Posted on 05/05/2023 10:30:14 AM PDT by Morgana
Hundreds of locals in one of San Francisco's wealthiest counties have been forced to pack up their lives into RVs and trailers after being pushed out of the housing market.
Shocking photos show the ever-growing line of trucks and other vehicles along 101 Highway – which now stretches over two miles in one of the largest encampments in the country.
Cities in Marin County, where on average homes cost $1.4million, are pushing for the line along the highway to end after the number of residents living in their cars ballooned during the pandemic.
Photos and video taken by DailyMail.com show families living in tents and using portable barbeques as their belongings spill out of the RV's and trucks.
Some appear to have used flags to mark the area of road that they use for their home, with many pulling tarpaulin over their cars to protect their possessions.
Officials say that there are at least 135 vehicles along Binford Road, on the outskirts of Novato, as the number who call it home has expanded.
The average household income in the county is $131,000 – which has left those with lower incomes nowhere to turn.
Residents of the surrounding area are now coming together to try to help bring the encampment to an end by helping people find services they need.
Every month they are given free groceries, assistance with their housing case management, medical assistance and much more.
There will be a push for the services to be expanded after state funding was awarded to Novato, Sausalito and San Rafael and to Marin County for unincorporated areas like Binford Road.
Each city, and Marin County, received $500,000 to address their encampment issues – with the county bringing in $1million in resources to help each of the regions.
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Pelosi-ville, in a Newsom State of Poverty-for-Many. French Laundry, anyone?
And the lefties want that for the rest of the country!
From federal taxpayer dollars, no doubt.
Welcome to the Hotel Newsomfoernia.
RV camps are popping up in my little town in rural Georgia. From what I have heard, used RV’s are extremely cheap and plentiful at the moment.
As long as you have an income such as disability or SS and food stamps, then that is good living.
Free days on the beach, a camper, fireside guitars, and partying every night.
These people don’t want homes. They want to toss garbage out of their RV,get drunk or high and beat up the other schlepps, and steal shit all day.
Bring the work to them. 2 hours of paid labor is all they need. Keeps them going.
Exciting, that’s why I’m voting Biden2024,’FINISH THE JOB.”
Learn Mandarin.
These scenes are merely a precursor to what the democRAT left’s dream of establishing “15 minute cities” across all of America will look like.
Lakeviews. Easy life. I can’t afford to live there.
It’s a great place to live...water-front property. And easy access to dispose of all your garbage, fecal matter, urine, etc.
I had a coworker circa 2010 or so who lived in his RV. It was very well maintained, clean, and set up pretty nice. His goal as a young batchlor was to save up a sizable chunk of change for a down payment on a house. Which is exactly what he did. He met a girl, it became serious, and they bought a starter fixer-upper house.
Go green, prolly get a subsidy to put solar panels on the roof
21st century Hooverville.
Fifty years ago there would probably be people who would have a use for such labor, but today they would probably have to deal with too many formal laws connected to the casual little relationship.
I still think your idea could be useful for someone, there are a lot of people there and you are right about many of them wanting a couple of hours’ pay a few times a week.
From other reports I’ve read they are dumping the waste from their RVs strait into the lake there.
You know how those people are about “helping the environment” and that is driving the locals crazy.
You would think that homeless people crapping in the streets would set them off but it does not.
“Fifty years ago there would probably be people who would have a use for such labor,”
Like WPA? We Piddle Around...lol
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