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I build everything was true because i make a lot of mistakes. And its easy to back out your mistakes in compton South Central l. A. A pint sized idea as well this summer as in a battle with city author already. When you have nothing in order to go. You know having Something Like this may as well be a castle. The mayor of los angeles has declared the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. Overseas trying to solve it one tiny house at a time the tiny house idea is very simple its shelter. Food water and shelter are not optional theyre required for human survival so its 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 are 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 gonna do. L. This is building his next house for a woman brave and. So few people that live. Ravens living on the top next to a freeway. And fall 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 her 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 at the time 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 it set and our rendezvous back to you guys in a little while. Alone present opens up about his 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 c shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. And as a phone cue she receives a visit to. Our. Boys and we got to. Get him about this by saturday. Eldest. Raven is given matching orders. Shes running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were ready one section. Its not going to happen were trying to Scatter Branch out. Is going to get away from downtown they wired by downtown but six downtown skid row. The worst place in history to be homeless downtown. If youre homeless and l. A. City lewis to keep streets clear give you two choices. Keep moving. On the monster growth. 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 high. Are you. Doing ok. And he fails runs a big Emergency Shelter in the middle of skid row which id like to hes seen the numbers of women seeking help in a truck in just a year but you me get deborah nice to meet you im blessed you 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. Or ill be a 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 such a pretty constant ending yes day and night. The maintaining order here can be struck running with. Commanders running with us through this. 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 i can 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 shelters 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 the. This happens 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. Think its essential is essential to the citys. 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 the few positions by cleaning this act of fighting. Have brought about for something. Like. This that. Youre in a way. That the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missing. Today or some unlucky ones. When youre asked 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 value 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 playing to hampering operations like this. You know way its the suburban town on the street. So we take. If you go inside its not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. Germination those should not be on the city streets. So small seems wrong but old rules just dont call. Me old yet to say proud disdain comes to educate and indeed from an equal betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Later that day right back camp. They made a mess they did the great thing basically to do this. And find out that getting your belongings could get up devastate. Our property destroyed it. And if i ask you and. I knows it. Take you in the midst of. You know. This it will be the rules if you be tempted away from the driveway. You didnt ask to be down from sixty nine. And this is rainy. And that is seventy two hours 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 psychosis. But the authorities just take an entire weeks work to do this but the recycle 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 better. Than take into the tent. Now is they. Are 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 fame is the house. Theres still house that i called my home. Now the memories you in. So that was home this is home for me. I do miss home the four walls. Thats all to cheer in. Again. And to say gods timing that mike. And keep that 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 watts the city controls. Are off and stuff boarded up is not allowed. And while searching he gets a. Right even with an unexpected update. You know right after youre done that i did yeah im pregnant. This morning im pregnant hard im a governor. Elsewhere over it our time great is here and i have my life together elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm i will listen i got to 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 to have tiny house i want to see how ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. Despite getting orders to move shes still here at the same campsite looking. You know want to know. Where theyre. 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 to. Also makes me feel like. Like. Like getting off the streets. But getting off the streets is difficult for raven. We talk more and she reveals the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid. I was listed as a juvenile runaway. My dad. My dad been in prison. Life. Basically had no choice but to grow up. 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 homelessness. With no immediate way of getting out. When your life is the size of a tin 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 said 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 they 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. So. Its been a few months but was 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 thousand new units which is. Officials refused to embrace elviss 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. Infrastructure in place city council. Opposed to tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. Someone want to treating the site otherwise itll be a free for all itll be sex drugs and rocknroll and. They would absolutely you have to have some rules and. See. If they are here why put these guys out back with elvis and the city is clear and yet again this time even in christines camp right now that load opened up there was a show. Thats considered a faulty item so its going to go. Almost. And 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 she hit rock bottom this is my run fight every year. Was. All 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. Affect anybody. Elvis and raven hoped this part of downtown l. A. Away from skid row would be safe from the authorities. Both already hes a must continue to keep l. A. Streets clean days finally. For the tiny house delivery feeling very good by the very. Want to live drama but its going through a lot of hardship its not this tiny house its a person asked. 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 not get any rest. You really feel if. I do. Think. I think. Im going to be. Most things i do in life are out of principle. I was taught them 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. Look at the stars said one looking up at the tar hey i have third to see you sit another good tired but good stars its got a magic little bit. So finally raven gets her own private space. Hopefully the first time in over a year a good nights sleep and helen you think its going to last. That was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever. Happening gods hands. Were. 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