Article 2HPP8 Living under a tarp next to Facebook HQ: 'I don't want people to see me'

Living under a tarp next to Facebook HQ: 'I don't want people to see me'

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Alastair Gee in Menlo Park, California
from Technology | The Guardian on (#2HPP8)

The sprawling Silicon Valley campus has cafes, bike repair services, even dry cleaning. But across the road a homeless community epitomizes the wealth gap

In a patch of scrubland across the road from the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, a woman named Celma Aguilar recently walked along some overgrown train tracks. She stopped where a path forked into some vegetation, just a few hundred yards from the tourists taking photos by an enormous image of a "Like" icon at the campus entrance.

"Welcome to the mansion," Aguilar said, gesturing to a rudimentary shelter of tarps hidden in the undergrowth.

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