'Huts' to give homeless a dry, warm place to sleep

Drew Mikkelsen | KING 5 News

Show Caption Hide Caption 'Huts' to give homeless a dry, warm place to sleep A group of volunteers in Washington state raised money to build insulated huts that will give homeless people a place to sleep that's out of the rain and the cold.

OCEAN PARK, Wash. – A group of volunteers wants to help the homeless on the Washington coast, one hut at a time.

The group, headed by Pvgzly Addams, is building what they call "homeless huts" with $500 they raised online. And they're looking to raise more money to build more shelters.

The 20-square-foot portable minihomes look like dog houses on wheels. And while Addams says it's not much, it is insulated, and will keep the homeless warm and dry.

It's something Addams wishes he had when he was homeless, living in a tent in the woods when he was a teen, relying on food banks and the kindness of strangers.

"It's really a major feeling of helplessness. There's nothing you can do in those situations. It's hard to get cleaned up, to get clean clothes, to have a place to sleep at night," he told KING 5. "Tent living in this weather is no fun."

Addams and his friends are raising money to create more "homeless huts" with a GoFundMe page, where as of Thursday at 8 a.m. they have raised $1,670 of their $2,500 goal.

"As the weather gets colder, more and more people living on the streets are going to succumb to frostbite, hypothermia, pneumonia, and possibly death due to lack of dry, warm shelter," he writes in the GoFundMe description.

"If we can even raise enough to build one shelter, for one person, that's one less person who might die."

Addams said the first home should be finished by the middle of the month. He won't sell it. Instead, he says he is going to give it to a local homeless person.