Everyone has the right to participate in the democratic process, regardless of how they live.

Download: Voting as a Vehicle Resident: A Guide. This guide is designed to help vehicle residents navigate the voting process, ensuring that your voice is heard, even without a fixed address.

Not sure if you are registered to vote? Check online: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Voter Registration and Vote By Mail Dates and Links

• Parking Programs
• Where to Sleep in your Car when Homeless. Homelessadvice.com, Chris
• The ABCs of free and low-cost camping on federal land. RVtravel.com, Dave Helgeson
• Leave No Trace

Homes on Wheels Alliance: HOWA supports nomads through programs and events that provide education, resources, and community

• Virtual Caravans: The Virtual Caravans are weekly Zoom discussions about the nomad lifestyle. The Virtual Caravan meetings are an opportunity to join and build a community for those unable to attend HOWA’s in-person events.
• Annual Rubber Tramp Rendezvous in January in Quartzsite, AZ

• National Homelessness Law Center:
  • Housing Not Handcuffs: Housing Not Handcuffs is a national campaign created by the National Homelessness Law Center and the National Coalition for the Homeless to end the criminalization of homelessness and advocate for housing as a human right.
• Legal Services Corporation: Local Legal Aid Directory
• About Johnson v. Grants Pass: https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/
  • The Supreme Court decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson upholds that enforcing laws against public camping, potentially including those living in vehicles on public property, does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”
  • Read our Blog Post: https://vehicleresidency.org/supreme-court-upholds-public-camping-laws-implications-for-vehicle-residency-and-homelessness/
• Living in My Car*: Do I Have Any Rights? (*or truck, RV, or other vehicle). 2021 Northwest Justice Project

• Services Not Sweeps: a Seattle-based coalition of advocates, service providers, community members, and folks with lived experience fighting to ban encampment sweeps during the winter and extreme weather events.
• Stop the Sweeps Seattle: Stop the Sweeps mobilizes to challenge the violence directed at our unhoused neighbors during sweeps.
• Share Your Mana: Maui-based Share Your Mana addresses system failures through the lived experience of the residents they serve. Their struggles and inability to climb out of homelessness are exacerbated by systems that lack sufficient mental health and addiction crisis services. These crises maintain the status quo.
• Venice Justice Committee: Support for the Unhoused, Homeless and the Vehicular Housed in Venice Beach, California. Legal Documentation.
• Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP): As a regional organization, WRAP has the power of collective mobilization, which incorporates local issues into an inclusive framework. All of WRAP’s efforts are grounded in the experiences of those living in poverty and or working to address homelessness.