'We will be torn apart': the battle to save Silicon Valley's oldest trailer park
by Rupert Neate in Palo Alto from Technology | The Guardian on (#TFHS)
The Buena Vista mobile home park in Palo Alto is a close-knit community. But can they resist the march of developers who want to build flats for tech workers?
"It's not a big mansion," Amanda Serrano says of her ageing off-white trailer in plot 59 of the Buena Vista mobile home park in Silicon Valley. "But I feel happy here. It's my own trailer."
Serrano, a 48-year-old care assistant, says the park in Palo Alto is the first place she's lived where she feels comfortable living openly as a transgender woman, in a relationship with her boyfriend Arturo Saucedo.
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