Sure. I am right and america. One neighbor of. Our. World was coping right now behind us is one of the citys biggest homeless camps and it stretches for blogs on this Warehouse District as you can see the government figures more than a 1000000 School Aged Children are homeless number of homeless families world in suburban us 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. In the current role but you know if you want a real hero remains to be awarded minus 20 you have experienced some pretty cold nights out here but the navy used to play one of the toughest load. 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 you know about to see is turn respectable because 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 tomorrow im going to now 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 before on the street it was like going to a 3rd world country. And this is a map that shows you the foreclosures initiated and over the last 2 years every single one has for a. Good word about you know its pretty well that i do know the name of the person ever to. Say i was assaulted last tuesday he 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. Psychologically how hitch is you like anyone you know you have no friends in the world people like. Even though they probably dont know you know now they may in aljunied but you yourself know it look like you dont have a friend in the world like everybodys walking bears you and your new beau would love another the rest of the world this is a strange feeling that its a real eat in there and its as though about ill go there like people who are not a 5 if you live in leading lady try and think about when my going to see some of them sleep. In the. Night as before some of the family homes to go through with. This is my last stop here and i dont know what i would do if i dont get mop up in the room at the. Yeah people people still of the belief that this is the land of opportunity that you can go out and get a minimum wage job and then you get another job pays more than minimum wage and screwed yourself up when i when i was growing up there was absolutely you know. You want to be a construction guy. Took your dads hammer. Threw through your belt loop walked in the construction site and you told the foreman that you could you could swing a hammer. He looked at you do you know you didnt couldnt do it. But he gave you shot lets do it lets come on their. Spot at the y. M. C. A. Is pretty cool 10 bucks a night you can go get a little girl gets your room stash your stuff. Get a good nights sleep good on the hall in the morning. Use the shared bathroom and go off and. Try to get you know at the same job and you cant do that 1st all those s. R. O. Single room occupancy units theyre gone it became condos for sale they became parking lots they y. M. C. A. Got out of the business you know when i was growing up theres no such thing as homes theres no sick. Needs of people who had problems you know skid row and these types of things alcohol 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. 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. But my 6 going. To go alone isnt good. And this is a go im going on the. I love you love you do it there do you know. Its 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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I came close once the 1st storm that came through. I woke up under. The wing. Time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability its very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable well. They claim that production is completely hamas followed to sneakily have. To be good and kakadu to compass numbers and not it does not to Prison Companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is Something Else this must be going to mean and i mean look. The system moves in unison we didnt do any minute and im stymied seemed to be based on disconnect with who is going in. The 1st night i was almost. That was artist gary. First out of. Knowledge because. I didnt have a job with carter thinking kilts right i was like ok. Theres no kind of scary people out your. Own care you know what i mean theres all kinds of scary people right and im from the mountains im from up in the mountains and then i get dropped down out here either. But only in the middle of the book down there youve got bugs. Rog just. Where do you get. Any worse thing you can imagine. Youd. Seen it watched it. In 830. I was a girl stabbed. It was on the news here i was right there i would like. You know id seen it nor. Right next to it everything else. Needs to get guys of the drunk tank of. Tuesday we have heard right through you know. Theyre all gone. Past when the free. My mom might well my father killed himself and i was 5 so. There my step dad it was my dad because i didnt even know my dad really could get. Here he was a lumberjack up there and careless of them can set a tree fall on. Him cut down a tree last thing he remembered when the tree hit the ground so you got parallel. He died i was in prison and he died. My mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. But 2. Thank you lord for be my friend says he holds near again and run love your brother. Thank you for helping me. 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. In the family back. My family. My grandmother. He was here you know i just looked. For my grandma back in maybe or i just. Dont. Because i have to im like. I didnt mean it but. I know you think i know if. You wanted to know. So i said. Oh. Yeah my family has loads and i dont want to. Cause like you want to know what the right. I call it the egyptian novelist now you must who says nothing because the face of a sad life is a graphic. In a psychological sense especially to people that are before deprived early voting create conditions for themselves. Keep the declaration going. Because the way to cope with emotion that there isnt for example might be might be to begin very hostile. You can be rejected. And thats going to reinforce your sense of being rejected in the 1st place. Or you might to deal with the pain that some terrible turn to addictions. And all the addictions are always about pain and my mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain and make sure that what us to physiologically psychologically spiritually. So then people started engaging additions as a way of dealing with their pain but that addition of their 1st true that i state that. Because failure is going to be with an addict the reason of the soul is very difficult and painful to do so but for the addict it reinforces that im all 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 starts. 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 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 dog was like when you 3 years old and youre shaving because youre sick as a kid and your mother rational one blanket puts you in her lap and you just dont want chicken soup thats what their own feeling. Is that we would love. To 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 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 charity there is day i. Am really. Surprised not coming here we have a lot of that. The arts facility is what we call a low demand shelter their. Demand is that we dont ask you to do anything its just that they can and it will walk through the door other than their security behavior guidelines for us the definition of loaded been sheltering pleads that were not requiring any partizan patient in a program or service in order to be in the building theres 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 osce other than. What weve got right now is welcome to our 3rd for this is our dormitory for here at the arch we were originally constructed on this property as a 100 bed facility they knew when they built that it was under built probably didnt know that there was another under built as it actually is today we sleep 230 min in this facility every night i was the 100 beds that we were created with take a look at the dormitories. Themselves during the night sleep were going to sleep 100 minutes here there are paste management clients there in a plan theyre in a program theyre working on some goals that theyve set through their program it may be incomes to build the it may be sobriety theres a lot of different kinds of things that Case Management will address but were not 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 bit 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 some mats that go down the floors and were sleeping in places in this building that we were never really intended to 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 a mens overnight shelter the demographic for homelessness across the nation is 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 regenerations of Homeless People walking through our doors sometimes during the day and its just kind of something weve got to get on. So prince this is a shelter provider but were also a Housing Provider we recognize the necessity of shelter but we do. Shelter is a bandaid to the issue of almost not really the solution. If youve got limited housing opportunities youve got limited hopper tuna to use 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 82 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. Somebody. Let me see. I was on the floor of my bass you know crying crying. As time as. I was having children fever i didnt have any sense of c. Source now. Would you. Please their wishes. The siege to. Simon is on the grounds that for reasons. I have to think that bush myself complicated is the main the face im going to. Theres 2 kinds of leadership crisis leadership and noncrisis leadership of the top you noncrisis leadership when things are stable and theres peace and prosperity in the past produce the future and you just asked me to freeze run on time a mentally healthy person is no better. But in crisis periods when you need creativity and risk taking and a different way of stating those mentally healthy meters and youre not as good as these many of us. I am x. Ties or this is the kaiser report i guess you know were going to talk about more and about how you know jobs are not really needed in other part of us locked down people of millions and millions of people losing their job would have something Material Impact on the fortunes of the economy as a whole but no it only affects the surface plumbs the passes. 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