This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them. on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2019–2021.
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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.
“someone did try building better-than-tents shelters, but LA shut him down for violating code.”
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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.
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> 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
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