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Wayne Stanley said the issue is arising particularly where younger people are gaining employment despite living in emergency accommodation.

Wear we're living behind our essential workers. we have the working poor, we have the working homeless. 50% of the household heads in the new york city shelter system are working people. many of them are essential workers who put their lives at risk for all of us, but who find themselves languishing in a shelter because the rent is too damn high. there is not a single county in america where an essential worker earning minimum wage could afford a two-bedroom apartment. our essential workers made our country work for us. we have to make our country work for them. we have to make america afforda...

You have to. >> olivia? >> olivia and her son alex have been living in this los angeles hotel since christmas. >> i mean, you can't afford an apartment. >> no. >> olivia makes just $12 an hour. she's one of the working homeless, people with full time jobs who still can't afford rent. she dreams of going to law school, but for now she tries to shield her son from the drugs and prostitutes outside their motel. >> little kids are always drawn into that gang lifestyle. >> we met olivia and her son away from their motel room. so when you're in these hotel rooms with him, can you go outside and play...

Talked about and talk directly to those affected by the policies. we interviewed from the new york's working homeless to get their perspective on this debate. >> what do you say to people who say this is about bad work ethics or about laziness? >> i have been working ever since i was 18 years old. i have worked two jobs. many times. i have never been in had situation before. it is nothing i was looking forward to. nothing that i thought would ever happen to me. >> very different side of the debate. stay with our call to action this week on surprising insights of people behind the story. don't ...

Shelter's about to start charging some of their tenants rent. let me repeat that. the homeless, they are homeless, have to pay rent. the policy targets the working homeless, people who have jobs but don't make enough to pay for a home, a family of three making 10 grande year only have to pay $36 a month. that doesn't seemy to bad but a family making $25,000 a year would have to pay over $900 a month. so wall street makers are given trillions of dollars of tax money selling toxic debt to pension fund managers who are managed for teachers and cops, so they -- that's fun. and then we charge the h...