One of the points that we really felt was important to get across when youre talking about. Priorities if nobodys making money on it its not a commodity then it has no value and it shouldnt it isnt a priority of the federal government so housing that was just from people that was not a commodity that was just a living up to the responsibilities of the federal government to people have a clean safe and place to live thats not important thats not. George Herbert Walker bush when he doesnt have his own. Water bush has. Gone to try to solve these were. The work of the general wages. State constant or decline since the late seventys. The numbers of people who need housing have grown. Because of the growth of the population the supply is not up to it to nearly the same extent so somebody is going to get squeezed out and somebody you know most people the momentum people all over the country have been squeezed out of the bottom. So now theres a new Public Housing so the shelter system is like a Public Housing so because housing is not treated as even right in the title mind which it should be the country is both yours as well. And order for us to get. And be right back to society and Company Office to try to resolve this issue scott on. A fundamental right like having food and finish. Chair. Take a look at the universal declaration of human rights. As the peoples of the United Nations have in the charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the right. Education thats to any. One of my kind of money and its when. Its considered. Just general right actually the u. S. Doesnt accept. Universal declaration its 6 books with most. Of that there are 3 parts of this civic and political right. Sort of social and economic. And theres cultural. And theyre all are. Doesnt just dismisses the cultural community. Rejects you know. Politicians have concluded that there is no answer because the answer requires resources i dont believe thats true i think that housing is the answer homelessness that you have to have Supportive Housing yet were not willing to prioritize that as siding in the crazy thing is that were paying for it anyway we jail a homeless person is San Francisco it cost 140. 00 a night and thats about what it costs and some ill fairly nice hotels outside of the city yet we insist on believing that criminalization of almost this is the answer that if we punish people for being homeless and being mentally ill that theyre going to cure themselves and be off the streets when in fact it just becomes a cycle. Tearing their hair it. Seems. Like. I am right trish subway. Is the best. You can give me. A shilling. I have also stated that all the things that work great on the cellphone or on the strip. Club on. Their own quests to ensure most of the world here makes it home. As well. As if you know. 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So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race is on off and its very dramatic developments only really im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical guy time to sit down and talk. A dog industry comes to life in los angeles every night. Dozens of women sells abilities on the street many of them underage. Los Angeles Police reveal a taste of their daily challenge no if youre going to exploit for a child here in los angeles oh they were going to come out of your busy offices going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight the 6 trade. Nuclear power plants have become a battleground in the u. S. In vermont people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous prayer power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on wheres the power in this country wheres it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy as are power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways our struggle on r. T. You know i find myself today i know i dont look at but i found myself in a homeless space and you know mom homelessness is not just a building im homeless within my body because i dont know am i making the right choices and i dont live i dont know the source that amazes us axing us and makes for i need to be still and be alright with a claim im a slave to my you know im not out there doing things its going to cost me my home that of this man you know am i going to stay all calling you one of john and my axe murderer whatever. I want you have a chance. To when i 1st got out i was actually attacked by a guy from behind in their lane he hit me in the face and gnashing choked me around my neck or survivorman. There they were in december 13th i was hit in the head with a rock from a high and they actually caught that guy a couple would later to a week i actually in the phone into a seizure due to that and my he was going to his spot was a little bit come back and check all on me because i was laying out here by they are. Its known as a body of knowledge in in the year and its its more dangerous for women the world is more dangerous for women in that. They get lost in their in their. Overall tapestry of homicides i mean everybodys hog breaks for their children 1st of all and rightly so and there is the veteran and then there is the mentally ill by you would the resist specific pollution only women that are having their we specifically needs to are we going to do enough so you know we made it a priority and by that we pushed through in it any beds available to them or to listen to. A year ago there were hardly any beds available for them and its an unsafe for a place for women to be we dont we tell all our daughters to not walk in the street a lot at night in a dark thats the sort of imagine that you have no work to go. Or no what do i do when something. Or were. Were. You know us is being told in the quality of a good way to figure out which song to beat your on is with your company planes on each of the o. E. C. D. You should like workers calling for a much higher minimum wage workers in mcdonalds wendys Dominos Pizza and more little walk on the job. You really think the federal d minimum wage is one create 938. 00 under the fair labor standards act ok which was in response to a 1000000 people wandering our nation looking for jobs it was the same and after the Depression Congress got together and started to say well we should set a standard that ensures that if somebody puts their 40 hours in a week they can afford the basics so. It makes sense and makes sense to me it makes sense to you so we take that in a brace that good the problem is they never index it anything so they just keep picking this number out of the year and those halves of Congress Fight over debate over and go do that and that and it and it back and forth and so. You know maybe get raised a dollar maybe its 0. 