L.A. Entertainment Workers Living in Their Cars

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

Good article on entertainment / movie industry workers living as urban boondockers in their vehicles.

L.A.'s Housing Crisis Hits Hollywood: The Entertainment Workers Living in Their Cars

Even by Los Angeles standards, Noelle spends a lot of time worrying about parking. A writers room production assistant for a major streamer and script reader for a premium cable network, Noelle wakes up at 6 a.m. on weekdays to secure a spot close to her jobs in West L.A. After work, she moves her white, unassuming Ford Transit to another spot, carefully chosen to be located in a non-residentially zoned area without nightly parking restrictions and far away from any schools, daycare facilities or parks. She is constantly rotating these "day spots" and "night spots," as she calls them, so as not to annoy neighbors or attract too much attention. These days, Noelle jokes, she's more worried about a cop knocking on her window than getting "murdered or attacked."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/meet-entertainment-workers-living-cars-housing-crisis-1169781

Edited January 11, 2019 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.