Greater LA

Tiny homes for unhoused Angelenos, the struggle of meeting students’ emotional needs


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The Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village has 177 separate sheds for each person or couple who used to live on the streets. However, it’s not easy for everyone to adjust to a new life in the village, which comes with rules. Also, the LA Times analyzed data over the past year and a half of remote learning and found “deep drops in assessment scores or below grade-level standing in key areas of learning.” KCRW checks in with a third grade teacher and a high school history teacher. “Now I have more students who are working than ever. … Their managers forget that they are high school students and schedule them for really, really tricky hours,” says Aviva Alvarez-Zakson, who at Hamilton High School in Castle Heights.

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