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Speaker 1: We will discuss John Lee's district. He is currently up

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Speaker 1: for re election and in this episode we're going to

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Speaker 1: interview candidate Mark Klein, who is a council member at

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Speaker 1: the moment that's running against John Lee for John Lee's seat.

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Speaker 1: Our election day is coming up this Tuesday. We will

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Speaker 1: also speak with Kathy Huck, the executive director about my

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Speaker 1: father's business. People experiencing homelessness deserve a seat at the table,

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Speaker 1: you know, where their issues are being served, and they

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Speaker 1: do deserve a voice in that conversation, as well as

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Speaker 1: first hand accounts from Lauren and Laura, residents of Chatsworth

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Speaker 1: that has been harassed by John Lee's behest Because every

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Speaker 1: person I've talked to the city, the police officers that

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Speaker 1: I said, next time, we're not gonna We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: You know the tow trucks is gonna to our home away.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have serious stress and anxiety. And I

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Speaker 1: So join us. So this episode of episode thirteen of

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Speaker 1: Chace Worth Terrorism and Harassment is not the handsome and

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Speaker 1: We have a YouTube account and a sound level. House

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Speaker 1: We need to provide more affordable housing. We need to

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Speaker 1: help keep people in their homes before they become homeless,

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Speaker 1: and we need to provide emergency transitional shelter for people

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Speaker 1: who are living on the streets, and ultimately we need

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Speaker 1: supportive housing. How about what would you do to undo

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Speaker 1: some of the damage for they on house? For example,

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Speaker 1: MGM Brett's company plays its music all hours of the night.

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Speaker 1: One of the council people that run for Naborhood Council,

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Speaker 1: Rita Done has expressed some dismay about that. And importantly

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Speaker 1: what about the stance on the city. Also on how

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Speaker 1: it's vigilanteism, because that's been spiking up all over. I

439
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: have been victim of it and many of the residents

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Speaker 1: have been interviewed that there has been very little any

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Speaker 1: kind of talk about telling how citizens to stop doing

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Speaker 1: crime on them. Well, that is what I meant at

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Speaker 1: the beginning when I said that people who are unhoused

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Speaker 1: in my community are being attacked. Is happening. We are

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Speaker 1: seeing vigilanteism and it's it's disturbing. We definitely need to

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00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: crack down on that. I think it's you know, we

447
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: have these places where community members are encouraging that that

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00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: kind of vigilanteism and that that is something that needs

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00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: to be called out and needs to be uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: not allowed. Violence is not okay against anyone, and and

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Speaker 1: you know, the kind of it again, and it's just

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Speaker 1: I think we need to help people understand that just

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Speaker 1: making people feel even more uncomfortable than they are already

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Speaker 1: is not It just is not a solution. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: do anything for anyone. And what we really need to

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00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: do is come together as a community to prevent the

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Speaker 1: growth of this problem, to address the needs of people

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Speaker 1: who are living on the streets, provide the support that

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Speaker 1: we can to help people get back into housing. One

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Speaker 1: last question is what would you do because people always

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Speaker 1: love to talut about substance usage, and I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about what kind of harm reduction ideas or philosophies

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Speaker 1: or ideologies that you have well when it comes to substance,

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00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to addiction and drug use.

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Speaker 1: I think it's important and first of all to acknowledge

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Speaker 1: the number of people that first become homeless and then

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Speaker 1: start to use drugs, because I mean, it's really I

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Speaker 1: know you know this. I'm sure you can speak to

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Speaker 1: this much better than I can. But I think that

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00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to sleep out on the sidewalk in

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Speaker 1: the cold or the wet or the heat, and it

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Speaker 1: is natural for people to want to numb the pain

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Speaker 1: to try to get through that. And so this is

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Speaker 1: why the housing first model has proven so successful. It's

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00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: a lot easier, whatever the reasons, whatever you reason people

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Speaker 1: started on drugs, it's a lot easier to get off

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00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: of drugs when you're housed. And that's what supportive housing

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Speaker 1: is doing. It's providing housing and substance abuse treatment and

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00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: counseling to help people get off of their addictions and

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Speaker 1: you know, get back into a stable place in their life.

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Speaker 1: I know, I said one last question, but you touched

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Speaker 1: on about the heat and forty one eighteen and fifty

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Speaker 1: sixty eleven. These are harmful policies, and most unhoused people

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Speaker 1: can tell you that. For example, I have had interview

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00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: subjects had mentioned about them being disabled and having to

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Speaker 1: take care of medical needs, and police are arresting them

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00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: or threatening arrest tints because it's we have high heat

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00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: indexes here or very cold or rain. The police are,

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Speaker 1: by the letter of the law, arresting and ticketing unhoused people.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any possible solution, because I understand the

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Speaker 1: housing model is important, but let's be honest, honest, it

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00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: cannot happen magically. Nobody is going to be in that

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Speaker 1: and I don't think any unhoused resident expects you overnight

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Speaker 1: to do that. What we do need is like accommodations,

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Speaker 1: especially if we have disabled and I'm basically trying to survive.

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Speaker 1: So what is your thoughts on that? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I understand that it is not I think it's absolutely

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Speaker 1: critical that we are behaving appropriately. The courts have ruled

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Speaker 1: that that we cannot put arrest people for sleeping on

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Speaker 1: the sidewalk when there is no place else to go,

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00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: and you know, that's the situation that we're in right now.

