot to expand rent controls or anything around the house. so they're hurting tenants. and also a chunk house clinic in 45 different countries across the world. and they're trying to strip a, just as a non profit, simply because they don't want rent control the . my name is gina. i am a small mom landlord, and i always have a bit of an issue when they're calling landlords of liter. you don't,

here are side of the story. i have changed very little money. i have a mortgage homeowners insurance and they wouldn't be and, and i couldn't even barely last 4 years. i couldn't raise it $5.00. but yet i had taxes to pay. i had insurance to pay, i had made it to cheaper, and i just pay them dollars to move out. it's not there. where is our side of the protection? should be mad at the government and tell the government to pay their rent. why should i have to take care of that? somebody take care of you care, complain at the grocery store complained that your medicine is, why is it just the landlord by me, landlord. so i'm thinking about landlords that have, you know,

a couple units. they're worried as well because with a high risk go up with corporate driving the the rates are to keep up with it. so these affecting them as well. but the fact of the matter is that the ones that are controlling and pushing pull the hiring is, are the preferred land. unfortunately, the fix the small business as the effect, the small landlords. so we're here to let them know that, you know, if we bring rent controlled to california, it's a positive thing moving forward because they're going to be able to not being terminated by corporate landlords that want to take their properties as well. the housing rates are going to keep going up, like if you go to a gas station and buy budweiser and the price goes up a dollar every day is because, like somebody steals too much budweiser from that store. you know, that's just the way that it goes, you know, and originally they raise a price up of things in places where it goes missing all the time to cover it. that's probably the way rent is getting so high because half the people who live

there never pay the rent. somehow. somehow, i feel like criminal is renting a sitting. i really do. my name's walk in mother golf. i'm 51 years old. i'll be 52 in april and been homeless off and on us since 2006 and where do you live? right here in this truck? so why is it so why? oh, well, there really isn't a way to get to on top of things. what the economy just deteriorating is it, is there's not a way for the way just to catch up up to what the prices are for, for rent a person is trying to get to. and maybe even a studio apartment here in this area is going to be at least $1500.00 a month. and even with some help 1st for move in. and it's, it's a little bit, uh, it's a little, there's a little bit more to it than just, uh, you know, making

a decision. uh, because the economy is it fits in the gates a lot of people's efforts. the mean. yeah. don't get me wrong. i don't look like i'm alone. i the seriously, i got this no salvage lines i get on through the disease like a $180.00 low, like a year and i just on does it look like i need to be honest, honestly. know what the cost of living out this month for some kind of deal. my yeah, no matter if your worker 40 our job, our week job, you know me. if i have to know anybody out there and get all of these histories on them, so weird. i've been out here in california in hollywood for probably about 10 years, about 10 years, and i really didn't. and i've been on the list to get housing for like 3 years. i've got a criminal, i don't get a criminal background. and then i've got

a very expensive criminal background look at 19 fillings on my records. you know, i'm not trying to mean these for you. there's not i can't get any decent things up . so i'm just trying to get, i'm trying to get funded, get a job with metro right now. just doing the investment or thing that they got going around. i can't get my foot in the door for this shit, the same life. to me, a girl. we don't, will you don't say here truly now do you mind you mind the might be, you know, don't know. like it's no big one is that we can just make him aware of that. but he said he was at the low. you go, what do you do full leaving? oh, do. i'm going to sound, go to school. i go to lumpy city college for the study. i'm going for film and the screen writing. i'm trying to get

a degree and screen writing and uh the one to develop my own, my own screen place for production. i have good work, a wondering award for my spring play. in 22 for one screen play that i wrote in 2021 from penn america. and i'm trying to do something, the skills and talents that i have for screen writing the chance. thank you. hi, my name is mailed to the correct number, cool phone, an executive director of the shower of whole and like the name says, we provide mobile show us to people who are experiencing homeless those same in los angeles. and what we do is we take things mobile shortlist, they can see over here the various different locations. we have approximately 50 sites in los angeles. we pocket in locations where it's close to folks like

