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Word was open right now behind us is one of the citys biggest homeless camps and it stretches for 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 among us that trains are now women about 10 percent according to the v. A. But most long term housing is designed for matt and thats where some volunteers are making a difference helping Women Veterans and their families. In the current old time right here with a real hero remains to be awarded minus 20 you have experienced some pretty cold nights out here but the navys thats one of the toughest its. Almost out of reach due to the kind of locations that we find people use your resume you know this is the right what is it called me and. What you know about to see is turn respected in this mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills of albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to police. Telling you that he might honor you are 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 at how the. 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 its pretty well that i do know the name of the person i heard it. Say was assaulted last tuesday he 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. The 1st day. Psychologically how hits 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 look like you dont have a friend in the world like everybodys walking bears you you in the boat when youve been out of the rest of the world this is a strange feeling that its a real easy. As that about ill go there like people who are not a 5 as you made in leading lady try and think about when my going to see them of them sleep. In the. Night as before some of the family homes to go through with. This is my last stop here and i dont know what i would do if i dont give up on the most ethical. d people people still have the belief that this is the law. 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 you 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 do 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 again 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 if you came 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 its necessary. And its of people who had problems you know skid row and these types of things out the whole follies 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. Its grew out of your. Power. Strip so hes going to rip syrup in downtown its. Oh. Yeah we did not work at all that youve already. Made a. Pretty good movie. But my 6 point you could see. If youd go along isnt something you know because this is you know im going on. Im not even if you get there do you know. Theres a process that you think is the right. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thats. Ok. Guys you know if you all morning that you have a lawful order to handle these. Guys start. Trouble were going to take this or were going to take what ive got to live up to disobey the law or order. Putting all of these lloyd adults will be delayed admirably theyre not. Here we were i was wondering how i was earlier or. Oh my god. Oh you guys got 5 minutes to get. This or that or that its your fault i mean absolutely but lets start with her story then and stephanie as the. Reader has for yes yes yes absolutely much less mixed up. In a lot there are you guys like and cooperate i think ive been really smooth i know you are you going to. Be able to save the disability most of the people just dont raise. 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So im better ya go im in the drink. I dont wanna 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 would you wanna know. Own just. Some purty nice person give me a break no one who know how to go im probably not going. No more 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 know to have a blanket. Ordered my paper to go you gotta have paper paper he got to have paper. Plastic he goes out plastic. Bungee cords and. He guarded out. All of the years. Shes gone. All of us we go to have her son. Paul make you feel alone make you feel. You got to go to. A new book commuter kimono owner. How to kind of a light. Sometimes. Its going to get out a light. Cloud by then the man has kind of like a school you go blank thats its all blank as does my colt. I mean hes been winner dude its been worth a. Freeze to death and. I came close once the 1st storm that came through. I woke up under 2 inches of ice and 4 inches of snow and. It remains unclear who will be the occupant of the white house this january what can be easily predicted is the state of the economy for tens of millions of citizens it appears what is called the case shaped recovery is permanently dividing the country and the house and. This seems to be acceptable for those who are. The 1st night i was almost. That was us kerry. Person. Because. I didnt have to show up when Carter Hankin gilts right i was like ok. Theres all kinds of scary people you know or. Care you know 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 a block down there you got bugs. Rog just huge. Any worse thing you didnt. Know youd. Seen it watched it. In 830. I was a girl stabbed. It was on the news here i was right there i would like. You know id seen it nor. Right next to it Everything Else now needs to get guys of the drunk tank. To see we have friends right through you know. 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 ok. Here he was a lumberjack up there and careless of them 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 in prison and he died. My mom she died 6 a double pneumonia in 2005. But 2. Thank you lord for him a friend says he holds near again and then 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 here you know i just. Had my grandma back you may be all right. Dont. You. Dont. Because i tell you everything im like. I didnt mean it but. I know you think i know if. You wanted to know. So i said. Oh magic. My family has. And i dont want to. Talk like your one another would be right. 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. Keeping the creation going. Because the way to cope with emotion that their ition for example might be might be to be get very hostile. And 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 addictions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain and im sure that others to physiology 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 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 and i did heroin it felt like a war so. I was just saying it she experience the 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 tell you this dog but its like when youre 3 years old and youre shaving because youre sick as a kid and your mother wraps you know one blanket puts you in her lap and you just dont want chicken soup thats what their own feeling. Is starting with love. Now 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. 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 pleads 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 floor 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 Case 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 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 band aid 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. Match geysers financial Survival Guide liquid those that you can convert is a cash quite easily. To keep in mind to trick me into a place. Or. Join me every. 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