After the volunteer gig ended, Spaulding wrote about "van dwelling" for a class. "I interviewed people who'd done it and felt inspired," she said.

Some of the most well-known cases of Silicon Valley van dwelling involve a software engineer at Google who lived in a truck in the company's parking lot, saving 90% of his income, and a Tesla ...

One van-dweller called Ash, who lives with his girlfriend close to the M32 motorway, said: "We're doing this because we don't have to pay up to £1,000 for a flat.