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having to get a job, making it rich, making the savvy money that, that, that, that, 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 going to overwhelm the population. and when that happens, where's the money going to come from? seriously, we're, it, we're, we're ready is what 70000000000 or something like that. missing in money. are democracies falling apart in worried about small things and what you should be
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worried about, the bigger problems that are right in front of our faces. instead of turning a blind eye to love you somewhere around 80000 people that are on house. here's the problem that be now house me coming different forms because there are some people that are leaving or cars. there are some people that are pretty much going from one living room to another living room, wherever the people are allowed. you know, friends, me 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, hearing los angeles right now there's, there's a, as we speak, we have a homeless own being done right now. the counting, how many on house before leaving on the streets. so we don't have that the exact numbers yet, but he's going to be high. the numbers have increased from last year,
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even though that more is being done. or at least that's what being told. to the point that the numbers shifts last year alone. the amount of all homeless rose by 12 percent in california right is the rent is to get the rent is high, the rent is too damn time the number on the the the rent the, the. 8 so we turned in over a 115000 signatures to get it initiative on the ballot to expand control that to be on the california ballot in november of 2024. and the apartment association is trying to put the try to stop
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a been trying to stop us. we also deliver it over $732000.00 signatures to the governor of california. governor newsome asking him not to oppose this measure. how are they trying to stop you? so what they're the, what the california apartment association is doing is they're trying to put an initiative on the ballot. which basically says that it's a tough case on the same, to not put their own initiative on the ballot to expand rent controls or anything around housing. so they're hurting tenants. and also a junk house clinic in 45 different countries across the world. and they're trying to strip into something 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
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a bit of an issue when they're calling landlords all green. you don't hear our side of the story. i have a very little money. i have a mortgage homeowners insurance, and they wouldn't be and, and i couldn't even barely waste what last 4 years. i couldn't raise it $5.00. but yet i had taxes to pay. i had insurance to pay, i had maintenance to keep up, and i just pay them for dollars to move out is not there. where is our side of the protection? or they should be mad at the government and to the government to pay their rent. why should i have to take care of them? somebody take care of health care. complaint at the grocery store complained that your medicine is. why is it just the landlord? bye bye.
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the some small landlords. i'm thinking about landlords that have, you know, a couple units. they're worried as well because with that high, when it's cool, with corporate driving the, the rates are to keep up with it. so it's affecting them as well. but the fact of the matter is that the ones that are controlling and pushing pull the high range are the corporate land. unfortunately, the fix, the small businesses have fixed the small landlords. so we're to let them know that, you know, if we bring ranking sold to california, it's a positive thing moving forward because they're going to be able to not being stimulated 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, because 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 and places where it goes missing all the time to cover it.
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that's probably why the rent is getting so high because half the people who live there never pay the rent. somehow. somehow i feel like criminals run the city. i really do. my name's walk in mother the 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 weight? oh, well, there really isn't a way to get to on top of things when the economy is just deteriorating, as it is, there's not a way for the way just to catch up to what the prices are for for rent a person is trying to get to it maybe you have a studio apartment here in this area is going to be at least $1500.00 a month. and you with some how 1st for move in. mean it's, it's a little bit, uh,
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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, i mean, yeah, don't get me wrong. i don't look like i'm alone. serious and i got it. you know, tell them one jacket on through the disease, a 180. 0 my to your measures on doesn't look like i need to be honest. honestly. know what cost of living at this moment or subtract them. uh yeah, no matter if your worker 40 are a job, hourly job. you know me. if i have to know anybody out there and get all of these histories that down to where i've been out here in california and hollywood for probably about 10 years, about 10 years, and i have yet to get in. and i've been on the list to get housing for like 3 years
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. i've got a crew, i've got a criminal background, and then i've got a very expensive criminal background look at 19 fillings. i'm a record dude. i'm not trying to. i mean, nice 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. and i was 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 is coming over. we don't we don't hear from you really now, do you mind? do you mind me? i might be around, you know, like a bigger one is that we can use making a wireless but he said he was at the end of the low. you go what do you do full leaving? oh, do. i'm going to go to school. i go to long beach the college for this study. i'm
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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. i went and 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 with the skills and talents that i have for screen writing. thank you. hi, my name is mailed to the correct number for 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 los angeles. and what we do is we take these mobile shortlist, they can see over here the various different locations. we have approximately 50
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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 he comes for you to use a public chavo, let alone a bad throw. so fall on a full, so sleep on our streets. it's a constant struggle of looking at which gas station, which coffee shop will let them just look, use the bathroom. but when it comes to showers, 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 now, does it to you? oh, it's good. there's always going to be a hutch down. they have fox, our 2nd. yeah. yeah. it's always going to get a hot challenge homeless. i am
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a 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 good education. let's talk about, let's say for example, put 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 paying their more resources. so yes,
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a racism a place that 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, this one, the most underserved communities in los angeles. atlanta immigrants are here. most of them don't speak english or we have a here and you can see a lot of seniors and we have people that struggle to 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, well, 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 was 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
