Advocates Warn that Impounding and Scrapping Vehicles Will Push More People into Unsheltered Homelessness
In October of last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 630 into law, giving a couple of California counties greater authority to dispose of more RVs.
Under the old rules, Los Angeles was limited to destroying only abandoned or inoperable recreational vehicles with an estimated value of $500 or less. Beginning on the first of this year, that limit has been raised to a value of $4,000, so the county can confiscate more valuable cars without sending them to auction. This comes at a time when other Californian cities are also testing the limits of their control over RV dwellers.
Over the objections of advocates in the area, Los Angeles City Council members are working quickly to implement the new rules immediately…