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Troubled Water

The day he left East Palo Alto to attend his grandmother’s funeral across the country, Justin Turner’s water was shut off. He had to leave his wife, nine months pregnant and due to deliver any day, at home without water, after trying fruitlessly for months to have a simple question answered by his water company, […]

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Four wheels. Cramped quarters. But no rent. Why people are living in RVs on Palo Alto’s El Camino Real.

The more than 40 recreational vehicles parked along El Camino Real, just outside Stanford University, have been deemed eyesores and nuisances, but inside them are people facing diverse circumstances: among them, families struggling to make ends meet and traveling contractors who work locally but have permanent homes in other California cities. Over the course of […]