This week for BuzzFeed News, Tim Murphy visits the Pacific Northwest, where new communities made up of tiny homes are providing some with an alternative to homelessness. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.

Are Tiny-House Villages the Solution to Homelessness? — BuzzFeed News

Tiny homes, once limited to the dreams of sustainable design lovers, are now popping up in communities as viable alternatives to homelessness. Yet will they ever be more than a temporary solution? Read it at BuzzFeed News.

Photograph by Leah Nash for BuzzFeed

The Controversial Death of Ebola's Unsung Hero — Matter

Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, a world renowned ebola expert in Sierra Leone, was denied an experimental drug treatment by the international medical community when he fell ill with the virus. Joshua Hammer asks: Did he have to die? Read it at Matter .

Puppets by Jöns Mellgren for Matter

Hotter Than Lava — ProPublica

Military-style grenades, called "flashbangs," can severely injure and even kill those who unsuspectedly fall in their paths. Yet, as Julia Angwin and Abbie Nehring investigate, that doesn't stop police from regularly deploying them during raids with no oversight or consequence, and often on people who turn out to be innocent. Read it at ProPublica.

Justin Volz for ProPublica

When I Grow Up — The New Yorker

Rebecca Mead visits KidZania, an international chain of theme parks where kids pretend to be grown ups, have jobs, and make money. "This is not about fantasy. This is not princesses and dwarfs.” Read it at The New Yorker .

Illustration by Nishant Choksi

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