【CNBC】From ‘vanlords’ to safe parking sites: How RVs became Silicon Valley’s housing safety net

• Across California, the number of people living in vehicles has surged in recent years, as soaring rents and a chronic housing shortage have pushed even full-time workers out of traditional homes and into makeshift ones on wheels. 
• As housing options narrow, a new tier of the crisis has emerged — one where even vehicles have become rental properties. A shadow rental market has taken hold across the Bay Area, where individuals rent out aging RVs to people with few other options. Some call them “vanlords.”
• In San Jose, the city has taken a different approach, a “safe parking site,” with room for 86 RVs. It opened last year and has a full waitlist.

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