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DESCRIPTION:We meet every third Monday of the month to ask Apple to pay a fair share of 
 taxes. Here's why:\nAPPLE DODGES TAXES, WE PAY THE PRICE\nApple 
 Computer’s proposed new Cupertino campus has failed to consider the 
 devastating effect it will have on Santa Clara County’s affordable 
 housing crisis. The Environmental Impact Report states that this project 
 will create demand for approximately 6000 housing units in Santa Clara 
 County alone. Common sense tells us a large number of those units should be 
 affordable housing:\n•	many of the new jobs (especially those contracted 
 out to irresponsible companies like Security Industry Specialists) do not 
 offer wages and hours adequate to pay local rents or buy homes 
 \n•	increasing the number of high-income jobs heightens overall housing 
 demand, raises market rents, and squeezes low-income workers out of what 
 little housing is available to them now\n•	increasing the number of 
 upper-income jobs always leads to demand for services by low-wage workers, 
 who will also need affordable housing to be able to survive\nSanta Clara 
 County already has over 7000 homeless people every night, including the 
 largest homeless encampment in the continental United States. Some say the 
 solution is for the poor to just leave the area. Simultaneously they demand 
 people to serve them: prepare their food, wash their dishes, clean their 
 homes, mow their lawns, and change their hotel bed sheets – and to build 
 their houses, teach their children, and police their streets.\nApple’s 
 offer to mitigate its impact is woefully inadequate: it will only subsidize 
 25-50 affordable units, while the project is creating a housing shortfall 
 of thousands of homes.\nWe need innovative ways to force Silicon Valley 
 corporations to give their fair share back to the communities that protect 
 and serve them. Their status as technological icons cannot be accepted as 
 an excuse for socially irresponsible development. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/11/18746227.php
SUMMARY:Heal The Valley
LOCATION:Corners of DeAnza Boulevard and Mariani; the entrance to the Apple 
 Cupertino WHQ campus
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/11/18746227.php
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