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This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.

ReasonTV1 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
4.9M views · documentary · dated · Uploaded 2016-12-09

Reason TV profiles Elvis Summers, a Los Angeles musician who crowdfunded dozens of tiny homes for homeless people. City officials moved to remove them while pushing a multibillion-dollar housing plan.

Cited in homelessness threads as an example of a private effort to build cheap shelter that LA shut down over code violations.

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@sebringj2019 · in “Seattle’s Homeless Challenge”

I completely missed the boat on that one with home prices. I guess that's why it's a tough issue. It's not something you can just answer without knowing a ton of variables which maybe is a task for AI. My bad. I really liked this video -> [VIDEO] regarding a man who tried to help (in LA) by making tiny homes.

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@kaliali2021 · in “How California Homelessness Became a Crisis”

Skid Row, Explained - Johnny Harris [LINK] Evicted: Most Liberal Neighborhood Gives 300 Homeless COVID-19 Refugees the Bum's Rush [LINK] This Seattle homeless shelter is promoting rectal injections and free "heroin pipes," all paid for with tax dollars | Not the Bee [LINK] Project Veritas: Central OAC exec admits orgs register thousands of homeless to vote at same address in Fulton Co. [LINK] This LA Musician Built $1200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them. [VIDEO] 585,000 homeless U.S. CITIZENS are ignored while ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in New York will collect $15,000 food stamps, free housing, and a job. Tom Cotton: New York’s Homeless Veterans Ineligible for $15.6K Payments to Illegal Aliens [LINK]

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@paulddraper2021 · in “Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk”

> What do you do with them while working? Well, someone did try building better-than-tents shelters, but LA shut him down for violating code. [VIDEO]

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