paul boden is the director of the program that launches the homelessness rights campaign.nk you so much for being with us. >> thank you so much. >> there was a time politically, i recall in the reagan era, homelessness was pretty bad but there was this activism, even media attention to this issue of homelessness, what happened? >> i think the homelessness and advocacy is still there. i think the media attention has shifted over to other areas unless it's about, oh, look they are destroying this park or we need to snip them from skid row then you will see a snippet of media attention. now we're coming to the hoi holidays, we tend to be the darlin darlings. other than that, we're always someone else. we're always drug addicts or mentally ill or alcoholics. the key being we're always from somewhere else and we need to be fixed in order to come into society as opposed in the early 1980s when i was coming up, we had a crisis as a community because people were finding themselves without housing. the response now is homeless people have a problem. they need to be fixed. so the st