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Here are the morning’s top stories for Wednesday, June 25, 2025:
- Cities throughout California have taken different approaches on how to deal with homeless residents. That also includes those dwelling in RVs. While many plans have been slow on yielding results, Berkeley’s approach may be the solution that city leaders have been looking for.
- California legislators have reached a tentative agreement on the state’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, but its fate hinges on whether Governor Newsom will approve a housing reform plan that lawmakers must submit by Monday.
- A bill making its way through Sacramento would raise the fee car buyers in California would pay for processing paperwork, by nearly 500 percent.
As cities work to clean up homeless encampments under increasing pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and housed residents, RV communities present a distinct — and notoriously difficult — challenge, especially with more and more Californians taking up residence in them.
Over half of Alameda County’s unsheltered homeless population now lives in some kind of car or RV, but strategies for managing and resolving this unique form of homelessness are lagging.
UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director, Margot Kushel, found in her research that people living in RVs are reluctant to give them up for anything short of permanent housing — a dilemma when there’s little to offer…