They Forced Americans Into Sleeping in Vans — Now They're Coming to Take What's Left

They Forced Americans Into Sleeping in Vans — Now They're Coming to Take What's Left In a storage lot in Anchorage, Alaska, there's a man who runs a towing company, and he said something out loud that most people in his position are careful never to say. He explained what happens to the vehicles his company hauls away from homeless camps. They get taken to his lot. They sit there. And about five percent of them ever get claimed by the person who was living in them. The rest, he said, are held until the city sends a list, and then they're crushed. He mentioned, almost in passing, that he's had some of them for a year. And then he said the part that should stop you cold. This kind of work, clearing out the homeless, towing away the vehicles people live in, wasn't something his company did five years ago. It is a line of business now. A real one, a growing one, with contracts and revenue and a future.