Summers never thought more than 5.6 million people would watch a YouTube video of him constructing the 8-foot-long house for Irene "Smokie" McGhee, a grandmother who's been homeless for more than a decade. He estimates he spent less than $500 on plywood, shingles, a window and a door for the structure that can be wheeled around by one person. The video ends with McGhee doing a little jig and hanging up a "Home Sweet Home" sign. The GoFundMe campaign called Tiny House, Huge Purpose has brought in nearly $60,000 in less than a month. And Summers' inbox is overflowing with offers for help from carpenters, homeless advocates, retirees and children as young as 6. Now Summers, who sports a blue mohawk and wraparound shades, suddenly considers himself a man with a mission. He has started a nonprofit and reached out to Los fundraising Angeles officials to get the city involved in his plan to build more tiny homes for transients. "People are calling it a movement," he said Thursday. "I'm humble

Summers never thought more than 5.6 million people would watch a YouTube video of him constructing the 8-foot-long house for Irene "Smokie" McGhee, a grandmother who's been homeless for more than a decade. He estimates he spent less than $500 on plywood, shingles, a window and a door for the structure that can be wheeled around by one person. The video ends with McGhee doing a little jig and hanging up a "Home Sweet Home" sign. The GoFundMe campaign called Tiny House, Huge Purpose has brought in nearly $60,000 in less than a month. And Summers' inbox is overflowing with offers for help from carpenters, homeless advocates, retirees and children as young as 6. Now Summers, who sports a blue mohawk and wraparound shades, suddenly considers himself a man with a mission. He has started a nonprofit and reached out to Los fundraising Angeles officials to get the city involved in his plan to build more tiny homes for transients. "People are calling it a movement," he said Thursday. "I'm humble

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