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Speaker 1: We have over ten thousand people who are on waiting

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Speaker 1: lists for housing, and we don't have enough places for

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Speaker 1: people to go, and it's just unreasonable to criminalize, you know,

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Speaker 1: being without a house, and and that's just it's not tenable.

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Speaker 1: And again you know it is actually more expensive also

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Speaker 1: for the taxpayers. You know how seeing people in jail

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00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: is the most expensive option that there is and it's

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Speaker 1: not a good use of funds. I totally agree. And

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Speaker 1: this is why I look at sconce when police officers

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Speaker 1: are touting the reason for the Young House crisis as

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Speaker 1: Proposition fourteen being dismantled. And again I thank you all

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Speaker 1: for listening, and thank you doctor Alundquitz for your time.

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Speaker 1: This is THEO Henderson from weedy On House. May we

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Speaker 1: all again meet in the light of understanding. This is

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Speaker 1: THEO Henderson from weedy On House. On a beautiful Thursday

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Speaker 1: morning out here in Chatsworth. What we hear at is

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Speaker 1: a connect day where there is a out of the

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00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: unhoused community has come to get some services that are available.

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00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: It's also interesting to note that this is election time

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Speaker 1: and based on from one of our other guests track

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Speaker 1: record of the House Daddy, I guess he's trying to

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Speaker 1: show up VI on House constituency vote. So in the

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Speaker 1: studios we have Lauren and she's going to give us

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Speaker 1: a little bit about her story, so I'll let her

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Speaker 1: take it away. Hello, Lauren, Hi are you? So? Tell me?

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Speaker 1: What's your story? How? How have you? How did you

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Speaker 1: get to this point? Basically, my husband and me and

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00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: done for renting a house and it got torn down

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00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: by the owner and we were granted relocation assistants because

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Speaker 1: he's trying to illegally evict us. So basically we're still

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00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: going through a whole court battle issue with that. She's

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00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: going to take a long time, but the end seems promising.

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, you know, we were left with

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00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: no place to go in a paycheck, so we basically

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00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: had short notice and we couldn't find anywhere to live.

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Speaker 1: No one would rent to us because my husband is

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00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: self employed and he's also disabled, and he's also undocumented,

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00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: so he's not eligible for any benefits, so he physically

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00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: cannot work, but he We used to own a dump

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Speaker 1: truck and he would just rent it out and we

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00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: made a little side attached from that, but not much,

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00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: so we didn't really have any way of proof of income,

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Speaker 1: so no one would rent to us because of that.

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Speaker 1: And then I also even offered to pay like a

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Speaker 1: full year's rent up front, and they wouldn't even accept

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00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: that because I had the relocation assistance of twenty thousand

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00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: dollars and they wouldn't even take that. So we really

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00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: left with nowhere else to go. We have no family here,

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00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: no friends, and just no resources. So where are you?

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Speaker 1: Where are you sleeping? At a motor home? We bought

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Speaker 1: an Rvy. It's a nice I mean it's not super nice,

553
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: but it's not old and crappy either, but it's in between,

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00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: you know. We try to make it as much as

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Speaker 1: our home as possible. And so have you ran into

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Speaker 1: any police harassment about this? That? Oh? Yes? All the time? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean we're new to this, completely new to this.

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00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: We have never been in this situation before. We don't

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00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: know how to do anything in this regard. All the time,

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00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: we get woken up in the middle of the night,

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00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: you know, a lipid hocket on the door you need

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00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: to move, blah blah blah, and the parking and forceing

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00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: comes all the time. We've gotten like eight tickets within

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Speaker 1: the past two weeks. The care team and the street

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00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: that we were parking on. They came five days in

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Speaker 1: a row for no reason, because I mean, we literally

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00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: have no trash outside nothing. I mean, we keep our

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00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: area as much clean as possible. We have a sanitation

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Speaker 1: company we pay for that comes once a week to

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00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: empty our tanks and fill our water and they were

571
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: just sitting around doing nothing. We made video of it.

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00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: They cleaned the streets, but didn't even clean the streets.

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Speaker 1: It was quite hilarious because they just sprayed something on

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00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,959
Speaker 1: the sidewalk and that was it. And I was like, what,

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00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: the street's still dirty. You haven't even done anything. What

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00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: is all this commotion about. My question is I you

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00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: told me, shared me a story, but they were threatening

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00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: to break up your family. Can you tell the listeners

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Speaker 1: of what happened? Parking enforcement came one night and within

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Speaker 1: the past two three weeks, you've just been harassed every day.

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00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: Every day the police have come or parking enforcement or

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00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: the city has come. Talk transportation every day is something new.

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Speaker 1: But in the middle of the night, we're woking up

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00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: once again. It was the parking enforcement. I was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, please don't give me a ticket. You know

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00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: what's up? Tell me a place to park because there's

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Speaker 1: nowhere to park. And I said, look, I have the

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Speaker 1: sick husband. My husband has congestive heart failure. It's forty

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00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: years old. You know. Two years ago they gave him

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00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: a year to live, so he's living on bar all time.

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00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: And I have a sick husband and a three year

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00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 1: old child at home. Cool. And he's like, oh, well,

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00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: you know you're not supposed to have a kid in

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00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: an RV. That's illegal. You know, don't tell me that,

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00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: because you know we're supposed to report that right away.

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00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna act like I didn't hear that. He's like,

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00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that again. I don't want

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00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: to see you guys around here again, because if I

599
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: see you here again, you know I'm going to report you,

600
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: and you know they're going to take your kid away.

