Cosey-Stevens, 63, has been parked on the shoulder of Bay Road in East Palo Alto, just about two miles from Facebook headquarters and some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country, since June. “No one knows how badly I want out of this,” she said during an interview in her trailer. “It’s depressing to live like this.”

She’s part of an unplanned and impromptu RV park, about 80 people pushed out of apartments and into trailers and the edge of homelessness.