Oakland Artist Transforms Illegally Dumped Garbage into Homes for Homeless


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West Oakland artist, Greg Kloehn, drives around the streets near his home studio looking for illegally dumped trash piles that show up every night.

Along with a team of volunteers, Greg fashions those pieces into tiny, moveable structures. Ever since his first home give-away, Greg has converted trash into more than a dozen small homes on wheels and given them to the homeless in his area.

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