{"id":129064,"date":"2017-11-07T02:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=129064"},"modified":"2017-11-07T02:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:20:57","slug":"in-shadow-of-tech-boom-the-working-homeless-sleep-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/07\/in-shadow-of-tech-boom-the-working-homeless-sleep-in-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"In shadow of tech boom, the working homeless sleep in cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128690\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/person-woman-sitting-old.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128690\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/person-woman-sitting-old.jpg\" alt=\"That struggle is not Seattle's alone. A homeless crisis is rocking the entire West Coast, pushing abject poverty into the open like never before. (PEXELS PHOTO) \" width=\"940\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/person-woman-sitting-old.jpg 940w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/person-woman-sitting-old-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/person-woman-sitting-old-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of an ongoing examination of the homeless crisis along the West Coast. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. &#8212; The booming economy along America&#8217;s West Coast has led to a historic shortage of affordable housing and has upended the stereotypical view of people out on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by The Associated Press finds that many of them are employed, working as retail clerks, plumbers, janitors &#8211; even teachers.<\/p>\n<p>They go to work, sleep where they can and buy gym memberships for a place to shower.<\/p>\n<p>In Mountain View, a Silicon Valley city that is home to Google, officials at last count found people living in 330 vehicles. In one of the country&#8217;s wealthiest regions, thoroughfares are lined with RVs filled with people who cannot afford the rents.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates for the homeless say it will only get worse unless more affordable housing is built.<\/p>\n<p>Part of an ongoing examination of the homeless crisis along the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. &#8212; The booming economy along America&#8217;s West Coast has led to a historic shortage of affordable housing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[31631,2533,8511,31634,31635,31633,31632,3846],"class_list":["post-129064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-americas-west-coast","tag-google","tag-homeless","tag-janitors","tag-mountain-view","tag-plumbers","tag-retail-clerks","tag-teachers","mauthors-janie-har","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}