How to Live in Your Car Legally.

Is it Legal or illegal to live in a Car? 

Some Last years has been a year full of challenges for many Americans. Not only have we all been trying to stay healthy, we have also been faced with extreme choices tied to our economic circumstances. Many people this year have been at least threatened with the prospect of losing their home, or getting evicted, leading us to wonder where we would go.

 

The answer to most asked question i.e is it legal or illegal to live in a car is

Yes and no.

I have never seen it directly by the law, but in most jurisdictions, legal problems by living in your car appear from

(1) Park your car; and

(2) Sleep in your car.

There are also some potential problems with things like garbage and urination that are unavoidable or disposal of body garbage in public places, which will occur at some point when you are homeless, guaranteed.

Evidences for Living in a car

In a certain sense, there are conflicts inherent in this law. Public security for traffic needs not only allow people to sleep in a car, it encourages it (remember the DMV teaching booklet? At some point they might say 'if you are sleepy, pull and sleep before continuing. The percentage of such accidents is caused by fatigue driver).

It is also not safe to just pull over the highway and sleep, so at a certain point, it is very important to sleep before continuing to drive against local law in every place that denies legal rights to sleep in the car.

I am not aware of a successful example of challenging sleep in your car law based on this theoretical conflict (there are cases in California recently, but the State Supreme Court refuses to reduce local laws to sleep).

Still, I do not know the existence of law that prohibits one from living in the car. But because of various laws that prohibit things that you don't want to do while living out of the vehicle, it's kind of illegal effectively at some point in the process.

 Example of a Law to live in your car

It will depend on the law of the city government where you "live" at that time.

In Williams County, North Dakota (Williston) for example, a number of people have moved to the area to find work inside and around the boom oil industry. Housing in this area is rare and expensive meanings that many people go down on their luck have been forced to sleep in their vehicles.

 

The district commission recently continued the regulation to make it illegal to live in a vehicle unless it was a RV (recreational vehicle) in an established trailer park. Other cities in North Northern Dakota and East Montana can follow. Although this is not a bit to solve housing problems, it has disappointed many people living in margins from living in the area,

The best way to find out is online and check the city or district code for yourself. Or better, contact any agent in the city or county that govern housing and ask them. If one of them is "breast", contact the Salvation Army office in the area and they must have that information when they work with homeless people.