and inhabit those storm drains. it s a pretty surreal place. when i went in and we went in with the help of a local organization i saw people living on beds down there. i saw book shelves, people call this very dark world their home. most of these people are chronic homeless and are people who are addicted to drugs but that doesn t stop these organizations from continuing to go down and try to provide aid for them. you also went on patrol with officers looking for squatters, people who move into homes with no legal rights to them. why is that a problem there in las vegas? that s a different story. there certainly are homeless people inhabiting vacant homes. after the foreclosure crisis and the recession thousands and thousands of people lost their homes. they estimate that still today there are over 10,000 vacant