The National Homelessness Law Center has tracked the increase in municipal laws criminalizing the homeless in 187 cities (Bauman, Rosen et al., 2019). From 2006 to
2019, 64 cities in their sample enacted new laws restricting vehicle dwelling, a 213% increase; by 2019, half of all cities in their sample had one or more of such laws
(Bauman, Bal et al., 2019)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/01944363.2022.2050936?needAccess=true
Not allowed to sleep on public land and not allowed to sleep in your own vehicle?!? What option does that leave people? Maybe they should be allowed to get a huge commercial real estate loan, buy a commercial real estate building, charge exorbitant rents, then deduct their loan interest payments and depreciate the building costs - thereby becoming rich without doing any real work!
Let's remember that Land is a Monopoly (there's a limited amount and it all has to be "owned" by International Building Code fascist "facilities" as "development"). This is why native indigenous peoples were only "temporarily occupying" their land, not owning their land as sovereigns.
For example, the city of Inglewood targets all vehicles with a 72-hour
restriction (time), but it also bans RV dwellings citywide (citywide). Therefore, we categorized census tracts within Inglewood with a citywide ban.
) if a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a
highway for 72 or more consecutive hours in violation
of a local ordinance authorizing removal.”
Cities within the Los Angeles CoC implemented
additional regulations to restrict and criminalize sleep-
ing in cars, vans, and RVs/campers. As Table 1 shows, all
but four cities in the Los Angeles CoC (81 of the 85 cit-
ies) adopted some type of restriction of vehicular dwell-
ings. 1 Bell, Huntington Park, Industry, and Lancaster
were the four cities in the region without any restric-
tions on sleeping in a vehicle. These cities had a smaller
share of vehicular homelessness compared with their
overall unsheltered population.
Cities regulated vehicular homelessness in five
ways: citywide bans, overnight restrictions, permit park-
ing, zone restrictions, and time-limited parking.
In the city of Los Angeles, gov-
ernment agencies towed almost 10,000 vehicles in a
month largely due to unpaid parking tickets, lapsed
vehicle registrations, and enforcement of the 72-hour
rule (Western Center on Law & Poverty, 2019). Many
individuals living in their vehicles have lost them due to
debt collection and registration tows, ultimately finding
themselves on the street (Flaming et al., 2018)
As of 2021, safe parking
expanded to Los Angeles County; there are currently 17
sites with 439 spaces available that can serve approxi-
mately 508 people (McElwain et al., 2021). This number
is 10,000 spaces short of accommodating the 11,124
vehicles counted as part of the 2020 PIT count.
The City of Los Angeles owns 11,831
total public parking spaces (City of Los Angeles, 2020). If
just 13% of these spaces were converted to safe park-
ing, it could accommodate about a quarter of the
vehicular homeless in the city (SafeParkingLA, 2021). As
of 2010, there were approximately 18.6 million parking
spaces in Los Angeles County (Chester et al., 2015).
Therefore, the County would need to use just 9,511
spaces (or 0.05% of total supply) to serve the remaining
population of vehicle dwellers.
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