- [Male] Angela.
We're here in the Tenderloin.
You're homeless, living in hotels.
Tell me about it.
- It is a different feeling.
It kind of like, crashed on me on my...
Lost my job, lost my place.
My teenager is going through a difficult time
because he is 16.
Doesn't understand it, really.
And my eight-year-old does not understand it.
She's just with mommy.
We are living house to house right now.
And if it wasn't for Compass Connecting Point,
I would not have been able to be in the pathway blue house
for me being pregnant and bringing my children with me.
It's a different feeling because I'm used to having
my own place.
So, everything kind of crashed on me.
It's like, I wanna say like a hurricane.
Now, my livelihood is completely turned upside down,
but I'm trying to still get up and get myself together.
It's hard because I'm also almost eight months pregnant.
I'm due with another baby.
My daughter and I had to move to a different city.
My son did.
He's staying with my cousin temporarily,
and now we're just kind of like staying prayer full
and waiting on the waiting list to get a place
of our own again.
- [Male] What are the hotels like down here.
- The hotel I'm in is actually really nice.
I'm not too fond of the area, but I shut my door.
But the hotel is nice, comfortable, very clean,
and the people are friendly.
But it's just a different environment, so.
- [Male] So, it's still just one room, though,
for a bunch of you--
- It's one room, yes.
- [Male] No cookin', nothing--
- Yeah, we have, no--
- [Male] Not a place for kids.
- No, no, she can't play outside.
That's out.
We have a microwave, a small refrigerator, a bed
we sleep in together.
We do have a flat screen, but, you know,
we're used to having our own room.
- [Male] Everybody has a flat screen these days!
- Nowadays they're reasonable.
Now, they're like--
- [Male] Yeah, no, you can't buy 'em like a regular,
tube TV anymore.
- No, you really can't.
- [Male] You know what I mean?
- It's different.
- [Male] So, you're on this waiting list.
You sign up for the San Francisco waiting list.
And you're one of, you know, there's lots of families--
- Hundreds of women and couples, too.
- [Male] From what I understand is you gotta check
in every week?
- Yes, you have to check in every week.
- [Male] And now you're working.
You're trying everything else.
- Yes.
- [Male] So, what hoops do we make you go through
as a homeless family just to get help.
- You definitely have to have the proper resources.
If I wasn't turnt on about Compass Connecting Point,
about how getting food tokens, bus passes, your loss.
You'll be really out in the streets.
So, because of Compass Connecting Point,
I'm able to keep groceries for my children,
have bus passes, get tokens for myself,
get blankets and clothing and things,
and then they turn me onto another program.
So, if you don't have the sources,
you're gonna be lost.
- [Male] But to get those sources.
What hoops do you have to jump through.
- If you don't know people that know other people,
you're not gonna know.
- [Male] Right.
And then documentation and all kinds of stuff.
- All of that is hard.
If you don't know someone that knows things,
it's not who you know, it's not really what you know,
it's who you know.
So, if you don't know the proper people
that can help you with sources, you're not gonna know.
You'll be homeless in the streets with your children.
- [Male] Right.
And you gotta go from place to place to place.
There's no really one stop.
- There's not, no.
'Cause I have two children and I'm pregnant.
So it's not like I can go, "Hey, can I come over?"
with a teenager, an eight-year-old, and I'm pregnant.
No, that's, no, that's not gonna work.
It's gonna be very difficult.
- [Male] What's your future like.
- My future is looking up.
I'm gonna be attending school soon,
but I'm gonna breast feed my baby for a while.
Then, my daughter is going to school over here.
My son is getting back on the path.
You know, we're all in family therapy
'cause it's hardship on my babies.
- [Male] Well, yeah.
- So, it's, they're learning to understand it.
And I'm also teaching them that you never know
where you're going in the future,
but you have to still get up no matter what you do.
So, right now we're all
they're going to school, she's in a Summer program
which is through Compass Connecting Point.
My cousin, Sharanda, who has been helping me a lot
with my son.
He's been working, and he'll also go to Summer school.
So, it's just, right now, we're just taking it
day by day and staying prayer full.
It's a task but it's work every day.
It's not easy.
- [Male] If you had three wishes, what would they be?
- A place, my own place.
Definitely a car.
And a steady job.
- [Male] Well, thank you very much for talking.
- No problem.
Pleasure.
Thank you.