Two neighborhoods in San Francisco reveal the impact of the city's efforts to curb vehicular homelessness, leaving RV residents with limited safe parking options.
As part of the 2025 Ethnic Media Collaborative, Healing California, this story explores the lives caught in between the city's rising RV crisis.
In the Lake Merced neighborhood, over a dozen RVs line the curb along John Muir Drive, including one where 32-year-old Jessica Cuevas lives with her eight-year-old son.
Jessica Cuevas, after being evicted from her $3,800-a-month rental, bought an RV on Facebook Marketplace and initially parked near her son's school in the Bayview.
However, after accumulating parking tickets, she moved to Lake Merced, only to potentially face another displacement with nowhere else to go.
Author's summary: San Francisco's RV crackdown affects residents.