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On The Streets

72 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Los Angeles has roughly 44,000 people living without permanent housing, and this film follows that crisis from the sidewalks and parking lots where it plays out. Interviews with people sleeping in cars anchor much of the runtime, and the film notes that the number of Angelenos living in their vehicles has doubled in just two years, turning ordinary streets into de facto encampments. Outreach workers, shelter staff, and city officials appear alongside the homeless subjects themselves, laying out how rent costs, job loss, and mental illness feed into the same outcome. The camera spends time in tent rows and makeshift camps rather than staying at a policy-discussion distance, letting the people living there describe their own routines, dangers, and small survival strategies. The film does not resolve the crisis or offer a tidy solution; it stays with the scale of the problem and the individuals inside it, closing on the same streets where it began.