Immature land desert. This is where things wealthy industrial nations no longer need and lightest textile ways get stranded fashion. Watch now on youtube the its got a safe move overhead for now. And so the Funding Department and just making sure i took every necessary steps to make sure theres no this one gets like the life that i never, hey, new york, the city of big dreams for many is also home to a growing number of on house to people particularly easy to be homeless over 650000 people are homeless in the us. More than ever before. The situation is especially bad in new york. The john lives with his family in a homeless shelter in new york. He says this room in brooklyn with his girlfriends already and the door, se, isabel kitchen is the 1st to provide a little table. They give you a dresser and a bed. Its been a year since they moved in here. Theyre working hard to be able to move into their own place as soon as possible. I are right now, were trying to get help getting an apartment. But its taking a little while now because the public assistance is backed up with a bunch of cases. Right now were just waiting to get help. John was kick terms of his family who when he was 21. He stayed with friends for a while before landing in the homeless shelter. He then goes to slot, but ended up in a shelter again of to he couldnt afford the rent. We had to do like a few hurdles. It took us like 3 tries to get to this office, so they have most of the shelters in new york to before they were kinda like, not suitable. Like for us living. And then because at the time she was pregnant and the conditions were really like that, i would say it was a run down areas. There was a lack of security. The space that they provided was really, really small, like i say like, so thats a so the like unit thats is by like 3 by 3. This one that we got to it was, it was like more convenient for us because it had a little bit more space. Homelessness in new york is as its highest level in almost a 100 years. Over 90000 on house new york is a currently sleeping in the cities homeless shelters. About a 3rd of them are children. Over the past 10 years, the number of homeless adults, new york has, has doubles pushing up the mountains for shelter, places also among young families. My sister all went through the surfaces. They all have kids. And they couldnt like stay where they were living. Can they sit and live like with my mom is no space there. So they have to go through a shelter to and thats kind of what made me want to say, hey i, if they could do it, i could do it to john works nights as a clinic where he is also and confronted with homelessness. More people are going into the hospital just because they want to bed was something that you know, the hospital cant deny them by itself. Fortunately, because sometimes it has to like kick them out because thats like a part of my job, even though i dont watch it because i understand what it is to be home. This is i experienced that myself in his teens. John broke the news. He was arrested and sent to prison. Zoe, whom he mentioned high school navigate, but from him i never thought i was a good person. You know, i thought i was just average person, but she, she really gets in my head and see that, you know, like hey, youre a strong guy. Do everything you can to do right. And is true. See, she may be right she, she made me find the fire myself that didnt or i thats already had the fire. No, i didnt. I didnt have, i didnt realize that i had that fire and so she like helped me knowledge it from there is, has been just keep burning strong or strong. And then with this one is like, now is just like a furnace or something is just gonna keep burning, right . You know, no matter what happens to me, if i have Health Conditions or mental conditions, you know, im always going to try to be the rock for them. Try to be as sense of stability that they can always rely on. Because you know, this is, this is my family now. So you know, i want to do the best thing to be their protector and, and their provider. Im going to do everything in my power to do that. I always believed that is bad for you dont follow him so many things, but i just closed my used to it because i believed in him to this day. I didnt even say rodriguez also believes in john, the lawyer runs a non profit, cold avenues for justice, which works to keep young people out of prison and provides the youngest send as an alternative to incarceration are on sale is very troubled by the changes he seems to be easy to be homeless, the space because of the economic issue in this neighborhood. There was a time given to me where the mantle didnt give me. He. I look around the corner and get a big r apartment before last month. That was the situation. It wasnt as possible and this issue of this things in terms of, you know, how much apartments are cost thing. Were looking at a lot of that. But today, the issue is out of control, where there is no housing for even people who for want them. And weve done the apartments that are used to rent worth 200. 00. Thats in the farm. And todays 4000. 00. Same upon the close at 1910 demik made things worse. According to a survey like unique around 44 percent of new york has had problems paying the rent at the outset of the time demick leading to numerous evictions, job termination, domestic violence, Mental Illness and addiction. Other reasons why people end up on the streets has been helping young people facing such challenges for 50 years. I always say that im a Court Advocacy program. I dont really deal in homelessness. However, this far takes me into everywhere to the issue homelessness because im representing a lot of young people who in 2023 or says that and demick even before that those kids are on their own problem, some home problems that they create for themselves. Sometimes that create situations where they can go home. This tend to aims to also young people, a safe space. They can do the homework here, have lung, shell know on how to improve the cd. For example. They also have access to counselors who can serve as positive role models. One of them is elsie, who 1st came to the non profit many years ago to join its program. At the age of 13, i started to sell drugs all the way up to about 16 and a half. And at 16 i was arrested 3 times. And at the same time i found that i was pregnant. So that just slipped my whole life around and many different places where the program came in play to help me do that. Exactly. Which is for me back in school, you know, gave me a place i was living with a mom at the time. And in a studio apartment um, just to prepare myself for being a young mother, i was 16, i had no idea what i was getting myself into between becoming a young mother and facing state prison time. I think those are 2 barriers probably wont want to wish on anybody. Now, elsie is helping others today shes dealing with the clients case in connecticut. Hey, how are you all to minus the court parents to be correct. And the outcome was so minus the name he was being released, mom had to be there. Correct . No. I was you know, follow up on the status because if we do need to go up there, we just needs a heads up. Okay, appreciate you. All right, thank you. Okay. You too. Bye. Yep. They want to know not the answer tomorrow. Thats another state. New york in connecticut runs very different. We cannot possibly do this job if you just come in and here just do a job and go home. This job has more to do with it. Mentally we, we are fighting against the system. That clearly is not fair familiarities. So it is like a balance that is just not fair, right . Home supposed to be the safe place. And safe home is that safe for most of these kids who come here . Unfortunately on and from dad, i was like, wow, you know, like, i got to get it together because i live in cry all the time. You know, most of our kids dont get a good view, like we will hold on, you know, because we up against the system that the law comes in play. C, l c doesnt just look at the non profit science to donations. Shes also studying at n y u, the biggest private university in the states considering her paws to jenny was anything but a given. Well, my, you know, between my trauma that ive been through between being the criminal justice system, homeless or the next the violence survivor. I worked on my young stuff that is not my fault, that i am loved, the people that do care for me. And you can do anything that you put your mind into. All i think confidence is a very key point to these kids who go through all being in the show to because some kids in virus and and yes to make them for you, debbie, worthy. Elsie has managed to come a long way john, im so we also hoped to be able to stand on their own 2 feet to spice with everything the state of tennessee ever since he was born and the time is fair. I feel like a month good buying a week. Theres no time to think is everything is happening before i know where were going to be or living in the apartment with us, because ive done the most that ive ever done in my entire life. When it comes to like trying to be responsive to being on top of everything, getting everything that we need together know all the paperwork, all the information having to renew stuff is, is that a lot i feel like im im ready to go to sleep and not wake up till next year, the of the no log in and still economical. 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