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What you know about to see is turn rejected this mentally disturbed homeless man illegally camping in the hills above albuquerque new mexico will soon fall victim to Police Bullets ill tell you that the mine owner you are going to know almost every day that goes by 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 how ill people were 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. Good work i do is pretty all that i do know the name of the person archer paradise 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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Kids of people who had problems you know skid row and these types of things out the whole of farms and we didnt have a population 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. Grew out of your. Car. Or. Truck so hes going to rip syrup in downtown its. Oh. Yeah we did that were going all the way youve already. Made a. Pretty good movie. With my 6 plank you see. If you go along isnt. This a go im going on. Im not even if you get there do you know. Theres a process that you think is the right. Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thats. Ok. 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Because the way to cope with emotion that variation for example might be found maybe to be get very hostile. If you are still going to be rejected. And thats going to reinforce your sense of being rejected in the 1st place. For you my to deal with the pain that some bear will turn to addictions and all the addictions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain and im sure that thats true physiologically psychologically spiritually. So then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain or that addiction with their 1st true that i state that. Because you know theres going to be with an addict the reason of this so its very difficult and painful to do so but for the addict is you know forces that im alone in order for me and which makes them further. Inclined to engage in addictive behavior to suit that theme of 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 zone. And what shes saying is 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 have to scars hearing everything but if i was walking towards me in an alley id run the other way when i asked them where theyre in to for you and he said i dont tell you this dog 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 i have pleasure and delight and reward and that 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 have 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 offical. 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 night versus the 100 beds that we were created with but 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 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 room. 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 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 3 generations of 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. 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 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 guess you know were going to talk about more about tad you know jobs are not really needed any other part of this Lockdown People assume millions and millions of people to use and their job would have something material to impact on the fortunes of the economy as a whole but now it only affects the surface clubs as a. Matter of fact its a great opportunity if youre in the banking only and you see stocks trading higher and bank stocks will mean higher workers are needed taxes are needed when you can. Infer money for turbo burn the only cuts. You should. Let me see when. I was on the floor some things in my basket you know mining training. I. 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