Tamara Hernandez moved into a recreational vehicle when her rent shot up. Beau Beard did it because he lost everything after going to prison.
Stories like theirs abound in California where RVs and trailers, once a symbol of carefree living by the ocean, increasingly reflect a less glamorous slice of life in the Golden State: a housing crisis and the growing number of people without a roof over their head.
A third of all the homeless people in America live in wealthy California, which if it were a country would boast the world's fifth-largest economy.
In Los Angeles County alone more than 75,000 people are homeless, Los Angeles Housing Services Authority statistics say.
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