601
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: That is a patent false falsehood. But the pact of

602
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: the matter is that they are telling you these crazy

603
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: ideas to get you to run out. It's deplorable. So

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00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: one of the things that people have this image of

605
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: police offers is the serve and protag and they have

606
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: just so nice and things of that nature. But what

607
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm hearing is a different story from people that are vulnerable.

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00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 1: I guess they're nice to people that live in houses

609
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: and want to get rid of it. Yeah, and every

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00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: police officer I've talked to it. So, who give me

611
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: a solution? You told me I can't park here. The

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00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: problem is when I see the people in the day camplain,

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00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: because we're parking in industrial areas in front of houses.

614
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: You know, we park in front of businesses that don't

615
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: have a lot of customers. You know, it's all factories

616
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: and whatnot. You know, we state ourselves, you know, we

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00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: don't make a mess. We're not criminals. We don't you know,

618
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: have crap out on the sidewalks and this and that.

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00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: You know, we're a family. We're a family, just like

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00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: you were the next person, you know, And they treat

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00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: us like we're criminals. They really treat us like we're criminals,

622
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: and they look down upon us, and it's just it's

623
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: really sad. It's disheartening, you know. And they can come

624
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: inside and my head. We have a TV, we have

625
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: a couch, we have a full refrigerator, still a key,

626
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: and a bathroom. We have running water, electricity, everything, So

627
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: they can't use the argument that you're using the bathroom

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00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: on the US streets. Anything like the rennotation company that

629
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: comes once a week. We pay seventy five dollars a

630
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: week every time they come out, you know, and they

631
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: clean their chains and everything. We pick up after ourselves.

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00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: You know. We were in this situation by choice, putting

633
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: the best that we can. But no one seemed to

634
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: giving us a solution. They only wanted to look what

635
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: we're doing wrong. But the problem is we're parking the day,

636
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: bothering these these company owners whatever. But the problem is

637
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: there has to us at night. Why no one's here

638
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: in the night. What's the problem. It's so ridiculous. It

639
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: makes no sense to us. We're sleeping, you know why

640
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: you're waking us up telling us to park. There's nothing here,

641
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: no one's going, nothing going on, no one's here. It's

642
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: just so ass backwards. This is the humanity that when

643
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 1: I hear people always have these conversations. And I've gone

644
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: to city council meetings and most often than not, I

645
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: can guarantee you the majority of the city council officers,

646
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: along with police officers, because they're part of the problem.

647
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: They're going to these meetings with business people and painting

648
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: you and everybody else, every seventy thousand other house people

649
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: as criminals and council people hear these stories and go

650
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: and do the most punitative things. They are not looking

651
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: at the nuance of being in a house like your

652
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: situation is common to a lot of the guests that

653
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: I've interviewed. So if today I had the financial resources,

654
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: or today someone else had the financial resources, and we

655
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: came up to you and we wanted to ask you,

656
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: what is the best way for us to help tell

657
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: us how to help you. It's not necessarily affordable housing,

658
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: accessible houses on the table, I would say for us

659
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: in our situation, because we had the money, but no

660
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 1: one vent it was just impossible. It was so impossible

661
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: to find a place to I mean why because it expensive.

662
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: It's just the regulations, the requirements for renting a place

663
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Yeah, I mean I have to have so many,

664
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: like a whole page of things. You know, they just

665
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: were so unnecessary. I had the money, Why I can't

666
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: pay you my rent in advance? Why would you take

667
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: the four years rant in events? So the issue is

668
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: not about you not being able to pay the rent,

669
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: is now for us to be able to help you

670
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: is get rid of some of the hurdles, the roadblocks. Yes, yes, yes, yes, definitely,

671
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: that's fair enough. I wanted to ask you because this

672
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: is a voting cycle right now, from the president, from

673
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: John Lee, because this is John Lee's district. And when

674
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: the police are called out people for the listeners that

675
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 1: don't know a lot of times the police are called

676
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: out because of the council members. It's not necessarily So

677
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: would you give John Lee another vote to do this

678
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: to you again? No way, Because every person I've talked

679
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: to the city, the police officers, they woke me up

680
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: at four thirty in the morning, you know, threatening to

681
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: toe my car my RV in the middle night. I said,

682
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: next time, we're not gonna We're not going to knock knock,

683
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: We're just going to tell you. So ever since then,

684
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to sleep at all for the

685
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: past two weeks. I've ended up all night worried panics.

686
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: You know, the tow truck is going to tow our

687
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: home away. You know, I have to you stress anxiety.

688
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: But they have all told me, the city told me

689
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: when they come and clean the streets that were so

690
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: filthy that the councilmen sent them that they went to

691
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: work and this is what was on their desk from

692
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: the councilman. And they're the ones that sent them out.

693
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: Every single one of them told that the police told

694
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: me that there is a special task were set in

695
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: place by the counselmen. So this is this is what

696
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: I want you to know. The listeners that when they

697
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: fly and say they don't do this, this is what

698
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: they do. And they hide this because they want to

699
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: be at pretend that they are really concerned about the

700
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: house and just having a one service connect day is

701
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: not the palliative for the wound that you caused. Is

702
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: there anything else you want to let the audience do,

703
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 1: just to give us a solution, give us an answer

704
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: that's reasonable. I mean the police when I asked them,

705
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: I said, where can I go? No, one has been

706
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: telling me giving me an answer. Where I can go?

