For our squalor. Sure. Maybe. Our. Word was 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 homelands number of homeless families world in suburban u. S. 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 that and thats why some volunteers are making a difference helping Women Veterans and their families. Want to be there when whole time you know if you want a real purity to be a last minute warning you have experienced some pretty cold nights i do but the navys thats one of the tough talking low. Almost average you do the kind of locations that we find people use your resume dont you know this is the right what is it called when you know. What you know about to see is turn respected this mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills of albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to Police Bullets i dont know who 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 ill you. 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 few years every single one as for the. 3rd world i do know its pretty well that i do know the name of the person archer paid i said 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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Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision little sheltered lives every thing came to a complete change the day that i was raped to be instructed here you know told to shut up but theyd kill me and i see how destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he raped me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than the offender by hand and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of power and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. 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Him cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground so he got parallel. He died i was in prison he. Was to see. My mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. But. Thank you lord for being my friend says he holds near again in love your brother. Thank you for helping me thank you for being one. 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 would you get. My family back. To my grandmas. Or have. The one who you know i just looked. At my grandma back you may be right death row dont. You. Dont. Let me think. I didnt mean it but. I know you know i did i know it. Might you wanted to know. So i said that. Magic. Has 0 and. You want to know what the right. Chord the addition of the snow youve moved through says nothing records the affairs of a sad life its a graphic view of the human body in a psychological sense especially to people that would be deprived early. Create conditions for themselves. Depression growing. Because the way to cope with emotions that are ition for example might. Be to be get very hostile. Youre going to be rejected. And thats going to reinforce your sense of being rejected in the 1st place. Or youre my to do with the pain that some variable turn to addictions and all the additions are always about. My mantra is not why the addition. And im sure that others do physiologically psychologically spiritually. So then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addiction with 1st. Because cellular is going to deal with an addict reasonably so very difficult and painful to do so but for the addict is reinforces that im all alone in order for me which makes them further. Inclined to engage in behavior to. A sex trade worker 27 year old said to me when i asked her what her own did for the 1st time i did her on it. And when she sings she experiences sense of love and connection. With the endorphins doing a very. Detox fusible. Something muscles to scars hearing everything that it was walking towards me in an alley id run the other way when i asked him whether theyre into for you and said i dont tell you this dog is like when youre 3 years old and youre sharing because youre sick as a kid and your mother actually no one blanket put you on her lap and you just dont want chicken soup. Love. 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 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. Its a hell of a charity there is day and. There was a. Surprise not coming here we had a lot of that. The arts 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 and 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 and theres not going to be a requirement for you to be sober to be in the building you can come in and 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 all salvageable. What weve got right now is welcome to our 3rd floor this is our dormitory floor here at the arch we were originally constructed on this property is a 100 bed facility and 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 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 every night they get to sleep in our dormitories. Which are bunk beds style we have in 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. 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 has 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 regeneration people walking through our doors sometimes during the day and its just 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 bandaid to the issue of 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 and because we wanted to look at we know the shelter system started in the late eightys 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. I. I i i. The governor of new york lashes out there or not go federal funding to 5 coronavirus new york city remains the hardest hit by the pandemic. Facing starvation government workers in bangladesh run the risk of infection in fact the reason cross the nation has over 2000000 involved in the industry there are on the verge of losing their jobs. In raids trying to ease media compares australia to chewing gum stuck on a shoe in beijing threatening to did show australian products has been buried him on that investigation into the corona Virus Outbreak and its always your. Eye