Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’
Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’
Municipalities and non-profits are establishing secure lots to address the rising number of people who live in cars or RVs
This is the most capitalist dystopia thing I've read today!
This is the most capitalist dystopia thing you've read today, so far!
Wait until he hears about the shipping container wall at UC Berkley
If you’re tired of the “capitalist” dystopia around housing, lobby for government to ease restrictions on new construction.
As homelessness continues to grow, so does the number of those living in their vehicles.
🇺🇸 🦅 The American Dream 🦅 🇺🇸
They call it the American Dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it.
As someone who lived full time in a fifth wheel voluntarily with my family, living mobile in a tiny home, RV, or camper van can be pretty awesome. However, many of these people aren't doing it by choice and that should never be the case.
I did it for a few weeks when I had no other choice. It was in a little Kia. I do not recommend hopping from one Walmart parking lot to the next.
I did it for a few weeks when I was in college, waiting for my first cheque from my p/t job ... in a '69 VW Beetle, in a cold Canadian winter.
It sucked.
Having a tiny camper that isn’t going to break, a decent supply of food and money, and a YouTube channel all about your “Van Life” is a lot different than sleeping in the back of your car because you have no way to escape America.
I lived in a Geo Metro for about a month, then it got towed and I was sleeping on the street. Having a car to go into is so far above and beyond have no place at all to go into.
I did it for a few weeks when I had no other choice. It was in a little Kia. I do not recommend hopping from one Walmart parking lot to the next.
I've done it for over twenty years. It's feasible, but sometimes not ideal.
The greatest country.
Manifest Density.
Americans living in their cars
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are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’
🤗🤗🤗
They must be really happy about how amazing the economy is doing.
This has been going on for nearly a decade already. Probably two decades now
~12min video on it from an Australian public broadcast service, from mid-2014:
Safe parking lots are better than living in a van down by the river!
You wish that you could have a spot as nice as by the river.
Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest
No job, no home, no peace, no rest, no rest
This is America.
Another Snow Crash prediction is coming true.
When I read that book I was a Doordash driver, and it was so funny reading the description of the guy.
Are the highways leading to Alaska above sea level enough for those linear shanty towns to exist?
Are there rules about keeping all your crap within the confines of your vehicle (at night | on weekdays | during street sweeping) at all?
I find the sea of detritus present in these camps - seemingly right after the first resident shows up - is a huge factor in the public seeing them as risky and dangerous.
Every single media story on homeless campers is jammed with shot after lingering shot showing a carpet of junk covering everything; and while it's neat to set up some deck chairs in front of the Winnebago, I'd love to see some process or policy that keeps everyone's shit either bottled up in their hard tents periodically or moved toward the sorter and recycler.
It'd help promote the "campers are just people and not the rubbish of society" idea that we know in our brains but need to also feel in our hearts.
I can imagine being homeless, under the worst stress and despair I've ever experienced, and not having any mental budget left for caring about whether or not my object is on the inside or the outside of my tiny metal box that doesn't let my lie all the way down at night.
Nothing can help promote the idea that the campers are real people if the media doesn't want to show it. Showing sloven bums making a mess of everything around them because they don't want to get a real job is great for ratings. Don't matter if it doesn't represent reality.
I’d wait to see if an official process is necessary. People self govern pretty well when they need to. If there’s a problem person other people can deal with them.
Public transport advocates in shambles
our minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour some make less than that but housing and food and vehicle ownership has skyrocketed as has communication costs
biden has been against empowering workers and strengthening workers rights such as the rail workers he told not to protest and ask for higher wages and more time off then the news came out after about expanding rail industry came out
and now that biden let abortion become illegal on his watch and education is the toilet there will be more warm bodies to fill the low wage positions at the chip factories or at the rail yards or elsewhere that is needed
and without the promised police reforms biden has ensured there will be enforcers to keep the peace in all this like waking people up in vehicles no matter where it is parked
MURICA by GOD!
Never was a fan of blaming the entire dumpster fire on the leader of the executive branch any more than I believe we should blame that leader for things like gas prices.
What exactly do we expect the leader of the executive branch to do when the leadership of the judicial branch invalidates a law written by the legislative branch many years ago when it was able to agree on such things.
How much power are we willing to cede to a single person (the president) as a result of our legislative branch being completely unable to function? The legislative branch creates laws, the judicial branch rules on if those laws are constitutional and the executive has a veto and controls the armed forces and foreign policy (among honestly, maybe too many other things). I feel like rewatching schoolhouse rock might be fun. Let's do that, huh?
As someone who has helped organize a union and is a strong advocate of unions in general, I was very upset with the way Biden handled the railway workers fight. However, I continued to follow that story and it turned out Biden's administration had a plan for that. They ended up getting the railway workers most of what they were asking for in the end while averting a railway shutdown in the process.
As @tory said, Biden didn't let the Supreme Court rule on roe v. wade the way they did. It's two separate entities.. Which is a very basic fact when it comes to how the government works. No offense, but if you don't know that you really don't have any business commenting on politics at all. You're speaking with the confidence of a head chef when you can barely put together some scrambled eggs.
North Carolina has had $7.25 as the minimum wage since 2008. It was like $5.15 when I got my first job at 16 (though I was paid $5.25) in the early '90s. Pretty funny when the recent temp Speaker of the House McHenry said he only makes $174,000 a year and that's not enough. A recent article said most reps have two residences (one in DC and one in their home state, but still). $174,000 isn't enough and Congress still bitches about raising the minim wage to $15, which is around $30K a year.
Punctuation is neat.
Gosh why can't the Democrats nominate somebody else? Ugh
STFU. Ignorant twat.