When An Automobile Serves As Home
28 February 2006 - 6:00am
How to find shelter in a wealthy suburban county without paying rent or a mortgage.
"The most recent Homeless Enumeration from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments tallies more than 15,000 homeless people in the region. Of those, about 2,000 live in Fairfax County, Va. I am one of them."
"I have been spending my third bout of homelessness since May 2005 in the Big Wagon."
"During the day, I am among you, taking special care to seem no different. I bathe, shave, wear clean clothes daily, and otherwise keep a low profile. That requires effort."
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Washington Citypaper, February 24, 2006
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At a much larger economic scale, however, one mustn’t avoid calculating the tremendous and exceptional externalities of automobile dependency.
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