This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
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.
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sebringj · 2019-01 · on “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 -> [this video] regarding a man who tried to help (in LA) by making tiny homes.
Cites kaliali · 2021-06 · on “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. [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
Cites paulddraper · 2021-08 · on “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. [this video]