San Jose plans to clamp down on vehicles with expired tags, which will affect thousands of homeless residents across the city.
Starting Aug. 17, vehicles with a registration more than six months out of date may be immediately towed without warning. This crackdown on expired registration will hit homeless people living in their vehicles. The city has more than 2,000 lived-in vehicles, and about 36% have expired registration.
“It’s going to be horrible, these people (will) have no place to go,” Rudy Ortega, who lives in Columbus Park where dozens of RVs are encamped, told San José Spotlight. “These people are going to be forced into encampments they don’t want to be in.”…