Elvis Summers’ tiny homes for homeless people are stored in a an L.A. Sanitation Department lot. City sanitation workers seized tiny houses and RVs where people were living in the streets. (Credit: Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles has agreed to return tiny houses that police and sanitation workers impounded from homeless people, but the mayor’s office has not endorsed a suggestion to place a village of tiny houses on city land, a spokeswoman said.

Elvis Summers, who reportedly built and distributed 37 brightly colored structures to homeless people over the last year, said he had understood that Mayor Eric Garcetti was considering offering a surplus city lot as a site for the houses.

Connie Llanos, the mayor’s spokeswoman, said that although the mayor appreciated citizen efforts to come up with creative solutions to the city’s homelessness problem, he does not support the village concept.

“Not at this time,” Llanos said. “We’re developing a process on how we could work with nonprofits and we’d share those with” Summers.

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