Slab City 2025. The future of slab city's squatter community — 140 miles east of san diego — is threatened as the state considers selling the desert land in imperial county. Often described as the “last free place”, slab city is an informal settlement built on the remains of a world war 2 military training camp in the southern california desert.
Situated on the former site of a now dilapidated military base,. Slab city, a former military base turned alternative community in southern california, has served as a safe space to thousands of transients, squatters, migrants and.