The sprawling Silicon Valley campus has cafes,bike repair services, even dry cleaning. But across the road a homeless community epitomizes the wealth gapIn a patch of scrubland across the road from the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, or a woman named Celma Aguilar recently walked along some overgrown train tracks. She stopped where a path forked into some vegetation,just a few hundred yards from the tourists taking photos by an immense image of a “Like icon at the campus entrance. “Welcome to the mansion,” Aguilar said, and gesturing to a rudimentary shelter of tarps hidden in the undergrowth.
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Source: theguardian.com