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What's the benefit of living in an RV vs. putting in a mobile/pre-fab home?
I get it if you had the RV first and the land came second but then why buy the land if the laws restrict living in an RV on it?
I don't really care if people want to do it, I just can't come up with why.
I do think laws around minimum square footage, requiring connection to utilities etc. are dumb in general.
RVs exploded around here during COVID. All the parks I know of are at 100% capacity and I've been told to reserve now and pray. (Not that I'm looking, just RV-curious.)
I have a theory that shitloads of people like me lost parents and grandparents to COVID, got inheritances and tried to buy something to live in. Also, seems like housing prices spiked and nothing was available in my hood. I suspect the same reasoning. I ended up with 2.5 acres of swamp to play around in. :)
Become an Ogre!
Here in Florida you gotta put your shack on wheels. Functionality doesn't matter, just wheels.
"I don't live on this property, I just use it for storing my RV."
Tall shrubs/trees all around, get a PO box. Don't show your neighbors around.
Exactly what is going to compel local police to get a warrant to enter the property and somehow confirm you live in that RV full time?
These kinds of laws are crafted by elected legislators who are either truly inept, or only interested in performative gestures to boost their image. A law without realistic enforceability is mostly imaginary, and primarily serves just to tack extra charges onto some other sentence a person got for breaking a law local police actually enforce.
If I had to guess, most people in RVs would rather live in a house. It's just houses are not affordable in USA; I've seen posters from there talking about this in Lemmy all the bloody time.
Based on that I don't think prohibition is the right way to go. Instead make sure people can afford houses, and the problem goes away. Additionally the ones living in an RV by choice would be even freer to keep with their lifestyle - those are likely not an issue when it comes to zoning laws, as the main reason you'd want to live in a wheeled home is to travel.
Wait, you live somewhere with affordable housing? Where is that?
I live in in the southern region of brazil. The problem of homelessness here is by no means solved but at least some State and City governments are genuinely trying, through government companies (Cohab, roughly "habitation company").
Basically: if you have no house, and your monthly income is low enough, here you can subscribe to Cohab so it eventually "sells" you a house. You do pay for it but it's a rather low amount*. No sane mid class would ever consider those houses - but if you're homeless, it's still leagues above living in an irregular shitshack near the river, made of cardboard, metal sheets and random planks.
Additionally, water and electricity are really cheap if you're poor enough, and your household consumption is below a certain threshold.
The federation also has a similar project (Minha Casa, Minha Vida my house, my life), but... frankly I can't trust the federation to not divert tax money into someone's pockets.
* I think R$150~300/month ≃ €25~50/month is typical. For reference, minimum wage in my State is R$1.984,16 ≃ €300 per month.
Now, here's the catch: the local governments are doing this shit with a tiny fraction of the income the city, state and federal governments in USA have. Why the hell are they not doing something similar? Because of all that ideological meritocracy babble?
USA cares not about citizens. Only getting billionaires rich.
Remember when this used to be the land of the free?
I remember when I had been fooled into believing it was.