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00:00A 40% of the people who are homeless, who are older than 50 years old, became homeless
00:06after they were 50.
00:07That's an American tragedy that's growing.
00:09If you're in the public school system, you deal with children who are experiencing homelessness
00:15every day.
00:16This is an intentional policy decision that forced people into this community.
00:22They had 10 city trucks, a dozen officers, and then as soon as they saw we were there
00:27filming, they stopped.
00:30Our city made a mistaken decision to sue the lead charity who were caring for the homeless
00:36because they were feeding too many people on Sundays.
00:39And that was where I started just questioning, like, wait, my tax dollars pay for these programs
00:43where county vehicles were going into the school grounds, handing out clean needles,
00:48sharp containers.
00:51So many politicians talk about how much more money is being spent.
00:55$400,000.
00:56$400,000.
00:57$700,000.
00:58And the money.
00:59We're spending three times more than we were 12 years ago, yet it's skyrocketing.
01:05It is the worst drug that has ever been known to man.
01:10The psychosis had been so bad to where I didn't remember how many times I had gone into that
01:15store to do that exact same thing.
01:17Well, the owner of the store came running after me and he shot at me.
01:22It just feels one way when you're just talking about an issue, and then it feels totally
01:27different when you say, that's my friend, what in the world happened?
01:32How can you walk by a homeless person and don't feel nothing?
01:36You're dead.
01:37You're just living, but you don't know much.
01:42It amazed me that this was a place where, you know, people's lives were changing.
01:47Anything can happen.
01:48ODing, dying left and right, tents catching fire.
01:52All of those things are coming to a neighborhood near you if this policy wins out.