Should We Replace Homeless Shelters With Tiny Houses?

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January 7, 2019

Los Angeles Magazine
December 2018

Earlier this year, Mayor Garcetti announced a plan to fund 15 temporary shelters in every City Council district to help ease the region’s homelessness crisis. The first of these—a cluster of four metal co-living trailers in downtown’s El Pueblo historic district—was erected in September. As officials scramble to approve sites for the others, students at the ArtCenter College of Design have been rethinking how future pop-up developments might look.