goal of getting everyone at the encampment into permanent housing by december is lofty at best james alan cross the founder of natives against heroin who've been overseeing the camp when explains why i think it's going to go well in the over a year i think that the first process of is get them over to their the center over there their role like purchase well to go and help people that don't want to be in or the rules or curfew or so we've all continue to talk with this city called the mayor and everybody else in the hierarchy of all five at a place where we're going to have these relatives who i know they don't want to see or take for many coming here to be with their people instead of sleeping in cars or under bridges is a step up and gives them a sense of community that isn't always possible when suffering from homelessness especially when you're a member of an oppressed people but as thomas anderson told me it's not about us and them the wall of forgotten natives is all of us i think that. the police brutality. obviously the lack of understanding of when people need help and healing they loo