{"id":52736,"date":"2025-11-14T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:48:10","slug":"la-pushes-policy-to-make-it-easier-to-remove-rvs-from-city-streets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52736\/","title":{"rendered":"LA pushes policy to make it easier to remove RVs from city streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/people\/david-wagner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Schrank<\/a>\u00a0for LAist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/housing-homelessness\/rvs-california-venice-removal-impound-disposal-state-law-bass-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Originally published<\/a>\u00a0Nov 12, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is pushing a policy change to clear RVs the city considers a problem \u2014 ones that people are living in \u2014 from city streets. The proposal is in line with a new state law allowing RVs worth less than $4,000 to be destroyed, rather than stored and sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The change:\u00a0Current California law requires cities to store any impounded vehicle worth more than $500 that someone has been living in and to sell it later at public auction. The proposed change would allow the city to impound and immediately destroy RVs worth less than $4,000, which authorities say will cut storage costs and prevent the vehicles from ending up back on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>New state law:\u00a0The proposal follows passage of a state law that raises these thresholds in Los Angeles and Alameda counties. Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez authored\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org\/bills\/ca_202520260ab630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Assembly Bill 630<\/a>\u00a0with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who has targeted RVs in her efforts to reduce unsheltered homelessness. \u201cAB 630 will allow us to expand on this work by bringing people into temporary housing, recycling unsafe and unlivable RVs, and making our streets safer,\u201d Bass said.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s vote:\u00a0L.A.\u2019s Transportation Committee voted Wednesday to move the motion forward to a vote of the full City Council. If the council approves the motion, it is expected to direct city officials to modify local laws to bring them into compliance with the new state law, which goes into effect in January.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking down the vote:\u00a0City Councilmembers Heather Hutt and Adrin Nazarian voted in favor of the motion, which calls the state law \u201cone more tool to stop the RV to streets pipeline.\u201d Councilmember Traci Park authored the motion. She represents the city\u2019s Westside, including Venice, where hundreds of people live in RVs on city streets. L.A. City Councilmember Eunises Hernandez voted against the motion.<\/p>\n<p>What opponents say:\u00a0Community advocates from Venice say the change will cause more poor people living in RVs to end up out on the streets. \u201cWe really need to look at what this is all about,\u201d Peggy Lee Kennedy of the Venice Justice Committee said at the committee meeting. \u201cIt\u2019s about removing the people who are poor from the Westside and Park\u2019s district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report is reprinted with permission from Southern California Public Radio. \u00a9 2025 Southern California Public Radio. 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