Tiny Houses for the Homeless Seized by LA Officials

LA city officials and seized and removed tiny houses that were built for the homeless living in the city’s highway underpasses.

Fernando Lopez carries possessions to his street side encampment which is protected from minor storms by an overpass on November 20, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. David McNew/Getty Images

As with any metropolitan area, Los Angeles has its fair share of homeless people living on the streets. 

Recently, Elvis Summers has started constructing tiny mobile wooden houses for the homeless in LA, getting funding from GoFundMe. Many of them are located in the highway underpasses. 

However, the structures have been seized by the city for being unsafe and will be destroyed, the LA Times reports. 

A makeshift wooden house Elvis Summers/Facebook