'Van lords' profit from LA's housing crisis by renting motorhomes to those living on the edge, critics say.
Liberty Justice rents a van in Los Angeles just below the Hollywood Hills - but life is far from glamorousJust below the swanky homes in the Hollywood Hills and across from the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, California, dozens of motorhomes and camper vans line Forest Lawn Drive.
The city is now considering a crackdown on van lords amid growing complaints about sewage, environmental damage, and a series of fires from the trailer parks. You can't call the police to complain about your neighbours littering or doing drugs. Justice keeps her area neat and tidy and uses solar generators to supply internet to power her business. But the biggest danger, she said, is traffic, since the trailer is parked along a busy road.
But many of those people were living in tents on the sidewalks, enduring an unusually cold and wet winter. People in motorhomes often don't consider themselves homeless and the city has had a difficult time persuading people to give up a van or motorhome in exchange for a housing alternative that may not be permanent.
The sidewalks around the vans are littered with bikes, dogs, BBQ's and chairs, some human waste and some tidy gardens. Neighbours complain about the mess and blame van dwellers for crime in the neighbourhoods.
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