This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
ReasonTV1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2019-2021
4.9M views · 9 years ago · documentary · dated
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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3 comments from Hacker News
> 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. ▶ this video
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. ▶ this 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
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 -> ▶ this video regarding a man who tried to help (in LA) by making tiny homes.