{"id":720,"date":"2024-01-05T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/americans-living-in-their-cars-are-finding-refuge-in-safe-parking-lots\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T19:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:19:54","slug":"americans-living-in-their-cars-are-finding-refuge-in-safe-parking-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/americans-living-in-their-cars-are-finding-refuge-in-safe-parking-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in \u2018safe parking lots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Municipalities and non-profits are establishing secure lots to address the rising number of people who live in cars or RVs<\/p>\n<p>Starting in October 2021, about 40 motorhomes or recreational vehicles (RVs) parked in a lot on Grayson Street in Berkeley, California, as part of the city\u2019s first attempt at a \u201csafe parking lot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@37.8546602,-122.2957632,3a,90y,141.01h,91.27t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1saBxENHbyvlrmswvKlh2n_w!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DaBxENHbyvlrmswvKlh2n_w%26cb_client%3Dsearch.gws-prod.gps%26w%3D86%26h%3D86%26yaw%3D146.07437%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu\"> Google Maps photos<\/a>, the space had been mostly unused since 2008. But a local non-profit, the Dorothy Day House, created the Safe Parking and Respite Kickstart (Spark) program to help \u201calleviate the crisis of unsheltered and encampment homeless\u201d in one of the nation\u2019s most expensive housing markets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/05\/safe-overnight-parking-lot-sleep-in-car-rv-homelessness-housing-shelter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Municipalities and non-profits are establishing secure lots to address the rising number of people who live in cars or RVs Starting in October 2021, about 40 motorhomes or recreational vehicles (RVs) parked in a lot on Grayson Street in Berkeley, California, as part of the city\u2019s first attempt at a \u201csafe parking lot\u201d. According to &#8230; <a title=\"Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in \u2018safe parking lots\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/americans-living-in-their-cars-are-finding-refuge-in-safe-parking-lots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in \u2018safe parking lots\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}