Evan Fu is living in his van full-time. Although not for everyone, he says this is his way of preventing being priced out of California’s overwhelmed housing market.
“I was a mental wreck at the time. I think what really hit me was not knowing what the future would hold,” Fu said.
Fu does not consider himself housing insecure. He could move back in with his parents in Southern California if he had to, like millions of Americans have done due to financial impacts caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. But more than a literal roof over his head, Fu says he was desperate for a sense of community – community he says he found when he attended college in Santa Cruz.
I am sharing my life and how I did van life not to convince others to do van life but to convince others there needs to be a solution.Not everyone in the City of Santa Cruz is happy about having van dwellers parked on public streets. After receiving a number of complaints, the city is currently working on an ordinance to ban oversized, unpermitted vehicles from overnight public street parking.
Facing other accusations by citizen groups the new law would directly create more unsheltered homelessness, city officials say they are working to create more ‘Safe Parking’ locations, which are sites where van dwellers can legally park and access housing services that include case management and a pathway to permanent housing. “This is the first time that our city is committing to investing in these [housing] solutions.
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