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us to office. so we decided to do an appointment system. today. we gonna be providing groceries for 400 people. these are fresh vegetables, they would pick yesterday, so you're not gonna make buying any, any fresh or uh, products done here. and they do serve with 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 pick what they like to, 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 relations between tele faith and they are really tough shop. they deteriorated since the latest round of the palestinian israeli conflict began in october 2023 according to lebanon's ministry of health. this way the stripes have killed at least 1600 people in the last year. and more than
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$8500.00 tough being in the at all. you can come in because that highly i'm just is elizabeth. that money is, are by the bundle assignment by the on the and all the love of the man i'll settle all day to solve. the will see is a minute. so you, it us, what is in the, on the l. a. in a shop while lane in washington, the young man, uh no hudson, it goes to it said i haven't had it in the system, not the in the how to move the sod. mfc said on my feet, i seen the video had a big deal to come in as soon as if they just said, awesome. yeah, the homeless, his home was the we're, i have
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a certain time is only about $0.50 or more. right for them enjoy. holding of 6262, you've been homeless for a while. continue for many years, say 10 years. so i'm going to feel like for example, you got to pay the, hey, fish a deal where right here the getting some really low versus the, the got 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 sold 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 he doesn't exist. we have people coming to our food banks that have
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you work with interior design or the was it worth coming? yeah, yeah. hard. the able to see of the flight to afford a place here. not many people can went to work to do like if you were not able to afford, you know, of course, you know, like what to do in a city and you're 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
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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 working to 3 jobs and still not enough because of the cost of living also has increase the think $3500.00 the one bedroom. it was way across the street apartment. yeah, they just, they just bills and they just opened them up. and for one bedroom, the $13500.00 does what we have to deal with. so the dentist 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, this the people, they can't co habits,
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he can't get along so they can't. well, the next coming up relation apparently can live with 10 people in a, 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. well, why do you to text messages? you, what are you just the michelle? so you're thinking about this is the right thing. one of the houses where they are for people die room, so nearby job business. same way we met them there. they're still there. putting up
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was the boss last week um um and gave kelly. i think her name was there to give her um, what is that the called the non non warranty? an auction thing have you guys seem to be fine? and we, i want to see this about time after 46 people that already passed away. and now 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, and they was like, oh, she had went to the hospital or with the jail as you folks come back. and nobody knew where she was in need of them line they found her, did they send me 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 programming job sorts of less as little bit like service and in that way. so let's say do
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1520 percent of what your income is that by your rent, up in the 30 a month. what is your, your income, you as soon as that, as soon as i have time to try to move out most people in my apartment and do a medicine rack. and then more and more people become seamless though they see none of the coal bags. and so by dividing doesn't making 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 a lot of money is blown away. i'm very reason we see very little come out with that. you know, so this been
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a lot of money and even government government. yes. there's been a lot of money and the labor very little rent has just really taken off the restrictions on how to rent have changed. they want you to have a deposit of, you know, same, we sometimes want 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've made it so hard that a person with a pretty well paying job couldn't coming right here. and there was a time, i mean, it was a while ago, 253 years ago. you could be a starving artist here and, and have a pretty fun life. it wasn't. maybe you wouldn't have a big savings account, but you would 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 is 40 hours a week, jobs are choosing to buy groceries or pay their rents. and we're talking
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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 hey guys, come to hollywood, get some of the money. this is 50 k and 1000000 looks like like guys 1000000 right here. the sell a baby. so me be looking for low, read our movies because people come out here. father,
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i 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 working on manifest man. i met of as women of as of right now already body for me. i look at it, i visualize it. i know the address to me. that's what it lies about me. when you see that house just, you'll see me and it is lend his house for me. welcome to welcome to holly will let them know that welcome to welcome to dreamland for james. come through the i know honestly, it's probably hard to wherever 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 just shut down it's. it's hard, hard to go in every area, every neighborhood, everywhere,
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and seeing and countless play not feel even just guilty. you know that you're walking into a supermarket and you can buying or food or you can do 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. now, they're not as compassionate as people think about the steps. the subject looks good to go. now i look good. thank you sir. but you people are always people good or not? you're right. the all depends on the day how
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they didn't want to look bad in kenner. that's the right one to, to obtain there isn't center 00. 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 yes, they are certain programs available that was subsidized for some of the housing. but not everybody, it's. this is why people i sold these harden and they have no faith in the
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government because the government has stopped working for the people. the amount of people that are more discussed 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. the . the facade is gone. now what, what about syria? is it gone to? it would seem so outside powers are carving up the country. what was in international proxy war against damascus is turning into an international civil war . and is there a place for the syrian people, the, the,
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the no, it stays far. only pub in a piece by the way, but his head most go won't send little of a short term solutions that may be a tier lead vantage on the front line. more than any, is it possible to stop the facilities right now? there is a depletion of combat equipment, ammunition and most importantly, personnel on the part of the screening on forces armies moving forward to stop for the weak means to give the enemy the chance to gain a foothold on their positions. vehicles out the west for a fide take a 2017 jewelry, you suggest they name a location in the plane and bringing any defense they want. russia would fly with new types of funding. we saw it very squat.
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