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Speaker 1: about this. We're all in this together, and I hope

429
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: that we can deconstruct some of the negative myths that

430
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: we have about the unhoused community. Now that this pandemic

431
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: is out here, we all are being affected in many

432
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: ways that we had not foreseen. Thank you all for listening,

433
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 1: and again hope that we truly meet in the light

434
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: of understanding. This is part of la I'm in is

435
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: Westwood bel Air is not too far by, and here

436
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm in the studios with the individual we're talking with

437
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: about how they're dealing with the COVID nineteen. Would I

438
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: further do I'm going to ask a few questions to

439
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: see how it is out here, because this is a

440
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: little bit different than get Roll, which how are they

441
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: able to survive with all of this rich opulence here?

442
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: What's your name, sir? My name is Dennis. Then it's

443
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: thank you for speaking with me. So tell me a

444
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,479
Speaker 1: little bit about how did you end up here instead

445
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: of the LA area as other people are. Well, when

446
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: I first became almost I stared over in the we'ld

447
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: Fairfax and third around the Farmers Market area, and then

448
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: I grad usually started coming over by UCLA to do things,

449
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: and I decided to just stay over in Westwood. Is

450
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: it a little safer here or didn't? Well? Both, both

451
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: the Fairfax area and Westwood are pretty safe. But Westwood,

452
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: might you be safer because very wealthy area? Does the

453
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: police come by and bob you guys? Because I don't

454
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: see any again round well, the LA police, I hardly

455
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: have any contact with them. It's mostly campus police, the

456
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: UCLA police. What do they do? I mean, do you

457
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: stay on the campus. Yeah, A lot of times they'll

458
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: stop me when I'm on campus. I used to go

459
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 1: on I'll go through periods where I'm on campus a lot, Yeah,

460
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: and do things. There's a lot of things to do

461
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: on the UCLA campus. What things to do on La

462
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: UCLA campus? Well, there's a they have libraries that are

463
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: open to the public, and there's a lot of free lectures,

464
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: oh cool receptions and stuff in the art department, and

465
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: you get on their email lists and you find out

466
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: about all these activities and a lot of them have food.

467
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: Very smart. So there's a little core group of you know,

468
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: people in the community to go up there and have

469
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: food and stuff. They don't they don't stop you from

470
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: me not going no, because a lot of them open

471
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: to the public. A lot of the events right now,

472
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: everything's closed down in the campus and in other periods

473
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: of time, I just stayed around the village and they

474
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: have a shopping cart and looked more like a homeless person. Oh,

475
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, how are you able to get food? Now?

476
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: Everything is dried up? Well, targets open, Rauph's open. So

477
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: now I'm just eating can soups and stuff. Okay, Whereas

478
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: before when I'd buy food, I would go up on

479
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: campus and use there's microwaves also on campus that so,

480
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: but now campus is all shut down, so I stay

481
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: all kample in the village. So how did you end

482
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: up coming out here on the street. It's mainly due

483
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:16,239
Speaker 1: to a family situation and finances. How long you been

484
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: on the street. I think fourteen years in Yeah, if

485
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: we had, like because the city is thinking about getting

486
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: people on the street where places like hotels and things

487
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: or shelters. Would you choose a hotel or a shelter

488
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: where you have your own room and or a shelter? Well,

489
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: maybe a hotel, but I won't go to a shelter.

490
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: Why not. Well there's a shelter right over here in

491
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: the recreation area, right over behind the federal building. Oh really,

492
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: how was that one? Well? Some people I don't go there,

493
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: and they feed you and you got a place to sleep,

494
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: and I think you can stay there during the day.

495
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: And there's a showers because it's a community ricreation center,

496
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: but the food is not very good. Yeah. Plus I

497
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: don't want to be in a rather be on my

498
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: own yeah, and my privacy and be in a big

499
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: room with punch people on cots and uh just also

500
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 1: you gotta forgot about the rules they have too. Yeah.

501
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: Well it's I don't know how strict it is in

502
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: the rules, but the cars cots have to be six

503
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: feet apart. Now, so yeah, a little more spacious than

504
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: you usual shelters in the past, but uh, I never

505
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: spend one night in your shelter the whole time I

506
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: go home. Why not? I just have no desire, I understand.

507
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: So you're you're in a hotel, man, which makes sense.

508
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: So what would be the best way. Have you ever

509
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: got any services like they can help you get on

510
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: in housing anything? Well, I've had people you know, stop by,

511
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: like Path and a couple other groups. I give you

512
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: a short a little interview, but I've never really had

513
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: anybody help me. Basically, I just don't have the patience,

514
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, to wait, cause I know it's gonna take

515
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: years and years and right and I'll probably just die

516
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: in the street. Sorry to hear that. Do you have

517
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: any family that can help or they are Are they

518
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: able to help? Now? That's uh the family situation that

519
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: got me homeless in the first place. I have two

520
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: brothers that I don't get along with, and uh, the

521
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: one I'm sure I helped me s stay in my

522
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: apartment and he didn't. He's an attorney and he has

523
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: money and he uh just didn't come through. And I've

524
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: helped him in the past. Oh wow, So I I

525
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: just don't want anything to do with my brothers anymore.

