I am only one person, that’s true. But as you can see in the comments, there are a lot of people out there dealing with housing affordability like I am and most people are having a harder time than I am by far. What if all of us decided to move to East Palo Alto? That would certainly drive up the prices there and cause substantial displacement. In fact, EPA is already seeing that happen during the Facebook expansion. Over a relatively short bit of time that community’s fabric would fray as one set of long time residents is replaced with a whole new set of people. Perhaps you don’t value the sense of community they feel. You don’t value how they feel when they see long time neighbors on the street, at the market, at community meetings. You don’t value the connections they’ve forged and the appreciation they have for living close to long-time neighbors and friends. But they do. And it seems awfully unfair to overrun that community and make them pay for the policies Palo Alto enacts. I don’t think it’s right for Palo Alto to be raking in all the money from the offices and jobs they have allowed here, but then make EPA deal with all the burdens of housing those people. Asking people to displace those in poorer communities instead of building housing in your own is the very definition of gentrification and injustice. It’s not right. As the rents go up in EPA, where do the long-time residents of EPA go??