Car campers in beach parking lots

From 2 to 4 a.m., the law requires this home — a rusting Ford Econoline van — to leave its usual spot in a public parking lot beside the sand dunes of Ocean Beach. “If you allow people to sleep in their vehicles, you will eventually have open camping all along our view corridors, such as Sunset Cliffs, Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, Pacific Beach and La Jolla,” Glen Volk of Ocean Beach told the council. Faced with high rents and homeless shelters that are ill-equipped to accommodate people with special needs, some say that RVs are their only alternative to living outdoors
“More and more people are unable to afford market-rate housing,” said Bauman, one of the lawyers fighting the RV ban, “and their vehicles are a last resort.”

Source: www.bakersfield.com