RVs parked on Los Angeles city streets risk getting towed

[Community Alumni]

People who park their RVs on the streets of L.A. are once again at risk of having them towed.

https://www.facebook.com/CBSLA/videos/10155587181490859/

[Community Alumni]

Not all of those RVs parked on city streets are owned by homeless people. In the news video, the first RV shown in the video belongs to the woman being interviewed in the car as she is pulling out of a driveway. Apparently, she doesn't care if her RV parked on the street is an eyesore since she's a taxpayer. She must be suffering from the entitlement-mentality illness that seems to be gripping this country lately.

Due to the mild climate, Southern California does have a problem with too many homeless people living in RVs on city streets, especially coastal communities during the summer months. LA and other cities have tried to crack down on the problem, not so much because many of the RVs are old and battered and are an eyesore, but more so because many of them were creating unsanitary conditions by dumping their tanks on the streets and taking up valuable parking space used by nearby residents and businesses.

As an aside, even the then well-known singer and musician from the 60s and 70s Sly Stone from Sly and the Family Stone was homeless and living in a small RV not that long ago on a street not far from where that news video was recorded. A nice couple that lived nearby allowed Sly to come inside their house every few days so he could use their bathroom and do laundry.

Homelessness is a serious problem across the country that needs to be addressed at the national level. In the meantime, practically every municipality is doing its best to get rid of their homeless population by enacting laws and ordinances designed to harass those that are down and out in our society.

On the other hand, I have zero sympathy for RV owners that get their RVs ticketed or towed away for parking on city streets because they are too cheap to pay for storage. Believe it or not, your $500K rig that looks like a beauty to you may look like a monster eyesore to your neighbors. Not everyone is into RVs so please be considerate of others that don't share your passion.

[free_radical]

MrWizard wrote:
Let's face it
There used to be flop houses, cheap hotels in run down parts of the city where a few bucks would buy a bed for the night
City closed them under health and safety codes
The property goes abandoned and and gangs or derelicts move in
Until it's torn down
Mean while all the people that would have been there are thrown into the street and end up in cars vans RV's, or under tarps and bushes

In Asian big cities such as Tokyo they invented these fairly cheap capsule hotels to stay at night..

https://youtu.be/U7Q3sKNuZA0

If you ever stay in one of these bring ear plugs in case someone snores..

[delwhjr]

Our city has regulations on where you can park not only on the street but in the driveway and yard. The rules require certain surfaces and screening for yard parking. They do not allow the use of an RV anywhere except in an RV park to live in and you can not leave it in the street for more than 48 hours. This also includes any type of trailer or boat.

[MrWizard]

Let's face it
There used to be flop houses, cheap hotels in run down parts of the city where a few bucks would buy a bed for the night
City closed them under health and safety codes
The property goes abandoned and and gangs or derelicts move in
Until it's torn down
Mean while all the people that would have been there are thrown into the street and end up in cars vans RV's, or under tarps and bushes

[GordonThree]

There's plenty of derelict RVs around my town but they're not on the streets. The government still tries to get rid of them via the blight ordinance, sometimes even using deadly force.

[mowermech]

That is true in many municipalities all around the country, and in many foreign countries.
While I enjoy picking on California cities as much as anybody, why pick on LA? It can and does happen in many places.
Even in Montana municipalities!

[MrWizard]

a Vehicle that has been abandon and not moved for (2) months

yes i understand home owners getting frustrated

of course the OP did not put that in his post

I would rather see somebody in an RV moving from place to place, if it and the areas is keep clean, than under the bushes in the city park or river bed

L.A. has lots of abandon cars , many of them set for months
calling the city to get them towed, does nothing,
they give it a ticket and then another one, then tow after its been booted

[Gonzo42]

There are a number of streets in the county but not in the city where many live in their RV.

[rk911]

clicky

[GordonThree]

Excellent!