Houses Built for the Homeless

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These Awesome Tiny Houses Were Built for the Homeless

These Awesome Tiny Houses Were Built for the Homeless by Oakland artist Gregory Kloehn rose to fame in 2011, when he created small homes made out of transformed dumpsters. Taking what he learned from making these mini living spaces, he's started a new project building brightly colored tiny houses out of found materials and donating them to the homeless.

Kloehn builds his houses using discarded materials he finds on the streets. Oakland has a horrible illegal dumping problem, so it's rad that he's solving two problems with one project. Although made from trash, Kloehn's homes are sturdy. They're also constructed with the basic living needs of the homeless in mind: they're built on wheels so they can be moved around, and they provide privacy, shelter from the elements, and a space for sleeping (some are even big enough to stand in). 

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Nick Rowlands ‏@pharaonick 

Tiny houses made from dumped materials and donated to homeless people in Oakland http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4501-these-awesome-tiny-houses-were-built-for-the-homeless … h/t @bryankitch (cc @cherilucas)

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