If there was no other option but to liven in my car, you can bet that I would not be spending what little money I have on dog food.
SANTA BARBARA, California (CNN) -- Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.
A former loan processor, the 67-year-old mother of three grown children said she never thought she'd spend her golden years sleeping in her car in a parking lot.
"This is my bed, my dogs," she said. "This is my life in this car right now."
Harvey was forced into homelessness earlier this year after being laid off. She said that three-quarters of her income went to paying rent in Santa Barbara, where the median house in the scenic, oceanfront city costs more than $1 million. She lost her condo two months ago and had little savings as backup.
(if you can stomach it, read the rest here)
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I have another suggestion: move. If the rent where you live is more than 7 times that of the average income, then move. There are towns all over the country where she could actually rent an apartment with an $8.00 and hour job - I know because I did it for years. We actually supported ourselves and three kids on $10.00 - and never once lived in a car or starved. We couldn't have made it if we had a bunch of pets though.
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