One neighbor of. Our. World west open right now behind us is one of the citys biggest homeless camps and it stretches per blogs on this Warehouse District as you can see the government figures more than a 1000000 School Aged Children are homeless number of homeless families world in suburban us has risen by 60 percent and. One homeless that trains are now women about 10 percent according to the v. A. But most long term housing is designed for matt and thats where some volunteers are making a difference helping Women Veterans and their families. In the current role but you know if you want a real hero marine to be a force minus 20 you have experienced some pretty cold nights out here but the navy used to play one of the toughest to blow. Almost out of reach you through the kind of locations that we find people in these you know resume you know this is a whole new realm what is it called me and. What you know about to see is turn rejected because mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills above albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to Police Bullets i dont know you would be my donor to mourn to know almost every day that goes by in the media you hear about education. Jobs and health care you never hear about Affordable Housing. Are you doing ok medically. When i started i was actually really shocked how ill people were on the street it was like going to a 3rd world country. And this is a map that shows you the foreclosures initiated over the last 2 years every single one as for. What about you know its pretty well that i do know the name of the person ever to. Say i was assaulted last tuesday he may have some bruise or broken ribs. It is estimated the poverty rate for kids in this country will soon hit 25 percent those children would be the largest american generation to be raised in hard times since the great depression. The 1st day. Psychologically how kids is you like anyone you know you have no friends in the world people like. Even though they probably dont know you know now they may need it but you yourself know it in the bud you dont have a friend in the world like everybodys walking bears you you know in the boat with you know that the rest of the world is a stranger to them and its a real easy. As that that i would go there like people who are not a 5 as you made in leading lady try and think about when my going to see some of them sleep. At night as before some of the families homes to go through with. This is my last stop here and i dont know what i would do if i dont get mop up in the room at the. Yeah people people still of the belief that this is the land of opportunity that you can go out and get a minimum wage job and then you get another job pays more than minimum wage and screwed yourself up when i when i was growing up there was absolutely you know. You want to be a construction guy. Took your dads hammer. Threw through your belt loop walked in the construction site and you told the foreman that you could you could swing a hammer. He looked at you do you know you didnt couldnt do it. But he gave you shot lets do it lets come on their. Most spot at the y. M. C. A. Is pretty cool 10 bucks a night you can go get a little girl gets your room stash your stuff. Get a good nights sleep good on the hall in the morning. Use the shared bathroom and go off and. Try to get you know at this age and you cant do that 1st all those s. R. O. Single room occupancy units theyre gone it became condos for sale they became parking lots they y. M. C. A. Got out of the business you know when i was growing up theres no such thing as homes theres no sick. And needs of people who had problems you know skid row and these types of things alcoholic farms and we didnt have a population that was so big that we coined a phrase and named it homelessness you know and now its become ingrained in our society but we know that if we can get the attention the American People and if they can really understand. This one thing that you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing. If we can get them to understand that and we can bring the solution because everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity. The reality of it is. Were not. Grew out of your. Car. Or. Truck so hes going to rip syrup in downtown its. Oh. Yeah we did not work at all that youve already. Made a. Pretty good movie. But my 6 point you could see. If youd go alone isnt all you know because you know this and go on going on. Im not you love you do it. Do you know. Its a process that youre thinking that i. Often. Tell ha ha ha ha. Ha ha. 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I came close once the 1st storm that came through. I woke up under 2. 4 inches of snow and. You cannot be both with the yeah you like. Is youll be dia a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or inmate in the shallowness. The 1st night i was almost. That was a scary. Person. Because. I didnt have to show up with carter hintin gilts right i was like ok. Theres all kinds of scary people out here. Care you know i mean theres all kinds of scary people right and im from the mountains im from up in the mountains and then i get dropped down out here is. You know im in the middle of a block down there you got bugs. Rog just. What do you. Any worse thing you can imagine. Youve. Seen it watched it. In 830. I was a girl stabbed. It was on the news and i was right there i would like. You know id seen it norton. And right next to it everything else. Needs to get guys of the drunk tank. To see the emperors right through you know. Theyre all gone. Past when the free. My mom my father killed the so for those fives. Then my step dad it was my dad because i didnt even know my dad really was. Here he was a lumberjack up there and careless of them can set a tree fall on. Him cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground. So you got parallel. He died i was in prison and he died. My mom she died 6 a double pneumonia in 2005. But 2. Thank you lord for been my friend says he holds near again and more love your brother. Thank you for helping me. And i will get by another day i will get by another day because i will. If you had a magic wand waving giving everyone. In my family back. My family. My grandmother. He was here you know i just looked. For my girl back you may be all right just. Because i had everything to learn so. I didnt mean it but that. I know you know if. You wanted to know. So i said. Oh magic. My family has. And i dont want to. Talk like you want to know what the right. I call it the jewish and all of this now you must who says nothing because the face of a sad life is a graphic. In a psychological sense a subsidy to people that deprived early voting create conditions for themselves. Keep a decoration going. Because the way to cope with emotion that theyre ition for example might be might be to begin very hostile. You can be rejected. And thats going to reinforce your sense of being rejected in the 1st