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A foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. According to elvis these cheap and portable tiny homes a 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 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 heat all rise and go out in the city of angels elvis isnt considered won 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 still im five hundred years old then thats what im going to do. Elvis is building his next house for a woman. So theres a few people that live. Ravens living on the top hole and next to a freeway. And five from say. The situation much worse than when this last. Check of this is already on its 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 of st shes been out here so you do not. Tired after getting that. Pretty well. Pretty light. But it would. Seem to. Elvis is worried by the state of 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 run every 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 its us to clean those we know. Who wants to costly move this stuff every day. Not just the. Ravens out here because she feels emergency shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. And as a phone queue she receives a visit to a. Boy said we got to. Get him about this by saturday. Elvis the. Raven was given orders. Shes running out of places to go they want everybody downtown where body one section. Its not going to happen were trying to get our branch out. Were 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. On the months grow. This is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing the belief. But elvis is tiny homes arent allowed here. Skin roy is. Unlike anything else in the united states. I call it the worst manmade disaster in the us. Are you. Doing ok. And he fails runs a pig the merchants the 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 you mean cant daedra place 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 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 starts a pretty constant ending yes day and night. For maintaining order here can be struck running with. Commanders running with handcuffs through 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 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. To 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 shelter there are not enough beds forty seven thousand people experiencing homelessness 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. Happen 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 though were doing. Think its essential its essential to the citys. Essential to the citys become on the 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 a few positions by cleaning this tactical fighting. Have brought about for something. Like. This if you dont this. Guy youre in a waste. That the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are some unlucky ones now the feel like theyre asking to. They like it because repeating 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 playing to hampering operations like this. You know way its the suburban town on the street. So we take we if you a good side its not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. Germination those should not be on the city streets. And fathers financial Survival Guide i dont find any i typed on a features. Of the five. As the last of my ex from the future track i was kaiser. I had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. I never had to worry about how i would eat some where i would sleep. Im facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. Well you look fabulous. I thought the old ugly like you got the flu you know to simulate it to still give out food for the homeless. Or. You dont really feel like some human being in that. And then. That guy just came over to me saw me and gave me a change of this book. Hey everybody im stephen bob. Taft hollywood guy the suspect every proud american first of all im just george bush and r. V. News this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different. In your windows up with all the drama happening in our country im shooting the road have to find me every day americans. And hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the Great American people. Later that day right back cant. They made a mess they took the break they basically took the thing. And find out that getting your belongings can get out devastate. Our property destroyed it. And if i ask you. I know that. They came in the midst of. You know. This it killed me the rules they had to be tempted away from the driveway. To tennessee down the seas to night. At mrs rainey. And a seventy two hours to move my stuff. Christine is new to the streets priced out of the into my shes desperately trying to get back. She says many thankless psychos. But the authorities just take an entire weeks were. But there is good reason. I didnt. Like it to be able to get. The citys clean up means that christine will be out here even longer. Before i did before was measured. In taking to the to. Know is a. Hell of 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. This is a famous blue house. Says to the house that i called my home. Now the memories you in. So that was home this is home for me yeah it was. His home theres four walls that. F. L. T. Cheering. That i have that again. I mean that mike. And he says in mind. This is meant that. Theyll be a stranger at that. 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 wont easily find these are just over eight thousand lots of the city controls. But. Its not a lot. And while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. For you all right now from your son. Yeah im pregnant. Now there are no there is more there are 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 drink 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. When the stakes raised her tiny house i want to see her ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. Despite getting old is to move shes still here at the same campsite. You dont want to know. Her death. 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 even. We talk more and she reveals the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid we did she live. I was listed as a juvenile runaway. My dad. My dad been in prison. Basically had no choice but to. Ravens had to learn to be tough. But shes right on the edge. Like more and more americans take care. 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 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. So some of us 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 to. So. Its Pretty Simple without shelter people die. 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 hundred 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 are doing that this service to those individuals who stayed in these tiny homes without the out of but if a structure 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 in place to. See if they are here why put these guys back for those of us in the city is clear and yet again this time at raven and christines camp right now that load open up there was a show. Thats considered a faulty item so its going in the dumpster. Almost christines belongings are taken by the department of sanitation. Not around so only christine is here to see it. They say you know hit well i mean do you get rock bottom. Didnt they run five every year. Was. All that money spent. You could 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 the spot of downtown l. A. Away from skid row would be safe from the authorities. With already hes a must continue to keep l. A. Streets clean days finally. For the tiny house delivery and how you feeling very good by a very. Good life drama but its going through a lot of hardship so this tiny house its a person. After the week that shes had and everything shes gone through on top of the in fragments its more important now that she gets the house because i dont think she can go much longer with not get any rest. 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 a life. To remember that there ya go. You called me and said. You know people sit on the back porch. Look at the stars they want looking up at the tar oh yeah i have certainly seen good sit and not a bit tired but the stars its got a magic. So i finally raven gets her own private space. Hopefully the first time in over a year a good nights sleep and you think its going to last. That was said to say with us forever i wish it could last forever but. After gods hands. 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