My names peter and ive been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things ive gotten through in the time. When youre older i get up yet. Let me gusta just punished or do it if im going to provide such a guy. My stuff is not his position. Name is elvis summers and i build tiny houses for the homeless. See his back and they are here why do these guys down for me a tiny house is not a solution it will be a free for all. This nice safe conditions to live a. New suit of clothes and run the city of los angeles. Always get nervous. Nobody should be homeless anywhere but especially in one of the richest countries in the world. I build everything was true because i make a lot of mistakes. And its easy to back out your mistakes in compton South Central l. A. A pint sized idea as some as in a battle with city oath already. When you have nothing in order to go. You know having Something Like this may as well be a castle. The mayor of los angeles has declared the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. Is trying to solve it one tiny house at a time the tiny house idea is very simple its shelter. Food water shelter not optional theyre required for human survival so its a. Temporary solution and like the first stone a foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. According to elvis these cheap and portable tiny homes a meant to be on the streets of l. A. And they need a fix. But right now theyre not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so they used to belong to somebody yeah yeah. And now theyre being used no now theyve been sitting here for a better part of a year collecting dust. And people are you know struggling and suffering. So yeah its really sad i mean its you know this is human life here you know. Los angeles authorities have accused his tiny himes of threatening Public Safety but elvis has seen the Tiny House Movement go viral online with support coming from right across the world so with the help of internet crowdfunding hes going rogue once completed they all have a new carbon pad. Alarms on the windows i put the vents these holes in the top you know its really hot summer here so that way the heat all rise and go out in the city of angels elvis isnt considered one by the powers that be. But to the homeless hes one of the few struggling to get them off the streets i dont quit and i dont give up and i definitely dont bow down to bullies people need shelter now if i have to build a tiny house for every last person until im five hundred years old then thats what im going to do. Well this is building this next house for a woman who brave a. Few people that live. Ravens living under the top next to a freeway. And far from safe. The situation much worse than when this last. Check of this is already on a service. That. Ravens been on and off the streets most of her life. Very yeah sure after fleeing violent home when she was just thirteen. She once had a time since the city of st shes been out here so you do not. Tired after getting that. Pretty well. Pretty light. When they. When they do it. Like. Elvis is worried by the state but this communal camp and. To buy raven a tent until he can build her a new tiny house so im going to have a tent and our rendezvous back to you guys in a little while. Alone present opens up about his situation. Its been a struggle. And. The city always kicks us out from the state its us to clean those. Who want to costly move their stuff every day. Not just the. Ravens out here because she feels the mission see shelters are overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. And as a phone cue she receives a visit. Our. Boys said we got to. Get him about this by saturday. Elvis is. Brave and its given matching orders. Shes running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were ready one section. Its not going to happen were trying to get our brands out. There is going to get away from downtown they wired by downtown but six downtown skid row. The worst place in history to be homeless downtown. If youre homeless and l. A. City low is to keep streets clear give you two choices. Keep moving. On the monster growth. This is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing belief. But elvis is tiny homes arent allowed here. Skid row is. Unlike anything else in the united states. I call it the worst manmade disaster in the us. Are you. Doing ok. Andy fails runs a big Emergency Shelter in the middle of skid row would you like to be seen the numbers of women seeking help in a true home in just a year what you mean cant daedra place to meet you unless youve got pretty eyes. And hes on crutches because last year he lost a leg to the flesh eating bacteria that exists here still every day hes out inviting new arrivals to his shelter because he knows just how bad it gets more than two thousand people on the streets forty nine square blocks of skid row its the worst that weve ever seen. Just a good idea you really need to look down that street theres not one open spot or summat sidewalk. For half a mile down that way. Elvis is tiny houses are designed as an option to avoid sleeping on skid row. Because he is the increasing numbers of women and children asleep in alongside drugs crime and the mentally ill. And police are the only source of protection such a pretty constant ending yes day and night. By. The maintaining order here can be struck running with. Commanders running with handcuffs through this. Has been one night every once in a while and streets and i cant sleep because its so dangerous and you just stay alert rats are running around running over people running in their trance and often people get beaten or assaulted or raped and that in effect can damage your health pretty quickly. So im all for tiny houses but there has to be Restroom Facilities and shower facilities because otherwise were putting people in treacherous Living Conditions just as if theyre living in a tent. And this is why and the shelter keeps an open door policy but hes struggling to keep up with demand i can see right here right across the city shelters are full up many have to turn people away the simple fact in l. A. Is theres just not enough shelters there are not enough beds forty seven thousand people experiencing almost this and there are about Twelve Thousand shelter beds or transitional housing beds even if people on the streets right now decided to come in theres nowhere to come in theres no place to go. What. With limited access to Emergency Shelters and low cost housing life on the streets in l. A. Is an endless game of cat and mouse. Because the city is charged with keeping the streets clean morning everybody this department of sanitation crew is about to move through the homeless encampments of skid row. Watch out watch out for Hazardous Materials watch out for human waste. Industrial operations like the. Happens daily across los angeles to keep the streets clear forcing the homeless to be constantly on the move. We are here every day in skid row every street is clean once every two weeks so this cycle thats the big effort were doing. But i think its essential its essential to the cities. The cities become on the growth and also the citys image this team will put more than five tons in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to be unsanitary. Most of it will be rubbish but some of it will be peoples tents and the few positions filled by cleaning staff. Have thought of something. Like. This that. Youre in a waste. That the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the missing. Today or some unlucky ones. Like youre asking to. They like it because repeating i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to devalue a loss leader. But the citys focus on keeping the streets clean means further instability when youre