Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – For the past few months, Michael Gilpin has slept in a small, prefabricated house he moved into when he got off the streets of Los Angeles as part of a major drive to reduce homelessness.
Issued on: 07/06/2026 - 03:23
The single-room unit is a long way from perfect -- he says it has the air of a "jail cell" -- but it's a huge improvement on sleeping in his car.
"It's better than the streets, hands down," the 44-year-old told AFP of his 65-square-foot home (six-square-meter), which he shares with another man. "I don't have to deal with cockroaches."
Gilpin is one of a few thousand people who have benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars spent to find people a place to live in Los Angeles.
