Palo Alto to Enforce the Largest Mass Displacement of People in History of City

This is unfortunate for the individuals who are forced to relocate, and contributes to the gentrification of the community, but I could really go without the race-baiting rhetoric. This has nothing to do with skin color; if anything its a class issue. A 1BR in Palo Alto right now goes for over &gt;$2000; economically, continuing to operate a trailer park in that environment is a pretty poor use of real estate.<p>Based on anecdotal demographics of walking around Palo Alto, whoever replaces these tenants is just as likely to be Indian or Asian as they are to be white. But those are apparently the wrong kind of people of color.

The article uses the very loaded phrase &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot;. Wikipedia says:<p><pre><code> The crimes committed during an ethnic cleansing are similar to those of genocide, but while genocide includes an intent at complete or partial destruction of the target group, ethnic cleansing may involve murder only to the point of mobilizing the target group out of the territory. Hence there may be varied degrees of mass murder in an ethnic cleansing, often subsiding when the target group appears to be leaving the desired territory, while during genocide the mass murder is ubiquitous and constant throughout the process, continuing even while the target group tries to flee. </code></pre> So, &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot; can involve:<p><pre><code> crimes similar to those of genocide varied degrees of mass murder </code></pre> Way inappropriate, way over the top. &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot; doesn&#x27;t explicitly say Hitler, but it&#x27;s pretty darn close to it. In this case the article starts with Godwin&#x27;s law, rather than a discussion degenerating into using it.<p>Having said that, I can&#x27;t believe how poorly mobile home residents are treated in this country. We had a similar situation in Wilsonville Oregon. It made financial sense to build apartments, so multiple trailer parks were closed. Despite them being &quot;mobile homes&quot;, they&#x27;re not that easy to move and frequently other parks won&#x27;t accept homes that are more than a few years old.<p>Mobile home residents are often screwed, badly, in this country.

I&#x27;m surprised this has received so many upvotes in the past 2 hours. It rang like click-bait playing a race card. Maybe someone knows more about the details than I do, but exactly what injustice is being done? This is similar to when a plant is closed and the employees are upset. The plant owner didn&#x27;t owe the employees a job. The relocation package offered to the tenants is...amazing...and would probably not have been offered to a trailer park of people (whatever race) in Florida on prime beach front property. They would have been told to vacate, no relocation package.<p>I grew up on the Ernest movies...like &quot;Ernest goes to camp.&quot; I remember many years ago when it dawned on me that the &quot;evil corporation&quot; wanting to shut down the summer camp was simply acting in their best financial interest. Something that they <i>should</i> do. It&#x27;s sad that the film makers decided to teach false entitlement instead of enlightening how the world really works, and how the viewer can become part of the true market (and not just victims of it).

Can&#x27;t the city afford to build a nice set of apartments there, and let everyone continue to live in the same location with the same rent?