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Willie Pep

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Fri Aug 3, 2018, 12:14 AM Aug 2018

More Americans are living in their vehicles due to lack of affordable housing.

I see this sometimes where I live in the Midwest but it looks like the problem is worse on the West Coast. My cousin just returned from Seattle and he said that he saw many people living out of their cars.

The number of people residing in campers and other vehicles surged 46 percent over the past year, a recent homeless census in Seattle's King County, Washington found. The problem is "exploding" in cities with expensive housing markets, including Los Angeles, Portland and San Francisco, according to Governing magazine.


Full article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-americans-are-living-in-their-vehicles-amid-high-housing-prices/
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More Americans are living in their vehicles due to lack of affordable housing. (Original Post) Willie Pep Aug 2018 OP
Yup MFM008 Aug 2018 #1
many homeless come to los angeles from other parts of the country JI7 Aug 2018 #2
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