526
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: What would be the best way to help you? Do

527
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: you want to die on the street or do you

528
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: want to be somewhere where you have your own spot. Well,

529
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: it's kind of gotten to the point where, uh see,

530
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,479
Speaker 1: I've had I've owned property in the past, and I

531
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: had an apartment, and when I live, I like to

532
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: have a home, you know, my possessions and right now,

533
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: all my possessions for my brother was storing him and

534
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: I haven't been there so long. I don't think he's

535
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: probably storing me where he's probably giving him to his

536
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: kids or something. And I just don't have a desire

537
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: to start all over to furnish a place to live,

538
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, from step more, and you'd be at the

539
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: mercy of a landlord again. And I just don't feel

540
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: like I want to do it. Well, it's pretty tough

541
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: with being out here. Well, I'm kind of used to it,

542
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, I truly understand that where you have a

543
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: sense of freedom and as as well as you don't

544
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: have to hear harassment. Yeah, and there's no pressure. It's

545
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: a kind of a relaxing lifestyle in a lot of ways.

546
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: No stress other things. You know, sometimes where you sleep,

547
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: get woken up by the cops. So where do you

548
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: sleep here? And this is such an opulent area that

549
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: I was in Alpine Recreation Center. I don't I can't

550
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: imagine trying to sleep out here because this is too rich.

551
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: Where you just find a little you know, private areas

552
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: were you're not visible, and the cops don't really they

553
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: don't come around search in every area every night. You know,

554
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: every once in a while they may catch a glimpse

555
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: of you, chick. Sometimes they tell you to move. Sometimes

556
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: you just say, you know, allow you to stay. They

557
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: don't care. But you can sleep out on the sidewalk

558
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: here anytime. They don't say anything. Right, it's because of

559
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: that they had a court decision. Yeah, that's one of them,

560
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: but the l A had one before that, and that

561
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: one just further amplifies the old age decision. Wow, I'm

562
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: surprised that, like you, this has opened my eyes that

563
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: I remember many years ago, I when I was before

564
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: my early stage of being in the house, I used

565
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: to stay where I used to down the street near

566
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: it used to be a board is a bookstore, and

567
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: I used to stay right across the street from it,

568
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: near this computer place. Yeah, yeah, yes, on Westwood, and

569
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: I did get hassled, sometimes by cost, but sometimes I

570
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: didn't get hassled. Mostly was from the business owners. They

571
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: were the ones they would have the problem. Yeah. Yeah, Well,

572
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: actually I don't sleep on the sidewalks much. I like

573
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: to sleep on the bushes Roy Privacy. Oh okay, but

574
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: but it rains. I sleep on the sidewalk because there's

575
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: bush shelters. Yeah, you sleep. I was going to ask,

576
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: it's like you don't have any health issues or anything

577
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: like that that will stop you. Luckily, I've always been

578
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: a real good else. So okay, I heard we get sick. Wow,

579
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: you know you keep a very upbeat attitude that. I

580
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: think that's part of it too. Yeah, because I like

581
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: I can imagine it's like it can be pretty long.

582
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: Do you get lonely out here? No, because I have

583
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: a lot of friends. I like the guy you just

584
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: saw give me stuff from the car, and earlier today

585
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: a few of my friends. I like the guy I

586
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: was just talking to. Yeah, I've I've been a lot

587
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: of friends. I was home homes in fact, where I

588
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: had my last apartment, where I had actually my only apartment.

589
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: I was in South Pasadena and I had a nice apartment,

590
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, furniture and everything, nice clothes, all kinds of stuff.

591
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: But I really had no social life there because I

592
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: was an outsider there. I didn't grow up in the area.

593
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: The only reason I lived there is because my older

594
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: brother lived in Pasadena and moved my mother up there,

595
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: which is a long story of our family differences anyway,

596
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: So there, I have very little social life there. I

597
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: was actually more alone. And that's true. You could have

598
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: all the accoutrements that still be alone. I was going

599
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: to say, how do you go. Do they have showers

600
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: to be off of showers here or anything? Well, I

601
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: used to shower over the rec center. Okay, you can

602
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: shower there you in the morning. They allow people to

603
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: pay to go swimming and just use the showers. After

604
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: about twelve, they don't really want that because they don't

605
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: want a lot of homeless people in there certain hours.

606
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: But and then originally I showered over the pre clinic

607
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: in Beverly Fair Facts area. That's why I stayed over there,

608
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: and I gradually, you know, started using the rec center

609
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: as I moved over here. But now that's closed down

610
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 1: due to the shelter using it as a shelter. Okay,

611
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: So you can keep yourself clean just using you know,

612
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: like candy wives and stuff, and you can keep your

613
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 1: eye gen up. I've learned how to do that well, Dinnis.

614
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: You've been very helpful to me and you've absolutely taught

615
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: me a lot about here. I left here, ironically because

616
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: of the intensity of the police scrutiny in the neighborhood.

