In a community where overnight street parking is illegal, a unique Santa Barbara program helps people living in their cars find places to spend the night. In this extended scene from “Half-Homeless,” we follow the daily lives of Frank and Gary.
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Extended Scenes: Half-HomelessIn a community where overnight street parking is illegal, a unique Santa Barbara program helps people living in their cars find places to spend the night. In this extended scene from “Half-Homeless,” we follow the daily lives of Frank and Gary. 2 Responses to “Extended Scenes: Half-Homeless”Leave a Comment |
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June 30th, 2006. Stories from the Current Episode |
September 1st, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Who can I get ahold of to donate to the organization helping those who live in their vehicles in Santa Barbara? I saw the tail end of the broadcast highlighting their plight, and would like to help in some way.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I am not broke, I have a job and I used to fully own my house, and then my mobile houme, but now I live in my car, housesitting whenever I can.
I have been a cancer survivor for 15 years now, but at enormeous financial cost. When convential treatment didn’t work I went experimental, not covered by my Kaiser, nor by my Blue Cross. I was very sick, so I couldn’t work and so lost Blue Cross. (That is the problem with job-based insurance.) Kaiser finally managed to dump me for being too expensive, and I traded in my house for a mobile home to get debt relief. I looked bad, had visible missing body parts, etc, so I now had to work marginal jobs which payed little and no one offered group plans. When the cancer returned, I had no insurance, but still too much property to get any significant help from the inadequate maze of tax-write-off driven programs that passes for help…. Again I treated aggressively, and had to sell. I have been looking for rentals or cheap real estate since August, but everyone wants income 3x the rent, or park rent even. Most working people I now know wouldn’t even be able to rent again if they lost their rentals. In short, it is all this crazy real estate speculation that came about when stocks, etc no longer provided income for the very rich, that has caused homelessness nation-wide. Do not worry about me, I will land, but I see many others buckle under the police harassment. Want RV’s off the street: open