75 whatever so we sort of started this problem backwards you know we now have 3500000. 00 people experiencing homelessness in this nation and what we could tell that house the homeless. Theres tremendous efforts to try and deal with the fallout you know. Some more successful than others some different approaches like housing 1st get off the streets and then start dealing with them you know its one. Believes and thats an Organization Says 1989 so you know thats approach we are. And i used to look at this population as. Who they are the breakdown the veterans. Recently released people out of the penal system single women single women with children substance abusers alcoholics. Really really all the different factions but now we stood back and looked at the folly of that approach and realize that in order to really deal with it in this society which is couples we view them as. This whole this group that falls into 2 factions those who can work and those who cant work so we walk away with this way its 77. 00 and a quarter and d but i live in america and anybody whos lived in america has traveled anybody whos traveled to travel to some place which is more expensive than where they came from and the travel someplace with less expense right now the government uses the concept of one size fits all. So they keep doing its like 70 court for everybody so whether you lose in washington d. C. Or with the harley engine texas theyre going to set it to 7 decor right now theres talk of raising it to 10 dollars an hour well the day that adds pass to 10. 00 an hour thats the president s promoting for. Something to get one minimum wage homeless worker off the streets of washington d. C. At the same time that 10. 00 an hour wage is going to hurt Small Business and will america and make no mistake most of america is rule theyre trying to push around. Pig in the square and theyve been doing it over and over again and what happens is its a very soft mork approach to our nation is made of a 1000. So you know we devised. A Single National formula based on existing government guidelines. Ok ok. Very are. Hoping that was. Key here you can hear people talk and. That was how you ready. Oh you were going to do you. Think let me ringback see do you can help me with it. There are already you have. A little more. Here. We. Are milling. So here the road home we have a family show for a womens shelter in them and shelter so one of the big fears that our families have when they come down from the shelter is that all of us are. Child and Family Services is going to be involved in their getting their kids away i mean work very closely with. C. P. S. We work really hard to reassure families that that thats not how it works their families are also subject to the whims of whether its economic instability or family instability or health problems. Family is run out of resources and theyre not able to stay in their apartment anymore or stay with family or stay with friends or stay in a hotel. A lot of times by the time the families that walk through those doors theyve exhausted all of those resources. How are you getting so wet child. Yes so we have this huge playground theres. You know they have the ramp for all of the kids in stuff like that and they still are still. They have this grassy area over here we try to keep the kids away from the gate just because of the semen on because this is the mens side of the shelter we are slide in the playground for the kids and stuff like that. Ive been on and off homelessness since having for the 1st 6 months of his life were stable and then i lost my job which intel lost my burman. But for you know for after that 6 months we did pretty well you know we stayed with friends here and there we stayed with family but it sank i kind of started to feel like i was a burden to these people you know because then they have to deal with my kid having his little fits in this that. You know i got another job and i was paying for hotel rooms you know 2 weeks out of each page i can i just got really expensive and really pricey so you can hear just like all right well im going to keep doing it im going to do it i got to get up i got to work. With having a kid a child with special abilities you kind of. You dont really get much time expression when youre a single parent you dont at all youre constantly on the go on doing this doing that picking up this picking up that. So you resort to of course a drug that makes you say wait there isnt that surprisingly i got off it by myself i didnt go to rehab or anything i just kind of kicked it. Ive been clean for 3 months. There are about 150 beds in this large storm area. For families who have small children it will be like if its a single mom in a small one or 2 year old will share one of these small little bunks. And each family is allowed one of these tow its her person so this has to be able to fit basically all of your earthly belongings in it. And thats not a lot of space as you can tell. Its tough for families. And one of the great frustrations here in salt lake is that theres a substantial lack of Affordable Housing and so thats one of the barriers that clients have is finding a place that they can continue to afford after our assistance ends clients a lot of times face other barriers to getting housing whether its on their criminal background or they have evictions from prior apartments and so it can sometimes be really difficult for clients to find a place to live that will accept them with their background or with the funding from the road home. To help them get out of the rut that theyre him. Join me everything on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see that. Its wrong with us as american citizens native born to talk thats why. Were in a tough time we have a nasty guy and i think. I would vote for a republican or trump i would vote for anyone who is not you and has half a brain knew defeat john the truth. Is if you get. A 2nd wife. She can handle it. She and i divorce because our trouble is what the president and i floated for her and she could stand for. That when the most important election. In our history list of the months to go before the next president ial election how is the atmosphere in the us now. What are the highest priority problems only they vote should they do next cut just some of the questions we feel to the american. Seemed wrong why dont we all just dont hold. Any beliefs yet to shape out these days to come to advocate and indeed from an equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Ok lets just say that the catalyst of all this. One. Of the. Year we hope will be but there are some friends of the us are still. Something. Which. They value about the simple dollar bill and i was with among them that you know. 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