Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing data showed that of 345 adults and families placed through the Large Vehicle Refuge Permit Program between November 2025 and September 2026, 115, one third, were housed outside San Francisco city limits. About 80 percent of placements used federally funded rapid-rehousing vouchers that taper off over two years, and the share of all such voucher holders housed outside the city rose from 22 percent in 2021 to 58 percent this year. About 500 vehicles housed people when Mayor Daniel Lurie announced the two-hour parking limit in July 2025; the department said placements are generally within about 50 miles.
The two-hour limit on vehicles over 7 feet tall or 22 feet long has been enforced since November 2025, with six-month temporary permits offered to RV residents who agreed to give up their vehicles.
The Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday passed Councilmember Dan Strauss's package of bills that would ban RVs without permits from parking overnight on most streets. The program requires people living in RVs to park in designated areas and discuss shelter options with service providers; those who do not participate could lose their vehicles after a few warnings. Strauss said the package would encourage people to move into more stable housing.
The legislation next goes to the full City Council for a vote.
Portland.gov · on Portland campsite assessments, removals and shelter referrals for the week
The city's Street Services Coordination Center reported receiving 1,524 new campsite reports for the week of September 14-20, including 364 reports of people living in vehicles. Teams assessed approximately 640 reported campsites, visited 356 active campsites and removed 155 campsites the city said posed a risk to health and safety. Of 35 people who expressed interest in a shelter referral, 15 accepted and 6 used a shelter bed for at least one night.
My Ballard · on Seattle's Vehicle Resident Assistance Program six-bill package
The Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee held its first briefing on Councilmember Dan Strauss's Vehicle Resident Assistance Program package, with a committee vote scheduled for September 22 and a full council vote expected in October. The legislation directs $5 million in existing city funding toward safe lots, vehicle storage, and outreach, creates permits allowing people to keep living in motorhomes or travel trailers on city streets while awaiting shelter, and limits unpermitted motorhomes and travel trailers to two hours of street parking at a time.
City Manager Eric Batista sent the City Council an ordinance, for its September 15 meeting, that would prohibit camping, sleeping or lying on public property and bar living in vehicles on public ways or in public parking lots for more than 24 consecutive hours, with a $25-per-day fine for people who remain after a notice to vacate. The ordinance is part of Batista's "Disrupting the Cycle" framework, which pairs enforcement with expanded shelter capacity, a live bed-availability dashboard, and centralized shelter access. Worcester has 197 beds across four permanent year-round shelters, with 136 temporary beds added last winter.
The 2026 Point in Time count identified 1,187 unhoused people in Worcester County, down from the previous year.
Oakland is increasing tows and sweeps of inhabited vehicles under an Encampment Abatement Policy that took effect in July, after an April city council vote removed inhabited vehicles from the city's definition of a homeless encampment. City workers began towing vehicles or requiring owners to relocate along San Leandro Street in late August, and Oakland police said they towed more than 60 abandoned and stolen cars and RVs in nearby neighborhoods on a single night. About 2,120 of the nearly 3,660 homeless people counted on the city's streets in 2024 — 58% — lived in vehicles, and the city has 1,260 shelter units for 4,410 homeless residents.
Oakland's point-in-time homelessness declined about 20% from 2024 to 2026, per the same report.
The Standard reported that at least 28 housed owners of large vehicles have told the city they were ticketed, towed, or feared enforcement under San Francisco's two-hour parking limit for vehicles over 7 feet tall or 22 feet long, in effect since November 2025. As of early September the city had towed more than 360 vehicles, issued nearly 1,100 citations, bought back 154 large vehicles, and transitioned 221 vehicle-dwelling households into housing or shelter. A Lurie spokesperson called the policy "incredibly successful in reducing the number of people living in large vehicles on our streets."
Violations carry a $108 fine; the ordinance exempts holders of "refuge permits" issued to people living in vehicles before June 2025 but draws no distinction between personal-use and housing vehicles.
The 2026 homeless count recorded 671 RVs in the 400 square miles of unincorporated Antelope Valley desert, down from 1,432 the year before, a drop that accounted for three-fourths of a 21% countywide decrease in RVs. Pearblossom Town Council president Christopher Minsal, who led the local canvass teams, and council member Jose Centeno said the numbers are wrong and that RV arrivals have not slowed; tract-level tallies in Littlerock/Pearblossom swung from 4 to 349 to 253 over three years. LAHSA did not dispute the miscount assessment and defended its method for counting the area in a statement.
The L.A. City Council on August 26 called for a review of the 2026 point-in-time count, which showed a 1.2% countywide increase in homelessness.
The Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved the first phase of a pilot parking permit program for people living in RVs on Coyote Hill Road and Embarcadero Road, while declining to advance a companion proposal that would have designated one side of 21 residential blocks for RV parking, 13 of them in the Ventura neighborhood. The permit pilot would accommodate around three dozen RVs and cost about $400,000 for the first year and a little over $200,000 to maintain after that. Council members directed staff to continue exploring other RV parking sites locally and regionally and to collect demographic data on residents living in RVs.
The permit pilot could begin as soon as March 2027.
Olympia launched a pilot program allowing people to live in RVs and other vehicles for up to six months with a permit: residential properties can host one vehicle in a driveway and churches up to two in their parking lots, and any host site must provide restroom access, with outdoor storage, garbage and septic hookups prohibited. City Manager Jay Burney authorized the program, citing an ordinance declaring a public health emergency over homelessness, and Community Development Director Tim Smith presented it to the city council this week.
Olympia city code previously barred parking a vehicle used for camping in one place for more than 24 hours.