You know we have to come in and we. You know. Were making. Sure. America. One neighbor of. Our. World was coping right now behind us and 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 home less number of homeless families world in suburban u. S. Has risen by 60 percent and. One moment that trains are now women about 10 percent according to the v. A. But most long term housing is designed for that and thats why some volunteers are making a difference helping Women Veterans and their families. When the current old time you know if you want a real hero remains to be awarded minus 20 you have experienced some pretty cold nights out here but the navy is no one of the top its. Almost out of reach due to the kind of locations that we find people use your resume you know this is a right what is a cold war and. What you know about to see is her respect for this mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills of albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to Police Bullets i dont know you would be my donor to harm you know to me you 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 in the last 2 years every single one has for a. Good word about you know its pretty well that. You know the name of the person urges hey guys she was assaulted last tuesday she 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. 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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 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. Got out of the business you know when i was growing up theres no such thing as homes is necessary. And heads of people had problems you know skid row and these types of things out the whole of farms and we didnt have a population 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 you know were going to call that youve already. Made a. Pretty good movie. But my 6 going. To go love is all you know because this is you know im going on the. Im not even a big deal. There do you know. Theres a process that you think is its not. Often. Well ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha. 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He died i was in prison and he died. My mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. But. Thank you lord for be my friend says he holds near again and run 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 the family back. My family. My grandmother. He was you know i just. Said my grandma back in maybe or i just. Dont. Because i have to look. I didnt mean it but that. I know you know if. You wanted to know. So i said. Oh. Yeah my family has loads 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 aggressive. In the psychological sense especially to people that are before deprived early voting create conditions for themselves. Keep the declaration going. Because the way to cope with emotion that there isnt 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 very will turn to addictions. And all the additions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addition but why that 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 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 she said the 1st and i did heroin it felt like a war starts. And what shes saying is 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 doc its like when you 3 years old and youre shaving because youre sick as a kid and your mother wraps you know one blanket put you on your 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 i 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 now you say all of the charity there is day i. Am really. Surprised not coming here we have a lot of that. The arts 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 office other than. 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 i 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 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. Shelter is a bandaid to the issue of almost is really the solution for almost as house if youve got limited housing opportunities youve got limited hopper tuna to use 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 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 as a Major Program of their. What the hell happened right before that. He could prove. Shit out. Walking into the word generally not know what were walking into. March. What she needs to break she. Said. 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