​"What keeps me here is my work. I’ve been here for 10 years already, working at Stanford, and… my roots over here since I started as a temp. And the people -- my friends, my close friends that I have -- I mean, we close with them. And that’s the thing that keeps me right here. Family and friends and the environment that we have at Stanford...

Before, you rent the house, and you pay two thousand. And you can say, “Oh yeah, I can pay 2000. I can live with this.” But Facebook comes. A technology company comes, opens, and they start buying houses around the town. And buying the houses, fixing it, and selling it more expensive to employees... Since it’s basically cash money that you’re talking about, there’s no control. And the renters, they get the letters, “Oh you can rent this studio, and you can pay right now, maybe 1000. 1500 for the studio.” But next month, you say, “Oh, it got some expenses, and we have to do this, and we have to do that, so now you gotta pay 2000.” And a couple months, “Oh, something happened, and we have to increase your rent now.” So there is no control in that; every time, every year they increase like 400 to 500 dollars...

It’s a lot of savings. You have to do it like, how are we gonna save when we’re barely struggling with this?"