617
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: And then when I came back, I was surprised to

618
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: see it was a lot of a lot of guys

619
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: out here, and I never knew until you told me

620
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: that there's a rec center near here. I find that. Boy,

621
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, so I might have to take a

622
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: look and see what's that what's going on over there?

623
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: I had to check that out. And thank you Dennis

624
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: for taking your time out to talk with me. This

625
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: is CEO Henderson from wedy On House. What I usually

626
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: do is I come back, I do a follow up

627
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: interview with you. If that's okay, sure I will true. Okay,

628
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: I understand. This is CEO Henderson from whitty On House,

629
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: and I thank you all again for listening and maybe

630
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: we again meet in the light of understanding. Good morning,

631
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: this is a rainy day and I'm out here on

632
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: the streets Los Felas and asking different members of the

633
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: society about the effects of the COVID nineteen. This is

634
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: Leo Henderson from Weedy On House, and I'm going to

635
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: ask a couple of questions to see where people are.

636
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: What's your name, sir? I go by new My room

637
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: name's Keith. Oh, nice to meet you, sir. How are

638
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: you coping out here? It's rain and it's I'm glad

639
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: you got a ten because it's pretty tough out here.

640
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: It's cold. So how are you guys dealing with the

641
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. It hadn't made much difference except just a

642
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: lot more difficult to obtain anything. Really, are you still

643
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: able to get food and things out here? We've managed,

644
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, people quit. They used to come by and

645
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: other people picked up pace. It seems like okay, hoped out.

646
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's definitely maybe more tougher. Yeah. I was

647
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: going to ask have any of lots of workers, anybody

648
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: offered you shelter or a hotel if you would choose.

649
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: I asked about hotels today at the hospital. I was

650
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: over there and they said that hotels were only available

651
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: if you had the Corona, So it's kind of weird.

652
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: I would think you'd be in the hospital at Corona

653
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: and how they're gonna know if you got Corona or

654
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: not at at the hotel. I certainly agree, I think,

655
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's if you would have had

656
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: a choice, would you shoot shelter or a hotel, because hotels, Yeah, shelters,

657
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: there's no way, no any time for me, but you yeah,

658
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: hotels should be available to all women, especially who are

659
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: homers automatically. And then if they if you've been out

660
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: here for quite a while and they could give you

661
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: a chance a year, I'll put you in. Put you

662
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: in a hotel for a year, and if you can't

663
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: get on your feet by then, then do something else.

664
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: But well then, also because of the fact that if

665
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: you have a hotel that you're supposed to have a

666
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: fast track to housing. So that's where a lot of

667
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: times in house people have a difficulty trying to get

668
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: housing because they're on the waiting list, so it can

669
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: take longer. Ain't that something? If you got a place

670
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: to stay, they put you in a hotel and put

671
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: you on fast track. But if you're out here whatever, Yeah,

672
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: I've got me a place now I'm moving on twenty third.

673
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: Oh awesome. How long have you been out here? About

674
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: five six years? Oh? Are you from here? Originally no,

675
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: sir san Antonio texts. How did you get from San

676
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: Antonio to here? They have good food by the way

677
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: I walk most the we believe it or not? Really

678
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: what made you walk out here? I just don't don't

679
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: care for rides and no bus fare and so yeah,

680
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: why did you choose to leave San Antonio? Basically all

681
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: family did no no, no help there And if I'm

682
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 1: going to be homeless, I might as well see the country. Interesting. Well,

683
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: thank you very much for telling me this, and I'm

684
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: going to interview your friend over here as well. Like

685
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: I say, if someone comes by to offer you any services,

686
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 1: I will come back around because I'm not too far

687
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: from here. So thank you again. This is Stel Henderson

688
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:11,919
Speaker 1: from weedy On House. This interview was taken before Mayor

689
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: Eric Garcetti's shelter in place order and COVID nineteen was

690
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: a distant concern. Joey Mills was in foster care since

691
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: he was an infant, and he had been in he

692
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: became an orphan as More importantly, he has been in

693
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: the system since a very young child, and he's been

694
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: on the house since then. So here's his story. Welcome, Welcome,

695
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm Joe Mills. Nice to meet everybody. Joe,

696
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: tell us your story. How did you become out here?

697
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: Or came out here due to not enough help in

698
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: the community, not enough one on one individually working with

699
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: you to get you back on your feet personally instead

700
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: of community wise. Let you go looking for resources. You

701
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 1: have to also lead the area and property where you

702
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 1: want to be or residne at not like it's a problem,

703
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: but you have to really go looking for resources. Are

704
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: you originally from California? Brooklyn, New York? So let me say,

705
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: you know, are you still loyal to the teams back

706
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn or are your California lake saying, well, since

707
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: they stepped up both ways, you have to go west.

708
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: They put Brooklyn Dodgers out here, so both you know,

709
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:40,479
Speaker 1: meaning away from home too and still in home though,

710
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: but well, I give you a pass on that accident.

711
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 1: That was a good say he worked that way out

712
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: If you guys like, let me figure where it times

713
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: out to piss off the Californians. So what do you miss?

