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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2019-04-14 04:11 pm
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-housing-crisis-ensnares-stanford-11555254001

Beatriz Vargas, a single mother who makes $17.41 an hour washing dishes at a Stanford dining hall, said she can’t afford to rent a room in the area, in part because she earns too much from her job to be eligible for food stamps. Some nights she pays $15 to rent a van from her child’s babysitter to sleep in for the night. Stanford officials have also given her cash-value gift cards that she uses to pay for motels.