Thank you for bringing awareness to this problem! I am part of a new coalition named CHANGE Santa Clara County and would love to post this article on our link tree with your permission. The link on our page would send them directly to this page.
Thank you for this excellent article. I grew up very near Maybell Orchards and passed by it every day on my way to school. I was thrilled when I heard it was going to become a low income senior housing project. My mother, who still lived there, was too. But her neighbors were not. In fact, they started emailing about "parking issues" and traffic (for a senior housing project, no less). Mom went door to door to advocate for the project, talking to neighbors who she had known for 50 years. They were adamant against the project. She couldn't believe it. That neighborhood was never exclusive. I grew up next door to teachers and nurses and social workers (and doctors and lawyers and professors and techies). My parents bought their house in the early 1960's for about $40,000. When my mom sold to move in to a retirement home, she had multiple offers and it sold for $3.5 million, cash. There are still many good people in Palo Alto, but I think that it is all too easy to scare people into being afraid of any changes. Most of my friends who I went to high school with could never afford to live in Palo Alto today, which is a shame, because it really was a great place to grow up and everyone should have an opportunity to live in a nice place.
Why don’t you write about housing inequities in Atherton or Hillsborough? Don’t just pick on Palo Alto. Also why don’t you report on low cost housing in other cities like East Palo Alto?
I said this on another website and it's a bit hard to distill here, in context of Mike's argument the relevance but the fact that Tom Dubois -- in some ways a product of the fight over Maybell -- does not mentor Rebecca Eisenberg but attacks her shows that the real estate industry is successful at a "divide and conquer" campaign. PASZ told voters to bullet-ballot their four candidates rather than ranking me 5th and including me, even though Tim Gray and I had the exact same platform in previous election cycles. Maybe my stance is sour grapes but it looks like PASZ always play just well enough to lose the land-use battles.
Your point is that because it got worse and not better we were better off surrendering?
By the way, Margo Davis is Julian Davis' mother - -never met her to my knowledge, but I respect her view -- the other question, why didn't Palo Alto consider Buena Vista and Maybell as whole-cloth? I think we should discuss Ventura, Cubberley and Castilleja simultaneously.
I have roots in Rochester and found that the home my grandmother lived in in the 1930s is available for $50,000. I prefer to live in a more modest home here, and fight for what I believe in.
You unsubscribed my email for asking a question I think is relevant to your point of views in your articles. I am confused Mr Dunham as to why you did this.
Ok, sorry to wear out my turn, but your argument is procrustean. Of the three links, the first is bogus because the "suicide cluster" is not true, the "N" is too small -- they are unrelated cases, and certainly not unique to Palo Alto - -and by the way, my valedictorian, John Neumann also killed himself, in 1984. These are all individual cases; your use for the greater gain of, I'm guessing Real Estate Industry, is crass; the thing about 280 Stanford, looks like buyer in your article has since sold, got his money out. Again, not unique to Palo Alto. I believe the property is spruced up a bit but still stands. Regarding the college admissions scandal, definitely not a Palo Alto story. The cite in your link is someone who worked here -- a VC -- but lived elsewhere. Actually Bill McGlashen went to Gunn freshman year before private school but has not been iin Palo Alto for quite a while. And your examples of HP and Tesla are interesting. In the 1960s Palo Alto came close to being a "company town" with a director of HP being mayor here, Porter. And he tore out 100 homes to build an expressway to get butts to the bench on time. But HP in the 1960s was a lot closer to being normal than today's corporate values, which destroy democracy. Tesla, gee that guy does a lot for workers and Democracy.
Palo Alto acquitted itself well with BLM; there have always been a core group here committed to progressive values, although the industry -- in my use, high tech -- does displace good and ethical people. Things are worse, but as my rabbi says, you don't have to finish your work but you can't quit, either.
I've lived in Palo Alto area on and off since 1974, which for me is 4th grade. And I ran for City Council here. I find your model is off. More simply: the real estate industry controls this town, corrupted PAHC and then finds compromised candidates like Filseth and Dubois -- who are just Silicon Valley white guys who like to boss people around -- and Kou, who is a realtor instead of any change that would empower residents. I would say: read George Packer, "the Unwinding" -- he's from here, Gunn High, 7 years before me, Robert Reich, "Saving Capitalism" and maybe Piketty -- i've just read the commentary.
Interestingly the candidate here I like the most, and the most refreshing in years, Rebecca Eisenberg, trained at Harvard Law with Elizabeth Warren, although she is more pro-housing that I think is prudent. I'm not a "Nimby" -- I don't have a voice.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this problem! I am part of a new coalition named CHANGE Santa Clara County and would love to post this article on our link tree with your permission. The link on our page would send them directly to this page.
