New tool to reduce homeless camps: LA County leases apartment building for former RV dwellers

Looking back, life in the RV camp wasn't all bad.

There were some good people living in the clusters of RVs scattered throughout unincorporated Gardena. For Robert Almorejo, it was a community where everybody knew everybody. He earned money painting his neighbors' RVs. There was a stake of a sort: he owned his own home. And there was one dear friend, Jessica.

But then he remembers the cold days with no heat, the hot days with no air conditioning, the stove with no gas.

"This right here is a lot easier," he said. "It was worth it."

"Right here" is the apartment Almorejo moved into last week.