Safe parking program for homeless coming to L.A.?

The program gets people off the streets at night, but the lots close at daybreak. Above, Thomas Goodwin and his daughter by their recently purchased mobile home in Santa Barbara.

Leilani Miranda Duenez Goodwin, with a scarf and blanket, at a parking lot where she and her father, Thomas Goodwin, will spend the night in their van in Santa Barbara.

The “safe parking” program takes 115 autos off the streets overnight. Above, Thomas Goodwin and daughter Leilani prepare to sleep in their van in Santa Barbara.

Thomas Goodwin and his daughter Leilani make a salad while having dinner at a pizza parlor in Santa Barbara.

Thomas Goodwin and his daughter Leilani sing while driving through the streets of Santa Barbara.

Los Angeles is studying the Santa Barbara program as a possible model to address its own rise in people sleeping in RVs and cars.

Christen Gardenhire, 47, is reflected in a window of her motor home along a street in Santa Barbara in March. She has been living homeless in her RV for about a week and said she wasn’t familiar with the “safe parking” program.

Patrick Cole, 50, who lives out of his motor home and is working toward a design degree at Santa Barbara City College, has been taking part in the Santa Barbara program for three years.

Patrick Cole attends a print-making class at Santa Barbara City College. During the day he parks his motor home in the campus lot.

Patrick Cole, makes his way to class at Santa Barbara City College. At night he takes part in the “safe parking” program.

Marge Giaimo, 75, a former caregiver for the elderly, parks her car in one of many New Beginnings Safe Parking Program lots in Santa Barbara. Giaimo has been living in her car since March, 2013. “There was no other place to go,” Giaimo said while participating in the Safe Parking Program.