Colorado River Backroads Overflowing With Boondockers Everywhere you look in the Southwest during the Great Recession, boondockers are camped on the side of the road with everything they own. There are no spaces left in campgrounds, public or private, even if you have the money. Many don't, having been unemployed and foreclosed on or unable to pay their rent. Nomadland (the book much more than the movie) told much of the story, but many people were harder to find unless you looked for them. https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/colorado-river-backroads-overflowing-with-boondockers/view https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/colorado-river-backroads-overflowing-with-boondockers

Colorado River Backroads Overflowing With Boondockers

note taken by Marshall Mayer on April 5, 2009 at 10:55 AM just off of Arizona 95 north of Lake Havasu City, AZ 86404, USA

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#looktheotherway
#foreclosure
#economicinsecurity
#houselessness
#unemployment
#boondocking
#nomadland

Marshall Mayer says:

Apr 17, 2022 04:22 PM

Everywhere you look in the Southwest during the Great Recession, boondockers are camped on the side of the road with everything they own. There are no spaces left in campgrounds, public or private, even if you have the money. Many don't, having been unemployed and foreclosed on or unable to pay their rent. Nomadland (the book much more than the movie) told much of the story, but many people were harder to find unless you looked for them.

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