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Articles about Car Living
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Self-Reliance
25 Tips for Living in Your Car, From Someone Who Does
25 practical tips for living in your car from Darlene's three years of experience: parking and safety, sleep and weather, water and food and hygiene, the vehicle and power, and money and connection.
Finding Help When You Live in Your Car
Help that works without a home address: General Delivery mail, SNAP food benefits, community health centers, Lifeline phone service, veterans' services, and how to spot a scam.
How Many People Live in Their Cars, and Why
What the federal homelessness count shows about people living in vehicles, why the numbers are hard to pin down, who lives in cars, the debate over causes, and how cities are responding.
Hygiene and Laundry When You Live in Your Car
How to stay clean while living in a car: handwashing and sanitizer the CDC way, where to find a shower, foot care, and a laundry rotation that keeps clean clothes coming.
Keeping Your Car Running When You Live in It
Car upkeep when your car is your home: NHTSA's monthly tire check, free recall repairs, oil and the check engine light, exhaust checks, and budgeting for maintenance on a fixed income.
Living in a Car With a Dog: Safety, Routine, and Gear
Living in your car with a dog: AVMA guidance on parked cars, signs of heat and cold stress, routine, food storage, ID, and parking lot hazards like antifreeze.
Living in Your Vehicle: Practical Guides
Practical guides for living in your car, truck, or van: staying warm safely, power, food, a dog in the car, parking, hygiene, and keeping the car running.
Meet Darlene: Three Years Living in a Car
Who Darlene is after three years living in a small sedan with her dog Taz: why she says she chooses it, the mindset that carries her, her plan toward land and a tiny house, and how her words reach these pages.
No-Fridge Food for Car Living on About $8 a Day
What to eat when you live in your car: shelf-stable food that keeps, canned food in heat and cold, the two-hour rule, coolers, and keeping mice out, from USDA.
Power for Car Living: Sizing a Battery Power Station
How to size a battery power station for living in a car, recharge it without a home outlet, and keep it safe in heat and cold, with NFPA and CPSC guidance.
Sleeping Warm in Your Vehicle, Safely
How to stay warm sleeping in a car: the four carbon monoxide rules from CDC and CPSC, layering, battery heated blankets, and the signs of hypothermia.
What People Get Wrong About Living in a Car
What the research shows about people living in their cars: how many there are, how many work, why it happens, how to help, and what the life is actually like.
Where to Park When You Live in Your Car
Where you can legally sleep in your car, how safe parking programs work, what makes a spot safe at night, and how to keep a low profile and avoid a tow.