The tiny homes are about the size of a parking space and come with solar-powered lighting.
Elvis Summers is the man behind the tiny houses, having built and placed 37 of them from Van Nuys to Inglewood. He gets help from volunteers and has brought in over $100,000 in donations from people all over the world.
Recently though, some of the tiny dwellings have been seized by the City of Los Angeles in a street clean up ordered by Councilman Curren Price. With Los Angeles having just adopted a decade-long, $2 billion plan to address and assuage the regions homeless crisis, the seizures are drawing criticism from Summers and those inhabiting the tiny houses.
"When the city took the houses, they didn't offer housing, they straight kicked them out," Summers said.
Mayor Eric Garcetti’s spokeswoman, Connie Llanos, said the mayor is committed to getting homeless people in permanent and not makeshift housing. In the statement, Llanos brought up safety concerns, saying, "Unfortunately, these structures can be hazardous to the individuals living in them and to the community at large."
Builder Elvis Summers is also looking at the seized units being destroyed by the city. Summers said the units should default.
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