The word west open right now behind us 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 homeless number of homeless families world in suburban us 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. In 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 used to play one of the toughest to blow. Almost every inch of you through the kind of locations that we find people in these you know resume no you know this is a whole new realm what is it called new to. Me what you know about to see is turn respected this mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills of albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to Police Bullets i was telling you that he might honor tomorrow im going to be 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 you. Or 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 has for. The record i do know is pretty well that i do know the name of the person archer paid i said she was assaulted last tuesday she may have some bruise 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 kids 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 in the bud you dont have a friend in the world like everybodys walking bears you you know in the world we live in out of the rest of the world its a strange feeling that its a real. Its as though that i would go there like people who are not of 5 as you made in leading lady try and think about when my going to see some of them sleep. At night as before some of the family homes to go through with. This is my last stop here i dont know what im would do if i dont give my. d people people still in the belief that this is the. And 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 you know 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 this age and you cant do that 1st all those s. R. O. Single room occupancy units theyre gone if you came 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 in some people had problems you know skid row and these types of things out the whole follies and we didnt have a population that 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. Its grew out of your. Scope so hes going to stir up and down tenets. Oh. Yeah we did not work at all that youve already. Made a. Pretty good movie. But my 6 plank you did say. If you dont love isnt something you can really know because you know this is you know im going to. Im not you know if you do it there do you know. Theres a process that youre thinking that its not. Often. 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Morrow you know which is you know. Right you have a right to go out and go just watch. And its not what i dont understand really is as a veteran you have more opportunities to get housing does not the point there is no that you know you dont try to come down to. The number to down so youve been born so i am just with. This in the out of the front i dont need to be. Alive to go i dont need to be like oh. All right. I choose i have no rights is that right was not given to me by me. During you know. Have everything. Done right now and for this. How to stop if you want the right to holler the. Evil make an island out of the you can either do it decently. Im not feeling better. So im better ya go im in the journey. I dont want to die yet this morning. I dont want to die yet this morning. I dont want to die yet this morning. Well right now ok here we go. What you want to know. Oh im just doing. Some purty nigh person give me a break no one wholl have a go im probably not going to eat. So. On found my pen i found these on the sidewalk. Because mine are full of bugs woods in my magic court they snot a magic court that is my cadillac baby thats my cadillac do you know if youre old homeless person you gotta have some certain things right. You got to have some booze. You gotta have some booze. You dont have a blanket. Ordered my paper to go you gotta have paper paper he got to have paper. Class to go out plastic. Bungee cords and. He got it out. Of years. Or so on. All of us we got to have her son. Paul make us feel alone make you feel when you got to go to have. A new look commuter from all over. Think how to kind of a light. Sometimes. Its going to get out the light. Clothes the. Cloud by then the man has kind of like a school you go blank thats its all blank as does my coat. I mean its been winner dude its been. Freeze to death and. I came close once the 1st storm that came through. I woke up under. 4 inches of snow and. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those words. Thinks. We dare to ask. 1st night i was almost. That was a scary. Person. Because. I didnt have to show up with carter he didnt kill thats right i was like ok. Theres all kinds of scary people out here. I mean theres all kinds of scary people right and im from the mountains im from up in the mountains and then i get dropped down out here is. In the middle of the block down there you got bugs. Rog just. Any worse thing you can. Do you. Watched it. Nay heard. I was a girl stabbed. It was on the news. Right there i would like. To know id seen it nor. Right next to it everything else. Could get guys of the drop of. Tuesday we have heard right through no. Theyre all gone. Past when the free. My mom my father killed the cell phones fives. Then my step dad it was my dad because i didnt even know my dad really was. Here he was a lumberjack up there and chemists can see out of tree fall. Is cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground. So he got parallel. He died i was imprisoned he died. To. My mom she died 6 of double pneumonia in 2005. But. Thank you lord for been my friend says he holds near every day and i love you 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 you with every woman that would see you. In my family back. My family. My grandmother. He was here you know i just looked. For my grandma back in maybe or i just dont. You. Dont. Because i tell you everything im like. I didnt mean it but. I know you know if. You wanted to know. So i said. Oh magic. My family has. And i dont want to. Talk like your know what to write. I call it the egyptian novelist now you must who says nothing because the face of a sad life is a graphic. In a psychological sense a subsidy to people that are before deprived early voting create conditions for themselves. Keep a declaration going. Because the way to cope with emotion that relation 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 terrible turn to addictions. And all the additions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain and im sure that thats true physiology psychologically spiritually. So then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addition of the 1st true i state that. Because failure 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 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 earing everything but if i 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 want to his dog was like when youre 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 starting with love. You know then you ask why cant people give it up they cant 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 a sense of connection. So homelessness in the chronically homeless may be seen as a coping mechanism. Thank you sir now you say pull up 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 fluids that were not requiring any for just a short 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 is 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 theyre 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 bunk 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 overnight 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 frances is a shelter provider but were also a Housing Provider we recognize the necessity of shelter but we do. That shelter is a bandaid to the issue of almost 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. 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. We heard. Shes. Going to. Really walking into the word we no longer know what were walking into. March. When she needs to break she. Is. So. 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Here in britain has to import lifesaving equipment for its Health Workers from communist china but now world renowned environmentalist and a caller just docked at london a she should need no introduction she is one of the leaders of the International Forum on globalization and as one countless prizes for her work a classic staying alive women they call the g. M. Development a shuttle for republication september she joins me now from delhi of on that i thank so much for your