707
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,919
Speaker 1: Where I can park? Would you go to the desert? No, Well,

708
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 1: that's one of the solutions. Your husband's job is in school.

709
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: You know, this is our home, but this is one

710
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: of the solutions that they're offering. Would you go to

711
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: a concentration camp that's insane? No. So those are the things,

712
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: Those are the solutions that President Trump, Eric Garcetti, and

713
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: they are working up, drumming up to try to do.

714
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 1: I pay my taxes just like everyone else. I work,

715
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: my husband, My husband has a business. You know, we

716
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: pay our taxes. There they're quote I quote that they

717
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,919
Speaker 1: feel that we are our problem, and we are we

718
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: are all criminals, all seventy five thousand of us, and

719
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: we need to go somewhere away from them. Parking on

720
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: the street like everyone else, just because I have a

721
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: bigger vehicle than you. It's the only thing I'm doing. Really,

722
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:56,359
Speaker 1: that's it. It's just insanelous. So there you have it. Yeah,

723
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: very stressed, especially for my husband to because he has

724
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: conjestin hard feeling. You know, he can't deal with distress.

725
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: You know, my poor son is like he's suffering as well.

726
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: You know, this is not easy for us. It's not

727
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: easy for us, and you're supposed to help us. You know,

728
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: we're not criminals. We're not criminals at all. We're family. Well,

729
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: how does your son is not school age yet? Is it? No?

730
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: He's three o school two tongues? Does he have any challenges?

731
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: Do they know of his living situation? No? No, I'm embarrassed.

732
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want people to know what we're doing.

733
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: It's not something I'm proud of, you know, And I'm scared.

734
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: I am scared. I wouldn't be possible because I noticed

735
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: another family that I've interviewed, and they watch every morning

736
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,479
Speaker 1: the principle that opens the school and knows that they're

737
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: in the car. Is it possible those saying people that

738
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: have are against you guys being there, that they may

739
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: have children of their own, Yes, definitely, So it's impossible

740
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: that they may be passing on that same rhetoric to

741
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: their children. Yeah. Yeah, So here's the damage that's caused.

742
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: When I always I would use the example of racism.

743
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: Racism is taught, and just like the anti n House

744
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: sentiment is taught. When you're going out here yelling this

745
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: stuff that they all drug addicts and things like that,

746
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: you're passing that on to your children, and your children,

747
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: in turn are passing this on to maybe a classmate

748
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: that may be on House. That's something you need to

749
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: think on. This is still Henderson from Weezy on House,

750
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: and I thank you all for listening and maybe we

751
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: again meet in the light of understanding. This is a beautiful, hot,

752
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: warm morning on a Thursday, and apparently the big guns

753
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: out election time is in the air. Voting is becoming

754
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: crucial for a lot of people. And here is David

755
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: Lee's a a tempt at reaching out to the House constituents.

756
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: Some would say it may be too late, Some maybe

757
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: say it's mediocre, and some may say it's outstanding. But

758
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: at any rate, we're here with one of the one

759
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: of our guests, and we're going to go and have

760
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: a conversation on a many issues with don furtherdo, let

761
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: me introduce you to my fiest Laura. My name is

762
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: Laura Santor. Thank you for joining us. It's such a

763
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: busy thing. So what's going on out here today? What

764
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: do you see today? We're at LA Connected for the

765
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: Home lest you're giving us a free launch, free backpacks,

766
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: We're looking into housing and medical. There's all kinds of

767
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: booths here and whatever you need, they're here. The DMV,

768
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: all of them are here to serve you. Well, that

769
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: sounds great. Do they offer this often or just maybe

770
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: once a while or during lecture time once a month

771
00:45:55,160 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: on different locations. Okay, thank you, So let's talk begin

772
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: how to your story? Because I would love to know

773
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: about your story, and so let's take a moment to

774
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: tell us how did you become a house Well, we

775
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: lived in a four bedroom, two bath apartment and we

776
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: were all sharing the rent, and my two older children

777
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: left and then that left my father, my disabled son Robert,

778
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: and I in the apartment and we were still sharing

779
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: the rent. But then my father passed away and without

780
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: his income, we couldn't afford the apartment anymore, so we

781
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: became homeless. I hung on to the apartment for about

782
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: three months after his death, and then money just ran out.

783
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: You know, we just couldn't do it on our income.

784
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: My son gets SSI and I get SSI, so we

785
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: ended up homeless and on the streets, and we've been

786
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: homeless now for three and a half years. We've gone

787
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: through everything LA Housing Section A. Nobody has been able

788
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: to help us, so we're still here and less on

789
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: the street. Is it easy or is it rough to

790
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: be un housed? Is it easier than being housed? No?

791
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: I love being housed out here everything. You know. If

792
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: we can't cook because we don't have a stove, so

793
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: we have to buy whatever we can to eat on

794
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 1: and it's more expensive this way. My son's been brutally

795
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: attacked twice, has been arrested twice for something he didn't do,

796
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: and it's very hard on him. You know, he has

797
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: only one functional eye. He's been in the hospital what

798
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: three times four times already since we've been homeless, and

799
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: I really need to get him inside indoors where he

800
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: knows what's going on. He has a cognitive problem, short

801
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: and long term memory deficits, and I myself have diabetes

802
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: COPD vertico and we're just out here trying to survive.

