Homeless for the holidays: RV parking lot offers Christmas joy to people living in vehicles

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This is what the California housing crisis looks like.

A new state law goes into effect next year that will keep rent hikes to 5%. But Bains says that impending change has led to a flood of recent evictions and pushed more renters onto the streets. “It’s brutal out there,” he says.The median home price in San Francisco is $1.4 million. Anyone earning $117,000 there is considered low income, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This crisis in turn has spawned a growing number of Safe Parking programs across California, where pioneering organizations are now helping other groups set up similar public-private partnerships. In exchange for overnight access, organizations provide lot residents with benefits such as security, mobile showers and washer/dryers, and, most importantly, access to social services aimed at getting those living in cars back into permanent housing.

WeHOPE takes the same granular approach to helping those living in their vehicles. Caseworkers steer lot residents to free food and health care options and teach them about sound financial practices and eating habits.

 

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'Make life on the streets safer and filled with holiday cheer....' This is just pathetic in one of the richest nations in the world.

Billions have been given to solve the problem but nobody seems to know where money went. Feds need to investigate.

Get a job. They are homeless for a reason. Lazy and stupid. The world isn't here to do it for you. Nobody wants to work 😒 but I work because it's better than being homeless😁 nobody going to just give you everything you need. You can't help yourself you won't have anything

Liberal policies have caused this

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The only crisis is price gouging and greed

Democrats = Housing crisis.

Man made crisis

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Living in her car, she was afraid and harassed. Then she found an unexpected refugeIncreasing numbers of homeless people in California are living in their vehicles amid the ongoing housing crisis. But now advocacy groups have opened up 'safe parking lots' designed to let the homeless sleep in their cars without fear of being removed. America is normalizing homelessness. Is that one of the things that makes American 'exceptionalism'? In the richest nation on earth, kids go hungry, people are homeless, POTUS is trying to take away healthcare, caging children asylum seekers... America is a failed state May the Good Lord protect all Homeless.......there are also many more Homeless People, refugees, families, children in Africa with not even a car, parking lot to sleep in.......We much continue to each brothers keepers Wow! This is leftist benevolence and problem solving. The are sleeping in their cars on the streets? Hey I have an idea, let’s buy them a parking lot away from our beautiful city where they can safely sleep in their cars! Aren’t we wonderful!?
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