Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reserve Apartment Homes: located five miles from Apple headquarters, and 20 miles from Facebook. “It’s been a tidal wave of displacement,” said Kyra Kazantzis, directing attorney of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, a local nonprofit. This is our home.”Milano, who is originally from Venezuela and has lived in the area for 13 years, is one of roughly 670 tenants who are being displaced from their homes in what local housing advocates believe to be Silicon Valley’s largest-ever mass eviction of rent-controlled tenants. As a result, the complex is home to a diverse mix of working-class residents, low-income tenants as well as some newer, wealthier renters, including tech workers. “This is where San Jose is going to grow.”City leaders’ comments about the need to grow offer little consolation to Reserve tenants who won’t be benefiting from the region’s economic development.

Source: The Guardian July 07, 2016 11:30 UTC