They're Building Tiny Houses To Tackle Homelessness But The City Wants Them To Stop
The Block Club Chicago Podcast
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For more than four decades, unhoused Chicagoans have called a small strip of land along the Dan Ryan Expressway in the South Loop home. While neighbors have gotten used to seeing tents, a tiny wooden home went up last week -- the first put up by volunteers with the Orange Tent Project, a local nonprofit that’s already drawn the ire of the city and backlash from some neighbors for bringing hundreds of orange tents to the unhoused at over 15 city sites.
Host - Jon Hansen
Reporter - Mack Liederman
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