714
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: About New York. Uh, well it's faster. Everything is a

715
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: little easier. Like you can go get a job cutting

716
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: fish or sweeping the guts. You got the shores, you

717
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 1: can go to the docks. I needed. I want a job.

718
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Take the difference is I want a job

719
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: and I'll give it to you. Hey, can you think

720
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: you can make it back out here by tomorrow? Move?

721
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's more challenging when it

722
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: comes to jobs here. It's a lot personal or you

723
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: gotta know somebody, or they want you to be a

724
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: member of something. You know, just to get your name

725
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: on the list. That's one thing I noticed. It's like

726
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: a list. It's a list for everything. It's a list

727
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: to blow your nose, it's a list to stand in

728
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: line for this. It's a list for housing. And I

729
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: always say, for the ones that out here talking about

730
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: on house, people don't want to be helped. If that

731
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: is the case, why is there a ten year waiting

732
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: list for housing? Why is it that if there was

733
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 1: no no one wants housing and no one wants help,

734
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: then should prove it go up to on house? People

735
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: say that they got a house for them to be

736
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: let's see how much service resistance they become. I also

737
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you this is that I know you

738
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: just in one day look out here and just say

739
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go live out on the sidewalk. The only

740
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 1: reason I to the creek for writing now is to

741
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: become a little head stronger on what to do in

742
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: case you ever get back in this situation. You don't

743
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: want to be weak at the same situation you're in again.

744
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: If that is fortunate not to happen to anyone, but

745
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: when you if it should happen, you want to be

746
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 1: able to get get two resources you didn't know about

747
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: the first time on the second time that as you know,

748
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: so you spend less time in the streets or wandering

749
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: around a little lost because we all may say we know,

750
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: but when it comes to actually knowing means to do

751
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: it the same day here, help help help Without the

752
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: guidance up or instructing. You know what I'm saying, you'll

753
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: be better off to be on your own. Now, how

754
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: long have you been out here? I've been out here

755
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: since I was a kid a minor, been living on

756
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 1: the streets since you was a kid? Yes, and no

757
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: award from time to Time from the future, is in

758
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: custody of juvenile services stuff like that. You was in

759
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: juvenile oh soul, not to foster care. Yeah, okay, curious handicapping.

760
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: You know handicapping for example, the staff have to go

761
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: egglan with with me even on my interview. You know

762
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So if I don't have this guy

763
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: here with me, I may not get the job. Basically,

764
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 1: it was what he's input in the speech. Either he's

765
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: gonna speech up for me, then they feel sorry and

766
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: give you the job. So the audience that understand what's

767
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: going on because I just learned it's not juvenile juvenile,

768
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: it's for people that have broken loss. He wasn't a juvenile.

769
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: It's foster care that's different. And the reason you were

770
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 1: in foster care was because due to lack of bad

771
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: parenting or decisions, parenting has led to me being either

772
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: you don't get kicked out or you're gonna run away.

773
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: So you became into foster care because your parents passed

774
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: away or why they're together even together they were fighting abusively.

775
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 1: How did they pass away? Uh, my dad got life

776
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: messed up. My mom died of natural causes. You know,

777
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: either he had something to do with it, or it was.

778
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: It had to happen in between stuff, so I got

779
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: different points of views and stars from the police and archives.

780
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: So your parents died when you were a baby, yes, okay,

781
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 1: And then did you have fat foster parents? Yes? I did.

782
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: The difference between my foster parents and then the state

783
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: foster parents is another thing. Okay, So let's talk about

784
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: the state foster parents and then we'll get to the other. Uh.

785
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: State foster parents. They need money to raise you, right.

786
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: They also come with habits already though, addictions, so having

787
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: a fear I'll be treated more misunfortunately, which I was.

788
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: And then when the money came, it was always the

789
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: undercut of now I gotta survive off of what they spend.

790
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: So that was the difference between stake parents who were

791
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: functioning to help and not help at the same time. Uh,

792
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: when you start lout, when you get into foster real parenting,

793
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: you get you begin to see the money they give

794
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: you every month, you know, for schools or shoe or

795
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,879
Speaker 1: for the principles. I don't have to start tonight. Still

796
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: in foster care, your mother and father passed away and

797
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: you went to live with your grandpass right, yes, yes,

798
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: after my grandparents passed. How old are you when when

799
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: they passed away? Eighty? Was about us? About going on

800
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: between four and five? Okay? Then you went to your

801
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: foster parents and they were not very kind to you. Right,

802
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: the money is fine, but the parenting is well, either

803
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: none or nothing at all? So what what what? What

804
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: was it parenting for you? Where they were they did

805
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: physically or was it you know both? It was physical,

806
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: it was abuse of verbally and it was mad that

807
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: this is not my child, that type of stuff. You

808
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: have good days, don't get me wrong, you have good days.

809
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: You got bad days. But when you go into a

810
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: private and they find a better foster system for u.

