mcubt Archives - Home https://vehicleresidency.org/tag/mcubt/ National Vehicle Residency Coalition Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:24:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://vehicleresidency.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-NVRC-Logo-1125-BW-32x32.png mcubt Archives - Home https://vehicleresidency.org/tag/mcubt/ 32 32 Peggy Lee Kennedy https://vehicleresidency.org/peggy-lee-kennedy/ Wed, 15 May 2024 04:50:38 +0000 https://vehicleresidency.org/?p=1056 Peggy is 3rd generation Venice, California resident, daughter of a human and environmental rights family, and co-founder of the Venice Justice Committee in 2001.  The Venice Justice Committee (VJC) monitors,  documents, and exposes human rights violations. VJC documentation has been the evidence for a proud list of civil rights lawsuits. The core VJC focus has […]

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]]> Peggy is 3rd generation Venice, California resident, daughter of a human and environmental rights family, and co-founder of the Venice Justice Committee in 2001. 

The Venice Justice Committee (VJC) monitors,  documents, and exposes human rights violations. VJC documentation has been the evidence for a proud list of civil rights lawsuits.

The core VJC focus has been on criminalization: exposing how it harms, who it harms, critiquing the causes, and working for change. 

Since 2014 the Venice Justice Committee has led a free infraction defense clinic for unhoused people with civil rights attorneys. It began conducting surveys in 2021 as a possible tool for change.

The first VJC Vehicle Housed Survey was April 2022 and it was used in a lobby attempt for the population. (See attached) Unfortunately, VJC monitored the area being cruelty swept in January 2023 and the population completely removed or displaced using a special LACity tow operation in August 2023 by new city administration.

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]]> Janet Douglas https://vehicleresidency.org/janet-douglas/ Fri, 10 May 2024 03:53:05 +0000 https://vehicleresidency.org/?p=997 Janet Douglas is the founder of Nomads Helping Nomads Network and the steward of Luna Gaia Nomadic Village. Nomads Helping Nomads Network is a group dedicated to helping each other along our journeys. Physically, Mentally, Emotionally, Spiritually, Financially and Socially. The Luna Gaia Nomadic Village is a working community located on 120 acres of land in […]

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]]> Janet Douglas is the founder of Nomads Helping Nomads Network and the steward of Luna Gaia Nomadic Village. Nomads Helping Nomads Network is a group dedicated to helping each other along our journeys. Physically, Mentally, Emotionally, Spiritually, Financially and Socially. The Luna Gaia Nomadic Village is a working community located on 120 acres of land in Chambers, AZ. Their objective is to provide a safe, enjoyable, and mutually beneficial environment for nomads and seekers to learn, earn, teach, grow, build, volunteer, create, inspire, and blend. They invite individuals to join their discussions and explore investment and volunteer opportunities available in all aspects. Everyone is welcome to participate and discover what they are passionate about and what they are willing to give to help themselves and others. 

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]]> Jake Hoster https://vehicleresidency.org/jake-hoster/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:41:05 +0000 https://vehicleresidency.org/?p=899 Jake Hoster A vehicle resident of over five years, Jake became a nomad after a 20+ year IT career. He has found success and happiness as a nomad “workamping” at various seasonal jobs around the United States, including the Sugar Beet Harvest in North Dakota, holiday season warehouse work in Nevada, and camp hosting/campground management […]

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A vehicle resident of over five years, Jake became a nomad after a 20+ year IT career. He has found success and happiness as a nomad “workamping” at various seasonal jobs around the United States, including the Sugar Beet Harvest in North Dakota, holiday season warehouse work in Nevada, and camp hosting/campground management in a National Forest in northern California. Attending and volunteering for the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous (RTR) and the Homes on Wheels Alliance (HOWA) has stirred in him a passion for successful vehicle residency, witnessing how individuals and families can thrive by living in a vehicle. Jake is on a mission to educate all vehicle residents, campers, and visitors on how we can keep our public lands open for all of us to enjoy, thus preventing closures of public lands and the end of overnight privileges in parks, streets, and parking lots.

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]]> Graham J. Pruss, PhD https://vehicleresidency.org/graham-j-pruss-phd/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:29:01 +0000 https://vehicleresidency.org/?p=888 Dr. Graham J. Pruss is an anthropologist who studies vehicle residency in North America. His research focuses on the intersection of lived experiences, social services, legal systems, and public policy development. Graham joined the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California San Francisco’s Center for Vulnerable Populations as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2020, […]

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]]> Dr. Graham J. Pruss is an anthropologist who studies vehicle residency in North America. His research focuses on the intersection of lived experiences, social services, legal systems, and public policy development. Graham joined the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California San Francisco’s Center for Vulnerable Populations as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2020, after receiving his PhD from the University of Washington Department of Anthropology. Dr. Pruss mixes participatory, qualitative, and quantitative methods to better inform policy makers and convey complex research to non-academic audiences. Graham was inspired to focus on the habitation of vehicles in public space by extensive travel with his family in vehicles during his childhood and close relationships with long-term vehicle residents throughout his life. He brings diverse perspectives to research on housing adaptation and instability, as a former social service outreach specialist for vehicle residents (2013-2015) and previous recipient of social welfare programs as a homeless youth and teen parent in the 1990s.

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