Look at the fourth pic again. Everyone in that pic has solar cells.
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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And they wonder why they stay and increase in size. If you feed a stray dog, it ain’t going no where.
But then again this is progressive utopia we just don’t understand that their version of utopia is a minimal, animal like existence and we will like it or else.
I lived in San Rafael 50 years ago. Can’t even imagine what it’s like now. Wasting away in Favelaville.
Yes…and eat bugs as we live that.
There used to be tons of pick-up work, just the newspaper business alone used a lot of it.
Door-hanging flyers for example.
Starnesville…
Towed in? Where do they pahk da cah?
That reminds me - a guy I used to work with lived in a community of boathouses. Not houseboats, which are like RVs that float, but a boathouse is basically a floating garage that is permanently tied to the shore. People started finishing them off and using them for living purposes which was illegal but one of them was a lawyer and fought off attempts to close them down.
This guy has a bumper sticker on his car that read “We can’t all live upstream”. Which was a reference to the fact that some unpopular boathousers just cut a hole in the floor and mounted a toilet seat above it...
“Every month they are given free groceries, assistance with their housing case management, medical assistance and much more.”
oh, yeah, all that free stuff will DEFINITELY want to make them move away for sure!
plus being right on the beach provides an easy solution for dumping your poop tank without losing your highway parking spot ... trash too, if so inclined ... a lot like the completely trashed out beaches and oceans surrounding Jamaica ...
maybe more free stuff might make them want to move away ... BHAHAHAHAHA!
One guy even has solar panels powering his RV. At least he’s green.
holy guacamole!
Look at the fourth pic again. Everyone in that pic has solar cells.
Yeah. No. As an aside, it is kind of appropriate in a couple of ways. First, because of China Joe, and second, because Mandarin has long been derided by non-Mandarin Chinese as the language of the bureaucrats.
Probably provided by the government.
When I look at that photo and many photos of the homeless camps I think of all the missing stuff from people’s yards.
I don’t think that guy devotes so much of his wealth buying so many solar panels.
“Every month they are given free groceries, assistance with their housing case management, medical assistance and much more.”
I predict a substantial increase in those “needing” those services arriving very soon.
No one round city hall way really want to discuss why housing is so out of reach for must wage earners. Could it be all the $$$$ that any builder has to put out jumping through oops even to get approval let alone start construction? NAH.
They should have been called Wilsonvilles. Wilson tanked the economy. Hoover was just inept at getting it back on track. These should be Pelosivilles, or Bidenburgs, or Newsometowns.
Okay, why don’t they move to somewhere that is cheaper to live?
At one point in my life I went from Executive VP of one of the largest imprinted sportswear companies in the Southeast, living in a half-million house in Fort Lauderdale, to jobless and homeless in the space of three weeks.
We looked at our options and chose a place that had weather we liked in an area we could afford - New Mexico.
We moved with the proceeds of our insurance on the house and what we were able to sell the lot with the burned out house on it for. We drove across country in our Honda CRV and Mini Cooper with all our worldly possessions, two kids and a brain damaged basset hound (he had been in the house when it was on fire). On the way the Mini Cooper hit black ice, spun out, did some amazing acrobatic flips, and got totaled. Just a little icing on the crap cake.
It wasn’t a lot for a family of four to start over with, but we made it work.
We didn’t have a motor home, or public assistance, or international news coverage.
I do not understand these people. Move on.
One for people in an unsafe area on a roadway, the other for the sanitation conditions.
Just wait till someone figures out a way to make those stackable.
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