https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/living-on-pennies-with-a-million-dollar-view-how-car/article_edf4971c-045a-5265-b772-b857df180d4b.html

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“More and more people are unable to afford market-rate housing,” said Bauman, one of the lawyers fighting the RV ban, “and their vehicles are a last resort.”

That was Cheatham’s predicament. In September 2014, she lost her lease on a North Park apartment just as she separated from the father of her children.

Unable to find an affordable rental, she packed her meager belongings and three kids — ages not quite 1, almost 3 and 9 — into a Volvo station wagon. In this cramped space, she home-schooled the kids while studying acting at San Diego City College.

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