Sure. Maybe. Our. Word was to 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 home less number of homeless families world and suburban u. S. Has risen by 60 percent. One among us 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 role but you know if you want a real hero remains to be a war fighters or any you have experienced some pretty cold nights out here but the navy used to play one of the tough talking low. Almost out of reach due to the kind of locations that we find people use your resume you know this is a right what is a gold medal and. What youre about to see is turn respectable just mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills of albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to Police Bullets i dont know you would be my honor to mourn to 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 as for the. 3rd what i do know is pretty well that i do know the name of the person archer hey guys she was assaulted last tuesday she 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. 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Needs of people who had problems you know skid row and these types of things alcohol and so 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 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 you know this is you know im going to. Im not even if you believe there do you know. Theres a process that youre thinking that. Well ha ha ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. 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Because failure is going to be overnight it reasonably so 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 a 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 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 tell you this doc was like when you 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 that i would 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 all of the charity there is day in. Their military. And surprise are not coming here we have a lot of that. The arch facility is what we call a low demand shelter theyre very low demand is that we dont ask you to do anything its just that theyve been ordered to 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 there is 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. Instructed on this property is a 100 bed facility they knew when they built that it was under built probably didnt know that it was in those under built as it actually is today we sleep 230 min in this facility every night versus the 100 beds that we were created with were going to take a look at the dormitories themselves during the nicely were going to sleep 100 minutes here there are Case Management clients there in a plan theyre in a program theyre working on some goals that they step through their program it may be in comes to build the it may be sobriety theres a lot of different kinds of things that Case Management will address but over night 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 bed is assigned overnight to a specific individual so well have on this floor there are 100 beds and then overnight the way we get to the 230 is we also have the mats that go down the floors and were sleeping in places in this building that we were never really intended sleep including our lobby our 2 Conference Rooms as well as our dining rooms. 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 im in the overnight shelter the demographic for homelessness across the nation is changed in austin to a different and i think thats one of the things that we as a community have got to address is. The systemic generalization. Homelessness and 3 generations of people walking through our doors sometimes during the day and its just got to something weve got to get. So prince this is a shelter provider but were also a Housing Provider we recognize the necessity of shelter but we do look at shelter as a band aid to the issue of almost is really the solution for almost as 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 and because we wanted to look at it 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 funding as a Major Program of their. What the hell happened right before that. Seemed wrong. Just dont hold. Me. To shape. These days because thats ok and in the game equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when shes to look for common ground. Use the sword in the group of fools. Who are evil bird. Migration and go where you just shit out. Just like it was going to get it. Cleared carefully walking into words all in a we no longer know what were walking into cant see. You know what if you nice new friend she had a look at that. Very. Nice lady this nervously. Propulsive all sensible so. 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