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today a paypal billionaire is launching his car to mars because he thinks it's cute, while just a couple miles from paypal those without homes are having their encampments destroyed. the country is going great thanks for asking

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San Jose: Homeless advocates protest sweep of ‘Googleville’ encampment

Homeless form procession of possessions out onto the streets

By JULIA PRODIS SULEK | [e-mail] | Bay Area News Group

PUBLISHED: February 5, 2018 at 9:08 am | UPDATED: February 6, 2018 at 9:22 am

Commuters rushed along freeway overpasses to the Google and Apple and Facebook campuses of Silicon Valley on Monday morning, while 50 feet below a dozen California Highway Patrol officers politely called into the makeshift dwellings at the latest, swelling homeless encampment in San Jose:

“Hello? Good morning,” they said. “You have to move.”

Tent by tent, tarp by tarp, the homeless encampment dubbed “Googleville” came down in the early morning hours, sending about 70 people along a procession of possessions up an embankment and on to the streets in search of their next place to settle.

Monday’s eviction was the largest in a string of recent homeless encampment sweeps in the capital of Silicon Valley. Caltrans, which owns the acreage at the massive interchange of Highway 101 and Interstates, 280 and 680 near Story Road in San Jose, oversaw the operation. About a dozen homeless advocates showed up and, in a jab at tech companies whose success has helped spawn a crippling housing crisis, called the encampment “Googleville.”