811
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: So you stayed with your foster parents until you were

812
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: ten or nine? What happened after ten? Or after ten

813
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: or nine? They kick you out on the streets. Emancipation

814
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: programs for the youth are full already. So they're like,

815
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, you'll be on the sh streets if you

816
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: don't get it. Where were you whe where were you

817
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: going to? Where where were you going to go? You

818
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: were a kid? Correct, but knowing that already they would

819
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: either put you in a shelter or they have other

820
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: programs in the city. Now for JV's minors stuff, you

821
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,879
Speaker 1: can attend to get a bed or so you need

822
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: to tell me. Let me back up for a minute,

823
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: because I think the listeners because I'm kind of stunned

824
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: that we're hearing this. Let me get this straight. So

825
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: after your grandparents left and you are staying with your

826
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: foster parents, they mascipated you at ten years old because

827
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: the money ran out, and they put you in a shelter. Yes,

828
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 1: it's for youth. They have juveniles, a juvenile you shelter. Okay,

829
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: so once you're in the juvenile youth shelter, they have

830
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: to Let's say you're still in school. You can be

831
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: a part of school and they still going they pick

832
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 1: you up. You just you just don't have a place

833
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: to stay, or they don't want to cut another check

834
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: if you if you have other basically, if you have

835
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: other kids and they still get and funny, they can stay.

836
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: So it has this favoritism in the system. They explained

837
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: to why because the check basically they get it still

838
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: get one and you're at the moment has stopped due

839
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: to someone irresponsibly spend the funding up or someone stole

840
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 1: the fund or relapses in the building. So basically they

841
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: did a circle jerk. They just hold on to you

842
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: until they ran out of money and then they emancipated, right,

843
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: because the kids in my section were less funded but

844
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 1: still got somewhat of a funding and the kids who

845
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: got to stay and have more funding that we weren't

846
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: less fortunate. So did you age out of the system eventually? Yeah,

847
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: because you have to get a job. Once you get

848
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: a job, you're not old enough to get the housing

849
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: because they actually for two types of IDs when you're

850
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: juvenile and when you turn eighteen to get howled or

851
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: to be able to fill out an application legally for

852
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: your own apartment. So if you become independent, but you're

853
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: you had to grow up fast. And so you also

854
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: joined the military, right, yes, I did. That became the

855
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: only other option because it gets you housing. Right, So

856
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: they deal with a lot of juveniles a war runaway.

857
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: The problem is we got the same problem though going

858
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: in they got a break or we go a will.

859
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: It's like a group. The only reason they dealt with

860
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 1: us honorably instead of dishonorably is because we that's technically

861
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: all we would know coming into the so they were

862
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: already aware of that. So it sounds like you had

863
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: been like shunted from one system to the other and

864
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 1: eventually that you it led to here, what would be

865
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: a way to be ab I know you stated this

866
00:52:55,400 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: earlier and you said that if we had the ambition

867
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: to work and you offered a job instantaneously, that would

868
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: help you to get on your feet. So is that

869
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: one of the ways that we can help you? Yes,

870
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: another way or just me or just all the youth. Technically,

871
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: you have a lot of these buildings, you know what

872
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and you can make little cubicles out of it,

873
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: like kind of like the job Corps. But you know

874
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, there's a lot of stuff that could

875
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: be done and should be done. And once you have

876
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: opportunity like that to turn something, then you can have

877
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: house probably five thousand people on there, you know what

878
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and all have their own cubicles and then

879
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 1: work individually with everybody in there, and you will stop

880
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,240
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff too until we're able to. For

881
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: for example, we need to learn new skills, right, that's

882
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: what we lack. So when you deal with the younger community,

883
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: we lack skills, so we put us to work at

884
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: the skills outstanding. That's well said, and I thank you

885
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: for your time. You have definitely educated us. This is

886
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: the ol Henderson for William House. And here you hear

887
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: it from one of the residents here, a younger resident.

888
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: And may we all again meet in the light of

889
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 1: understanding and the house deuce. Many House residents are losing

890
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: their homes due to COVID nineteen. Ashley Baker is currently

891
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: in a homeless shelter due to the job opportunities drying

892
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 1: up and medical According to the United States Private Sector

893
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:44,919
Speaker 1: Job Qualified Index, more than thirty seven million jobs could

894
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: be lost soon. That means also two thousand, I should

895
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: say two point five million people filed for unemployment benefits

896
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: across the US last week. Many are in elgerly, including

897
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: those to words up employee. In other news, San Diego

898
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: police are ticketing then House for being on the sidewalks.

899
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: To protest this harassment, please call Chief David Nisiliot and

900
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: Mayor Kevin L. Falcader, council Member Jennifer Campbell, council Member

901
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 1: Chris Ward, and council Member Monica Montgomery, and San Francisco

902
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: seventy test positive in San Francisco's houseless shelter. The ms

903
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: Houseless Shelter on Fifth Street have tested positive, sixty eight

904
00:55:54,120 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: out house people and two staff members. Mayor London Brie

905
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: has previously employed the unhoused community to go home to

906
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: use the restrooms, has now stated that MSc is run

907
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: by Saint Vincent de Paul's Society and they are doing

908
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: everything they can to flattened the curve. In other news,

909
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California, Far East Plaza, owned by Business

910
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: Improvement District George U executive director, has removed their hand

911
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: washing stations and poorty partties near his business. Thus remains

912
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: no public bathrooms for the un house. There are restrooms

913
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: for the young house that are in Alpine Recreation Center,

914
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: but there are many on houses that are not in

915
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 1: the Alpine Recreation Center bus no restrooms and other news,

916
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:54,840
Speaker 1: Hamilton police are finding the on House community seven hundred

917
00:56:54,920 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars tickets for physical distancing. Linda Nucy of

918
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:07,240
Speaker 1: Keeping six stated, I think the message the police should

919
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: be that this is a question of public health, not

920
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: law in order, and this is a hello. This is

921
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: THEO Henderson from Weedy On House I have another house

922
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: resident out here in the rain in Los fieless, and

923
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to get their perspective on the COVID nineteen.

