Transcripts For RT Documentary 20180101

Alone. Opens up about his situation. Its been a struggle. And. The city always kicks us now from the state itll stay clean those. Who want to costly move their stuff every day. Ravens out here because she feels the mission see shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. And as a phone queue she receives a visit to. Our. Boys and we got to. Get him about this by saturday. Well the. Raven has given orders. Shes running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were already one section. Its not going to happen were trying to get our branch out. The door to get away from downtown they wired by downtown six downtown to get. The worst place in history to be homeless downtown. If youre homeless and l. A. City laws to keep streets clear give you two choices. Keep moving. On the landscape grow. This is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing belief. But elvis is tiny homes arent allowed here. Skid row is. Unlike anything else in the United States. I call it the worst manmade disaster in the us. Are you. Doing ok. And he fails runs a big Emergency Shelter in the middle of skid row would you like to hes seen the numbers of women seeking help in a trip in just a year but you may get daedra place to meet you unless you get pretty eyes. And hes on crutches because last year he lost a leg to the flesh eating bacteria that exists here still every day hes out inviting new arrivals to his shelter because he knows just how bad it gets more than two thousand people on the streets forty nine square blocks of skid row its the worst that weve ever. Seems odd are just a good idea you really need to look down that street theres not one open spot or summat sidewalk. For probably a half a mile down that way. Elvis is tiny houses designed as an option to avoid sleeping on skid row. Because he is the increasing numbers of women and children a sleeping alongside drugs crime and the mentally ill. And police are the only source of protection cites a pretty constant yes day and night. To maintaining order here can be struck running with handcuffs. Commanders running with handcuffs to this yes. Ill spend one night every once in a while and streets and i cant sleep because its so dangerous and you just stay alert rats are running around running over people running in their tents and often people get beaten or assaulted or raped and that in effect can damage your Mental Health pretty quickly. So im all for tiny houses but there has to be Restroom Facilities and shower facilities because otherwise were putting people in treacherous Living Conditions just as if theyre in their community tent. And this is why and the shelter keeps an open door policy but hes struggling to keep up with demand. To see right here right across the city shelters are full up many have to turn people away the simple fact in l. A. Is theres just not enough shelter there are not enough beds forty seven thousand people. Experiencing almost this and there are about Twelve Thousand shelter beds or transitional housing beds even if people on the streets right now decided to come in theres nowhere to come in theres no place to go. With limited access to Emergency Shelters and low cost housing life on the streets in l. A. Is an endless game of cat and mouse. Because the city is charged with keeping the streets clean morning everybody this department of sanitation crew is about to move through the homeless encampments of skid row. Make sure to watch out for syringes watch out for Hazardous Materials watch out for human away. Industrial operations like this happen daily across los angeles to keep the streets clear the homeless to be constantly on the move. We are here every day in skid row every street is clean once every two weeks so this cycle thats the big effort though were doing. Think its essential its essential to the cities. The cities the comic growth and also the citys image this team will put more than five tons in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to be unsanitary. Most of it will be rubbish put some of the tents and the few positions. That. Youre in and ways. That the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missing. Today or some unlucky ones. Let us thats a bit below. They like it because repeating i mean if you want a homeless person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide they see the value of us. But the cities focus on keeping the streets clean things further instability when youre living on them. Its also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band playing to hampering operations like this. You know waits with the suburban down on the street. 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Christine is new to the streets priced out of the rental market shes desperately trying to get back to. She says money by collecting her psychosis. But the authorities just take an entire weeks worth. Of the recycled does being a. Body like. That get to be able to get three. The citys cleanup means that christine will be out here even longer. Before i did before was better. Than taking to the to. Know is a. Well. For many Homeless People in l. A. A lack of Affordable Housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. Listing three percent of the citys rental market is vacant. We walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something how breaking. This is the famous blue house. Test of the house that i called my home. No memories here in. So that was home this is home. This home the four walls that. F. L. T. Cheering. That i have that again. This is the gods timing that my. Then she