Man builds mini house for homeless woman and sets up project for 100 more

Homelessness is such a big problem that many of us don’t know what to do about it when faced with the scale of it.

Not so this man from Los Angeles. Elvis Summers met 60-year-old Smokie, who had been sleeping on a patch of dirt near his home, after she called to his house once to ask for recycling materials to exchange for cash.

After getting to know her, he allowed her to regularly rummage through his recycling, but wished he could do more for the mother, who has been living on the streets for 10 years.