It’s not their solution to fix housing. This is doing whatever they can to prevent more people from slipping farther into full-blown homeless. Once you get to that point, statistically you’re not coming back from it, and it becomes incredibly expensive for taxpayers too. So yeah, allowing car camping should be in the table.
I had to live in my car for a couple of months when I was a university student in the late 1970s. I lost my housing because the landlord died and his kids wanted to sell, so they evicted us all. It was well into the term and I couldn’t find alternative accommodation on short notice.
This is not a new problem. At least someone let me use one of their parking spaces so I was on private property at night. Eventually I found another house-share and got indoors.
My theme music for that period in my life is Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.
I suspect the bill is to provide the students with legal cover so they won’t be harassed by the cops. Many cities make it illegal to sleep in cars now.
It’s not their solution to fix housing. This is doing whatever they can to prevent more people from slipping farther into full-blown homeless. Once you get to that point, statistically you’re not coming back from it, and it becomes incredibly expensive for taxpayers too. So yeah, allowing car camping should be in the table.
The situation is so very bad.
I had to live in my car for a couple of months when I was a university student in the late 1970s. I lost my housing because the landlord died and his kids wanted to sell, so they evicted us all. It was well into the term and I couldn’t find alternative accommodation on short notice.
This is not a new problem. At least someone let me use one of their parking spaces so I was on private property at night. Eventually I found another house-share and got indoors.
My theme music for that period in my life is Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.
I suspect the bill is to provide the students with legal cover so they won’t be harassed by the cops. Many cities make it illegal to sleep in cars now.
Sorry to hear about your crappy situation. If you had a fixed lease, they cannot evict you until the lease runs out.