We've had quite a few posting about this story in the last few days. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=lives%20in%20a%20truck&sort=by... . There are 90 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422976 .

I don't understand the furor. This sort of thing has always happened. Here's an HN thread from earlier this year about secretly living in the office for 500 days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481017 . A couple of comments refer to people sleeping in parking lots.