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Tiny houses and shipping containers may help homeless people. Are they humane?


Tiny houses and shipping containers may help homeless people. Are they humane?
By Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times
Published: April 25, 2021, 6:00am
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Stephen Smith stands in the doorway of the tiny home he occupies at Chandler Street Tiny Home Village. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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LOS ANGELES It measures only 8 feet by 8 feet. But to Stephen Smith, the tiny red house in North Hollywood is the place he calls home.
Until early last month, Smith had been living out of his car in locations around the San Fernando Valley, collecting cans from city parks as a way of making spare change. He ended up on the street not through a single event, but a slippery chain of them: the death of his mother last year followed by the pandemic, which left him in an emotional and economic lurch. ....

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