803
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: It's very hard. What is it for when I hear

804
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: all the time people are always saying that there are

805
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: people out here that just don't want to be helped,

806
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: that they're service resistant, or that they are drug a

807
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: bit addicted. I'm having having a conversation with you, and

808
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: this is not your case. What do you say to that? Well,

809
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: I know that there are I've met them. I've met

810
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 1: some people out here that enjoy being homeless. I've met

811
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: drug addicts, I've met alcoholics. But there are people like

812
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:30,399
Speaker 1: us who don't take drugs, who don't drink, who really

813
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: want a place to stay to live. But unfortunately society

814
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 1: has grouped us all in the same category, you know,

815
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: and people look at us, they look down at us. Actually,

816
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: we've met a few wonderful people that have you know,

817
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: given us free food and stuff. But there are a

818
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: lot of harsh and cool people out here, very very cool,

819
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: you know, so the devil's at work. Indeed, I could

820
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: trail and give you some stories of myself. So I

821
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: tell with you, I'm telling you and I as you

822
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,919
Speaker 1: know that my listeners know I'm in house, and I've

823
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: shared some of the horror stories that I have. So

824
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: when I hear them all over like, it seems like

825
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: a concentrated effort. In particularly what was so much disenheartening

826
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: to me because I hear these fabled images of police

827
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: officers as these great servants and things like that. Imagine

828
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: my surprise that they are part of the problem that

829
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: out here harassing. So have you met the same thing?

830
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I mean we've been harassed by police officers

831
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: fifty times in the three and a half years that

832
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: we've been out here, you know, and they are part

833
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: of the problem. There was one person that when we

834
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: were over here at local on a local street that

835
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: called the police and told them my son had a gun,

836
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: which was untrue, and they came out here. They had

837
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: my son on the ground with their shotguns pointed at him,

838
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 1: and I thought, you know what, you're jumping the gun.

839
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: Find out the circumstances, find out what's going on. But

840
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: a lot of the police officers, you know, are so

841
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: eager and willing because we're homeless, they pass judgment on

842
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: us and they make the matters worse, real bad. That's

843
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: the same thing similar I told many years as this

844
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: may have remembered the time they had thirteen trained officers

845
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: on me and I had to it was crazy to

846
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: It's terrible. You know, you're out here trying to survive.

847
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: You're dealing with the industrial employees belittling you, then you're

848
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,479
Speaker 1: dealing with regular citizens belittling you, and then here comes

849
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: the police officers ready to punish you for something you

850
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: haven't done. And instead of being peace officers, which they

851
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 1: are called, they are not, they make everything worse. And

852
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: I've told them that straight to their face. You know,

853
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: come out here, but you know they want to stick

854
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: up for all those in the buildings who are making

855
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: a living. But like I said, as we have an income,

856
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: it's not like we're over here, bumby. We have an income,

857
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: we just don't make enough for an apartment. There's many

858
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: I had an interview the gentleman that is working and

859
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: he's living in the park, and so it's not it's

860
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: like with people are saying that get a job and

861
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: these kind of things. They don't want to work. There's

862
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: a lot of unhoused people that are working, but they

863
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: can't afford the damn rent. I mean, that's true. We

864
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: met one man who's working and he said that he's

865
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: sending his family back to Mexico and he's going to

866
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: stay out here and work, but he can't afford to

867
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: keep his family out here anymore. And you have three

868
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: to four families living in one apartment, you know. So

869
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 1: what they need to do is just cut down on everything.

870
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: Find us some housing somewhere where we can all afford it.

871
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, because your situation is

872
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: as unique as well as similar to a lot of

873
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,879
Speaker 1: unhoused people. And if I came today and I had

874
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: the money and the resources, tell me step by step

875
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: how would I be able to help you? And oh

876
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: my gosh, I just need you to help us to

877
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: find a place, you know, to find a place that's

878
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: affordable for us. Like I said, I've applied for Section eight,

879
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: I've applied for uh head everything, and I've been turned down.

880
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: I just went and double checked on my application in

881
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: an apartment building I filled out two years ago, and

882
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: they're telling me that the waiting list is twelve to

883
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: fifteen years. Now where are we to go? You know,

884
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: there's nowhere to go. We've had altercations with business owners,

885
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: but not where are we supposed to go? There's no

886
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: place to go, and the police just want us out

887
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: of the way. They want to sweep us under the bed,

888
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: you know, and pretend that we don't exist. And I

889
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: tell you one thing, I never thought that I would

890
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: be homeless. I raised three children, no problem, and now,

891
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: thank God above that their adults now and can take

892
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: care of themselves, because now I'm the one that's down

893
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: and out and needs help and unfortunately they can't help me.

894
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: That's one other thing. Like many people ask if maybe

895
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 1: asking just like they asked me, but where's your family?

896
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: Why is your family helping? And I had to say

897
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: that the financial economic crisis affects all of us. Maybe

898
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: we are not in a vabid position to help us

899
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: financially or have a place, or because like one of

900
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: my friends tried to help me and his house, but

901
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: then your neighbors didn't like having an unhoused person there.

902
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: They called the police and had me, had him almost evicted.

903
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: So there is that. So what your family is unable

904
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 1: to help you do to the same situations? I think, yes,

905
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: you know. And my son he just graduated college and

906
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: is now working for himself, but he can't help us.

907
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,959
Speaker 1: He's in no position to help us. My daughter lives

908
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 1: out of state, she's trying to get on her feet.

909
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: And all my relatives, unfortunately, because I'm so old and

910
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,760
Speaker 1: they're so old, they've passed away. I don't have family anymore.