living on them. Its also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band playing to hampering operations like this. You know way its a suburban town on the street. So we take. If you avoid side its not a safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has. Germination those should not be on the city streets. Lead. Skier lemme walk selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battles that still leaking new socks products tell you that celebrity gossip and tabloid bias trials are the most Important News today. Off of advertising telling you are not cool enough and thats why their product please. These are the hawks that we along with our audience will watch. Later that day right back right camp. They made a mess they did great they basically took the thing. And find out that getting your belongings keep it up devastate. Our property just destroyed it. And if i ask you if. I knows it. Take you in the midst of. You know. This it will be the rules you had to be tempted away from the driveway. You didnt ask to be down from sixty nine. And this is rainy. And that is seventy two hours to move most o. Christine is new to the streets priced out of the winter just despite the trying to get back. She says money by collecting psychosis. But the authorities just take an entire weeks work. At the recycle bin. But i think. That get to be a bit dull to get a treat. The citys clean up means that christine will be out here any longer. For anything for was matter. Intake into the tent. Ellis is a. L l o. For many Homeless People in l. A. A lack of Affordable Housing makes it almost impossible to get off the streets. Liston three percent of the citys rental market is vacant. We walk around most of the night and then christine shows me something how breaking. This is the famous grouse. Test it was called. Never memories do you think. So that was how this is home. I do this. This for. F. L. T. Cheering. Again. Which is the gods timing that mike. And he says in mind. This is my back. Dont be a stranger ok. Well this is tiny holmes could help people like christine until they get back on their feet back in compton the pressure is on for him to finish ravens tiny house. But he still needs to locate a place we can put it some way the city clean up one easily find these are just two of over eight thousand lots of the city controls. Are off and stuff boarded up is not allowed. And while searching he gets a call from raven with an unexpected update. For you all right now from your son. Yeah im pregnant. This morning there reitman hard on a governor. Over a over a vote on a very sure and i have my life together elvis is already worried about reagan but he must to some enthusiasm i will listen i got to run right now but ill call you back later thats thats great news we have to celebrate. And i want to trick you i want to jump for joy and like cry of this and on like. This is how quickly a change in circumstance can see your life go from bad to worse when youre on the street. When the stakes raised for her tiny house i want to see her ravens coping with the news of her pregnancy. Despite getting orders to move shes still here at the same campsite. You know want to know. Her death. A little concerned regarding the conditions. Living at this time i got a lot of business to take care of. Dont know if im having the time taker but i was amazed because i. Like. Getting off the streets. But getting off the streets is difficult for raven. We took more and she reveals the devastating level of violence she fled as a kid we did she live. I was listed as a juvenile runaway. Bride to have been in prison. Life. Had no choice but to grow up the. Ravens had to learn to be tough. But shes right on the edge. Like more and more americans take here. Shes trips deep in the cycle of long term homelessness. With no immediate way of getting out. When your life is the size of a teen can be a powerful tool. Its almost delivery day and with the news that ravens pregnant elvis is adding a special finishing touch to her tiny house. So im ok with just a Little Something to help her feel better and you know help her feel like shes got a nice guy to look at elvis knows how important Little Details like this can be hes watched too many people lose hope on the streets since the city forced me to take houses away from people three people have died mainly due to being stuck out in the elements not having anywhere to go so its criminal. Picture smokey sitting in the doorway of her her tiny house one of the people who died was his close friend smokey who received the very first tiny house new years morning i found her dead in somebody elses tent not even our own because the city took that to. So. Its Pretty Simple without shelter people die. So. Its been a few months but. A good person and she was my friend. Inside city hall the pressure is on to create more housing the city has approved a multibillion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is well below to. Get officials refuse to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not a solution were are doing that this service to those individuals who stayed in these tiny homes without the out of but if a structure in place city council. Opposed to tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. Someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all itll be sex drugs and rocknroll and. They will absolutely you have to have some rules and. See. If they are here why put these guys in the back with elvis and the city is clear intense yet again this time at raven and christines camp right now that load opened up there was a show. Thats considered a faulty item so its going in the dumpster. Almost breaking and christines belongings are taken by the department of sanitation. Not around so only christine is here to see it they say you know you were climbing to hit rock bottom. Didnt i run fight every year. Was i all that money spent. You could spend half of that and get these people a place to go but instead theyre treated like. With ravens camp demolished most of her positions gone and with the baby on the way elvis must deliver her tiny house before nightfall to close with him. I finally found a suitable location for ravens tiny house in a quiet area mostly industrial its not going to affect anybody. Elvis and raven hope this part of downtown l. A. Away from skid row will be safe from the authorities. With already hes must continue to keep l. A. Streets clean days finally. For the time he has delivery and how im feeling very good by good very. Good life drama about it i am going through a lot of hardship. So this tiny house the suburban. After the week that shes had and everything shes gone through on top of the in fragments its more important now that she gets the house because i dont think she can go much longer with not get any rest. You really feel if. I do. A good thing. I think. Im going to think. Most things i do in life are out of principle. I was taught that somebody falls down you pick them back up. Thats what we should do elias. To remember that they are you know. You called me and said. You know people sit on the back porch and. Look at the stars they want looking up at the entire area have to see it sit another good tired but the stars its got a magic. So finally raven gets her own private space. Hopefully the first time in over a year a good nights sleep and helen do you think its going to last. That was said to stay with us forever i wish it could last forever. After the gods hands. Were. Iran. With at least twenty one people killed. And even fake images of protests online fuel for. The u. S. For a possible deescalation of the crisis now agreeing to talks for the first time in years. On the streets of paris. To find a solution before the end of. The program we hear