This is a sad narrative of tiny house and uncaring bureaucrats .
Watching the video and listening to the city officials congratulate themselves over a billion - dollar - plus homeless architectural plan that stretches on and on into the future , compared to a Good Samaritan who raise 100k and did something right forth … ouch .
It ’s a tough way out and I get where the holding owners are hail from , but at the same time , one of these little house is a immense upgrade liken to living under a tarp .
At least Elvis Summers is doing something for his down and out neighbors .
Musician Builds Tiny Homes for the Homeless — City Promptly Seizes and Destroys Them
When the metropolis of Los Angeles refused to turn to an epidemic of homelessness — seen in sprawling and serious tent city — a struggle musician answered the call and built wads of solar - powered bantam houses to give those down on their luck a place to call home .
Elvis Summerscrowdfundedtiny place in part through his non-profit-making , Starting Human , and raised over $ 100,000 for what he viewed as a decent , if impermanent , solvent . And with the helper of volunteers in the contracting and twist business organization , built some 40 flyspeck dwelling house of wood with steel - reward , locking doors to put up solid protection for struggle tent - city residents .
summer , who experienced houselessness in his 20 , see the trivial , ego - sufficient houses as a creative root to L.A. ’s colossal dispossessed issue — peculiarly as the wooden structure provided a self-coloured home al-Qa’ida for those seeking jobs or drug and alcohol discussion .
Summers’projectwent swimmingly — individual who ’d last in flimsy tents with little to no security felt the dignity of a structure to call home base .
That is , until the city of Los Angeles put its invertebrate foot down , kicked several diminutive dwelling resident , out , and transport the structure for demolition .
“ About my house , you know , you know I had a pacification of psyche , ” Willie HadnottoldNPR shortly after losing his home . “ I could exit the threshold , go lay down , muted . And that ’s what I miss a whole lot , man . I do n’t want to start crying . ”
Suddenly evicted diminutive planetary house residents were n’t permitted to call up their few holding — including medications — before police and garbage trucks haul the homes away .
Summers managed to mob up a few of the flyspeck dwelling on public property , but was forced to evict residents , himself — just in hopes of saving the structures from the urban center .
City Council had meet to address L.A. ’s notorious roofless issuing , and councilmembers and local residents expressed outrage over the diminutive homes they deemed eyesores and mere bandaids for the greater trouble .
“ When the metropolis occupy those three houses , they chose to do it at the accurate same time that the council and the city manager were at City Hall unveiling the mayor ’s new homeless $ 1.27 billion plan , ” Summers explained .
Thatplanseeks to produce lasting transitioning housing for the homeless , among other programs , but does not directly address the city ’s crisis .
Summers ’ petite houses — which be around $ 1,200 to produce — have a Sir Henry Wood physical body and shell , admit a solar power arrangement , a camping toilet , two windows with warning gadget , and , most importantly for residents , a steel door with bolt
— are indeed temporary , but offer a cap , wall , and comparative security department in the interim .
Living in tents provides neither protection or self-regard and can make pimp a job or beating an dependance a seeming impossibility . These tiny planetary house constituted a jump off item — a sturdy base — for residents to trust on .
( Complete report here , with TV )
