Article 1VFQH Low-income families face eviction as building 'rebrands' for Facebook workers

Low-income families face eviction as building 'rebrands' for Facebook workers

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Sam Levin in Redwood City, California
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A Silicon Valley apartment complex wants to attract high-income tenants who work at top tech firms - but critics ask, what is the human cost?

The recent eviction notice that Laura Hernandez and her husband received at their one-bedroom apartment in Silicon Valley did not say why they were being kicked out.

But executives at Trion Properties, a private equity firm that recently purchased their building, have made it unusually clear that they want a different kind of tenant - high-paid technology workers at the nearby headquarters of Facebook, which is planning a large campus expansion.

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