924
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: So what's your thoughts on the COVID nineteen. It's just

925
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: another form of fluid. It's another way to say, hey,

926
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: stay home. If you're gonna get it, you're gonna get it.

927
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: I think it's a directed virus. I don't think that

928
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna get it. And if you notice that the

929
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: homeless population, it has affected very few and numbers are

930
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: really small, So that has to tell you that it

931
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: can't be much of a virus that attacked the human

932
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: system as far as health is concerned, because if it

933
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: was going to attack a great number of people, you

934
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: would think the homeless would be the ones that are

935
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: dying more in numbers. But anyways, I deal with the problem.

936
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: I'm out here by choice. I'm more rather because it's

937
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: a form of freedom and I don't have many responsibilities.

938
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: I can sleep in it if I want to. The

939
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: virus is. They give us ways to deal with it,

940
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: but you have to be willing to go stand in

941
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: lines maybe or take a long walk to find something

942
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: that can remedy. Maybe your headache or something that's directing

943
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: you towards the buyer. As far as having the canon

944
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: is a good thing because of the rain, but also

945
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: people come around every once in a while make sure

946
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: we're okay. So next good part has lost the cave

947
00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: and offered you, guys shelter or anything of that nature. No, no,

948
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: would you choose? Would you choose a shelter or a hotel?

949
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: I would take the hotel. Why a hotel rise? Shelzer's

950
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: are chaos, that's true. So how did you How did

951
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: you become out here? How did I come out here?

952
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: I came out here when I was eighteen years old.

953
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 1: I'm fifty five. I came out here because I grew

954
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: up on a farm and I got tired of milking cows.

955
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: Where were you milking cars at? Where were you milking cow? Then?

956
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: Now I'm not milking cows, but I'm milking life. Well,

957
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: where were your milking cows at? Up to stay New York?

958
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Wow, that's interesting. When you wake up in

959
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: the morning, you have to dig your way out of

960
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: the house and guess what school Summer vacation is winter vacation.

961
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: So I would just say I didn't get your name.

962
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: What's your nameswer My name is Bobby. Bobby. Thank you

963
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: for telling me about your perspectives and I will probably

964
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: follow up a little later on. And God got too

965
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 1: far from here. This is Ceo Henderson from Whitty on

966
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 1: House and I thank you all for listening. May we

967
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: again meet in the light of understanding. Thank you very

968
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: much for your time, guys, appreciate it. Good evening. This

969
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: is Ceo Henderson for Whitty on House. Episode nineteen has

970
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: been showing a lot of work that the unhoused advocates

971
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: are doing not the city, a lot of the actions

972
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: are doing to keep the city from falling apart. And

973
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: here are in the studios is one of the people

974
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: that I interviewed a while ago. But she's going to

975
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: tell us what it's like to be one of the

976
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: sole food distribution organizations out here trying to help the

977
01:00:54,720 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 1: unhouse community. So, without further ado, here is Melissa. I said, Darren, Hey,

978
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 1: the it's so great because she just recently was featured

979
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Time article and I was very

980
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: excited for her because she has been doing this way before.

981
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: We interviewed a little bit about it. But let's talk

982
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: about the COVID nineteen. How is this? How has this

983
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 1: changed from their usual distribution methods? It completely exploded. It

984
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: completely exploded, sort of like the work that I've been doing.

985
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: There's been so much demand because of all the restaurants

986
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: that have closed, as well as all the stores that

987
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: have closed, all the mandates that have come through. COVID

988
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: has made it very very hard for our unhoused community

989
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 1: to secure food, and a lot of areas are cut off,

990
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: and so I've just felt such a surge in demand

991
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: of trying to get food to our communities and to

992
01:01:55,040 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: our friends. And so I've been working very diligently with

993
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: it's true, with some teams and organizations, and it's just

994
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 1: been incredible how we've been able to kind of galvanize,

995
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: you know, Like my friends run a nonprofit that have

996
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: a very like amazing volunteer base, and so I jokingly

997
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: said too. I don't know who it was, but I

998
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: was at a meeting and I jokingly said, I'm ready

999
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: to build an army of cooks. And that's kind of

1000
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: essentially what's happened is I've basically created a program where

1001
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: people are cooking in their homes and we partnered with

1002
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: food banks to provide ingredients for these folks, and so

1003
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: they're healthy, delicious ingredients and food that I would eat

