4.9M views · Dec 9, 2016 · 14:04 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2019–2021
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 points people here: 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.”HN comment, 2021
“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.
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.
Part of a link list on homelessness.
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 to Illegal Aliens link
“someone did try building better-than-tents shelters, but LA shut him down for violating code.”
LA shut down someone building better-than-tent shelters.
> 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