experiencing homeless us. and we offer them showers even for what the city like los angeles, that's very little public infrastructure. when it comes for you to use a public chavo lelona that through so fall off the full. so sleep on our streets. it's a constant struggle of looking at which gas station, which a coffee shop will let them just look, use the bathroom. but when he comes to show us a lot of, i guess if it wasn't for us only have access to shot was maybe once a month for a lot of folks. it's going into a bathroom at a place like a coffee shop and taking a buzz back out of a sink. so that's why it's so critical and, and that's so much the man for our services. how does it to you? oh, it's good. it's always good to go. i got a hutch down the half hours. okay. yeah, yeah. so i was giving you a hard challenge homeless that my god to apply for a shower to yes, i'd be

a good shower. the differences, economic differences between groups, race groups, particular are huge. and these starts on the very beginning, their lack of, uh, being able to have a, a good education. let's talk about, let's say for example, food in security is, is lack of access to healthy, put, lack of access to food. and a lot of our communities of color don't have access to healthy food. they just don't. so you see those, this bear with me right? there that any quality whereas you go to well do, neighborhood, or neighborhoods of, of, of white folks. you'll see that they are, they have better jobs, better pay their more resources. so yes, a racism, a place, a very important part on the economic status. whether you're going to end up

homeless on the street or not. this is known as the mcarthur park union district of los angeles. there's one the most under served communities in los angeles. i love i . immigrants are here. most of them don't speak english. we have uh, tears you could see a lot of seniors and we have people that struggle to put, put in the table and people have very little resources. most of them actually want for, for several blocks here to, to come to the band 3. and a lot of them are very fragile, they elderly. so this is a 9 o'clock we what we have done is we set up an appointment system so people can actually sign up and, and have an appointment instead of them being in line for hours. what's happening is that before prior to we having an appointment system, people used to be here at 12 midnight. i literally spend the night here waiting for us to open. so we decided to do an appointment system. today we're going to be providing groceries for $400.00 people. they start fresh vegetables,

they would pick yesterday. so you're not gonna find any, any fresh or products done here. and they do serve the people who serve it. and i'd say we're very excited about being able to, to serve the community. what we do here is we set it up like farmers market style. so people are able to come here and actually take what they like to take instead of us giving you a bag of food the most likely you're not going to like we allowed them to make several choices here and take food that they love to cook. the man

or what else? they just don't have to shape house and engagement trails. when so many find themselves worlds of parts, we choose to look for common ground the a homeless. his home is a rear. i have a son. the problem is only about $0.50 a month, right. what am enjoy old a 6262. you've been homeless for a while. continue for many years, see 10 years. so i'm just people who like to go ahead and poke.

you have to pay the federal debt. where am i right here to help with i was getting some really low version of the the gap continues to grow. you know, we saw back in the eighty's and ninety's the early, the early part of the century here, where we saw an attack against the middle class. there is the more middle class, either you'll have what you don't have. so to say that you're in the middle class is a fantasy because the that they exist, we have people coming to our food banks that have jobs and some of them have good jobs, but they can not make ends meet the fuel cause we're right now. we'll go through what was the last time you know, how can i do i,

i just leave my hands after the transfer but no. yeah. can you see the on board? oh hi tom this a this where the days got a bad day man that he yeah.

the you enjoy it. can you hold on a 2nd the right you enjoy that. thank you so much lady. do leave here. i do. i do. this is not heroine. that's a i went to a doctor this morning. why did you come from effect? you work with interior design or the was it worth coming?

yeah. they're hard. i are able to see off the flight to afford a place here. not many people can wear it to what to do. like if you were not able to afford your partner, like what did you anticipate here looking at it? yeah, i mean possibly people could die on the beach. people get sick, they get diseases and mental illness insecurity. the numbers are staggering. we have approximately 10000000 people in california that are risk of becoming on house. and part of the reason is because the rates are just very high. people struggle to make ends meet. some people are working to 3 jobs and still not enough because of the cost of living also has

increased 40 percent. $3500.00. the one bedroom. it was way across the street and the apartment. yeah, they just, they just billed and they just opened them up for a one bedroom, the $13500.00. that's what we have to deal with. so the data takes everybody along here, the whole community and all the prices go up with they have people like that building these things up. but why then does it work to be, sir? if you're not able to afford the leaving the right there to this people, they can't co habits, he can't get a long so they can't. well, the next coming up relation apparently can live with 10 people into an apartment in california. and people have to live with a lot of people. so there's a lot of problems familiar,

