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

ReasonTV · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Social issues & cultureTransit, cities & urban planningLaw, policing & justice

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • first 2019, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I really liked this video -> regarding a man who tried to help (in LA) by making tiny homes.”

    Man tried to help homeless with tiny homes.

    sebringj, 2019-01 · Recommendation · in “Seattle’s Homeless Challenge”

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Topics: tiny homes, los angeles, homelessness, building codes, libertarian

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