Letter: Cupertino must build housing now on Vallco site

Re: “No offices at Vallco site if development plan goes down, Cupertino decides” (Mercurynews.com, Aug. 21)

We in Cupertino must be awfully darned special. We can’t get it together to build at least 1,200 units of housing with significant allocations for seniors and low-income residents at the now dormant and wasted space of the former Vallco Shopping Mall.

Our local government and many of our residents apparently have no genuine interest in making any kind of significant contribution to alleviating the Bay Area housing crisis because, after all, we’ve got ours. Housing for people who need it – that’s their problem. Go somewhere else because we don’t want our quality of life to be degraded in any way. Related Articles Letters: Internet lifeline | PUSD board | Walnut Creek council | Trump had shot

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Well, some of us actually do feel ashamed of what certainly feels like arrogance and excess of self-centeredness. Make me wrong about us, Cupertino. Build it. Get it done. Now. No more excuses or delay tactics. We’re not that special and people need a place to live.

Steve Baron

Cupertino

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