The [police sweeps] they suck. I mean, we're cleaning up our medicine and we're trying to make it livable out here. I mean my tent is the big one over there and you know, I think it's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous when the cops come out here and pull all of us out of here. We're not doing anything wrong, you know, we're trying to live just like they do, every day. We're trying to get back on our feet and it's hard.
I've got my sister's dog. She's homeless too, but she's in the hospital right now.
I haven't heard anything like that [about the new Nevada Cares campus]. Well, I've heard a little bit, but just a tiny, tiny bit. But why can't they just leave us alone until then? Why can't we just stay here until that becomes available for us? I mean, that would make it a lot easier just in the last two weeks, we've had 15 other people move over here [near Fisherman’s Park].
The Wells bridge area, they got a lot of fighting and burning people's stuff and that's why we came way out here because it's a lot safer, or you don't fight out here. You know, like the other day we caught a guy beating a girl in a car and we stopped him, pulled her out of the car and she took off, went that way and he went that way and he called the police, you know, and I don't know if they ever showed up for it.
I do like Our Place, [the new shelter for women], and the [voucher program], they do put people up in hotels. They put me up in a hotel for two weeks and then I lost my bed because I was taking care of somebody else's dog.
I mean, [with the sweeps] it's just, yeah, it's hard trying to move all of our stuff. I have two bikes, no trailer, you know, you usually use trailers to move and shopping carts.
Just don’t treat us not like we are infected with diseases or something, you know, that's what they do. I usually try to introduce myself with somebody walking down the trail. So I was like, yeah, I'm Kelly. You know, this is where I stay right now. It shouldn't be like this forever. You know, it’s not going to be like this forever, but we're just like, we're just like everybody else, you know, and I wish they would just kind of leave us alone for it until that, until that place gets done that way we could just stop worrying every day we go to bed, we think we're going to be woke up at five in the morning.
I've seen friends lose their tents and have to sleep on the ground with no blankets because the cops came over and threw their [stuff] all away. [Instead we need] port-a-potties and showers and a lifetime supply of toilet paper, places to wash our hands because of course I'm not putting my head in that river… I mean, everybody's gotta be clean. I mean, my ex, my ex-husband, I go to his house and shower, but all I can is do that every other week. You know, usually I just wash up in a bucket or something, but yeah, that's mainly, you know, what we would, I would, I would think they [should help us with].