911
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: I don't have it. If they were alive today, of

912
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: course they would help me, but they're not, so there's nothing.

913
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: We can do. Nothing. So there there is the story there,

914
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: Laurd that you have told me and helped me very

915
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: much and helping spread it. I'm one last question I

916
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: want to do because this is election time and many

917
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: people don't believe. And just for the record, I can

918
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: vote many on house, people can vote. We're not criminals

919
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: and all these nonsense exactly, But despite what everybody what.

920
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 1: The police are always always pumping out there to you.

921
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: What is he like the election? Chances would who have

922
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: you had in mind? Is it Donald Trump? Bernie Sanders,

923
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: Mike Bloomberg? John Lee? Just give your insights on if

924
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 1: today the way John Lee's administration his council has been

925
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: treating you guys, would you give him another shot? No?

926
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: And that's a positive. No? Why not? What? What? What

927
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: would change your mind? I think that our politicians really

928
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: need to gather together and help the homeless. You know,

929
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: like I said, this was unforeseen for us. We never

930
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: planned on being homeless, and we thought we had enough

931
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,760
Speaker 1: money to survive, and we don't. We do have an income,

932
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: but we can't survive on that income. So I would say,

933
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: you know, find us somewhere, you know, I'll plot of land,

934
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: anything where we can go and save our dignity. That's

935
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: what it's all about, saving our dignity. We are people,

936
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: We're not trash. Please don't treat us like trash, you know,

937
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: being ignored. And like I said, Lee, no way, uh huh.

938
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: Just to Ceo Henderson from Weedie and House and I

939
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: thank you for taking your time. I know you bet

940
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: such a busy, busy day. I wish I'm going to

941
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: ask a few more questions from some of the residents here,

942
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: but I I've learned a lot and I'm very grateful

943
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: for your time. May we all again meet in the

944
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: light of understanding. Thank you, Thank you. This is the

945
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: afternoon of a warm, pleasant Thursday. I'm in these studios

946
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: with another person that I have been meaning to introduce

947
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: you to, but as fortuit just happenstance as it is,

948
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: I'm in Chatsworth and I've had such an excellent, excellent

949
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: experience out here that I want to introduce you to

950
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: one of the major driving forces that She was featured

951
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 1: on the Daily News, Spectrum News as well about my

952
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: father's business about the voters registration for gotten house people.

953
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 1: Her name is Kathy huck So please welcome our new guest.

954
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: HI feel thanks for having me, and I'm happy that

955
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: we finally got to well, we get together all the time,

956
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,360
Speaker 1: but we're finally together to get this done because I

957
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: know you've been wanting to talk to me. Yes, I have,

958
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: and I have been so excited when you launched this

959
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: idea about the voting thing because we have been talking

960
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: about it and I knew that you were trying to

961
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: formulate it in such a way that it launched and

962
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: had like see one teach one kind of thing. So

963
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about what gave you the

964
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: inspiration for this. Well, I wanted to figure out a

965
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: way to get the unhoused community organized in southern California.

966
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: It's something that can to the poor people's army, where

967
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: the people get to make their own demands and they

968
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: get to run this organization and not the powers to

969
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: be or you know, they don't have to be the

970
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: children in the room. It's their story, is their organization.

971
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: But that takes a long time. So I thought about

972
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,919
Speaker 1: back in the sixties or the civil rights movement when

973
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: I was a kid, about our community together. We organize

974
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: around the right to vote. And I think that's the

975
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: fastest way to organize any community. And I think the

976
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: unhoused community should be a major voting block. They really

977
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: are a major voting block. They just need to register.

978
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: What prohibits them from being a voting block? Well, I

979
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: think a lot of people in the unhoused community are

980
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: not aware of how things change, and I think that's

981
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: where the advocates come in. It's our job to let

982
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: them know that they can use a street and a

983
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: cross street. It's our job to let them know that

984
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: they can use the last four of their social security

985
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: because in the past, without an idea, you couldn't vote.

986
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: And by the time you get an ID, where is

987
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: it going? You have to have an address for it

988
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: to go to. So a lot of things have changed,

989
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: and I think that, plus a lot of people are

990
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: so busy trying to figure out just how to live

991
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: from day to day. The struggles of where I'm going

992
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 1: to eat, where I'm going to sleep, where I'm going

993
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: to shower, or whatever it is, keeps them. It doesn't

994
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: make vote voting the top priority. I agree, that's one

995
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: of the major hassles in too. Let's imagine a voting

996
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: day and if you was to go down physically to

997
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: a voting a ballot place, Let's say New Rei Martinez

998
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: is ordered to sweep, you know, and you come back

999
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: and you're feeling all patriotic and digital civic duty, but

1000
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: you are now as ground zero. That would also cause

1001
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: a different problem. One of the things I wanted to

1002
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: ask you is, for example, the people I've heard on

1003
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: the news and I was trying that. I'm going to

1004
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: check on this a little bit more. Is about people

1005
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: that have been formally convicted of road can they vote.

1006
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: There are conditions where some felons can vote, so in

1007
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: online at lavote dot net they have, you know, the

1008
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: information on that. I didn't really research it a lot,

1009
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: but some of the people that we registered were they

1010
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: had felony convictions and couldn't vote, and others could. So

1011
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: it depends on the type of felon the conviction that

1012
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: this is very important for people to know because I

1013
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: was having a conversation with one of the unhoused residents

1014
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: that had a felony and he said, it's just he

1015
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: thought it would maybe all a widespread but there is

1016
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 1: conditional instances. Is there anything else about learning to vote

1017
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: would be necessary? I think that this year in La

1018
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: I wish I lived in La this year in La County.

