Can you point to the information about the people in this article being undocumented/illegal? I must be missing it because I don’t see it here or in the article linked.

Actually, no, Palo Alto is a separate town. EAST Palo Alto and Belle Haven (Eastern Menlo Park) need better housing too. Belle Haven has never been represented on the Menlo Park city council, so no surprise there.

That new housing will not be low/middle income apartments. It will be McMansions or “upscale” condos. Yes, more housing stock might help stabilize overall pricing, but it will not help those in the middle or bottom.

it’s completely unreasonable that a public school superintendent has so many homeless families living in RVs that she feels the need to open school grounds to those families. It is a wonderful thing for her to do, but it is absolutely unreasonable that it is necessary. This should not be happening. It is immoral,…

The more I live, the more entrenched I become in distributionism and my belief that it may really be the only way to stabilize society. Capitalism has decent features, but the problem is that it’s inherently hungry - it has no end point, it has no “goal” other than to keep acquiring and consuming. Socialism has its…

I could wait for some pretentious, out of touch white guy to “disrupt” this problem by making housing more affordable and accessible for all socioeconomic classes, but then I remembered the “disrupt” culture only fixes problems that either don’t exist or benefit pretentious, out of touch white guys.

It’s hard to even know where to begin with this story—the problem with affordable housing, the marginalization of undocumented immigrants, public schools and test scores, gentrification, corporate taxes, the tech industry. The accommodations that the superintendent is trying to make sound not only reasonable and…

They don’t want to kill transparency. They want to kill democracy.

Or better yet: Trump Tower, ‘cause he’s not gonna spend much time in that dump in DC.

Maybe they should makes some rules about people tweeting from the White House.

Fuck these people and anyone who voted for them.

“Let’s keep up the pretence for the public.” Paul Ryan.

“These rules are up for debate and a vote when Congress resumes on January 3.”