Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

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73 points bikenaga | 1 comments | 22 Sep 25 22:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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davidw ◴[23 Sep 25 00:05 UTC] No.45341237[source]▶

In Portland, it's legal to live in an RV on someone's land as long as there is a proper sewer/electric/water hookup. This is beneficial because it makes for more dispersed RV living rather than concentrating everyone in an RV park.

This Sightline article talks about some of the people it has helped:

https://www.sightline.org/2025/09/11/homes-on-wheels-are-fil...

Long term, we should make other more permanent forms of housing cheaper and easier for people to get into, but this is a good solution for some people some of the time.

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fred_is_fred ◴[23 Sep 25 00:50 UTC] No.45341579[source]▶

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Is it difficult to connect in to an existing sewer line?

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1. davidw ◴[23 Sep 25 02:56 UTC] No.45342318[source]▶

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From the article: "Adding the water and sewer connection only cost another $5,000. "

Building an ADU (aka Granny flat) can cost hundreds of thousands and take a long time to get done.

So it's a way cheaper and easier option.

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