It is Great news that more people are getting housed than before the ban. One family found a perfect solution - moved to another county where they could afford to rent an apartment.

Good. TBH cycling is a lot safer without those big bulky blocks creating blind spots. Thank you MTV voters. It’s too bad Lucas Ramirez was so adamant about not wanting to enact what the people wanted and was forced to do so via a formal public vote on the matter. The data is clear that the RVs simply didn’t shift…as he had claimed would happen. the absolute number went down. The RVs are putting the citizens of MV in less dangerous situations. The streets are cleaner, it’s safer to drive and bicycle without the mess and visual obstruction they created.

The new rules forced RV dwellers to take action. Inertia is a strong sticky force. I’m hopeful in most cases it forced them to move to better situations rather than sit around. The power of a nudge.

Who is this new author Malea Martin and what happened to the other one? Her articles are usually very pro-rent control and also pro-homeless RV and have an agenda, so I feel like there must be new management at The Voice because this is just sticking to the facts. Whatever the reason, this is a step in the right direction for the paper.

Parking for Motorhomes and Vehicles for urban living on the streets have shifted, and they need to shift a lot more, perhaps completely off the streets. It can be done, ... the city, the county, and the state have lands that can be purposed to create such 'Safe Parking' communities. It may seem that there might less vehicles in urban parking mode, but there is lots of news thru-out our country that shows that more and more seniors, + 55, have the need to resort to urban living, because of ever increasing rents on a low fixed income for seniors, and a percentage of these seniors have disabilities.
It does not have to be free, today most urban living citizens have a small income, ... small reasonable / affordable monthly rates can be afforded. Reasonable / affordable monthly rates should be precisely defined, perhaps, 25% of monthly full-time minimum wage after taxes. As such, financially self sustaining / supporting 'Safe Parking Lots' can be made to work, that would pay the cost of necessary infrastructure, such as potable water, garbage collection, porta-potty and shower services, security, on going cleanup / beautifucation, and more without a financial burden on the cities.
City, county, and state managers open eyes wide, see the sunami coming to our cities. Act now, and don't waste money with current spendings that don't seem to help. Since the current economic trends pushing for the ever increasing rents will never be reversed, then people in urban living mode will never be able to transition / afford rents. Spend money in creating these financially self sufficient 'Safe Parking Lots', it is cheaper in the long run. These financially self sufficient 'Safe Parking Lots' are not for profit; therefore, the cities, counties, and the state must do it, as corporations don't invest without profits for investors to get money without them working for it.

What about the RV safe parking sites? Has the usage of these gone down as well? Seems odd to leave that out of this story.