Los Angeles – 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.
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 said of his six-square-meter home, which he shares with another man. “I don’t have to deal with cockroaches.”
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