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What it's like to house a homeless person in your backyard
LA City and County officials are encouraging homeowners to build tiny houses in their backyards and rent them to a homeless person. The county will give people a $75,000 loan to do that.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readLA City and County officials are encouraging homeowners to build tiny houses in their backyards and rent them to a homeless person. The county will give people a $75,000 loan to do that. Then after 10 years, the loan is forgiven, and the homeowner has presumably increased the value of their property with that extra unit. Something similar has already happened in Seattle, where a charity-based program housed its first homeless person in someone’s backyard in October. We speak with one of the owners of that backyard.
Bobby with Kim Sherman and Dan Tenenbaum.
Bobby in front of his new house.
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- 39:50Remembering Comedy Store owner, Mitzi Shore
The full episode
3 of 5Would you house a homeless person in your backyard?- 0:00What it means for California if Kevin McCarthy becomes House Speaker
- 7:22Pros and cons of a new bill on setting health care prices in California
- 16:48What it's like to house a homeless person in your backyardYou’re reading this
- 24:26'Wild, Wild Country' and the cult that moved to Oregon
- 39:50Remembering Comedy Store owner, Mitzi Shore