1019
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: I think there's no excuse for the house, or the

1020
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: unhoused community, or the entire community, because we're all the community,

1021
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: the community as a whole, to not be able to vote.

1022
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: You have eleven days ten days prior to the third

1023
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: of March to vote, plus you can go to any

1024
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: polling center anywhere and vote. And I think that everybody

1025
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: should exercise their right because I know even my husband

1026
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: sometimes he's rushing home or he's trying to get off

1027
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: early before the polls close, and this way he could

1028
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 1: take an early day or that day that you know,

1029
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: he can get off to go do to go vote.

1030
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: So it's almost like they're making it easier for us

1031
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: to vote. And like I said, the unhoused community and

1032
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: anybody that's having any difficult like they don't have their

1033
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: birth certificate, so you have to get your birth certificate

1034
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: to get an ID. You got your social Security cards swept,

1035
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, come on, you know, so this way you

1036
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: only need to know the last for your social Security

1037
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: and you can go to la vote dot net to

1038
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: check the seat if you're registered. Because when we were

1039
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: doing the registration, a lot of people were registered so

1040
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 1: and they felt good. So if you're registered, to just

1041
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 1: go down to any polling place, that's such a pleasant surprise.

1042
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: One of the things I also wanted to ask is

1043
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 1: when you're voting as well, because we have a voting

1044
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 1: for the city here as well as it's most I

1045
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: don't know everyone knows about the presidential election. We cannot

1046
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: emphasize us enough. And there are people that genuinely have

1047
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: been inspired my wanting to help the young house and

1048
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: do something or set up something to get them out

1049
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: there on that. What suggestions do you have to help

1050
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: get this movement along? Well, of course we're talking about

1051
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: our local elections, and you're right. Once the unhoused community

1052
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: is registered, they are also registered for the general election.

1053
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: And the important thing about that is right now, you know,

1054
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: like someone was asking me about it, I'm like, well,

1055
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, the time to register has you know, for

1056
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: this election here in the city has ended. You know

1057
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 1: that that time is coming gone. But it's not to

1058
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: say that we don't keep registering people who are experiencing

1059
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 1: homelessness or you know, any anyone. Everyone should be registered,

1060
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: and so we need to continue to register because there

1061
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: is a general election coming up, so we don't just

1062
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: stop the campaign. And it's like I said, it's each

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Speaker 1: one teach one. If I could teach you how to

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Speaker 1: do it online, you could teach someone. They teach someone.

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Speaker 1: It's exponential, you know, it's an expert Mitchell. What do

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Speaker 1: they used to call that a snowball? Snowball as a

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Speaker 1: snowball effect and we can get you know, people who

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Speaker 1: would not otherwise registered to vote to vote because you know,

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Speaker 1: the consensus is they don't care anyway, my vote doesn't count,

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Speaker 1: but it does, and I think it's important. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: we keep registering them even after March third. I think too,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that for example, there was

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Speaker 1: some schools or some places, some shelters that offered a

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Speaker 1: voting or a registration spot or pickup. Is there any

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Speaker 1: other places that you can do this, like or can

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Speaker 1: I want to say, churches, or can social clubs or

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Speaker 1: what can people that may not be a part of

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Speaker 1: maybe some of the other things that I just mentioned

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Speaker 1: can do any ideas do you mean as far as

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Speaker 1: getting the voting registration? They act going because of it's

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01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: a drive because you're going to house people doing outreach

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01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: and then telling them about their voting opportunities and rights.

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01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 1: And some of them know and some of them just

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Speaker 1: like you know, like I says, dealing with the rock

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Speaker 1: and rovel of their life. They're like, look, I'm just

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01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 1: dealing from a brutal sleep. All I just want to

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Speaker 1: do is just rest or I just don't want to

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Speaker 1: just keep my head down. What could be said or

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Speaker 1: what could be done to hit on the spot reach outreach. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that I know that my friend Bill Freeman

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Speaker 1: had a voter registration program or you know, a bent

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Speaker 1: in his in his church in the all purpose room,

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Speaker 1: I believe, and people were able to come in you

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Speaker 1: get a meal, you know. So I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've given incentives. You know. Uh, I would have included

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Speaker 1: to do a Super Bowl party if you know, but

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Speaker 1: you know, you I think back coming, sorry, but I

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Speaker 1: think that you know, you could have all kinds of events,

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Speaker 1: you know, community events, and you know, even today for

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Speaker 1: the Connect Day, we were trying to get a mock

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01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: machine so that we could teach people how to use

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Speaker 1: the machine so you could, you know, and then we

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Speaker 1: would register them. But of course the machine did income,

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Speaker 1: so we weren't able to do that. But you could

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Speaker 1: do that at your church. You could do it, you know,

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01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: at any venue. And you know, you can get people

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Speaker 1: together in places like the NoHo Diner or Starbucks and

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Speaker 1: you know, sit around and talk about issues and also

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Speaker 1: get people registered. I would even say to the point

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Speaker 1: of having a little registration party and give people incentives

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Speaker 1: to come and you know, register or going to the encampments.

