LONG BEACH, Calif. — When Edgar Rosales Jr. uses the word “home,” the second-year college student with a linebacker’s build isn’t referring to the house he plans to buy after becoming a nurse or getting a job in public health. Rather, the Long Beach City College student is talking about the parking lot he slept in every night for more than a year. With Oprah-esque enthusiasm, Rosales calls the other students who use LBCC’s Safe Parking Program his “roommates” or “neighbors.”
The thing is sleeping in your car is illegal in most cities, so this is actually somehow an improvement. When I was homeless I dreaded waking up to the knock on the window by the cop shining his light in my eyes, and I had it better than most. I would have loved for a safe place to sleep even just a few nights, let alone a whole semester.
Agreed, I mean fuck capitalism but the fact that sleeping in your car is illegal it total BS as far as im concerned.
Next thing you know, you’re renting a spot in a parking lot for a month to park your car there. The rent is 650$, less than rent at an apartment, but still just as profitable.
Richest country in the world, everyone!
And after you're done wrecking your back you get years of debt too!
And we are deporting everyone who builds housing, and don't want to build affordable housing or dorms, and don't want to build anything that doesn't have parking, home garages, etc. that take up more space and cost.
Solution??? This is what we have become?
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