Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valleyhttps://unitednewspost.com/news/us-news/homeless-encampment-grows-on-apple-property-in-silicon-valley/Apple promised to help quell the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis with a series of big-ticket investments, but the tech giant soon may have to get more directly involved — addressing a problem that has spread to the company’s front door.
A large homeless encampment is growing on the site Apple earmarked for its North San Jose campus, two years after Apple made waves with a $2.5 billion pledge to combat the Bay Area’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis.
What started as a few RVs parked on the side of Component Drive has grown over the past year into a sprawling camp of dozens of people, a maze of broken-down vehicles and a massive amount of trash scattered across the vacant, Apple-owned property. People with nowhere else to go live there in tents, RVs and wooden structures they built themselves. At least two children call the camp home.
Looking at GoogMaps, this future campus appears to be bounded by Trimble Rd, Orchard Parkway, entrance ramps to SR87 freeway, and the Guadalupe River. The Guadalupe River has long been infested with homeless camps, and I know of at leat one such about a mile and a half away from what appears to be the future Apple site, and possibly closer. The Guadalupe River Trail, which is paved, coneects the two areas. This "dilemma" was predictable, and the coming conflict between the
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