1004
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: and you would eat as well. Yes, exactly, not expire,

1005
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: not rusteda. I've con vow for it. It's very good food. Yeah, no,

1006
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: these are we are. We do not serve anything that

1007
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: we wouldn't serve our families, and so this is delicious,

1008
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: healthy food and we make sure that we prepare them

1009
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: and I've my team and I have created safety guidelines

1010
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: in preparing this food, so it's not like we're just

1011
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: kind of throwing things together. We do this with care

1012
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: and loving care and helps the safety standards upheld. Yes, yes,

1013
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: we want to make sure that you know, in regardless

1014
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: of what we do, we want to keep people safe

1015
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: like first and foremost. And so it's just been we

1016
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: tested it about a week and a half ago and

1017
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: it's just just completely exploded. We've had a lot of

1018
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: support and the most recent article of the La Times

1019
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: two has been amazing. I didn't expect it at all

1020
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: to be as popular as it has, and I have

1021
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: had quite a few like food companies reach out to me,

1022
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: So that's very exciting for us. So that's yeah, it's

1023
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 1: just it's just completely just it's changed the game. So

1024
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: walk us through a typical day and right now, since

1025
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: is different than the COVID nineteen. The last time we talked,

1026
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 1: we talked about food justice and we talked about how

1027
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: in the system of like we're on house, it always

1028
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: gotten the shaft. And I've talked to some unhoused people

1029
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: that haven't had any food any several days and all

1030
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: the food quality has been abysmal or they begetting expired

1031
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: food or food that's not you wouldn't give you good

1032
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,680
Speaker 1: at all. So tell us what is it like your

1033
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: first how you start your day? Wow, Well, I still

1034
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: work a full time job. I'm very grateful for that,

1035
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: very very grateful to still have my my my my

1036
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 1: day gig. So I'm obviously working remotely from home, and honestly,

1037
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: during my breaks and my lunch breaks is when I

1038
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: call grocery stores, you know, like nonprofits or like businesses

1039
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: that I work with, and so I coordinate with these

1040
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 1: folks and coordinate with our volunteers to make sure that

1041
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: we have the pickups done throughout the day. So I

1042
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 1: basically run a lot of coordination and leave that in

1043
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: through my day and then at night, you know, I

1044
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: also do my own pickups and normally I you know,

1045
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 1: and there's almost like kind of a set like like

1046
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: THEO is definitely one that I take, you know, like

1047
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: I make sure that I you know, that I get

1048
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 1: you know, like stuff in Chinatown to THEO always. Harvey

1049
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: also is a partner in El Pueblo, and so there

1050
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: are certain areas that I take care of myself on

1051
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: my team and other groups. Now we even have a

1052
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: team out in Orange County. That is great news, I

1053
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 1: was going to say, because what I was noticing is

1054
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: that where she's very humble, but I was noticing the

1055
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: demand and the need for an army of distribution spots

1056
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 1: where she can drop off because she's just one woman

1057
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: and she's working a job and doing this on her time.

1058
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: So like for example, places out near Beverly Hills or

1059
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: the Valley or other places West LA, they are really

1060
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 1: having a food dearth. And I know that there's communities

1061
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: out there that may be willing wanting to help, and

1062
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: they need to get in touch with Polo Pantry, which

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Speaker 1: is her then and I've been like I've really been

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Speaker 1: trying to my podcast really from this point on is

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Speaker 1: going to highlight certain different places to you, guys that

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Speaker 1: want to do something, are able to do something, please

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Speaker 1: donate to these places because there's a need not only

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Speaker 1: for the un housed. Now there's a lot of food

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Speaker 1: and security with people like the elderly. And then you

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01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: don't have to be elderly. Your jobs are drying up.

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Speaker 1: And when I say when we're all in this together,

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Speaker 1: you need to understand. Now you understand we all need

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Speaker 1: to be looked at and cared for. So is there

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Speaker 1: anything else you want to talk about? I just want

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Speaker 1: to say thank you THEO. I've learned so much from

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Speaker 1: just us just being friends. Like I'm so grateful that

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01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: you and I are friends and that we learn from

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01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: each other constantly. You really help me evolve and grow

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Speaker 1: both as a person and just like in my work.

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Speaker 1: I just want to acknowledge that. And I'm happy for

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01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 1: everyone who's listening to your podcast. So just because I

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01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: feel like we need to tell the truth, and for me,

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01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to ever. My parents never sugarcoated things

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01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 1: for me, yes, and so because we don't, we don't

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Speaker 1: evolve or change things that way, and so I prefer

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01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 1: to tell the truth about what's happening, so that we

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01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 1: can get some changes happening. And I feel like now

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01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: it's a good time to do that. I am so

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Speaker 1: excited when I heard saw the article and things like

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Speaker 1: because I knew this because people don't understand, as particularly

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Speaker 1: as an unhoused person, how desperate the food situation really

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01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: was even before COVID nineteen. But now that is like

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01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: someone will still and I have to say personally, I

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01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: know personally for a fact, when I injured my ankle,

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01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,959
Speaker 1: she came, no matter what, she came, when I could

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01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 1: barely cobble, she came to be sure I was fed.

