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Comment by cranberryturkey | Hacker News Reader

California is like this. I think its stupid.

From the article:

> The states that have said "absolutely not" to permanently living in an RV are Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, and Delaware. In most every other state, it's going to come down to the individual laws of the county and sometimes even the city you're in.

And even that's wrong. There are places in Michigan where I've seen it allowed, either in local ordinances or de-facto

There is a road in SF that is a whole bunch of poorly looking RVs one after another for a mile or two down.

Yeah it's like that because of rules like this. No one can do anything except live in RVs because if houses are built they have to be done perfectly in a way the whole town has to be happy with.

Just imagine you aren't the only person who's health, safety, and "freedom" is under consideration and it should be clear why the majority of people would prefer those rules be in place.

This isn't about health and safety. It's the same kind of zoning NIMBYism that prevents building/living in an apartment, condo, or manufactured housing on your own property.

I have trouble escaping the idea that the schmucks that run muni's are all competing with each other to be more upscale than each other. And mostly that devolves into policies to 'keep the riff raff out'. My ex brother in law used to drive his work truck when visiting his sister and the HOA started threatening to fine her.

If they own the land I don’t see how other people would be affected unless they are violating some other laws which could be enforced separately from the RV question (e.g. trash on property, whatever else you are thinking of).

The main idea is that it negatively impacts their property values, because a home is not a home in a lot of places in the US. A home is the largest financial investment most will make in their lifetime.

There's tons of crazy stuff a neighbor could do to affect property values, why single this out specifically for that reason? A clean RV sitting on property is a lot less bad than building a mountain of tires in your front yard or having 40 dogs (random examples)

I'm not saying I agree with it or don't, I'm saying that's the common reason you'll hear from any of the HOA types, real estate developers / appraisers, etc.

Ah got it, yeah fair enough that is probably the most common reason for it that I've heard too

Or a tent since you might as well not invest a ton into what you're doing as it's illegal.

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