After living in vehicles from the Summer of
1999, until the Fall of 2005, I can tell you
that parking in a community can have it's
problems. For all intensive purposes, the
"Vehicle Housed" are considered "homeless"
and treated as such, by law enforcement and
various communities.

Please forward and post this announcement:

The tenth annual "Homeless Marathon",
(a nationally broadcast radio show, hundreds of stations)
Will be broadcast February 20th & February 21st, 2007
For stations and toll free phone number, see
www.homelessnessmarathon.org/

You might want to tune in to that show .....

A general FYI -


The real problems that I had faced were
not from the neighbors where I had parked.
They loved me and have given me letters
of reference. Nope .... it was the "Drainbows"
that had started parking in the same neighborhood.

The Fire Department actually had to come
out and rinse down a sidewalk because you
could smell the stench of urine across the
street at the coffee shop. A group of
"Drainbows" had been parking and drinking
there for a week. So the community ended
up passing laws to make it a $500 fine
and 60 days in jail offense to "camp" for
three hours or more.

Having affordable (cheap) housing is one thing.
Making an "acceptable community" out of it is another.
In reference, please see:>



The Criminalization of Homelessness;
A Problem Becoming A Solution
(Violent crime reduced 90% with a "Tent City" in Richmond CA.)
www.angelfire.com/hi/sobers...parkh.html
Or just Google "homeless criminalization homeland".

The following excerpt has reference material as active
links, at the above report:

Excerpt:

A mobile homeless community could "share crop" (hr2, hr3:) on public
land (to help off set costs too). Funding could be split with Emergency
Services and Homeland Security because a Mobile Community has the
"infrastructure" of the basic kitchen, showers and toilets (hr4, hr4b, hr4c)
to "serve the community in an emergency". The very basic's for this and
it's "self-governing structure are shown with Seattle's "Tent City" a mobile
homeless camp", Dignity Village (in Portland, Or hs1 ) and Justiceville
"Dome City" in LA (hs2).


Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
aka Tom Krohmer
About myself:
Santa Rosa California Press Democrat newspaper
(slanted) interview posted my rebuttal to the "slant", at
www.angelfire.com/hi/sobers.../rasb.html