Thank you for this excellent article. I grew up very near Maybell Orchards and passed by it every day on my way to school. I was thrilled when I heard it was going to become a low income senior housing project. My mother, who still lived there, was too. But her neighbors were not. In fact, they started emailing about "parking issues" and traffic (for a senior housing project, no less). Mom went door to door to advocate for the project, talking to neighbors who she had known for 50 years. They were adamant against the project. She couldn't believe it. That neighborhood was never exclusive. I grew up next door to teachers and nurses and social workers (and doctors and lawyers and professors and techies). My parents bought their house in the early 1960's for about $40,000. When my mom sold to move in to a retirement home, she had multiple offers and it sold for $3.5 million, cash. There are still many good people in Palo Alto, but I think that it is all too easy to scare people into being afraid of any changes. Most of my friends who I went to high school with could never afford to live in Palo Alto today, which is a shame, because it really was a great place to grow up and everyone should have an opportunity to live in a nice place.
Why don’t you write about housing inequities in Atherton or Hillsborough? Don’t just pick on Palo Alto. Also why don’t you report on low cost housing in other cities like East Palo Alto?
I said this on another website and it's a bit hard to distill here, in context of Mike's argument the relevance but the fact that Tom Dubois -- in some ways a product of the fight over Maybell -- does not mentor Rebecca Eisenberg but attacks her shows that the real estate industry is successful at a "divide and conquer" campaign. PASZ told voters to bullet-ballot their four candidates rather than ranking me 5th and including me, even though Tim Gray and I had the exact same platform in previous election cycles. Maybe my stance is sour grapes but it looks like PASZ always play just well enough to lose the land-use battles.
Your point is that because it got worse and not better we were better off surrendering?
By the way, Margo Davis is Julian Davis' mother - -never met her to my knowledge, but I respect her view -- the other question, why didn't Palo Alto consider Buena Vista and Maybell as whole-cloth? I think we should discuss Ventura, Cubberley and Castilleja simultaneously.
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/square/2013/09/25/why-not-help-save-the-last-orchard-in-palo-alto
I have roots in Rochester and found that the home my grandmother lived in in the 1930s is available for $50,000. I prefer to live in a more modest home here, and fight for what I believe in.
You unsubscribed my email for asking a question I think is relevant to your point of views in your articles. I am confused Mr Dunham as to why you did this.
Ok, sorry to wear out my turn, but your argument is procrustean. Of the three links, the first is bogus because the "suicide cluster" is not true, the "N" is too small -- they are unrelated cases, and certainly not unique to Palo Alto - -and by the way, my valedictorian, John Neumann also killed himself, in 1984. These are all individual cases; your use for the greater gain of, I'm guessing Real Estate Industry, is crass; the thing about 280 Stanford, looks like buyer in your article has since sold, got his money out. Again, not unique to Palo Alto. I believe the property is spruced up a bit but still stands. Regarding the college admissions scandal, definitely not a Palo Alto story. The cite in your link is someone who worked here -- a VC -- but lived elsewhere. Actually Bill McGlashen went to Gunn freshman year before private school but has not been iin Palo Alto for quite a while. And your examples of HP and Tesla are interesting. In the 1960s Palo Alto came close to being a "company town" with a director of HP being mayor here, Porter. And he tore out 100 homes to build an expressway to get butts to the bench on time. But HP in the 1960s was a lot closer to being normal than today's corporate values, which destroy democracy. Tesla, gee that guy does a lot for workers and Democracy.
Palo Alto acquitted itself well with BLM; there have always been a core group here committed to progressive values, although the industry -- in my use, high tech -- does displace good and ethical people. Things are worse, but as my rabbi says, you don't have to finish your work but you can't quit, either.
Please explain your position on your Alma mater being accused a racial discrimination and being named after a slave owner
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-finds-yale-discriminated-based-on-race-in-undergraduate-admissions-11597351675
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Yale
I've lived in Palo Alto area on and off since 1974, which for me is 4th grade. And I ran for City Council here. I find your model is off. More simply: the real estate industry controls this town, corrupted PAHC and then finds compromised candidates like Filseth and Dubois -- who are just Silicon Valley white guys who like to boss people around -- and Kou, who is a realtor instead of any change that would empower residents. I would say: read George Packer, "the Unwinding" -- he's from here, Gunn High, 7 years before me, Robert Reich, "Saving Capitalism" and maybe Piketty -- i've just read the commentary.
Interestingly the candidate here I like the most, and the most refreshing in years, Rebecca Eisenberg, trained at Harvard Law with Elizabeth Warren, although she is more pro-housing that I think is prudent. I'm not a "Nimby" -- I don't have a voice.