By Mark Andrew Boyer, KQED News Fix
Oakland artist and designer Gregory Kloehn was thrust into the national spotlight in 2011, when he famously transformed a Dumpster into a home. Kloehn is again working with tiny structures, but now he is building them from found materials, and he is donating the finished structures to homeless people.
The homes, all built on wheels, range in size from small boxes that are just big enough to sleep in to larger structures that you can stand up in. Despite the attention, Kloehn downplays what he is doing, arguing that his structures are just an upgrade on the many lean-tos and improvised structures homeless people make for themselves.
“I just ripped a page from the homeless person’s book and then took my basic construction skills and came up with something,” he said.
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