Homeless RVers Have To Pay?
November 13, 2009
by Jaimie Hall Bruzenakas appeared on RV Home Yet? November11, 2009
That’s what Tuolumne County supervisors are wrestling with. Paolo Maffei is urging the county to change the rules since unemployment is so high and until the economy improves. He says it is better to have people living in a friend or relative’s RV rather than on the streets.
This would not apply to residents of RV parks nor people camping in campgrounds on public lands. The federal and state governments have their own time limits. Maffei is talking about people camping in fields or forests or on private property.
One of the big concerns is where do you dump your sewage? Usually in these situations there is not a sewage outlet to connect to. It means either using a BlueBoy – a 10-40 gallon tank on wheels that can cart your sewage from RV to a dump – or moving your RV. Realistically, how many people who are not regular RVers will do that? Unless they do not use their facilities or water at all, that black or gray water has to go somewhere. Some RVs that people are living in haven’t moved in years. I can see why some people would complain.
Public assistance for people who have lost their homes is totally overwhelmed in many localities. This puts officials between a rock and a hard place. As Maffei is doing, they could look at RVs as a temporary solution to the housing problem. It is better than being on the street or living in a tent in the forest. If a county RV or municipality paid to have tanks pumped, that would be much less than providing an apartment. More people could be taken care of. Perhaps FEMA could donate trailers to local areas for temporary housing rather than sell them.
This is a totally different RV lifestyle than most of us envision by the term or are living. If you ever have been in a situation where money is not coming in or is far below your needs, you can feel compassion for the many who are now in that situation. I hope Tuolumne County supervisors can be compassionate too while taking into account public health and safety – namely properly disposing of the sewage that a family generates- whether in a stick house or an RV.
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