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Tiny Houses for Homeless People Previously Seized by L.A. Are Returned

A tiny house is set up in Compton after it was returned to its occupant on May 6, 2016. (Credit: KTLA)

Three tiny houses built for homeless people that had previously been seized by the city of Los Angeles were returned to the owner Friday.

Willie Hadnot spent four months living in one of the $1,200 South Los Angeles homes under a freeway overpass before the Department of Public Works confiscated it back in February.

Officials said the homes were sitting on  sidewalks and were causing health and safety issues.

But the city gave the homes back after Elvis Summers, the man who built them, agreed to keep them on private property.

Hadnot said seeing his little red house makes him happy.

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