LA man builds a mini house for homeless woman who sleeps on his block because ‘everyone should have a right to shelter’

‘Elvis Summers became accustomed to letting the homeless woman on his block, ‘Smokie,’ go through his recycling.

She would stop by his Los Angeles apartment often and the two would talk.

Summers – who runs a company that supplies dancers for parties – said he wished he could further help out Smokie, a mother who is 60-years-old and sleeps in a patch of dirt.

That’s when he heard of a a man in Oakland who had built miniature houses out of discarded materials – Summers and decided he could do the same for Smokie.’

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