Homes on Wheels: Living in RVs on San Francisco Streets

Though the official count is in the hundreds, it’s been estimated that well over a thousand people in San Francisco go to sleep in their vehicles every night, parked on city streets. The most visible of these people are the ones now at the center of a fiery debate: the residents of an estimated 313 RVs, many of them decades old and barely functioning, that bounce from block to block, dodging parking restrictions, and sometimes leaving a trail of garbage and angry neighbors in their wake.