This is an old news article from 2007 but it's about all the homeless who are living in vehicles in parking lots in Santa Barbara...other articles have appeared saying the same in 2008, 2009... Apparently there is work in mansions as a servant, but who trusts a homeless person to work in a mansion?
"We've lived in the homeless shelter, and it's full of people that are drunk and on drugs," said Carlos Cortez.
Working but too poor to afford rent in this expensive city, Cortez and his wife, Naomi, scraped together enough money to buy an old recreational vehicle they can live in.
It's a phenomenon that is happening all over the country as people are priced out of local housing and have nowhere else to go where life might be better.
California alone has about 350,000 homeless people. Santa Barbara has 2,000, some still trying to make it in the working world."
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