Tiny houses for homeless at center of legal fight. Elvis Summers, right, with a tiny house on wheels he built for Irene “Smokie” McGhee. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) ...

A 37-year-old man in South L.A. didn't want to see a local woman sleeping on the streets anymore, so he built her a small, portable house.

An estimated 34,000 homeless people live in Los Angeles, and 24,000 of them are unsheltered. Tiny houses alone won’t solve the crisis, of course, but the ArtCenter project does widen the ...

The homeless mothers who were evicted last week from an Oakland house where they were squatting plan to buy the property after speculators, in a change of heart, agreed to sell it to a city ...

As for Summers' tiny house idea, at least one homeless advocate says it has merit. "I love the overall concept," Mark Redmond, executive director of Spectrum Youth & Family Services, a Burlington ...

Cashell, who spent 10 years homeless as he battled addiction, stressed such a project is critical. "People without shelter die," he said. "I can’t stress this enough.

Councilmember Sally Bagshaw’s plan to build tiny houses for the homeless is not as radical as some might think [“Big pitch: Tiny houses for homeless across city,” Page One, Feb. 17]. With ...

One of ten shelters on wheels built by Gregory Kloehn and the Homeless Homes Project in Oakland, California Brian J. Reynolds. By Anita Hamilton. May 6, 2014 11:52 AM EDT.

Since April, Summers and a team of volunteers have built 37 tiny houses on wheels for homeless people around Los Angeles through his non-profit My Tiny House Project LA.The Seattle, Washington ...