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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (135111)7/27/2013 12:38:52 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Respond to of 149317
 
Disagree. If we still have 30% of the E. Palo Altoans living in poverty now we can say that maybe the revitalization has helped the investors and the rest of the community--the non-poor-but hasn't done anything for the poor.

But that is only if the percentage of poor people hasn't changed or gone up. Maybe it has gone down in which case we probably can attribute some of that decrease in poverty is due to the business investment.

We need to know what the percentage of E. Palo Alto's population is living in poverty today as opposed to 2009 to make any kind of meaningful comments about this.



To: ChinuSFO who wrote (135111)7/27/2013 12:58:42 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 149317
 
Additionally, what all this construction is doing is apparently fueling gentrification which is displacing poor people as the cost of living in E. Palo Alto rises (because it is becoming a more desirable place to live)--so even though the statistics may show that there is less poverty in E. Palo Alto today--this does not mean that poor people have benefited from the rebuilding--just that they have been displaced.

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