The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City

Re:The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of th... by fragmede on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:14PM (#40506907)

They may be legally distinct, but we can agree that they're physically adjacent, and thus for someone who's unhoused in the Bay Area, they're both options on where to live. I don't think an invisible line that anybody can cross without any sort of border control really that important a distinction here.

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Re:The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of th... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:08PM (#40507214)

I would never call them the same. East Palo Alto is much much poorer than Palo Alto; I think I would be laughed at when I was living in San Mateo if I ever tried to pass off a location in East Palo Alto as being in Palo Alto. One is full of Stanford kids and rich people, the other is full of poor people. Highway 101 isn’t a very invisible line.

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Re:The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of th... by fragmede on Thursday May 30, 2024 @02:46AM (#40520864)

I wouldn't call them the same either, but the context here is being unhoused in the Bay Area. I'm not, thankfully, but when I was living in PA I definitely met a few people who dropped East when referring to where they live. Anyway, it's too late to edit my original comment.

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