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Re:The Fight to Save a Silicon Valley Trailer Park by Animats on Friday August 14, 2015 @02:38PM (#10061977)
Belle Vista trailer park was one of the very few low-income areas from which students could get into the Palo Alto school system. Palo Alto is very strict about that - they even have an online form for reporting out-of-area students.[2] For poor people, there's the crappy Ravenswood school district. On the other hand, the trailer park is mostly retirees.

There are trailer parks all along the coastal area of the bay on the SF peninsula, dating from when that area was used as trash dumps. Google HQ is next to a former trash dump; Shoreline Park is a landfill, and in its early days had methane fires. Because no one wanted to develop that property, it came with a permanent tax exemption, which SGI exploited when they built there. Menlo Park had a dump too; that's now a park. Palo Alto recently closed the last section of their coastside dump and turning it into a park. (All the local trash is being sent to a huge canyon east of San Jose.)

Here's the trailer park nearest to Google HQ: [1] That big square thing in the background is the air intake for NASA's wind tunnel.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4172537,-122.0736559,3a,75y,... [2] http://www.pausd.org/registration/proof-residence-requiremen...

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Re:The Fight to Save a Silicon Valley Trailer Park by ktothemc on Friday August 14, 2015 @02:55PM (#10062075)
Again, what's important to remember is that the Ravenswood School District and East Palo Alto were created by racialized housing practices that confined African Americans moving to Silicon Valley the 1940s through 1960s to a subpar, excluded neighboring suburb across the highway. African Americans were not allowed to own property in Palo Alto and other parts of the region because of racialized restrictive covenants that existed until the 1968 Fair Housing Law, and this set in place a permanent set of wealth and home valuation differentials that persists to this day.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/

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Re:The Fight to Save a Silicon Valley Trailer Park by chiph on Friday August 14, 2015 @03:08PM (#10062152)
You'll probably start to see people stealth camping in the area, with a USPS box as their official domicile so they can get in the schools they want. Keep your eyes open for campers parked alongside the road (this is just down the road from your first link):

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4170873,-122.0747489,3a,75y,...

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