place. Or you might to deal with the pain that some terrible turn to addictions. And all the additions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain and im sure that for us to physiology psychologically spiritually. So then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addition of the 1st true that i state that. Because the inner is going to deal with an addict the reason of the soul is very difficult and painful to do so but for the addict it reinforces that im all alone in the reader for me and which makes them further. Inclined to engage in addictive behavior to suit that theme of a sex trade worker a 27 year old said to me when i asked her what heroin did for her she said the 1st and i did heroin it felt like a washed out. And shes saying she experience the sense of love and connection which is what the endorphins do in the brain. And they die in detox a few years ago 6 was something muscles tattoo scars earing everything but if i was walking towards me in an alley id run the other way when i asked him whether theyre into for you and he said i dont want to his dog was like when youre 3 years old and youre shaving because youre sick as a kid and your mother wraps you know one blanket put you in your lap and you just dont want chicken soup thats what their own feeling. Is starting with love. Now then you ask why cant people give it up they can give it up because the only way they found that they can have pain relief and know i have pleasure and delight and reward and a sense of connection. So homelessness in the chronically homeless may be seen as a coping mechanism. Thank you sir no you say pull up a chair when there is day and. Surprise you not coming here we have a lot of that. The arch facility is what we call a low demand shelter their. Demand is that we dont ask you to do anything its just that they can and it will walk through the door other than their security behavior guidelines for us the definition of loaded been sheltering fluids that were not requiring any purchase patient in a program or service in order to be in the building theres not going to be a requirement for you to be sober to be in the building you can come in under the influence of drugs or alcohol we just cant have you bringing it in with you so its an opportunity to work with our clientele on sobriety issues and wed much rather have them inside the building and under the influence than in the safety concern on the all of them. What weve got right now is welcome to our 3rd floor this is our dormitory for here at the arch we were originally constructed on this property as a 100 bed facility they knew when they built that it was under built probably didnt know that it was in the under built as it actually is today we sleep 230 min in this facility every night 1st is the 100 beds that we were created with take a look at the dormitories themselves during the night sleep were going to sleep 100 minutes here there are pay. Management clients theyre in a plan theyre in a program theyre working on some goals that theyve set through their program it may be incomes to build the may be sobriety theres a lot of different kinds of things that Case Management will address but overnight they get to sleep in our dormitories. Which are bunk bed style we have some storage and underneath each bed they love being able to store their own stuff and because theyre in our Shelter Program in our Case Management program each bit is assigned overnight to a specific individual so well have on this floor there are 100 bunk beds and then overnight the way we get to the 230 is we also have some mats that go down the floors and were sleeping in places in this building that we were never really intended to sleep including our lobby our 2 Conference Rooms as well as our dining room. In our overall population profile is a 35 to 45 year old caucasian male struggling with Mental Health drug and alcohol addiction we see a lot of veterans in that mix too and then weve got a lot of women and children although this is a mens overnight shelter the demographic for homelessness across the nation is changed in austin so different and i think thats one of the things that we as a community have got to address is the systemic generalization of homelessness and the regenerations of Homeless People walking through our doors sometimes during the day and its just kind of something weve got to get on. So prince this is a shelter provider but were also a Housing Provider we recognize the necessity of shelter but we do look at shelter as a band aid to the issue of almost its really the solution for homelessness. Theres housing if youve got limited housing opportunities youve got limited opportunities to house the homeless so its really been a push in our community to get more Housing Stock on the ground so that we can solve homelessness and not just bandaid it was shelter. Without housing report was we put it out in 2006 we formed rat. And made 2005 and immediately started. Funding trends and Affordable Housing and both were all through the u. S. D. A. U. S. Department of agriculture and urban through housing and urban development because we wanted to look at it we know the shelter system started in the late 82 early 83 and by mid 1983 was across the country by 1987 the federal government had passed almost funding as a Major Program of their. What the hell happened right before that. Time of the time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability its very important its accelerating the transition to sustainable prize board sustainability. A more equitable and sustainable world. They claim their production is completely harmless. Because. Companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is Something Else this was going to anyone and i. Knew this and we didnt. Understand it looks. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and their decision little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. The day that i was right to be instructed here you know told what theyd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me in the me me come in any graham my arm and he write me to his berth thinking if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tapping but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than the offender and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or women. See were going underground from arguably im from now the world epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic later in the show well find out why the n. H. S. Here in britain has to import lifesaving equipment for its Health Workers from communist china but now world renowned environmentalist in the call of just dr going to she should need no introduction she is one of the leaders of the International Forum on globalization and as one countless prizes for our work a classic staying alive women we call the g. M. Development essential for republication september she joins me now from delhi of on that i thank so much for you come