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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.51,0:00:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ Music ]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.74,0:00:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> I never thought I'd be homeless.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.68,0:00:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt like it was us against the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.95,0:00:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coming to San Francisco we\Nhad all these high hopes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.24,0:00:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were like campus is a great place.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.99,0:00:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.88,0:00:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're so excited, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.92,0:00:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had all these hopes and then we came out\Nhere and it's just like damn, it's really hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.100,0:00:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Housing has been pretty difficult to come by.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.01,0:00:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I first moved out here and I found a\Nplace with a friend who lived off campus.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.93,0:00:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then she got evicted so we both had to leave\Nor pay like $1000 just to stay another night.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.32,0:00:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're just kind of like walking\Nthe street, one of our friends offered
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.37,0:00:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to let us keep our stuff at her house while we\Nlike moved around, back and forward to school
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.50,0:00:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we were able to spend some\Nnights with her but not all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.25,0:00:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we wouldn't have anywhere to go so\Nwe would just kind of wander around school,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.87,0:00:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wait until our friend would be\Nlike hey, you can come over.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.85,0:01:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was really difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.70,0:01:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Ever since I graduated high school at\Nthe age of 18 I was actually homeless.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.11,0:01:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's kind of led to me to this point was\Nstress, I think, the amount of stress of working
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.93,0:01:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and going to school at the same\Ntime was taking its toll on me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.50,0:01:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So by this year I started\Nliving in the homeless shelter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.96,0:01:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The weight I was carrying\Nwas just too much for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.19,0:01:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the semester before\NI was having some trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.60,0:01:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I take medication.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.58,0:01:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was living in a living\Nroom, which was stressful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.23,0:01:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked the logistics out for me and\Ncoming home late and from work and trying
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.94,0:01:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to manage my health on top of my\Nschool and academics and music.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.90,0:01:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> In 2001 I experienced homelessness for\Nthe first time as a pregnant young woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.10,0:01:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also struggled with drug addiction\Nand all the other issues that come along
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.73,0:02:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with it, incarceration and all of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.52,0:02:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It put me in a spot where I had\Nto access the shelter system.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.10,0:02:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And off and on I was in transitional living\Nand then I would go from here to there living
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.29,0:02:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the streets, staying in like a flea\Nbag hotel to like being out all night.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.01,0:02:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It happened from like 2000 to, I\Nwant to say 2007 like off and on.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.59,0:02:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Yeah I used to go to this\Ngas station and eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.28,0:02:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot of like just fast food and\Njust things that I used to come to eat
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.44,0:02:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just hang out outside, at night mainly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.84,0:02:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then down the street on Shotwell\N[phonetic] I used to go and take the back alleys
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.95,0:02:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my friend had a tent behind and I\Nused to go and stay there sometimes, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.29,0:02:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> We mostly just like slept in the library.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.10,0:03:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw a lot of people like sleeping in the\Nlibrary so I didn't think it was like a weird
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.05,0:03:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing and it was just kind\Nof like, ok, I'm tired.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.05,0:03:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just going to go take a nap in the\Nlibrary, also the break room at work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.06,0:03:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My roommate and I were both homeless\Nbut we didn't have like the same
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.31,0:03:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,schedules so it was kind of\Nlike, hey, where are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.71,0:03:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then after work we'd kind of be\Nlike hey, like where we going to go?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.05,0:03:17.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was a lot of like empty time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.100,0:03:21.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we weren't like freaking out about\Nschool and like getting our work done.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.52,0:03:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ Music ]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.25,0:03:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think upstairs like by the new third\Nfloor they have just like rows and rows
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.57,0:03:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we would just kind\Nof like sit there and sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.40,0:03:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After midnight this is closed\Nso we kind of just like stick
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.57,0:03:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to here, like research, backpack down.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.08,0:03:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> I remember sitting on this\Nspot, just kind of people watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.17,0:03:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah I was just walking around\Ncampus, anything to keep us busy, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.99,0:04:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Using public bathrooms sometimes,\Ngoing to the library a lot of the times.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.04,0:04:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back then they didn't have the\N[inaudible] so I didn't have that resource.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.47,0:04:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's only very limited places in the city
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.11,0:04:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can take a shower\Nand the lines are very long.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.74,0:04:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so just being able to like go to\Nthe thrift store, go to St. Anthony's
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.29,0:04:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get clothes, things like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.24,0:04:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Right now I live in a place called\NLarkin [phonetic] Youth Services.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.16,0:04:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a homeless shelter for kids ages 18 to 24\Nand it's located in the Tenderloin neighborhood
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.34,0:04:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of San Francisco right on the\Nborder of Van Ness and Ellis.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.39,0:04:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My family and I all live together in a\Nhouse in Palo Alto so I was always granted
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.23,0:04:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the privilege of having, you know,\Na room to come home to after school.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.10,0:04:59.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was inexperienced with a ton of like\Nstress from at a young age like that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.33,0:05:01.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you don't have a place\Nto go to, like a home base,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.06,0:05:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's more recent towards the start of\Ncollege when we all decided in my family to move
