December 18, 2011

CBS Evening News has reignited interest in Slab City – the off-grid community near Los Angeles. It is celebrating its 20^th anniversary and is growing steadily as a result of foreclosure victims looking for a place with few rules, where they can get on with life undisturbed.

The 2000 residents are gathered in the desert around concrete slabs placed there during WW2, living in tents, trailers, elderly mobile homes and other dwellings made from found materials.