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California schoolchildren help to build homes in LA

Published Tue, Aug 29, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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A LOS Angeles man who has spent more than two years building tiny, portable homes to help house the city's homeless population recruited a group of fourth and fifth-grade children to aid his mission.

Elvis Summers, 40, has built dozens of compact one-room homes on wheels. For his latest construction, he has teamed up with a group of more than 100 children, aged nine to 11, from a local charter school.

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