USA Rolling Homes: RV Encampments

Inside America's Growing RV Street Encampments
From New York City to Sacramento

5-28-23, * -- Rising costs across all sectors in the USA have caused pain for Americans in every state. Luis Quinero, party bus owner says: 'Compared to an apartment it's better because it's my space, nobody's going to bother me [wife and child].’ They’ve been in the mobile home for three months; bought it used for $30,000. The area around Quintero's home was immaculate, there were even two bottles of ammonia by his front door. Most of the residents Luis mentioned have jobs. In QUEENS, NEW YORK many RV owners have chosen streets, 45th and 46th along 20th Avenue because there’s no street cleaning. Luis migrated from Venezuela 10 years ago; his mother lives in an apartment in Queens. His brother, who works for Amazon, lives in the RV parked right beside his. He has a wife and two kids; and for business purposes and for his brother's kids' school, they use their mother's address. Two of his neighbors work at Rikers Island. Quintero said that the  NYPD regularly knock on his door and tell him & others to move - they say okay - then don't.  Other RVers say:

• Victor works nights in a deli, told the same story about NYPD officers regularly knocking his door and they never follow up. He said that he could no longer afford rent - he paid $1,300 for his RV, his neighbor paid $2,900.
• Paul Reevers described himself as 'working homeless.' He said that he works for a New York City hospital and took out a loan to buy his RV. He said he was the first person to be living in an RV on the block, that was four years ago.

Many of the RVs have most amenities of a lovely home: running water, heat, air conditioning, gas stove, TV, internet, appliances and shower, powered by solar panels. The license plates reveal that the RVs are from many states: Texas, Vermont, Florida and Pennsylvania.

BAY AREA ALONG 101 Highway in California: Shocking photos emerged showing an ever-growing line of trucks and other vehicles along RV Encampment stretches over two miles in one of the largest encampments in the country - there were at least 135 vehicles along Binford Road on the outskirts of Novato.
 
SEATTLE, WA: Amid the growing homeless crisis Mayor Bruce Harrell allocated $250 million in the city's budget to address the homeless problem. Overall violent crime has remained persistently high in the city, with 2022 marking the deadliest year for the homeless population in King County.
 
SACRAMENTO, CA: In April, city officials in announced they' d leased land for free to Safe Ground Sacramento, a nonprofit group, for up to four months. People can park their cars or RVs on the property, and the city will provide up to 33 trailers for people to live in. The city said the site will be self-governed by what it calls a 'resident council.'
 
PHOENIX, ARIZONA: One couple reports that they’d been 'outpriced' of the rental market; since 2020 rents in the state have increased by as much 40 percent.
​*Excerpted full report from DailyMail here