sexual assault on the finger problems. so they said it's a, he's saying the same thing, but we showed him physical evidence of him doing that. i even have a text message from me and my roommate talking, speaking about how he threatened her life. i gave patch the text messages. i gave the body to text messages. michelle, so you're thinking about this? well, that was the right thing. one of the houses where they are 4 people die room, so nearby job is the same way we met them there. they're still there. what do you know possible since last week? um um and gave kelly. i think her name of the day or the give her um what is the the, the non non warranty in regards to be fine. we, i want to see this about time after one for 6 people that already, you know,

they lower it in on. yeah. yeah. i know i really don't know and, and then people go up missing and they don't even try to sit in see nothing about it. you remember the model one with the rabbit she had with miss and then they was like, oh, she had went to the hospital or with the jail and she's supposed to come back and nobody knew where she was in need of them line. they found her face and you're not too far from the shelter. so how you didn't they don't care about where about nothing. all the program. i'm gonna have programs, all sorts of less as little bit like search today and that way. so let's say do 1520 percent of what your income is that by your rent up in the 30 a month, you can view it as soon as that as soon as i a time, i'm so tired of move out. most people in my apartment do

a medicine crap. they're more and more people become seamless though they see none of the co bags and then they'll buy doesn't make any better as the governor. so the level to lower the rent. we know that the numbers are high and there's a lot of money that comes in, but the money is blown away and varies. we see very little come out over that. you know, so they spend a lot of money. you mean government government? yes. there's been a lot of money and the labor very little rent has just really taken off on the restrictions on how to rent have changed. they want you to have a deposit of, you know, same with sometimes what you put 3 months down or prove you can pay 3 months when

you, you know, these, these are things that a lot of people wouldn't qualify for with good jobs. so they made it so hard that a person with a pretty well paying job couldn't, couldn't rent here. and there was a time, i mean, it was a while ago, 253 years ago. you could be a starving artist here in and have a pretty fun life. it wasn't. maybe you wouldn't have a big savings account, but you'd have a safe place to live here without food. you would have a car. but now people are choosing, and we're talking about people has 40 hour week jobs, are choosing to buy groceries or pay their rents. and we're talking single people. i can't imagine having a family what that would entail. so it wasn't always this unapproachable to live. here was actually quite the opposite for a long time. the

guys come to hollywood, get some of the money. this is 50 k and 1000000 looks like like, guys 1000000 a year. the sell a baby. so me be looking for low read our movies . because people come out here, father dream says their dream. i would say i am rich for me. i'm, i'm, i'm on my way to be rich next year. i'm a buy a $1000000.00 house to me. and i'm, i'm working on manifest man. i made a visit a minute visit right now. i already bought it from me. i looked at it, i visualize it. i know the address. i mean, that's what it weighs about. i mean, when you see the houses,

you'll see me and it is lend his house for me. welcome to welcome to hollywood. welcome to have a welcome to welcome to dreamland for james, come through the . i know honestly, it's probably hard to live over. it is hard, it's hard to drive down the street and see this, and i think people are either going to be propelled, to have empathy and do something or possibly inches shut down. its hard, hard to go in every area, every neighborhood, everywhere, and seeing and countless play not feel even just guilty. you know that you're walking into a supermarket and you can buy or food or you can do it and you can live. you have a home, you know, the,

there's no kindness in any city or state in regards even in places that we deem liberal. you know, california is not very liberal about this. you know, they're not as compassionate as people. think about the steps the subject looks good and then for the now i look good. thank you sir, but you people are always people good or for not like the room. right? all depends on the day. don't fit in. going to bed in kenner. wanted to do a dinner isn't center we're through so

there is different factors that may affect our seniors. and most important is is that the safety nets that existed they being taken away. so he's very difficult. i know people that have retire with the kind of retirement checks that they're getting cannot keep up with a cause of rent. so now they living in their carts after working all their lights and, and yes, there are certain programs available that was subsidized for some of the housing. but not everybody gets it. this is why people i sold these harden and they have no faith in the government because the government has stopped working for the people. the amount of people that are more discussed that with politicians and politics and political parties, has grown in huge numbers. people just don't trust what they say. they say a lot, but the labor very little or nothing.

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