Transcripts For RT Documentary 20180103 : vimarsana.com

Now if i have to build a tiny house for every last person. Five hundred years old then thats what im going to do. Well this is building this next house woman. You people that live. Living on the top pole and next to a freeway. And from say. The situation much worse than when. This is already on a service. The sea. Ravens been on and off the streets most of the life. Area yes sure. After fleeing a violent home when she was just thirteen years old. She once had a time but since the city forced most of the street shes been out here so you do not. Tired after getting the house i happened to do pretty well you may know a pretty good life but there are times when it took you know what it would be. Like to bring the food. To. Elvis is worried by the state but this communal camp and he leaves to buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so im going to have it sent and run every back to you guys in a little while. Alone. Opens up about his situation. Its been a struggle. And. The city always kicks us now from the state to the creek those. Who want to costly move their stuff every day. Just. Ravens out here because she feels image and 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. Our. Boys said we got to. Get him about this by saturday. If it. Helps. Raven has given much more to us. Shes running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were. Nobody wants action. Not going to happen were trying to get our brands out. The door to get away from downtown they wired by downtown six downtown skid row. The worst place in history to be homeless downtown. If youre homeless in 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 hi. How are you. Doing ok. Andy fails runs a pig in the Agency Shelter in the middle of skid row which would like to be seen the numbers of women seeking help here trip in just a year but you me again deborah nice to meet you unless 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 summit 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 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 and. 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 health pretty quickly. So im all for tiny houses but there has to be Restroom Facilities and shower facilities because otherwise were putting in 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 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. What. 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 up or 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 were doing. Stuff think its essential its essential to the citys. Center of 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. That. Have thought of something. Like. This that. Youre in a waste. That the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missing. Today or some unlucky once. Youre asked to. Pay like it because repeated i mean if you want to. Live in the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to value a loss leader. But the citys 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 blamed for hampering operations like this. You know ways to turn the suburban down on the street. So we cant clean their area if youre good side its my safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been a determination that those should not be on the city streets. Seemed wrong. But all roles just dont hold. Any old belief yet to shape out these days to come to educate and gain from an equal betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Only one day to go before the ninth birthday because i just think about that in nine years it went from absolutely unknown piece of software to world shaking wall street transforming society busting. And. Its the cradle of jazz. We have. This jazz feel. The city of climatic testify is alligators on the loose of poverty and crime. By the least members of my friends close. Of street racing in the peace of the night this is. The best place in the world. Later that day right. They made a mess they took the break they basically did nothing. And find out that getting your belongings. Her property destroyed. I know that. They cant even get a step. You know. Basis. It killed me the rules he had to be tempted away from the driveway. To tennessee down sixty nine. And this is rainy. And this to me too i wish to move most. Christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter she discreetly trying to get back. She says money by collecting her psychosis. But the authorities just take an entire weeks work. At the recycle bin. I didnt. Like it to be a. Treat. To cities clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. Before i did before was better. Than take into the to. This is a. Well. For many Homeless People in l. A. A lack of Affordable Housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. List and three percent of the citys rental market is fake and. We walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something breaking. This is the famous blue house. Test of the house that i called now. That im interested in. So that was home this is home for me yet. I didnt miss home before was that. F. L. T. Cheering. That i have that again. Which is the gods timing that mike. And he says in mind. This is my backyard. Leak rubbish changes that. Elvis is