Samuelson said he initially wanted to build more permanent shelters for all of the homeless people in the Los Angeles area . A Los Angeles-based charity has begun distributing makeshift tents . The tent city is set up in a parking lot at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax avenues near Staples Center. ` This is $ 500 to get a man or a woman or a child off the damp concrete , '' he says . Homeless man : `` Everybody calls it the hobo condo ''
A Los Angeles-based charity has begun distributing makeshift tents . The tent city is set up in a parking lot at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax avenues near Staples Center. ` This is $ 500 to get a man or a woman or a child off the damp concrete , '' he says . Homeless man : `` Everybody calls it the hobo condo ''