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L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless
21 Июль, 2021 (Среда), Размещено до: 21 Ноябрь, 2021 (Воскресенье)    
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L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless
Builder of tiny homes comments on L.A. seizing them from homeless people

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.
Gale HollandGale HollandContact Reporter

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.

Three of the gaily painted wooden houses, which come with solar-powered lights and American flags, were confiscated earlier this month and seven more are planned for impound Thursday, a Bureau of Sanitation spokeswoman said.

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Elvis Summers, who built and donated the structures, was out Wednesday with a flat-bed trailer, trying to move houses scattered up and down Harbor Freeway bridges into storage.

"These people are beaten down so hard, you give them any opportunity to be normal, it lifts them up," Summers said.

The houses were removed as part of a street cleanup requested by the office of Councilman Curren Price, who represents the neighborhood, sanitation spokeswoman Elena Stern said.
Watch an ongoing video series about homelessness in Southern California
Watch an ongoing video series about homelessness in Southern California

The three houses taken in early February are being stored on a city equipment lot but ultimately will be destroyed, Stern added.

Some advocates for the homeless see the wooden, single-room structures -- each about the size of a parking spot -- as a simple and safer alternative to having the homeless sleep on the sidewalks.

Mayor Eric Garcetti's spokeswoman, Connie Llanos, said he is committed to getting homeless people into permanent and not makeshift housing.

"Unfortunately, these structures can be hazardous to the individuals living in them and to the community at large," Llanos said in a statement on the mayor's behalf.

"When the city took the houses, they didn't offer housing, they straight kicked them out," Summers said.

Faced with public outcry over the camps, the city last year passed a tough new sweeps ordinance, but is continuing to discuss protocols and possible modifications. A plan to end homelessness over the next decade was also adopted, but officials are struggling to identify money to tackle the $2-billion problem.
L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless

Summers said he has built and placed 37 tiny houses 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.

"I'm just so angry right now," Summers said, adding seized houses should "default" to him rather than be destroyed.

Kenner Jackson, who lives in a tiny house with his wife, Becky, and terrier, Cowboy, said officials were "taking houses from people who need them right now. ... Their plan isn't anything."

Jackson said he didn't know where they would go if their house is taken Thursday. "This is our foundation," he said.

Jackson said the city hauled away homeless people's possessions while leaving bulky items like mattresses and chairs that residents dump next to the freeway.

Johnny Horton, 60, whose heavily bandaged legs were scored with wounds from uncontrolled diabetes, wept silently Wednesday as he contemplated going back to sleeping in the street.
Full Coverage: Homeless in L.A.
Full Coverage: Homeless in L.A.

"Laying on that tent on the sidewalk it's impossible to keep clean," Horton said. He said the staff at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, which discharged him Tuesday, said they'd try to get him housing, but it would take one to three months.

"I grew up in this neighborhood," Horton said.

Posted on Julia Briggs Cannon's tiny house next to the city impound notice were several fliers seeking the whereabouts of her husband, Larry Joe Cannon.

Cannon, 58, said her husband, a Vietnam-era Marine veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder and memory loss, was hospitalized with a seizure Feb. 5, then disappeared.
When the city took the houses, they didn't offer housing, they straight kicked them out. - Elvis Summers, built and donated the tiny houses

After Summers drove off with her house, she sat on a thin bedroll on the ground and pointed to the concrete.

"I'm staying right here," she said, her eyes filling with tears. "My husband is gone and I can't find him."

Stern said authorities destroyed needles, drug setups and a gun seized from one or more of the houses during the earlier cleanup.

Homeless people can retrieve the rest of their belongings from the city's skid row storage bin, she said, but Summers said possessions including bike repair parts were missing.

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