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walkitoutEver wondered who owned those RVs that are all over the streets of Seattle and other West Coast cities, with people living in them and all kinds of tragedy happening in and around them?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/vehicle-ranching-in-seattle-inside-the-underground-market-of-renting-rvs-to-homeless-people/
In the article, there is mention of Graham Pruss, who wrote his doctoral thesis on vehicular homelessness.
There is a lot of insight into the various participants in the cycle: the people supplying the RVs (lots of questions answered! And many times they are bought from city impound auctions! Oh noes! The city has paid tow companies to destroy rather than auction, which makes sense) and what their motivations are, the people renting them and some of what their life in the vehicles is like, and what Durkan and the City of Seattle are doing in an effort to enforce relevant laws, create new relevant laws and carefully dodge having the RVs considered homes which would make cracking down on them that much harder.
Common law and our system of precedent have strong protections both for the maintenance of public ways and to limit encroachments upon the public ways. Common law and our system of precedent ALSO have strong protections for homes. This is not the first time they have collided, and I suppose anyone who ever learned about all the houses and shops and so forth that once lined London’s famous bridges could have seen all this coming.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/vehicle-ranching-in-seattle-inside-the-underground-market-of-renting-rvs-to-homeless-people/
In the article, there is mention of Graham Pruss, who wrote his doctoral thesis on vehicular homelessness.
There is a lot of insight into the various participants in the cycle: the people supplying the RVs (lots of questions answered! And many times they are bought from city impound auctions! Oh noes! The city has paid tow companies to destroy rather than auction, which makes sense) and what their motivations are, the people renting them and some of what their life in the vehicles is like, and what Durkan and the City of Seattle are doing in an effort to enforce relevant laws, create new relevant laws and carefully dodge having the RVs considered homes which would make cracking down on them that much harder.
Common law and our system of precedent have strong protections both for the maintenance of public ways and to limit encroachments upon the public ways. Common law and our system of precedent ALSO have strong protections for homes. This is not the first time they have collided, and I suppose anyone who ever learned about all the houses and shops and so forth that once lined London’s famous bridges could have seen all this coming.