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In One Colorado Town, People Experiencing Homelessness Can Sleep in Their Car — if They Have a Job (www.nytimes.com)

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In the public imagination, homelessness looks like the man in soiled clothes sleeping on top of a subway grate or the woman peering out of a tent from under a highway overpass. But in cities and towns that have the highest concentrations of homelessness, many — and sometimes a majority — of those who do not live in shelters are in cars, not on the streets, according to the annual census known as the “point in time count.”

In Los Angeles County, for example, two-thirds are living in vehicles. In San Mateo County, which includes part of Silicon Valley, its even more — 71 percent.

“The American dream of owning a home is dead unless you make a gazillion dollars,”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Used to be able to sleep all over at least NEAR Frisco, but probably never actually in town. I've spent voluntary nights in my van to catch first chair all over that county. There was a community of vandwellers 20 years ago and The Knowledge was passed around for where to avoid.

Sounds like more and more local employees can't hack the obscene rent in Summit County and the drive from Copper Mountain et. al. to Leadville is done by the bulk of the ski industry employees, because Leadville is much cheaper than Summit.