Headline : Towing RVs without offering help only leaves more people living on the street

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There are more than 6,800 RVs in Los Angeles County that unhoused people call home, according to the 2024 homeless count. That’s more than the number of tents (about 4,200) recorded in that same survey. Of those, 3,691 are in the city of Los Angeles.

Recreational vehicles have appeared across the county and the city of Los Angeles, sometimes parked alone on a street, sometimes in groups that spread over several blocks. Some are dilapidated and inoperable. Others are in working condition and people can drive them from location to location.

But unlike a tent or cardboard lean-to, RVs offer substantial security, privacy and shelter. And in many other places, people are allowed to live full time in RVs. So understandably, RV dwellers often don’t think of themselves as homeless and few want to trade their vehicle for a bed in a group shelter. (Who would?)

Black people represent only 8% of the city’s population but make up 34% of the unhoused. Centuries of American racism create the effects we see today.

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