Transcripts For RT Documentary 20180102

A. Temporary solution and like the first stone a foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. According to elvis these cheap and portable tiny homes meant to be on the streets of l. A. And they need to fix. But right now theyre not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so they used to belong to somebody yeah yeah. And now theyre being used no now theyve been sitting here for a better part of a year collecting dust. And people are you know struggling and suffering. So yeah its really sad i mean its you know this is human life here you know. Los angeles authorities have accused his tiny homes of threatening Public Safety but elvis has seen the Tiny House Movement go viral online with support coming from right across the world so with the help of internet crowdfunding hes going rogue once completed they all have a new carbon pad. Alarms on the windows i put the vents these holes in the top you know its really hot summer here so that way the heater rises and go out in the city of angels elvis isnt considered one by the powers that be. But to the homeless hes one of the few struggling to get them off the streets i dont quit and i dont give up and i definitely dont bow down to bullies people need shelter now if i have to build a tiny house for every last person till im five hundred years old then thats what im going to do. Elvis is building his next house for a woman who brave a. Few people that live. Ravens living under the top pole and next to a freeway. And from say. The situation much worse than when this last. Check of this is already on a service. Ravens been on and off the streets most of the life. Area yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just thirteen. She once had a time since the city street shes been out here so you do not. Tired after getting that. Pretty well. Pretty light. When they. When they do it. Like. Elvis is worried by the state but this communal camp and he. To buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so im going to have a tent and our rendezvous back to you guys in a little while. Alone present tense up about a situation. Its been a struggle. And. The city always kicks us out 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 cue she receives a visit. Our. Boys said we got to. Get him about this by saturday. Nothing. Else. Raven is given orders. Shes running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were but one section. Its not going to happen were trying to get or branch out. Is going to get away from downtown they wired by downtown what six downtown skid row. The worst place in history to be homeless downtown. If youre homeless in l. A. City lewis to keep streets clear give you two choices. Keep moving. To 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. Call it the worst manmade disaster in the u. S. Are you. Doing ok. And he fails runs a big Emergency Shelter in the middle of skid row would you like to be seen the numbers of women seeking help in a trip in just a year what yumi cant daedra face to meet you unless youve got 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 seen. Just a good idea you really need to look down that street theres not one open spot or summat sidewalk. For half a mile down that way. Elvis is tiny houses designed as an option to avoid sleeping on skid row. Because here the increasing numbers of women and children a sleeping alongside drugs crime and the mentally ill. And police are the only source of protection so its a pretty constant ending yes day and night. By. The maintaining order here can be struck running with an. Commanders running with us through this fast. 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 trance and often people get beaten or assaulted or raped and that in effect can damage your 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 living in a tent. And this is why and the shelter keeps an open door policy but hes struggling to keep up with demand for. The seat right here right across the city shelters a 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. Whats up. 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. Watch out watch out for Hazardous Materials watch out for human waste. Industrial operations like a. This happened daily across los angeles to keep the streets clear forcing 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 were doing. That think is essential is essential to the citys livability essential to the citys become a 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 but some of it will be peoples tents and if you positions by cleaning tactical fighting. Have thought about something. Like. This that. Youre in a way. That the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missile. And today or some unlucky ones. Like youre asking to. They like it because repeated i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to devalue a loss leader. But the citys focus on keeping the streets clean means further instability when youre living on them. Its also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band blamed for hampering operations like this. You know way its a suburban town on the street. So we cant we if youre going side its not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. Germination those should not be on the city streets. When you dont. See the teachers who are. Dead equipped to do. What they need not through only ten spaces you. May be. Left alone kelly said. Claiming to know servant is messy that. You speak french. The same. Continue. To scold. I had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. I never had to worry about how i would eat and where i would sleep. Im facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. Well you love to be able to pull up a clip of the bully like you go to school you know to slip in the still give up food for the homeless. As you dont really feel like in the big you know. And then. The guy just came over to me so me and gave me a change of this book. Later that day right back camp. They made a mess they did the great thing basically did the thing. And find out that getting your belongings could get up devastate. Our property destroyed it. And if i ask you if. I knows it. Take you in the midst of. You know. This it killed me the rules you had to be tempted away from the driveway. To tennessee be down sister night. Mrs rainy. And as to meet you i wish to move most o. Christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter shes desperately trying to get back. She says money by collecting her psychosis. But the authorities just take an entire weeks work. But the result that does. A. Body like. That get to be a bit dull to get a treat. The citys clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. For anything for was matter. To take into the tent. Now is a. L l o. For many Homeless People in l. A. A lack of Affordable Housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. Liston three percent of the citys rental market is fake and. We walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something how breaking. This is the famous grouse. Test of the house that i called my home. Now the memories you in. So that was home this is home for me. I do this home this for was that. I felt secure in. That again. Which 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 in compton the pressure is on for them 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. But. Often stuff more love 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. This morning theyre very hard on a governor. Over a over a vote on a very sure i have my life together elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm i will listen to 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 of 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. With 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 know want to know. Where theyre from. 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. 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 imprisoned. In a murder. Case of had no choice but to. Ravens had to learn to be tough. But shes right on the edge. Like more and more americans take here. She strips deep in the cycle of long term homesickness. 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. Like a movie 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 and 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 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. Officials refused to embrace elviss tiny im for me a tiny house on a. Parking space is not a solution were arguing that this service should be staining these tiny homes without the out of. Infrastructure 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 would absolutely have to have some rules and. See. If they are here why put these guys back with us and the city is clear and yet again this time even in christines camp right now that load open up there was a show. Thats considered a boat so its going in the dumpster. Almost breaking in christines belongings are taken by the department of sanitation but residents not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know youre welcome i mean to hit rock bottom this is my run by the river year. I was. All that money spent. You could spend half of that and give 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 it because. 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 must continue to keep l. A. Streets clean days finally. For the tiny house to live free feeling very good by a very. Good idea of life drama that its going through a lot of hardship thats not this tiny house the suburban house. After the week that shes had and everything shes gone through on top of being fragmented its more important now that she gets the house because i dont think she can go much longer if not get any rest. If you really feel if. 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 they are you know you have called me and said. You know people sit on the back porch and. Look at the stars so one 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. 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