A large homeless encampment is growing on the site Apple earmarked for its North San Jose campus, two years after Apple made waves with a $2.5 billion pledge to combat the Bay Area’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis. — The Mercury News
Campers appear to have migrated from the nearby Mineta San Jose International Airport, which the city began clearing in late June at the urging of the FAA. Apple bought parts of the 55-acre site in North San Jose in early 2018 and currently holds no publicized plans for its development.
Nearly half of the U.S.'s homeless population lives in California alone. The state has been tragically unable to address the issue impactfully for the past two decades as rising home prices and a paucity of affordable housing are steadfastly combining to make matters worse. San Jose Spotlight has more on development issues at the site here.
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are you sure they're not waiting for the iphone 13?
Shhhh! They're architects, waiting for the iPad2436!!
The City of the Future.
not so distant anymore
'Campus' according to Merriam Webster: The grounds and buildings of a university, college, or school.
How did this word, which has pleasant and positive associations for most, get applied to the buildings of a rancid, greed sucking corporation?
On point.
language evolves ... for better or worse.
https://www.merriam-webster.co...
Can I have "Useless definitions that use the word in their definition" for $1,000, Alex?
It's a shame they didn't go with LeVar.
dictionary.com's version is better, but I wanted to stick with Merriam-Webster to point out the obvious to the OP.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/campus
PR bullshit used to whitewash corporate greed.
PR bullshit used to whitewashing corporate greed.
"The word derives from a Latin word for "field" and was first used to describe the large field adjacent Nassau Hall of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774. The field separated Princeton from the small nearby town.
Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe the whole university property. A school might have one space called a campus, another called a field, and still another called a yard."
language evolves. for better or worse.
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