says in mind. This is my back. Dont be a stranger ok. Well this is tiny homes could help people like christine until they get back on their feet back and come. The pressure is on for him to finish ravens tiny house. But he still needs to locate a place we can put it some way the city clean up one easily find these are just two of over eight thousand lots of the city controls. Are off and stuff boarded up is not allowed. And while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. For you all right now from your son. Yeah im pregnant. Now there are no there is more there are. Hard underground ireland out there. Elsewhere over about on a radio here and i have my life together elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm i will listen i gotta run right now but ill call you back later thats thats great news we have to celebrate. And i want to trick you i want to jump for joy and like cry this and on like. This is how quickly a change in circumstance can see your life go from bad to worse when youre on the street. When the stakes raised for her tiny house i want to see her ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. Despite getting orders to move shes still here at the same campsite look. You dont want to go. Ahead if. A little concerned regarding the conditions. Living at this time i got a lot of business to take care of. Dont know if im having the time taker but i was amazed because i. Like. Getting off the streets. But getting off the streets is difficult for raven. And she reveals the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid to the. Streets. I was listed as a juvenile runaway. My dad. My dad been in prison. Life. Basically had no choice but to grow up the. Ravens have to learn to be tough. But shes right on the pitch. Like more and more americans take here. She strips deep in the cycle of long term homelessness. With no immediate way of getting out. When your life is the size of a teen can be a powerful tool. Its almost delivery day and with the news that ravens pregnant elvis is adding a special finishing touch to her tiny house. So im ok with just a Little Something to help her feel better and you know help her feel like shes got a nice guy to look at elvis knows how important Little Details like this can be hes watched too many people lose hope on the streets since the city forced me to take houses away from people three people have died mainly due to being stuck out in the elements not having anywhere to go so its its criminal. Picture smokey sitting in the doorway of her her tiny house one of the people who died was his close friend smokey who received the very first tiny house new years morning i found her dead in somebody elses tent not even her own because the city took that too. So. Its Pretty Simple without shelter people die. Its been a few months but. A good person and she was my friend. Inside city hall the pressure is on to create more housing. The city has approved a multibillion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is well below to. Get officials refuse to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not a solution were doing at this service to those individuals who stayed in these tiny homes without the out of but if a structure in place city council. Opposed to tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. Someone monitoring the site otherwise itll be a free for all itll be sex drugs and rocknroll and. They will absolutely you have to have some rules and. See. If they are here why put these guys back with us and the city is clear intense yet again this time even in christines camp right now that load opened up there was a show. Thats considered a so its going in the dumpster. Almost breaking in christines belongings are taken by the department of sanitation but not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know you were climbing to hit rock bottom didnt run by the river year. I know that money spent. You can spend half of that and get these people a place to go but instead theyre treated my hand. With ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with a baby on the way elvis must deliver her tiny house before nightfall to close with him. I finally found a suitable location for ravens tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial its not going to affect anybody. Elvis and raven hope this part of downtown l. A. Away from skid row will be safe from the authorities. With already hes a must continue to keep l. A. Streets clean days finally. For the tiny delivery and how you feeling very good by good very. Good data and life drama but its going through a lot of hardship. So this tiny house the suburban. After the week that shes had and everything shes gone through on top of the in fragments its more important now that she gets the house because i dont think she can go much longer with not get any rest. You really fear for her life i do. Think. I think. Im going to think that. Most things i do in life are out of principle. I was taught that somebody falls down you pick them back up. Thats what we should do in life. To remember that you know you know. You called me and said. You know people sit on the back porch and. Look at the stars they want looking up at the entire area have to see it sit another good tired but the stars its got a magic. So finally raven gets her own private space. Hopefully the first time in over a year a good nights sleep and helen do you think its going to last. That was said to say with us wherever i was it could last forever. Happening gods hands. Were. Only one day to go before the birth. 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