Many jurisdictions restrict or ban RVs or people sleeping overnight in their cars. Violations can prove costly, even devastating. Parking tickets and towed vehicles can result in the loss of shelter and belongings, leaving people much more vulnerable than before and much less likely to recover financially.
The way I see it there's going to be three americas: the boaters, the PMC libs, and the entrenched underclass always one misstep away from total desolation.
There were thousands of people living in cars where I am before the pandemic, lots of streets of them (this is in addition to the even more visible clusters of temporary shelters). I don't go out near as much any more but when I do it seems like that amount has doubled or tripled, and however many you see, there are way more because subtlety is a necessity for living like that. How fucking stupid do you have to be to live here and believe that this is the best country, or even a particularly good one, and yet
