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Without parking, thousands of Americans who live in vehicles have nowhere to go

  • Written by Graham Pruss, Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Washington
Without parking, thousands of Americans who live in vehicles have nowhere to goWithout off-street space, vehicle residents crowd available public parking in Seattle. May 8, 2016.Graham Pruss, CC BY-NC-ND

My neighbor, Billy, has lived for 17 years in a 20-foot-long recreational vehicle parked within a mostly industrial, but now gentrifying, neighborhood in Seattle.

A 68-year-old former carpet layer and handyman, Billy says he...

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