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.73,0:05:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of the house, was when I started\Nexperiencing that experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.45,0:05:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> It was not only scary, really heavy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.55,0:05:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had to much clothes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.50,0:05:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were unprepared so we packed\Ntoo much of the wrong stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.99,0:05:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so yeah it was definitely stressful having to\Nlug all our stuff around from place to place
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.05,0:05:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all our valuables we\Nhad to always keep on us
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.92,0:05:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's a little stressful, my\Nlaptops and stuff like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.17,0:05:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think actually the whole time we felt unsafe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.25,0:05:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't not have a moment where we\Nwere just like awe, like you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.17,0:05:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're just kind of always alert.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.16,0:05:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We both work downtown pretty\Nlate so then we'd just
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.15,0:05:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of be like shuffling around with nowhere\Nto go, kind of just endlessly wandering.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.05,0:05:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> I think not only finding\Nbut keeping a job is hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.76,0:05:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work here and I see people that\Ndo have jobs and they'll come
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.96,0:05:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the morning early, 4:00, 5:00,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.19,0:06:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to sign up for a bed and then they'll come\Nback at 7:00 to pick up their reservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.21,0:06:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wasn't working when I was homeless.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.05,0:06:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't even imagine working full time\Nand not being able to like lay your head
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.74,0:06:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down or rest and put up your feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.91,0:06:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It must be hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.05,0:06:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> It's draining, it's like taxing\Non yourself and your mind, your body,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.74,0:06:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to be very limited\Nin what you carry around.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.29,0:06:31.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have a chance to have a\Nlocker here that will help too
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.35,0:06:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's only certain hours\Nthat you can have access to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.25,0:06:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I see people day after day have jobs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.50,0:06:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> It's definitely got me to think about\Nthat extra time to spend with friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.87,0:06:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, take care of my health.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.05,0:06:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have to spend money on being\Nin hospitals the rest of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.59,0:06:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can spend money on practicing guitar and\Nmaybe promoting myself, maybe devote that money
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.17,0:06:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into like investing in my profession.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.27,0:07:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> We went to the psychiatrist.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.69,0:07:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a time when we were just like really\Nstressed out with school and everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.72,0:07:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my friend, she gets depressed so we both\Nwent to the psychiatrist person and we talked
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.61,0:07:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to them and they had told us about\Nlike homeless shelters but we didn't
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.11,0:07:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really feel that we belonged\Nin a homeless shelter.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.27,0:07:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wouldn't have been a good fit for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.24,0:07:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we didn't use those resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.89,0:07:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My freshman year was kind of just like\Ngoing through all that and I was just kind
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.88,0:07:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of like, is this what college is like?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.40,0:07:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But towards the end of that
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.17,0:07:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found some friends and\Nthat's what really helped.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.27,0:07:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> I was hospitalized towards\Nthe end of the year.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.23,0:07:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the doctors through Keiser were able\Nto find housing for me through the insurance.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.15,0:07:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were helpful in locating me to Larkin.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.21,0:07:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really tough to get in, like\Nyou've got to call every morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.79,0:07:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't pay rent there but you've got to\Nlike do the foot work to get a bed there
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.04,0:08:01.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then maintain that same amount\Nof work to continue to live there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.71,0:08:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was through my medical provider,\Nthankfully, that I have the place.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.94,0:08:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise I would have been me like digging\Nthrough phone books or like the internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.81,0:08:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to the library every day trying\Nto find like somewhere to live.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.07,0:08:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> There was a vicious cycle\Nthat I just couldn't get out of.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.27,0:08:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to get out but I just didn't know how.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.45,0:08:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know how to start.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.55,0:08:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know who to go to.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.40,0:08:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know like what first step to take.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.81,0:08:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was super hard for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.18,0:08:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that I wanted something\Nbetter for me and my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.62,0:08:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was able to work with a really\Ngood case manager and I applied
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.02,0:08:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for all the housing options,\Nwhich are very limited.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.31,0:08:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they had this community housing partnership\Nthat was available to 44 of the families
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.46,0:08:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were in the shelter and I was able to\Nget in one of those and I'm still there now.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.13,0:08:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of that I'm able to pursue\Nmy education because I'm not worried
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.09,0:09:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about all the rent that I am paying you know\Nespecially now in San Francisco it's crazy,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.05,0:09:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ridiculous amounts of rent.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.92,0:09:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being in a supportive environment\Nwhere I'm only paying 30 percent
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.65,0:09:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my income just makes it so much easier.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.92,0:09:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am able to go to school and then work\Ntowards my goal of being self-sufficient.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.11,0:09:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> People think of a college today they\Nthink of them in a dorm or somewhere
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.86,0:09:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a party getting drunk or something like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.05,0:09:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't think about the\Nother side in finding a place,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.05,0:09:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just expect us to have a place and we\Ndon't, especially if we live off campus,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.80,0:09:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's not a lot of help out there for\Nus and the housing is really competitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.52,0:09:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ Music ]