LA’s rules against sleeping overnight in cars will be enforced starting today

Well there’s always the underpass or a box I guess. Why should people who are down on their luck be able to sleep in cars that they own and that afford them some minimal degree of safety? Why allow these folks any dignity at all?

(From Curbed)

Results from the 2016 homeless count found more than 7,000 people live in their cars in Los Angeles, says KPCC.

City officials tell KPCC that the new rules are geared toward helping car- and RV-dwellers find appropriate places to post up. Mayor Eric Garretti’s homelessness policy director, Alisa Orduna, says the new rules will help service providers connect with people who are living in cars, so that they can offer them vouchers for housing and motel stays.

But homeless advocates argue the new rules basically constitute a “ban” on living in vehicles, and note that the rules would not apply if the people who reside in cars and RVs were to simply exit their vehicles and sleep in tents on the street.

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