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Disabled Woman Has to Leave Homeless Shelter Every Morning - YouTube
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Tammi we're here in Denver tell me well
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being homeless it's it's very stressful
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and I stay at Catholic Charities on
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Smith's Road its overnight shelter they
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wake us up at 4:30 in the morning we
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have to be out by 6:45 and it's still
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it's still kind of dark out
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I can't uh I can't RTD over there from
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over there to downtown and it's hard for
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me to get bus passes and everything
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because I don't have the income coming
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in or I don't have it it's hard and I
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wish I wish there was more services out
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here for us I wish we had a date shelter
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to go to that way we're not out here on
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the street you know and or we need if we
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were to camp out we need sleeping bags
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and Tansen and did be so the shelter
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lets you in tonight but then there's
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nothing to do during the day right so
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and you're disabled yes
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do you get Social Security I signed up
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for SSI and I have I'm just waiting for
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a letter to come in to see if they
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accept me and stuff like that
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yeah most people the first time are
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denied yeah even no matter what the
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disability is yes
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how long have you been homeless I've
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been homeless now for about five months
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what happened I I went to I went to the
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hospital they did surgery on my left
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knee and without income it's hard for me
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to have an apartment and everything and
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I'm welcome bone-on-bone I don't have a
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car seat in my left knee and I follow a
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lot that's why I'm on a walker oh my
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gosh
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and you're just out here all day and I'm
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out here all day journey rain shine I've
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been out here in the rain when it was
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hailing and everything and they don't
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open the shelters during the day at all
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no so that if people don't understand
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that he and hope they do this night
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shelter thing and then they kick people
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out during the day and then there's no
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place for people to go during the day
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and sometimes they build these day
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shelters well they got they got Saint
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Francis but when that place is full you
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can't even get through there through the
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door with the Walker and I have to turn
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around and be outside all day long oh my
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gosh yeah and you can't work I'm
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disabled I can't work it off so I do
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life this is my life right now I'm so
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sorry
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what would you want house people to know
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about homelessness that they may not
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know
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um
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yeah we can we we can't afford a $1000
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for our apartment or anything if we had
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some low-income housing you know for
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some of us disabled and stuff like that
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elderly we would be glad to go in
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apartment you know but other other than
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that rents too high and we have to be
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out here if you had three wishes what
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would there be three wishes
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I reached it my wish is having a have
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any having a apartment having a house
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with a big yard flowers around it and a
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dog sitting by my side three fishes
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house flowers dog yes great wishes thank
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you very much for talking to me you're
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welcome
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