((PKG)) SHIPPING CONTAINERS – HOME FOR
HOMELESS
((TRT: 03:28))
((Banner: Small Scale Solutions))
((Reporter: Angelina Bagdasaryan))
((Camera: Vazgen Varzhabetyan))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 2 male))
((Sub characters: 1 female; 2 male))
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
I was just going to be homeless. My family was tired of me, I
guess, I don’t know, not being what they
wanted. And so, me and my girlfriend just got a Greyhound
bus to California.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
I tried to go to Social Services and get like the general relief
and all that. And I got the EBT [Electronic Benefit
Transfer] and things like that. But really, I don't have a plan
right now, no. I mean, I moved all the way across the
country. And I get to be here, which is so much better than if
you go around some of these other places, dude. Oh, man.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
Flyaway Homes is a startup that was started in conjunction
with The People Concern, one of the largest homeless
service providers in Los Angeles County, to develop a model
for producing permanent supportive housing for L.A.’s
homeless population, faster and cheaper, so we can begin to
really solve this terrible problem.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
It's constructed out of converted shipping containers. And
this project consists of eight four-bedroom units, five of
which are occupied by families, three of which are occupied
by shared individuals. So, four people, two each with a
bedroom.
((NATS))
((Angel, Volunteer, Flyaway Homes))
A lot of people are doing bad. Like, they don’t got
food. They don’t got water. So that’s what we’re here
for. It’s all free. Donations that we get, we manage to give it
out to whoever’s in need, whether its food, clothes.
((NATS))
((John Maceri, CEO, The People Concern))
This is our community room. We have, as you can see, we
have a television here. This is normally a gathering
place. During COVID, obviously, the tenants are not
gathering, but we have laundry on site here. This can be
used for a meeting room. We have a small non-perishable
food pantry that's available for the residents, as well as the
resident services staff, who's on site, is based here as well.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
Permanent supportive housing only works for the chronically
homeless if it's combined with supportive services to keep
them housed healthy and safe which are provided by the
people.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
Like certain things, I got, like asthma and eczema, probably
like a low immune system because I do drugs.
I can go get a job, be alright for a year or so. Then I’ll just
destroy it all, burn my life to the ground.
It’s all good.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
So, I came out here with this girl that I dated for five years off
and on. And I wanted that to be the true love and all
that. And three weeks later, she left me for a guy to go do
heroin and meth with him, so. That happened. That was
like one of the worst things.
((Cody, Unhoused))
I guess you could say I’m free right now. But I dwell on
things in my head, man. I got a lot of anxiety and depression
problems. And that's where, that's really why I'm here is
because I can't make it work.
((Elijah, Volunteer))
We're just charging people's phones or whatever needs to
be charged because, you know, since the coronavirus,
there's a lack of places open to charge phones.
((NATS))
((John Maceri, CEO, The People Concern))
At our current rate, it costs about $550,000 a unit and takes
about three to five years to build a project. So, we were very
committed to find a way to build faster and cheaper, not in
terms of quality.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
We're doing that with a model that's replicable and scalable
model where we're trying to basically productionalize all the
different pieces. The part of the reason we're using modular
is that we basically are hoping to use the same basically
modular unit design across most, if not all, of our
projects. We're looking for, you know, similar sized plots of
land and we're going to basically systematize each piece of
the process, so that from beginning to end, it becomes
predictable.
((NATS))
((John Maceri, CEO, The People Concern))
The way it works is that people pay 30 percent of whatever
their adjusted gross income is. So, if they're getting Social
Security or general leave or if they're working, 30 percent of
their income, it goes to rent and then the balance is
subsidized through a federal voucher subsidy.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
You want two?
I try to make it work, man, and I haven't figured out how to
do it yet.
((NATS))
HOMELESS
((TRT: 03:28))
((Banner: Small Scale Solutions))
((Reporter: Angelina Bagdasaryan))
((Camera: Vazgen Varzhabetyan))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 2 male))
((Sub characters: 1 female; 2 male))
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
I was just going to be homeless. My family was tired of me, I
guess, I don’t know, not being what they
wanted. And so, me and my girlfriend just got a Greyhound
bus to California.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
I tried to go to Social Services and get like the general relief
and all that. And I got the EBT [Electronic Benefit
Transfer] and things like that. But really, I don't have a plan
right now, no. I mean, I moved all the way across the
country. And I get to be here, which is so much better than if
you go around some of these other places, dude. Oh, man.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
Flyaway Homes is a startup that was started in conjunction
with The People Concern, one of the largest homeless
service providers in Los Angeles County, to develop a model
for producing permanent supportive housing for L.A.’s
homeless population, faster and cheaper, so we can begin to
really solve this terrible problem.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
It's constructed out of converted shipping containers. And
this project consists of eight four-bedroom units, five of
which are occupied by families, three of which are occupied
by shared individuals. So, four people, two each with a
bedroom.
((NATS))
((Angel, Volunteer, Flyaway Homes))
A lot of people are doing bad. Like, they don’t got
food. They don’t got water. So that’s what we’re here
for. It’s all free. Donations that we get, we manage to give it
out to whoever’s in need, whether its food, clothes.
((NATS))
((John Maceri, CEO, The People Concern))
This is our community room. We have, as you can see, we
have a television here. This is normally a gathering
place. During COVID, obviously, the tenants are not
gathering, but we have laundry on site here. This can be
used for a meeting room. We have a small non-perishable
food pantry that's available for the residents, as well as the
resident services staff, who's on site, is based here as well.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
Permanent supportive housing only works for the chronically
homeless if it's combined with supportive services to keep
them housed healthy and safe which are provided by the
people.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
Like certain things, I got, like asthma and eczema, probably
like a low immune system because I do drugs.
I can go get a job, be alright for a year or so. Then I’ll just
destroy it all, burn my life to the ground.
It’s all good.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
So, I came out here with this girl that I dated for five years off
and on. And I wanted that to be the true love and all
that. And three weeks later, she left me for a guy to go do
heroin and meth with him, so. That happened. That was
like one of the worst things.
((Cody, Unhoused))
I guess you could say I’m free right now. But I dwell on
things in my head, man. I got a lot of anxiety and depression
problems. And that's where, that's really why I'm here is
because I can't make it work.
((Elijah, Volunteer))
We're just charging people's phones or whatever needs to
be charged because, you know, since the coronavirus,
there's a lack of places open to charge phones.
((NATS))
((John Maceri, CEO, The People Concern))
At our current rate, it costs about $550,000 a unit and takes
about three to five years to build a project. So, we were very
committed to find a way to build faster and cheaper, not in
terms of quality.
((NATS))
((Michael Parks, President and CEO, Flyaway Homes))
We're doing that with a model that's replicable and scalable
model where we're trying to basically productionalize all the
different pieces. The part of the reason we're using modular
is that we basically are hoping to use the same basically
modular unit design across most, if not all, of our
projects. We're looking for, you know, similar sized plots of
land and we're going to basically systematize each piece of
the process, so that from beginning to end, it becomes
predictable.
((NATS))
((John Maceri, CEO, The People Concern))
The way it works is that people pay 30 percent of whatever
their adjusted gross income is. So, if they're getting Social
Security or general leave or if they're working, 30 percent of
their income, it goes to rent and then the balance is
subsidized through a federal voucher subsidy.
((NATS))
((Cody, Unhoused))
You want two?
I try to make it work, man, and I haven't figured out how to
do it yet.
((NATS))
