Posted on 12/29/2017 7:38:13 PM PST by lowbridge
The rising cost of rent and housing in California is forcing residents into alternative accommodation with middle class workers taking up residence in their cars and RVs by the side of the road to make ends meet.
Hundreds of people, including nurses and chefs, are sleeping in parking lots in affluent areas like Santa Barbara as they make the most of the only homes they can afford.
Marva Ericson, who works as a nursing assistant, has been sleeping in her Kia for the past three months. She wakes up before dawn each day, showers at the local YMCA and dresses in her hospital scrubs to head to work.
'I wake up and I say, 'Thank you God for keeping me safe last night, and thank you for the Safe Parking program',' the 48-year-old told the LA Times.
Like Ericson, most of the people sleeping rough in their cars are part of the area's Safe Parking program, which is run by the New Beginnings Counseling Center and aims to provide a secure area for the homeless to sleep in their vehicles.
The program has roughly 150 clients and 40 per cent of those are working but they just can't afford an apartment with the rising cost of housing.
About 35 per cent of those in the program are seniors and about 30 per cent are disabled. The majority are living out of their small cars with only 25 per cent sleeping in RVs.
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Bad journalism.
A nursing assistant, is NOT a nurse. Big difference. Way too big to confuse the two.
Maybe -- just maybe! -- socialism doesn't work.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
They should have cargo vans.
California is just a typical Blue State.
If only they had heard of the “cash for clunkers” plan, they wouldn’t be living in their cars.
Just one of a bazillion recent articles in which the denizens of the news media SUDDENLY discover there are homeless people now that a Republican is again President.
Their playbook is so old it’s carved on stone tablets.
When idiot Liberals make housing excessively expensive through restricted development, high taxes and over-regulation, this is what they get: a shortage. So predictable and stupid.
In a van, down by the river?
I don’t get it. Would you live in your car because you couldn’t afford a home even though you had employable skills? I wouldn’t. I would move to some where I could afford to live.
Well, I don’t know. Can’t remember this being a problem when nobama was president.
The remarkable thing is how this all started last January 20.
The good thing is that they can move their home and possessions quickly in case of fire.
So basically people who try to run the rest of the country if not the world are incapable of running their own state.
California’s hidden homeless: Teachers, chefs, nurses and other middle class workers living in cars in parking lots because of DRUG ADDICTIONS?
When idiot Liberals make housing excessively expensive through restricted development, high taxes and over-regulation, this is what they get: a shortage. So predictable and stupid.
In Silicon Valley there is a two year waiting list for an RV slot.
True, but I’ve seen some cute little micro-campers made out of things like Ford Transits. If it works for them I don’t see a big societal collapse from people living out of cars or RVs.
Thank God that I got out of (escaped) SoCal.
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