Facebook Founder’s Favor Comes With Complications
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Facebook Founder’s Favor Comes With Complications
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is also writing grants for affordable housing, said working side by side with
local communities was “core to our work.” In a statement, the Primary School said the episode with the R. V.
residents was “frustrating and emblematic of larger housing issues in the Bay Area,” but
that it was not aware of East Palo Alto’s action to evict those residents and had not engaged with city officials on the matter.
At a meeting last Wednesday at East Palo Alto’s City Hall, about 100 residents
and protesters gathered with city staff to discuss their housing and some invoked Mr. Zuckerberg’s name.
The recent evictions at the R. V.
enclave were not requested by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, said Donna Rutherford,
an East Palo Alto City Council member and a former mayor of the town.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is also writing grants for affordable housing, said working side by side with
local communities was “core to our work.” In a statement, the Primary School said the episode with the R. V.
residents was “frustrating and emblematic of larger housing issues in the Bay Area,” but
that it was not aware of East Palo Alto’s action to evict those residents and had not engaged with city officials on the matter.
At a meeting last Wednesday at East Palo Alto’s City Hall, about 100 residents
and protesters gathered with city staff to discuss their housing and some invoked Mr. Zuckerberg’s name.
The recent evictions at the R. V.
enclave were not requested by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, said Donna Rutherford,
an East Palo Alto City Council member and a former mayor of the town.