[GPSCC-chat] Low Income Families Face Eviction by Real Estate Profiteers

[Brian]

That's hardly news, but the fact that National Public Radio reports on it on Morning Edition nationwide
is news.

I've seen City policies in Palo Alto further a systematic campaign for 40 years of demolishing low-cost 
housing so that real estate developers can profit from the construction of luxury apartments and 
million-dollar McMansions.   Just as purse-snatchers target the old ladies, the real estate profiteers
target the homes of low-income people.

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/15/227807022/silicon-valley-trailer-park-residents-fight-to-stay

Sunny Palo Alto, Calif., is awash in multimillion-dollar homes, 
luxury Tesla electric cars and other financial fruits from a digital 
revolution the city helped spark. The Silicon Valley city is home to 
Stanford University, at least eight billionaires, and one mobile home 
park.


   Now, Buena Vista Mobile Home Park — one of the largest 
and one of the few remaining affordable housing options here — is 
threatened with closure. The owners want to  to a developer who plans to
 build luxury apartments for the high-tech corridor's growing workforce.
 The park's low-income, mostly Latino residents are fighting to stay in 
their community and to keep their kids in one of California's best 
school districts.


   The fight shows the less-publicized 
underbelly of Silicon Valley's incredible successes: unequal access to 
education, and the marginalization of some low-income workers.

 		 	   		  
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