In Los Angeles, the homeless pay rent for RVs that offer shelter and little else. An entire network of "vanlords" exists with applicants eager to call the four walls on wheels home.

Early one recent Friday morning, sanitation workers, homeless-outreach workers and LAPD officers arrived on a little street in the west of Los Angeles. Jasmine Avenue is lined with low-rise ...

There are more than 6,800 RVs in Los Angeles County that unhoused people call home, according to the 2024 homeless count. That’s more than the number of tents (about 4,200) recorded in that same ...

A Los Angeles district's RV-to-housing pilot program placed 94 people into interim and permanent supportive housing and disposed of 65 RVs. The program will soon be implemented citywide.

The real and complicated reasons why Los Angeles still has so many RV encampments. ... But that’s no reason not to be sensitive to the needs of homeless people. June 17, 2021.

A homeless encampment cleanup and outreach operation began Wednesday at a location with dozens of RVs in the West Rancho Dominguez and Gardena area. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department ...

In 2024, Los Angeles County's homeless population reached about 75,000, according to the city’s Homeless Services Authority. Now, efforts are underway to remove dozens of RVs in the East Gardena ...

Early one recent morning, sanitation workers, homeless-outreach workers and police officers arrived on Jasmine Avenue. RV residents were offered $500 gift cards and a motel room.

Residents of one Wildomar neighborhood are outraged after dozens of RVs that once made up a homeless encampment in Los Angeles County suddenly arrived near their homes. The trailers' new location ...

Authorities cleanup largescale homeless encampment near Gardena 02:59. A large-scale homeless encampment cleanup is underway Wednesday as roughly 60 RVs are getting removed from Redondo Beach and ...

According to the 2022 Point-In-Time Count conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, about 6,500 people live in 4,000 RVs across the city— a 40% increase since 2018.