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Speaker 1: How about that? Well, you know that's my thing, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so that's where you go. And we went to the

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Speaker 1: encamments and it was really a lot of fun. We

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Speaker 1: went into the encampments and Becausins has gotten so much

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01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 1: buzz from people like you Twitter, you know and Spectrum.

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Speaker 1: One someone ran out and they were like, we heard

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Speaker 1: you guys on MVR. We want a register, and so

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Speaker 1: we went down the tracks and they were registering one another.

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Speaker 1: Brooke Carell, I don't know how many people she's registered

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Speaker 1: and taught to register others and that, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a fun thing because you know they're talking and

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Speaker 1: they're talking about their political views, and you know, even

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Speaker 1: the local politicians they would be interested to know that

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Speaker 1: everybody's not for one or the other. I was shocked

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Speaker 1: at different people their views, which we don't tell people

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Speaker 1: who'd to vote for, but you would think that they're

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Speaker 1: going to be for this candidate of that. But they're

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Speaker 1: just as diverse as the rest of society on their views.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly the point people. As I mentioned, and one

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Speaker 1: of the meetings that I I was attended, I says on

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Speaker 1: house people, we're paying attention and I guarantee you if

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Speaker 1: you're one of those people that are sweeping on letting

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Speaker 1: those notices on. I know, for example, impac Elco Paul.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that person's name, but in

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Speaker 1: aligns with Pharaoh that you know the conversation, you can

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01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: always guess that election day on twenty twenty two, your

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01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: name is going to be cropping up a lot. So

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Speaker 1: if you are one of those politicians that think on

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Speaker 1: house people are at I soore and or that you

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01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 1: just want that. One of the viewpoints in one of

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Speaker 1: them was if we take all this stuff then they

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01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,960
Speaker 1: will leave. Then you better understand that. You better have

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Speaker 1: a miracle because you know many unhoused people are becoming

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01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 1: much more politically attuned and they are going to let

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Speaker 1: their voices known floting. So is there anything else would

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Speaker 1: you like to share with your listeners. Well, you and

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Speaker 1: I've talked before. You know that we both agree on this.

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Speaker 1: People experiencing homelessness deserve a seat at the table, you know,

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Speaker 1: where their issues are being served, and they deserve a

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Speaker 1: voice in that conversation. Important and it's for the local politicians,

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Speaker 1: even people who's he reprised with Harold, I would say this.

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Speaker 1: And you know I've been in a neighborhood council meeting

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Speaker 1: here at Chatsworth where our council member John Lee, you know,

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Speaker 1: was speaking, and you know I reminded him, and I

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Speaker 1: often remind any of them that I come across. They

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Speaker 1: are your constituents. Whether they vote or not, they are

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Speaker 1: your constituents. But you will if we get enough of

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Speaker 1: them registered, you'll know that they are your constituents. And

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Speaker 1: I can I close with one comment, since you asked

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Speaker 1: about the tracks. When we were registering people on the tracks,

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Speaker 1: this guy, like I said, he heard the NPR interview

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Speaker 1: and he runs out. He goes pastor do you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm like when he goes, if all of us

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Speaker 1: register allow this track, he goes, they'll be out here

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Speaker 1: shaking our hands and kissing our dogs. Very true. This

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Speaker 1: is the old Henderson from Weedie at House and the

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Speaker 1: Studios with Kathy huck and I thank you all for listening,

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Speaker 1: and may we again meet. In a lot of understandings.

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Speaker 1: This week's episode shows what's really going on in Johnsley's district.

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01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,879
Speaker 1: Backed by a hateful community. Like President Trump, his unhoused

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01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: constituents are subject to vigilanteism, police harassment, and constant stress.

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01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 1: We can tell about our country's character, but how we

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Speaker 1: treat our vulnerable. And remember, conditional compassion is anti unhoused

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01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: sentiment disguised. You can feel that you once you feel

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01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:36,640
Speaker 1: the unhoused, but don't want them in your neighborhood. You

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Speaker 1: think you're being compassionate, but that's this anti unhoused sentiment

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01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: that is not truly helping the unhoused, but it's a

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Speaker 1: staging your guilt and disdained for them. If you are

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Speaker 1: opposed to unhoused people housing by a school because our

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01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:52,799
Speaker 1: unhoused people are criminals, then that is an evil punching bag.

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Speaker 1: Punching bag that are the unhoused and social service providers

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01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: crafting restrict the rules in places for unhoused people. It's

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01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:07,880
Speaker 1: trauma inducing. Neither parties are helping the unhoused. You're trying

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01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:10,639
Speaker 1: to do a deal with the devil. Both sides are

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01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:15,679
Speaker 1: and in the end, the unhoused lose. What we need

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01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: to do is have a true education about what unhoused

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01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 1: issues are. We need to have an honest discussion about

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01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 1: substance usage. We need to have an honest discussion about

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Speaker 1: trauma induced care and we need to stop allowing the

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01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 1: police to pit each other against each other. We need

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01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 1: to get them out of the conversation completely because, believe

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01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: it or not, they are the ones that keep pushing

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01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 1: this with house residents to cause these kind of problems. Recently,

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01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 1: the police, we're complaining and whining about Proposition forty seven

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01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: as the reason why that there's so much substance usage.

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01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: Criminalization is not the answer. Enforcement is not the answer.

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01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: It's time for poverties primps like them to realize that

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Speaker 1: they are not a part of the solution. They have

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Speaker 1: been creating the problem. This is Steil Henderson from Weedie

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Speaker 1: in House and may we all again meet in the

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Speaker 1: light of understanding.