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win brothers Miles and Morgan Brody, 13, regularly volunteer with their parents at a Rochester, N.Y.-sanctioned homeless encampment called Peace Village. The brothers noticed there were several tiny houses at Peace Village built by students at the nearby Rochester Institute of Technology. It dawned on the Brody twins that they could likely do the same. They already had experience building ax handles, garden beds and
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Miles and Morgan Brody are working to build shelters for a local homeless community.
wooden knives. “We like building things and thought, ‘Why not build a shelter for the homeless?’ Our dad called the city and found out they needed a whole bunch of tiny houses,” Morgan says. >
AMY BRAND
BY SARAH SEKUL A
