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Date: March 26, 2007 1:13:18 AM PDT
Subject: U.S. Mortgage Crisis Forces Homeowners To Take Refuge In
Their Cars
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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=457122007
*U.S. Mortgage Crisis Forces Homeowners To Take Refuge In Their Cars*
By SUE ZEIDLER IN LOS ANGELES
The Scotsman
Sat. 24 Mar 2007
THEY are victims of the United States' growing mortgage crisis --
low-paid workers whose homes have been repossessed amid rising
interest rates, a stagnant property market and a lax lending regime.
But in Los Angeles, where having a car is as essential as owning a
home, many are sleeping in their vehicles to ensure a roof over
their head.
Campaigners for the homeless expect more to hole up in their cars
as they lose homes due to the problems that have dogged "subprime
mortgages" -- those granted to low-earners with little capital of
their own.
The trend comes despite the fact that sleeping in a car is illegal
in the Los Angeles area.
"The subprime meltdown is the kind of situation that pushes people
into cars. It's a very common story," said Ruth Hollman, of Self-
Help And Recovery Exchange, a group that helps homeless people.
Advocates hope Los Angeles will adopt programmes in place in cities
such as Eugene, Oregon, and Santa Barbara, California, that enable
people to live in cars while receiving services they need to get
back on track.
"It's an old saying in social services that most people are one to
six paychecks away from being homeless. But if you can't make your
mortgage, it's more like a month or two," said William Wise, of the
relief agency St. Vincent de Paul of Eugene, which works to find
overnight parking spots for homeless people.
Without such spots, people forced to sleep in their cars fear being
towed and ticketed by police, as well as being attacked by thugs
and facing public scorn.
Emily Love, 61, was sleeping in her car in Marina Del Rey,
California, when two youths smashed her windscreen with a shopping
trolley. A week later, she was back in the car.
After her car was attacked, the former teacher sat staring at the
shattered glass. "I don't like to talk to the cops. They don't
like people sleeping in their cars," she said in her car crammed
with her possessions, including two cats.
Government figures say there are about 754,000 homeless people in
the U.S., about 300,000 more than available beds in shelters and
transitional housing.
Many of the temporarily homeless get into deeper trouble because
they try to keep it quiet and do not seek help.
Philip Mangano, of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness,
said he strongly opposed programmes that sanction living in cars.
"It's a national tragedy that we are resorting to these plans. It
doesn't measure up to the promise of America," he said.
Mr. Mangano has been working with cities to develop ten-year plans
to end vagrancy through a new business-oriented approach that has
cut homelessness in cities such as San Francisco and Philadelphia.
The number of people living in cars is hard to calculate, but Ruth
Hollman said a recent estimate of 1,000 in Los Angeles was far
below the actual figure. She said some people living in their cars
pay gym memberships so they can shower, and attend training courses
or have jobs. "One man I know goes to college and people there
don't even know he's homeless," she said.
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