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Speaker 1: She came. I mean, it's so you know, that's one

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Speaker 1: of the things. I was like, this, if there's any

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Speaker 1: way that I could uplift the kind of people to

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01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 1: get more people to join her organization, help her, because

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01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: she's gonna need help, because there's a lot of food

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Speaker 1: and security that's coming our way and we need we're

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01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 1: in this together, and I sincerely hope that we get

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Speaker 1: people to comment and really formed that army of Cook's,

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01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 1: army of distributors, and army of people that care instead

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01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 1: of just punching down on poor and impoverished people. Amen,

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01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: that's all I got again. This is THEO hit. This

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01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,559
Speaker 1: it from William Howes, and I thank you very much

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01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 1: for listening, and maybe we again meet in the light

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01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:26,759
Speaker 1: of understanding well, saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty,

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01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:30,599
Speaker 1: advancing economic growth. These are one of the same fight.

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Speaker 1: This was ban Ki Moon who said this. COVID nineteen

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01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: is a clear example of this. The people who are

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01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: not paid by the city are stepping up to do

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01:08:42,320 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 1: the city's job while council members hide and weaponize the

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01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:50,759
Speaker 1: police against them. They realize we're all we got. Grocery

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01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,960
Speaker 1: workers are not selflessly working, as Mitchell Pharaoh says, They

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01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 1: are working to keep themselves afloat in a dangerous time

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01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: where they could be evicted because they were realizing that

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Speaker 1: the city does not have their back. Businesses are being shuttered,

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Speaker 1: jobs have dried up. I wonder what will be the

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Speaker 1: Business Improvement District employees job now. Will they treat you

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Speaker 1: the same as they treated many unhoused. Will they take

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01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: pictures of you on the street when you were in

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Speaker 1: various states of vulnerability? Will their orders be to target

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Speaker 1: the young housed be the same? The police have not changed.

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01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: They steals, harassed, ticket and criminalize the unhoused. How many

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Speaker 1: of the six million will they run to and do

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01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: the same thing to Will you be reservice resistant or

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01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 1: the person that don't wants to help? This is a

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Speaker 1: defining moment for the housed. The labels you had on

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01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: the young housed was a delusion, and now the city

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01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: has truly shown what it has thought of you all along.

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Speaker 1: The question becomes what are you going to do about it?

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Speaker 1: This is CEO Henderson for William Howes. I thank you

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Speaker 1: all for listening and may we truly again meet in

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01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: the light of understanding. As many of you have witnessed

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Speaker 1: in the last episode of episode eighteen, you realize that

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Speaker 1: the unhoused community are vulnerable. During COVID nineteen, I was

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Speaker 1: targeted for a new shelter that was going to be

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Speaker 1: set up at Alphine Recreation Center, thus making my stay

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Speaker 1: and my after park difficult. They have a commandeered the

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Speaker 1: entire park, so during this rainy season, I have been

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Speaker 1: going from place to place. I had a place for

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Speaker 1: a short period of time before one of the people

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Speaker 1: that ironically listening to my podcast threw me out because

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Speaker 1: of fear of being thrown out by the person that

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Speaker 1: they felt that it made a promise not to let

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Speaker 1: someone sleep in a commercial space. So I was unceremoniously

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Speaker 1: thrown out in the ring. Fortunately for people heard about

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Speaker 1: my distress and have reached out to help me in

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Speaker 1: so many ways. And I have a lot of people

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Speaker 1: to think and if I've forgotten you, please forgive me.

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Speaker 1: Charge it to my head, not my heart. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank Melissa's Asadero, Christopher Goss, of course Christopher g

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Speaker 1: I am going to copy huck Agent m Agency, who

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Speaker 1: they know who they are? Peter's son, I was a

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Speaker 1: Nick Imond, the other name the person that did they

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01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: know who they are? As well as Samria Johnson, Alaina Halt,

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Speaker 1: Michael Kolkas. And there's a host of many that comes

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Speaker 1: in my inbox and hasn't been really concerned, like Jane Wynn,

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01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 1: Mark Coreograph, all of these people from the group we're in.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank all of you for reaching out

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Speaker 1: to me. I want to give out a particular special

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01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:12,640
Speaker 1: thanks to Jet Harriet who has reached out and has

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01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 1: been an immeasurable help. Join us Swan who still keeps

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01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: up the fight. A lot of these individuals I wanted

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Speaker 1: to point out they have stepped up through this COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen and breached the heap your hand to help somebody,

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Speaker 1: and that's something that I would love to see that

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Speaker 1: I could say honestly that many of my listeners do

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Speaker 1: as well. There's something you can do. It may not

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01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: be financial, but you can make some face masks for

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Speaker 1: the other house, and you can find a distribution start listener,

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Speaker 1: Asadero does an excellent job with the food. You can

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Speaker 1: be part of the army to distribute it. There is

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Speaker 1: something you can do, and it's this thing. Since we

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Speaker 1: are all we got, thank you for listening, and maybe

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Speaker 1: again meet in a light of understanding the steps the

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Speaker 1: Stett