Man builds tiny, mobile house for homeless woman

LOS ANGELES -- A man in Los Angeles' Jefferson Park neighborhood built a miniature home for a homeless woman who is well-known in the area. Folks in the neighborhood nicknamed Irene McGee "Smokey." She's homeless and gets by on recyclables.

"I have people stealing from me," she said. "You know, I don't have much as it is. But the little stuff I did have they used to take that. My clothes, the change I make from recycling. You know, it's very hard out here."

Elvis Summers lives in the neighborhood and sports both a mohawk and a big heart.

"She's like 60 years old and sleeping in the dirt," he said. "It's not right at all, you know?"

Summers had read about how people were living in inexpensive, tiny houses. So he took $500 he really didn't have and started building.

"I pretty much skipped on some food and a couple bills to get the materials," he said. "And then a local materials couple supplied the siding and the shingles on top because I pretty much ran out of money."

The home was built on wheels so that every three days Smokey can move her house around so as not to violate any laws.

"LAPD has been super awesome," Summers said. "They said as long as we move it every 72 hours, for now we're okay."

Summers has been so inspired by the work he did for Smokey, he created a GoFundMe account to raise money to build more tiny homes.

"I don't know who said it but it's a wonderful statement that, you know, a person can't help everyone but everybody can help a person," Summers said.