With house prices soaring, many people are turning to living in RVs full-time. However, it's illegal to live in one on your property in these U.S. states.
"I don't live on this property, I just use it for storing my RV."
Tall shrubs/trees all around, get a PO box. Don't show your neighbors around.
Exactly what is going to compel local police to get a warrant to enter the property and somehow confirm you live in that RV full time?
These kinds of laws are crafted by elected legislators who are either truly inept, or only interested in performative gestures to boost their image. A law without realistic enforceability is mostly imaginary, and primarily serves just to tack extra charges onto some other sentence a person got for breaking a law local police actually enforce.
If I had to guess, most people in RVs would rather live in a house. It's just houses are not affordable in USA; I've seen posters from there talking about this in Lemmy all the bloody time.
Based on that I don't think prohibition is the right way to go. Instead make sure people can afford houses, and the problem goes away. Additionally the ones living in an RV by choice would be even freer to keep with their lifestyle - those are likely not an issue when it comes to zoning laws, as the main reason you'd want to live in a wheeled home is to travel.
I live in in the southern region of brazil. The problem of homelessness here is by no means solved but at least some State and City governments are genuinely trying, through government companies (Cohab, roughly "habitation company").
Basically: if you have no house, and your monthly income is low enough, here you can subscribe to Cohab so it eventually "sells" you a house. You do pay for it but it's a rather low amount*. No sane mid class would ever consider those houses - but if you're homeless, it's still leagues above living in an irregular shitshack near the river, made of cardboard, metal sheets and random planks.
Additionally, water and electricity are really cheap if you're poor enough, and your household consumption is below a certain threshold.
The federation also has a similar project (Minha Casa, Minha Vida my house, my life), but... frankly I can't trust the federation to not divert tax money into someone's pockets.
* I think R$150~300/month ≃ €25~50/month is typical. For reference, minimum wage in my State is R$1.984,16 ≃ €300 per month.
Now, here's the catch: the local governments are doing this shit with a tiny fraction of the income the city, state and federal governments in USA have. Why the hell are they not doing something similar? Because of all that ideological meritocracy babble?