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Almost average due to the kind of locations that we find people in these you know resume you know this is a right what is a cold war and. What you know about to see is turn rejection is mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills above albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to Police Bullets ill tell you that the miners tomorrow im going 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 the. 3rd world i do 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 booze 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 hits d 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 in aljunied but you yourself know it look like you dont have a friend in the world like everybodys walking bears you you know in the boat when youve been out of the rest of the world this is a strange feeling there is a real need in there as about ill go there like people who are not of 5 if you live in lady lady try and think about when michael and them alone sleep. In the. Night as before some of the family homes to go through with. This is my last stop here in i dont know what im would do if i dont get mop up in the room after all. 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. Through through your belt loop walk to the construction site and you told the foreman that you could you could swing a hammer he looked at you he knew he knew you didnt couldnt do it. But he gave you shot lets do it lets come on their. 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 the same job and you cant do that 1st all those s. R. O. Single room occupancy units theyre gone they became condos for sale they became parking lots they y. M. C. A. 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And all the addictions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addition but why the pain and make sure that thats true physiologically 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 be 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 and over there for me and which makes them further. Inclined to engage in addictive behavior to suit that theme of sex trade worker a 27 year old said to me when i asked her what heroin did for her she said the 1st time i did heroin it felt like a war so. I was just saying she experienced a sense of love and connection which is what the endorphins do in the brain. And they die and detox a few years ago 6 was something muscles tattoo scars earring everything but it 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 tell you this dog was like when you 3 years old and youre shaving because youre sick as a kid and your mother wraps you know one blanket puts you in her lap and you just dont want chicken soup thats what their own feeling. Is that we would love. You know 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 that sense of connection. So homelessness in the chronically homeless may be seen as a coping mechanism. Thank you sir. Its a chair when there is day i. Am really. Surprised 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 pleads that were not requiring any partizan ation 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 offical. What weve got right now is welcome to our 3rd for 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 was 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 paste management clients there 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 it 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 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 over Night 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 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. Shelter is a band aid to the issue of really the solution is house 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. In 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 we know the shelter system started in the late eightys early 83 and by mid 1983 was across the country by 1987 the federal government had passed almost as a Major Program of their. What the hell happened right before that. Is really usually truth is there any truth in the news also but theres this one creature known as say about trucks. But its. Not just. A free. Market. But if. You push too much he gets more some. Protesters reportedly been killed during the antigovernment clashes in minsk often explosive went off in his hand that says gunfire has been heard in the. Demonstrations throughout the country over the president ial election leading to thousands of all rests including correspondence from whos now been released. I. Resigned as following growing pressure over last weeks devastating blast in beirut