LOS ANGELES: A pastor has set out to foment the micro housing option for seniors.
He’s moved into a 6-by-10-foot micro-home, built on a repurposed auto trailer. And there he plans to stay, until his campaign achieves its fundraising goal of $75,000 — enough money, he hopes, to build a whole village of them.
For the reverend, homelessness is neither a stunt nor an abstraction. During the economic downturn a few years ago, he and his family had to move into his mother-in-law’s attic for a time, after their house went into foreclosure. He was grateful to have a safe place to go, but he keenly felt the humiliation of living under someone else’s roof…