Communes and Hobo Jungles are back!

[slamlander]

The LA Times had an article that I commented on. It was about an Ad Hoc desert community. When your unemployment runs out, what are you to do? These folks are basically homeless but they survive.

During World War II, the Slab City site was Camp Dunlap, a Marine artillery training base. But ownership of the acreage passed to the state in the 1950s.
Even when it had money, the state government never showed much interest in Slab City. A plan to sell the site to a San Diego developer in the 1990s fell through; so did an idea by Imperial County to turn it into an RV camping ground. – LA Times article

Let’s face it, the Western US has more land than it knows what to do with. Yes damnit, California land prices are greed driven and not market driven, even now. 

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