The city of Los Angeles is putting an end to a crowdfunded, unpermitted program to build and deliver tiny homes to homeless people living on the streets of Los Angeles.
"Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people living on freeway overpasses in South Los Angeles," according to an article by Gale Holland.
The Bureau of Sanitation removed the houses, built and donated by Elvis Summers, at the request of Councilmember Curren Price, who represents the area.
"The three houses taken in early February are being stored on a city equipment lot but ultimately will be destroyed," reports Holland, via a Bureau of Sanitation spokesperson.
Summers's role in the hullabaloo was in building 37 tiny homes, placing them in neighborhoods from Van Nuys to Inglewood, "with help from volunteers and more than $100,000 in donations from people around the world drawn to his online video campaign." More info on the campaign can be found on the My Tiny House project LA Facebook page and in previous coverage by Soumya Karlamangla for the Los Angeles Times.
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