Apple is paying millions to relocate a homeless encampment, and Big Tech has pledge billions to address California's crisis. But questions remain about systemic change.
While some residents say that the move by Apple was jarring, they feel they have been more fortunate than other people in their situation. Lynn Shipman, 57, said that she had been living at Component Drive near Orchard Way, along the southern end of the plot, since March. Shipman moved to the lot after having relocated from a different encampment on the other side of the San Jose airport where, she says violence drove her away.
A former hospice worker, Shipman said that she grew up approximately five miles from the Component Drive site and has been homeless for nearly three years now. At one point, she“We had a great community over on Component. We had a garden. We fed everybody,” she said by phone from her motel room, noting in particular the tomato and green bean plants.
When the pandemic hit, Shipman lost her job as a painter’s helper and subsisted on $109 of weekly unemployment benefits, which she said ended recently. Shipman noted that as long as she has been living at the site, she and her community have largely been ignored, or at least quietly tolerated.
— Shipman said she was grateful that Apple is paying HomeFirst. The organization is providing the motel room for nine months, as well as food, supplies and various kinds of social services support. Shipman remains confident about the future, which she hopes will include reconstruction of her teeth, which she said were knocked out by an abusive former partner.Apple declined to respond to questions submitted by NBC News.
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